Author: Dackel Princess

It’s been a week since I started back on South Beach. I haven’t cheated once. Many of you will say this is incredible, since we are in the holiday season, but I look at South Beach as the way I should eat all the time. It’s a way for carboholics like me to live without ‘love handles‘!
In any case, today was weigh-in day. You always hope for a big first week, because after that it just sort of comes off a half a pound here or there, but nothing spectacular, if you know what I mean? So with great trepidation I stepped on the scale at 7 this morning, naked as the day I was born, save for the socks I wear at all times. I’d lost 5 pounds! Yahoo!!!
Shubi has been a sick little munchkin since yesterday. I’m not sure if it a reaction to the anesthesia or what, but she has been throwing up like crazy and not eating. I was up 4 times in the night with my puking princess. This morning I got out the baby rice cereal and mixed that with warm water and made it very watery. She slurped down some of that and I’ll keep giving that to her to get her rehydrated. This is what I did when she was on chemo and had the occasional bad tummy.
Hubby has gone off skiing. He is really into getting himself back into shape. I’m afraid his knees aren’t cooperating, and at the end of this ski season he will need another knee replacement. But God bless him for getting out there and working on himself, something I will be doing quite shortly.
I’m finally starting to feel better from this sore throat thing. Thank goodness. It certainly has taken forever! But I’m hardly coughing and the throat itself is hardly sore at all. Best of all, I’m getting my energy back!
I wish the spammers would leave Princess alone! Y’all would not believe the amount of spam hitting this site! I may have to do something drastic. It’s getting really crazy.
And how was your weekend??

We’ve been working most of the day on “The Christmas Letter” You know, the thing you send out to people each year telling them what you’ve been doing and now in the great age of computers, putting your pictures into the letter as well? We’ve managed to agree on what we did during the year, and after some minor squabbles, we have agreed on the pictures we will use in the letter. (The naked picture of me sunbathing, will be saved once again from the letter and blinding those we love!)
While Hubby, who is an English junkie, was correcting the letter, I did what I do the very best. I went out shopping. I wanted to finish my shopping for my BFF in Germany so I can mail her packages tomorrow. Mission accomplished, Not only did I find what I wanted, everything is wrapped and will be mailed in the morning.
Then I was sort of looking around and I found something more for my cousin, Janet. I’d already shopped for her, but when I saw this, I knew I had to get it for her. It was perfect.
I think the thing is about my Christmas shopping now, is that I don’t buy crap. I buy things I think people can either use or will like. I saw people today throwing all this junk into their shopping carts in Walmart and TJ Maxx and I thought, “Wow, you know no one ever uses that crap. They put it away and then the next time they move, they have to pack it up and move it to their next house.”
After seeing what my parents had when they sold their place and went into a senior apartment, I wanted to gag! I promised my sister never to buy her another Chia Pet (Ha! I never did, but you know what I mean) or anything else that was just plain junk. And so it goes.
Now that Hubby is done with the English part of the letter, I need to finish up my art work. Nothing wonderful, a few Santa’s here, a Christmas tree there, you know…
It’s all in a days work!

I met Rosie O’Donnells sister. Well, not really, but this woman could have been. I went to get Shubi at the Vets last night and there she was. She was there with her 4 kittens getting their shots. She’s a New Yorker, looks like Rosie’s twin, and sounds just like her!
We talked for a while, as we waited for our bills and animals. She had lost her cat of 14 years last week and went right out to the shelter and got the kittens! How could she say no to any of them? I was thinking how much work it would be with 4 cats, and then I remembered that I am the crazy woman with 3 dogs! And yes, it is a lot of work, but I wouldn’t trade one of them in. (well, most of the time, anyway!)
She was saying that her friends all thought she was nuts because she’d spent a fortune on her other cats care. She said she would have done anything for him.
I knew exactly what she meant. I’ve been there myself. I can’t begin to count, (well, I could but it would depress me!) how much money I have spent on Shubi since she got sick two years ago. But the fact is, when you are the type of person that this woman and I are, you would find the money, somehow, to pay the bills, because these furry little beasts are your children, your companions, your loves.
Shubi came up the steps at that moment and came running over to me and the woman exclaimed how lovely she was. I swear Shubi knows when people are speaking about her! She stopped and wagged her tail and gave a little smile.
I headed home then, with my little bundle of fur. Happy to know that she was okay and going happily home with me.

Wow! What a great episode last night. It showed several really interesting things. First how Randal and Rebecca worked well together on their project and how Ala was determined to undermine and eliminate Felisha. Ala signed her own pink slip when she did everything in her crafty little mind to make Felisha look bad. The Donald is no fool and neither are Carolyn and Bill who over saw the tasks last night.
I am hoping Randal wins. Although I have to say that both Randal and Rebecca are good people with high standards, both in business and morally. I just think that Randal has more to offer the Trump organization.
So what do you all think???

Randal?

or Rebecca?

You know all Mommies need help in the kitchen. Whether it is cooking or cleaning up afterwards.
Last night I made Scallops for Hubby. One of his favorite meals, and one I have not cooked for a while due to the high cost of Scallops. But tis’ the season to be jolly, hohoho…so, we got some yesterday and I fixed them up. They came out pretty well and we ate them up without leaving even a smidge of Scallop on the plates. But that did not stop Fritz and Greta. They knew we’d had something wonderful, and they also knew if they just stuck their cute little snouts in the dishwasher while I was loading it, they might just get lucky and get a lick of something good.

After finishing my work, we settled down to enjoy a nice warm fire in the hearth. Shubi and Fritz are not too fond of fires, but Greta loves them.

Found this over at my cousins, who found it somewhere else 🙂

If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, (even if we don’t speak often) please post a comment with a COMPLETELY MADE UP AND FICTIONAL memory of you and me. It can be anything you want – good or bad – BUT IT HAS TO BE FAKE. When you’re finished, post this little paragraph on your blog and be surprised (or mortified) about what people DON’T ACTUALLY remember about you.

Consider it a short writing exercise, just something to waste a few minutes of time, if you like.