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Another day. Another ounce. Losing half my body weight without losing my sense of humor.
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The big D (and we\'re not talking donuts)
Photo by steviewonderbaby / CC BY-NC 2.0 Last week I was watching an episode of Glee, the hit Fox show that everyone has told me to watch. The plotline of this episode involved the temporary school nurse giving some student members of the glee clu...
Goal!
For the past two Januaries, I've written out a list of 3-5 goals I want to accomplish in the upcoming year. I've also reflected on last year's goals to see if I did what I wanted to do. I like to at least attempt to have forward momentum in my life, ...
Do they have Thanksgiving in Burbank?
When I was in LA, I drove to Burbank and took the Warner Brothers Studio VIP tour. See, there's the water tower! Sadly there were no Animaniacs loitering in the vicinity. I saw a great many interesting things on the tour, which I'll talk about in ...
I\'m just a cat sitting on the ledge of the universe
Picture by mgrenner57 used under Creative Commons license. When I fly, it is inevitable that I start thinking about the meaning of life. No matter the airline or the destination, no matter the time zone or the country, when I look out an airplane ...
Vacation hangover
I am back home again in Indiana, but I'm still recovering from my "vacation." I didn't check my email for over 24 hours and now I am buried beneath electronic messages. To tide you over while I dig my way out, here are two pics from LA. I visited ...
Friday the 13th lives up to its reputation
As a chronic sufferer of Paranoid Traveler's Syndrome, it was almost a moment of triumph when the airline lost my bag. Finally I could say, "See? I told you something like this could happen!" It also led me to understand why everyone crowds around th...
PastaQueen does Los Angeles
If you read this before the end of the day, I am either airborne or waiting for my layover in Minnesota. (Hello, Minneapolis!) Either way, I'm also praying that my pilots are not drunk or using their laptops in the cockpit. I'm heading to LA for th...
Take a new song
When I am on a road trip, I want to listen to good music. The car is my not-quite-soundproof listening booth. I want to listen to my favorite, familiar songs. But how did my favorite, familiar songs become favorite and familiar? They must have been n...
Giveaway results
Congratulations to Kristin from Campbellsville, KY who was the winner of the Pepperidge Farm $100 Visa card giveaway! Kristin's name was drawn from over 400 entries. Thank you to everyone for participating. I wish I could give you all the prize, but ...
Christmas in November
I was walking down the toilet paper aisle at Kroger yesterday, when I was blindsided by this: Either my local Kroger exists in a time bubble that has been forced one month into the future, or the managers are missing the month of November in their...
The Halloween store
There is a Halloween store set up in the corpse of the old Circuit City building. I can't remember if such stores existed when I was a child, but in the past few years they've become popular in my town. The Halloween stores appear out of nowhere at t...
Testing the Apple Crisp recipe from "Make It Fast, Cook It Slow" by Stephanie O\'Dea
I didn't intend for this blog to suddenly become PastaQueen's book review bonanza, but that's how everything landed, so let's just go with it, ok? My friend, Stephanie O'Dea, who blogs at A Year of Slow Cooking just released her first cookbook, sma...
Blogger's Secret #1: When you don't want to write a real entry, post cat pictures instead!
Java Bean hits a dead end at the drive-through. What? I wasn't doing anything wrong. I swear! Office Krupke is my copy editor, which is why there are so many typos.Copyright Jennette Fulda. Read more at PastaQueen...
Scenes from the fruit fly massacre
Whoever said you catch more flies with honey than vinegar never had a fruit fly infestation. I hate fruit flies. I hate how the little specks fly in front of my computer screen while I'm writing, distracting me from my train of thought. I hate how ...
King Tut in Indianapolis (with narration by Harrison Ford!)
I had flashbacks to Ms. May's world civ class as I walked through the touring King Tutankhamun exhibit at the Indianapolis Children's Museum last week. I wasn't overly fond of history class because it seemed like you were just learning a long list ...
The Bookshop cats
I visited a bookshop in Chapel Hill called The Bookshop, a feat of creative naming I have not seen since my 6-year-old self named my stuffed dog "Doggy." The Bookshop did not feature dogs, but two cats instead. Red was hanging out in Kiddie Lit tr...
A different kind of before and after
Last month I was standing in line at Kroger, just like I've spent days of my life standing in line at Kroger. I was tired, I didn't want to be there, and the lady in front of me was paying with a check. As I shifted my weight from foot to foot, I ...
Mood swings
I like the days when it is sunny outside and my kitties cuddle me and my microwave lunch has a tasty peach dessert (which I thought was an apple dessert until I read the package) and I'm excited about my job and there is good TV on. I don't like t...
Not without my badges!
It is a sad time to be a Girl Scout. First cookie sales are down due to the recession, and now they're taking away the badges! The biggest change is last year's debut of Journeys, a pilot curriculum that will mostly replace the system of earning b...
Eventually, I will put the entire auto industry out of business
I make my final car payment this month, just in time to watch my vehicle's manufacturer spin out of orbit. I've read a couple articles about what's happening to Saturn, and I still don't understand what's going on. From what I have been able to dec...
About kids
I looked into the baby boy's bright blue eyes and thought, I knew your parents before they started merging their DNA. I knew Courtney and Adam when we took 6th period AP English together. Courtney sat to my left and Adam sat behind her, the position ...
The city I used to live in
I watched a woman pull into the driveway where I had my first car accident which involved a blue Ford van and a sideview mirror. Then she carried groceries into our old kitchen and I looked through the windows to see they'd had new cabinets install...
Please help me ski
I have been packing for my ski trip this weekend when I suddenly realized I don't know Jeremy, Jane or Jack Schitt about skiing. I know you're supposed to go down the mountain. I know you're supposed to avoid trees. I know I will fall on my ass many ...
Thank you
Thank you everyone for all your well wishes and support. I appreciate it very much. If good thoughts could cure headaches I would be well by now! However, I have learned it's best not to wallow (or to try not to wallow anyway), so I'm going to conti...
Please do not put you name or url in the body of your comments
Oh. My. God. Please do not put your name or URL in the body of your comments. I did not make this policy clear until a week ago. Those of you who did this before then, I forgive. You did not know any better. I recently put this policy in bold in t...
Making stuff makes me happy
I often forget what makes me truly happy. Dragging my ass out into the cold to hang out with friends can be a chore, but I usually have a good time. Keeping up with my blog can be difficult, but I always feel a happy buzz when I've written a really g...
A Christmas mystery
It was so bizarre yesterday driving past stores to see entire parking lots deserted. It felt like a post-Armageddon world and made me slightly paranoid zombies might start marching down the road at any moment. There was no mystery as to why the park...
Spread the cheer
Happy holidays, everyone! I hope you are all warm and snuggly in your beds reading this on a laptop or an iphone and enjoying a day off, expect for the people at the coffee place who I hope are working because I really want a Peppermint Mocha Twist. ...
The way things never were
It has been fun looking through old photo albums lately, remembering things the way they never were. Everyone is shiny and new and unbroken. Look, there's Bob before he succumbed to soul-darkening depression! He looks so happy! And there are my paren...
What it's like to be...
Steph from Manic Mommy interviewed me for the "What it's like to be..." feature on BettyConfidential.com this week. You can read the interview here and register to win a free signed copy of my book Half-Assed: A Weight-Loss Memoir by leaving a health...
