:wave: TGIF


:welcome: Blueenough

hi everyone,:wave:

Today is the longest Friday I have ever had.:( The clock just won't move today.:mad: Hope everyone has a great weekend sounds like everyone has a busy weekend:carrot: (busy is always good);) I don't have to much going on this weekend have my kids that's always fun.:D We will hang out at the pool all day tomorrow :cool:that's all we have planned so far.Hope you all have a great weekend and will talk to you all soon:^:

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Hello Ladies. :wave:

I finally finished 98% of my cleaning. The basement looks amazing. My mom is home but I haven't heard her reaction yet. I've been out of the house all day.

I am so tired. I went to the Whaling City Festival today. It's one of the biggest festivals around here and I love going to it every year. I got there at 11am and left at 8pm. So in all I probably spent 7 hours walking around. My legs hurt. I have to go back again tomorrow with my best friend and the guy she takes care of. Her boss runs the festival so we will be there all weekend. Talk about exercise. :p

My friend has decided to do the diet and exercise plan with me but while we are going to the festival we decided that this will be our cheat weekend. There is no way to eat right when you are at this thing. All there is, is basically junk food. So each day we get to pick one thing we want to eat while we are there.
Today mine was Crab cakes :p

It was a good day.

hope everyone has a good weekend

Hi Everyone!

PureFire... I am sooooo jealous that you indulged on crabcakes!

Leenie... Thanks for the warm welcome. I am looking forward to having an "extended family".

Marbear... Did I thank you yet for the baked chickpea idea???? I love chick peas anyway and can't wait to try it.

Heather... you doing okay? I admire your self-improvement endeavor. You're inspirational!

Momof4... How DO you do it? I have 2 under 13 and some days.... arghhhh!

Sorry if that I missed some of the rest of you. Just getting acclimated here.

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WOW what a weekend. My foster daughter went for a walk to clear her head last night and never came home. Finally when she did text me she said she was going to kill herself where no one could find her. I had to go to the police then to the crisis. She ran out of texts at 12 then finally turned her self into the hospital at 3am. The police called me. Then the hospital called. They already had a 302 on her from me reporting her suicidal comments. She just finished a set of steroids for her poison ivy and has only been off of them a few days so I am assuming they are messing with her head. I dont know I am so mixed on the whole subject. i dont know where they will send her after the mentil place. She left me a message this morning when I was sleeping. She wants me to bring her clothes but its lik an hour away where they took her. I spent my family night last night looking for her and at the police station so i dont really want to spend another family night driving to take her clothes. One way I think she didnt care about anyone else last night and bout how we felt. I dont know I think I am just tired of her using me and expecting me to do everything for her. She tends to manipulate me a lot. She expects I will run to her when she needs. But its a two way street. Such a long mess of a story I hope people dont judge me and think I am being harsh because I everyone knew all the things I have done and given up for her they would say the same thing I am saying.
I am just so torn..... I just stayed home today cause I was exhausted and didnt really want to talk to anyone. I did miss a few nights of meds and a few mornings so that is not helping I know.

Ok well I will have to do personals later just not really into it right now.

blue I dont know how I do it some days!!

Hi girls,

I had written a small post last night but the computer froze as I submitted it so I see it didn't make it.

Momof4, wow, I can't even imagine what kind of a night you had. Glad to hear your foster daughter is ok. I'll second it, I don't know how you do it. Did you get any rest today?

Purefire, well, what did your mom say about the house?

Marbear, how was your therapist appt?

Blueenough, did you try the roasted chickpeas? I've always meant to try it but haven't gotten around to it somehow.

Jelly, how was the weekend with the kids?

Heather, you doin ok? Haven't seen you in a few days.

I was off today. We went to see 'The Proposal'. I was pretty good, predictable but good. On another note, I haven't worked out in nearly a week. What is wrong with me? :?: I've had the opportunities but haven't done it. The good news is I still want to work out. Lots of times when I go a few days and don't do what I should it can lead to not working out for the next 6 months or a year even. I don't feel like that is going to happen. I hate this battle! :mad:

How was everybody's weekend?

I did get to sleep in. i had to turn the phone down in order to rest. then I got to swim in my moms pool today. I had to take two of her foster girls home with me cause we are going to the zoo and they have to ride with me. Which was ok cause they helped and bathed my girls for me while I got clothes laid out for tomorrow. Honestly if I was a little more organized things would run smoother but sometimes its so hectic there is no time to step back and organize. but when you have to get soooo many kids ready if you dont lay stuff out it never goes right in the morning SOMEONE cant find something..LOL


I am exhausted for some reason tonight. Everyone texts me and keeps asking how kaci is when I havent even been able to talk to her and I get tired of telling everybody the same thing but I dont wanna be rude and not answer...

hope-how is everything going for you over all? I am glad you WANT to work out....i havent wanted to ...i want to get skinny but its almost like forcing yourself to go to the dentist...it will be good for you but it is torture...UGGGHH...I AM DRINKING WATER!!! In like 3 days I have only had one pepsi....(I think) but I have been drinking water or skim milk. That is a step up for me!!

PureFire-so you can get started at my house with cleaning since your almost done...LOL



I will catch everyone later I need to get sleep for a long day at the zoo...

Hello Ladies :hug:

momof4 ~ Something like that is very hard and stressful. Your foster daughter is in a place where they can help her. You shouldn't jump for her and do everything that she wants. People with suicidal thoughts don't care or think about anyone else. They just think about themselves. (I have been one of those people.) Giving her what she want won't help her. You have to let her know that you are still there for her, but she needs to learn to think of other people instead of herself and not try to manipulate you. She needs to start doing for herself. You need to relax and rest and you need to take your meds. Without them things with seem alot worse than they really are.

Marbear ~ How are you doing? What happened with you therapist? Hope things are a little better.

Heather ~ How are you doing. I hope you are feeling a little better.

Jelly ~ Hope you had a good weekend with your kids.

I hope everyone else had a good weekend.

It has been such a long weekend.. My body is so sore from all the walking I did and pushing my best friends boyfriends wheel chair. It was a workout just pushing the chair especially up hills and on grass for hours. I kept saying I need to start working out and walking again. I haven't gone for my normal walk in over a week but this weekend I did alot of walking and pushing a 180lb guy in his wheel chair so I guess that should be considered working out. :p

I was actually worried about my mother's reaction. She came home on Friday and I met her at the festival. She had bought me a few things since I hadn't planned on going to the festival til later that day so I told her I would pay her back for what I got. When I saw her Saturday morning. She was like "I'm so impressed" When she looked she said "I can't believe you labeled everything. It looks wonderful. Then it was "well you don't have to pay me back you earned everything I bought for you yesterday." When I clean, I clean. I still have to finish the attic and repack a few boxes. The boxes I have stuff in don't have lids that fit on them and my apartment will be on the 3rd floor so I have to fix that.

Today I did bad on my diet but not to bad. I had a bloomin' onion at the festival which was so good, a smoothie and 2 mcchicken sandwiches for Mcdonald's. Today was the last day of the cheat weekend. So tomorrow I got back to eating right. The good/bad thing was that I was worried about what the scale would say at the end of the weekend so I weighed myself everyday. I lost 2 pounds. Now I am waiting to see the results when I get up in the morning. I normally weigh myself once a week. I think I was just worried that I would gain alot. The walking seemed to balance things out.

:lol: :rofl: I just found this so funny and I had to share. My boyfriend asked what I was doing and I told him I was posting a reply on here. He goes "you can post on there and tell them your boyfriend is hot!" :lol::yes: :rofl: He's horrible, and so conceited but it made me laugh. :lol:

Too restless and unmotivated to really post... so I'll leave you all with a :hug: instead.

Morning all - I am doing okay, thanks for thinking of me! It's a slower recovery than I expected: everyone said to me 'You're so fit, you'll be up and about in NO time!' Yes, up and about, but SO SLOOOOW! The pain has faded more to discomfort than anything, and very manageable :) The water weight is coming off too, so I am trying to focus on eating well and taking a short, slow walk every day. Being stuck in the house, bored, makes me want to eat - gah! LOL

Looking forward to being able to drive myself again, and just do little things - I vacuumed this morning, but I can't actually get the vacuum up and down the stairs, just push it around on one level. Dumb things like that, haha ;)

Hope, I really enjoyed The Proposal, and described it to friends the same way - very predictable, all been done before, but good talent and very enjoyable fluff! ;) Hang in there - WANTING to get a workout in really IS the hard part of the battle!! :hug:

Mom - you are stronger than you know. Tough days - and no one here is judging you. Thinking of you!

Marbear, Purefire - big :grouphug: atcha girlies. Pure - catching things before we "totally blow it" is a HUGE part of keeping on keeping on - good on ya!! :yes:

Leenie, Buddly, Sassy - where you girlies at?? Miss ya!!

Anyone heard from JudoMom? If you're reading this hon - thinking of you every day. :hug:

Chat soon, chickies!
Heather :D

thanks guys.
Pure-thanks I am at times a very giving person and I have to make myself be realistic. I am just trying to figure everything out in my head...

heather- I hope you start feeling better that you can get out and do more things. My stepmother in law had that done and I know she was in a lot of pain for a while. thanks for not judging me


Well our trip to the zoo was eventful. i told my dh something was wrong with my tire the night before but they thought it was a belt and it would be fine. Well it got worse and ended up blowing luckly it started making a loud sound before it popped. so we had to go a little ways and get another one on that cost a lot my parents paid for it but I need to pay them back...BLAH I hate money special with me not working and only on one income!!!! but it would cost me more to go to work with child care.... i am trying to do some babysitting at home just not getting very far..

Trying to sort everything out with my foster daughter. She told her mom she didnt want to come back here. But kids play the head games between parents. She tells me when she comes home she is glad she lives with me cause of stuff that happens at her moms. Her and I have gotten close and her and the kids. She has broken my dh trust and he has long term issues with that so it takes a while to get it back and she expects it to be over night. I am just trying to figure out what she really thinks. I am not going to be another person that gives up on her.

I dont know I am exhausted and a lot to think about.

Have a good night everyone!!
lata

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Hi Ya. :wave:

Sorry been mia.......our computer at home is totally hosed so I can only get on at work and just haven't been able to get here......

TG its my "Friday" :D

DH and I have bought a new car. :cool:

Its a 2009 Kia Optima, Black.

Anywho, no real plans on my days off, except getting our new kitten fixed. Thats about the end of it. lol. I would like to go and do something, but I don't wanna leave her at home alone when she will be recovering from her surgery.

Well I hope you all are doing well!

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Sassy, congrats on the new car! Very nice!

I'm sick of being fat. Did I mention that brownies are the devil? :devil: I think I've said that before. TOM is visiting and I don't feel well. Can you tell?

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