Payton isn't doing anything sneaky, just decorating her bag with the puff paint. In the next one, she's making music with the old kitchen odds and ends from Aunt Anne's. The girls had fun playing with them at Aunt Rita's.

Pre-Halloween stuff

Halloween

1. Select the TOFS link on the left.
2. Select the song "Wreck of the Ole '97".
3. Click on "mp3" to make the song play.
4. In the second line sung, determine if the name sung is "Steve" or "Keith".

Yea! We're done painting!

Payton is doing something sneak with that puffy paint. What IS she doing?

Not going too well this evening. Fraudulent charge on the credit card. and an outrageous cell phone bill. UGH. I know we can handle all of this, but I just hate dealing with the people on the phone, explaining over and over again.

Glad we haven't started the healthy living contest yet because I just finished off a bag of chocolate covered raisins...thankfully they were dark chocolate.

Why won't Payton be in the contest? You could actively show her your own interests in healthy living and coming in first. That said, I'm not sure how to rank 10 hours of non-stop energy.

On a completely unrelated note, at my division meeting yesterday, it was announced that we have 15 open positions, about 7 of which have interviews scheduled. I believe the technical positions could opt to work in the Chicago office. So if you know a decent unemployed programmer, I think we still have a referral bonus I would be content to split...

So instead of this contest including sneaky petes it is going to be cut throat. Nice.

Even if Payton is sneaky, she won't be in the contest so she's no threat.

It should be like Monopoly where you get to move the number of spaced you walked/ran that day. Then when you land on the card space it says things like "if you ate 5 servings of vegetable today, move ahead 3 spaces". "If you went to McDonalds today, loose a turn". Or maybe more like cutes & ladders....where you advance the same spaces, but have to "slide back down" if you eat french fries and "climb the ladder" if you lost 2 lbs. Haha, what fun. We would know if somebody cheats, because they won't fit into their Christmas outfit. Mom's making everyone clothes 2 sizes smaller for Christmas, so you'd better get started!

source of ao's quote

I think you're training the sneaky kind(i.e. Payton)


I am only one guy, and I don't even know the words to Louis Louie

there's such thing as a non-sneaky Ohler? what remote corner are they hiding in?

Oh I know I'm an Ohler. I'm just not one of the sneaky kind.

Lets start Monday. Bet I could pack on 12 more pounds by then.

Michele do you forget you are an Ohler?

I'll join Nathaniel's challenge if you can explain to me who will decide winner and be a fair judge. In other words - I only want to play fair and make it possible to win. I don't think I could out-wit several of these sneaky Ohlers.

i thought the point was to change your eating/exercise habits to encourage a more healthy lifestyle overall. let's go with lowest bad to good habits ratio challenge.

Has anyone set up the 5k course for this year's Jingle Bell Tingle Tinkle Run?

Same problem with the pants so I'm in, even if I'm not likely to run anywhere.

Moved again! I will post pictures after I unpack. Since I have an exam tomorrow and another one coming Monday it might
take a little while before that happens...

Lauren: Thanks for Flat Stanley, I will take him somewhere next week!

Edit: just updated address

your challenge should be who can fit down Adrienne's laundry chute on Dec 26.

Michele - my original plan did not include a rope.

I would like to play.

You know I'm in....pants wouldn't button this morning!

Anyone up for a Relho challenge? I'm overweight and need to exercise. I was thinking challenges like most hours spent exercising/most cokes avoided/most miles run/most weight lost. Let me know if anyone wants to do this and I will set up a board. End date would be Dec. 26th

Yeah, we have one of those installed in our house as well. Nifty.

My laundry chute never jams, but then it also doubles as a stairway.

Did I just see something about Payton, rope and laundry chute? Ha ha. What if its a moldy pumpkin or something?

are you sure it was something you put down it?

poke it with a stick and see if it yelps.

That's ok, those questions work both ways. Do you think it's jammed by a suitcase full of money?

Guess I jinxed it asking about things getting caught.

the laundry chute sounds like a fun thing to try and resolve. Does your phone have a video camera on it and do you have some string? or when is Payton visiting you and do you have some rope?

The plumber came and moved the plumbing for the washer yesterday. Now I need to find a way to hide the pipes and put something where the washer used to be.

Tena and Rita brought furniture over to my house this past weekend. My 'to file' pile is now under control. I would take more pictures, but they never really capture how much love this house. Something is stuck in laundry chute though.

That would be my over flowing shoe shelves and my new blackberry sending the picture - it actually almost looked like it used my yahoo e-mail to send the picture with, but it might not be. Everything just all looks linked together- FB, yahoo, etc.