Here you go, my Sweet Violets! Another new home for our daily musings....

"Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship."

- Cicero

OUCH!!!!!!!

I am sure you are giving him some great TLC though!!

Good Sunday Morn, Vi's~~

Another beautiful day... will spend some time @ the barn w/dd enjoying the day/horses/nature... then just this & that!

Judy... SO sorry to read about Bob's hand! Ouch! Hope he heals quickly.

Janie... put on some upbeat music while you work... that always helps me!

Pam... am on the couch watching "Sunday Morning" as I type this... thinking of you on the other coast doing the same! :blushing:

Hope Haydee's having fun!

What are you up to this weekend, Laura?

Enjoy today!

5 days 'til Disney!

Bon Journo~

Michelle, I am on the west coast (albeit 3 hours later) watching hot hunky Nacho....mmmmm, me likey some Nacho's! How cute is that guy???

Waking slowly, sipping coffee and will be grading 30 papers. I am having trouble w/ one student already...pisses me off when they make me work extra cause they are NOT doing what they need to.

Have a great day peeps!

xooxoxox

Bon Journo~

Michelle, I am ... watching hot hunky Nacho....mmmmm, me likey some Nacho's! How cute is that guy???

My thoughts EXACTLY... he is *spicy*! Oh. my. gosh!

(My MIL grew up in the Bronx & was friends w/"Ralph Lauren" but at the time his name was Ralph Lipshitz or some other funky Jewish name!)

Hello, I need to start working.

Michelle, that is a great idea, I don't own a stereo or an ipod, but I think on Uverse I have music channels!!

I may pop in occasionally since I will be at my computer and earn little breaks!!

I haven't started yet, but looking up this charm somebody was telling me about, this is what I found. Funny but true!!!!

Losing weight isn’t rocket science – it just takes a half-way decent plan and some sustained effort – but people still go to great lengths to find a short cut; and I’ve heard some real doozies.

Here are some of my favorite ‘quick fixes’ to guarantee you WON’T lose a pound.

• Sitting on your butt complaining that you can’t lose weight
  
• Rabbit’s foot keychains
  
• Magic crystals (one of my early clients really had a pocketful of “weight loss crystals” spill on the floor during a workout. It takes a lot to shock me these days.)
  
• Denying the existence of certain food groups
  
• Voodoo dolls
  
• Amulets, talismans and lucky coins
  
• Ojibwa nation dreamcatchers
  
• Praying the rosary
  
• Chicken foot charms
  
• Talking about losing weight
  
• Thinking about losing weight
  

• Magic crystals (one of my early clients really had a pocketful of “weight loss crystals” spill on the floor during a workout. It takes a lot to shock me these days.)
  

OMG I died laughing!!!!

Good thing you guys went to the ER Judy with an artery.. oy, yuck, I don't even like picturing those kinds of things!! (Yet c-section pics totally cool hah hah). I guess I am ick about things you actually feel!

Russ, dad, and I went to Atlanta yesterday for the Braves Vs. Phillies game. Awesome atmosphere. We were for Phillies, so were a vast minority. It was an exciting game (I don't know much about baseball though), Phillies were behind 6 to 0 in the top of the 9th.. then suddenly they get 2 on base, hit a home run.. so 3, then I think they scored 1 more, and with 0 outs they had 2 more people on base and a run of good hitters. They almost made a comeback, so that was cool.. they didn't though. Oh well.

The sucky thing, it rained like cats and dogs the whole drive there, several spots where you couldn't see to drive, I was so on edge.. I looked at my dad at one point and said "Can you see?" and he just shook his head no. I was like crap. Luckily we made it.. and then on the drive home it rained for half the time (we saw 3 people who ran off the road into the trees both ways). Now it's storming, and I love it because I'm HOME.

I've been cleaning like a fool lately, I'm developing an OCD about it.. I guess it could be worse. I've been Pledging my cabinets, just put Carson to bed, and I'm about to go dust every inch of the ceilings.

Welcome home, Laura!

Hmmmm cleaning ceilings... are we nesting again?? :biggrin:

I just changed Bob's dressing and he has 5 stitches on the top and 4 under the surface and a couple in the tendon. He's one sore puppy. It looks really good though. He got his pain meds today but says they don't do much. He watched the Lions lose and the Tigers win and now I'm making him watch the Red Carpet with me. I'm going to go to be early tonight. It was too long of a night last night.

I hope Haydee is having a great weekend.

Everybody have a good night. Sleep well.

well I got a lot done today. Still have a lot ahead of me, but it all looks manageable.

Hey does anyone here know excel? I tried to name one of my columns 'hsa' and it kept making it 'has' I guess it is no big deal since I know what it is, but I spent a lot of time trying to get it to say 'HSA'!!

Hope all are relaxing!! And Mending!!!!

Good Monday Morn, Vi's~~

A new week... Disney week! Getting so excited (if you can't tell). Let the packing begin! :biggrin:

Laura, the game sounds exciting, but I'd have freaked out about that rain! On the news here they showed video of the Atlanta area & the flooding! Wow!

Janie, I'm a Word girl, I can barely use Excel, so I'm no help. Sorry!

Everyone make it a great Monday!

4 days 'til Disney!

Hi Girls~

Did 20 min on eliptical and it damn near killed me! After 10 days off and this cold STILL lingering about, I was drenched. Jenny joined too so the three of us worked out together, kinda fun. Tomorrow is weights!

Michelle...jealous about DW. We are going to Gay Days at Disneyland in 2 weeks (Jenny, Annette, Jax, Melissa and us) and we got rooms in LA, so we can relax! Looking forward to it!

Gotta run, but I'll be back during the day!

Janie, don't know/do excel much. I would name it has! Keep practicing though, everyone who knows it loves it.

Judy, how is the bobster doing?

xooxox

Good morning, Violets..

it's a dreary, rainy day here today. I had big plans to start cleaning out gardens and then have a leisurely float in the pool to soak up some more rays, but obviously that ain't gonna happen.

I have to get ready for my hospital shift in a few minutes.

PamELa... kudos on the exercising. Glad you're feeling better!!

Michelle... wooo hoooooo DisneyWorld! I can feel the excitement. Bob goes to Clevelend on Thursday for a church meeting. He's going to visit the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for me. I have to stay home cause I have two concerts this weekend.

Janie... sorry, I don't know do Excel either. I'm also a Word person.

Laura.. done with the cleaning?? We get Grady tonight when the kids go to work out. Kris lost 8# last month. I'm so proud of her!! And Grady is sleeping so much better now.

The Bobster is doing better. His hand was pretty swollen so I gave him a Water pill hoping that would work. He went to the bathroom about every 45 minutes last night, but the hand is still swollen. Nathan is going to look at it tonight when he comes here so he'll let us know how everything is healing.

I'm off to get dressed and then head to work. Everyone have a great day!!! Be good to yourselves.

Is there a way to let it learn the hsa as opposed to the has? I mean with the spell check you can choose a proper spelling or allow it to learn the word---or something to that effect. I know it NEVER liked me typing y'all. So now it knows it!!! LOL

Off to work today. Not really looking forward to it. I am tired. Two days cutting wood is not days off. My leg hurts. We ate too late last night, and I drank a diet DP, and between the caffeine and the food, I did not sleep well. I am just simply cranky this morning!

Hope Bobs hand eases, the swelling is the worst, as soon as it quits swelling the throbbing should ease. Poor guy! Is he keeping it elevated a good part of the time? Being a hand that hangs like they do (!) is going to make it tend to swell more I would think. OUCH.

Gotta go, clock says so......grrrrr

Hey does anyone here know excel? I tried to name one of my columns 'hsa' and it kept making it 'has' I guess it is no big deal since I know what it is, but I spent a lot of time trying to get it to say 'HSA'!!

What version of Excel do you have? I was just playing with it on mine and got the same results. I bet you have to change something in the Excel Options. Don't you love technology -- why can't it just do what we want it to do!! I'll look at it some more today after my errands and let you know.

Good Monday morning! Rainy and wet here today but we are supposed to have cooler temps soon so that's a big plus!

I got my new car and I finally got to drive it this morning. It's awesome!

New Orleans was so much fun! Have any of ya'll been? Lots of history and beautiful architecture. The food is AMAZING. We ate at so many wonderful places. Lots of the restaurants there are hundreds of years old and we were able to experience such rich culture. Walking through the cobblestone streets was so idylic. And there are so many horse drawn carriages around and so you hear the clopping of the horses feet on the cobblestones and you can feel what it must have felt like long ago. I always imagined that New Orleands was just alcohol and debauchery but we were able to see the other side of it and we are definetly going back. I'll post pics on Facebook as soon as I can.

Judy - OMG, poor Bob! I'm glad it's getting better though but that sounds like a big gash...

Michelle - sooo jelous of your disney trip. When ya'll go do ya'll do the same rides or do ya'll always manage to find new stuff to do?

Pammy - yay on the excersise. I go back tonight after being "OFF" for 6 days! It's gonna kick my ass. I'm not looking forward to it. But i've indulged way too much these past few days and so I know I need it...

Jane - Doesn't it feel so good once you've gotten started on something that you've been putting off for a loooonnngg time. Me and you are very much alike... To make the cell read what you put in there you need to right click on the cell and then click on the FORMAT CELL option. Then click on TEXT. That means that whatever you put in that cell it will take as is with no corrections... Hope that helps!

Kat - have a good day at work. Is that lady still making things difficult for you?

Can ya'll believe it's already the end of September? Where did September go? Seriously, I missed it. Time is FLYING. I need to get my butt in gear and start looking for invites and start looking for a dress for me. I fear it's going to be a daunting task....