Dianne Rambling on….
Thanks Abby, I needed a good laugh today!

Dieting in the wintertime is for the birds. We all seek comfort foods while house bound. The ediets has some great ideas for meal plans, but the frozen entries I’ve been eating are made for birds! There’s nothing there. I can see why they supplement them with salad. It’s worse when you get one when the picture on the box looks so pretty and the food inside doesn’t come close to what’s displayed on the box. It’s scary! I have been trying. Ok, yesterday was ‘Fat Tuesday’ so we got hoagies for dinner. I ate half and it was a roast beef with a piece of provolone and a teaspoon of coleslaw. Capriotti’s hoagies are like homemade. Sean was smart, he got tuna and took half of his for lunch today. No meat on Ash Wednesday.
I think our downfall here is starches. Pasta, rice, noodles and bread. I was watching Food Network and the chef said to replace a starch with another veggie, so you have two large veggie servings.
My main goal is to try and get up to Curves. We have one less than a mile away. I am a private person who doesn’t like to really exercise with others. But exercise has helped me tremendously in the past. It may help my achy joints. And their magazine is called ‘diane’. Think it’s an omen? Getting motivated here! Wish me luck.

I do lay in bed sometimes thinking about what I want to write on here. No, life isn’t that boring, but writing an entry is important to me to just keep track of things.
Now last night the show ‘Super Nanny’ really annoyed the hell out of me. I mean, how can some kids be so awful? I majored in Early Childhood Education in college and was around dozens of kiddos and there were a few stand-outs along the way. After I got a job in a daycare center I really had to be the nanny of sorts. This one place operated totally off the rules in my opinion. I lasted there 3 weeks. They started leaving me alone for 3 or 4 hours with about sixteen 2-yr olds. Me, alone changing diapers of the ones who weren’t potty trained. Alone again listening to this one girl scream as soon as her head went down on the cot for naptime. I will not forget Stephanie. The only child who when she did fall asleep, fell asleep with her eyes open. And my hand did go over her mouth once, couldn’t help it-only for a few seconds then I felt terrible. I love kids so much, but can’t spend hours at a time with so many of them. It was so hard.
So then this morning mom mentioned John. John, one of the nicest people I have ever met and will never forget after 15 yrs. of saying good-bye to him. Ok, we went to college together and then John worked with my mom (she was a receptionist/secretary) at a home for women. I believe he was a speech therapist there. I was married and had Sean when the two of them worked together. He had changed a bunch from college. He use to look like Tim Matheson in Animal House-but got a Doug Henning look. He told mom he would never marry, so we both knew what that meant. He comforted my mom when a fellow worker committed suicide. Held mom’s hand throughout the service for her. So, maybe someday our paths will cross, but in the meantime, I will think of him lovingly. Not sure if he ever thinks about mom or me. But he left a lasting impression on me.

Not a long post here as we are all exhausted as Sean came down with a stomach virus around midnight. It’s one of those ones where you even toss the tea and jello. He still feels weird, but he had a frozen fruit bar around 1:30 and that stayed down. I have given him two bowls of chipped ice. That saved me years ago when I was sick as a dog (could barely move off the sofa). My mom was about to take me to the ER and got out her trusty home remedy book and it said ‘try chipped ice’. We had problems with Sean when he was about five. I think I gave him cough medicine that was too strong for him (on suggestion of our doctor) and he wouldn’t stop vomiting after 12 hours. They looked him over and sent him home only for us to take him back again the next day. He was on intravenous for a few hours and that did the trick . After that he wanted a cheeseburger.
I am hoping that Bri and I don’t get it, but we all share the same bathroom. I just had that stomach bug that sent me to the doctor less than 2 weeks ago. All I can do is cross fingers.
Footnote 2/6
Sean had a 24 hour bug. He was more like himself today. Of course we are major bummed about the Eagles, but at least they are 2nd best and only lost by three points. It would have been nice for them to win for Sean’s senior year.

So I followed a link to a tribe friend’s blog and he had an entry explaining about how cool biorhythms are. Biorhythms are basically your body’s ups and down through a number of days and you have a target day that you enter on this free site. There are primary and secondary rhythms which are explained nicely there. So I entered July 4, 2005 off the top of my head. My BR for that day will be high emotionally. Maybe because it’s the 4th and also my older brother’s birthday? My wisdom is suppose to be up that day too. And you can see how compatible you are with people. Brian and I will be 53% compatible on the 4th. Not terrible. So then there is a list of celebrities. I went right to Jude Law and we are 91% compatible that day! Most of the other male celebs I clicked on didn’t come close! So where are you Jude? There’s sparks flying from Penna for you on Independence day! LOL Thanks for sharing about BRs Aaron. : )

Footnote: Just for the heck of it I put in tomorrow’s date. Then I checked Jude out again and it’s still says 91% compatible, so all I can say is….DARN!!!!
I also put in all my family members birthdates and I am most compatible with my nephew Kenny at 91% (he’s very smart and creative, so we have one thing in common-lol) and my f-in-l by 94% (we are complete opposites in our political views and many other things)!!! So maybe the higher you are is not necessarily a good thing.

They didn’t mention it on the Happy Days reunion show, but its the same song in the St. Joseph’s aspirin commercial currently airing on tv and radio.

Title: Sing-a-long About Heart And Lungs
Media: Television
Country: USA
Region: NYC
Version: –
Duration: 030 seconds
Date: 24/5/2004
Story Line: Sing-a-long narrative about how the heart pumps blood and oxygen around the body.
End Line: America’s Original. For the heart.

And Potsie, Anson Williams sings it like he did 30 yrs ago. Just thought it was fun to show the real lyrics….

Pump, pump, pumps your blood.
The right atrium’s where the process
begins,
Where the C02 blood enters the heart
Through the tricuspid valve to the right
ventricle
The pulmonary artery and lungs.
Once inside the lungs it dumps its carbon
dioxide
And picks up its oxygen supply
Then it’s back to the heart through the
pulmonary vein
Through the atrium and left ventricle.”

ALL JOIN ON CHORUS.

ALL

(SING) “Pump, pump, pumps your blood.

POTSIE
(SING) “The aortic valvels where the
blood leaves the heart
Then it’s channeled to the rest of the bod
The arteries, arterioles, and capillaries
too
Bring the oxygenated blood to the cells
The tissues and the cells trade off waste and CO2

Which is carried through the venules and the veins
Through the larger vena cava to the atrium and lungs
And we’re back to where we started in the heart.

ALL JOIN ON CHORUS.

ALL

(SING) Pump, pump, pump, pumps your blood

It’s just crazy in these parts! I personally am counting the days and I sure hope the Eagles win! That would be so awesome. And it would be a highlight of Sean’s senior year too. The guys are so excited. I think Sean has two championship shirts, Brian has one. Brian came home with a banner for Sean tonight. Think I should get myself a pink Eagle’s hat? I have a pink Phillies one. The news sportscasters are all down in Jacksonville, FL. Heard the Eagles are practicing in a high school gym. My favorite version of the ‘fight song’ is when groups of kids take turns singing the lines.
Eagles Fight Song

Fly Eagles fly, on the road to victory.
Fight Eagles fight, score a touchdown 1-2-3.

Hit ’em low,
Hit ’em high,
And we’ll watch our Eagles fly.

Fly Eagles fly on the road to victory.

~~~ on a sad note, a junior at Sean’s school was knifed and died in Mexico visiting family. Sean didn’t know the boy, but he was clearly shook up by it. We have lots of Mexican immigrants in these parts and I guess they save up to visit grandparents in the old country. The school is raising money for the family.

Hey, I’m not going into details, it’s in the ‘Person of the Year’ Time magazine (Dec 27-Jan 3). You know who the Person of the year is already. I found it interesting that John Hinderaker (what a surname!) starting blogging on Memorial Day weekend, 2002 at his kitchen table. The name of the blog was called Powerline. (I am not endorsing JH’s political views, just showing you who he is and the first ‘blog’) The rest is blogistory! So I was going through the blog links in the article and wasn’t impressed except by the guy who claims to make 5k a month on his blog through ads. It was just all click throughs when I went there. The icing on the cake was the Bill Clinton daily diary. They say it’s a bunch of bull-totally fabricated (hmmm.. a paypal donation link is on the page?). What do you think?

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Mom came over for a few hours. She had her overnight bag with her, but I discouraged her from staying (she didn’t ask, but I did tell her it’s an open invitiation to sleep over). It’s the middle of the week, the guys have to get up at the crack of dawn and don’t want to walk around on egg shells. She was bummed, but a little shopping brightened her up. She is better, but taking 1.5 pain pills a day instead of the 1/2 of pill she took at the end of the ’04. Too bad the doc tried to switch her off. She showed me her little belly bulge to prove she isn’t a bone any more. Funny mom!

You know those Coinstar machines in the supermarket? Well my son was itching to cash in a load of coins. He wasn’t sure if he wanted to go tonight (procrastinator like his dad), but I told him to take my stash (he left me half) of coins and that he could put the money toward his Senior class trip to Williamsburg. So he went…came home with over $38! Counted the moola in front of me. Now he doesn’t have to blow all his money on the final installment for the trip. He also made ‘Distinguished honors’ on his report card. His teacher for Economics gave him a lousy C-, but he got mostly ‘A’s and ‘B’s in his other classes. Millersville doesn’t know what they are missing.
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I was a bit peeved because a message I wrote in a group discussion got deleted. They love to do this there, treat me like I don’t know my butt from a hole in the ground! It was because I wrote the word ‘copy’. Ok, I got these patterns off the web and they were complimentary. I never used them. Told the group, you can have my ‘working copies’ of these pattern-the post was like #10. We are allowed to have a working copy of any design of cross stitch. I had one copy of each pattern, never duplicated them or planned to. Was suggesting my copies for a charity quilt. Got chewed out in ever so nice a way. Like the cross stitch police are coming to get me. There are more important things to worry about in this rat race of a world. I love doing my charity work, but I am getting fed up with people like the above. I swear that I will never copy and send patterns to 100s of people! I respect the designers as I would love to design myself someday. John Stossel would say… ‘Give me a break!’