Stress buying

OK, so I rejoined Weight Watchers. The big thing with weight watchers is to learn to control your impulses. They stress watching your caloric intake, journaling what you eat - if you bite it write it - you know what I mean. All that crap.

Well, I just had the week from hell.

Joe fell and broke his leg. That was the Saturday before Easter and its been downhill ever since. The computer at work hosed, luckily we were able to get that back up and running with a visit from the IT guy - so we were only down one day. But the state of the computer systems are appallingly bad, requiring updates in both hardware and software - requiring data conversion.

Read: many months of growing pains.

Then 3 vital pieces of equipment hosed themselves too. Luckily I was able to repair one, but the others - well.....

Read: went to bank for line of credit.

Amazingly through all this I only put on .4 lbs - so no stress eating! Yay me!

But then Norman's Orchids decided to email me with their 5 for the price of

4 sale - or whatever it was - and I fished out my credit card like a swabbie on leave and went to town.

Mostly Phal species. Now *where'd* that come from? I usually don't buy phals, but I've developed a hankering for bellina and venosas. So here I sit with a few of them plus a cornu-cervi I've wanted for a while coming.

I figure it beats eating.

K Barrett

Jeez, Louise, you've had a week, all right! But you and weight? I would not have guessed that. Any photo I've seen of you shows a slim gal.

Now, stress orchid purchases are another animal entirely. Those are healthy. They're probably even heart healthy and good for cholesterol and triglycerides, too. And they most likely keep the Orchid Gods happy, so that's a good thing. Wouldn't want the OGs to get ticked off.

Joe is more important than the computer systems, but you knew that. Is he navigating okay? I remember a long ago broken leg with a cast up to my butt. Took six months to get back to semi normal, but I was running around in the interim.

Species Phals are cool. I saw a bunch over the weekend at a local show, and I have a few in bloom (finally!) and one in spike (double finally!).

If anyone can handle this, you can. Go for it, strong lady.

Diana