Getting Ready for Round 7!

Oh, yeah! I totally rocked round 6 and have only creeped up three pounds above my last, injection weight. Considering Thanksgiving, Christmas, my daughter's birthday and my birthday, I'd say that was a royal score on my part. My goal is to drop another 15 to 20 pounds with this final round and stay put. I'm thrilled to be a 10 or an 8 for the rest of my days. When I work out regularly, things are even better (I just have to make myself get back into the habit).

So, round seven will begin February 17th (round seven on the 17th... I'm kinda liking that. You know me and prime numbers. ;-) ). It's President's day! I'll start my two-day load and then begin my VLCDs again on February 19th. Hubby is on board (amazingly, since he totally despises when I do this), now I've just got to remind my children not to tempt me. Sometimes, they do that without thinking.

Ironically, I talked to my mother today and told her about my Easter dress (totally stunning):

My girls told me I looked beautiful in it. Beautiful. Not a word I hear too often. I took it as a major compliment. My mother says, "Will it fit if you keep losing weight?"How about that! She doesn't even know I'm doing another round and I'm surmising that I looked smaller to her when she last saw me (my youngest daughter's birthday). At any rate, if it is a little big on me, no worries. I'll have it sized if I need to. Beautiful won't be hanging up in the closet indefinitely.

So, I'll be more active on here as the new round begins. It will be short, just enough to get me down to my permanent weight. I'm eager, excited and ready to see what happens. Say a prayer for me!

Tasty Cakes!

Rum Cake!

No Sugar added, golden butter cake with vanilla frosting

Horror Movies and Their Appeal

For as long as I can remember, I have loved horror movies. I can remember watching them as a child, getting scared to death, then running to my parents room to sleep with them. Plenty of times, they marched me straight back to my room. I learned a trick; take my sleeping bag in and sleep on the floor at the foot of their bed. This helped keep the nightmares away, too.

Once I became a teenager and trick or treating was no longer socially acceptable for someone my age, I hosted Fright Night parties. Tons of girls, pizza, skittles and horror movies made for great sleep-overs. My senior year, my mother granted a co-ed party, which turned out to be the best one of all.

It's the adrenaline thrill and scare that I love. Sometimes, it's more about the story and how frightening the story would be as a reality. Characters in peril and how they resolve to free themselves from hopeless situations. Sometimes, with no hope at all, they are lost to the outside forces controlling them. I find that the older horror films are good about incorporating all of these aspects of a story, while still making it frightening and fun.

Here's a list of my top 50 favorites (in no particular order):

1. Sisters
2. Carrie
3. Rosemary's Baby
4. Stepford Wives (original, day-time horror)
5. Demons
6. Night of the Living Dead
7. Dawn of the Dead (original and remake)
8. Shaun of the Dead
9. The Birds
10. Suspiria
11. Phantasm
12. Psycho (original)
13. The Omen
14. The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
15. The Fury
16. Terror Train
17. Prom Night
18. Halloween (the original)
19. The Ring
20. Zombieland
21. The Shining
22. Rec
23. 28 Weeks Later
24. An American Werewolf in London
25. The Descent
26. Black Christmas
27. Trick 'r Treat
28. From Dusk till Dawn
29. Near Dark
30. Brotherhood of the Wolf
31. Pitch Black
32. Blade
33. Blade II
34. May
35. Shadow of the Vampire
36. From Hell
37. The Fog (original)
38. Creepshow
39. Creepshow 2
40. Constantine
41. The Omega Man
42. Resident Evil
43. From Hell
44. 30 Days of Night
45. Silent Hill
46. Let's Scare Jessica to Death
47. The Howling
48. Candyman
49. The Prophecy
50. Aliens

Who am I?

I'll be back to post my "100" list. I'll also keep other items here to.