well, I had a novel typed out and the computer erased it, very frustrating. grrrrrr. Well my computer at home is soooo slow that it would take me 1 hour to post anything on here, so I will probably not post fridays, saturdays and be back sunday night. Unless I am really bored and want to wait hours to get on here. ;-)
Well, friday and saturday it was sooo hot where I live. It got to 104 on friday, so my sweetie said no more miserable bring lying in pools of our out sweet, so on Saturday we head down to the coast. The town of florence Oregon is about 1 hour 15 minutes away and it was 30 degrees coller and it felt soooo good. I felt really bad leaving my poor babies to cook in the heat. I wished we had gotten their harnesses and brought them with us, maybe next time. We brought a picnic lunch and ate on the beach. It wasn't too windy and the sun peeked out every once and awhile. If anyone has ever been to the Oregon coast you would now that the water is not for swimming it is so cold and it is rarley sunny there. Before we went to the beach however, my boyfriend wanted to stop at the new cheesy Casino they built there. I hate gambling mysefl since I don't make a cent extra to spend on fun stuff. But, my sweetie loves Black Jack, so I said ok for a little bit. He gave me three dollars to go to the penny machines and off he went to black Jack. the funny thing is that as much as i hate gambling I have the magic touch or something on the penny machines. Lst time we went I won 110.00 with 1 dollar on them. Well, my sweetie just wanted to win enough to get a nicer seafood dinner than fast food. Well I won 20.00 on 1.00 on the penny machines, but gamble some of it away before I said STOP SHANNA to bring it down to 15.00. Then my boyfriend won 10.00 on Black Jack , he was up to 40, but blew some of it away. He probably would have gambled it all had I not come over at that time with my winnings. So we had enough for something good to eat. We headed down to Old town Florence where they have cute little shops, eateries and the docks. We had such fun looking and laughing like we hadn't in a long time. We decided to eat at a place called the firehouse which had a good sounding special. I totally loaded up on the fat and calories, but sometimes you just have to splurge on a special occasion. I had their deluxe famous Clam chowder. It had shrimp, crab and parmesan and swiss cheese on it with parmesan and garlic bread on the side. Oh I felt so fat and naughty and so stuffed, but it was soooo heavenly. SO back to the diet stuff today. Me and my sweetie went home and beached ourselves on the couch. We just love seafood. Yummy. We took so good pictures that I hope to be able to send to Walmart for developing for scrapbook time. I have a digital camera that he gave me for my birthday, but I haven't been able to afford a memory card yet, which makes developing the pictures easier. Someday, anywho I had a great time, just wish it would cool down here, it is hard to sleep in the heat of the day on the days that i work. Ok, I have written another novel.

Susan: You have me hungry for Watermelon now. Darn you!!!!! I love it, but I have to be careful what time of day I eat it since it really makes a person go to the bathroom alot. They don't call it "Water" Melon for nothing. I just love it though. My boyfriend calls me weird since i like to eat it with salt sprinkled on top. I grew up doing that and I think it makes the watermelon taste sweeter. Anywho, thanks to you missy I have to go get a watermelon to sooth my cravings. I hope your happy.
Jana: I need some of your weight loss energy. You are amazing and worthy of envy from any and all. I can only hope to have your strength and perserverance to fight my weight off . I need to find something that will make me stop whining about my fat butt and get off it to do something about it. Oh the horror of it all. 56 degrees???? Can I move over to your house for the summer???? I hate warm weather. Anything over 80 degrees make me cranky and not want to do anything. ugghh, I am a true Oregonian. I whine when it rains to much, but whine when it gets too hot.
Well to all the over Jaded Ladies I hope all is well, I will save more individuals to another time since I have already clogged up the post with my novel here.
So to Cristi ( got your card, thank you), all the newbies that i have yet to learn all your names , angie, katie, kayecee ( that picture is still missing ) and Dolphin, Scorchin, etc, that I don't know the real names to yet, hope your weekend went off without a hitch and the following work week goes off the same. Boy are my fingers tired after all this typing,

this server lost my huge post AGAIN, so I am going to calm down before I lose it and post tomorrow. GRRRRR I work so hard on it too, it was huge, trust me. WAAAAAAAA

Oh, now it posts it, wow, That was amazing that it lost it, but found it YAAAAHHHHHH, my crying can stop now, what a relief. I am going to do a happy dance now!!!!!!!!!

Me again, hee hee, I just read my post and I am sooo embarrassed, so I had to come on one more time and apologize for all my spelling errors and such. I wrote it in between answering members questions and didn't have a chance to check it before I posted it. I am really not that ignorant.
Also, I am going to play dumb for the moment and could someone please tell me what *BUMP* means. I read it on a lot of posts and curiosity has gotten the better of me and I am finally asking. Ok, I promise no more post until tonight after getting to work. :-) hee hee

good morning ladies

squeak mouse- i am going to get a tablet and write down everyones sign on name and their real name as i figure them out cause i cannot remember from one day to the next and its frusturating me.
anyway, i loved reading your large post it made my morning. what fun!!!
we actually have a couple of things in common so i thought i would point it out, your birthday is 5-21-76 and mine is 5-11-77 you live in oregon and i found my dads biological family in wa and ca (so you are sandwiched between the williamsons lol ) my dad was born in wa. and im all the way over here in WV. i hate snow we get as much as 36" here at a time, i wont drive in it and complain about it the entire time. now that its hot ive been complaining about that too.

this morning i got up before the kids and did taebo basic with billy blanks and then did denise austins power yoga and then took a shower and sat down on my big but to read the posts. i just love this site and love everyone here. its so great!!!! thanks to everyone who participates and supports one another. I dont think i would have made it this long without your support (even though it hasn't even been a week )

well, ive blabbered long enough. this is the first time ive experimented with the happy faces so if it looks wacky, sorry and if it looks great, thanks

signing off for now and will try to get back tonight.
tj

lol mouse sounds like u guys had lots of fun this weekend me and my hubby sat at home and did nothing but watch movies and play with the puppy we did go to the suana and juccizu at the small gym by his barracks that was fun... dont' worry bout spelling and stuff i usually forget to reread mine and always have some much messed up with it but ohwell i figured if i can understand it then everyone else can and if not who cares hehe jk... OH and my name is heather
Tj- sounds like u already had a busy morning i never could do the taebo lol i look so funny.....
I decided that this week I want to work on my self consicousness issue it really bothers me and limits me on doing things i want to do like the pool and this thursday james battlion is going to have a sports day and i want to go but i know i'd normally be nervous and uncomfy but im gonna try make myself go and have a good time( i'd play some of the sports but its only for the boys and james didn't sign up for anything)
Well I did 38mins of my slim in 6 ramp it up video some of the exercises pull on my kidney and i can't do them... well i have a busy day today gonna be on the phone pretty much all day calling doctors offices and trying to get myself on tricare so i don't have to pay for meds and doc app while im in georgia ... take care, heather

Good morning ladies,

Jen - well, this course would almost guarantee a raise in January, not that you wouldn't already get one. Maybe it will be a bigger one, though. Like the idea of the buffet you went to! Everything cooked up nice and fresh. Good price, too.

Heather - better luck Friday with the pool. I make my own salsa, too. I don't think it tastes a whole lot better than the bought kind, but I know it doesn't have all the additives in it.

Susan - let's see... at your weight, your WW points is 20 a day, plus 35 flex points a week to use as you see fit. I add 3 a day to mine, and forget the rest. Usually . Once in awhile, like after I've been drinking, lol, I dip into the rest of them.

TJ - way to go on the exercise! And you did a good job with the smilies.

Marti - glad you had a good time with James. Is Eugene very far from Portland? I've been seeing on the weather channel about the unusual heat there.

Angie - hope you get some rest! And I can hardly wait to hear all about the case you're working. Maybe you could start writing like Janet Evonovich or Sue Grafton, and make a bazillion bucks!

Shanna - good to see you!!! Sounds like you had a lot of fun with your BF this weekend. The picnic on the beach especially sounds like fun. Yep, it is cool in Indiana now, but last week it was in the high 90's with a heat index of about 110. Yikes!

Hi to the other JLs

I saw on TV that Wendy's now has mandarin orange slices as a choice instead of french fries. I've been getting the apples at McD's... and used to take my own orange, if you remember. I'm not real crazy about either place, but the DGDs are, lol, and they don't even know caramel sauce comes with the apples, lol.

Gotta get my kitchen mopped today and do some laundry.

BBL,

Hello ladies... let me just start by saying that I missed you this weekend, I kind of have gotten used to coming in here every day.

I spent the whole weekend going to Daniel (my son) activities. He had two birthdays on Saturday.. Which means buyng two presents... one at 10:30am at Chuck e Cheese and the other at 2:00 at Solid Rock (climbing)... then I had some friends that turned out to be 9 invited for dinner... they all arrived one after the other around 6pm and left my house at 4:00am ... I could not belive it when I saw how late it was

The worst part was that, my husband was not home this weekend... I had to do everything by myself inluding throwing away three full garbage bags.

Marty: I understand you completely... my husband works in politics and in this time before the elections there are activities around the clock including the weekends, so it is more the time he spents out of our apartment than in. I miss him terribly and especially I miss the help he provides around the house.., It is as if I were alone with Daniel for the majority of the time.

On Sunday I went to a friends house for a bbq and the pool. My friend has two sons close to Daniel's age and they had a blast. I of course did not go into the pool! Just watch them have all the fun. HEATHER: We have to stop being so selfconcious and start living and having FUN.

As to my diet, this weekend was disastrous!!!!!!!! I ate with some friends friday night and DID NOT ORDER THE SALAD. Then on saturday I went to two birthdays and ate cake twice... and to finish it up I had people for dinner ... so that leaves Sunday where I ate BBQ ribs at my friends house.... HOW PATHETIC!

Well, I started again today... I haven't wanted to get even close to a weight... I'll wait for my next weight in and then cry!

Jana: Remember that during diffult times we are never alone, for God is carrying us. Let Him comfort you.

TJ: I wish I could wake up and actually follow throug on two excercise tapes...

This week I have to buy Daniel all his school stuff, because school starts here in AUGUST 10... the kids finish middle May. That means approx. $400 in books, plus $200 in materials and of course I have to pay the first weeks tuition by AUG 5 thats another $350.00 and I am not even going to think about his soccer team and boys scouts. And lets not forget the uniform, shoes, gym uniform etc. HELP

Well, I have to admit that I actually had a good time this weekend!

Saludos,

Jo

To all JLs - if any of you have anything private to say to me, please don't send an email because I hardly ever check it. Send a PM insted. PMs here are private, and although the administrators can tell who sent one to who, and how often, they can't see what you write. (nor do they care, I'm sure, lol)

Now that I almost missed out on a very, very important one, I will try to check my email more often, but still, use PMs, okay?

Good morning, JLs
Weigh in day for RK and I'm down 2....yippee. It's nice to change the sig in the RIGHT direction.......

I've had fun catching up on the threads from the weekend - such a great bunch of ladies. I'm inspired by you gals who are getting up early to do tapes. I set up a tv/vcr w/all my workout tapes in the playroom, but has been hard to get up early enough. I am managing to get some walks in, so I'm feeling fairly active. I live in a neighborhood with lots of hills, so I get a good workout on my walks.


We spent much of the weekend getting started on the kids' fort, which is beginning to be known as "the guest house", 'cause it's looking rather large. Hey, Marti can stay there when she comes up to visit, lol. There will be more building on Wed and Fri this week, so hopefully we can get most of it done.

After all that, a pipe burst in our wall, so now all our water is turned off until the plumber gets here, which is supposed to be in the next hour or two. Two young kids and only one bath, which we can't use, is not my idea of a good time. Toddler's in diapers, so that's ok, and DS can water the bushes. I just won't feed anybody fiber for the next couple of hours evil mommy

I have a dilemma here..... I have two good friends. 20 year friendships with both. They had an eight year, very turbulent marriage, in the late 80s. They been divorced for 10+ years, and I have been able to maintain friendships with both, They've been really good about not putting me in the middle of stuff. Then again it's been relatively easy as they have lived a great distance apart. Now the XW has moved back to town and unbeknownst to XH, is living almost in his neighorhood. Normally I could easily avoid the whole dilemma of whether to tell him that the X is back in town as we never discuss her. He's remarried and has a baby. However, she has given me a family heirloom to return to him, so I plan to return it, but also think I should tell him the circumstances. I think. I keep going back and forth.... there's a chance they could bump into each other, so a head's up could be appreciated...then again, why ruin his day and possibly freak out his current wife.. 'course she's in for a freak out at some point if they do run into the X..... Why is life such a soap opera!? What Would a JL Do? New bumper sticker

I'll try to get back to do individuals later, right now I need to get the bad news from the plumber....did I mention my house is 65 years old? Yikes -

We might just move in to the guest house.....

Have a great day, ladies
RK

Good morning ladies--

Got up early....had a tough time sleeping so I really had to pull myself out of bed, but I wanted to be sure to be up before James leaves.....then to find out that he won't have to leave until tonight! Yes everyone, I enjoy my time with my husband. We have an "unusual" relationship as some friends would put it. We met while working, then worked together as a couple for a year at the job, then we moved on to Sony and worked together for almost 4 yrs. We have been together everyday for the last 5yrs until Sony quit and he had to find a different job. We've enjoyed every minute together and have yet to tire of each other. (We do, do our own thing every now and then so it's not like we're joined at the hip!) But we have a bond that I have never experienced before and I guess I tend to get over weepy when I know he'll be gone for days at a time.

ok...enough of my life story.

Shanna--You and BF did what I wanted to do this weekend! How jealous I am that you got to go. But I did get to roam around with James so I'm not really complaining. (or am I? ) Did you stop at the old time photo's?? That would have been fun! Glad you had long post....enjoyed reading it. I'm back into wanting to do scrapbooking...found this really cool trick to do and I tried it and it works!! Gotta share that with you soon!

Jen--James and I went to a mongolian grill yesterday afternoon for lunch. It is a very good place to eat, you get to choose what you want before they grill it and there are so many veggies to choose from that it can be very healthy. I don't eat much of the rice and I never grab any of the noodles...just chicken and veggies and I'm satisfied......how anyone can go a second round is beyond me!

Heather--We are very similar in height and weight! I'm 5'1" and weigh 146 at the moment...but let me tell you, I've been at 150 for what seems like FOREVER and just seeing it go down now just thrills me. Maybe I will do the same goal as you and Jen for Labor day!

Susan--Is James my best friend? Why of coarse!! I've never had a best friend as him in my life!! I can tell him everything that I would never breath to another soul. Things that I eventually had to share with him to bring back my sanity!! So yes he is.

Tj--I'm not sure if you posted in the bio thread, but how many kids do you have? You are certainly doing a fantastic job on all the exercising you are doing!! Give me some of your energy so I can do mine!!

Jana--Eugene is about 20 or so miles from my house and Portland is about 2 1/2 hours from my house. So there is a distance. We are having crazy weather lately!! I'm with Shanna, I gripe about the rain and I gripe about the heat. There is no pleasing me I guess!

Jo--Are your kids in private school? About your weekend....don't worry....that time is over and it's now time to get back on track. We all tend to stray...just to enjoy ourselves. So don't worry about it. You'll do good I'm sure!

Angie--Send those tomotoes my way!! The tomatoes in my grandpa's garden aren't ready yet and I just love making salsa!! It's good on everything!! So I'll be waiting for that package any day now!

RK--I had to call my landlord this morning to come and fix a leak...he told me that he's sending a plumber out this morning. Is it Oregonians leak week?? Sorry to hear about the problems with your friends. I wouldn't want to be the middle person, that would be too stressful for me. So if it get's too stressful for you, you need to tell the both of them that you can't do it. You have your own life to worry about!

Cristi--Hi to you, I hope your not getting rained out or flash floods your way!! That woudl be awful!!

Hello to everyone else I may have missed!! The post have been long and I tried to get everyone. Forgive me if I missed you!

Well I better get off here since I've posted a long long......post this morning. James want's breakfast and I do to.....time to put those 4lbs. back on!!

Take Care
Marti

ok, here i am having a meltdown. was in the middle of a roll of crackers and cheese when" i said what the heck are you doing tj?" so i gave the crackers to my 4yr old and came here to unload. You see my daughter has bipolar and other med problems, anyway, she is having cycles from _____ today!!!! i am about to lose it! ok, im better. LOL

while im here, ill post some stuff-
heather-as for taebo, i probably look funny too but being up prior to my kids and with my husband out of state, noone sees me but my cat, shaggy. because im new, i am unaware of your kidney thing. Can i be filled in? the only reason i am curious is that my daughter has kidney reflux she almost lost her 3 times in 9 mos when she was 4 now she takes an antibotic everyday all year long. i looked in your public bio, is that you in the picture on the right? if so you are gorgeous! if not, whoever it is, is gorgeous!

I have never made salsa, but id have a recipe from an old workbasket mag called refrigerator spagetti sauce. I need to find that because it looks like it would be good.

as for watermelon, i put salt on mine too! glad im not the only one.

RK- good for you on the 2# loss. yay!!! hope your plumbing problems get straight soon. as for the 2 friends dilema, your in a sticky situation and im not sure what i would do. if i was the X that moved back into town i would want my X to be prepared for my arrival. and if my X was moving here, i would want to be prepared. the X that is moving back, have you asked her if you can tell him? that way there would be no surprises when the two finally cross paths.

Marti- yes, i have filled out my bio on the thread. (think i did it today or maybe yesterday) anyway, i have 3 kids- girl 9, boy 4, and boy 20 mos.

Jo- as for the splurge this weekend, its a history lesson, you cant bring it back so there is no need on dwelling on it. Good luck this week you will be in my thoughts.

Sorry that i boucned around alot on subjects i am so out of it right now that i cant even keep my thoughts straight.

Hopefully, ill be better tonight.
tj

Well....I called the my landlord this morning and have yet to see the plumber!!! It's almost 2:30 and we've turned off the water around 9:00!! Very frustrating.

Just wanted to pop in and see how everyone is doing. I'll try to check back later.

Marti- that would be great if u joined in with me and jen .....
tj- I was born with deformed kidneys when i was 4 i had recontructive surgery on them, however it didn't work and so every since then i had been in renal failure i was able to be off of dailysis until i was 19 then on halloween on last year i had dialysis surgery ( they put a tube into a artiery in my neck and chest that was a big pain the doctor didn't put it in right and i couldn't move my neck and the long tube in my chest hurt badly anyways, was getting off subject). I was very lucky I had a man from my church donate his kidney)to me so i wasn't on dialysis but for 5 months (later i find out the tube in my neck and chest were only suppose to be in there for 2 to 3 months not 5 i could have been in really troublewe had no matching anything but so far i haven't had to many promlems with it only right after transplant i had early rejection.I had my transplant on jan 22, 04 of this year.. sorry if this doesn't make sense hubby is trying to tell me how to type lol....
ok now i must go sorry if doesn't make sense will try to explain better if it doesn't .... heather

wow, I want some cheese and crackers!!! Sounds so good...

Sorry you are having a stressful day - TJ but at least you came to JL to talk it out. Hope it was some help and offered some relief?

What state do you live in Jo?? I want to move there if school is starting so soon!! Persona;;y I think summer is waaaay too long. Kids are bored now to be busy and back with friends. Rachel wants to know when she can go school shopping........told her when I get $$$- geez, so expensive to send them back to school.

Your weekend sounds great Shanna!! Never been to Florence myself, hear it is beautiful down there. Course the whole Oregon coast is.....I put salt on watermelon too, .....taste even better! Enjoyed reading your post

Teasing Marti. I KNOW James is your best friend......hard to miss that you kind of like him....lol. Just when you wrote that you were spending the day with your best friend and didn't give a name.....just taking an obvious guess.Get your wadder fixed!!! Speaking as a landlord myself it isn't a true emergency (do we have flooding?? lol) that you have no wadder is not our fault. .....lol. Teasing......had a leaky laundry pipe over the weekend and the water had gone down 2 floors causing a huge water bubble in the bottom unit. Called my super and she said " pop the bubble, release the wadder and tell the 3rd floor resident not to use do any laundry til maintenance gets out Monday"....anyway, hope someone fixes it soon!!

YAY!!!! RK on 2 pounds down!!! Your fort things sounds fun......personally , I wouldn't return anything for EW unless she knows you are going to tell EH that she has moved back in the neighborhood. Just basically tell him - hate secrets.They should all be adults to handle the situation. You want him to find out when they are both picking out wadder melons at Freddies?? lol......

Best get!!

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