For Hire:

Do you have a husband that works all day and leaves you with the spring-cleaning projects out back? Do you need your trees trimmed and then shredded?
At BoBo's Backyard Bark, he not only trims your trees, he hauls them to a designated spot on your lawn and shreds them into bits. He charges only a low price of 3 treats per hour. When he is finished with this job, you now only have to go to the designated spot on your lawn and rake up or pick up the pieces. How simple is that?
Book now, his calendar his filling up fast!

Almost to the END!

Well, I've just about made it to the end of this crazy diet and ready to begin my healthy lifestyle of diet and exercise. When I am finished with this crazy part, I will take some pictures and post them, along with some measurements. I'm way to embarrassed to post the pre-diet picture, it's awful!!! Less than a week and counting......

Thanks Cadbury and Aunt Joyce

Last night I got to talk to Aunt Joyce. She was very graphic in details about how she loved and enjoyed the Cadbury chocolate eggs. Our conversation went a lil something like this.
AJ: "How's the diet going?"
MW: "It's hard because I've got such a sweet tooth."
AJ: "I especially love the Cadbury chocolate eggs."
MW: "Yeah, me, too!"
AJ: "I particularly love having a swig of water, pop an egg in, let it marinate in my mouth as the chocolate coating melts off and drips down my throat."
MW: "Oooooooh, that sounds so delicious and vicious. Thanks Aunt Joyce for the visual."
Dang to you Mr. Cadbury for coming up with what seemed to be gross and disgusting, those Cadbury eggs. Not the chocolate ones that Aunt Joyce was referring to, but the ones that look like eggs. I haven't bought a Cadbury egg in years because I thought it was just gross and too sweet (is there such a thing as too sweet?) But now after having talked to Aunt Joyce and seeing the commercial for the "Cadbury bunny try-outs" I want a dang egg..... I guess I'll have to settle for another piece of Melba toast..... man, oh, man how it is not the same.

On Your Mark, Get Set, GOOOOO!!!

Today I had the shortest depo I've ever done, 9 minutes. It wasn't even worth climbing up a flight of stairs in high-heels, carrying a steno machine + gear, then on my shoulder my computer + gear. By the time I got up to the top, I was huffin and puffin, but still trying to look like a lady. After setting up all my gear, which usually takes about 15-20 minutes, in walks the attorney. We will call him "Wilbert." Wilbert sits down says "This depo isn't going to take very long." I'm thinking, oh, that's what they all say and it will go for 4 hours.
After I swear in the witness, we're off. Imagine an auctioneer or porky the pig..... beeedbabadeabdelabdljhadl "Did you look at the report?" abldhal bhdhaldkb dh "I did." bhadlhdblhaldhd "What is your conclusion?" blahdlb hadlbhdlheowidnboia "Same as in the report." DONE>>>>>>>> Throw your hands up in the air as if you've just jumped off a horse, ran over to the calf, threw him on the ground, tied him up and...............TIME.
(This will probably be my only cowboy terminology I will ever use, by the way.)
I thought to myself, "Self, you climbed those stairs, you wrote the fastest you've ever written, you had to have burned a ton of calories. You deserve a lil sumpin." Guess what I'm going to do? Have an extra piece of melba toast!!!!!

Deep Thoughts By Molly Ward

So I tried to not think and post about food, but it just happened. Sorry.

As I sit here and work on a transcript, I find my mind wandering a bit. Here are a few thoughts as I look out my window: Look at BoBo sunbathing, he looks so comfortable and warm. I wonder if I will get to sunbathe in a new swimsuit this summer. I haven't bought a swimsuit since my senior year of high school. Will I be able to wear one that doesn't come from Lane Bryant (a fat girl clothing store for all you skinny-minnies out there) or will I be able to buy one from a department store? Hmmm.....
Oh, look at Gussie. He's chasing after a leaf as it gently rolls across the lawn in the breeze, how cute. I wish I could eat a roll right now. I'm not real picky at the moment, you know, cinnamon rolls, mom's homemade rolls, orange rolls. Hmmm.....
Wow, look at BoBo run after that stupid squirrel, he just about hit the fence. I wonder if I could chase a squirrel. Maybe the question is: Why would I want to chase a squirrel? Maybe if someone held out a candy bar, I would probably chase that -- no, I take that back, I wouldn't chase after it, I would be at a full-blown run after that!!
Aahhh, spring is in the air. Can you feel it? Smell it? or even Taste it? Yeah, me too!
Back to work......

Spicing Things Up a Bit

How much more chicken and beef do I have to eat? If I don't see another piece of chicken or beef again, that's fine by me. After "George Foreman" my meat for the past week, I decided that I was going to try something else. I was getting tired of the ol salt-and-pepper on my meat and wanting, you know, A1 sauce, Heinz 57 sauce or horseradish and mayo mixed together, so I decided to get creative with my spices. I looked to see what spices I could have on my diet and some of them I already had and some I borrowed from my friend. So I decided that instead of George'n the meat, I would cube it up, throw it in a nonstick skillet and just add a little water. And wa-la..... HOLY MACARONI.... it was soooo good. I even decided that for my vegetable I would caramelize my onions, then throw in the meat and hot diggity dog, I've got something that's real tasty. I've cooked it about 3 times and it just gets better and better every time.
Okay, the next post will not be about food, I promise. Can you tell I'm on a diet?

Diet Day 9

So I'm on day 9 of my diet. I survived the weekend with no cheating. I was surely tempted, but I overcame the temptation and kept on going. It's amazing how the brain works when you're on a diet. You think you're losing weight, your jeans that you haven't wore in a year and a half you can wear, and yet it doesn't show on the scale. It's a huge disappointment, but I'm over being upset and onto the next week. My goal this week: DRINK MORE WATER!!!!!

Got food?

When it's raining outside, don't you just want to curl up in your bed or make some cookies and eat the whole batch? Yeah, me too. Only I want to eat and eat and eat and eat and eat not just cookies, but pasta, cheese, ice cream, pancakes, eggs, hmm a Twix sounds good, too. But then I ask myself, "Do you really want to be healthy (okay, really the word here is skinny) and have a good life? or do you want to be fat and have a semi good life and enjoy the bounties of unhealthy foods?" Well, right now on day 5 of my diet, I want to be fat and live a semi good life..... hopefully my thoughts will improve soon or else I won't make it.

M&M Office Party

On Saturday I was able to host the M&M office party at my house. It was a huge success. Even in my small little house, we had a turnout of 24 people. Everyone brought various items to eat and drink. It was a lot of fun. Here are a few pictures.