The Hobbit Hole VI - And Whither Then? I Cannot Say...

[GretchenEE]

some online stores even say that they will have the cinema version in May

I am very grateful for your post. I got an Email from buy.com today, offering the DVD for a pre-ordered 40 percent off (free shipping; was $29.95, they're selling it for $17.99), but I was alerted to wariness when its description said "2-disc DVD" ... then I read your post and realized I'd be buying the cinematic version, which is not what I want. It's a great bargain if you want the theater version, BUT,

You have saved me from a terrible mistake!

[Darksheare]

Whoever her surgeon was, he should be publicly beheaded with a viking axe and used for soccer practice...

[JenB]

Sigh.... theoretically, I understand your pain. But all my life I've been overweight, and only in the last year have I got it to the point where I don't hate my body. I don't want to be a 90-pound bikini model. But I'd really like to be a 140-pound semi-athlete.

[Fedora]

After having Mono in 1997, I'm lucky to top out at 118.

I've actually lost more weight by catching the flu than by dieting or exercising! :) Lost about 15 pounds once when I had the flu for a couple weeks. Prior to that I had been underweight for most of my life (I have the same family quirk you're describing), so I deliberately tried to gain weight for a while, and gained too well :) I lost most of the weight I had gained while I had the flu; but I kept it off and got back to my original weight mostly through diet and exercise.

[JenB]

Next time you have flu, call me... (sigh)... bad attitude again. Oh well; I'm getting my hair done tomorrow, that should assuage my vanity for a while.

[Fedora]

Fox was okay in Back to the Future and a few other things I've seen him in. Can't stand Baldwin in anything. I dislike Cruise, too, but he's a good enough actor he's sometimes tolerable if you forget him in real life. Trying to think of some other actors who are arrogant twerps like that--John Travolta is another one that comes to mind.

[Fedora]

Whoever her surgeon was, he should be publicly beheaded with a viking axe and used for soccer practice...

Sounds like a job for the Viking Kitties! :) It does make you wonder what kind of person a surgeon would have to be to do that to someone--I can't fathom that.

[Darksheare]

At the 'top of my game' I weighed in at 152 on my 5'5" frame and could run 2 miles in 13:54, do 100 sit up and pushups in 2 minutes and barely break a sweat.
Unfortunate part is: I also did a number to my knees.
While it may be possible to get half of that kind of performance back, at least, I'd pay for it later on by having my knees fall apart.
So I have to be careful what KIND of excersise I do to make sure I don't hurt my knees any more than I did.
(Repeatedly smacking one's knees into teh ground on top of rocks without knee guards is stupid, and you pay for it.)

That's why I'd dropped back to 132 in 1997 prior to getting mono. I had to be careful of my knees.
I'd give anything to be a semi-athlete as well.
I'm stuck to hiking and bicycling.
Which doesn't do much for teh rest of you.
(I can still do the sit ups and push ups. IF someone can keep my psycho cat from trying to take up residence upon me while I'm doing them!)
And in the busy hectic chaos that is my day, there isn't any time for any of that anymore.
Except maybe Saturdays if it isn't raining or snowing.

My sister in law could be considered 'plus size'.
She insists she's fat.
Obsesses about it at times.
I had to ask her, since she's an artist as well, "When you think of woman, does she look like a stick, or is she curvy and comfortable in her own skin?"
Of course, comfortable in their own skin and curvy.
She laughed and admitted defeat for now.

[RosieCotton]

I was brought up with Mom calling him John Travolting. Heh...

Yeah, most of his characters are like that. He's been in a few decent movies, but not many.

Cruise I have trouble watching. He's a decent actor, but his mannerisms drive me up the wall, for some reason. I know I'm being hypercritical...but it's the truth!

[Fedora]

Next time you have flu, call me...

Have it right now, unfortunately! :) Getting better but until this congestion clears up it's killing my sinuses, which are always problematic anyway--ugh. Sure does kill the appetite, though.

[RosieCotton]

I've never worn "single digit pants" as an adult. But being able to hike long distances without being exhausted and sore will be nice, as will being able to wear stuff that isn't baggy without feeling kinda self conscious.

Not sure if I'm gonna have time to run tonight or not! Might have to work it in tomorrow like I did last week. Fridays are crazy for me.

[JenB]

I don't want to let the culture influence my view of myself, and largely I'm successful - but honestly I think I could do with... slightly smaller curves. I'll always be more of a Rubeunesque (is that the right painter? The one who did the happy naked fat ladies in the Renaissance) figure, but I want to dare to wear a bathing suit again.

[JenB]

You home now? I'm almost ready to leave. When the clock hits five...

(Don't tell anyone, but I will be in single digit pants if I ever start losing again. The size-tens are great, though! And I'm going to have to buy new summer dresses.)

[RosieCotton]

Yeah, I'm home now. For a bit. Trying to decide if I'm gonna go to a concert tonight. I think it'd be fun, but I'd also miss the Friday jam. Since I get the free tickets, I'm more likely to be nonchalant...maybe I shouldn't be.

I don't think my bones are single digit sized. But then, I'm taller than you, so maybe I have an excuse?

[RosieCotton]

I hate colds and flus that leave a nagging congestion behind. Especially when it's cold and dry - not a good time of year to be sick!

Hope you feel allll the way better soon!

[Darksheare]

I get up to 118, and then crash the weight for no apparent reason.
It already dropped back to 98 pounds on me the one time.
And when I DID break 125, a cause for celebration for me, I got sicker than a dog and came to weighing 109 again..
*ugh!*

[JenB]

Yes, as far as I can tell, I ought to look pretty good as a size six (amazing that number even seems possible to me!)

That's based on my mother, who's about two inches shorter than I am, but otherwise we have the same build. She's curvy at that size.... And you are a lot taller than me, lol! If we weigh the same, it probably looks a heck of a lot better on you.

[Darksheare]

Might have been Wacko Jacko's face butchers.
They'll do anything to anyone for money.

[Fedora]

I was brought up with Mom calling him John Travolting. Heh...

LOL!--I have to remember that one :) The only things I like him in is his earliest stuff--Carrie, Welcome Back, Kotter!, Grease, and Saturday Night Fever. He was already arrogant in those, but it was in a humorous, self-spoofing kind of way. But after that he was so famous I think it went to his head, plus he got sucked into the Scientology cult, and since then he's been a real jerk. I couldn't stand him in Pulp Fiction or Broken Arrow.

[Fedora]

Hope you feel allll the way better soon!

Thanks :) Other people around here who had it before me tell me I've got at least three days to go yet. . .