NHSuzanne - I usually poke the h*ll out my baked potatoes, because the exact same thing happened to me once, only it exploded in the microwave! Hope Sweet Pea continues to improve. Is your electric back on? I just bought some peanut butter and jelly to have on hand. I started eating the Smuckers natural peanut butter and now I can't eat any other kind. I love peanut butter on apples, bananas or English muffins. I just read that the tsunami missed Hawaii. Thank goodness. Those poor people in Chile. I have a cold and my back is aching for various reasons. So I confess that I slid off the wagon (felt sorry for myself) and ate some junk this week. I will have to start over with the stars. :~( At least I refrained from buying anything junky at the store today. We got another 6 inches yesterday and it has been snowing all day. But at least the snow today isn't sticking to the roads. February 2010 is now officially the snowiest February in Pennsylvania since they started keeping track of the weather. Marci Marci

Tikanis here reporting from So. Cal where it is slightly overcast and cool this morning : ) This has been a great week. My DS has found a way to computerize ALL of my paperwork and if accepted by the agencies I contract with, will save me HOURS and HOURS each and every week! I am so excited that I can hardly stand it! Today was my check in and I am now just under 16 lbs from my goal! I have added biking to my work out, something that I really enjoy, so it won't be long now... I am preparing a few meals today for a church member who just had surgery. This afternoon DS and I are doing a bit of shopping and getting our nails done. Tonight I have my first "Date" since the wheel was invented ha ha! That's right, I am going to see if there is life out there after 5 years of widowhood. I am scared to death. Please send good thought. I need them. : ) Tikanis

The sale was overall good, not great, but good. I've documented it all on my blog (see below). Sorry I haven't been around but my Grandmother died on Monday and I've been busy making arrangements etc. On the blog, you'll want to go down to last weeks entries. Here is a link that might be useful: blog

I feel your pain. We have a small house and are doing a kitchen / dining room remodel. We are four weeks in and the drywall just went up. I'm starting to lose my mind over the dirt. We are managing surprisingly well with the makeshift kitchen in the office and with more than half of our living space ( not counting our bedrooms) gone. But the dirt! They hung sheeting and it's working great in the dining room where they hung it and no one bothers it, but the one in the hallway isn't as lucky. We have to go through it sometimes so it's not doing as great of a job. And the basement! We have a finished basement and my brand new laundry room is right under the kitchen. They had to take down some of the ceiling tiles to get to the electric, so now dirt from the ceiling is all over my new washer and dryer. THEN my daughter was home from school on Friday as working in the art room, adjacent to the laundry room, and a big chunk of ceiling fell rough next to her! Luckily not on her, but it did fall on my drying rack that was covered with my nice sweaters that I baby. I am dying to go clean up but it seems pointless since more dirt will just keep falling until they put the ceiling back. As for the rest of the house, I've been keeping up mostly, but this weekend I thought, why bother dusting and mopping because they are going to be sanding drywall Monday. So I'm just trying to ignore it, which isn't easy. I figure when they finish the sanding I'll clean, even if it's a weeknight. Sorry, that was long, but I needed to vent too! ;) And yes the sweaters thing was kinda my own fault, I should have put them in another room.