Lauren...I didnt even realize that was you cause you changed your avatar...I am so used to seeing the other one and knowing its you...LOL...my kids liked yours though!!

Where is everyone....No one has wrote anything...How awful...ok back to real life for me...lata

I'm here.

It's kinda back to the grind today. I had class this morning and I've been running some errands. I'm so bitter about this class that it shocks me. I've never experience this hatred for learning or doing homework before. I'm not sure if I'm lazy or what it is. It's strange.

Tonight is pool and we play at this place that has the best greasy spoon type food in town. Terrible, I know, but it's great. Obviously the diet is still out the window.

I just bought 6 new kitchen chairs on a whim. (Yes, I'm still broke.) Ours are falling apart and these were on sale for $39 each, down from $120. I REALLY need them or I wouldn't have. I'm always afraid to invite people over b/c ours are in such bad shape.

Well, gotta run and get ready for pool tonight. Wish me luck!

Mo4 I love rainbow I took the picture for my last assignment and figured it might help lighten my moods (and maybe other peoples)

Glad your kids liked it too !

Hope I felt like that last year, I think finding it difficult to deal with people and having to face classes made me actually hate photography which has been until then a huge passion. Is it maybe something just linked with the classes that is putting you off?

Good question Spoz. It may be when I started this I was told you could make a lot of money in a small amount of time. Then in the second class we were informed that the guy doing the hiring may not be paying the bonus at the end for each return that you do. That would mean I'd only be making a retail type hourly rate. I was pissed! to say the least. I mean I could just get a part time job anywhere and not have to study anything and make that type of money. I'm sure that's a part of it.

It always seems that whatever I do that is supposed to pay well turns out not to. That really just burst my bubble and I've been bitter ever since. I'll have to see what the guy decides to pay. I also just don't learn as quickly as I used to and can't concentrate as well.

Thanks for letting me vent on this again.

By the way I lost at pool tonight but I'm ok with it. I think the guy that I played really needed to win and I could tell it made him feel good, not in an egotistical way, just that it lifted his spirits and he enjoyed himself. I felt good for him.

night night all

Just popping in to say Hi!!
Had to work the last couple of days.
Take care everyone,
K

today i actually held myself together and i am proud. honestly, i swear AM coffee makes me happier and more pleasant.

tomorrow is a looooong day for me - work and meetings and class and no free time. Sometimes not having that free time is actually better for me, because I can't stop to think or get down on myself. I'll just have to see how it goes! and make sure to make some coffee first thing!

Well - I'm gonna jump in here & first off say Hi! to Lauren & Iris too!

Sassy Chick-Your hubby & my hubby should get together!!! LOL ... the last 2 weeks I've been in a real bad funk (family stuff) and have just been eating and eating and eating & gained 8 lbs. He's a great guy, very loving & supportive, but everyday - he'd bring me home my favorite cheezies, ice cream etc. to cheer me up! We've been through this discussion before & apparently, it hasn't worked. In the end, no one but me is responsible for what I put in my mouth. Yep, when I'm tired, depressed, I'll eat whatever is in the house until it's all gone (regardless of how big my butt is getting) - chalk it all up to a lesson learned I guess.

So, I'm going to do some things to help keep me focused:

1. put stickies up around the house (bathroom mirror, closet door, kitchen cupboard, fridge etc) reminding me of why I want/need to lose weight ie. health, pretty clothes & pencil skirts, happier, more energy
2. go to bed earlier b/c the later it gets in the night - I want eat (boredom maybe?)
3. chew gum - I'm an ex-smoker 11 yrs, and still have cravings, hand-to-mouth habit etc.

Someone put in their signature "every choice has a consequence" & it stuck in my head.

Good luck!

Yes Sassy we love you even if you talk alot...LOL....I like it cause then I am not the only one that talks to much here!!! LOL....Oh yeah Winnie...like WINNIE THE POOH....THAT POOR COW..I am gonna turn you in for animal cruelty...animal mental abuse calling that thing winnie the pooh...
Ginger sounds ok...but we're not naming the cow after a bear or a veggy....(i think pumpkins are veggies?? I dont know..hmm) ANYWAYS.... what about pookie...LOL....its not a spice, another animal name, fruit or veggy......??? Ok well catch you lata!!!

wow the forum this week is going slow...I had the night munchies kinda...haven't gotten them much so that is weird. Well anyways so I grabbed the Calulfower..however you spell it....and the light dip and im munching on it. I have chocolate but not much of a candy person unless I am in the mood...ok well that is it I gotta get to bed...lata

Does anyone know what ever happened to April99? Keatherwood? Lynnie? Liz? Kempy? Was wandering around in the FOrum bios....

Hi All,

Well I am off......... but just not in a very good mood. I dunno just seems like every little thing is tickin' me off! lol. Like there was a magazine and some stuff on our desk and I bumped one of it off on the floor and I went off like the paper was gonna yell back at me! OMG I think I've totally lost it!

I just feel so FRUSTRATED lately and I dunno why!!! Nothing has really happened, work is fine, DH and me are fine...........I just got done with my period, so thats not it, only thing that I can come up with is that our apt is an absolute mess AND so is our finances!!! And DH wants to possibly switch insurance co.'s and so he wants me to do some online quotes but when I go to do that, they need our current policy information, and of course I can't get that online because our current insurance co's site is a pain in the butt and I have the info on paper but to do that I have to dig it out and that is a pain and just GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!! Why can't things just be easy!!! LOL! I know life isn't easy, but just the little annoying irritating things drive me insane!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And that is exactly how I feel right now: I just wanna get down on the floor and just start screaming and kicking and just have nice good old fashioned "fit"

Ok.........moving on..........lol.

Cher -- You're absolutely right! I ultimately am the person "in charge" of what goes in my mouth! I could just NOT eat those things! But man they are darn tempting!!! Just have to get "hooked" on another and more healthy snack food! I like the sticky notes thing, that is a good idea! I should post a bunch of pics of me when I was not quite so fat (I have never been thin!) to "remind myself" that it can be done!! Thanks GF!

Momof4: And here I thought you were my friend. That so hurt my feelings. LOL!!! Just teasin! What about "Adelaide" ?? I believe it means Sweet or Noble............

Hi Judo! Nope I dunno what happened to those folks......."Come out come out wherever you are!!!" lol.


Well and I hope you all have a wonderful and safe Thursday!

I'M SORRY SASS!!!that name sounds fine!!! Today is the day your suppose to have pink cupcakes to suppost breast cancer awareness or something like that. Ok well I think I am going to go back to bed...i really shouldnt but I am way tooo tired...lol

Good Morning

Welcome Cher37, glad you joined in

Judo, I haven't heard from them in a long time Kempy did post a time or two but that was it.


Have a great Thursday chickies

Leenie