Good Morning all - quick creaky fly by here. I think I overdid a bit last night on the exercise front. Lots of water and some advil for me today - hopefully my trainer won't decide to do her last chance workout on me tonight.

Keep on making those good choices, drinking your water and moving your body.

Carol

Debi -- Glad to hear you have power back!

Barb -- I did get two workouts in, but don't feel jealous of my hubby. I wanted us to workout together, but hubby was grumpy and we worked out separately! :lol: Men ARE difficult!

Angela -- Thanks for the kind words about maintaining, and you're absolutely right! But I'm not as strong as I was a year ago. I can feel the extra 20 pounds quite a bit. Funny I never noticed the extra 100+ pounds in the same way I notice these 20. I guess I wasn't trying to use my body then. Plus, there are all these cute clothes I can't wear anymore!

Terri - :hug: I am so very sorry!

Debi - Glad to hear your power is back. Stay warm!

Heather - I know exactly what you mean about feeling those 20 lbs! I feel the 30 I regained more than I'd have thought possible and I can't believe I even functioned 70 lbs higher than this!

Ate too much last night and dipped into the 35 flex points for the week. Didn't work out again this morning! I'm not getting to bed early enough and not getting up early enough to work out. :no: But I WILL work out tonight!

Such is life........
 

It's 7 degrees today.

I overslept.

I have only one hearing, and it is not in-person.

I'm wearing very little makeup and the MOST casual outfit I EVER wear to the office when it's not casual Friday.

My cords are too big, rumpled and I wore tights underneath that they stick to.

I'm wearing hiking boots.
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So of course, the director just popped in to tell me they'll interview me this afternoon. :p HA!

It's almost funny. :rolleyes: I shopped for TWO DAYS to have interview-appropriate clothing. I was casual yesterday too, but it was nice slacks and a gray sweater, business-casual, but not bad. And then today I'm a slob. :no: I just keep shaking my head.

Lilion -- Good grief, but life is funny sometimes! Good luck on the interview!

I just saw one of the interviewers leaving. Maybe I'll get lucky and he won't come back. :lol:

What a waste of time. :rolleyes: It lasted about 5 minutes - just long enough for me to find out it was a $5,000 pay CUT from what I'm paid now. I'm the highest paid employee in the office that isn't a manager. In fact, I'm paid more than some of the managers...most of them, in fact. (Which is kind of sad, given that I'm just not paid that much! - Missouri state employees pay is nearly the lowest in the nation.)

Let's hope they don't figure out that they can fire me and hire 1 1/2 more employees at the same salary.

Back to me unexciting but relatively highly paid job.

TERRI, I'm so sorry about Spice. Now she's crossed the Bridge and you can think of her healthy again and running free in fields of flowers waiting for you.

I'm feeling a little punk tonight - I didn't get to the gym tonight even - a rarity. Seems like a good night to head to bed early.

Popping in for a quickie hello! :wave:

Good day here. Busy as always. Still having trouble getting a lil guy to bed at night so I've started brining my laptop upstairs and working/surfing while constantly shooing him back to bed. Of course it means hubby and I don't see each other at night because he's in the basement playing computer games.

Had a fun night at the gym. I love that I've become a regular at the gym. It's so much fun to have people to talk to when I go in there. Tonight I spent some time practicing on the speed bag. I tried it a couple days ago and it was pretty bad and then I found a how to video on YouTube which really helped me out. Fun stuff.

Debi - YAY for power!!!!!

Heather - Hey...at least your hubby worked out! The only workout mine gets is playing on the computer all night and climbing 2 flights of stairs to fall in bed. :p

Lilion - Ugh! Crazy work stuff. :dizzy:

Judy - HEY GIRL! Don't be a stranger! :hug:

gggirls - Feel better!!! :^:

Gotta bolt for now. Later Friends!
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Thanks gals for all the kind words. I'm slowly coming out of shock. I stopped and talked to the vet yesterday and he was just stunned too. He suspects that she had some form of a congenital problem that was what caused her to stop growing and then eventually going downhill. Perhaps a hole in her heart. You just don't think of those things in a horse.

I've got my stuff for the fitness center tonight. Even though I just want to go home and lay on the couch; that won't do any good. And I've got to keep focused on studying if I'm going to take this test at the end of February.

Judy - DH and I talked about the bridge. Now we've got Bear chasing and barking at Ginger and Spice waiting for us and all of them are healed and healthy. :)

Lilion - I admit that I had to laugh yesterday about your post. Life can be mean sometimes. Those things happen to me too. Too bad about the pay difference.

I've got to get focused and busy. :wave: to all!

Hi everyone -- I'm feeling for Lilion's interview... and I'm glad to hear Terri is coming out of shock. Tough.

Today I got my license renewed. I got to tell the guy who asked if everything was the same that I had lost weight! The old weight on the license was 220. Now it reads 170. That would be great to get to -- I was almost there before!

Heather - what a feeling that must have been with your license.

Terri - glad to see you.

Lilion - timing is everything isn't it. Sounds like it worked out best for you anyway.

Barb - thanks - doing good here today. I think I overdid my exercise on Monday night - thought I was superwoman - did 3 miles, then an hour of yoga and then 30 minutes of aerobics. My bones and joints felt pretty darned creaky. Two days off in a row - a first for me in 2009.

Tonight is a new recipe that shouldn't take more than 5 minutes to prepare - if it works out I'll share it. I need quick meals during the week.

We are down to single digits until vacation - I'm having trouble focusing thinking of the fun in the sun.

Keep on making good choices, moving, and drinking your water.

Hugs,
Carol

Popping in for a super quick hello! :wave: I have a ton to do before bed and I'm leaving in the morning for a quickie biz trip to the Boston area. I'll be back Friday afternoon. Catch ya'll later!

Keep on doing your thang...you know, the good stuff...food, exercise, water! :carrot:

I am really struggling!! Cant seem to get my mind focused back on me. I am back to work today so maybe i can get back on plan today. Scales are not looking good..they told me to get off this morning...I was to heavy!! At this rate my dress wont fit for the wedding!!
my goals for today...water...plan my food ahead of time and try to get some exercise in.