Posts by cinfuldiva

PC ~ You need to go to a local club and do stand up comedy!!!  I giggle every time I read your posts!!  I can't believe the show-biz news either!!  McMahon was a cornerstone, Farrah was an icon from the 70s, and Jackson was a legend - although he got WAY too weird the last decade or so...creepy even!!!

Minx ~ Happy birthday, a day early!!  My mom and dad celebrate 50 years of marriage tomorrow!!  Great things on that date.  How tall are you?  I thought I recalled you as being pretty tall, so 135 is unbelievably impressive!!!  Don't go cuckoo on the weight loss, you'll start to look gaunt.

We leave for Indiana July 8 to visit Eric's family (his dad was diagnosed with bone cancer...not good) and our friends.  We'll be back on July 21.  MY dad was supposed to go in for open heart surgery next week, but the doctor postponed it for...July 8th!!!  I am going to be a nut job in the air, so be sure to watch the news for coverage on the air marshall taking down a crazed woman who hijacked the mini-bar!!!  Please keep both papas in your prayers.

Well, I'm off - mostly in the head!!

Portion controlled Kisses ~ Queenie 

I love fresh, pureed strawberries with a touch of sweetener poured over sliced bananas.  You can eat it as is, or serve it with angel food cake or fat free cool whip...Mmmmm!!!

Mock pumpkin pie - 1/2 cup PURE canned pumpkin, 1/2 cup 1% cottage cheese, a sprinkle of sweetener (your choice), cinnamon and pumpkin pie spice.  Mix it up and VOILA!!

Skinny Cow makes some wonderful ice cream sandwiches!!  I like the mint and peanut butter ones the best!

PC ~ HOLY COW, sister!!!  You may need to take some Paxil or Wellbutrin to take it down a notch, honey.  You poor thing!!  Deep breath in through your nose and out through your mouth... repeat after me, "Gooz frabaaaaaah."  Let it go, girl.  That anger and frustration will choke the life right out of you if you let it.  Keep using it for comedic purposes, but keep that "Ragin' Cajun" on a short leash!!

Moochie ~ I know you were teasing.    I've officially been "watching" what I eat for a few days and I'm down 3 pounds.  YIPPEE!!  I start back to the gym TONIGHT!!!  I really want to see if I can lose another 7 pounds in the next 23 days.  I'm goin' balls-to-the-wall the entire 23 days...I'm hoping, anyway.

Well my lovelies, I had better get dinner started.  Today was my FIRST OFFICIAL DAY OF SUMMER!!!  WOO!!  HOO!!  I spent it getting my annual "hoo-ha" examination, finishing the last 30 minutes of classroom packing, calling the water department to turn on my reclamated (lawn) water, calling several irrigation companies since my system is broke, throwing in a couple of loads of laundry,  and now I get to get dinner going.  Tomorrow should be a better day - I'm taking the boys and some friends to Sun Splash Water Park!!  Perhaps I'll spend my whole day lounging in the "Lazy River!"  Ciao Ciao for now!!

Skinny Cow Kisses ~ Queenie 

Ah, Pussycat, I have truly missed your sense of humor and support!!!  Thanks for welcoming me back and for the amazing compilation of quotations!!!  

Oh, Moochie , you're a bitch - I mean DOLL!!   I really have missed the camaraderie around here.

I just booked our July 8th flight to visit Indiana.  I absolutely, positively WANT to lose 10 or 12 pounds before going, but lack the desire to do what it takes to achieve that.  I'm hoping the fact that I actually scheduled the flight and charged the tickets will motivate me.  Time will tell...  I have 3 half days with students and one full day to pack up my room.  Perhaps I will find inspiration to kick my own arse once I have time to focus on ME!!!

Well, get that lil' girlie better and entertain that professor (respectively), and I'll chat with you gals later!!

Sticky crumpet kisses ~ Queenie 

PC ~ Glad to see that your strength and surliness is slowly returning!!    I would LOVE to have a small garden, but I have 2 black thumbs!!!  My Grandmother could make ANYTHING grow.  I would take her dead violets - I mean brown, crunchy violets - and would watch her put eggshells, coffee grounds, etc... on them and VOILA ~ they would somehow slowly come back to life!!!  Last year I FINALLY bought some butterfly plants (penta, milkweed, and lantana) to make the little butterfly garden I've been talking about for 3 years.  Well, I arranged 2 giant planters with the plants (already established with flowers and all) and they lasted throughout summer (thanks to God and his natural watering plan).  However, as soon as the rainy season was over, so were the plants.  All the extras in the flats I had bought wound up sitting in the flats on the ground until they, too, met a sad and untimely death.  I DID, however, get a BUMPER CROP of monarch butterflies!!!  At one point I had over 27 caterpillars!!!!  I wound up taking some of the chrysalises into school because I always order painted lady caterpillars for the grade level.  It's SUCH a cool, hands on life science project!!

Salem boogied even before I got to call her Salem Witch!!!!  I was going to give her that nickname, but thought that might scare her off.  Winds up she got spooked anyway!!

Kickass ~ It's funny that you wrote that whole "sabotage yourself" thing.  I think that may be what I did, in a way.  I was cruisin' down the scale, feelin' all sexy and confident, and then the holidays hit.  Now the kickoff to my weight gain was definitely the holidays, but I was only 3 pounds from my original "FANTASY" goal.  I often wonder what underlying factors lead to my gaining a total of SEVEN pounds now!!!  UGH!!!

The boys, my mom, and I spent the day at Ft. Myers Beach yesterday.  BEAUTIFUL!!!  I absolutely LOVE the beach.  I could live there.  In fact, I arranged to drop off the boys at a friends house so that my mom and I could head back there today!!!  Its supposed to be 86 and partly cloudy today...perfect beach weather!!  Its my last "free" vacation day.  My in-laws arrive tomorrow morning.  It should be a good visit, but something peculiar always happens.  

I have arranged for my sister-in-law and I to go on a manatee kayak tour on Tuesday since we go back to school on Wednesday.  Well, I just found out last night that my friend, Tammy, is scheduled to have her 10 HOUR surgery to remove half her tongue on Tuesday!!  I think I may do the tour and then drive the 2 hours up to Tampa, hang out for a couple of hours, and then drive back home Tuesday night.  We'll see how things go.

I better finish my coffee and slip into my suit before the tourist traffic jacks up the bridge!!  I'll catch you all later!!  Have a FANTASTIC Friday!!

Kisses ~ Queenie 

A:  Diaphramsally Roundhole's boyfriend.

Q:  If Beano can eliminate "air" from your intestines, why doesn't it eliminate air from your lungs?

Salem ~ You are welcome to hang with this WILD and WACKY bunch of women...if you can!!  This group is warm, supportive, funny, and wickedly (yet lovingly) sarcastic!!

PC ~ Sorry to hear you are under the weather!!  Poor baby!!  A nice hot toddy or perhaps some hot tea with Grand Marnier would do you well!!  Take it easy, girl.

I have been working on this message for over an hour!!!  First I was interrupted by the garage door man.  Yada yada yada, $228 later I'm back to finish my post when RING...its the mechanic.  Yada yada yada, I need a new ball joint, struts, and brakes!!!  I better finish and get off of here before something ELSE needs fixing!!!

Kisses ~ Queenie 

60's is nice weather???  I would be wearing my Nanook of the North parka!!! 

The weather has been GORGEOUS here for the past few weeks!!!  Sunday, DH and I took the boys to Fort Myers Beach for 4 hours...86 and sunny!!  Yesterday my friend, Tammy, and I went to the beach for 4 hours (before she goes in for her pre-op)...82 and sunny!!!  Today, it's 73 FREAKIN degrees!!!  Tomorrow it's supposed to be 74 FREAKIN degrees!!!!  WTF??!!??  Just in time for spring break, the weather is going to be UNCOOPERATIVE, UN-beach friendly, and UNBELIEVEABLY and UNSEASONABLY COLD!!!!  PFFT!!!

Oh well, I'm babysitting my girlfriend's 9 year old twin boys today and tomorrow.  I guess we'll go to the movies and then to McDonald's playland during today's cold snap.

I'm off to entertain my way through the day!!  Chat more later!

Kisses ~ Queenie 

Hello, loves!!!  Am I still welcome to show my face around here???  I took myself out of the game for a while...sick and tired of NOT being committed to losing that last 20, but obviously not enough to get my ass in gear!!  In fact, I'm up FIVE FREAKIN' POUNDS!!!  I've been gorging for two or three days, then eating clean for a day or two, REPEAT!!!  I go to the gym 2 or 3 days one week and then not at all the next.  And the topper was when my dear friend was diagnosed with stage 2 cancer of the tongue.  They will be removing half of her tongue and attempting to reconstruct it using an artery from her left arm.  She will have to undergo months of therapy to relearn how to swallow and talk.  So, I guess I've been wallowing in self pity, then immersed in my friend's crisis, and now it's spring break and time for me to refocus, recommit, and reestablish myself here, if you'll have me back.  

It's going to take me half of spring break just to catch up on all the posts!!!  I truly have missed all of you!!  PC and Moochie ~ I find myself down without a daily dose of your demented humor!!!  (How's Norm???)  Well, I guess I'll spend an hour or so STARTING to catch up.  

Fat and Sassy ~ Queenie 

Hello my saucy, supportive, SEXY soul-sisters!!!  (And our hot hunk of a peeping Tom!)  Sorry I've lost touch.  Somebody must have hit the "fast forward" button on my life!!  

Work is really getting to me!!  They are expecting us to take a 3% cut in pay (due to the budget crisis to ALLEGEDLY save 800 jobs in the district...YEAH RIGHT!!!) and yet they have given us a SH**LOAD MORE work to do!!!  WHERE IS THE INCENTIVE??!!??  We NOW have to complete a scantron bubble sheet for EACH child on EVERY math and reading test we administer!!!  That's 40 bubble sheets per week!!!!  So we have to take the kids' actual tests, transfer their answers for every problem (15 to 25 problems) onto a bubble sheet, and then run them through the scantron machine!!!  DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW LONG THAT IS GOING TO TAKE???!!!???  I am ALREADY giving them 2 to 3 hours EVERY DAY of my OWN (and my family's) time!!!  Now I'm expected to give MORE???  Top that off with the fact that all this stress has caused my heart to totally WIG OUT!!!  My cardiologist insisted I be in his office at 9am the other day.  My principal told me to go, I wouldn't be docked, and he would find someone to cover my class.  Then that BITCH of a secretary of his DOCKED MY PAY for the hour and a half that I was gone even though he excused it!!!  Now that it's already been docked, I can't get it back!!!  I now have my very own portable EKG machine I have to carry around everywhere I go!!!  My heart rate was 170 beats per minute before work the other day, and then it was 180 beats at dismissal on Tuesday!!!  The nurse called me and said, "That's way too high!!"  No ****, Sherlock!!!  So what do you want me to do about it????  

Can you tell I'm a wee bit stressed out?  My DH keeps telling me, "Just let it go" or "I don't know why you give so much and get so worked up for school.  They wouldn't skip a beat without you."  But I DON'T KNOW HOW TO "LET IT GO" or how to "give less" ....I'm not wired that way!!!!

Whew!!!  That feels better.  

Moochie ~ Sorry about your friend.  I would send flowers for several reasons: 1. Fresh flowers are beautiful, fragrant, and say, "You're special." 2. Flowers are typically given to either celebrate something or mourn something, and your friend will definitely be mourning for a while. and 3. With or without the flowers, your friend will be eating, breathing, and thinking of NOTHING but the trauma in her life right now.  Fresh flowers may be the only bright, vibrant, "full of life" thing in her day.  That's just my opinion.  As far as advice goes, I'm with PC, just be a good listener and strong shoulder.

PC ~ Sorry to hear about your roller coaster with the job and class!!  How was your flapjack test?  (Could they mash your tits any harder???  I usually expect a few drinks before I let someone get to that base with me!!) 

Kickass ~ Great to see you back here, sister!!!

JHO ~ Have fun and CONGRATS on the theme song!

Minx ~ Bummer about the teeth!!  Mmmm...love the vicodin!!!

Schmoosies ~ Take care of that ulcer, girl!

Johnnycakes ~ Where ya been???

Well, I'm off (mostly in the head)!!!  Matthew has baseball try outs, Michael has a birthday sleep over we JUST found out about last night, we have to get our taxes in, the hamper is regurgitating dirty laundry out into my bedroom and the boys' bedrooms, my house is in shambles from the week, dishes are piling up in the sink, we've got to keep a "watch" on our neighbor's vacated house as the police told us last night that "someone" is trying to secretly and illegally occupy the house, I have to get out to buy my 17 year old nephew a present for his birthday party tonight, and I, too, just started my period!!!  On a happy note...I will be attending our city's 3rd annual Martini Competition tonight at 8pm!!!  $20 buys you a ride on a trolley to 10 participating restaurants and bars where you will sample an appetizer and ONE of the following martinis:  classic, exotic, or dessert, and then you rank them accordingly.  I went the fist year they did this and HAD A BLAST!!!  Thank God I have something to look forward to that will also "take the edge" off!!

Well, my loves, thanks for listening!!  Maybe next time I'll have a little positivity and humor to share!!  (I really missed the laughter and levity this week!!!)

Hisses ~ Queenie 

working girl

Name:  Cindi
Age:  43 - UGH!!!
Height:  5'7"
Start Weight: 171.6 
Goal Weight (by January 29): 161.6  Had to change my goal due to my holiday over indulgences!!

1/1/09:  171.6 at 1:12am...YIKES!!!  Too much "HAPPY" in my New Year!!
8/1/09:  165.2  ARE YOU KIDDING ME??!!??  YIPPEE!! 
15/1/09:  163.2    HIP!!  HIP!! HOORAY!!!  We're headed for the 50's!!

22/1/09:  164.6  CRAP!!!  I'm going the wrong way!!!
29/1/09:

Total weight loss:  7.0  ...Awww, PHOOEY!!!!   I should have known it was too good to be true!!  Oh well, maybe I can pull out a 3 pound loss in the next 7 days???

A:  It's when a really ugly child grows up to be a totally hot adult.  a.k.a. ugly duckling

Q:  Who's "hot for teacher?"

Would it be inappropriate to f*** the cabana boy?

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