Alice,

Have you tried to check in on Low Carb lately? For some reason our thread for this week is locked. I posted a message on Monday in the one for last week, and then when I went in late yesterday afternoon to see if anyone else had posted, my message had been move to a thread of its own and BOTH of the threads had been locked!! What's up with that?

Sent you a PM

So far my area of the state has dodged the bullet on the bad storms. How are you doing up in your corner Cheryl?

We did finally get some much needed rain. I am late on getting my flowers out for the summer but have finally started working in my yard. I have a small electric chain saw and yesterday I cut two huge holly bushes out of my yard. I have one more to cut but have to wait for the family of Mockingbirds that are nesting in it to get their babies flying. The nest is well protected by the sharp leaves, but the nest is at eye level and D and I have really enjoyed watching this little family grow.

I am all but finished at work. I have to go in today to accept a late assignment and also to help D get her heavy stuff moved out of her dorm room. Graduation is at 9 on Sat. a.m. and then I outta there!

I have some fun things to do this week and next. Book club tonight, tomorrow the girlfriends are getting together and driving to L.R. for dinner out to celebrate a birthday. Next Th. my kayaking friend and I are going out in the boats and camp on an island. I'll be getting my break off to a good start. Also have to clean and tidy house and yard for a cookout at my house on the 17th.

Cheryl, thanks for the running link. What you described sounds very like what I am planning to do - are you doing that training now? I plan to start on Monday.

Alice--Glad I'm not the only one!! Hmmmm.....

Ledom--we've been hit pretty hard up here. Fortunately, there were very few injuries (only one of them serious). It stormed again last night. Needless to say, I didn't get a solid night of sleep!!
Sounds like you have a full week-or-two planned! Enjoy yourself!!
You're more than welcome for the link. That plan does sound like a good one! I'm doing it by time, rather than by distance. I'm guessing I'll have to repeat some weeks throughout the program, but I'll get it evenutally.

Judi--Hey chick! What's up?

Cheryl

We are having a beautiful day today. We've already been out for a little walk. We could go farther and faster, but Lacee loves to go with us so much that I don't want to disappoint her.

ledom, glad that you didn't get any of the nasty weather. I saw on the weather this morning that you were under the gun today also. You sure have a busy schedule planned. I bet you are anxious to get your summer vacation started. Have fun at your bookclub tonight. Where will you be going out to eat tomorrow?

Cheryl, sorry you had such an awful night with the storm. Did you get a lot of damage? That's great you are so enthused about running. Keep it up! I haven't seen any posts from the other two ladies on that thread, so I wonder if somebody will start it up again? Meanwhile, we can keep in touch on this thread.

Hey judi,

Have a good day.

I forgot my password and the 3FC had my old email address so I couldn't sign on...

Sorry to hear about the storm...I was wondering if it got anybody! How scary!!

We arrived home today. We had 3 days holiday in Las Vegas, didn't gamble but had fun enjoying the sun, SHOPPING at a Saks off rack and eating good food.

Hmmm, it is safe to say I am not on a diet, at least for the last 13 days. I am going to stay away from the scale.

Glad you are off work Ledom

How are all the kitty cats and Miz Lacee???

I am tired....

We missed you.

Ah jeez - I spoke to soon. When I got to work this morning I discovered the building I teach my classes in was flooded last night after a flash flood of 6" of rain in less than 3 hrs. There had been 2 1/2 feet of water in the building and it left everything coated in mud. Lots of destruction! It was not a good day. And now of course, not my last day. I won't go into detail because I am tired and just sick of thinking about it. I am going to give the maintenance crew a couple days to clean before I go back in to figure out what all was destroyed. Sigh.

Ledom, So sorry to hear about the flooding. That is awful!! I hope nothing too important was harmed.

It is four in the morning and I can't sleep. Just glad to be home I guess.

Oh, ledom, I am so sorry about the destruction in your building. I have seen on the news what this storm system is doing. We're lucky because by the time it heads our way it has lost some of its steam. I hope when things get cleaned up there will have been minimal damage, and hope things will be back to normal soon. Please keep us posted. (to cheer you up)!

judi, welcome back! We missed you. Glad that you had a little vacation is Las Vegas and had a good time. I was going to take DH there for his 50th birthday, but we had a very sick Shamrock at the time and my late Dad was not doing well either, so we never made it. Now we have Miz Lacee and we're kind of limited on where we can go. Putting her in a kennel is out of the question.

Hi Cheryl, how is the running coming along?

Have a good day everyone!

Ledom, sorry to hear about the damage to your school. Looks like we're gonna be in for it again over the next few days---Be careful!

Alice, I sprained my left ankle REALLY badly over a year ago. Since Sat. I have almost turned it again twice. When I got up this morning it felt very tender, so I think I'll definitely be walking--not jogging--for awhile. Won't be long before I'll have to start getting up early, 'cause it's gettin' so humid here I am not an early riser by nature, so I'm not looking forward to that!!

Judi, hmmmm..... shopping is one of my fave passtimes!! I completely understand the need to stay away from the scales after a 13-day-long vacation Get some sleep, lady!!

Cheryl

Are you still getting all that rain, ledom & Cheryl? I saw on the news yesterday all the flooding. I hope you guys are ok. We're getting rain, but not like what you guys are getting. Hopefully our's will clear up today. Tomorrow is supposed to be the better day of the weekend.

judi, I think you and & were posting at the same time yesterday. I bought the new Atkins book, Atkins for Life, from Amazon last week, and hopefully it should be here sometime soon. It's a little bit different from his regular Atkins Diet books. I don't know if you have to do induction first, which I won't do anyhoo. From what I've read about the new book is you count carbs like you would points on WW. I figured that any reduction in carbs would help with weight loss. It might not be as fast as if I did induction, but slow is good.

Have a great weekend everyone and a very Happy Mother's Day.

Alice, is it possible to just eat fish, eggs and cheese, no meat and go on Atkins?

I still haven't weighed ...whose in denial?

Did anyone see the first Miss Dog beauty pageant last night on tv? What a hoot!! I just loved the singing French bulldog.

How is the building Ledom? What about you Cheryl? What crazy weather,eh?

My DH is home, it looks like they want him to keep working but work from home, so we are building a computer lab downstairs now. It is nice having him home. Last night he did dishes and he makes the morning coffee

Have a good day ladies !!

Judi--is fish not meat? Looks like meat when Stewart is skinning and gutting (blech). He wants me to learn how, so I'll be more "Country." I told him I don't need to be that "Country," thank-you-very-much! If I gave in and cleaned fish, the next thing you know, he'd want me to help him clean and gut a deer!! No thanks!!
He always makes the coffee in the mornings, mainly because I don't drink the stuff, and also because he gets up at an awful hour (4:30-5-ish).

Alice--No rain yesterday. We're not supposed to get any today, either, according to the local forecast. The sky, however, is forecasting something totally different--dark and cloudy.

Ledom--I made my reservations for my week in Hot Springs yesterday. My sis and her three kids are gonna come with me. I checked the internet to see what's up the week we're coming and it looks like NOTHING! Figures. I'll be there from Aug. 11-Aug. 15--if you have any suggestions of things we can do around town, please do tell!! How's the jogging coming? I walked 3 miles last night (my ankle's been bothering me) and then I couldn't sleep! Too much energy, or too much blood flowing, I guess!

Cheryl

It is ungodly hot and humid here. I haven't been back to my building. They have hired professional disaster cleaners to come in. I was also told they were cutting the sheetrock walls to up above the floodline for replacement. I know it will look like holy he!! when I finally go back tomorrow to access my damage in terms of lost equipment. I am feeling very sorry for myself over all this extra work. Will try to start looking for a silver lining.

Our dinner last night was lovely. We went to a fancy restaurant. I didn't eat too much (food was beautifully prepared and portions were not small, but not huge) but I did have two drinks. It was a special occasion. My girlfriends can be so funny so it was a real hoot - I hope we weren't too raucus. The birthday girl has the most fabulous garden. It has a long rock path with a wooden beamed trellis that is quite long. It looks like a picture of something you'd see in Italy. She has over 30 Colette rose bushes that are growing up over the trellis and they were in full blown bloom last night. They are a light pink, fragrant rose. Anyway after dinner we spent some time in her garden and it was just perfect, so sweet smelling and beautiful. It was a fabulous end to the night.

Ah Cheryl, Hot Springs in August is just plain hot. Lounging by the pool and drinking in the lobby would be good. One of the things I'd enjoy doing but it's hard to do when it is you own home town. But, my favorite Hot Springs activity, the thing that makes it so unique are the hiking trails. They all start at the Arliington too. You just need to get up early and head out because of the heat. They are all safe. Another wonderful new Hot Springs attraction is Garvan Gardens if you like that sort of thing.

I won't start my running program until Monday. I think I will be like you and take it slow, I thought I might do each weeks plan twice. It isn't so much that I want to run a 5K as it just seems an interesting way to add some cardio back in. I guess I like plans or projects and time progressions when it comes to fitness. If there is something I can mark off and if things are spelled out for me I can motivate myself more easily.

judi, sounds like a lovely new phase of your life is opening up.

Ledom, I know exactly what you mean about liking to have things spelled out and being able to mark them off!! Actually, I may take that to extremes at times--on the Couch to 5K plan, I got a tiny little notebook and wrote down every day's plan, as I do each cycle, I mark it off. Seeing the progress seems to make the work-out go by more quickly! I think I picked the totally wrong time of year to start trying to jog. It's hot and humid here, too. UGH Last night I waited until about 7:00 to head to the park, and even then it was still stick-warm. If the wind hadn't picked up, I would've been miserable. I just walked 3 miles last night, due to ankle. I think I'll be walking only for a while, maybe after I lose a little weight the ankle won't take it so hard!