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[bikipatra]

It's 6:17am and I hope the sleep fairy is putting the final touches on the beginning of your onederland experience!

[bikipatra]

Oh, another note on shopping on Ebay right now. I am stocking up on my fall and winter basics because they are still out of season (just barely). My just walking to Starbucks uniform in winter is a cashmere sweater with jeans or wide leg trousers. I am buying up loads of cashmere at ridiculously low prices. I love fitted cashmere sweaters because they are a more sophisticated way of showing off the twins.

[holberry]

Hi Queenie!
I bet you will look smashing in your purple dress.
Where are you going to wear it?

Im off to look at cashmere on ebay.
hugs
hol

[queenielou]

It's 6:17am and I hope the sleep fairy is putting the final touches on the beginning of your onederland experience!

You're so sweet, Biki The sleep fairy decided he (must be a he because of his control issues ) wanted to teach me patience and dropped me down to 200.5. We'll see what he does tomorrow after I get about 5 miles in today.

[queenielou]

Hi Queenie!
I bet you will look smashing in your purple dress.
Where are you going to wear it?

Im off to look at cashmere on ebay.
hugs
hol

Hey Hol,

Here's how you know I have a problem: I bought the dress with no thoughts about where I might wear it. I just thought it was pretty so that was good enough. I will probably wear it to work/class. It's really easy to look nice on campus when most people (students) are in sweats and uggs.

[DogMa]

Ha. You're not alone. I have yet another dress I'm considering wearing Friday night (although I doubt I will). It's something I bought about 15 YEARS ago for a friend's wedding and never wore because it was just a tiny bit too tight. But it was on clearance and a great deal and I loved the print, so I bought it and kept it all these years. And now it's a wee bit big, but not so big that I couldn't wear it. But kind of out of style, and not at all appropriate for summer.

I'm thinking I should take it to a seamstress or something and have it made into something that I WOULD wear.

But I can't tell you how many things I donated that still had tags on them. It's a disease. I'm trying very hard not to look at cashmere on eBay right now (OK, I already did take a glimpse, but I didn't bid on anything because if I can have self-control and willpower about food and exercise, then I can have it about shopping, too!!!).

[queenielou]

You're right, Robin, it is a disease! I read a study recently that found that if you exercise self control in one aspect of your life (the experiment involved not thinking about a certain item) then you are less likely to exercise control in another part of your life (the experiment involved shopping).

So my excuse is that since I'm exercising self-control by dieting, I should be expected to shop more. I don't know who is buying that excuse, but sometimes it works on me when I tell it to myself

[queenielou]

Oh - and as if we needed further proof, I bought a Ralph Lauren cashmere sweater today from the factory outlet all thanks to this talk about cashmere

[DogMa]

Hee. OK, I need to find another area of my life to lose control in, so I don't go broke. Maybe I could sleep around or something.

The one good thing about all the cashmere talk is that as much as I love cashmere, it's hard to even think about it when Texas summer has finally hit here.

[queenielou]

Dang it - my intercom system wasn't set up in my apartment on Saturday and the Fedex person came with my supplements. I missed him/her so now I have to wait until tomorrow because they don't work on Mondays.

[bikipatra]

Hee. OK, I need to find another area of my life to lose control in, so I don't go broke. Maybe I could sleep around or something.
.

Maybe just a little. It might help!

[queenielou]

Hee. OK, I need to find another area of my life to lose control in, so I don't go broke. Maybe I could sleep around or something.

The one good thing about all the cashmere talk is that as much as I love cashmere, it's hard to even think about it when Texas summer has finally hit here.

Lol! How did I miss this the first time? Well, if it's not shopping it has to be something, right?

[Karli]

You're right, Robin, it is a disease! I read a study recently that found that if you exercise self control in one aspect of your life (the experiment involved not thinking about a certain item) then you are less likely to exercise control in another part of your life (the experiment involved shopping).

So my excuse is that since I'm exercising self-control by dieting, I should be expected to shop more. I don't know who is buying that excuse, but sometimes it works on me when I tell it to myself

Ha ha ... well, maybe they only do a study on people who are losing/have lost a bunch of weight and *need* new clothes because of that ... LOL. We *have* to go shopping (that's what I am telling myself and it definitely seems to be working out just fine *whistles* ).

Just stopping by to say you're doing great ! Keep rockin' and show us some pics of your new cashmere .

[queenielou]

You're right, Karli. I only buy things that I need

Ok, so the scale fairy must be mad at me about the comments I made about HIS control issues. I have 3 scales (ok 4, but 3 digital ones). The one I started with always weighs me at least 2 pounds less than the Tanita I upgraded to and around 3 pounds less than the healthometer from Walmart. Well, this morning, the Tanita said I was 1.4 pounds less than yesterday (201.8 Tanita weight today) but the scale I've used from the beginning showed me up at least .5 pounds (depending on when I stepped on it showed a loss of 1 pound to a gain of 2 pounds). What is really going on, scale fairy? You are messing with my mind!

The analog scale weighs me less than 200, around 198 but since I didn't start with that one, I can't count it.

Too many scales = too much drama.

[bikipatra]

I have 3 scales (ok 4, but 3 digital ones). The one I started with always weighs me at least 2 pounds less than the Tanita I upgraded to and around 3 pounds less than the healthometer from Walmart. Well, this morning, the Tanita said I was 1.4 pounds less than yesterday (201.8 Tanita weight today) but the scale I've used from the beginning showed me up at least .5 pounds (depending on when I stepped on it showed a loss of 1 pound to a gain of 2 pounds). What is really going on, scale fairy? You are messing with my mind!

The analog scale weighs me less than 200, around 198 but since I didn't start with that one, I can't count it.

Too many scales = too much drama.

Too much drama indeed. I would scale down .