Thanks Marcie! I hope that your phone does ring with great news!
I just wanted to pop in before leaving for work & wish each of you a happy & safe Labor Day weekend! & stay OP & drink your water.
I r'cd this e-mail and thought that I would share... it may give you a laugh or two... if it strikes you funny...
out loud... it burns calories.
SIGNS YOU ARE LIVING IN 2001
1~ You have tried to enter your password on the microwave.
2~ You have a liist of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three.
3~ You call your son's beeper to let him know it's time to eat. H e-mails you back from his bedroom, "What's for dinner?"
4~ Your daughter sells Girl Scout Cookies via her web site.
5~ You chat several times a day with a stranger from South Africa, but you haven't spoken with your next door neighbor yet this year.
6~ You check the ingredients on a can of chicken noodle soup to see if it contains Echinacea.
7~ Your grandmother asks you to send her a JPEG file of your newborn so she can create a screen saver.
8~ You pull up in your own driveway & use your cell phone to see if anyone is home.
9~ Every commercial on television has a web-site address at the bottom of the screen.
10~ You buy a computer & 6 months later it is out of date & now sells for half the price you paid.
11~ Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the first 20 or 30 years of your life, is cause for panic & you turn around to go get it.
12~ Using real money, instead of credit or debit, to make a purchase would be a hassle & take planning.
13~ Cleaning up the dining room means getting the fast food bags out of the back seat of your car.
14~ Your reason for not staying in touch with family is that they do not have e-mail addresses.
15~ You consider second-day air delivery painfully slow.
16~ Your dining room table is now your flat filing cabinet.
17~ Your idea of being organized is multi-colored Post-it notes.
18~ You hear most of your jokes via e-mail instead of in person.
19~ You get an extra phone line so you can get phone calls.
20~ You disconnect from the internet & get an awful feeling, as if you just pulled the plug on a loved one.
21~ You get up in the morning & go online before getting your coffee.
22~ You wake up at 2 am to go to the bathroom & check your e-mail on your way back to bed.
23~ You are reading this.
24~ Even worse; you're going to forward it to someone else!!!!
25~ THIS IS FUNNY< BECAUSE IT IS TRUE.
Have a good weekend,
Nancy
Plateauing!
I went for my weigh in and I'm STILL at 209.....I've been at 209 since last Wednesday! UGH! It's frusterating, but I know I'll get past it eventually, and I was bound to plateau at some point. I did really great in the beginning, dropping 23.5 pounds in five weeks, so I suppose I need to look at this as a temporary thing to get past. But I still hate it!!! 
I used the lifecycle machines. My legs were fine, but I was soooo hard to do the 12 reps on the machines that work your arms. I made it through....barely!!!!! Erik signed up to work with one of the trainers tommorow afternoon, while I am taking my 2nd kickboxing class. We are going to try to go at least three times a week, probably with him going in the mornings after work and me meeting him there once the daycare opens, and I'm going to try to do 2 kickboxing classes a week. Thank God that the gym offers babysitting services!! I had to fight with my two year old this morning to get her to leave! 
She loved having kids her own age to play with!!!!!
Hang in there, it's almost over!!!! I'm glad that you've been able to stay on plan though, I know it's hard when you are under a lot of stress, so GOOD FOR YOU!!! 
