Everyday Systems

carolejo

Sadly I don't know yet, Jan. I'm going over to get her this week though, so she'll be over here with us next Friday morning.

I'll be sure to let you know how it goes though *grin*
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carolejo

Last night the Boy picked up the hammer and did a full 14 minutes of Shovelglove. He discovered a new move - like doing the army rifle drill but using the hammer - you know, swing it up onto your shoulder from the ground, stand tall and balance it there, arms down, then arms up and bring it down in ...

carolejo

Brilliant! Fantastic!!!

The Boy No-S (Navin's fault) and I can honestly say as employees of large multinational companies...

...Well Done You!

That's great news Jan. You are right that you have been blessed.
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carolejo

Hiya Blue, good for you that you're still here and gonna give it another go. I reckon that's about the hardest thing EVER to do - just to show up! Nobody seems to rate it, but you'd be amazed how many people just fail to show up for their own everyday lives. Congratulations on posting all in red (it...

carolejo

Good for you Jan. I know you're not the type of person to quit lightly and I'm sure they realised that too. Sometimes it's *definately* the right thing to do though... And hey, it taught us all a new Shovelglove move too

Hope you find something better soon.
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carolejo

Oh I figured it out alright, Deb, just thought I'd try to bring us back UP to gutter level *grin*

Besides, I was trying to respond to things the way JAN meant them.

Best wishes to all
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carolejo

depends why you took on the job in the first place. If you really needed the extra cash, then quitting is probably a bad plan. If you just took it to fill a little time and bring in some spare pocket money, then I reckon you should probably quit and find something else instead. Even working in a bar...

carolejo

I guess the diet books are just like any other 'prop'. You might not actually need them, but you feel like you do, so you don't want to let them go. I felt like that about my childhood soft toys! In the end, my sister took my toys to the charity shop for me and I took hers. There's still a dozen or ...

carolejo

Hi Deb, It's alright. I don't need to love my lard-arse, cos I have viscount_s who loves it enough for the both of us :lol: :twisted: I can now say that I've really done a WHOLE week of 14 minutes exercise every day for the first time ever in my life. It feels pretty good. My arms and shoulders have...

carolejo

Hi Mo, glad you 'get it'! You're right that even a broom is quite challenging enough when you first start out. I think that's a pretty smart way to start actually and wish I'd thought of it. It took me several weeks of intermittant Shovelglove sessions, never more than 6 or 7 minutes long with the 1...

carolejo

I have to say, that I'd definately class myself as a feminist - but I never saw the point in trying to deny the TRUTH about the way we are built. Men (on average) have more upper body strength than women. Women (on average) do better in school (at least until they become socially aware that 'smart' ...

carolejo

Yesterday was pretty good for NoS, although I forgot to take my lunch with me into the office so I was limited to what I could get out of the vending machine. In the end, I found a cup of instant noodles and a peach joghurt. They would have both fitted on a plate, so that was fine. Not the best ever...

carolejo

Wow! What a great 'during' picture. I can really see a difference, Deb. You're looking FANTASTIC! 8) Glad you're back online proper again. It's always nice not to have to charge off out to the library every time you have something you want to post. Have a great Friday, S days are *almost* upon us ag...

carolejo

Hi Sister, glad to hear that it's going well so far for you. Just a short note though about the daily checkins. If you just keep 'replying' to your own check in, rather than starting a new thread each day, you'll have all your checkin stuff together and it will be easier to go back in the future and...

carolejo

Hi Az,

get well soon, mate! There seems to be quite a lot of it about.

So, is it bird-flu or is it man-flu...?

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carolejo

*Chuckles*

Gonna try that one tonight !!

It's a contemporary twist on the whole 'useful movements' thing.

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carolejo

flylady looks really useful. I shall investigate - just as soon as I can pull together an extra 15 minutes in my day to have a good read (after I get home - there's too much going on at work right now, I shouldn't even be HERE!)

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carolejo

Cheated last night on the NoS and ate 4 small pieces of chocolate. Not the best, but far from the worst thing ever. I'm only really reporting it to keep myself honest and accountable. If this was a 21 day club attempt, it would be a failure, but in the everday scheme of things it's OK, I can live wi...

carolejo

could be worse! You could be in a traditional English fish and chip shop, and then the oil would be lard, and you'd smell permenently of grease and raw fish... Hope your wrist heals up well. Just be careful that you don't develop one arm with 'tree trunk' muscles and the other one normal :lol: Perha...

carolejo

You're welcome.

The other way to do this whilst trying to stick to the 1 plate = 1 meal, 3 meals a day format is to virtually plate your apple. Leave a space on your lunch plate that it would have fitted on and eat the apple later on.

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carolejo

The gluttony of delicacy, rather than the gluttony of excess...

At least the the former won't tend to pile on the pounds, but as far as 'biblical sins' go, is it really any better?

*grin*
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carolejo

I don't know about restaurants, but there is a hair salon in Yorkshire called....

CURLS UP AND DYE !

carolejo

So funny given that I'm big and young

I wonder what it is about the ageing properties of the plant..? I tell you what though, I sure wish I'd discovered it *before* the legal drinking age

Have a great day!
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carolejo

Hey Deb! That's great news that you're getting back up online!!

Inge, you're doing really amazing stuff here. Wow! a whole first week filled with smilies and successes.

Great!
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carolejo

Hey Jan,

don't forget that running around MacD's serving customers and sorting things out is also constant low grade exercise of the best kind!

Hope it's going well.
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carolejo

One of the great things about this plan is that it's perfectly alright to tweak it a little for you, if you feel you need to. Personally, I've always said that an apple or a raw carrot or some other small portion of fruit are acceptable, up to twice in a day if I really want / need them. They helped...

carolejo

*chuckles*

Yep. I use that one when talking to myself too. "you're pre-disallowed. Don't even GO there!"

Congratulations on resisting. It feels really good, doesn't it?!

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carolejo

MILA: :D :D NoS: :D :D So far so good. I did 14 minutes of slow but pretty consistent SG at lunchtime today. No kids peeking at me today :lol: I also cycled to the Boy's workplace (about 5 minutes each way) and we walked together to the DIY store to choose some curtains (about 10 mins walk each way)...

carolejo

In the UK we'd call it a Chicken Kiev, probably. I have also heard the term 'cordon bleu' though, but that's usually just for a cheese and ham type filling.

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carolejo

I find it depends entirely on you! I currently have several really yummy things in the house (one and a half bars of green & blacks chocolate for a start - I can't find it over here in Amsterdam so I shipped some back with me from the UK last time) and am not usually tempted to eat them during the w...

carolejo

I'm *always* proud of you, Deb!

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carolejo

Hey, I think you just overtook me in the box unpacking stakes! I've still got about 10% of it to do as well. I'm down to the really stubborn ones that are filled with things that don't really belong anywhere though.

Take care
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carolejo

Hi Sister,

Hope this works out as well for you as it has for me!

Welcome and happy No-S-ing.
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carolejo

Hey Echo! Get well soon! Don't worry about post length, it's YOUR checkin, you can write what you like. There's some great long posts somewhere about diet pop on the general discussion part. It might have dropped off the bottom, but it's worth hunting for. A lot of people here feel the same as you a...

carolejo

yummy! Cookies and milk *tummy rumbles*

Great going, Shameless! Yay!

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carolejo

done my 14 minutes again today. First thing in the morning just isn't happening though, even when I'm stopping at home for the day. Today I finally decided to do it at around 3:30pm. It felt like a 'nothing' kind of time, a staring into space kind of time, so I figured "right! That's it!! Get up off...

carolejo

yesterday was a total success. I even did a full 14 minutes with the 'glove. The kids from the house opposite were watching me through the window though. I tried hard not to look at them back, but I think they know that I know they were watching... if you see what I mean! Dead funny though. It doesn...

carolejo

Ah, the perversity of the human mind... Reinhard always says that this way of eating has as much, if not more to do with the psychology of it all than the actual consumption part! :lol: It's good to know though that we can trick ourselves into behaving well using the same mechanisms that so often un...

carolejo

Hi Sue,

I'm glad I misunderstood you. I've just seen too many people who gave up on something (not usually NoS, but I'm sure there are some!) just because they messed up, and it's always such a shame.

So, How's day 3 going then?

All the best,
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carolejo

My legs are a bit tired today, but they haven't fallen off, like I'd almost expected them to.

I must try to remember to do some SG when I get home from the office...

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carolejo

Hi Sue, only one thing worried me 'this is day one again and FOR THE LAST TIME'. I don't think there's ever going to be a last 'day one'. Every day is day one over again, it's just it gets a little easier each day. Plus, what happens if tomorrow on day 2 you do that very human thing and stuff it all...

carolejo

been exploring on my bike today. When I got home, I measured where I'd been on the map and was somewhat surprised to find out I'd cycled about 35km in all! Whooo. My thighs are really burning now though. I think I'll take a warm bath tonight to help with the aches and pains. I was out for about 5 ho...

carolejo

Yeah, my first ever S day was wierd like that too! The only thing I really craved was a huge bunch of juicy grapes!!!!!! These days my S days vary a lot, from totally MAD eating, to eating even less than I would normally have done during the week. I find a lot of it depends on what I'm doing over th...

carolejo

BACK HOME!!!! It's really starting to feel like home for real in Amsterdam now. Had quite an easy-going S day today. I've only really Essed by eating about 4 squares of Green & Blacks Maya Gold Chocolate (Yes, It Deserves The Capitals, It's Definately That Good! *grin*) I had a great leaving do last...

carolejo

There's a nice TV ad out at the moment in the UK with a couple of kids and one says to the other 'Mum says you become what you eat' the other says 'Yeah..? Wot's this yellow stuff then?! I don't think I want to be yellow'. Mum calls in from the kitchen 'That yellow stuff is GREEN GIANT sweetcorn'. B...

carolejo

I need to ask my Dutch colleagues what it is that they do for luck in the Netherlands, so I can do that as well

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carolejo

Oh Dave!

poor you!!!

At least this is more of a good thing than a bad thing though, right? And Don't give up swimming completely, although you might well want to buy a much smaller pair of trunks first

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carolejo

No, don't worry about including the gross stuff! These are major details and are very important! :) The carrier looks to be pretty robust, as well as being pretty cozy. It's rated for pets up to 8lb in weight. Lyra only weighs just over 3kg anyway (about 7lb max) as she was the runt of the litter. I...

carolejo

Somehow I get a kick out of the thought of 'healthy eating' jammin' Jan flipping burgers for the golden arches... but why not?! Hope you enjoy it. I'm sure you'll do an excellent job for them. I've found that any job (no matter what it is) can actually be quite fun and teach you stuff, at least for ...

carolejo

Thanks Jan. I just got the pet carrier today - it came overnight, I'm super impressed! I went for one of the soft-sided ones in the end. It's a 'Sherpa Original Small Pet Bag'. Looks so dead cute and comfy, I'm tempted to curl up inside it myself but I *definately* wouldn't fit yet! (give it another...

carolejo

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you and also 'pushing my thumbs' (which is what the Germans do for luck!)

all the best,
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carolejo

go go Judith!

Good for you. Day 1 leads to day 2 and before you know it, everything will have settled into a pattern and your new habits will do most of the work for you.

Glad to see you here, anyhow.

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carolejo

Another pretty good day yesterday. I did cheat a little and eat 2 squares of dark chocolate that I found in my sister's fridge last night, but apart from that I behaved well. Today is my last full day in the UK before I'm heading back home to Amsterdam. All this shuttling back and forth is messing w...

carolejo

Welcome!
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carolejo

Despite being on a diet for 56 years....

...or because of being on a diet for 56 years?

I guess we could start a whole major arguement based on that one which would probably rage for the next 56 years and beyond!!!

Wow. Welcome to NOT being on a diet, Judy.

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carolejo

Hi Judith, I can *DEFINATELY* relate!!!!! Try not to worry too much though (easier said than done, I know) and take it a few hours at a time at the start. Try doing NoS until after lunch... then until after dinner... then until after Breakfast the next day. Before you know it, you'll have managed a ...

carolejo

Hey Deb! Yeah, I'm calling out to all non-specific deities for you. I'm sure it will settle down soon and things will get better. In the meantime, keep recalling that amazing feeling when you realised your pants were falling down :lol: If you have to stop checking in and posting quite as often, then...

carolejo

Today is a good day... Today I'm wearing a pair of trousers which are identical in all respects to the pair I was wearing on Tuesday, except they're one whole size SMALLER. Ha! I finally got to the point where the size 20 ones kept (nearly) falling down, so I bought a pair of size 18. RAHHHH!!!! HAP...

carolejo

today part 2. Made it to lunch. Had a sensible lunch, with no 'funny stuff' but there was a little bit of virtual plating cos I didn't want to get caesar salad dressing on my ham sandwich :) On to part 3. I've almost reached the stage this week where I need to look at 'mini-successes' each day, rath...

carolejo

Hi folks. Yesterday - FAILURE. My sister made a whole load of merangues (spelling..?). I caved in. I didn't just eat one though, I ate 6. :oops: Eventually I had to ask her to hide the tin from me, otherwise I would have eaten the remaining 20 or so without giving it much more than a second's though...

carolejo

Hi Deb, Thanks for writing to me :D don't worry too much about trying to keep up, or the whole library thing. things will get better again, pretty soon in the grand scheme of it all I'm sure. I know what you mean about caving in. I've gotten to the point recently where I've stopped paying so much at...

carolejo

Friday - FAILURE. Oh dear! Didn't do any SG or other 14 minutes of exercise. Ate a stroopwafel at 5:30pm too. Today I'm back in the UK again, so there won't be any SG this week at all, as the sledgehammer is back at home. I will try to eat sensibly anyway though - but I managed to skip breakfast thi...

carolejo

Thanks Jan. Glad to hear Fatty is still going strong. I grew up with a cat called Boot, who finally died aged 21, shortly before my 16th birthday. Lyra is very young by comparison - only 4 years old. You're right that there's no question of leaving her behind - she's my baby!! :lol: I think Lyra's j...

carolejo

I need to arrange to get my Cat Lyra transported from the UK to the Netherlands. Any of you ever flown with a cat before? Are there any particular experiences you could share or do you know of a good source of information?

Cheers
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carolejo

The Boy got back on his bike last night and we went for a short ride to the supermarket and back - mainly just for the sake of it, but also to pick up a few more tins and stuff to stock up our cupboards. His grazed knee is pretty sore, but doesn't seem to be slowing him down all that much anymore. T...

carolejo

Hey, don't worry about the Plateau. Sometimes that happens even if you're being really good. As long as it's not going up, what the hell, I say. I also had a 'wobble' about 6 weeks in where I started to eat more junk and 'sin' in small ways, but managed to stamp on it. I'm sure you will be able to t...

carolejo

Cheers Dru, Glad it's going OK for you with the moving, painting etc.
Painting is also 'purposeful exercise' in my book.

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carolejo

welcome back, BTW. Glad you had a good holiday!
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carolejo

Hi everyone, well I got up and did my MILA stuff this morning. Only managed about 7 minutes with the 'hammer though as my arm muscles are tired, but did the remainder of the time with leg lifts, jogging on the spot, a few squats and so on. Thanks for your post Deb! Don't worry though, I'm acutely aw...

carolejo

I would say that the primary thing is that you stick to whatever rules you make for yourself, and are careful not to 'lie' to yourself. It's only YOU you'll be cheating on if you do! I think what everyone above has said is true and spot on. Like Rumba, I've found that a large amount of protein will ...

carolejo

done my 14 minutes for today. It was probably more like 12 minutes of slow, but proper SG, followed by about 2 minutes of standing around jiggling the hammer about a bit going 'come on timer. Ring. My arms hurt now'.

Got to carve out that time though. Must. Try. Harder.

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carolejo

Last night I completely forgot about MILA! ...but I did cycle to and from the supermarket (about 8 minutes each way, the return trip with a large heavy rucksack filled with tins) on my shiny new dutch bicycle - Does that count? I also Urban rangered to and from the tube station and to my work from t...

carolejo

Hi Dru,

good luck with the big truck - I feel your pain!

btw shifting boxes around is *definately* exercise.
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carolejo

Nanny was 20, Grandad 21 when they married. 1941. On a weekend's leave during the war.

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carolejo

Hey Deb! THATS FANTASTIC!!! :D Wow. Great going. I had a nice 'stepping on the scales' thing on Monday too. I'm down to 91.5kg. (almost exactly 200lb) for the first time in about a year. This puts me back in the 'overweight' category for my BMI rather than 'Obese'! (BMI 29.9) !! I know it's just a l...

carolejo

Yeah, I have to agree, there's definately something beautiful about it. My Dad put it best when he rang to explain the situation to me. "For now, they've gone back at home, going about their normal lives, peacefully together, much as they have done for the last 64 years. Who are we to disturb that?"...

carolejo

Day 4 MILA:- So far so good. Got up this morning and got right to it. Set my timer for 14 minutes and hoe-ed to with a mix of gentle shovelglove and some bouncing (not at the exact same time *grin*). Anyhow, after I'd been going for what felt like FOREVER, I cheated and looked at the timer - I'd for...

carolejo

Well, I've reached the end of two very yummy S days, but I actually didn't eat at much crap as I normally do, for some reason. Just didn't fancy it much this weekend. :( Had some bad news about my Nan on Thursday which still hasn't really sunk in. She has a massive tumour on her pancreas. The doctor...

carolejo

Hey Tonsha! Your personal best is better than mine by about 15 days!!! :lol: Good on you for keeping it a 'controlled failure'. I often finish dinner and think 'I could eat that again', but I've developed a rule that I won't eat anything else for at least 30 minutes after I finished my plateful. If ...

carolejo

Hey folks, at the risk that some might find this 'too much information', I found a new use for my bathroom scales last night. My loo in the new flat is a bit higher off the ground than my old loo was, and I was finding it a little 'offputting'. so I dragged the scales over and used them to park my f...

carolejo

NoS: :D MILA: :D :D I nearly forgot to start the exercise part today. It was only when I logged onto this board to check if anyone had replied that I realised I hadn't done my 14 minutes when I got up this morning. The advantage of being at home is that I could just pick up the SG and get on with it...

carolejo

Hi Flopsy, Welcome to NoS! Some of my personal pitfalls (especially at the start) were: Not running off to buy and eat a random chocolate bar at 3pm. Not going back for seconds, coping with buffet style meals and social pressure to eat more. Learning to recognise when I'm really hungry and when I'm ...

carolejo

it still doesn't seem to be working...

Perhaps we need some assistance here.

Anyone else care to tell us what's going wrong?

It seems to work when I do it.

carolejo

Cynthia, the scales are really not your friend. Firstly, it's perfectly possible to gain weight AND become leaner and healthier. Add to that the fact that most bathroom scales are only accurate plus or minus 2 lb anyway (which is plenty to wreck your mood, I know!) AND your bodyweight will naturally...

carolejo

Hey!! Good to see you here.

Tip - put the words you want to colour in between the ['color=blue'][/color] bits.

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carolejo

Maybe that doggies daddy just snuck in somewhere he wasn't supposed to be....?

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carolejo

I'm with Tonsha. Generally this is all great news!! I'll miss your cheery presence but I'm sure it's better to get out and see people in the library, rather than sit inside on "T'interweb" all day. Great news about your evil boss!! I had one of those who also got fired / demoted / moved out of the w...

carolejo

Hi Y'all. (there's just no equivalent in Brit English to this term, but I reckon there should be so I've been gradually adopting it, much to the annoyance of some of my fellow country(wo)men). Well, yesterday I finally unearthed the shovelglove from one of the random boxes in my house. Tomorrow is t...

carolejo

Yeah! It's great to be back in your pants. I'm gradually reclaiming the items in my wardrobe too.

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carolejo

yesterday was probably a 'sucess', but there was a little bit of funny stuff, cos I had 4 small meals rather than my usual 3. Then again, I did get up at 4:30am and not get to bed until nearly midnight, so I suppose I had an extra 5 hours in my day anyway! Today has been pretty textbook. I've still ...

carolejo

Way to go, Deb!! That'll teach that pesky chinese food to be so tempting and yummy, freezing it's little Cha Siu - butt off in the deep FREEZE!!

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carolejo

Hi everyone, Well, I survived Friday's excesses. Saturday and Sunday were very abstemious for S days after all those cakes the day before!! I did have a bit of a sugar 'hangover' on Saturday morning, but there wasn't any time to indulge myself as I had to get moving, clear half a tree out of my fron...

carolejo

Oww! KEVIN!! Behave, man!!

carolejo

I don't have a specific rule about Alcohol, but then again, I don't tend to drink much during the week anyway as I have to get up too early in the morning :lol: I'm fond of a glass of good red wine with my evening meal, once in a while. If you feel that it's a problem for you, then it's probably sen...

carolejo

I'm a bit late as I only just got back online, but HAPPY BIRTHDAY from me too!!

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carolejo

yeah, a little pre-emptive as I'm currently still sat in the UK, but come tomorrow.....

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carolejo

Thanks Reinhard! I understand well enough that NoS is now so big that you can't actually post to everyone every day (or even every week!) and still manage to do your day-job, so don't worry, I didn't feel neglected. You're right about carving out the time. I'm hopeful that this will be easier once I...

carolejo

mmmm. Fish and chips. I think I'll have that for my dinner today.
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carolejo

S-Day, but even considering that I think I might have overdone it a little bit. Having trouble sitting still long enough to type this, even! Wheeeeeee!!! *runs around the office pretending to be an aeroplane* I'm buzzed off my face on all the sugar. Either my tolerance for the 'white drug' has falle...

carolejo

He LIVES!!!!

Go Dave, Go Dave (can you tell I'm on a sugar high...?)
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