Happy Frrrrrrrrrrrriday Ladies
Sandye ~ Friday challenges sound good to me, or whatever, or whenever. Anything that keeps me up and active...I'm all for it. So what cha thinking?
Tummy ~ Bat wings...erm..I'd rather have a batarang. So what's on the agenda for the weekend?
NSM ~ Ah a PC gamer ..eh? Really that's the best way to go. I can't do it though. It just seems a bit unnatural to play a shooter with a keyboard and mouse. I know how ya feel though, because it has robbed many hours of my life from me...and probably many, many more.
Jessica ~ on that twenty pounds.
MsP ~ I don't know how I forgot to mention that you look fanfreakintastic in your new picture. Wow..you just look great!
And to the new comers...
Well, I'm off to eat and get both of my workouts in. Dang weight is doing the whole fluctuation thing again. It's weird how these humps to another decade are like that. You body gives you the decade, then taketh away, then giveth,...and then taketh away. It's enough to drive a sane person batty...good thing I am no where near sane...eh? At any rate, the weekend is upon us and I have another Saturday as my day off...pretty neato actually. Well gotta run, I'll try to check in later.
I can't recall who asked, but mom's surgery is tomorrow (Friday). It should all go well.
What kind of surgery? My mom just had both knees replaced and is doing amazing!!! Hope all goes well for your mom!!!
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jacque- I know this is a few days late, but I am diggin the new pic!
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Jacque9999 Hope you are having a fantastic day!
As for me today. I finally got some sleep can't believe it I slept 10 hours last night. I guess my body was just exhausted I guess I was close to LOL... I am feeling much better and hopefully I will be back on schedule.
and your body must have been exhausted. Now maybe you will be caught up. I used to have such bad sleeping problems it drove me crazy!!!
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My my my!!!
I turn my back for a few hours and this place has exploded!
I know what you mean!!! What a chatty bunch!!! I can't keep up!!
CanadianCutie, layddi and slimmercindy
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Well, I'm off to eat and get both of my workouts in. Dang weight is doing the whole fluctuation thing again. It's weird how these humps to another decade are like that. You body gives you the decade, then taketh away, then giveth,...and then taketh away. It's enough to drive a sane person batty...good thing I am no where near sane...eh? At any rate, the weekend is upon us and I have another Saturday as my day off...pretty neato actually. Well gotta run, I'll try to check in later.
I missed it!!! Just noticed you are in the 170's!!!YOU'RE AWESOME!!!
Good morning chickies, and HAPPY FRIDAY! On my way out the door, but just had to share. Since starting this journey on July 1 at 186, I made it to 175.8 on August 20. For two weeks I have been gaining and losing the same pound. Well, today, I am 175.0! I'll be back for personals tonight. Have a great day!
Gooooooooooooooood Morning and Happy FRIDAY Ladies!!! Woo hoo! The week is almost over! Oh I am soooo looking forward to the weekend!!!
Bootsie~ gotta love dancing while house cleaning!! Only ones who see me doing that are my girls and the only ask me to stop dancing once in a blue moon so I guess I'm not scarring them for life or anything yet. Ah, now kickboxing is something I have yet to try. I did the Tae Bo thing a long time ago, but as far as a real kickboxing class -- haven't gotten a chance to try it. Maybe one of these days. Yoga has always intrigued me, but until I can figure out a way to squeeze it in without the kids--I doubt I'll try it. Somehow I don't think yoga is supposed to be interrupted 100 times and cause stress.
Molly~ oh Fall is definitely my favorite time of year and I am so excited that it's just around the corner! I'm really looking forward to doing some running in the crisp Fall air!! I'm getting all giddy just thinking about it!!! Sorry to hear your soda withdrawals are making you feel icky. Keep up the great work though, you'll get through it soon. Be sure to drink lots of water and try to stay OP throughout so you don't end up having to make up lost ground, kwim? Your walk through the park plan sounds lovely! Hope you were able to get it in!!!
Delphi~ Let's see, Friday Challenge...um...I dunno...purge and organize every room in the house maybe? Seriously, I feel so far behind! School started and everything went to pot. I need to just buckle down and get stuff done! Instead, I'm hanging out here spending an hour writing replies and then I'm off checking the other boards! Sheesh, healthy living sure has it's drawbacks huh? Seriously though, I think I need to establish a little balance ya know? I love this group so much so I'm definitely not giving it up, but I need to quit checking in so often I think. We'll see. Okay, anyway, I'm with ya on the new decade stuff! I was up over a lb yesterday and thankfully all but .4 is gone today, but it seems to me that whenever I'm getting ready to enter a new decade my body likes to tease me with losses and gains. Whatever--I'll just keep fighting the good fight as you always say! As for today--I will be tackling the new upstairs playroom. It was the boys bedroom so there's tons of stuff in there already and I need to organize everything! Not looking forward to it at all. Plus, the kitchen is a wreck and there's general tidying to do...ugh...
Jacque~ glad to hear your mom is doing so well! How's the vacation going?
Mom~ WOO HOO ON THE PANTIES!!!! See? I TOLD you! I TOLD you you'd see a drop!!! 175!!! Yee haw!!!! Now that's awesome!!!! I'm so happy for you and proud as all get out too!!! You have really done such a fantastic job of sticking it out through all the ups and downs last month! And all while exercising and eating healthy!!! You're awesome!!!!!
Oh, btw, for all you newbies--Latetothegame (LTTG) is my Mom!!
Okay girlies, well here it is, Friday! Whew! It's been a busy week and I'm really looking forward to a long weekend! We don't have any major plans, but a trip to Sears to buy paint is planned for tomorrow and then on Sunday we're hitting an apple orchard and Monday...I don't know, maybe a BBQ? A friend of mine is going to be in town for her hubby's HS reunion and we're supposed to meet up, but I haven't heard from her so I need to call her. I haven't seen her since right after Katrina when we headed our separate ways to different states. I'm super excited to see her!
I've gotten rid of almost all the weight I gained yesterday, just .4 to go to be at my ticker weight. I think I might just hold off on updating my tickers until it sticks for a couple of days from now on, I feel like lying or something.
Alrighty girls, well, avoiding the playroom isn't going to get it organized is it? I guess I should suck it up and get to it. Sigh...I don't wanna! Delphi, I need you! Come over and me into gear!!! Have a great day girls and don't forget to...
Just a quick note to wish everyone a happy & safe holiday weekend. We'll be traveling to help my parents at a festival all weekend. Hopefully I'll be too busy to partake in the yummy fair style food goodies.
Oh, and back down a bit, 183.2! Wahoo!!! Haven't been to the low 180's in over a year. SO close to 170's ! Can't wait!
LTTG ~ on the panties girlfriend. Way to stick it out to. Our hard work does indeed pay dividends my dear. Good job!
Sandye ~ Get your butt in gear and get that room clean. I bet you can't do it in under three hours...what ya say? Can ya do it..huh..huh? Get to it. Unfortunately, I have squat to do..house is tidy, finished all the laundry yesterday...and just mopped the floors...sooooo, can I come over and help you? I hear ya on the boards. I was so active around the entire site, I finally had to narrow it down to just our two challenge threads. I was spending too much time on the site. You just have to find that balance sweetie.
Newshinyme - My b-days on November 7th so it's not that far away. I'm sure I can make it.
iDream Honestly right now I don't think I will ever stop loving takeout and fast food but I going give it more than my best to stay away at least until November and who knows maybe your right and by that time my attitude will change.
Nella - Congrats on the loss
menu from yesterday
B- scrambled eggs with mozzarella cheese, wheat bread with fruit jam
S- peaches and cottage cheese
L- turkey sandwich with lettuce, tomato and mustard, cinnamon apple sauce, 4 strawberries and craisens
S- orange and a glass of V8
D- Chili made with ground turkey topped with sour cream and shredded Mexican cheese
water- 8 glasses
Here you guys are!!! I was still posting over on the August one!!lol
Delphi: You made me laff the Decade be Giveth, the Decade be Taken away... the fluctuations frustrate me too. HOpe you get your workouts in and YAYYYY for you having a saturday off!!!
Jacque: You are just way to chipper that early in the morning!!lol
LatetotheGame: YAYYYY for ditching that final lb!! Enjoy your weekend!
iDream: I have already had over 30oz of water.. are you proud of me?lol I hope you get to do the Reunion! And BBQ sounds fun too! Good Job on getting back down to "almost" ticker weight! Enjoy your weekend.
Nella: Good job on being near the 170s! I am aiming for that also! Enjoy your long weekend!
Butterfly: Good Meal plan!! I should start doing that more. I keep it in my head.. .but it doesn't really keep me accountable as i can always "forget' the slipups. I hope you enjoy the weekend!
This weekend is filled with meetings for today and tomorrow with publisher, agent and marketing guys. They don't believe in holidays. Sunday I get to go sailing on my friend's new sailboat. UP the Niagara River!! WOOHOO...
Nella~ stay strong this weekend amid all the fair goodies!! Congrats on getting into the low 180's! That's fuel for the motivational fire for sure!
Delphi~ HECK YA you can come over!!! Want me to give you directions? 3 hours??? Uh...you haven't seen this room have you? It's 20X25 and filled to the brim with all the boys stuff, plus hundreds of books and an insane amount of toys! Thankfully this is the same room that I went through at the beginning of the summer, so it's more organized than before, but when we put the girls' playhouse together up there, things got taken out and left all over by the girls (and the boys too). Anyway, I need to not only clean/organize but re-arrange as well--better be worth some calories!! So 3 hours...I'll see. Oh, in case you're wondering why I'm not doing it already--I'm just taking a break for my morning snack and I just finished cleaning the kitchen!
ButterflyDiva~ yeah, I thought the same thing about chocolate and all things baked (I'm a huge baker and love, love, love that stuff!) but now, well, let's just say that there's a package of Hershey bars in my cabinet that have been there for months and I haven't so much as given them a thought (well, until I wrote this that is ) and I've baked a few batches of muffins and I've maybe had 2 out of dozens of muffins. You might surprise yourself girlie! Your menu sounds delish once again! Yummy!
Hotsplashes~ I AM proud of you! But, I've got in 64oz so come and catch me!!! Sorry to hear your weekend won't be spent relaxing! Darn marketing guys!!! Have a great time on the new sailboat though, that sounds like fun!!!
Okay girls, got the kitchen clean and now my break is over! Time to get my butt moving before Delphi comes and beats me!!! (although I sure wouldn't mind a visit from her! )
All you cleaning, organizing chickies are getting me motivated- my apartment is a disaster! I know I'll feel better when its clean, so this afternoon, that's my agenda. I'm supposed to take the day off of work today (because the last 2 weeks have been INSANE, long hours, working on the weekends... hence, the sty that is my apartment) but I am going in to meet with the bookkeeper and do some house cleaning there. Still, a short day, and a long weekend!
I plan to go shopping for a dress for my brother's wedding, which is in 2 weeks! Unfortunately, TOM came yesterday, and I feel really bloated and tired. I went up 5 pounds yesterday, from the morning to the evening, with my usual diet and all! I'm back down to normal this morning, but i'm not ready to sing "I Feel Pretty!" But keeping on plan, eating wise, and drinking lots of water.
pucedaisy ~ Hehe, my rendition of I Feel Pretty is super awesome I tell ya... Good luck with the cleaning to.
Sandye ~ You can do it love. Just think of all those calories you will be burning. Man I sure wish I could come over...that would be grrrrrrrreat! Alas, I am stuck in Mayberry and Elvis has left the building. Can't wait to hear how good you feel after you have finished it today. So chop chop dahhhhhhling!
hotsplashes ~ Have fun on the sailboat..that sounds exciting. I'm so envious!
diva ~ Menu looks good today.
Well, as for me, I'M SO BORED! Sandye and I have been doing these cleaning challenges for months, and I've just about cleaned and reorganized everything until there is literally nothing left to do..but repaint or remodel.. Oh well, I guess I'll just relax a little and if I can steal the TV..perhaps some DDR or RB.
Good morning everyone. Well TOM is in full force today. I woke up STARVING! I mean like really strong hunger pangs. Usually hunger pangs like this happen to me like an hour before lunch or in the late afternoon before dinner time. I never wake up this hungry. I needed some protein I decided so I switched my breakfast and lunch meals to accomodate that. I had my catfish and brown rice for breakfast and I will eat my fruit/yogurt/granola for lunch. I am feeling fat and happy now. I'm up a couple lbs but I think/hope that its because of TOM and the hotdogs I ate yesterday for lunch. I'm going to drink lots of water today. Its only 8:30am here and I have already had like 32oz. I was going to take pics last night but after we finished everything we had to get done for the day it was almost 9 and we were exhausted. I will get on it this weekend though. So now I'm just waiting for this work day to end as we are getting into the long weekend. One of my oldest friends is in town this weekend so that should be lots of fun. I'm going out tonight (girls night) with another one of my local friend's. I can't wait...its been a while. I will be back later for personals, hope everyone is having a wonderful Friday.
Morning!
It's going to be so much easier to catch up to 2 pages of posts. Yay!
I am determined to make today a productive one. Need to go stock up on veggies and do lots of packing. Hopefully I can clear out my living room enough to make space to do some sort of working out, it's kind of tough in a little one bedroom apt.
Sandye: Oh aren't you a smart cookie! My journaling station is still a fantasy in my head, hopefully I will actually make it happen. Oh, good luck with that playroom thing, sounds like a joy
MissMallee: So, did you make it to the park?
Delphi: Oh no! You'd better let the Darth Scale who's boss, maybe with a light saber? So what's the cleaning challenge for today?
LTTG: Woo hoo!
Nella: Thanks, have a safe trip and take some with you!
hotsplashes: Here we are, as crazy as ever!
ButterflyDiva: I am with Sandye. You can totally stop craving that stuff if you stay away from it long enough. It won't even taste good to you afterwards
pucedaisy: There seems to be a thing with the board where Sandye and Delphi keep challenging each other to cleaning and organizing -specially on Fridays- and then some of us jump on it just for fun. So join right in. I don't even attempt to keep up with them 'cause those two are insane, but they sure motivate me
Shasha: Yeah, I am sure it's all water. TOM is the I say. Just keep at it and you'll have a nice surprise at the end of it. Have fun with your friend and girl's night out.
Allrighty, all done and it wasn't even an hour I guess I will go shower now and then get going with all the plans for the day. Catch ya later homies!
I just closed rather than minimized my personals so here's the shorter, less witty version...
FSA - enjoy that dh of yours
Shasha - I don't know 290 to 247 sure sounds like a lot to me! And can't wait for those pictures, yeha! Enjoy your girlie time.
ButterflyDiva - Your very welcome, we are a great support and an intervetion squad when the need arises, anything to help.
Canadian Cuite - Welcome! It's so nice having another cutie from "up north" round here, we are slowly taking over, hehe.
Dcapulet - Your very welcome and glad those pants are falling off, involuntary nudity, awesome job!
Layddi - Welcome to the challenge, it's never too late. And for that labour day goal you can do it if you want it bad enough!
Slimmercindy - Welcome to you too, and onederland, awesome goal, look forward to celebrating that with you!
NSM - The more the merrier, I took before pics so I might just be able to convince you after I get all shredded out, LOL, ok back to reality, less giggly is more like it but it will be interesting to see the comparison anyway. And depending on how clueless my dh is I might have a cooler for sale pretty soon if anyone is interested?
Sandye - LOL, boobies boobies! Sorry sometimes when I think of my 15 months breastfeeding I just blurt that out. I can't imagine that 4x over, ouch! I did already offer it to NSM but I may have a slightly used cooler for sale soon if you need one I'm really excited about being done something else, we should all get big exercise lists and just start checking off stuff we never thought we'd do, run for 30 minutes, run a 5k, finish a HIIT program and on and on. And I really was thinking that I would drop the HIIT once I finished and just stick to the running and the p90x but you know the more I think about it the more I might leave it and see how it goes. I have tons of energy right through all the workouts and I don't want to drop it just b/c. How nice to see an old friend, some nuch needed girl time I would imagine. you didn't have your girls weekend either, so enjoy yourself!
Bootsie - Variety is the spice o'life for sure. I'm a big fan of all those worlouts too and it keeps those muscles guessing!
Miss Mallee - Your very welcome. It makes you wonder all what garbage is in that soda cuz it sure is hard getting off it and you never hear of ppl having broccoli withdrawal. Good for you sticking it out!
Delphi - Well if I had a choice I'm in for the batmobile, dream big, right? But since it seems that I don't I'll take untoned tricep flab. But maybe batman himself, ahhh, that's the ticket! Ok so enough of my fantasy life (we've been playing too much arkham asylum,can you tell?) We're just doing the same old stuff we always do, sleep, eat, play with baby, workout, eat, reapeat. Dh is working for the next seven so we're in a weekday mode and yesterday was more the weekend round here. Do you guys have any big plans down there? Ok, so don't go removing walls or anything, lol, I can't wait for the day you post a picture of you with a slughammer.
LTTG - Well all be darned look at you! all 175 and stuff, congrats and way to stick it out, i'm super proud of you, that took some grit.
Nella - Congrats on the drop and enjoy yourself this weekend!
Hotsplashes - Yup for some of us long weekends are just a time when the stores aren't open on Monday. Enjoy that tiem on the river, how beautiful.
Pucedaisy - Yeha for the extra days off, it sure is nice when everythign is all tidy and such but it's a full time job on it's own. Enjoy looking awesome in that new dress, at least TOM will be long gone when you get to wear that fab new dress out and about.
We headed into town last night to do some grocery shopping for the week, does anyone else need five more crispers in their fridge? I'm shoving fruits and veggies everywhere. But we're all stocked up minus a few odds and ends that I will have to get closer to home.
We had a wicked storm last night, lost power all that jazz which continued right through till about 8am today. So I wasn't "allowed" to go running. DH said he would handcuff me to the bed if I tried, "insert naughty joke here." But with lightening I dont' venture out either. So I'm going to head downstairs to do HIIT today and do running tomorrow. I know Sandye I'm not supposed to do it two days in a row but I'm gonna anyway . It's still black as all get out around here, it looks like 10 at night but hopefully the worst is over.
Sort of stayed the same today 173.2. It was orignally 172.8 then right before I got off it went up a bit to the 173.2, so we'll call it even for today and see what tomorrow brings. Gotta run, later chickies.
Pucedaisy~ Ahhh, stupid TOM showing up right when you have to shop for dresses! Argh! Well, on the bright side, at least he'll be gone by the time your brother's wedding rolls around! Have fun cleaning--I know I am! NOT!!!
Delphi~ okay, so here's the deal: I went up there and decided to clean everything off the floor, put the books away and all the toys that were scattered everywhere and empty the room of things that don't belong there, oh and clean the closet too. Once I got that done I called it a day. The floor is pristine and everything is where it should be. That's not to say the room is finished--I need to reorganize it all, move furniture and find a new place for all the stuff on the desk that I'm going to smash to bits with a sledge hammer (the previous owner left it here and I loathe it!)--but I figured I could use hubby's and the boys' help since it's not MY stuff in there ya know? However, I can now walk by the room without feeling the urge to scream! One of these days we're going to have to plan a meet up ya know! I would love to meet all the great girls in this group! Can you imagine what a blast that would be? The lot of us all holed up in a hotel chatting until the sun came up at which time you and I would bust out the bugles and wake everyone up for our work out!!! Yeah, that'd be cool!!!
Shasha~ aww, man, TOM is such a jerk! Sorry he's messing with your appetite! Good thinking eating more protein, that'll take care of those hungries!! Have a great time tonight and also visiting with your friend! WTG on that water girlie! You're makin' me proud!!
NSM~ Yo yo homegirl!! Who you callin' crazy yo? Me and my homie Delphi? Yeah, you got that right! Hahahaha! Oh I'm so gangsta aren't I? Good luck with the clearing out stuff! I am very lucky to have a basement for the treadmill otherwise it would be smack dab in the middle of the living room or play room! I seriously need to tackle the basement though--it's horrific! And to think it was all sparkly clean in January! Hmph! Oh well, I'll get it done even if Delphi does have to kick my but all the way!!!
Well girls, I got the new play room as clean as I needed it to be to prevent me tossing every last thing out the window. It's waaaaaaaaaaaay better than before. Saving all the heavy lifting for hubby and the organizing and purging to the boys since it is their stuff after all. Just finishing up my lunch now (my yummy pita pizza) and next I'll tackle some of the Goodwill stuff. Oh, and then there's laundry...always laundry.
So what's on the agenda for the weekend?
on that twenty pounds.
to the new comers...
LOL... I am feeling much better and hopefully I will be back on schedule.
On my way out the door, but just had to share. Since starting this journey on July 1 at 186, I made it to 175.8 on August 20. For two weeks I have been gaining and losing the same pound. Well, today, I am 175.0!
Only ones who see me doing that are my girls and the only ask me to stop dancing once in a blue moon so I guess I'm not scarring them for life or anything yet. 
We'll see. Okay, anyway, I'm with ya on the new decade stuff! I was up over a lb yesterday and thankfully all but .4 is gone today, but it seems to me that whenever I'm getting ready to enter a new decade my body likes to tease me with losses and gains. Whatever--I'll just keep fighting the good fight as you always say! 
It was the boys bedroom so there's tons of stuff in there already and I need to organize everything! Not looking forward to it at all. Plus, the kitchen is a wreck and there's general tidying to do...ugh...
Yee haw!!!! Now that's awesome!!!! I'm so happy for you and proud as all get out too!!! You have really done such a fantastic job of sticking it out through all the ups and downs last month! And all while exercising and eating healthy!!! 
You're awesome!!!!! 
me into gear!!! 
on the panties girlfriend. Way to stick it out to. Our hard work does indeed pay dividends my dear. 
with you!
I say. Just keep at it and you'll have a nice surprise at the end of it. Have fun with your friend and girl's night out.
. It's still black as all get out around here, it looks like 10 at night but hopefully the worst is over. 
at which time you and I would bust out the bugles and wake everyone up for our work out!!! 