PUPPY

This past Saturday we added to our family again with the addition of our new puppy. She is a 2 month old miniature schnauzer-salt and pepper in color and her name is Lady. We picked her out from a litter of five. She is very Cute! We keep her in a cage in the upstairs bathroom at night. She follows the cat around thinking Isis is her playmate. Isis is not quite so interested. Isis however can get up the stairs and Lady can't so Isis likes to lay on the landing where she knows the puppy can see her but can't get to her. We are working on house breaking the puppy-it is slow going at this point. She likes to chew on Isis's toys and eat Isis's food. Isis in retaliation will eat Lady's food. They are quite the pair, but seem to be adjusting to each other OK.

We have our last game of T-Ball this Saturday. At times I have regretted coaching this team but at others I am glad I did. It has been difficult at times as I have quite the band of ragga-muffins. Hopefully they have learned some skills, got a taste of what it is like to be a team and had fun.

Joan

THE SCALE

I got on the scale this morning and now I wish I hadn't. I weighed 216 pounds! I am getting closer and closer to being 100 pounds over my ideal weight. I'll admidt that I have not been exercising. I set my alarm to get up and exercise but every morning I shut if off and lay back down in bed. I have also been eating very poorly. Oh I can come up with lots of excuses as to why I don't eat better but in all honestly they are simply that excuses. I know what good foods are: fruits, vegetables, whole grains and lean meat and low fat dairy. and I do eat a lot of those things but on top of that I have been feeding my chip/fry addiction. I get really upset with myself and that in some ways makes it even worse as I convince myself "Oh what the Hell, you are already fat!", "Have fast food, Have those chips or that ice cream" etc.

I know there is no magic pill but I sure wish there was.

NEW SUIT

Well this past weekend after meeting my sister in brother in Madison for lunch, a tour of Olbrecht and ice cream I went to Shopko to buy Bella some shoes and came home with a new bathing suit for me.

A little history-I have a bathing suit,actually I have 3 and I can still wear them all but they are by no means "NEW" they are all Lands' End suits that I bought when I worked for Lands' End which I have not done since before I got married and I have been married for almost 8 years. While these suits still fit no one and I mean no one would say they look good. A true testiment to the quality of Lands' End suits as they have stretched to accomidate my ever increasing size.

Bella loves the Beach, I love the beach but we seldome go simply because I am protecting the general public from the horror of me in a bathing suit. We will be going on vacation soon, staying at a cabin on a lake so I don't think I want to totally avoid putting on a suit.

The suit I bought was on sale so I bought both pieces for around $25 and yes I said 2 pieces as it is a Tankini. The top is blue floral and the botton solid black with a littel skirt. Definately a modest suit. I like it but not the fact that it is a size larger than any suit I have ever bought in my life. I think this is one of the reasons I put off buying a suit for so long because I was afraid I would have to go up in size. If only I was not undertall and overfed!

By the way I did not get new shoes for Bella as the selection was minimal and Bella was not interested in buying nice practical everyday shoes but tall boots with zippers up the side of sparkaly sandles etc.

WHERE HAVE I BEEN?

Well amoung all the other things I do all the time like cleaning, laundry, work and taking care of my child and husband we went on vacation for a week. We went to Seattle, WA and Victoria Island. We had a great time.