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I'm sorry, but the idea of Keedy wading through Training Bra stories just makes me LMAO. :clap2:

I saw a sign yesterday in an Acupuncture Clinic that they specialize in weight loss. I'm calling them on Monday. Anyone had any experience with acupuncture?

Oh my gosh, that would be soooooo embarrassing! :faint: Almost worse than having your "falsies" floating in the pool next to you would be showing up at school the next school day. That would be a story the kids would never forget, poor thing. :o

I have a friend who used acupuncture for a neck issue and it worked. However, while she was in the clinic the acupuncturist suggested she also use the acupuncture to boost her libido as well. My friend thought that would be a good idea, you know kind of like a "one stop shopping" experience.

The acupuncture was working like a charm, the neck pain was gone and libido was boosted. :pepper2: She and her husband were both happy until one day my friend re-injured her neck. How did she re-injure that neck you ask? You're right, the neck was injured during one of the libido boosting sessions, if ya know what I mean! :shocked: :1rotfl:

The next day my friend traded in her acupuncturist for a chiropractor.

Accupuncture
 

Having experienced extensive treatment for various muscular aches and pains, I would definitely not recommend the procedure. The accupuncturist in MA was much better than the one in TV. This is not covered by any health insurance and can be somewhat costly. Put your money to better use by joining a health club.

Just my opinion from personal experience....b

Great accupuncture story Julie!

Barb, I do have medical coverage for accupuncture, so I thought I'd give it a whirl. You said you tried two different accupuncturists and one was much better than the other. Having no experience whatsoever, how would I be able to tell a "good" accupuncturist .. just by the results?

acupuncture?
 

Barefoot, after I saw your question about acupuncture, I also saw a little blurb in the health section of a magazine that reported on a recent Harvard study. The study was done on people with IBS. They got 6 treatments in 3 weeks and the results were good for some. The doc was quoted as saying, "Acupuncture may cause a relaxation response, balance hormone levels or affect your nervous system."

An IBS study is not a weight loss study but I thought it was interesting that acupuncture helped some of the study participants, even though the doc may not have known exactly why.

I do not have IBS, but I know people who have it and so I know it can be a tough one. I just thought I would throw this in here because the study shows acupuncture is being looked at for another tough problem.

The short article also said that the success of some could have come from the placebo effect.

Sounds like sometimes acupuncture might just be about the I of the needle.

But, hey, placebo/plaschmeebo -- who cares? -- That's if it cannot hurt and just might work.

Boomer

Moisturizer
 

Today I ran out of moisturizer. The kind you put on overnight, and wake up looking ten years younger. But I couldn't find the right brand. A dermatologist told me once that Ponds cold cream was just as effective as the most expensive product. But I don't believe him. I'm sure there is a miracle in a jar just waiting for me to find it.

I've tried the ones by Diane Keaton and Ellen Degeneruous (excuse spelling). But I don't wake up looking like Diane and Ellen, I wake up looking like Barefoot's grandmother. Oh no, that is me in the mirror.

Does anyone have a recommendation for a good face cream that isn't exorbitantly expensive?

My 82 year old Auntie El has used Pond's Cold Cream for ever & she looks absolutely Fabulous!

BTW what the hell is "cold cream" any way?

Hijack, any one see my post on the golf day from hell in the sports section?
It ain't pretty.
Might try bowling.

Before I got hooked on the stuff by Elizabeth Arden that cost me my life savings, I always used Olay. The basic stuff in the bottle. I guess it is the original with the SPF 15. It has been around for a really long time, before Olay branched out into all those other kinds of stuff for your face.

I have used Olay for years. And when this high end stuff runs out, I might go back to it. Something about an expensive moisturizer makes me feel a little had. But who really knows. And sometimes I wonder how that Hellmann's (that I am always mixing with fresh dill for salmon or with fresh tarragon for chicken salad) might work. I slather the stuff on everything in my refrigerator. I might as well try Hellmann's on my face.

Boomer

Some of the most beautiful skin I've seen is on women who've been using Ponds and/or Olay creams faithfully for years. I would agree that the most expensive is not necessarily the best.

Let us know if you find the miracle in a bottle.

I've always heard Preparation H cream is good for night cream around the eyes. LOL :a20: I'm jus sayin......

Two posts in a row from me here. Just got into that moisturizer thing with Barefoot's question. So much to think about tonight here in GT.

Anyway, Whalen, your post today about the golf game terrified me. ohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh!!!!

Now I know for sure that I am destined to be a pariah. Out there on a TV golf course, with my remedial special grip on my favorite club that I use for everything. Missing the ball completely. Feeling those eyes burning behind me, those eyes that will end up burning the collar right off my shirt, until I get thrown out for that.

And all the cute visors and all the cute skirts in Florida will not make me look like I belong.

And you did exactly what I would have done. You made exactly the decision I would have made. Hellooooooo, the course is called TURTLE MOUND. I would have thought the same thing.

I guess I will just have to start a book club when I get there. And I promise not to even care whether anybody actually reads the book.

I hope you went out to lunch and girl talk after. That is the really important part of my golf game anyway. And for any book club with which I am associated. Who ever thought I was an English major????? Geez.

ohmygoshohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh. I know all about waving people through or picking up the ball and moving on but this sounds like a little much. But what do I know??? And it is AUGUST for heaven's sake. What might they do to you in February????

Boomer

I think 80 year olds all look fabulous. Probably because they didn't spend a lot of time baking in the sun topless while slathering on baby oil. I truly deserve to be wrinkled as a prune from my "glory days".

Re Whalen Hijack

Whalen, I saw your golf post. Glad I wasn't there, I would have just given up! I am definitely taking lessons when I arrive in October and maybe you can give me some pointers.

I did take lessons!
Golf in "High Season"?
I don't think so, I think then they might shoot to kill if you're not up to speed!:crap2::crap2::crap2:

Oh Gail.

NOT to worry or think that. I will be there during "high season" and if anyone looks threatening, I will take my six iron to them. You have a friend or 40!

Boomer, how is your V8 diet going?

Another linda, I'm still laughing at your "cleaning up the pie" story. I do the exact same thing!

Shhhhhhh....
 

Shhhh.... Bare! I think V8 has become a dirty work in Boomerland! :laugh:
I don't want to tell her... I just made a V8 pie! Hahaha! :yuck:

Thanks, GG
My Hero:eclipsee_gold_cup:

Hey! Chels! I heard that!

And Barefoot, my recent lack of success with sticking with the V8 can be found chronicled in Nonie's confession thread about the ice cream.

I almost wrote an ode to Graeter's ice cream. And I even linked the connection to the Graeter's website. And so now the truth comes out. The real truth about why Boomer cannot seem to pry herself out of Cincinnati. It's all about the Graeter's ice cream.

The stuff costs a blue fortune. About 4 and 1/2 bucks a pint. Yep. A pint. But the return on investment when buying a pint makes sooooo much good sense because a cone comes out to be far more expensive when you consider the cost of just a dip vs. a whole pint. And we must be careful about how we invest our money. Right? Sometimes I get just a cone. But sometimes I really do feel that it is important to keep the ROI in mind.

I can resist absolutely any other kind of ice cream. But I cannot resist Graeter's. There are no words to describe this stuff.

A little luxury that gets me into trouble -- that Graeter's ice cream. When it comes near me, I just give in. (Yeah. I know. But hey, I might be easy. But I sure ain't cheap!)

Boomer

From the wilds of Maine,

Miss all of you -

Gail I will defend you with my 9 iron - I am the most accurate with that and can aim right where it would hurt any guy that laughed the most.

Boomer - I like your book club idea where no one needs to read the book. Somehow book clubs always make me feel as if I am back in HS English with Sister Mary Whomever telling us that the author meant this when he wrote that. As if a woman who never had sex could understand Fitzgerald or Hemingway!

I am ODing on lobster (natch!) and Giffords French Vanilla ice cream. In TV the ice cream at Kilvins is over $10 a quart, but it is the best I have ever added to me increasingly large hips.

We are home tomorrow - pick up Fin from doggies camp at DDRR and ready to be scowled at by our cat (TomTadClaude).

Off to read Gail's golf tale.

k

Sex and the English teacher
 

Hi Kate,

It was not just Sister Mary Whomever. The public school teachers did not get it either.

It was my senior year in high school. I was in the Class of 19:eek:. Our English teacher was regaling us with all her knowledge of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

The Wife of Bath was a character in the tales. And the Wife of Bath was described as having a space between her two front teeth. And our English teacher said that a space between the two front teeth meant that the person was destined to travel far.

And I believed my English teacher.

But then I went to college, and it was Canterbury Tales time once more, and the Wife of Bath was right there, and she still had that space between her two front teeth.

And I thought I knew all about what that space meant, having believed my high school English teacher.

Wellllll, guess what I learned in college.

I learned that the space between the two front teeth of the Wife of Bath in the Canterbury Tales meant that she was over-sexed. Those were the words of the professor anyway.

I have never researched this important piece of information. So I really do not know who was right. But I do know one thing for sure. You have to watch out for people who teach English. You just never know what they might tell you.

Boomer

On Thursday, I head to Prince Edward Island where I've rented a cottage on the ocean for myself and my best friend. Our mothers were best friends so we grew up together in Nova Scotia. She is the closest thing I have to a sister. Oh yes, and I'm taking my skunky dog Miss Lolli Pup. And my little dog Biggins. And my girlfriend's dog makes three dogs to play on the sandbars while we hunt for periwinkles.

Just like Kate, I'll be ODing on lobster and ice cream.

Life doesn't get much better than that!

Bare -

Have a blast - I also once hear that Listerine or Scope mouthwash was good for de-skunking....


k

Kate, I already spent all my money on Massengil Douche (as suggested on another thread). I hope I don't run into any skunks in PEI, but if I do, they'll get douched for sure.

I can hardly wait to hear the ocean and smell the salt water. :girlneener:

Wow - didn't know they made douche anymore. Hand me my smelling salts.

Have a great fun with Biggins, Twisted Sister and your olb/new friend on PEI. Eat lots of mussels....

Hold on Kate, don't Swoon:faint:

Bare I am sorry I am just seeing this post, as I am sure you have left for your trip already. But just in case you have access to a computer I hope you have a wonderful vacation with your best friend in Nova Scotia. :pepper2:
A cottage on the ocean with your best friend and lobster and ice cream sounds like heaven!! My parents visited family there years ago and the pictures were positively breathtaking!!! Have a ball!!! :beer3:
Jeanne :)

Here's what's happining in our world even as we speak.
 

Hey girls. What a day already.

Gretchen just came over for our dolly to help move Graylyn into her dorm room. They are off to Ohio University as we speak and we won't be seeing our sweet Graylyn until Thanksgiving.

Today is Helene's birthday, so I need to get her gifts all wrapped and out on the hearth, moving slowly, I have a sinus headache. She is looking perky for 44, our youngest daughter, 44. I can't believe it!

Last night around midnight I received my 5000th positive feedback (and no negatives) on my ebay business. It is slower than past years but still feeding into Graylyn's tuition fund.

Gretchen tells me that Colin (16) got a letter yesterday that he made all Ohio band.

Henry is still working and it looks like we won't be down to TV until November 1.

Gracie,

Please wish Helene a very happy birthday from us. I hope she gets some fun earrings!

Congrats on the business, but I know you will miss Graylyn. But she will be having so much fun you will surely be happy for her.

Wish you were getting here sooner.....

Happy Birthday Helene
 

Hey GG, please give Helene a big Happy Birthday hug and kiss from me. I miss seeing her. hugs, chels

I did run into a skunk in Prince Edward Island :22yikes: (not me, but my little dog Biggins). It was the middle of the night, and all I had on hand was a couple of small tubes of Massengil Douche in an "emergency" kit (as suggested by Nonie in a previous post).

I'm here to tell you folks, don't waste your money on Massengil. The next morning we headed to the store and bought the old, reliable baking soda and hydrogen peroxide. From now on, I'm not vacationing without it.

On a cheerier note, Lollipup managed to avoid the midnight skunk, thanks Goddess. So perhaps she did learn a lesson from her skunk encounter two weeks ago.

Ohhh, Poor little Biggins... Maybe now he will be wary. The Fin dog would run right up to a skunk and say "Can we play, can we play..?"

Maybe Fin and Biggins can have a run together on the small doggie side when you get back.

I'd like to say it was the first time Biggins was sprayed by a skunk .. but it has happened before. Obviously he is a slow learner. barf

I'm glad it wasn't Lolli. A ten pound dog is much easier to bathe than a 63 pound dog!

Biggins is looking forward to meeting Fin at DDRR .. for sure! We'll be flapping our snowbird wings and arriving in 40 days. Yahoo!! :girlneener:

Hey Boomer

I'm hearing rumours that you are secretly planning to slide into The Bubble sometime soon without letting us all know. :rant-rave:

I won't embarass you by asking the question on the main site, but can you share your plans with us girls?

I won't be back in TV until the end of October (but then I get to stay for 182 days, yay). Sure would be nice to have a girly getogether while you're visiting TV! :girlneener:

Yes Boom. PM me if you want my address. You can drive by and see my giraffe.

I don't have a giraffe, but anything to get you to come by.

Please, Boomer, Please....
 

I can promise Creme Brulee a la Jim if you visit. It is sensational.

You say Creme Brulee?????
 

Creme Burlee scores at the top of my list for desserts. Yummmmm

Mention that in this forum and you may be bombarded into taking reservations for the event.

Ala Jim is interesting, as well. Is he a professional chef or your own personal chef?

Barb

Hi Barb,

My own VERY PERSONAL chef.....


:pepper2:

:pepper2::pepper2:
Yah Kate........hub kicked me out of the kitchen, too!! :pepper2: :1rotfl: