A thought to ponder....

Thoughts to ponder....

 For the longest time, we had a bottle of Softsoap at each sink in the restroom at work, but recently one boring bottle disappeared, and this pretty flowery porcelain soap dispenser appeared in its place.  

Most of the ladies in my department are of a similar age - adult kids & young grandkids.  

Of course, we always cross paths in the restroom.  One day, the accounts receivable lady was in there at the same time as me.  She commented that this dispenser reminded her of being at her grandmother's house.  Which led to the discussion of WHEN do we reach the point where we start decorating our houses in stereotypical "grandma" fashion?  Fake flowers & doilies & such?   We decided we probably wouldn't ever reach that stage because we grew up listening to rock & roll.  

Hell, I have random skeletons & skulls in my house and office, and I can't ever imagine them going away!!

Speaking of.....

The holiday skeleton in my office finally got a name!

Chad. 

I took his leprechaun gear off right after I took the pic and he'll just be naked until closer to Easter. 

My SAR team conducts optional K9 training every weekend - yesterday the guy in charge posted this picture on our group chat from the park they were training at.  I promise all of my skeletons are accounted for and none of them are unclothed and hanging from the rafters of a park pavilion! 

 

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Hooray for Spring!

This is the sunrise as I see it from my office every morning.

Troy, Michigan

Linking up at Skywatch Friday

 

Last Day of Winter!!!

Altho we've had several nice days recently - it'll be nice to officially be spring tomorrow! 

However, this is very pleasant! 

Normally I try to be positive in my posts, but I'm going to stray from that a little bit in this one.  I'm just feeling some sort of way and need to get it off my chest. 

I fell off the WW bandwagon a long time ago and put all the weight back on that I lost back in 2009, plus some.  At one point, I had made it down to 204 lbs, but never crossed over into "One-derland".  

The scale last night said 274.2.

I used to post weekly weight loss updates.  Weight Watchers studios are few & far between now, but mine still has a Tuesday evening workshop so I'll be going back to doing Weigh-in Wednesday posts.  You've been warned!   

And of course, we can't forget all the various random aches & pains that go along with it.  

 

Let's look at a pic that someone took during Wilderness First Aid training last Saturday...

OMG.

That's me over on the left. 

In my defense, this is part of a panoramic photo and I was on the end, so it's distorted somewhat. 

But it makes me look rather elephant-like. 

I was horrified when I saw that. 

Here's a pic from a different angle.  

Still large but not quite as awful. 

Let's look at some more.  

Bear with me - this is my incentive to get back to actually following the Weight Watcher's plan and not coasting along like I've been doing for too long. 

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Last summer at the VFW picnic.  

The granddaughter still isn't big enough to hide those rolls. 

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Even in my winter search gear I look huge! 

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I was wearing fluffy snow pants, tho.

My shadow is even unforgiving. 

So yeah,  That's where I'm at.  

I sure don't FEEL as big as I look in pictures! 

Even in the mirror I acknowledge that I'm by no means thin, but pictures show no mercy at all! 

And you know what - seeing other people (like the Spouse or other acquaintances) who are larger doesn't bother me at all.  I don't make snide remarks to myself about them, but I sure do about myself!