BIGGEST LOSER WANTS ME

Don't get too excited...not the TV show...the Men's Department.

Yup...the Men's Department is organizing "The Biggest Loser."  Instead of a week at the ranch with Jillian or Bob.  We pay $2 to play, the winner of % weight lost each week wins $5.  The bottom three people play $10.  At the end of the period of time allowed--which I forgot, gets the kitty.  Oh, and if you gain back the weight you lost you pay $1 per pound.

I, of course, asked what the opt out price was...

Wish me luck!!

DID BRAZIL GET ITS NAME FROM THE BRAZIL NUT???

Did Brazil get its name from the Nut?
Did India get its name from the Ink?
Did Oroville get its name from Oroweat?

Why do I ask?

Because Cliff graduates from college in May and there are no rooms at the Inns--literally.  Not one room in the lovely little town of Chico...not one!!  No amount of wheedling, whining, begging, asserting, will get us a room, much less two rooms.

We are staying in Oroville, CA. Where you ask??  I certainly did.  This is a picture of historic downtown Oroville.

 The population of Oroville was 13,000 in 2000.  The fourth largest employer is Walmart, number eight is Home Depot.  Oroweat not in sight.

We will be staying at the Holiday Inn Express for Cliff's graduation.  

If we were to stay here this weekend the room would be $86 a night...for graduation weekend it is $195 per night.


It must be near a highway, because I think we are getting robbed.


Oh, BTW, the answers to the questions are...no, no, and no!

I just did some checking to make sure that Oroweat really is not based in Oroville.  Come to find out it is a division of Bimbo Bakeries CA a division of Bimbo Bakeries Mexico...I am not even going there...

I'm just sayin'...

NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS CIRCA 2011

My blog began as a method for keeping me in touch with my resolutions.  It is only fair a few years later to re-visit my resolutions and update them.  They are posted at the side of my blog...but I think that I am too busy writing to read them (stating the obvious here).

1. Only buy things that I really need.

• We all absolutely need new shoes--right?

2. Pay my credit cards off.

• Slow start, I have been in maintenance, but I am reneweing my vow.

3. Eat less.

• I will start with fewer times a day.

 4. Exercise more (anything would be more, let’s face it)

• I will reactivate my gym membership in February (hate to join in the January rush)

5. Finish projects.

• I will finish them as soon as I find them.

6. EBay what I don’t need.

• I'm on it!!

7. Donate what I can’t eBay.

• Ditto!

8. Divest myself of all my unnecessary objects.

• Starting with unnecessary FAT!!

 9. Open my mind up to being more creative.

• Yup!

10. Paint.

• Something I need to find to be able to do.

11. Photograph

• Always a love.

12. Write

• Easy!

13. Finish my works in progress

• Repeat of 5 and I never noticed.

14. Use what I have

• Back to finding it to use it!

15. Create

• A clean work environment.

Wish me luck!!!!

NEW YEARS 2010

Happy New Year 2010!!!

In a repeat of last year, we had a wonderful feast at our friends Sonny and Melinda.  

The season is best begun and ended with very good friends

great food

champagne

and children.  

Sonny, Melinda, Clifford, and Amy

 and then topped it off with 30th Anniversary Cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory

and finished it off with the traditional puzzle (although I can say "Go Fish")

It was a wonderful evening.

As one of my friends said...we get a chance to do it over and do it right this time.

Happy New Year!!!