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Well I'm down another 3 3/4 pounds this past week.  Last week I hadn't lost or gained and the week previous I was down 2 pounds.  Because I missed a few meetings, it puts me at 5 and 3/4 pounds down for the month of August.  Considering I lost 6 and a 1/2 pounds for the month of July and now another 5 and 3/4 pounds for August, I guess I should be happy with the progress.

Losing weight is always a slow process but it's nice to know I have a support group like TOPS behind me.  Some members in the TOPS club make use of different programs like Curves and so forth.  TOPS isn't a weight loss program, it's a support group to help keep you in line and remind you every week or where you are and where you want to be.  If you ever want to join us, drop by the Pentecostal Church on Monday nights at 6pm for Weigh-in followed by the meeting at 7pm.  Just don't come Labour Day Monday, there's no meeting and you'll be weighing in alone.

What if you had unlimited amounts of cash.  Would you buy a fancy car?  How about a jet?  Maybe a yacht for you.  Well listed in the following link, some of the top toys of the rich and famous... along with their price tags.  Drool!

http://yhoo.it/bsJ0eO

I have started watching a new game show...and I was starting to really like it...until last night.

The idea of the show is that is has stunts and challenges that you can do at home.

Minute to Win It is the new game show on NBC.  All of the challenges are based on stuff you can find around the house.  The first episode that I watched, had a guy shooting elastic bands at playing cards that were held up with paper clips, rolling tennis balls into trash cans, boucing pencils into drinking glasses...you get the idea.  The trick is, you only have 60 seconds to complete each task.  You are given chance to fail as well, but as every other show goes, you are penalized if you eventually can't do the task.  There are 10 stages to go through, with the last one awarding you $1 million!!

This week is the Girls of Sumer week.  Last night was former beauty queens.  Girls who had previously been either Miss USA or Miss Universe (or both in some cases).  These girls were put through tasks and eliminated one by one.  They were each playing for a charity of their choice. They seemed to be your typical beauty queens.  Pearly white smiles, manicured nails, tiny waists and big hair. I really liked Miss New York.  She had won Miss USA back in 1995 and has since had 3 kids and she was a tough litle competitor.  Trash talking the other girls, calling them out and winning challenges.

Most of the girls seemed like total bubble heads to me.  Miss Puerta Rico cried when asked to make a row of dominoes out of empty CD cases.  I mean come on! Suck it up buttercup! Try living in the real world with a real job and then you can cry to me about how hard something really is. While I am at home up to my elbows in laundry and housework with a stack of bills on the desk and a lawn that needs to be cut...she is crying about standing CD cases on their sides so that they fall into a garbage can.  Really?  Is this worth crying over or are these girls taught to bring on tears when faced with something that is beyond their skill level.  If so, what kind of message is this sending our daughters?  Become a Barbie doll and you never have to worry about doing anything that is 'too hard'?  That's what the men are for...to do all those things we can't?  No way sister!  I am raising my girls to do everything they can for themselves and ask for help when absolutely necessary. But, always try something before you say you can't do it.  Miss Puerta Rico turned the water works on and started saying that she couldn't do the challenge when they were showing the computerized video description.

My daughters would kick these girls butts! They kick mine in board games, card games and video games on a regular basis and I never cry...well almost never.