It's raining here and if it were raining men they would be big fat annoying ones that never quit. My husband has been in a rain coma for the day and son has beat me at so many video games today I have a capital L imprinted on my forhead for all the times I lost.  We have been watching the brain trust of Florida standing on piers and beaches getting knocked over by waves as big as buildings making all the rest of us look like dumb hicks.  My son gets particularly anxious over exteme weather and when he was younger we could always hide when there were tornado warnings on t.v. now he just goes to his room and turns on the weather channel.  So far he is not freaking out too badly.  I remember being the same way as a child and thinking every cloud was the beginning of a funnel cloud.  Hate to think I passed on those worries to him even though by the time he was born I had learned to mask those worries for the sake of his brother and sister.  Funny how many things I feared that when I became the parent I had to get over it for the sake of teaching my children these were things that did need to be feared.  I have always said my kids have given me way more than I could ever have given them.  Last night we fell asleep with the television on syfy running a spider movie marathon.  Not the best images to have running through my subconscious all night.  Does that happen to others.  One less person in the house has changed the dynamic so much and I must say she is sooo much happier in her own place now.  Everybody has been visiting and helping her get settled and if is so lovely to walk in from work and not be bombarded with questions.  Looking at the silver lining here I nearly sliced a chunk from my thumb yesterday slicing vegetables with a mandoline... no I was not using the safety guard...so I have a break from doing dishes for at least a few days till everything heals shut. Now I am on cooking duty instead.   Might have to slice another apendage when this one heals so I can stay on cooking.  I am full of random stuff today just taking up space in my head.  So many things I get fired up about during the week but quite honestly this rain is like taking a handful of muscle relaxers.  Aaaahhhh.

Can I have some bacon with my heart attack

Oh good wonderful lovely afternoon/evening people out there.  It is amazing what a morning of shopping and swimming and an afternoon of napping can do for the spirit.  When I was a teen I was very much into astrology and it's funny that now I cannot remember if Gemini is a water sign or an air sign.  I want to say air because I remember certain friends of mine teasing me that I was a little "spacey" back then.  But I don't think I am as at home anywhere as in the water.  So funny watching my son at the neighborhood pool jump right into a game with a group of late teens and trying to act so cool.  I didn't even exsist until they left the water then my boy returned to me.  With some members of the household still on vacation it is all quiet on the homefront.  Tonight enjoying a dinner of spaghetti squash with tomatoes and feta cheese.  I was reading yesterday the announcement that burger king is making a BACON SUNDAE are you kidding me.  Let me vent for a moment about the whole weight loss/food/magazine/ industry for a moment before I lose my fire.  It has never been lost on me that Women's World Weekly(one of the cheapest mags out there)sitting at every grocery checkout in creation features a "real" person every week who has lost a substantial amount of weight.  They also feature a "diet" every week. Usually something that involves eating more veggies and fruit and lean protein and less processed food. BUT just past the two or three pages that give you the keys to losing 10 pounds in one week they will have the other featured recipes.  Maybe a ten cheese mac and cheese and a triple chocolate cupcake stuffed with snickers or whatever.  So this summer Burger King began with the smoothies and wraps.  Now it will have the bacon sundae and bbq pork sandwiches and burgers.  Let me state for the record...I LOVE BURGER KING they are the ONLY fast food drive thru place that has a veggie burger that is good.  If you ask them not to smother it in mayonaise it is even somewhat healthy.  But do we really need another food item on the menu that is just obsene.  America wake up and look at our numbers.  Obesity rates,cancer rates,the amount of money we spend as a nation on cholesterol and blood pressure medication alone is staggering and I for one say no way am I playing victim to the corporate marketing net out there. Go to Dennys and look at that menu the fitfare items do scale back a little if you are watching your fat and calories and still eating out with the family but beware any other menu items like the tour of america which really says it all when you have a salad with over 800 calories and actual meat and potato meals exceeding 1000 calories.  We need to wake up to the stupidity.  No I don't think fast food should be banned or outlawed but I do think we need better education for our children about these things.  I grew up at a time when drive thrus were just becoming popular and hitting the drive thru was a real treat not a regular occurance.  Sometimes I just hear these things and go blsdjfosiosdhjsdnf ( thats me shaking my head making nonsense noise by the way).  If my thoughts were a little jumbled it is because as I was typing this weezy decided to have a seat next to me and enjoy two helping of the tuna casserole I made for everyone else while coating it with half a shaker of salt.  Let me just say eiusiisdjfksfjdgkzis

Wow it has been a super crazy wacko few weeks here and I am glad to say i think things are finally getting to a form of "normal".  This will be my last post as a thirty-something, tomorrow i turn forty.  Actually looking forward to it.  I am at the lowest weight I have been in years and after taking a week or two off the dieting this week I have been an angel.  Even with my biggest supporter and co-dieter out of town for the week still staying the course.  Now I will admit all day I kept thinking of where I could go out to celebrate but it occured to me with these changes I am making how do I want to begin my forties.  So the plan is to get up and have my usual healthy breakfast and go for morning workout.  Life is simply a series of choices ,door A or door B.  and I really want to enjoy every minute of this journey and it is tempting to say oh it's my birthday I can cut myself a little slack and enjoy myself but thats the point.  A meal of greasy buttery fattening food is not as enjoyable as it once was.  A couple of days ago I gave myself a free pass and was ready to have some warm salty Mcdonalds fries and  a burger for lunch but when lunch time rolled around I ended up buying a Lean Cuisine and an orange for lunch.  Door A or Door B.  My inventory at work went well and my yearly evaluation went very well with a much needed raise to follow.  It is up to me how I continue this upward climb.  So I am feeling very Zen lately.  The living situation is even improving with one person leaving the house to get a place of her own.  It is funny how easy it is to tolerate someones quirks when you know you will not be dealing with them for too much longer.  I say if forty is the new thirty and thirty is the new twenty then I am turning 20 tomorrow.  My moment of humor I have to laugh at myself this time...last night after working almost 11 hours I was soooo tired and when I get that tired I get a little LOOPY so I am in bed with the hubby and he was watching the final game of Stanley Cup and they were saying names of people attending the game.  According to hubby I was almost asleep when they said David Beckam and I responded with," David Beckam mmm YUM.  Needless to say I have NO recollection of this and when I was thumped in the head afterwards I had no idea what I had said.  GNite All