Cafe: I just finished To the Nines and the diet stuff with Lula put me over the edge. I guess if YOU are one of the people on Atkins maybe you wouldn't find it so funny, but her having bbq'd pork chops in her handbag....:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: I read a huge variety of stuff, but like legal thrillers, detective stuff and Patricia Cornwell's books Kay Scarpetta but to be honest, her last couple haven't been up to par. The one set of books I cannot read is the Chirstian series written by Tim Lahaye. I have family that I know will be left behind and I just can't read books about it. One of the most wonderful books if you can find it (be prepared to sob though!) is a very old one but you should be able to get at a christian book store and that is Francena Arnold's Not My Will. I read it the first time in high school and have since read it probably 10 times and I never read a book over, but I have it on my book shelf and every once in awhile will pull it out and read it again.

Tiger: Awww, your baby is going to all day school this fall? I remember mine going like it was yesterday. Boohooed every day for a week.

Q: Thanks for the book ideas. I will have to look into them. I have read a couple of "Christian" authors that are very very funny too. I can't for the life of me remember her name though.

Did you guys see that Bob Hope passed away of pneumonia this morning. There are few left from my era of growing up and it sure makes me feel old!

Have a great afternoon

Faye

Ok, real quick. Had pre-surgery testing at hospital today. All good to go. Very nice people so far.

Have to be at hospital at ... get this... 5:15AM. Remember, it's over 50 miles away. Augh!! :yikes:

Surgery starts at 7:40 and I hope to be well-drugged by then. If stress were electricity, I could light up the entire state of PA and parts of Jersey!!!

Thanks for all the good wishes. I probably won't be back here until I get home from the hospital on Fri or Sat ... Sun? Mon? Whatever. Think of me and send good vibes???? :goodvibes: :?:

Oh I gotta go back my bag.....

:stress: !!!!!

It's 3AM
 

It's dark and cool and peaceful outside. Normally I would love a night like this but I'm scared. :( Leaving for the hospital in half an hour or so.

Guess it's good in some ways. Haven't eaten since about 7:00 last night. Great new diet??? :^: Not! Know what my dinner was? An ice cream sundae from the Dairy Queen. Yeah, and I don't feel at all guilty. I wanted it. I NEEDED it.

Gotta go wake Rich and make sure all my ducks are in a row. Be thinking of me??? I'll be sure to check in once I'm home at the end of the week.

All together now. :grouphug:

Love you guys!

Jello, sending prayers your way for a successful surgery and speedy recovery. Can't wait for you to get back home and start posting again.

Jello, I've already said my prayer for you and I'm sending a truck load of good vibes your way. :goodvibes :goodvibes :goodvibes Wished you had given us an address, would have sent you lots of get well cards. (((Jello))) You'll be :dance: a jig in no time.

Good Morning to the rest of you, nothing much to report. DH and I haven't made a decision on vacation yet. I'm ready to get out of town tho. DS is going back to St Louis and riding with a salesman from one place that he inviewed, then he is to go back to the office to disscuss the position.

Wt still the same, been doing body flex and Life Lift tapes (very much like BF) Sounds impossible for this to work but overall I've lost 11 inches in about a month, just by stretching and breathing. Hey, it works for me! :doh:

Well back to work for me. Have a great day.

Good Morning Ladies,
Hair Cuts tomorrow! I don't know who is looking more shaggy, me or my boys. :^: I was trying to let my hair grow out. Not feeling the vibe right now. :p
Today is mowing. Fresh air and sunshine...trying to look at the positive. Gotta get it done since I'll be gone tomorrow. It'll take all day for hair cuts. Getting the boys ready to go, drive to nearby town, cuts/colors, drive home, BOOM...time to fix supper. And, there's something about cut/color that makes me want a nap. Everything makes me want a nap. :o But I never actually take one. I've got the babbles this morning. Too much coffee:hyper:

Semo, 11 inches!:dancer: Do you measure yourself? I never feel like I'm doing it right. Make me want a nap. :lol:

Faye, I will not be boo-hoo'n when youngest starts 1st grade.:foot: I've been carting him back/forth through 2 years of preschool and then kindergarten. Chopped up days and taxi service, time to move on. :yes:

Jello, sure hope everything went great this morning and you are resting comfortably.:sssh: Jello is resting.

Gotta motivate!

Jello: Hope everything went well, you are in my thoughts, you should still be in lala land right about now i think! Take your time with your recovery and you'll be much happier for it in the end!:sssh:

I started running last week and last night I did 2.5 km!:strong: I am hoping to get up to 5 km by September, so that I can do the Terry Fox Run:crossed: I have finally realized that 'runners high " that i had heard about!!

Semo: great job on the inches lost!!:cp:

Have a great day everyone!!

http://photos.yahoo.com/catgrass2002

I added four new photos....sepia prints of the kids, baseball boy and our new pond tenant.
Can't believe how little my kids look in last years back to school photos. Will have to take same photos again this year to compare.

sassy, You go girl! I tried running about 6 years ago. Got up to 3 miles. I enjoyed it, but my knees did not.

kids need me...

Hey Girlies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

Jello: Thinking about you and sending you warm wishes and peaceful days and nights free of pain.

Tig: Your kids are too cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

Sassy: You go girl

Cafe, gma2one, huntress, and quilter: Many smooches!!

Still watching the calories...gotta do it this time!!

:grouphug:

Tig, great pictures, THAT HAIR! Cracks me up. He reminds me of my oldest son, when he was that age. He had to have a perm! You ask if I measure myself, and yes I do. I'm doing my best to measure in the same spot and not pull tight, just snug. I don't know how it works but it has. So are you going to look for a job when your little one starts school? I hope you don't have to, it seems a household runs so much better when mom's home.

Sassy, congrats on running! Not for me, too old to put my body thru the pounding. How'd it go getting the stiches out?

DNW, did your company ever come back with an offer on the other job?

Hey to everyone, just popped in for a sec.

Hello ladies -

OK Faye, you got me, I'll have to get 'to the nines' from my library now. JE is one funny lady, that's for sure.

Jello :goodvibes:

SEMO - going to google right this second - Body Flex and Life Lift. Congrats on the inches lost!!!

Sassy - yay for you! Running is amazing - for me the first time I ever ran a whole mile without stopping was just magical. I'm too fat now, but someday!

Tig - those pics are great! But why do I want to take a nap? :?:

Quilter, DNW - Nice to see ya both!

I had a frustrating morning working, trying to gather up stuff for someone and wouldn't you know IS had purged a bunch of "junk" off the server which I needed? Grrr.

OTOH, I'm feeling pretty good today and am now on to a less frustrating task, drinking my diet Pepsi...

TTFN~

Jello: I was slow on the draw this morning for prayers and know that the others held you up so you will get some bigtime recovery prayers from me! Hope you feel tip top soon!

Tig: Your kids are sooooo cute. I love the sepia prints and the youngest one is a terrific print!

Our dsl is out again and I am not computer savvy enough to talk to one of those dopes on the help desk so dh will have to do it. We have cable so it is just the internet stuff.

Cafe: You will love the book and laugh all the way through. I am reading Margolin's new book and it is pretty good.

Well ladies, I am on AOL and don't want to tie up my phone line for too long so ttfn!

Faye

Good Morning. Insomnia attack last night. :sp: Hate it when that happens.

Cafe, I was making fun of myself...seems everything lately makes me want to take a nap. Grocery shopping with the kids, too much fresh air, haircuts/color, trying to measure myself. :doh:

Semo, I'm not sure if I'm going to "real work". DH said last night that he definately wants me to wait a couple months. He'd like me to start meeting him at lunch a couple times a week. :cheers:
And, there are some projects around the house that will be much easier to finish up w/o the kids under foot. It's going to seem so strange, me...alone in the house. :bubbles:

Faye, how's the dsl? I'll be going to Laporte today for the haircuts. Seems silly driving half'n hour for haircuts, but a highschool friend own's two salons over there.

I actually saw 'to the nines' advertise on tv this morning. Right now I'm trying to read The Posionwood Bible. It was an Oprah bookclub selection. I've just been too busy to actually "get into it".

So far today, I've only had my coffee. I better go fix something before I attack whatever I can get my hands on. Coffee makes me crave junk. I really need to quit drinking it.

Faye - hope your dsl gets better soon. :(

Tiger, I was just teasing you, too. But I DID want a nap yesterday. Sorry to hear you were awake during the night. I've been wondering if I should quit coffee too. But I love it so!

Well it's hump day - life is good. Can't believe July is almost over, we've crossed the hump of the year, too. I've been doing well in several of my "goal" areas (although the only TRUE goal I've let myself acknowledge for this year is LIFE BALANCE) but WL has been a stagnant area. I'm taking a lot better care of myself in lots of ways, but I need to get over that hump and start seriously losing.

I'm REALLY going to start visualizing a February or March tropical beach vacation. [Believe me, by that time of year I will need it and I know from the past I'd do almost anything to make it happen.] I'm thinking that this is something I can really lean into for the second half of 2003 to spur me on... and as the days get colder and I want to eat more hopefully it will have the effect of helping me STAY on track because the evidence that the time is shorter will be all around me?

Cafe~ done with fooling around and working to muster motivation for the long haul.

Good morning, ladies. Hope all is well with you and sending more prayers Jello's way.

Boss left for yet another vacation yesterday - 10 days in Madrid and Seville Spain and surrounding areas. We are going to have to have a chat when he gets back - I've only been able to take 3 DAYS of vacation this year - I have enough vacation and personal days left to work 4 day weeks the rest of the year and I know he won't let me. Then he wonders why I get so stressed out here - he's gone all the time and I have to run around doing his job, mine and his personal stuff as well. If I weren't so close to retirement, I'd look for another job but where would I get another job in this little area at 62? Don't want to work for the tourist stuff and there isn't much else but military and convenience stores. I had 3 days scheduled in June - actually scheduled them 60 days before - so I could go with my friends on our annual expedition to the quilt shops in PA - had to cancel because he decided to go to the Corvette 50th anniversary and a new person he hired wanted that week off...after all, I've only put up with him for 11 years. Well, Thanks for Letting Me Rant and Vent ... I feel better now!