hi sis

shell,
How are you today?? i really want to talk with you. if you can email, would be lovely. i am trying to get a charger for my phone as my charger was left at chicago and my phone died. i met a lovely man from kenya--a runner for nike, we just had coffee. he wants us to date. so funny. i don't know if i am ready for this. but, he is so kind. anyway, i will try get a charger. because we should talk. i miss talking with you about life choices. love twiggy.

hi cutie

Hi. i am out to coffee alone/ slept 12 hours. was exhausted. my knee is back to within normal limits; shock to me. call me if you have a minute or break. we are going to see baby gundy tonight. love you. twigs. oh, i am beginning a plan. to eat sugar only if huge craving, as it is slowly killing me. so far, past 1 hour is good.

i am back

Hi .... sarah and i are back from our over the road trip. it was good and i am happy to be back to the midwest. i have found the outfit i picked to wear to the schools became like incredible hulk. it was green too, and i was literally busting out of it. minnesota is hard on my eating. plus i messed up my knee bad rushing for food the first night in minnesota. i could not straighten it without screaming in pain thur, fri, sat.... i took sarah;s advice and iced it sat night, took advil; continued with this. thinking i would be out of work and need an acl or pcl ligament repair. today it is good. i didn't even wear the brace i bought for it.
well, i hope soon i can quit looking pregnant, as my stomach is huge. but until then, who knows????? i am a sugar addict. there, i said it. hope you are doing better. call sometime soon. i accidentally forgot my phone charger in chicago at the hotel; so i need a new one ... hope they are not too much. i hate doing dumb costly things..
let me know how you are doing; and anything else about life. love you.... twiggy.

eating large in the flatlands

Hi Dear twigs,
Once again I am eating all in sight during and after my trip to the flatlands...maybe that is the answer for me right there...I can't seem to calm down or turn around my eating. I am not sleeping well. We went last night to look at a possible wedding location at Tilden Park, which is where I love to hike ( it is a park next to Redwood and very near Sassan's house)...so Kell and Sassan met us, we all like it, it was a very pretty old stone structure in the hills...then we went out for Thai, but still I could not stop thinking about the near future and what choice to make...I wish there was a way to know what is best w/out agonizing so much. How are you? miss you, and not hanging onto my 40 very well...my jeans are tight today and I am sad.
luvmops

my ipod is lovely

Hi cutie.
i am at work listening to my ipod . it is relaxing me so. make me an angel fly from montgomery,. i love this song. i eat better when i am relaxed . thank you so much. i work again tue. night. but try call . i love you mops. twiggy. eat, drink, and be merry.

good job on the gym

Hi lady. congrats on making the choice to go and work out. it is synergistic. 1 + 1 =3 sometimes; as the positives reinforce each other as does the opposite. your bike trip looked arduous but fun; you 2 are so cute; were you on a boat coming back from tiberon??? i am happy you are not caving to fatigue though it is so easy after long days.
I have been thinking of the way meditteranean women eat; not that i know that much; but read a book from a woman chef that owns a restaurant in maine--primo. and it revolves around her italian family and wisdom of food, family, and friends. i basically can only take away a little at a time. but my focus for now is to notice the flavor of my food; to eat more veggies and fruit which i have done the past couple days. now i must expand my food horizon. i guess if i can incorporate one step at a time, eventually i will reach the taj mahal. i don't even know if there are steps to it??? anyway, i love you dearly. yours truly and tastfully, twiggy.

they are getting through, but slowly, like us

My dearest twigs...so the messages come through, but take time, sort of like the food wisdom we know and try to impart on one another...we are sending it, exposed to it, know it...but is it getting through to us? I think so, it just is sometimes delayed as we cannot see the message through the weeds...so my thought is this, let's be patient and kind to ourselves as we try and live this new healthy lifestyle wisdom...some days we will grasp the messages at lightening speed and incorporate them into our daily living and other days we will walk around heads bobbing from side to side saying where is it? What is the message? What do I do now?

Ok, enough philosophy...but I will say last night the message in my head was loud and clear to go to the gym after work as I had met my lovely man for pizza at lunch and ate too much...then the weeds crept in, oh, but you are tired, and you need to do other chores, and it is too warm out, and and and...but I pushed through the weeds and went, and although the act itself was maybe not so important I feel better today for having went last night...and have set myself up to do better this morn. So I guess there are no absolutes, just small decisions every day that either help or hinder our health, whether we are happy, lonely, tired, excited, or sad. So, here's to hoping you have a healthy day. I love you. and thanks for all the great posts, I read them all!
luvmops

the blog is out of commission

Hi lovely lady.
i am tired of my blogs not being sent through. i will try again. i am in the library at the hospital before i have a meeting with an MD from washington who will hopefully certify our rehab with CARF. or we won't be open . i and one other day charge will spend time talking with him. i hope it goes well. i love you. i am home tonight. call me.

testing 1 2 3

i can't get these darn messages through. love twiggy.

are you getting my messages???

Hi mops,
how is your weekend going???? i just had 4 pieces of low calorie pepperoni pizza. oops. 2 would have been sufficient, but the one lonely one left didn't want to sit in the box without friends. so i helped him out. anyway, i hope all is well with you and your meeting is better than you think.
i am working and having a nice night but my ear is all crackly, so my manager thinks i am getting a sinus infection and gave me medication. maybe that is why i slept way too much this week. my body was getting ill.
oh, by the way, i sent better blogs but they are only accessed under the heading 2008. i am trying to be better with eating so wish me luck. forget the pizza. love twiggy .... someday i will be twiggy.

click on posts for 2008

hi dear. all my posts are not being published but going under the heading of 2008. check it. love twiggy. sorry i am on a time limit. will write tonigh. call anytime. love you

my posts are going through??

hi. i sent one good long post and it is not on; i sent another to check and it didn't take either??? call later. hoz is in the care with my ffoood. i should have put it in the trunk. hang in there honey. i am in the weeds with you, but we are surrounded by beautiful orange poppies. i love you. twiggs.

isent you a great post

hi, i sent a long post and now it is not on here. i hope it appears. i would rewrite but hoz is in the car with the grocerys. damn. i don't get it. i love you. twiggy

oh, yes the weeds are a problem

Hi dear friend.
i like your image of the weeds. literally i have been pulling alot of them today; and cursing the whole time as they have run rampart in my garden. and also in my garden of eating. not eden. i am sitting next to you, moreso exhausted with my weeds. thought amongst them are beautiful orange flowers. my favorite color lately. i try wear orange most days. the eating of food and consumption of wine has thrown me into my own little frenzy. i have again on my mind a plan to do a 3 day hunger fruit flush plan. but the thought of protein drinks scares the hell out of me.
so, instead, i jumped around in my living room to turbo jam. instead of imposing another restrictive plan on myself, i am working out quite a bit; trying to decrease wine, as i eat too much then. and yesterday i ate 1/2 box of organic oreos, lots of chip, indian buffet and many glasses of wine . to top it off nearly a bottle of wine. i don't want to get to diane's consumption though. i ? do i eat because i am sad; or am i sad because i eat. i think it is the latter as today i am eating small and feeling more me. i like that me. i am a bit concerned hozzy is eating my nummy cinnamon grahams i bought instead of the cookies i picked up and thought , oh, these are new. fudge mint ones, not oreos. i can control them. but then i thought a moment longer, um. no i can't. so i picked very nice grahams.

call later if you can. i must run as hozz is in the car with my grocerys. i love you. call anytime. i am with you on this crazy rollercoaster ride. love twiggy.
oh, rather than the scale, i am working on getting to my size 12 calvins i love to wear. the 14s are a little big. is easier for me than the nos. on the scale.

slipping

Hey dear twigs,
How is all for you? I am really slipping this week...over by 40 pts already (even after using all my extra 35 pts) and still have 2 days to go...just feeling anxious I guess...i never do well when i think big changes are in the winds...the fact is, maybe there will not be big changes and i need to just keep focused...but have really been wavering this week. I am tired of trying a bit, sometimes I just want to eat everything, and feel like throwing a tantrum...and then instead of the tantrum I pick one or 2 things and just really over indulge on them...this week it had been chips, cheetoh's, crackers...anything salty and crunchy; and wine...
trying to change my eating habits is like having a garden w/ a million weeds, as soon as I pull a bunch, a new variety of weed crops up and i frantically start pulling again...then occasionally i say screw it and sit down amongst the weeds and cry and eat. are you still walking through this garden with me? i miss you
luvmops

ralph waldo emerson

Hi dear mops.
how is your workday going for you?? and your off times? i stopped by to check messages and drop a few. i so wish i had a laptop. maybe a refurbished one woul not cost a fortune. i was hoping maybe aaron or sassan could locate one for me. do you have an extra???
well, my trip to minnesota is going forward. again, i am sorry for the change in plans. i am going there from june 18th to the 25th. . sarah and i need to leave thursday early as our 1st appt is outside chicago 9am friday. will you perchance be in the cities on wednesday the 18th??

oh, i tried reach you last night. i would love sassan's no. haven't heard from dear kelly in a long while, and miss her. i am unsure his no. and want to put it in my phone. i need to find her a phone on ebay.

here is a quote from ralph waldo emerson is good.

Finish each day and be done with it
You have done what you could
Some blunders and absurdities have crept in;
Forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day.
You shall begin it serenely and with too
high a spirit to be encumbered with
your old nonsence.


love you, twiggy