<p>D still gets those pesky gas and brake pedals mixed up.</p>
<p>Doubleplay, how goes the exercise thread? Trying to decide between the brisk hour walk or hour bike ride this evening.</p>
<p>The THREAD is going fine, although I’ve been a slug all day. We had a terrific thunder and rainstorm this AM starting at around 4 and it’s been kind of yucky all day. But YESTERDAY I jogged 5 miles, so I guess I shouldn’t feel too bad.</p>
<p>I really hope the thread inspires people. I know if I type/write that I’m gonna do something, I usually do it.</p>
<p>DP,</p>
<p>Food and exercise journal works for me, although in SA nothing has any calories and we can all run a marathon with ease :)</p>
<p>Sort of like in my dreams where I’m young and beautiful…sigh…</p>
<p>Yes in here we are all young, beautiful, no hangovers, no calories and all we do is say happy birthday, congratulations, or awwwww.</p>
<p>Of course if you want to talk about horking that is also permissable:).</p>
<p>Happy Birthday to Moonminama and Good Luck to MOWC and Hope You Feel Better to TFSFH and his mother Mootie.</p>
<p>And to all who have offspring in vehicles, muttered incantations…</p>
<p>The jmfamily will be present and accounted for in Baltimore on or about 9/4-9/6ish. Could you arrange to have the m&sD car impounded during that particular window? Much appreciated. That business about the pesky brake and gas pedals - well, that’s the part that got me a tad squeamish, don’tcha know?</p>
<p>jmm,</p>
<p>Watch for a purple late model sedan with PA plates.</p>
<p>D only plowed into the bumper of one neighbor’s parked car…</p>
<p>I guess we’ll stick with public transportation that week, m&s. Big hulking buses. In other parts of town from MICA.</p>
<p>Our family got its collective exercise this weekend hiking the Hocking Hills area of Ohio. Beautiful gorges, trees, & rock formations, but the waterfalls were just a trickle of their possible selves due to the near-drought. And I discovered my knees aren’t what they used to be. Creak, crack, pop. 
:)</p>
<p>Purple huh? Did msdaughter paint it?</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Yeah, I was wondering. Does it have a red desk leaning jauntily out the window?</p>
<p>mommusic,
sniff…We don’t have hills or mountains around here.
Couple weeks ago we were in NC and we hiked Hanging Rock State Park. How beautiful!</p>
<p>Thanks, Alumother! I’ve got a chocolate genoise cake cooling in the counter and just managed to find a pint of raspberries in the tangle of canes that wasn’t moldy. (This unseasonable steady rain has really gotten to them!) So, cake for me tonight! But if I put on all the candles I could, it would be scary.</p>
<p>BTW, the Moomintroll books, which I think may have generated your name, are among my absolute favorite children’s books. So odd. So lovely. So terrifying in their own way…</p>
<p>The purple car was inherited from my W. W’s current car is a burnt orange Mini Cooper convertible.</p>
<p>JMMom, the red desk is no more. This year’s model is Ikea flat pack.</p>
<p>Mommusic, the family went on vacation camping in the Hocking Hills when our kids were younger. Went hiking, taking in the spectacular sights, until we came across the guy, lounging on the massive boulder, enjoying all nature had to offer in his most natural state!</p>
<p>hope all is going well for mowc today.</p>
<p>as a quick update, the dog has been christened “hogan”</p>
<p>Mommusic,</p>
<p>I am with you on this journey of self discovery as I tell my girl and her dog every morning that I sound like a box of rice krispies with all of the snap crackle, pop sounds that are coming out of my body.</p>
<p>MOWC, all the best on your surgery and wishing you a speedy recovery.</p>
<p>Giving a toast to my chicky who is celebrating the big 2 1 today. I can’t believe that I actually have an adult child (sounds like an oxymoron), but she’s still mine. </p>
<p>I will take her to lunch and take her out for a gift. Then she is flat leaving me and hanging out with her friends who are working here in the city this summer. She told me this morning “now I can’t wait to get carded” even though she still looks about 16.</p>
<p>Alumother, you are right. I just love everything about the Moomintroll books – the characters, the prose, the stories, and the illustrations. “Odd . . lovely . . . terrifying” – that’s a good collection of adjectives for them, to which you can add “sunny . . . magical . . .full of love”.</p>
<p>By the way, MOWC is sitting up and taking nourishment in Hugs Hideway, home with drugs and orders to stay off her feet.</p>
<p>Oh Sybbie. An adult child. Wow. </p>
<p>Makes me nostalgic. I wonder if I could find some Moomintroll books on Amazon to read and grow fond over.</p>
<p>Can we find a Moomintroll doll for MOWC?</p>
<p>Ahh- I am reclining on my sofa with my leg in a CPM machine to keep it moving. Not too much pain, and I just took my first of the heavy duty painkillers. My office sent a nice food basket. I actually was able to get a lot of work done today from the couch, computer resting on chest (a laptop).
Yesterday while I was in pre-op at the hospital I had my Blackberry in hand, as always. My paralegals emailed me and said, “If you are reading this, TURN OFF THE BLACKBERRY!”<br>
Here’s a toast to all of you AND to my wonderful co-workers (a neat food basket just arrived).</p>