Feast or Famine

Durham, NC (27707) Weather Forecast

Check out the temp in Durham! Approaching 80 today and down into the 50's into the weekend. Holy Moley Cow!

Famine: It does feel like with the Daniel's fast Lucie and I have been on that even though I have had plenty of fruit and vegetables (my desert apple sits eying me, wondering if I'll forget her and she'll see the light of another day). I want steak. I'd settle for a slice of ham, or perhaps a hard boiled egg. One would think that my weight would be droppin' but nuh-huh ... not this middle aged sedentary geezer. Nope, well, ok 3 lbs is something ... and this is NOT a diet, but still. Lucie shed 9 lbs ... maybe more, and she's not telling me so that I don't throw a hissy fit. Course, she smuggly reminds me that SHE has been using the treadmill that Miss Rose gave her before she fled to Canada (how she snuck by those INS agents, I'll never know.)

Rachel uses that, plus the 16 plus hours at the gymnastics academy / week might explain that she's buff. Not fair, I want someone to discover my idea of fat eating microscopic machines: nanobots... on a mission to seek and destroy adipose deposits. Using the energy from the stores of fat they eat their way through, mapping the labyrinth of grease I've accumulated over these past 49 years. Gee whilikers I wish someone would develop that soon so I can be fit and trim by summer start. Apparently my family's gag reflex is very healthy. I'm reminded of this each time I attempt to take off my shirt.

Lucie actually wonders if I could pose for Reuben as one of his voluptious beauties. Minus the beauty, she thinks I have the right proportions. C'mon, as my friend once said "I have the body of a god ... unfortunately it's Buddha!"

Liz's feet are still swollen, apparently she has relented and is not being fashionable and wearing her sneakers. Girl, who cares what your shoes look like ... be comfortable. Even when she was on TV, nobody saw her feet! They've been wrecked since Royal Family Week where she did kick boxing barefooted ... that girl.

Bek had a boatload of tests today. Ah the joys of schoolin' Teacher's don't necessarily confer when they do their individual schedules. The beauty of the one room schoolhouse (aka homeschoolin')

Rachel overslept today, got up at 8:04 for her 8AM class, luckily it was online and she didn't have to look purty for anyone.


Feast: Lucie just got offered a 10 hour per week job at our church answering phones. It's about 1/2 of what she made in NH but with no stress ... one ring a ding-ie, two ring a ling-ie ... "A gracious good morning to you"