Mariposa Bella

here I am. So tell me, how is life? I'm doing great, still love my band. Some days life is great, other days I have my issues. Still trying to fight the fat monster. I reached goal of 135-137 about a yr ago and had been maintaining. I have put a tiny bit of weight on, but I'm back on my horse. We need all the older oldies to come back and share. Where is Delarla, Penni, Leatha, Christina and so many more? I need an older oldie reunion.

Well, I am feeling the blues because I am longing to have my family close to me. My family is in Texas and I can't enjoy the holidays with them. My brother lives in town but has to spend the holidays at his in-Laws and my husband's family, well they are just retarded.. No really, I would love to have a ton of family sit together and share a special meal.. I asked hubby if we were getting together with his family and he said he didn't know. I called some of my SIL's but they aren't sure what they are doing. So I'll probably just cook for my kids and husband. It will still be great, but I sure long for those crazy, loud family get togethers. It is really not about the food anymore, but about spending time with loved ones.

>Well, as an "oldie" (banded in '04), I come and go and hope that along the line I can get and offer encouragement. CoffeeWench was one of my inspiration persons when I began my band journey and I am so happy to see her posting. Still beautiful inside and out.

Yes, that girl has some strong willpower... That donut challenge was disgusting.. I will never be able to eat a donut again.. (or until I can get that image out of my head.) My dh walked in when I was watching and it made him mad.. He said, look at all that food they are wasting and there are so many people that go hungry every day, shame on them.. But hey isn't most television/movies that way? What I hate is when on an action movie they destroy a fancy Lexus or BMW.. makes me mad.

Thanks.. I will try making it and will let you know how it turned out.

I'm telling you, it makes me sick too...makes me mad as hell, actually.

I'm having a hard time staying away from the site today and I have tons of work.. We have a Legislative luncheon on Monday and I'm trying to get ready, but can't seem to get away from my computer.....

Please share.. I'm a fairly decent cook, I think?? But for some reason when I try to cook from a recipe it somehow never works for me.. If I experiment cook, I can come up with some awesome sauces and dishes.. but from a recipe, forget it... funny hugh??

OOOH, the only lasagna we eat at our house is Stouffer's.. can you send me some of that??? PLEASE...

They are so fortunate to be there. They all are starting to look great. I want little Kay to win, but she is already small and will probably have to go home because the others will say she could finish on her own.

Wow, what is that in the picture.. I want it...

I have always wanted a tatoo but never could decide on what to get. Last week I almost lost my mother. Her name is Rosalinda. So I have decided to get 3 roses on the top of my foot or hip (still can't decide). Rosalinda means beautiful rose. And I'm getting three, because she had 3 kids and I have 3 kids.. What do you think?? She doesn't like tatoos, but I like them, my brother has 3 and she wasn't happy when he got them.. WEll, tell me, what do you think of my idea?? I know that roses are not very original, but tell me??

Let's not fight and go back to drooling about the fried lasagna..

Listen to them, they know what they are talking about. I was self-pay in Mexico, so I didn't have to deal with any of that.

I'm thinking I need to look into this.. but not right now, cause I'm really broke.

Aye.. Aye...Aye

I totally agree, make them sweep the streets, pick up trash, mow public parks, something.. to make them earn OUR hard earned money.

That is what sucks about the system.. that it doesn't help those that are trying to help themselves. When I separated from my first husband, I had my eight month old baby girl and was so struggling to keep it going. Between mtg, car & daycare & the rest, it was so hard. I was working at a bank and made about $200 wk. I didn't have any money for groceries and went to ask for food assistance. They told me I made too much money and the lady suggested I quite work and then they could give me help.. Isn't that stupid.. I have a cousin that lives in Texas and knows how to work the system to the tee. He and his wife have 4 kids and don't ever work or very seldomly work. But they get free housing, food assistance, health insurance, you name it, they get it.. And somehow, they have the best of everything.. if you go to their house they have nice furniture, wear name brand clothes, have flat screens and shit up the wazoo.. How in the hell do these people get away with this.. What is sad, is that their kids see this and aren't learning to work hard for those things, no work ethic what so ever.. And two streets down from where I lived, there are some gov't homes (nice large 4 br/2 bath homes) that are subsidised gov't housing. One house always catches my attention when I passed by it. They have two brand new vehicles, a top of the line tahoe, and a Chrysler 300. And yes, they even have big fancy rims on them.. and there are always huge boxes of electronics out by the curb.. At christmas time they bought about 4 or 5 flatscreens.. Must be nice. You can't afford to pay rent but you can afford this??? Makes me mad.. Everything that my husband and I have is because we have busted our asses working for it (he more than I, of course).. But guess what, my kids see that and respect that and will hopefully be better, responsible adults because of that.

I'm telling you it looked soooooo good. They had refrigerated cooked lasagna.. they cut it into squares, then they ran it through an egg wash and put some flour on it and then deep fried it.. I could have licked that tv set.. yummmy...

I think she meant that because he is the last one on her team, maybe she would have to be gone for the remainder of the show. But I am not sure.

Speaking of fried stuff, did you see when Paula Dean's son fried lasagna.. Man did it look good.

I have pedicures every two weeks, sometimes more than that.. I love them. I go shopping for the day w/ me bf while hubby watches kids. I get pleasure in cleaning my own house, I have hubby keep the kids entertained in the pool while I clean. I am a clean freak and if for some reason I'm having a bad day, the madder I am or the more frustrated I am, the better my house looks. Then when I'm done, I light candles, draw me a bath, and sit in my 20 jett bath tub and turn the mood lights (or what ever they are called) on the tub and relax or read a book. Oh, I drink wine, while I do this. I really love my new house. I didn't have a tub in the master bath in the old house.

I'm one of the old timers on this board. I joined back in 04, but I was gone for about a yr and now I'm back..... I love margaritas.. I make mine from scratch, no mixes for me..

I had never heard it called that, but I like it.

Yes I am amazed. I guess no one wants to meet me, too bad cause I make a killer pineapple margarita on the rocks.. yummy.. I did get to meet Penni, she is a doll, love her. And I wish I could have met Delarla. Boy do I miss her and lots of the oldies that used to be here.