I actually caught myself posting more messages on freakgirl.com
yesterday than on USENET. Oh think of the children AND the bandwidth.
Anyhow, I'm really not doing anything other than being a
housewife/student at the moment. I worked 70 hour weeks for the better
part of 10 years, so now I'm a 30something student/kegger/partyboy.
I've decided I want to be a lawyer/architect/astronaut. Actually, I'm
a business management major. My cameras are in moth balls at the
moment.
I'm steadily on my way to 200 pounds (going in the wrong direction,
though). I'm 187... we met back in ATMP I was 160something. I'm
currently on a mild mental diet that makes me order unsweetened tea or
diet coke with my big greasy burgers and fries. Ugggg. Seriously, I've
eliminated bread as a sidedish here at the Mackey-Madsen house and am
in negotiations with Al to start getting skim milk again. Really, I
don't so much mind 187 (though my chart says 170 is my ideal weight)
it just having spent my teenage years at 240-275 I'm rather attached
to my wardrobe... and 33 inch waists and medium polos are too snug.
I'm still painting the house. At the moment I'm doing the master
bedroom and bath. Midnight blue, Alien-abduction white, and silver
(the silver's silver metallic... it's, well... it's silver). I did the
kitchen over the spring in the same white color... it's industrial
high gloss white we can toss tomato sauce anywhere and it pretty much
just wipes up. It was ugly paneling to begin with. I framed a few
pictures for Orbit's area... here's a meaningful picture:
http://www.intrex.net/jm/this-is/orbits-room.jpg
When I first read you post the other day, I looked on Southwest's web
site to see if I could find the right weekend getaway for you. Las
Vegas? Doesn't seem appropriate somehow though. I could call my cousin
in Oceanside and you could go stay the weekend with her and her like 7
kids. They go to church on Sunday, you'd have to get up early for
that.
OR...
My evil sister's in San Francisco now.
Anyhow, guess I should go morning paint so the bedroom won't be so
fumey at bedtime.
S. John
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 05:00:51 GMT, Ellen <noneof@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
>
>Good to know that this is still the place to keep current!
>
>Off for the summer? What sort of work are you doing now?
>
>I'm working full time doing receptionist & data entry work for a
commercial
>credit service company. The work itself is pretty boring (lots of
>number-crunching and such), but the people are a hoot, which makes the
>workplace pleasant. I'm tired a lot -- still have fibromyalgia/chronic
>fatigue syndrome -- but I'm not sick enough to be on disability, yet not
>well enough to work full time *and* have energy for much of anything
other
>than work. However, at this point Dave and I need me to bring in a
full-time
>income, so here I am. (If things work out as planned, though, there's a
good
>chance that in a couple of years I can work part time, which would be
ideal
>for me health-wise.) I'm also still doing some freelance proofreading and
>tutoring -- that's the stuff I really love to do, but unfortunately
there's
>not enough of it to make up a steady full-time income.
>
>Otherwise I'm doing great -- nearly 200 pounds smaller (and several sizes
--
>down from 34W to 14) than I was prior to gastric bypass surgery. So I
guess
>now I've lost a Calista Flockhart and a Backstreet Boy?
>Diabetes, high cholesterol and hypertension are but a distant memory.
>
>My most immediate short-term goal is to find time/place for a
not-too-pricey
>weekend getaway for Dave and me -- something to give the illusion of a
>vacation (until I actually get vacation time after the first of next
year!)
>
>Good to know you're doing well!
>
>Till soon,
>Ellen
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