Debi-so sorry your sister in law felt the need to commit a cyber-rape. I hope she reads this because if I ever get to meet her, we can a have a nice long chat about legal boundaries. I like long chats. I especially used to like long chats with witnesses on the stand. I’ve suffered an identity theft at the hand of a family member, and remember how violated I felt. If I had to do over again, I’d now prosecute.

Worthapenny-They are still saying Thursday. The delay had something to do with the UPC bar code.

Julia-When marriage goes right, there is nothing to compare it to. When it goes bad, it stabs us to the core. You are right. The best present you can give your kids is a healthy, happy mom.

Bernice-Tell your son at Ft. Sill to avoid the wildlife refugee next door to the base when the elk are in rutting season. I got a little close once, and escaped by sliding down a ledge covered in cactus. That was an interesting trip to the ER.

Debbie-You’re going to do just fine. Being in the public eye can keep us on the straight and narrow. The boost to your self esteem can’t hurt either. As to water, you can always get a small hydration bag like marathon runners use, and wear it under your shirt. Attach the drinking tube to your bra strap (if you wear one of those torture devices). You could be like James Bond.

Annie-I’m ready to go. I’ve already got my red shirt on. Our team colors are green and yellow, but coke’s is red, and they own the concession stand, or the right to uniform us anyway. Red shirt, black pants, and a coca cola hat. Got to love a woman in uniform right. We made $18,000 last summer for the church. That’s a lot in an inner city church on the main prostitute drag.

Carol-Getting rid of fat clothes is hard. Imagine how hard it was for me to give my wheelchair to charity. The butterfly has to get rid of the cocoon.

Realist-I have 5 older brothers, so my dad taught me how to box at the age of 6 just to keep up. I never got as bad a beating as you did.

Julia-Everyone says my stuff is funny, but I just don’t see it. Although I do enjoy a good joke. I purposely put two small inconsistencies in the print in my book as a practical joke. It will be interesting to see how many people notice it. Most will think it is simply a typo, not on purpose.

Gaia-I have gotten myself into trouble over the years because of my fingers and toes. They are always getting stuck in places that other people would never think of putting their digits. There was an incident in kindergarten where my parents had to be called.

Annie-I can think of a lot of possible winter sports now. The falling icicle slalom, push the grocery cart through a foot of snow in the parking lot, or how about the ice slip and fall with points for most graceful. Hey they give points for style in diving.

I’m kicking back today to rest for the first game of the season. I wonder if Beckham or his spice girl will come down to buy one of my excellent hotdogs. I kind of doubt it, but I’ll be ready if they do.

Well I have decided she is still going to be able to track my posting on here. I can truly say i have never had a stalker before!! LOL
I am not going to let her ruin the progress i am making!! She would love nothing more than for me not to post here!! So i am still going to post and message people.Ihave changed my password and things so she cant get into my messages. I think she wants to see me fail at losing weight!! NOt sure why but I am not going to let her stop me!!!
sorry to rant!!!!!!!!!!! I feel so hurt by it and MAD!!!
Hubby said not to worry about it...its not like im having an online affair or something. SHE must be really bored to read all my postings and messages!!

dgramie-good for you! Keep Posting! We love your posts! Maybe she will learn something from all of us here. I consider all of you family here.
azcyn-sounds like a good mother's day. Your brother was nice to take the kids for a couple hours and give you a break.
Annie-hope you are feeling better today! Keep exercising, you are doing great!

Cleaning off table now. I think my daughter must be saving EVERY paper from school. Dog and cat spatting better go.

I am a nervous wreck over this mess!! I would love to go and eat!!! BUT I wont!! Like i dont have enough going on in my life without this mess!!! I finally told hubby about it and he got mad!! He has gone to take his mom to visit his sick aunt and he siad he might go see his sister! I told him to stay away from her!! I really dont trust her!! She use to be heavy and now is super thin........it was said that she was on drugs but we dont know for sure. I want to look healthy not sickly!!
penny- thank you for your support!!
catherine_ I may have to turn you loose on her!! I am not a fighter!! I get upset and cry to easily!

Greetings my Peeps!

I am making a recommittment today to drop refined sugars from my diet. They have gotten way out of control (as if "they" are an entity conspiring against me... or arrrrrre they? hehe). I got to ride my bicycle into work. The bike seat was a wee more saturated from all the rain than I expected.. oops! Good thing my all day training was done sitting down.

Catherine, your long, agile toes are too funny. I have short sausage toes. I CAN pinch with them, however. I think my sisters might remember the bruises they could make. I like your frozen hotdog dart competition for the new olympics! hehe. What a visual!!! You get extra points if you can ping one off an unsuspecting drunk to hit your intended target .. hehe.

Kayley, have fun getting DDR! I heard the Wii uses arms too and can be a lot of fun. The PS2 is cheap, but I don't think guitar hero works well on it or if rock band works on it. I'm not too happy with my xbox360 (even though it plays all of those), because if you accidently knock it, you scratch your disk into uselessness. All is not lost, however.. you can take scratched disk to a GameStop or similar place and they have professional buffing machines that can repair the disk (most of the time). Spinning.. well, I ride a bicycle at a fairly good clip, have padded shorts and it STILL killed me. It was a def a good workout, but stressed the foot that I had a surgery on last year way more than regular cycling. Since I love my bike, I'm not going to cause more injury by doing Spinning class. Now, saying that, my 75 yr old mom does Spin Class every Friday at 5am and loves it. Go figure. I say, try it out, set your own pace. See how it goes (and get padded shorts!).

dgramie, hang in there. Hugs to you for having to deal with yet another obstacle in your journey. Don't let it derail you!!

Cyn, great for going to the gym!!!

Hugs and love to all the strugglers and lurkers! You know who you are

Luv,
Rat

not to sound dumb but what is spinning???

Annie, how are you feelin' today? I hope better and it's not some kind of flu or something.
Thanks for the encouraging words too!

Kayley, it's a cashier job at Walmart. I know, not very glamorous but it's a start for me after not working for over 12 years. I think I'll like it though. It's something I've never done.

Debi, why in the world would she make that her business? Did you confront her with it? Man, that's just awful. Don't let it upset you too much though, okay? I think your sil needs to get a life! (Yeah, I said it. What are you gonna do about it sil????)

Penny, Yeah, leave the little sister there!! I'm sure your other daughter would be morified!

Catherine, you just crack me up! Thanks for that.

Ratkity, do you have one of those skinny little seats on your bike? I'm going for the large wide load one. I think if I got the skinny one, my butt would envelope it and people would think I'm just sitting on the pole the seat attaches to.

I called on Marilyn yesterday, (remember my dog I gave to the no kill shelter) and she's been adopted!!!!! I was so happy for her. She's someplace in the same town as I live in, I just hope she doesn't figure her way back here. I still miss her alot. Last Saturday we were out looking for plants and going to different people's houses that had plant sales, and we ended up going down the road that the shelter was on, and I wanted to go in and see her but Jim just told me it would make it even harder....so of course I ended up crying, but now I'm just so doggone happy for her. I hope she gets lots of love.
It's raining here today so won't be planting anything today. We are suppose to get up to 84 this week. That will be a shock. I'm glad I'll be basking in the air conditioning at Walmart.
Have a great day!
Debbie

Debi - was also thinking that invasion of privacy is cruel and you do have a right to be upset. But take it and make some good of it. Keep the emotions and energy and do something positive with it. I am learning that right now. nudge and wink! That power/energy today ended up cleaning the boys room and washing the boogers of the wall and clearing out some of the toys. But dont give her the power. Then she will exploit your raw feelings. Just like when I give my "not so DH" to much power to control how I feel. And the bad eating choices I make when I allow him to make me feel rotten and unworthy. You are an amazing woman and I am blessed to get to know you and call you friend. What is that saying about being able to pick your friends but not your family? Anyone know?

Dgramie – Oh my goodness, what an invasion of privacy! I’m so sorry hun. *hugs*

Worthapenny – (sorry, don’t know your name yet!!) I’ve gotten nearly everything finished. I have to print up some last minute things, and get everything packed up, and Thursday I’ll be cooking all the food, etc, and picking up the cake. Lol @ the “boy” friend. Hope all goes well, and she isn’t embaressed too much! Oh, I remember being like 15, and yelling at my mom….”He’s JUST A FRIEND!!!!” lol!

Cyn – It’s good to BE back. I truly have missed you all, and the support on this forum. Ooooh, I love Domino’s!! At least having a food allergy to it could be considered a blessing! No temptation! I go to the Y as well. I love it there.

Catherine – I will be super jealous if you meet Victoria Beckam! She was my favorite Spice Girl when I was younger.

Ratkitten – My friend has a PS2 & Guitar Hero + Rock Band. Maybe I’ll do that. I’m sure it’d be a lot cheaper! The only other incentive to buying the 360 is that my fiance has one, too, and I could borrow his games. (we don’t live together anymore….too expensive right now! Lol) Thanks for the advice on the Spinning class. I think I might just skip it.

Debbie – I used to be a cashier at Walmart. Definitely not glamorous, but you know, I really enjoyed it. I’m a very big (no pun intended) people person, and I love to talk! Lol. And I’m weird, and just liked to see what people bought. Working there is actually how I met my fiance. He worked there as well. Hope you like it!!

I’m feeling pretty good about myself today. I went to Walmart, and got a scale (finally!). Goes up to 400 lbs, so I definitely know that it’ll work for me. Lol. I also picked up some new fun jewelry on clearance, and some great sunglasses. And I’m wearing makeup for ONCE. Heh. Just feeling pretty today, which is rare for me.
Got a good workout in at the gym today. 45 mins strength training and 25 mins cardio;

Well, I must get back to work. My afternoon shift starts in about 35 mins, but I wanted to pop on here before I got too far behind! I’ll be back tonight.

julia-I know there is one about if people were flowers then i would pick you!

I am still in shock that she was able to break into my account.she does know alot of family history for me and said she tried several things before she got it right. She actually thinks its funny!
well the boys are ready to go outside and play

Debi - be glad you have a life - obviously your sil does not. I'd like to see her go toe to toe with anyone of us regarding this. I think she has sunk lower than low.

Trust me - we can take her. Hugs girlfriend.

As for me I am down another 1/2 pound. Slow and steady - right now I seem to be losing inches - normally I don't lose pounds and inches at the same time so at least I am seeing progress somewhere. I wore new clothes today - that fit - I will try to post pics later - but for now - back to the grind.

Hugs to everyone except the evil SIL.
Carol

Ok girls this is my last post...............


































TILL I GET BACK FROM SEEING MY SON!!!!!!!!
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just had to tease you all!

we are waiting on oldest DD to get here ....she had to work today so she is driving in (1 1/2 hours away) she is about 13miles out of town......so should be any minute!

I'm afraid I will not be able to catch up on personals during the trip......however will have a laptop with us so I might find a min or two here or there from the hotel room.
They have a pool & a gym so I plan to swim & workout!!! even if its at midnight! LOL

I checked my weight this morning.........now this is not an official weigh in........but I lost another pound!!! which brings me to 40lbs lost!!!!! So as long as I can maintain that loss till monday I will be estatic!!!!

ok chickies gotta get the car loaded up ready to take off when DD gets here.........we still have to drive 1hour south of us to pick up Son's girlfriend...........then start our 15hour trip!!! YICKS!!! LOL but its all good it will be well worth it!!!

LOVE YOU ALL!

Debi don't sweat the SIL...........(in case you are reading SIL stands for Sister In Law) ...........she was RUDE and STUPID to invade your privacy! Don't let her get you off track on your plan!!!! HUGS GF!

ttyl
Bernice

Luan: So sorry that spinning hurt you. Hugs.

Kayley: You are so beautiful! You looked pretty without make up too Hun.

Degrame: I am sickend by your SIL's behavior. What a a$$! Please don't leave here. Keep coming back and show her you have friends here. Hugs.

Battle Hi girl!

Catherine: I just wanted to tell you that I am honestly truly so proud of your efforts that you always give for God. Huge Hugs to you my friend! Also, I think I would be prertty good at the shopping cart in the snow! That really is a workout. I have done it many times since moving to Idaho. lol. I think I will pass on the ice slipping.

Debbie: Yippeeeeeee! I'm so happy that Marilyn got adopted. What a relief you must feel. So many dogs from shelters get such good homes so rest assured your Marilyn will have a happy and sadie fighting free life! Good luck to you at work sweetie.

Carol: Woohoo for getting down another 1/2 pound! I agree that it is so scary to get rid of clothes that are too big. I cleaned out my closet again yesterday and got all of the size 26 things out for someone else. I got into the many boxes of size 22/24 things that people have given me and tried on all the pants. They all fit so I brought those into my wardrobe. There are about 4 pairs of capri jeans and some white linen pants that would be so pretty for summer. There is a pair of black capri type pants too. Only thing is that I hate shirts to be short on me because of my huge tummy so that is an issue I am trying to get over.

DH went to his physical this morning. I am sooooo happy. He got a clean bill of health. He got some exercises for plantars and he talked to his new Dr. about a Visectomy. That honestly makes me sad. I always wanted kids soooo much and now, well, I am almost 42 and not able to have children until I am at least 18 months out of my surgery so I would be 43 or close to it before I was able to start having children. DH doesn't want children now saying he feels he is too old. He will be 44 in Oct. His Mom was 40 when he was born and his dad was 47 so his memories of his parents were of tired people. I know we can adopt and all but I just always wanted to have a child. I know that I will get over it and it is probably just because TOM is still not here and I am emotional. We have a happy life but I wish I would have tried harder to loose weight earlier in life so I could possibly have been a mom. I guess I am just grieving a bit. Okay, whine fest over now.

Hope you all have a wonderful op, water drinking day. Oh ya, DH and I just went and played Tennis. lol. WE stunk at it but we played for 30 minutes. Something I haven't done in 20 something years. It felt nice to not be too scared to try.

blessings all,
Annie

Kayley, good things to do happen at walmart, don't they? Especially meeting someone and falling in love. I wish you both the best in your life together. I'm nosy too, I like to see what they buy.

Debi, I still can't believe she even confessed to getting into your personal computer stuff. Amazing!

Carol, 1/2 pound is great progress, and to be honest, I would rather lose the inches. It shows alot faster!! Yay for the new clothes!

Bernice, have fun and let your son know that WE are also very proud of him!!!

Annie, YAY for hubby's clean bill of health. I bet that was such a relief for both of you. You know, you're not really too old to have children. Look at all the stars having children later in life. Whichever you two decide, make sure it's right for BOTH of you. You don't want to have regrets later. I had one son, and so many times I wish I had of had more. Mainly for him, to have had someone else to play with and grow up with and maybe even a little sister to protect....but God knows best.
Sounds like you have a whole new wardrobe with all the clothes that you've got. Feels so good to get into smaller sizes, doesn't it?

I'm doing terrible at eating today. I think I'm nervous about going to work and I'm making terrible decisions about food. I'm panicking about packing my lunch and water. I don't want to have to be running back and forth to the bathroom while trying to do my job. Help, I'm stressing!!!
Debbie

I wish a safe journey to Dmpls!! Have a great time!!

Annie, you are rocking girl. I have to wear long shirts too cuz of my hated tummy. Good news about DH's clean bill of health. BTW, a vasectomy takes a while to take effect. There's still leetle swimmers that escape at first. hehe. Sorry for WTMI.. eep!

Deb, you'll do fine at your new job! It's not my lunch packing I have trouble with, it's the availablity of bad snacks in the vending machines that get me. Bah.

Hugs to all,
Ratkat