Hi Everyone,

I am going to REALLY try to check in every day. I get into WAY too much trouble without you gals. If I don't check in, I don't count my calories and you know what happens with that!

PT has me exercising again - makes me VERY happy! I hated not going to the gym every morning. Maybe I'll actually be able to get back on track.

Will have to wait for personals until course ends - after Italy trip. But, Georgia, stopping hair coloring is interesting. I stopped a few months ago. I still don't feel like I'm really me. Guess it will take some time to get used to.

Check back tomorrow.

Lynn

Morning everyone..its a beautiful sunny day here..i had a phone interview with the anch DR. nurse per my test results..my a1c was higher but i knew it would be for the bad food choices all winter,my cholesteral good and bad where fine,x-rays etc normal,ekg normal..so they where happy with wt loss,im to take vitamin D and iron as im deficient in those,keep up what im doing,and another check in a month..i need a phyc exam and to see a nutritionest,schedule once a month apt with my reg dr. for the next 6 months( a requierment of my ins company) sooo every things ago..Bobbie i got all excited when u said your dd was in Ely..i was born there,went to school there etc my home town..gosh its a small world..we are alone for the holidays too,in one way im sad and miss the tradition of grkids,egg hunts and family for a big meal..but then i think of all the work and think maybe being just us isnt so bad nahhhhh im missing tradition.. little kids high on sugar..wheres the "peeps"..ok last year i found sugar free peeps and i enjoyed..however diet candy has sorbital in it and sorbital is a laxative need i say more..hoping u all have agreat easter ((((hugs))) rosey

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!!! http://www.crosscards.com/cards/holi...r-preview.html

I favor traditions and hoping you all are enjoying yourselves today..we'll have a chicken dinner later today..theres not one chocolate bunny or egg in the house seems weird but its a good change..jess i did look at the exercises and printed them and will incorporate some of them into my work out..thankyou for sending them..ttfn (((hugs))) rosey

A quick good morning and I'm outta 'ere.
I have a bunch of hunting 'stuff' of DH to get packaged and mailed out to ebay buyers. His hunting gear sure sells well, got $80.00 for a small box of mounts for a gun. I had 8 things listed for him and wish he had more, Oh I love ebay!
Later I have to get out on the deck and chisel out the rabbit poop and debris from the cracks so DH can put a varnish on it. I can see why this thread gets lonely in the spring and summer, so much to do and so little time.
Have a beautiful day everyone.

Hello Chickies. We're at DS's house. Baby doesn't like me. He loves grandpa but doesn't want anything to do with me...sigh...We're going outside when he wakes from his nap and we'll see if he's attitude is any better.

I've got to run. DIL wants me to go shopping.

Good Morning everyone,

I hope everyone had a wondeerful Easter. We had our dinner on Saturday, which turned out pretty nice. No rushing around trying to get everythign together on Sunday. We planned dinner for 5 and hid the eggs outside at 4. Promptly at 4:30 it started to rain so we had to run outside and round up all the eggs and hid them in the basement. The kids still had a good time finding them. This year we only hunted eggs one time. Usually they want to hunt them MANY times. I guess they are just getting older.....way too fast.
Today is sunny and bright and warming up nicely. I already washed the bed clothes and a quilt that my mom made me. First time I have washed it and it came out really well. I was a little afraid to wash it. You never know with hand made.

Isabella, I'm sure baby will adore you. Just give him time to get used to you. What's not to love?

Everyone have a good day,

Freda

Hi again. Yes, Freda, a one year old is a fickle little creature. Haha. Can't wait until he's old enough for an Easter Egg Hunt.

The weather changed from this morning's sunny skies to gray, cold and overcast. Our outside plans changed. DS and DH went to the hardware store and DIL, Baby and I played at home. He was fine with me as soon as DH left the house until his mother left the room and then what a howling and wailing. You'd have thought he was being battered. But we did play on his little walker/rider toy till my back was almost ready to collapse. As soon as I'd stop pushing him he'd put up quite an argument for resuming the ride. He's gone to get a diaper change right now.

DH and I went for a walk this morning so we were the only ones to get out in the sun. The wind was cold but just great for walking.

DIL decided to bundle up the baby and take him out for a few minutes so I guess grandma will bundle up too. Catch you later.

Hi all,

I just wanted to let you know that I have given my notice as a moderator. After giving it a lot of thought, I know that I need to spend less time in front of the computer, and more time focusing on "real life".

It has been great getting to know you, and I wish each of you the very best.

Hmmmm. <looking around> So where have I been, anyway? Busy, I suppose. We had a pre-Easter dinner (which worked out well) at my daughter’s house with the whole family (except for my son, who is coming back to New England at the beginning of next month) and then had dinner with some friends on Sunday afternoon. That turned out to be much more time consuming than I had expected, and we didn’t get home until 10:00 Sunday night. As a result, I was dragging yesterday, big-time. Had to be at a meeting in Boston early on, and then back to the office for two more (superfluous) meetings. DH has really been dragging his feet (while I’m on the subject of dragging) on this closet expansion project, and I’m getting a little impatient and annoyed. My house has been upside down for a couple of weeks now – just because he is working on that. Slowly. An inch at a time. PLUS traffic on the ‘Pike has been an abomination over the past week or so, which doesn’t improve my humor any, trust me. We DID have a nice, sunny weekend – it’s still fairly sunny and warm (although we’re supposed to be getting some showers this afternoon) and TOMORROW it’s supposed to hit 80 degrees! Then, unfortunately, it’ll be back to more season-appropriate temperatures over this coming weekend – temps in the high 50’s, low 60’s. Blah. I’m leaving work at noon today to go back to Worcester to pick up my daughter and bring her into Boston to the airport – she’s flying down to Charlotte, NC for a professional conference. I wish I was going. I am strongly feeling the need to get away. Well, I will at the end of this month, but that seems very far away right now for some reason.
Bobbi, I simply don’t do well with daily weigh-ins; I can’t seem to wrap my brain around the idea that fluctuations are okay, and that fluids can account for several extra pounds in either direction. I tend to be VERY happy when I see a sudden drop, and then VERY miserable when I see a sudden gain. If I hold off long enough, I’m usually down enough so that the fluctuations don’t show up as much.
PT, I envy your serenity. I should be serene; I know I should, but I’m really fearful that I’m going to end up being one of those “difficult” (CRABBY) old ladies. I swear, everything (and sometimes everybody) gets on my last nerve these days. I’d dearly love to spend a week or two all by myself in some isolated cabin in the woods with no intrusions from the outside world. Maybe I’ll see if I can’t work something out and actually do it.
Gayle, I NEVER get all the stuff done that NEEDS getting done. Maybe that’s just the way life goes, d’ya think?
Karen, a lot of layering pieces are very simple to make. A lot don’t even require facings or buttons, or anything at all complicated. Do a Google search for “Lagenlook”. You’ll be surprised at how simplistic some of these things really are. It’s all in the layering and the textures of the fabric. I bet you could have a ball with this kind of sewing.
Isabella, babies at a year old are all very strange little creatures who sometimes want you to hold them desperately, and other times <ho hum> look at you as though to say, “You again? How dull…” My DH takes the twins’ sister to school every morning, so he gets to see the twins daily, while I only see them a few times a week. It really ANNOYS me when they put their arms up to him, all smiles, and look right past me, but sometimes they look past him and grin at me, instead. I think they just do it to keep us all off-balance…
Hi Freda, Hi Rosey…. and LYNN, hadn’t you better check in ??????
Happy post-Easter, one and all!

Z

Good Morning girls!
Our sunshine has left and it's dreary and ready to rain. I spent over 3 hours on our deck yesterday chiseling out dead pine needles and rabbit poop out of the cracks. DH was going to varnish it today but it'll have to wait.
Zoe...So you think you'll be like my favorite cartoon character, crabby Maxine? I love her I have the desktop daily calendar of Maxine and today she says, "I like spring. You tell someone to go fly a kite, and they actually do it!"

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I’d dearly love to spend a week or two all by myself in some isolated cabin in the woods with no intrusions from the outside world.

I second this motion, as you know we're both retired. Spending 24/7 with DH gets on my nerves sometimes. I look forward to myone hour section twice a week at our bone building class.
Jane...sorry to see you go, I could never be a moderator just because of that reason. Too much to do and I'm assuming you have to be glued to your computer. How many hours a day/night does it require?
Lynn...I need to print this statement out in large print and post on my refrigerator. I always, always slip back into the same bad routine if I don't keep checking in. Unfortunately I never learn.
Rosey...Good girl, you definely are making better choices. How's the exercises going?
Isabella...He's working ya, funny how they know exactly what they want at that age.

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As soon as I'd stop pushing him he'd put up quite an argument for resuming the ride.

Freda...bummer! We lucked out this year at church and all the eggs were placed outside for the kids. I didn't participate this year, it's too much bending over for me and many of the games they play afterwards kills my back. How'd you do on the choices you made for dinner?
I need to get some more packages out to the mailbox before the postman comes, I listed a whole bunch of costume jewelry on ebay a couple of days ago. I hope they sell as well as DH's hunting gear.
Have a great day.
Hi Karen, Jess and whoever I missed.

Good Morning girls,

Well, the beautiful was was nice while it lasted. It's dreary today and supposed to rain later. I'm glad I got so much done yesterday. I can work inside today. Lots of "organizing" to do.

Bobbi, I did ok, just Ok, with my eating for Easter. I really didn't over do though. And didn't have dessert. I made cherry pie and I don't especially like that. I've learned to be selective and to do that. Make things for DH that I don't especilly like. making things I like is just asking for trouble. I make enought things for a meal that are low cal that I have a good choice too. But auctually, most of the people that I had for dinner ate the low cal stuff and never had a clue. it went quite well.

Donna, Hope you get all your "stuff" done. It's a great feeling when you get every thing on your "to do" list done.

Z, we're alike that we like our alone time. Maybe because we never get any. A few weeks in a country cabin, or a cottage by the sea, would be my dream. Not going to happen, but nice to dream about.

Isabella, get any nice deals when you went shopping?

Freda