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I'm posting JUST to DO a SMILIE!!

Hey Queenie, I've done the candida diet before! I used to do it about once a year, when I would start getting too many symptoms of a yeast infection. The first two weeks were always hard but after that I'd love it. I'd have so much more energy, I'd lose weight, and food tasted so much more, um, vibrant. Like I could taste the sweetness just in green beans, or yams, etc.

Maybe I should do that again.

GOOD AFTERNOON GODDESSES.....

(((((GODDESSES)))))

I have missed you all. I just wanted to throw a quick GODDESS idea out there.

Since its the day after Halloween, all those Halloween stores are trying to get out of dodge as quick as possible. My idea is to get there ASAP and buy yourself some new "outfits"... . That's right, some of those super sexy costumes that most of us wouldn't dare be caught dead in, BUT secretly wish we could pull off. I say DO IT ANYWAY.....

Can you imagine dressing up in a "personality" you've always wanted to try on for a while, then put away???

Nothing like a little vixen gansta get-up to get your H's blood flowing!!!!

A little bored in the bedroom???

Try the super sexy army get-up....that will add a little spice tonight....

Can't get Hubby to take his eyes off the football game tomorrow???

How about a trampy cheerleading at half time to get his attention???

The point being, this is something WE can do for our H's that most would NEVER IMAGINE we would.....

And while you are at it, you can pick up other costumes for future use....

Playboy bunnies for Easter, Baseball chick for baseball season next year (you can REALLY stretch him out in the 7th inning...)

Anyway, I thought I would pass this on. When I took my kids to get their costumes, I really admired the costumes and thought "Why the heck not???". I wouldn't dare wear these out in public (even with my new found "GODDESS" figure) BUT who says I can't give H and myself a little something something while we do a little "something something"???

Have a great day girls and happy shopping........

not2fun

We watched WHAT NOT TO WEAR last night.

The show was entitled FROM HOOCHIE to HOTTIE...featuring folks from former episodes...

Some of the FORMER HOOCHIES normal clothes looked like COSTUMES...

The take home message..if you're over 19, don't shop in the JUNIORS' DEPT..regardless of your size...

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO KNOW GREENGABLES:

HER NEW HUSBAND PASSED AWAY.....LINK HERE!!!

Good wonderful morning Goddesses.......


(((((GODDESSES))))))

It has been 11 months since I first posted on this thread (I think I was on here from the get-go....) and let me tell you all, the changes I have gone through are amazing. While I do believe in the power of personal change, you all have been my mentors and cheerleaders.

Mimi, the original true GODDESS, many thank you and kudos to you.....you have inspired and pushed us to be our personal best, set by OUR own standards.....

And all my lovely GODDESSES (Char, Luna, Queenie, Cinders and I could go on FOREVER...)....THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU....


If I where to see a video replay of where I was a year ago today, I would venture to guess that I would have had no make-up on, my old-trusty-GODFORBID-SHOULD-I-GO-OUT-IN-PUBLIC sweatpants (control the shruddering Mimi.... ), my hair in its usual pony-tail with its 8 months of roots showing, "caterpillars" above my BEAUTIFUL eyes, and 42 pds. of excess weight on me.....

NOW,,,,,we ALL know what initally brought on my changes, but it really wasn't till I read HNHN and the chapter on Physical Attractiveness coupled with this thread, that those changes TRULY began to come about and STICK......

So, JUST HOW FAR HAS GODDESS NOT COME???????

I tell you this very TRUE, very REAL, place-me-before-God-I-am-NOT-lying story....(and if anyone needs VERIFICATION, you may ask Lala, as I was talking to her a meer hour after this happened....).................


On Wed. I did my usual routine. Went to work, with make-up on, hair all done and looking as good as it can in a hairnet, and clean clothes. I got off work, took my shower and gussied myself up for the day. My outfit consisted of a gorgeous black turtle-neck 3/4 sleeved sweeter, handsomely cut blue-jeans, 2 inch black heeled boots (I am only 5'3"....most of my shoes are heeled now.....), a silver bracelet and faux diamond earrings. Hair was done, playing around with my curliness and the new "do" lately, and make-up done.

I had an appointment with my counselor that day, so off I went. Afterwards I came home, and got busy with the normal "mom/wife/womanly" duties us GODDESSES usually do. WS had seminar this night and I wasn't expecting home early and knew it would be a late night for him.

Anyway, I go to clean up the kitchen and I see that my kitchen sink is still clogged (noticed it the day before and had done the Liquid Plumber route....didn't take....). Well, being as I am a plumber's daughter and am well-versed in the workings on pipes (my dad will come and do whatever I need, but I HATE calling him when my kitchen is clogged because I hate getting the "you should never use your garbage disposal" speech.....). Soooooo, I set about cleaning out under my sink, taking apart the pipes, and finding the clog. Which, I did find and unclogged. I then put my pipes back together, ran some water to "double" check my work (of which, I am most proud of..... ), put all the cleaning products away (which BTW, needed to be purged anyway....) and set about cleaning the rest of the kitchen.

After a little bit, I decided I wanted a juice and went to the Convientant mart down the street. The girl working that night is one that I see regularly and her and I are quite friendly.

Anyway, she commented immediately on how "cute" I looked that night and wanted to know where I was going, joked about how she should join me. I laughed and said "no where...at home tonight". She said that this was a shame to waste my good looks and cute outfit on a night at home......to which then I said, "Honey, I did all this just to fix my clogged up pipes..."....

She looked at me and said that she admired a woman who knew plumbing AND could do it in HEELS.........


So fellow GODDESSES.......THAT IS how FAR I have come.....TODAY I even unclog nasty pipes in make-up and heels........


never doubt the power of your shoes.......


to you all....

not2fun

Wow. That's REALLY impressive. I wish I could be like that.

Your "before" picture looks a lot like me now: no make-up on, sweatpants, hair hanging limp and last haircut was 8 months ago, "caterpillars" above my eyes, and about 30 pounds overweight.

I've replaced a toilet but didn't do it in heels.

Hey Jayne, I just saw this. It is a GREAT food PLAN.... I have a wonderful cookbook for sale if you like recipes....

Last year, it was almost a year ago when I really committed to learning the plans and working them to the best of my ability. I was someone who hated herself so deeply for so many reasons. SO MANY REASONS...

What I have come to learn is that my journey was one of spirit, mind, and body. My G-d saw that I needed to learn how to live in a place of self-acceptance for who I started out as, who I had become and who I am becoming. Self-acceptance of myself for all the blessings, all the mistakes and all the good that does live inside of me.

I commit to my new life today, I commit that I am a TRUE GODDESS because the light that lives inside of me, while have been dulled, burned and then is shining because G-d is shining in me. G-d gives me the strength for self-acceptance to move forward and live the life he designed for me.

I wish that it may be so for those who are still struggling or for those of us who have gotten beaten down lately and just need a reminder that we are PEFECT because G-d has plans for us and knows where he is leading us.

Y'lratzon,

May this be so.....

Copied from my thread on Other Topics!

They told me it needed to be on the Goddess thread!




So, ladies, what shall I do....repair or replace?

I agree with the others, replace the toilet.

Now on with the goddess thread. I am in the midst of staging my home. No, not going to sell it, but just very interested in all the shows on TV about how to do it.

It involves getting rid of junk, personal items, and fixing everything up.

It is sooooooooo fun.

In younger days, don't they call this Nesting...

Yes Queenie, NESTING!!!!!!

Anyway, I've been watching the staging shows on television, and think I have the knack.

Nesting......? Does that involve sitting around on sticks and leaves?

Tonight, I worked at the concession stand at son's school's football game. When I got there, I asked what the tiaras were for. The other women told me they were for us to wear so we could be the Concession Queens. I told them I wanted to be a princess so that, if something big went wrong, I wouldn't have to be responsible for it.

No it involves being of the highest DOMESTIC GODDESS caliber.

I guess that depends on who you ask. If you're pregnant, it probably involves pins and needles.

I need the comfort of my fellow goddesses!!

I just came from the ENT's office. After doing all the hearing tests, again, they have decided I have a mild to moderate hearing loss. It's logical to go ahead and do hearing aids before I lose any more of my hearing. For some reason, not having to work as hard to hear keeps you from losing your hearing as fast. He thinks it's probably hereditary.

It's not real severe yet....I just lose words in paragraphs especially if you aren't speaking very distinctly and if there is a whole lot of noise. He thinks it's hereditary because my mom can't hear doodly or squat. She waited too long for hearing aids.....forgot how to pick out the sounds she wanted from the sounds she didn't. I don't want to wait too long. But, this is a $3,000 thing and most insurance won't pay anything to speak of.