No, not me, although I'm about 15 pounds above my ideal weight.  I'm talking about our food.  Our particular brand of saltines have lost about 5 crackers per sleeve.  Now, the box is the same size, but there's a big gap in the top of the sleeve of crackers.  Our graham crackers have slimmed down…

I've not been blogging much lately.  Actually, I feel like I've not been very productive at all lately.  I should clarify that.  I was not very productive or not as productive as I would have liked during the pregnancy and well, the last few weeks have been difficult.  I'm trying to get back on my…

…it's been a while since you washed the kitchen floor when your forearms are sore from scrubbing it.  Very sore.

It's really my fault.  I needed to start earlier but life kept getting in the way.  I really should've started making my gifts in July but I had no ideas then.  Then all of a sudden I had ideas, but time was short.  Today, I was all set for a full day of sewing all…

"Americans can actually go to dinner parties and cocktail receptions around the world today and not have to apologize for the United States the way they have had to do the last several years," he said. "The election has made life a little bit easier for Americans living and traveling abroad to hold their head…

Box Method:  a method of cleaning quickly where you put all the clutter away in boxes to be sorted through later.  This can be dangerous because you could end up with several boxes after a few months.  For pack rats (like me), it isn't easy to just throw the box away even if it hasn't…

This was going to be a self pity post.  Wah, I'm not pregnant.  Wah, my family doesn't understand and wants to give my crib away.  Wah, wah, wah.  Sigh.  I was going to post that I was going to mentally prepare myself to not have any more children even though I desperately want more.  I'm…

This poll was taken by the Associated Press and Yahoo.  I found it interesting that they were able to determine that Barack Obama is losing about 6 percentage points in the polls due to the race factor.  It made me wonder though.  How much is McCain losing due to the race factor? It is my…

I love the Olympics.  Ever since I was a little girl, I've watched the Olympics.  The only one I missed was the 1988 one in Seoul (I really wanted to see this one) because I was a freshman in college without a TV.  Here are some of my thoughts: The athletes don't walk in in…