Got my freezer cleaned out so I can start baking soon! Also got my Christmas stuff ready to be mailed and my cards ordered..ususlaly have them adressed by now but the picture place was late this year getting their stuff.

Ally I go betwoeen 2.5 and 3.5...it varries and also do it at least 30 minutes and sometimes 45 but not everyday like I should. lately I have just been cleaning like crazy!!!!!!!!!!:D

Candice, you and I have something in common-with the shopping-I think I only have to work 2 days in Dec so I will have more time. Since we are going away right afetr Christmas-that's good. And I want to see my stepgrandaughter!!Storm coming-putting my armor on to go see my MIL. And grocery shopping-we are having early Thanksgiving Sun. Lasagna!!!!!!Bye for now!!!Mima

Gee...and I thought I was doing good but you guy are unreal! I'm going to Nashville the Friday and Sat. after Thanksgiving and doing most of my Christmas shopping then. I thought just kind of KNOWING what I was going to get and having made the reservations at my favorite hotel and set aside the time was doing great.. for me anyway... :lol: I'm a 'last minute' sort of gal. Besides...I have to wait a couple of weeks and 'get in the spirit'!... Also...a little snow helps me along! :dizzy:

I have my turkey in the freezer and my ham in the fridge for Thanksgiving. I ordered my Christmas cards and got them back already and they are engraved so all I have to do is the labels...which I already have most of in my label program. I've really got it together this year!!! :D

I'm NOT doing so good on my diet though. I'm at a stand still! I'll have Ross this weekend ... go get him in 2 hrs. and will have him until Sunday night. So...I'll probably wind up eating more than I should the next 2 or 3 days...he takes a lot out of me!

Meme-you are doing great-I am leaving in 5 days-here comes the snow and I was going to a church bazaar and bank this am-gotta go-we are waiting for a phone call-Mima

I have my treadmill at 3.4 miles per hour with the incine at 4.5. It is so weird that I can walk outside for an hour with the dogs but find myself ready to get off after 20 minutes on the treadmill.
Just cleaned my carpets and have the heat at about 80.
I have to do some shopping too. At least my kids are easy now that they are older.....$$$$$.
Just gotta save some of it!!!

I ate too much today...nerves! :( I feel bad. RAIN AND COLD!

I ate too much today too, Meme! And I had a great and busy day. Rainy and cold here too. Uck! on weather and food counts.

Happy and Joanne, I'm sort of glad dd is doing Thanksgiving but there's also the thought that I'm missing something or giving up something. And in some ways I know it's time. Just hate to admit it but glad she's thoughtful enough to want to do it. DIL will do the turkey though. So it's sort of a cooperative effort.

Candice - good job on the cleaning all the time. Send some of that bug my way.

Hi-just got the powere back on from 6:30 am and now I am doing the wash etc.-had to go out shopping to get warm. Had a great time yesterday with the company-ate too much-tomorrow I will get unstressed with massage, hair, and nails. Hope everyone is ok-what an ice storm-just warming up. Mima

Wow, Mima. Did the storm and lack of power set you back on getting ready? Or did you just go shopping and make good use of being out to get warm?

Dh saw kidney dr. today. He'll have another test done Thursday to try to further explore the abnormal "complex" cyst in one of them. Possibility of doing more damage but she feels it needs to be done to rule out (or find) cancer. Wed. he goes back to orthopod re knee. Saturday he needs more bloodwork. Four days in one week for medical stuff. Good thing we're retired.

Joanne, back from your daughter's yet?

Ally, how are things going with son?

Serenity, up to anything?

Happy, Meme hope you're back to your losing ways. How 'bout that new study re Atkins?\

Freddy, are you ok? And how are things going on your tests/second opinion and traffic school?

Candice, I'm waiting for your cleaning bug to hit me. Hurry up with it. You've had it long enough.

Synthroid is helping me some but awfully tired again tonight. Did some Christmas shopping today, might get some in tomorrow but I also want to go to the pool tomorrow. Twenty Four hours don't last as long as they used to.

VERY, VERY quiet thread lately.

Candice...by all means...send your cleaning bug to Anagram...and hopefully...she'll keep it!!! Don't want any more bugs around here for awhile and I'm too tired to clean.

I've finally stopped coughing at night. Just can't get caught up on my sleep! No matter how much I get, it's not enough. :tired: Having Ross all weekend didn't help!

I forgot to eat today until 2 p.m. and by then it was too late. I had to start dinner and then my grandson came to stay with me this afternoon plus I had to start teaching at 3 so I didn't have time to eat until 5:30...but just as I sat down to eat, grandson's mom came to get him and as she was leaving a couple came to see the trailer I have for rent...so I wound up not eating anything until 6:30 p.m. ... since 7 last night! :eek:

Mima...I've been cold for 3 days now and my power hasn't even been off!!! Just can't seem to get warm. My blood count has probably taken a dive again.

:wave: Hi to everyone else...hope you are all well and warm! :flame:

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I am back and I had a nice visit with my daughter and her family. My G/son was on leave. He is going back to his ship today. He is on the U.S.S.Harry S.Truman.( Aircraft carrier.) We all know where they are going the first week in Dec. Pray for them.
I got to give you girls credit...Shopping Done!!I wish I was done. My daughter put up her tree. Mainly because she wanted her son to see it and we gave him his early Christmas.
I read a piece in the paper today that stated that the Adkins diet was working for some people but the long term effects were not in. It said that the only tried and true wt. loss was from counting calories. I think WW and cutting back are good.
Since the weather change ,I have been hurting, I need to get back to my exercise. I have been lazy too long.
Hello to all.My plans for the Holidays are so far in the air I can't see them ,yet...Bye, Joanne

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Haven't been on much the past while. Been having a lot of pain and I believe it may have something to do with Atkins. For the first month, I was doing really great - no pain. That was because I stopped eating sugar and junk. Still no cravings for them, which is great. For the past couple of weeks, I have been having a lot of pain. Did some reading and found out that the following cause inflammation in arthritis: Red meat, pork, eggs, tomatoes, - actually almost everything that we eat on Atkins. That may be why this pain is here. I just don't know what to do. Can't seem to lose anything anyway. Haven't really lost for the past couple of weeks and I have been really stuck on this diet. Still on the induction phase, so not eating many carbs. I just know ww didn't work, Atkins doesn't seem to work. At least the yeast is gone:lol: and I may have broken my addiction to sugar. I have also been sleeping so well, have not had a need for Amitriptlyn for almost 6 weeks. Hmmm, what to do, what to do!

I did go to the Dr. on Friday, and he gave me a 'water pill' because I seem to be retaining fluid. I did drop two pounds right off and my wrists and hands seem to hurt less. Also, had a thyroid test. Will call today and see if anything came back on that. Probably not. I think he needs to do the expanded test, instead of just the normal blood test - but try tell a Dr. what to do!

I am glad that you are all so far along with your shopping. I did pick up 4 little outfits for my grand daughter the other day. Really good sale on and she will use them. Also, got her a Barbie Puppy that she loves. It is fun to buy for the little ones again. It is the big ones that take up all the time!

I hope that all your hubbys tests come back ok, Anagram. It is a good thing you are retired - sounds like a full time job to me

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Joanne - glad you had a nice visit. I bet your grandson enjoyed having Christmas early - that was nice for him. This Iraq thing is not pleasant with the possibilites looming over ones head. I hope it never happens.

Meme - Glad you cough is going away some. Now, if we can just get you feeling better. Not eating is not the way to diet! Didn't you get a headache? I would have been sick by that time - shaking and all. I often forget to eat lunch until about 3:00 p.m., then I just have a half of an Atkins bar.

Mima - Time is drawing near. I sure hope that you have a wonderful trip.

Candice - When do you leave? I hope you are finished cleaning. If you are doing all this cleaning, what do you need a cleaning lady for? I have a cleaning husband:lol: He does all the vacuuming for me, but I do everything else. Oh yes, if he is around and I am going to scrub the floors, he will do that as well. I try to do all those things when he is at work - doesn't seem fair that he should have to do housework as well as his job, but hey, sometimes life isn't fair.

Everyone have a good day.

Our sever was having problems and I got of trying to get on hear!!!! They say the problem is fixed for now..we shall see!

I'm not sure I will make it through baking season this year!!!! I bought some cookies at the craft mall and ate all of them before I got them home! Those little spritz cookies..yummm..1 pt for 1 cookie..oh my...I have to do better. I had a ton of banked pts but not that many!

More cleaning Monday and I am still pooped..today is our 26th anniversay Dh wants to bring a meal home and I'm thinking Subway!

I'm having alot of anxiety right now and that helps me clean!

Happy send your cleaning DH to all of us we will share him!

Well I cleaned for the company but you would never know it. Had to empty the kitchen into living room-Had a great day yesterday -I am now blonde with red nails and toes and I had a massage. She really tried to help my sciatica. Then we went to the nursing home to see Brad's m,om so I can just pack today. It's all ready to put in suitcases. Getting excited but nervous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!When I eat dairy and wheat and tomato I get hurting. Hope everyone is well. I may not get achance to post tomprrow-we are leaving at 6:30 am. Gone for 13 days. Behave everyone!!!!!!!!!!Mima Freddie-hope you will have good news-you too Anagram. Be good Ally!!!!Be healthy Meme Anne Candice Joanne!!!Mima

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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY CANDICE!!!26 years! That is GREAT...Now you only have 23 more to catch up with me.. December 26 will be 49 for me.. I like Subway too.. But let him bring a FANCY dinner home..
Happy- I read that piece on the nightshade veggies. It makes sence. We eat most of those things in our effort to lose wt. I gained 3 lbs this weekend. I was trying to be so good yesterday.I failed!!New start today... I hardly got any sleep last night. I think I might have to get an injection in my shoulder again.. No wonder it is so hard for me to lose..I need to be like Meme and just forget to eat..
Have any of you heard of the Memory foam mattress pads? My daughter bought 2 of them .One for her bed and one for her camper.My son-in-law and daughter swear by them. My sister tried one at a friends house and said it was the first time she got up without pain. I might get one. They are on the net for 165+ tax. Anything is worth trying ,if ,I can get out of bed in the A.M. and feel like I had a night of rest.
Anagram- We will have to get Happy to get her hubby to send some vibes our way. My hubby needs a few. I think he might have pushed a vacumn 5 times in his life. The men from the "old school" are spoiled.
Got to get busy...Bye...Joanne