Hmmm. Anagramatic, thou seemingly be up as early as moi! I saw your entry on the journal thread ... or was that Tuesday? Anyhow, thou seemeth to be off to a focused start and it's inspiring me to do the same. Let's both have a good day of healthy eating! Huzzah!
Re, Old Dog, she doesn't seem to mind me being gone. She was curled up on the couch when I got home last night and didn't even get down to greet me. When I gave her a hug, she had a kind of "oh, are you back?" look and refused to give up the couch.
I have been up early but it's, what, two hours later here than where you are so it's now a decent hour.
That was Tuesday's start and I blew it later (will eventually post the blowout) but am off to a strong start today. Can we hold hands across the country and hang on? I need all sorts of fortitude today.
HANDS ACROSS AMERICA (AND CANADA)!!!!! Fortitude flows from one side of the continent to another in all directions and WE WILL SUCCEED (even if it's just success in holding the line)!!! Huzzah! I'm going to post this on the food thread also!! I'm going to gym and dentist later, but will be back later! Hocus pocus focus focus! In the meantime, no cake for any of use (me especially), ok?
I've got 2 weeks 'til I leave for DH's family reunion outside of Toronto, a bit more than three 'til company meetings in Boston. I really want to focus, to maybe shed a few more pounds and at least FEEL slimmer. Going back to (mostly) induction phase of South Beach and making sure to get more exercise. Plus extreme amounts of primping, of course. I've got a coupon for a pedicure (that I got for my birthday last year ) -- I should just go ahead and make an appointment.
Anagram, here's my hand, from Canada's east coast. Where are you in the physical world? "Sounds like Old Dog has gone to Cat School." Also, it occurs to me that I may have to write a children's story "Old Dog goes to Cat School." Would you mind if I used that?
And, Amarantha, would you mind if I used your name in the story? Sorry to hear that job doesn't seem to be working out very well for you. Wouldn't it be nice if we could combine the best bits of working from home with the best bits of working with people?
K -- back to salt mines. Love to all! Let's make this a good one!
anagram-sending fortitude and my outreached hand from the southeast.
amarantha-loved the picture you evoked with your hands across america and canada image. it made me smile and feel some of that fortitude and success vibes too. sorry thy job is proving to be such a royal pain in the butt for you, empress.
arabella-hope your 2 week focus on sprint to dh's family reunion goes well. what you said reminded me i too have a gift coupon for a pedicure which i haven't used yet. plan to look for that and make an appt. also.
i want to make a very focused effort in this next month to actually lose some weight, since i haven't in much too long now, plus continue with stress management techniques, eat smaller, healthier portions, and keep up with exercise. demon scale is going to move downward, no matter what! heat still really making me feel sick, but no excuse to give up on my foucused summer sprint. hello to all royals. thinking of you. take care.
Wsw, I guess I should have mentioned Mexico and Hawaii, too, because we might have some lurkers from these fine places! Hmmm. Except Hawaii, is in America, so we're covered there. And Mexico is part of North America, as is Canada, so they are Americans, too, so we're all covered, and there's Central America, South America and the Florida Keys, which are in Florida, technically, I think? Covered.
Plus Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antartica, Greenland, and lots of places I'd bet are wonderful and full of friends who'd help us if they knew about us.
Anyhow, I digress.
Wsw, I am impressed with your hocus pocus focus focus spirit! I'm catching that spirit, too! You are right, there ARE no excuses to give up and I'm not gonna!!!
Onward s!!!
And BTW, I was just wondering if it's time someone started a new thread here as Independence Day 2004 be history, a wrap, in the past, a done deal!!!
Just a thought.
And, it IS a bit too quiet and lonely in the palace, as many s are not coming by as often. I know I'm one of that number and hope to remedy it soon!
Sorry for the absence. DD's orthodontic surgery last week really put everything off-kilter, then DH was away for a long weekend in PA which had me rescuing the cutest little side tables from the trash behind our apartment building and painting them fire-engine red...look so cute with a tropical plant and a few chatchkes on top from DH's time in Thailand...but anyway...
Arabella, you're coming this way? How long will you be here, how tight is your schedule, and would you be interested in having a coffee/drink/dinner? I'm in Burlington, which is about 40 minutes outside TO, and don't mind driving.
A big hello to all our s....it is quiet in the court lately.
Okey-dokey...enough is enough...time to get with the program!
Flyby to thank all for the hands across the Universe. Felt them and they kept me from falling down slippery slopes.
yesterday even more stressful. In a nutshell, one situation led to stopping a crucial medicine which puts dh in much riskier mode. Hoping to be able to restart today. More bloodwork today. And I'm back and forth between nurses in various specialists office and being a genuine pain while making sure little nuggests of information don't get lost. As DD said last night "that's your job".
Arabella, I'm in south central PA. And certainly use "cat school" if it works for you.
Will catch up when things reach a better pace and I'm not ready to flip. Other than two errant pieces of cake though, I haven't done too poorly foodwise.
Anagramatic, I see more hands reaching out from across the whole Milky Way galaxy to support thee and dh!!! Huzzah! Stay strong! Methinks a little cake may be in order just to keep body and soul together when dealing with nurses!
I've officially finished with June's work and am on to July's. Have decided, though, that I've got to get some balance into my life and not try to force myself to work too hard (counterproductive, because inner child sulks, balks, and is in general a big pain in the butt -- which butt also gets bigger, because inner child sees no reason to restrict self in any way). So... life begins again. I hopped back onto the South Beach induction yesterday and feel better for it. Carbs are just not the good friends to me that they pretend they are! I'm not anti-carb, exactly, but I really have to limit them (and make sure they're almost entirely healthy ones) or I'm tired, ill-humored, and suffer (not to mention give in to) cravings. And the more of them I eat the more I want, until a catastrophic binge makes me desire feeling well more. How many times must I relearn this?
Wildfire!!!! I'm so excited -- I'd forgotten that you were so close to TO. I'm going to be there from Sunday the 25th to Saturday the 31st, and if you've got time in there I'd be so thrilled to get together for any of the aforementioned! YAY!!!
Maybe next year we can have that whole group meeting on PEI that we've mentioned before
Amarantha, I think we do want to get another thread going before too long, but I guess I'd prefer to wait a little bit to see if any of our darling strays return to the fold first, so they still see the original thread.
Cerise? Ceara? Frogger? Lurkest thou? I know our Punkin was busy, and I trust she'll be back soon.
Anagram, despite everything I said about carbs, they are just the greatest tranquillizer in the world, aren't they. No wonder they're always the "drug of choice" for comfort foods.
wsw, let's make a pact to get those pedicures! I'm going to make an appointment today, and I'll be thinking of you having your tootsies beautified while I'm at it.
Kaylets, WTG on the WI -- look at those stats of yours, Birthday Girl! You're FABULOUS!
Okey-dokey. I'm off for a run, and then must be productive again. Love to all, mentioned or unmentioned. Let's make this a good one!
E, fire in the belly update: I just signed up for two more sessions with the personal trainer that I just said good-bye to three weeks ago! I can't afford it but I need to get back to the commitment and she's really helped me before.
Arabella, I'm with you on learning balance ... I need to get this back as the new job has decentralized me. It's not about the work, it's about life. Life is what's important, work is just an afterthought, methinks.
Can see your desire to hold off on a new thread. It's just kind of bugging me that we're still posting on the Independence Day challenge! Just a personal thing with me, I like to always be moving on to a new thing. Anyhow, I need to wait until someone feels moved to change the thread because I've started too many in my day and appeareth too pushy mayhap.
Extending a hand across something like 10 states (10?) to Anagramatic!!! I think there's a handshake smilie but I don't know what it is!
Ok, off to take nap and will report in journal thread tonight. I feel quite pumped that I made the decision to use the trainer again! Mayhap this is the pivotal thing for me at this juncture.
Huzzah!
Fortitude flows from one side of the continent to another in all directions and WE WILL SUCCEED (even if it's just success in holding the line)!!! Huzzah! I'm going to post this on the food thread also!! I'm going to gym and dentist later, but will be back later! Hocus pocus focus focus! 
In the meantime, no cake for any of use (me especially), ok?
Good Morning All!
I've got a coupon for a pedicure (that I got for my birthday last year 
) -- I should just go ahead and make an appointment. 
s!!!
Methinks a little cake may be in order just to keep body and soul together when dealing with nurses! 
Why don't we work out the details privately (for reasons of security and spam)?
