Chirky

Hey Jes! If you happen to be serious about losing weight, I thought you might be interested to know about a site I discovered recently called SparkPeople at www.sparkpeople.com. It creates meal plans for you, lets you track your food, track your fitness activities, record your goals, meet other people etc - all free! I'm enjoying it and so far it's helped me a lot to get my calories consumed better aligned with my calories burned. And no, I don't work for them, nor did they pay me to post this :)

Hey that's me in my yellow leggings. How did you get that picture?

Remember tonight at 7 central it's

1. Cramps
2. Smoking
3. An upset stomach and the need to go #2

~Jef

I think you're purty no matter what - leggings or baggy trousers.

Also, can I just tell you how excited I am that you used the word "slacks" instead of "pants?" I am on a mission to bring back the words "slacks" and "trousers." LOVE.

Oh, honey, that is so me. I am on a diet for sure...except for those three caramel-frosted cupcakes I had the other day. Anyhow, the only pants, er, slacks I have that fit right are ones that used to be, oh, about 3 sizes too big. Now I have to wear long shirts all the time to cover up the fat lines on my sit-me-down-upon that come from wearing too-small clothing. Yikes.

I think the bigger problem is the yellow. I hope your slacks weren't yellow. Yellow is in most cases a top color, not a bottom color. :)

(I say these things with the highest love of yellow in mind. It's my favorite color, after all. It just should not be disgraced in such a way as to wear it as a primary color of pants.)

P.S. I'm totally kidding, since I realize your pants were very likely (hopefully) not yellow.

My trousers (that's for you, Stacy) are close to yellow, actually: they're khaki.

In my seventh grade class, there was a girl who wore "denim"-print leggings. The 12 year-old me would be horrified to know that I have so many pairs of unintentionally skintight Levis.

Also, I must join the love for "slacks" and "trousers" instead of "pants." "Slacks" evokes Kate Hepburn, while "pants" just sounds funny.

Jergen and chickadee--maybe you could start by saying "trouser pants" like my friend does? Then again, maybe not, because it was hard to listen to anything she said in any conversation containing the phrase "trouser pants." Maybe that's actually a common expression, but I'd never heard it before.

Or was it "trouser slacks?" RR?