Grr....have to vent.
I brought a package to the post office today. I only closed the box with a few pieces of scotch tape because I wanted the good clear tape to close it, and then I wanted the mailing label put on.

Well the woman at the post office wouldn't listen to me! She put some tape on, but not across the box...more like along the edges? I'm mailing a gift to a friend and I will be SO mad if it breaks because she didn't listen to me. I tried to explain to her at least 3 times and it just was not sinking in at all. Really, really frustrating. I wanted to grab my box and be like "you know what? I'm gonna go to that guy over there instead, because you are being useless!" I'm not normally so cranky.

*deep breath* so I really hope my package arrives safely. Guess I'll find out in a few days.

My week is so blah. I'm in a total funk I just can't get out of. The highlight of my day was drawing out plans because I want to re-arrange the furniture in my room. It's going to be a BIG challenge...but I think I'll like my room layout more if I do it. (haha hopefully! It'll be a lot of work).

rainbow: wow, 4 years!! I hope I can reach that! eheh, I’ll let you know how the Spice Girls lesson goes ^_- Scale is also refusing to move for me… but listening to your body is good! I figure that as long as I do that, I’m going in the right direction…

ballerina: aww, hugs. hope you get out of that funk soon. sometimes service people are just dumb. I mean it’s not like you were speaking a foreign language, is it?! hope your package gets there ok!

that’s it? only two people since yesterday?! you guys busy or just bored? lol. I’m super busy today! some evil ******* made my schedule so I have 5 classes in a row today… gah! well, I’ve survived through the morning, and that means only one more to go. after which I will f*ck off home to fetch my luggage and then get on the bus to Tokyo to see my baby!! excited about that ^_^

scale was at 82.0 AGAIN this morning!!! seriously! how can it be not even moving at all?!? meh. I’m cranky cuz I’m supposed to have another cheat day tomorrow and I haven’t even lost the bounce-back from the first one… gah.

anyhoo, I’m gonna be visiting apartments on sat so I really hope I find something! wish me luck!

I figured I'd join even though it's close to the end of the month. Plus I need to vent..

FU TOM...hasn't started yet but the wonderful Ulcer I had today, not to mention the stress I got from work. So They decided two people in the security team are Dog **** that's me and another girl. They took away our parking privileges, but gave the other people a parking spot. Funny thing is out of the couple of us, this other girl and myself are busting our asses off with more than ONE job. I have three on the go right now. It's quite the inconvenient for me getting to one job to the other when I need to go! I know it's only the bus who cares right?...I CARE 4:30 am wake up leaving my house at 5am just to be on time! yea, I'm a little pissed, I can hardly get up at 5 anymore...let alone any earlier than that. And it's the fact it's the I have to take the bus, it's the fact that everyone else get's "special" ****ing privileges and the two of us who work just as hard get **** on. If it's two of us can't park why can't they make it ALL of us. The two of us have to be at work for 6 (she'll have her husband drive her) the other two don't start till 7...I'm fixing up my resume and job hunting anyways. I said after I got my bonus I would leave the company. This is now just pushed me to work much harder at getting the F out.

I'm done ranting. Thanks for listening.

Stronger - Thank you so much. I'm actually doing WW. It started off really well, then got really bad again, but I've been doing great this week! I did increase water intake this week too, and sipping on green tea at night.

Kawaii - That's so cool. How did you end up in Japan? Sorry to hear about the migraines! I'm also a sufferer, they suck. I get especially bad ones that last like a week twice a year. Good luck with the apartment hunting!!! So jealous that you get to do a lesson on the Spice Girls. I wish I was in that class

rainbowstripe - How is the week going? That lamb covered in panko/pesto sounds to DIE FOR

Quiet - Feel better soon I love changing up room layouts!

MiZTaCCen - So sorry about the situation at work. Sounds like you could do better. Fix up that resume and send it out everywhere! Hang in there

I'm enjoying this last day of vacation. I've been to the gym everyday this week, yay! The scale finally budged 2lbs this morning too. I'm anxious to get back to work and the crazy fast pace again.

Hello everyone!

Afraid I'm a big poo and won't have time for personals. Honestly, interview prep has taken up most of my spare time. The rest of my spare time I spend daydreaming about my trip to America to see the boyfriend and feeling nervous about the interview! So I've been a bit withdrawn socially.

I'm going to be sure to jump back in all things chat like in February's chat thread, I pwomise! But my interview is on Tuesday so I've got 2 days to really cram in all the information I need and practice my arse off and then I will have freedom from worry!

My weight loss has been doing fine, got down to 158 lbs. I'm hoping that I could get down to 155 lbs by the time I go to America, but I'm not holding myself to it! Just 12 days to go, what the heck?! I've been counting down since 150 days!!

Hi girls!
My name is Samantha, I'm new, and thought I would just say hello! I used to be a member here before two years ago, but I'm back now! I don't have time for personals, plus I would be having A LOT of catching up to do, so I will join more with chatting in February (I can't believe January is almost over already)!

I'm looking forward to getting to know all of you and making some new buddies!

My day will be filled with going to the gym and cleaning the house. Woo hoo!

Good morning,

I have been kind of down lately so I haven't had the energy to post much or really stick to my diet 100 percent. I am not really sure what I weigh at the moment but I will probably check by the end of the day. I would very much like to get back on the wagon and try to make some healthy changes in my life.

I finally took the plunge and sent in my application to vet tech school. I will hear back from them pretty soon, and hopefully start school in March. As a preventative measure I have dropped my classes from the community college and will start to save money for the tuition deposits, which pay for my scrubs and everything.

I will do personals sometime soon.

Hello ladies! It's good to be back! Haha! I weighed in last week and was down 2 lbs from the week before so yay! I forgot to post it on the bikini thread until today. Anyway, I'm trying to get caught up. I think my body was adjusted by Thursday. Took a good 3 days to get used to the new schedule. However, I'm still on a time crunch to get my 10-day lesson planned and written up since I'm going to have to get it done sooner than everyone else. My teacher is going on maternity leave in February and both her and the principal want me to get my lesson in before she leaves. So, everyone needs to pray that she won't have her baby earlier than her due date. LOL! So, the detox thing didn't last very long. I'm back to just counting calories. It's just easier for me to do that and I don't have to restrict myself of anything for a period of time.

Namaste - feel better soon! ((hugs))

Samantha -

Rie - When is your interview again? I can't remember and don't feel like looking back.

Coco - woohoo for lbs lost!!

MiZ - sorry about the work situation!...and Welcome to the chat!!

Kawaii - busy, busy, busy around here. How was apartment hunting?

QB - that's weird. lol! Hopefully it didn't harm anything.

aaaah… you guys, I have a lot to say so I’ll start with that first… today sucks, a lot. not diet-wise, but life-wise, I hate Mondays… I was in a good mood til I got to school and remembered that I had 4 back-to-back classes instead of 3 (cuz of the ****y teacher I don’t like asking me to switch one of his lessons and I couldn’t come up with a viable excuse to say no), and then the photocopy machine kept acting up, cuz they’ve recently moved them to a room that has no heating, and apparently the machine doesn’t like that, so that just made me angrier. fast-forward 4 classes, I am f*cking tired. then something cute happened, 2 of my 9th grade girls came over cuz I promised to show them pictures of my boyfriend and they wanted to talk to me about make-up so we ran off with my purse (escaping a staff meeting that was apparently starting in the staffroom that I had no idea about!) and chatted for about 20 minutes on the steps outside, and it was awesome. then I came back and saw an email from my friend from Australia, who’s in town only for a few days and I was supposed to have dinner with tonight, who tells me she’s already having dinner with other people but she can meet me after around 8-ish. I just had a really tough, crappy day. the last thing I want is to wait til 8pm, then go out into the freezing cold, and have coffee (which is gonna keep me awake) and then go to bed super late. I mean, I know I sound like a grump, but gah! Mondays…

anyways, in other matters, diet matters, this weekend was a pretty epic fail. I started my cheat day a day early, with sushi and ice cream with the boy on Friday, and theeeen it continued on til Sunday :/ I think on Sunday, I got really cranky that he made a big point of finding a restaurant that was diet-friendly for breakfast, we had to walk all over town, and then he had to leave about 2 hours earlier than planned, and I was like “**** it, I’m having a donut” so I went to krispy crème after he left and had two. then I bought some snacks to eat on the bus (chips and chocolate, small sizes) and some bread thing that I always see advertized near the bus stop that I always wondered what it was. so I ate all of that, and at the pit stop on my 4-hour bus ride, I bought a small bento with some sushi and a cookie. I ate it even though I was totally not hungry. it was like I was on a mission to prove some kind of point that I didn’t even understand myself. I felt really full after so didn’t eat anything else for the rest of the night. I guess it sounds like a lot, but it wasn’t really that much and spread through several hours, and in the past, I’ve eaten waaaaaaaaay more on binge trips with no consequences (except getting fat. lol) but anyways. in the middle of the night, I woke up feeling like I was gonna puke, and sure enough, all down the toilet it went. I’m really confused cuz, like I said, I’ve eaten way more than that in the past and never had to puke from overeating. has that ever happened to any of you? it was really odd. I guess, in a really f*cked way, it’s kinda giving me a free pass? cuz I weighed in this morning and weighed exactly the same as Friday. eh. in any case, starting again with the good behaviors from today, and if I can manage to get my house temperature to go above 17C, then I’ll work out too.

other than that I had a good weekend with the boy, and managed to find an apartment. it’s ridiculously tiny, but the other place I was supposed to look at got stolen from under me, so I didn’t really have a choice. it’s in a good location though, and really clean, so I guess that's good enough.

lol. sorry about that novel

teamcoco: omg, a week?!? my longest migraines lasted 4 days and I wanted to die… I get them around the same time my period comes and it sucks cuz it’s once a month. I changed my pill a few months ago to try and reduce them, and it worked for a while but now… I’m on the JET program! the same thing Rie is applying for… I’ve been here 3 1/2 years… I’ve wanted to come to Japan for years, after visiting here years ago… oh and the Spice Girls lesson was a huge hit! I’m quite pleased with myself! haha… congrats on your loss, and hope you have fun at work!

Rie: good luck girl! I’ll try to keep you in my thoughts tomorrow! and congrats on the loss and don’t worry about the personals!

Sammalamma: welcome! have fun cleaning!! given a choice between that and working out…. well I’m not quite sure which I hate more! lol.

Namaste: sorry to hear you’ve been feeling down… just hang in there! good for you for taking your future in hand! I hope you hear from that school real soon.

sgregg: apartment hunting as a success! (somewhat) but now I got some paperwork to do and there is like a tiny off-chance that the insurance company for the building will find me unworthy or something and decide not to rent… *sigh* Japan is such a bureaucracy country… red tape everywhere!!! gah. congrats on your loss!! you sound like you’re in a good mood good luck with the lesson!!

I am gonna catch up on personals later today. Have to get to the dentist in a bit. Bit I just weighed and I am THRILLED!

Finally past the 139 at a solid 137. I use a not so precise metric scale so I can only note down the whole kilo's lost. Which means I'll jump 2 lbs everytime my weight changes. Hihi.

Good morning! I'm less than thrilled to see Monday morning again. I had a relaxing weekend for the most part. Things are super crazy around our city right now because the Super Bowl is here. It will certainly be a challenge to get to and from work since I work downtown.

Not much to report. I ate pizza yesterday that I shouldn't have, but it happens. I'm anxiously awaiting the arrival of my weight lifting book. I have no idea what is taking so dam* long!

Happy (HAH!) Monday!

I observed at a high school life skills room today. I'm doing my internship at an autistic support classroom in the elementary school, but I wanted a taste of the older group. I walk in, introduce myself, and one girl says "Hi my name is Tory and I like fried chicken". Yup, that population won my heart!!!

I have to go to the car service shop soon to pick up my car. I've been driving a rental all weekend, and I'm RELUCTANTLY returning the car today . I drive a 2003 hyundai accent, and they gave me a beautiful 2011 toyota corolla. This is heart breaking!

Thanks for the welcomes, everyone! I'll play catch up on the first of feb!

Hey guys,

I am feeling a little less bummed out now. I was checking my voicemail this morning and found out I had a request for a job interview. Needless to say I returned the voicemail quickly, and now I have an interview set for 5pm tomorrow. I am keeping my fingers and toes crossed because if I get the job it will be much easier to pay for college in March.

I went to the Royal Rumble here in St Louis (its wrestling, because I am awesome that way), which was really fun. I'm paying for it today though, because there were some fireworks in the show that literally went off 15 feet above our section, and they were fairly large, so now I can't hear out of one ear and the pain coming from that ear is excruciating. So hopefully I'll be okay by the time the interview rolls around.

Because of the stress with my family, I have been failing miserably at the diet. But like I said, I'm ready to come back on board and start being more proactive.

sgregg- Thanks! (((( hugz )))))

Kawaii- Awww... sounds like you had a rough time of it. Hope you feel better soon.

Samma- Welcome! I feel you on the car, I have a 2005 Corolla and I love the car, but I am hoping to upgrade pretty soon! I can't imagine having to drive a great car and then give it back, I would be crushed!

Phili- Good job! Keep up the good work!

namaste: I'm crushed The toyota was SO much more spacious! I feel like I'm in a clown car. At least the shocks are fixed so every pot hole doesn't echo through my skull anymore!! I'm hoping once I graduate and get a job in the summer (or fall if I go with a school setting), I'll get a car. I have my eye set on a 2012 ford fiesta in green! A girl can dream, but I'm tired of dreaming! hahah
Best of luck with the interview tomorrow!!

Hey guys,

Just a quickie, no time for personals this evening! My return to work was so chaotic, I'm EXHAUSTED. And to top it all of, I'm sick again I've had a sore throat since Saturday and a fever today. Between the knee injury and being sick twice, 2012 sucks so far

I was suppose to go to the gym this morning but I didn't feel like lugging my gym bag, suitcase, soup, and garment bag to the gym. I'm try for tomorrow!

It's 8:13pm and I'm going to bed!