I've discovered the key to weight loss....

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Okay, I admit to being shallow and materialistic today as I shopped and spent money until I actually got a buzz! It was CRAZY! Today was the BC Homeschool convention and I had the opportunity to purchase next year's homeschool materials via money from a purchase order. I didn't hold back! I bought a $300.00 K'nex kit; a $200.00 Thames and Kosmos science kit called PowerHouse (those were my biggies) and about $600.00 in curriculum (History, Latin, Math, Canadian Studies etc). I think shopping could be a wonderful diet for me as I found I was so busy looking and purchasing that I skipped lunch and didn't even notice. If I could shop every day with an unlimited budget I could conceivably end up looking like Kate Moss or some other sickly skinny supermodel. Hey...maybe I could market this idea, sell lots of books, make more money and consequently do more shopping: I could end up so skinny that I'd disappear when I turned sideways! Ha...how my imagination do wun away wit me!!!

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nimi said…
You're too funny...shopping is the ultimate cure for everything.
On another note, I'm very happy that you are having such luck with your butterfly unit. I was looking at the pictures and reading your discriptions when a wave of nausea hit me.
When I was doing this unit with Morgan's class I was pregnant with Chandon and the smell of that caterpillar food and the whole lot of it was so overwhelming that I would often have to sit at my desk to let the wave of nausea pass. Thanks for the trip down memory lane...not! Hee, hee.
June 7, 2008 at 1:00 PM
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