In Search of My Body - Not the One I Ate, VOL 7! Princesses? Nope, just us Goddesses!

[lisaviolet]

NEWS FLASH!!!! MASTER CHUNK IS AT YOUR MOM'S FRONT DOOR LYZ!!!!!! IT BETTER NOT BE RAINING THERE.

He was left - abandoned - it said no sig required. He had a long night. He stopped in Grove City, OH first.

 

[lisaviolet]

Jean Claude, on the other hand, is continuing his tour of not so interesting New York State cities - he's in Syracuse. Boy he didn't make it far!

 

[lisaviolet]

It is SO true. My brother called me earlier laughing that Rudolph was on and I better go check on Mom to make sure she wasn't calling the network to complain! Or just hittin' the sauce.

Get this - I actually mumbled to the TV - I found it at this exact spot - when Donner made his a$$__________ comment:

You're in for it Donner. She's on to you. You have no idea who you're dealing with!!!

 

[lisaviolet]

Speaking of hitting the sauce. Funny story. I went to our specialty wine shop today to pick up a bottle of Chocolate Wine for a gift. (Yes, you read that correctly. It is the most awesome beverage on the planet, I swear. Rich, dutch chocolate and red wine. Amazing. But that isn't the story.) So while there, I am chatting with the owner who I know well just from being a long time customer. And she and I are talking about this specific wine and I was commenting on how we store it (since, really, Jeff and I cannot finish a bottle just the two of us. It is THAT rich). And this other customer pipes up and starts telling me how to store wine. We have a wine cellar in the basement so I am starting to roll my eyes at this point. The owner just cuts him off cold and says, "Oh, no need for a lecture here. Erika doesn't screw around when it comes to booze." OMG, it was SO funny because it is just so true!

Like when I was doing my Thanksgiving shopping. You know how you have a really specific list when you are making a meal like that, right? Like, the list has tons of stuff on it like 8 oz of such and such brand blah blah. Super specific. So I have this whole list that is like that, full of all of my specialty items, and then a line item that just says BOOZE. I don't know, I just found it hi lar ious! It made me laugh all day.

Ok, off to bed. Tomorrow it is back to Zhu Zhu Gate! But if grandma Meredith and crew aren't there, then I am out.

So?

Good Morning!



You know what the funniest part is - it was an article in the newspaper saying how popular they were, and how everywhere was selling out of them that made her decide she needed them for her kids! I don't understand people sometimes!

LisaV - You are too funny! Im loving the travelling updates!

Erika - Good luck on part 3! I hope you and Grandma Meredith kick bummocks today!

Voices in my head - Yes, tea will cure it. In fact, tea apparantly will cure anything. And is served everywhere. Honestly, wedding or funeral I can guarantee there will be tea!
Please note - Im actually drinking a cup of tea whilst typing this

I hope everyone has a great day

You just made me realize that I dreamt of my grandmother last night (tea - Irish). The night before it was one of Jean's (passed) brothers. EEk! That can't be good to dream of dead people two nights in a row. Okay shutting down my nutso head.

Ok - gotta go....

 

[DisneyWorld Delight]

OMG, I will totally tell Kelly the entire story! It is a must!

BTW, I don't think I've mentioned that Kelly has discovered texting! She is completely obsessed by it. And her favorite person to text?? LYZ! SO funny! And Lyz has been such a good sport...she responds every time. She wants to know all about Maddi and what she is doing (they are only about 3-4 months apart), and since Lyz has Flat Stanley right now, she wants to check in on him. Pretty much any excuse she can come up with!

Oh, it's hilarious. I asked how she was and she said "I'm supposed to be doing homework" - laughed my butt off.

Tonight we will decorate the tree. Flat Stanley and the Waller girls.


"Oh, no need for a lecture here. Erika doesn't screw around when it comes to booze." OMG, it was SO funny because it is just so true!

HiLarIous!

NEWS FLASH!!!! MASTER CHUNK IS AT YOUR MOM'S FRONT DOOR LYZ!!!!!! IT BETTER NOT BE RAINING THERE.

He was left - abandoned - it said no sig required. He had a long night. He stopped in Grove City, OH first.

OMG!!! I read this and called my mom. I asked if my package was delivered. She said "no"! I told her to look on her front porch, imagining the worst. What if it was left at another house! BUT! All is well. Chunk was sitting outside waiting. I don't think he was cold, considering how well Lisa packaged him. I'll pick him up today.

 

[DisneyWorld Delight]

Soo, EriKa is going to have a story to tell. Here are the texts I got this morning:

7:52 EriKa:
At target in position. Pouring rain. One really big guy here wearing camo. I swear to god.

7:53 EriKa:
Another guy just showed up with his own bag.

7:53 EriKa:
It's gonna be a sprint.

7:56 EriKa:
Omg. Me and camo guy are gonna go head to head.

9:51 EriKa:
Lots to tell.


Hurry UP EriKa!

 

[DisneyWorld Delight]

Guy shows up to Target in camo. The question begs, did you come in from hunting deer or did you put on the camo for hunting Zhus?

 

[SeptemberGirl]

The camo! The texting! The thought of little Chuck's escape to save his brother Jean Claude! (Lisa, what was his real name? It was Chunk and Mr Squiggles, right?) The line item BOOZE - by the way, same line item on my Thanksgiving list. Oh, the worst holiday movie! (I'm with your mom, E)

All hilarious!

 

[cathie1327]

OMG You ladies are CRACKING me up this week!!! Love it! Much needed laughs!!!!!!

I feel so on this week...I'm loving it. Today for breakfast was some oatmeal, and a small orange juice (still cant' kick my juice unfortunately.) For lunch today going to hit the salad bar...went grocery shopping last night and bought stuff to make a big huge salad that'll last a few days and some breakfast burritos (use corn tortillas instead of flour, so yummy) so hope to work on that tonight after school. Lovin this feeling. Just have to avoid the vending machine at school tonight since that chocolate just screams at me......

 

[Ronda93]

Okay, totally off topic, but the image of a guy in camo at Target made me think of Liu Bolin. Check out the images here. No retouching, just blending in...

http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/meet-the-real-life-invisible-man.html

Ronda

 

[DisneyGalUK]

Soo, EriKa is going to have a story to tell. Here are the texts I got this morning:

7:52 EriKa:
At target in position. Pouring rain. One really big guy here wearing camo. I swear to god.

7:53 EriKa:
Another guy just showed up with his own bag.

7:53 EriKa:
It's gonna be a sprint.

7:56 EriKa:
Omg. Me and camo guy are gonna go head to head.

9:51 EriKa:
Lots to tell.


Hurry UP EriKa!

OMG, funniest thing I have read in forever!
I am so hoping for an update by the time I get in from work!

Ronda - Liu Bolin - Never heard of him but clicked on the link, very clever! That must take a lot of doing!

 

[cathie1327]

Okay, totally off topic, but the image of a guy in camo at Target made me think of Liu Bolin. Check out the images here. No retouching, just blending in...

http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/meet-the-real-life-invisible-man.html

Ronda

Dang! I wouldn't even notice him there in some of those pictures! That's some dedication right there!

 

[3DisneyKids]

Zhu Zhu Gate – Chapter 3

I woke up to pouring rain. And since I don’t actually NEED a Zhu Zhu, I was tempted to bag it. But since I had to go up there anyway, I got ready. Threw the kids on the bus and off to Target I went.

I got there about 10 minutes before the store opened. I noticed a few people standing out front. Two of them were women that I knew from before (though Grandma Meredith was not there). Two other women, and one guy dressed all in camo. I swear. Really. But then again, this is Maine and that isn’t unusual. People either dress in fleece or camo. There were also a bunch of people sitting in their cars waiting for the store to open so that they didn’t have to wait out in the rain. Amateurs.

I walk over and say hi to the two women who are part of my “zhu zhu group.” We decide to split up and they stay at one set of front doors while I go to the other set. This way, one of us will be the first in. At my set of doors is also camo guy and 2 other random women. The other door has the two women I “know” and 4 or 5 men. Hmmm. Maybe the word got out about the Zhu Zhu bullies and all of the women are sending their husbands?? With only a couple of minutes to go, the people who had been waiting in their cars come to join the crowd. All men. And a couple of them had their own bags with them. This is when I realize that I am unprepared! No bag – and even worse—I am not wearing sneakers! Instead I have on my muck-lucks due to the rain. (Muck lucks are like muck boots but in the shoe variety instead of a full boot.) And mine are like a size and a half too big because they are the smallest size Bean’s makes. So there is no moving quickly in them. Crap! I’ll just have to make do. If my door gets opened first, then my only competition is camo guy.

About 4 minutes before the store is supposed to open, the red Target man comes to MY set of doors. YES! And it is even a few minutes early. He lets the 4 of us in. But it turns out that the other two random women on my side were actually employees. So he tells me and camo guy that we can wait at the front of the store out of the rain, but we can’t go past where the cars are until 8.

OMG. I am actually IN the store and everyone else is still locked out! PERFECT. Now it really will be just me and camo guy. He and I have been chatting and he does not seem like a bully. And even better, he has no freaking clue what he is even looking for. His wife just sent him out. Advantage, me. So I am assuming that he will just follow me back to the right aisle.

Time to go! I am booking it back there. Not running, but walking quickly. They still haven’t unlocked the doors yet and I am half way to the toy section! And get this—cam guy is NOT following me. He took the LONG way to the toy section! SCORE! There is no way anyone can get there before me at this point. So I round the corner into the toy section and look over my shoulder. There is NO ONE around. I am truly the first one in the store for the day and there is no competition anywhere in sight! OMG, I am going to have my PICK!

I turn down the correct aisle and—EMPTY! No zhu zhus at all. Nada. Zip. And the last two times I have done this, they told us at the front door. So when the Target man didn’t say anything, I thought for sure they must have zhu zhus.

*sigh*

Ok, not a big deal, as I am all set, after all. I say goodbye to my comrades and wish them luck. Then I am off to run my errands for the morning.
On my way home, I had to stop into CVS to pick up Kelly’s meds. At this point, it is 10am. Just on a lark, I figured I would check out the one, lone toy aisle in the store. After all, this is where Lyz hit pay dirt last week. Seriously, it is like only 3 shelves. Tiny little section of the store devoted to toys. I look through and don’t see anything and turn to go. Just as I am leaving the aisle, this fleck of yellow catches my eye. Way down on the bottom shelf, hidden behind a My Pretty Pony, there they are. Zhu Zhu boxes! 8 of them!

I look through…no actual pets. Just the accessories.

I cannot not tell you what I felt! OMG, I actually GASPED out loud and my breathing hitched! It was HI LAR IOUS. I was aware of the reaction I was having. Over zhu zhu pets! Anyway, I was trying frantically to remember which of the accessories Lyz found and was sending. I knew about the car, but couldn’t remember anything else. But here in front of me was the slide (2 of them) and the wheel (4 of them), and 2 cars. I was pretty sure Lyz hadn’t found the slide, so I grabbed those and went up to the register, paid and hustled out to the car!

I quickly called Lyz…YES, she wants the slide! Another score!

And truly, neither Lyz nor I “need” any more zhu zhu stuff. We each the actual pet plus a couple of accessories for them. But the entertainment value I am getting out of this is SO worth it!

 

[SeptemberGirl]

Do you know, I actually think about going into CVS to look for them, even though you have all the stuff? I did make a Toys R Us run way back when...but it's so funny to read about this. So. Funny. Especially since they are totally the toy you want to run over in the driveway by "accident".

 

[lisaviolet]

Jean Claude has officially left Syracuse - destination unknown. And he has told the driver that he has no interest in Schnectady - so no detours.

Onward.

 

[lisaviolet]

Lyz - yeah! My heart jumped as well as I saw the note. What do you mean left at front door? Please let it be the correct front door. Sighing. Relieved.

Liz - no he's a Chunk as well. Erika and Jeff renamed him.

Liz - DVD/Oprah - no?

Erika - score. I had no idea about the slide.

 

[Dizneydawn]

Hi everyone!

I have been laughing my **** off at the entire zhu zhu extravaganza. From Lisa being the good witch of the north to Erika in Rambo mode and Lyz making covert moves on the drug store man!

Erika - this post is dedicated to you. Ya know how you have provided all the info on how bad milk is and how much we as humans eat dairy that any other animals stear clear from once weaned...well I wish my dumb @ss would have listened to that info and taken it to heart.

Last Wed I started getting ill. By Thursday night my stomach was distended into the size of a 10 pound child. My sister at my home said - I needed to go in that she was scared looking at me. I felt like the girl on Willy Wonka that kept blowing up.

I weighed myself and I was up 8 pounds since Tuesday with normal eating.

I went to the ER and was there with Dan for 4 hours and tests, blood work and they could not come up with nada. Kept giving me gas X type meds for the bloating and pain meds. Told me to make an appointment with my doc on Monday ASAP.

No rich foods, no caffeine, no chocolate and stayed away from heavy grains.

Symptoms worsened and Sat went to Urgent Care crying. Saw a doctor I had never seen, she reviewed ER tests and she had me write down everything I had been eating/taking.

After she read my info - she says. "I think you might be lactose intollerant."

She and I sit side by side and pull up all this info and it talks about heart racing, palpatations, menstrual cycle being afflicted and huge stomach pain and bloating. Guess what another huge product of lactose is besides dairy?

Gas X related medicine.

So since Sat at 5 p.m. I have omitted dairy from my system 100% and you know me - I was a dairy fiend. Hello - willing to suck up calories for whole milk kind of girl.

I am down 10 pounds. No joke. I feel amazing and yesterday - had a small glass of milk (4 oz)to see if I was crazy - same symptoms within 20 minutes.

Met with a food allergy specialist this morning and they said that you can build slowly to a lactose allergy and not know what it is because ther syptoms are so varied and wide spread and seem not like they are related.

30% of the population by the time they are 40 have this.

So times when I knew I had just eaten something, worried about the glueten issue and like you said Erika - it made no sense because A. I was overweight and so my body dumping calories it could not absorb made no sense and B. it did not happen all the time with flour products. Well when it happened - it was flour and dairy.

Pizza, burritos, etc. Cheese, sour cream products combined with flour and because I have had dairy my whole life - I did not know it was something you could develop.

Most people can have a bit of dairy here and there and take a med like lactaid before consuming - hard cheeses seem to be okay.

Because of my huge reaction though - 3 weeks solid of none is ideal and then take it slow introducing foods with a bed and restroom nearby.

I wish to God above I would have listened to you more than just suggestions about weight loss regarding dairy. I just never linked it with my health garbage.

That is the big news from me. I guess it is a signal that if you are having medical symptoms - be persistant until you find the answer. I just gave up after awhile and all this time feeling bad for stupid dairy? So not worth it.

Exciting news - Fort Lewis just played in the semi-finals and won 8-2 so they are in the NCAAII final soccer game on Sat. Great soccer.

We leave for Florida on the 16th and I am not ready. Need to pack so much for everyone.
Burn Unit Christmas Party tonight. Excited to see many families again.

Going back to Water aerobics tom. went 2 days after missing a week with Tom and then all this stomach crud.

Glad to be down the 10 but still feel like I am tired and I did not when I was excersizing. Not sleeping as well either.

Lisa - great loss for this challenge!
E - awesome 4 pounds!
Liz - yeah for the downward turn!

Paula - I am glad you have a great person on your side in the weight loss battle who cares as much for your inside as your outside.

Lee - sorry about the loss of a boy through your community.

Kelly - great TR and love the pics!

Ronda - tempting pic of the pie scraps!

Nancy - glad you were able to enjoy Seth home and glad he will be back soon!

Kat - sorry about your MIL. Hope she and you get better news.

Lyz - Christmas pics will be awsome this year!

Everyone I am missing - Hi!

 

[adsrtw]

So I can read current posts but nothing else. Looks like I've missed a lot.

But I will get used to this soon. Will try to check in again later!

 

[lisaviolet]

Okay, totally off topic, but the image of a guy in camo at Target made me think of Liu Bolin. Check out the images here. No retouching, just blending in...

http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/meet-the-real-life-invisible-man.html

Ronda

So interesting Ronda.

 

[lisaviolet]

So I can read current posts but nothing else. Looks like I've missed a lot.

But I will get used to this soon. Will try to check in again later!

Amiee!