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I have to start by saying…growing up our family would be considered poor. At the time, I didn’t think we were poor, I just heard over and over again…we can’t afford it in response to my requests for this and that. I thot that phrase was fairly normal in most households.
We had clothes (some hand me downs), food (no prepackaged stuff), and shelter (rental houses). My parents have never owned their own home. I think this statement is very important here…so I am going to repeat it, MY PARENTS HAVE NEVER OWNED THEIR OWN HOME.
So if you can answer yes to any of the items listed below, you are not poor.
- Own your own home (My parents have never owned their own home)
- Gone to a professional concert
- Ever bought a brand new car (My parents did not buy a new car until my father was in his late 70′s)
- Have an iPod, iPhone, iPad…
- Buy name brand instead of generic
- Buy soda instead of cool-aid
- Give away your children’s clothes instead of handing them down
- Take annual vacations (We didn’t go on any type of vacation until I was 16 years old)
- Buy your children Halloween costumes (we had to rummage in our closet to find costumes)
- Own a piece of leather clothing
- I believe, if either parent is able to stay at home to raise their children, you are not poor. (My mom HAD TO work, it wasn’t a choice and she had 4 children)
- There are many, many, more, but I have run out of time.
People need to live within their means. I don’t care what the neighbor has or doesn’t have. At the end of the day we all need to pay our own way. Cut up the credit cards…they are a danger to you, your family and your well-being.
The only rights you have are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Everything else is a privilege you earn with hard work, yes, even health insurance.
-thotlady
Well, I have lost 4 pounds in 1-1/2 weeks. I was at the 4 pound mark last weekend, but I gained 1/2 – 1 pound back some how. I am eating like a bird, which is very frustrating. I know 4 pounds is good, but still, EATING LIKE A BIRD here.
I am still weighing myself each morning, taking a photo of the scale and texting it to my SIL. I really do think it helps to weigh each day. I know the experts tell you not to, because it can fluctuate, but it is helping me to stay with the EATING LIKE A BIRD diet.
I have been eating mostly Lean Pockets at night for dinner. I have discovered Skinny Cow ice cream sandwiches that are very good. One egg for breakfast and usually a fruit along with a glass of V-8 juice. Lunch is usually a protein bar (Special K, chocolate peanut butter), a yogurt parfait and some diet cookies (which is usually 5 tiny bites). No worms.
That’s it folks. Oh, I did have a couple of beers last weekend. I am trying to lay off the alcohol because it uses my calories which I want to use for actual FOOD.
-thotlady
…or is it.
I am back trying to lose wait weight…yes, again! So yesterday my sister-in-law and I were Skyping and were talking about our weight loss/gain woes. I suddenly had an epiphany…I typed to her, why don’t we weigh ourselves each morning and then take a picture of the readout on the scale and email it to each other. She said she was willing to do that. I wasn’t sure if it would work with my scale. Whether a photo would show the digital readout. I think I was trying to give myself an out in case the morning came and I didn’t really want to display my weight in hard, cold, numbers to my dear sister-in-law.
I hopped out of bed this morning (I will pause for laughter here) and immediately got onto the scale with phone in hand. I took a snapshot with said phone and low and behold I was able to capture the numbers perfectly (darn), there goes my excuse. I then jumped in the shower (a lot of hopping and jumping in the morning). When I came back into our bathroom after my shower I heard a ping notification on my phone. I thot, could it be my sister-in-laws scale photo? Sure enough when I clicked on the text message there was her scale photo, so I immediately sent my snapshot back. She replied We are awesome! And I replied…Yes we are.
Maybe this will work. Time will tell.
-thotlady
P.S. You didn’t really think I would post the scale photos here did you? I am not crazy.
Seriously how cool is my header this month. I found this new feature in Photoshop, liquify. Very cool.
As always, I love this time of year. Finally our weather has cooled off here in Virginia. It has been so humid up until a week ago. Now, it is wonderful. Even last weekend when we went to Virginia Beach it was nice, cloud covered but dry, not humid and even a little chilly. Heavenly. We thought the place would be deserted since it was the beginning of October, unfortunately it was packed. It was the last big weekend of the season so they had vendors up and down the boardwalk. I was hoping for a nice deserted beach to run or walk on. Our new dog Cody’s first experience with sand and beaches. He seemed to love it. A little leery of the water, but eventually he stepped his front feet into the surf. It startled him a little. He is so sweet.
 Bogie with his back to the camera, his brother and family, oh and my shoes.  After frollicking on the beach in the afernoon, this little guy conked out on us. Isn't he sweet. It was nice not having a football game this past weekend at the university where I work. I worked the first three games in a row, so to have a complete weekend off was nice. This coming weekend and week is Fall break here at school. The students come back for classes on Wednesday. Strange that their Fall break is only from Saturday to Tuesday.
Other than that nothing much going on. Oh, I played a game of two on two basketball with my neighbor and his two daughters last night. It was fun. His daughter is trying out for the freshman team at school so she has been practicing. I used to play in high school and for a league after high school a little while in Milwaukee. That was back in the late 70′s, so my game is a little rusty. I missed the basket a few times but I am going to blame that on the setting sun. It’s hard to do well playing basketball when it’s getting dark. Hopefully they will ask me to play again, it was fun.
Have a good weekend everyone. All three of you.
-thotlady
My girlfriend and I were talking last night and she mentioned out of the blue…we should apply for The Amazing Race. You see she is a very big fan of The Amazing Race. I have watched a total of 5 episodes over the years. I am a big Survivor fan, the Amazing Race, not so much. But the more we talked about it, the more we thot why not. Her and I are very funny together, and we have fun when we are together. She has lived abroad in Chile.
We used to work together in the Study Abroad department at the university where I work. I now work for another department, but her and I have become good friends. She is going through a rough patch, her and her husband have decided to divorce after 10 years together, (but that is for a different post).
So I think we are going to do it. Apply that is. We don’t have a snowballs chance in hell, but nothing ventured, nothing gained. It would be just our luck to get picked. Then what would we do. We sure had a good laugh about it last night.
-thotlady
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