Oh Merciful Bea Arthur!

Someone with the screenname "WW-Discrimination" is whining about the lack of gay-lesbian and Canadian avatars. You know, those cutesy pictures in everyone's autosig. I admit, I have a cat (love my cats), kid (love UberBoy), and car (love Passat). On my ezboard account, I have Cosmo the fairy.

Weight Watchers has a very limited selection of avatars but do you see me pouting because they don't have one for atheists? Even though they have one for religious people (a person with their arms in the air, surrounded by light)? Hell no.

I do agree, they need a Canadian flag. However, I am an honourary Canadian by virtue of my love for Dave Foley, Barenaked Ladies, and a longing for Tim Hortons altho I've never had a TH donut (soon, possibly? If the CAD can convince her dad to drive through SE VA).

Some people really need to get out more often and get fresh air.

I'm so grrrr'd!

I bought a new Thinner scale last Tuesday afternoon. Dh and I scalehopped several before picking this $40 machine. I was majorly grrr'd when I weighed 198 but he reminded me, "You're wearing clothes and shoes, you just ate lunch, and you drank a lot of water."

The Thinner's been living next to the old Sunbeam dial scale for the past week. I wanted to WI on both this morning. I know the Thinner is accurate because I stepped on it with and without a 3 lb dumbbell.

SHIT!!! It's two pounds heavier. The Sunbeam weighed me at 188.5, the Thinner at 190.5.

So I need to adjust my weights two pounds up. I didn't loose anything this week; I think it's due to TOM around the corner because I'm tracking this on my own weight spreadsheet. The pattern I'm seeing is zero loss/gain right before Auntie Flo arrives.

It's just so frustrating because I upped my gym work-outs (including incorporating weight training for both arms and legs), ate at the top of my range, only going over by one pt twice, and I'm still so anal I weigh my cheese and dressings to the gram on the food scale.

However...my stamina is increasing with each session on the elliptical monster and my reps are getting easier. My fattyback is 99% gone and my size 16 Liz jeans are nice, loose, and comfy versus binding.

Time to plug in my weights and change my stats. I was so hoping to be rid of the 190's forever...I will be next week for certain!

Mixed Feelings about September 11, 2002

(I posted this at the atheist board at babycenter.com and I don't feel like retyping and tearing up again)

So we're approaching the first anniversary of that awful, horrible day and I know we're in for a barrage of tributes, programming, newspaper accounts, etc.

I found this at Salon...

Cable channels won't program for 9/11

Aug. 21, 2002 | NEW YORK (AP) --

Eight cable television networks have announced plans to suspend programming on the morning of Sept. 11 to honor the victims of last year's terrorist attacks.

At 8:46 a.m EDT, the A&E Television Networks -- A&E, The History Channel, The Biography Channel and History International -- will fade to black. For the following hour and 43 minutes, they will show a continuous scroll of the names of attack victims.

Similarly, the Scripps Networks -- HGTV, The Food Network, The DIY Network and Fine Living -- will stop regular programming at 8:30 a.m ET.

For two hours, the networks will show "a series of images, words and music intended to inspire quiet reflection."

I'm having very mixed feelings about this. I remember being thankful, after five+ hours of constant reports that day, to catch Win Ben Stein's Money and SpongeBob to wash over the rawness I was feeling. I yearned for stupid comedies. I bawled when The Daily Show came back and Jon Stewart cried at his desk.

I understand the "why" behind this and I know we will never forget...conversely, I'm tired of it, of being constantly reminded. Granted, while watching Ground Force: New York when Alan was talking with the NYRP rep about the events, I teared up. But that was an honest, everyday man telling the events as he saw them.

Perhaps something like that, a documentary of everyday people in NYC and DC who maybe didn't loose anyone, nor did they work in the bldgs, but saw the events for themselves, would be far more poignant.

I do hope they show the French documentary about the FDNY again. THAT was powerful.

Tales from the Scale...

Damn, what a trite title but I'm not feeling creative.

I weighed in yesterday...down another 1.5 pounds! Gooybye, 190's! My stay was wonderfully brief and I'll never see your sorry ass again! Grand total of 14.5 gone, baybee. Only 58.5 to go.

So I went shopping in my closet and tried on some dresses that didn't fit in June...I'm wearing one today! A denim sun dress I wore last summer that I couldn't get around my hips this summer...how depressing was that? I even got my old size 14 button-flies up to my ass...it wasn't pretty but give me 20 pounds and I can wear them again.

After lunch yesterday, The Husband and I went to Bed, Bath, and Beyond to buy a new digital scale. FUCK! I weighed a solid 10 pounds HEAVIER on these damn scales! He had to remind me that I was clothed, wearing shoes, and just ate a Japanese lunch with about four glasses of water...and I hadn't peed yet. I picked out a "Thinner" and this morning, it read 1.5 pounds heavier than the old Sunbeam rotary scale...I can live with that.

Did my 30 minutes on the elliptical machine with my new K@zoo MP3 player. My endurance is building up...more calories are being burned and I'm gaining more distance and strides. Whoohoo!

So, has Kim popped?

One of my YaYa girlfriends, Kim, was being induced yesterday. She was a week overdue. She's in Germany with no family besides her husband and daughter. We're waiting for some news.

I miss her already!

Another YaYa, The CAD, is transferring. Their computer is packed up and on its way to Alaska. Friday she leaves for Toronto to take care of business. I'm going to miss the daily morning phonecalls but will be meeting her and her UberGirl in October. Can't wait!

AA 1, Crazy People 0

that was the best post ive read in a while....btw...can you please tell BCHostEmmy that she is my hero? I really love her attitude!

ParentCenter | BBS Message

I'm fried

Oh good maude I'm so fried! UberBoy got a four hour nap courtesy of The Husband (who pissed me off because he didn't feel like going to the store, oh boofuckinghoo). Therefore, when 10:30 rolled around and The Man Show was over, he still didn't want to sleep. The Husband turned it to Iron Chef and wouldn't fucking turn off the maudedamned television. I was hoping the darkness would settle UberBoy down...not so. He was wanting to slither off the bed. The Husband was getting more and more upset with the child...yeah, whose fault was it for letting him sleep so damn long? I was at the gym, at the store, cooking dinner, while you two slept! Who the fuck are you to get pissed at me? At your son?

So UberBoy and I went downstairs at 11 PM and watched SpongeBob and The Fairly Oddparents. He settled down a bit until the King Jellyfish came to zap Kevin and the Jellyfishers. I thought we were going to camp out downstairs...on a loveseat. Oh, I was cramped. I asked him, "Do you want to go upstairs?" and he said yes. Carrying 35 pounds up stairs...at least I'm working my arms off at the gym.

Then with the hair twirling...UB is a big hair twirler. He twirls my hair and his own for comfort. I tried the security blanket and stuff animal, to no avail. So I had to put up with him twirling my hair...I think I got about four hours sleep. I feel like Kramer when the Kenny Rogers Roaster opened across the street.

We actually got our shit together this morning...until The Husband set his coffee mug on the armrest of the Passat. He was strapping UB into his carseat to go to the sitters. I was getting into the car and my elbow met with his stupid fucking mug, sending coffee onto the leather upholstery and me. I came up with a reason not to fold and put away laundry... I was able to walk on in and grab a fresh pair of chinos!

We warned our sitter that UB had five hours sleep...I'm so tired I could sit here and cry at my desk. My eyes are all grainy feeling and I'm contemplating going home at lunch. I want to sleep for the love of maude!

What is up with fundies?

There's an idiot posting at the atheist board at babycenter. Her name is "Raising2." Please feel free to poke her with large sticks and make her cry.

Oh yeah...

Big love to The CAD!!! She fixed my background and made it less gaudy. Plus, there was an assload of extraneous code in the template she got rid of for me. Thanks chica! Who loves you, baby?

Jimmy Neutron Is God!

We just bought the Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius DVD. UberBoy is totally enthralled with Jimmy, Carl, Sheen, Cindy, and the rest of the cast. We watched it twice yesterday and it's spinning again. And it's got wonderful atheistic undertones, especially with the aliens readying the human sacrifices (the parents of Retroville). Hehe! UberBoy even has a Jimmy t-shirt that reads, "Science is my co-pilot!"

Speaking of atheism...I caught 90% of South Park last night. Usually I love it for it's biting social commentary but this one sucked ass. Between the Catholic priests fighting for their right to bugger little boys to people shoving food up their asses and shitting through their mouths (which became an analogy for atheists spewing shit), I was, well, offended. It takes a lot to offend me. Gee, should I write a nasty letter to Comedy Central via Planet Feedback? Nah, don't think so. I'd be setting myself up for ridicule with my friends at The Sandbox!!! Hey, there's an ON/OFF switch on the TV, right?!?

Tonight...new Sex and the City!!!