I will post it later Candice-Brad is still sleeping. They were good. I have been trying to buy no transfat items-Brad's sugarfree cookies are usually loaded with fat, That transfat is a new label they just came out with-be wary of the low carb ice cream-it's also loaded with fat. I ahve been using eggland eggs for years because it raises hdl. Also ate salmon last night but Brad wouldn't so he had mac and cheese. We got new cell phones yesterday. I'm going to do some crafts at Hope House today-a summer program for needy kids. Just 3 hours. Mima

Alexia oven fries-from the freezer section-hadn't seen them before.

I did a search for Illinois-Whole Foods market and Supertarget. They were at my grocery store.

OK ... now I'm REALLY done ... down ... and OUT! I had to do all the grocery shopping and get the piano at church tuned and then office max and then home and make potato salad and bake a cake and make banana pudding for a family reunion ... by myself on Friday and it wasn't even MY family! Then Saturday I had to go to hubby's family reunion, then I was late to a picnic ... then I had a wedding rehersal after that. Then on Sunday I had church from 9:30 to 11:30, had to be at church for the wedding at 2 (I had to play). The wedding was at 3 and over at 4 but I had to stay and clean up so since church started at 5:30 I didn't get to leave until 7 so we didn't get home until 8:30 since we had to eat. Today we had dinner and fireworks at our daughter's and now I'm ready to call it quits. My ankle is terrible and I absolutely HAVE to get off of it. It has gotten worse in the last few weeks. I'm going to just have to say NO to people when they ask me to do things ... like play for their wedding! That's my problem I guess, I just can't say "No." Does anyone else have that problem? I wonder how many steps I would have taken last weekend if I'd have had one of those thingies on???

It has rained here almost every day and I'm hurting so bad I'm living on Darvocet and Aleve. The wind blew over two of our beautiful Bartlett Pears sitting up really close to our house today ... I nearly cried. Split them right in two. It also blew over a big tree on my father-in-law's car and completely covered it ... broke the windshield out. More storms tomorrow!

Wow about the storms-we had a really bad one last week in VT-Meme-I used to not be able to say no but now I can-especially since what overwork does to our bodies, One of the best things I learned to say was that I would think about it when someone asked me to do something. Then I would see how it would fit into my life. What are the important things you HAVE to do? I would think taking care of that ankle would be at the top. I went to volunteer yesterday and I was so glad that it was just for one day -originally it was suppossed to be for 2 weeks, I was so tired and we were asked to stay for lunch and sit with the kids. Lots of boys and the got restless about 11:30 with 2 hours to go. Make a list of what you need to do and put God first and then you and then others. And say I will think about it. Remember you are a human being , not a human doing. Going to rheumo and get a shot in my shoulder and then to massage and Walmart-not a bad day. Another thing Meme, when you were abused as a child, you tend to abuse yourself as an adult. I guess it's comfortable. Mima

Well Meme, looks like you are back to your old tricks. No lecture from me this time, as you do this to yourself all the time. One day you will learn; you are the only one who can look after YOU!!! There is a little word in our language, but it is forceful. I don't think you know that word, however - it is simply "NO".

Mima - I don't know if you people get McCain frozen frys or not, but they make a fat free one, and also one with Olive Oil. Both are pretty good.

Candice - A senior man wrote an article in our newspaper. He walks 14,000 steps a day. So, you had better get moving

I am going to go join the Recreation Center today. For $37.00 a month, I can go walk, do aqua areobics, swim and use the exercise equipment. Not a bad deal at all. I hate walking outside, because people that have dogs, just let them wander lose. I am afraid of dogs I don't know, and some of them are so darn big anymore. I guess they have more money than brains. If I had a pet, I sure wouldn't just let is lose. There is so much traffic that it is just plain dangerous for them.

Cut my thumb quite badly on a tin can last night. Went to ER and they didn't stitch it. They did put steri-strips on it and bandaged it really well. Said they don't like to stitch up fingertips because of the nerves on the ends. He said I would end up with tingling and numbness if he did. Also, had to get a Tetnus Shot. Haven't had one since grade 9 and that was a day or two ago.

Well, hope you all have a good day.

Just wanted to show you a picture of my Father-in-law's car. Good thing he has good insurance! Bad thing is ... MIL has Dr. app. today at 2 and hubby has to take off and take her because they have no car now. She has a place on her arm and her Dr. told her he's afraid it may be melanoma. She cut it on the screen door about a month ago and it got infected and didn't heal and then scarred over that. It looks a lot like a place my son had on his arm when he was a teenager and had a motorcycle wreck. I think it's just the way it healed and could be lanced and cleaned out and be ok ... I hope that's all it is anyway!

Good grief, Meme. Lot's of damage to the car, no doubt. Having a tree fall on it, and it looks huge, would leave a dent or two. These storms that everybody is getting are seeming to intensify this year. We have had a drought here for the past few years, but this year, some bad storms in the area. Not right here, but in Edmonton. Floods, winds, you name it! Glad everybody was ok, though.

I posed a reply yesterday,I guess it is outer space.My company is gone and I am back to watching the scale. Fish tonight.
Meme- As I said before, send me the rain. It rains all around me. 2 miles away and I still am dry.
Mima- The more you come south ,the more you willl want to stay..My brother is coming back in October for a month. He is talking about staying longer maybe the following year. That is the way it work. I know he will never come to live. Their children and G/children are in Az.
Happy. Watch the cans. Hope you have no problems with the finger.
Hello everybody...Joanne

Sorry about your finger Anne. Joanne,all my husband talks about is when we go back to FL. He's too busy and people keep offering jobs and he can't say no_sound familiar anyone. I went to the rheumo and I had prayed that my shoulder would heal and when I went, it wouldn't hurt enough to give it a shot. Should have done that 2 weeks ago. Then I had time to kill so I visited old friends-wonderful-and then I went to massage, Today,, I am walking with Auntie. Mike will be here on the 17th and our house on the 23=camper that is. We will see them before they come here. His in-laws live on the other side of the state near Conn. and we live near NH. No word from the guy that was going to buy the condo. Plan C is a realtor-then it will sell. Mima

Mima..thanks for the info ont he fries..we do not have a whole foods near hear and the Target is suppose to be a super target but they don't have that much stuff!

Happy I thought you were not gonna lecture Meme! take care of that thumb, I hate hand cuts, cause you use them so much! I know I need to do more steps but this is just a starting point for me...when I run errands I do over 10,000.

Nice car tree Meme......(as in tree house) I hate storms!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am pooped from my trip to the foot doc yesterday...I hate knew docs and this one was still wet behind the ears! So young, reminded me of my son! I should have gone to the one I usually see but he is an hour away and DH did not want me driving that far. Just a sore toe but it hurts to wear shoes....I thought it might be a touch of fungus starting but he said no, and had to x-ray for a bone spur (which it wasn't and I tried to tell him that). then he said it was just the fibro...well I'm not sure why fibro would make your toenail hurt! Anyway I got him to write a prescription for fungus stuff you apply like polish , just incase cause I do not want it spreading if it is that. I was not impressed with the office staff or dirty office either.....and they had me walk around barefoot!! Yikes..hope I didn' catch anything! Oh did I say I hate new docs, old ones too! I really need to get my hips looked at but they will say it is just Fibro so why go to the trouble! .....so I just suffer in silence (except for complaing to you guys!) Hope I did not gross anyone out.......I'm gonna rest today I hope!



Joanne, gald your company is gone and you can get your eating back to normal...I don't have that excuse.............

No ... didn't gross me out. Been there, done all that. Hate Doctors, too. And I don't like foot doctors, either. Don't you just hate it when you know what's wrong with you but the Dr. is telling you it's something else and you absolutely KNOW that's not what it is? Then you wind up getting worse and having to go back later and get medicine for the RIGHT thing, which was what you were telling them what it was all along! Kind of like a husband ... don't know what to do without them and don't know what to do WITH them! But ... until we are allowed to write our own prescriptions, doctors are a necessary evil!

Storms again last night and more coming. Joanne ... wish you had some of this rain. It's killing me! I rented some movies and I'm just sitting reading and watching TV this week. CAN YOU BELIEVE IT???

I knew you gals would understand about the docs....now I'm in search for a new gyn, my female one left and had a nother one and she left too and I'm due in August for my yearly!!!!!!!!!!! I will not go to a man..they just do not understand the womans body or mind..............................I keep telling my son that is gonna be a doc he has to listen to the patient and not think he knows it all!

Meme....the stoms missed us thankgoodness but sorry they are still hitting you!


I am having a fat day...so bloated and just feel fat....I hate these kind of days. I am also worn out with just plain fatigue from yesterday and barely got my 5000 steps in.

I have got to make some changes in my eating again and get in the losing mode instead of the maintaining mode..which means cutting way back on my sweets......... and not using my exercise pts at all and stying under 23.....my waist is growing and the scale is up a few I think. Been sleep eating more than I thought!

It's so easy to lose control-I have got to get rid of those tortilla chips-Dr Phil says you can't keep that junk food around. At least out of sight because husband's want their junk food. I can't eat Brad's -sugar free stuff. That's good!!! Went to the Church Fair meeting and they put a lot of yard sale stuff in with the crafts. I will have to go and move it around-got my handy helpers, Clara and Mary. They work circles around me and they must be in their 70's. Guy who wants to buy condo cxalled again and he is trying to manipulate-says he has to put in new carpet but he doesn't, just doesn't like the color. Brad says no-we are sticking with our price. So I have to tell him that today-it's the price he said he was going to bid before. WQell, the price is going way up when we get the realtor-so it's his choice. Brad also volunteered that 2 missionaries could stay in our camper overnight in August. Trouble is , they would also use our house. This would be a good time to let them know that I am Catholic because he said something derogatory about them . I told Brad I was going to hang Rosary beads and a crucifix in the camper. Ha!!!!Maybe a few votive candles. And statues. Well, the Catholic Church is not like what it used to be. And Brad can attest to that. So today it's bone density test and mammogram. I'll get that over with. Meme-from the looks of things, we are supposed to get some of those storma-guy is supposed to start our driveway today. Bye Mima

Hi Guys,
Just a quick hello as I am at work, as usual. Don't know why I even have a computer at home. Still in LOVE, still wish I could lose 20 pounds. By Sat. For my reunion. Dragged out the little picture book they sent home with my 20th. If I am lucky, all those fatties just got fatter. This is my skinny time...lots of walking. Have new white pants..can't bend over in them but they look good.
My kids are out again. That will last til probably Sept when their seasonal jobs end. No one wants to go back to school this semester. They haven't figured out what they want to do. Me neither. Got my NYS retirement update today. I am here for another 11 years. Ouch.
Hope everyone is doing well. Miss talking to you.
Ally