Mornin' ladies. My, aren't we busy chicklets this a.m.? Not I. I was on the phone with the Dell guy again until 3 am. But he was flirty. It was kind of weird.

Everyone sounds like they are doing well. Congrats on losing 40 lbs, Barb! Ethiopian food sounds phenomenal, but alas, still in Phase One and stuck there a day longer cuz of the stupid chocolate fiasco yesterday. Hope everyone's kids are adjusting/will adjust to school. I love that Staples commercial with the sullen little girl following her dad around while he shops for school supplies. Then she says, 'I thought you said school was out forever', and the dad turns around, it's Alice Cooper, and he says, "No, it's school's out for summer.' High school is very rough, I went to a Catholic high school and was the dorky girl whose skirts were too long to be cool, and had ugly shoes. Alas, my mother insisted on getting tons of shopping done before school, and I didn't have any idea what to wear with ugly uniforms, and so I was the dork for two years before I outgrew them. There might be an upside to buying some stuff now, but picking up sale stuff in a couple of weeks. Beachgal, congrats on all the exercising. If only I could motivated. But I have a standing date with the Dell for tonight too. I'd rather be at the gym. =)

Have a great day!

Good to see you, ADD! Sounds like the people at your school are real jerks! I can't believe they behave like that! I'd be tempted to give them **** and ask why they are treating a paying customer that way!

Congrats on the loss! Weight can fluctuate, so don't stress too hard, okay?

Hi gang I have about 2 1/2 seconds before I hear for the I don't know how many times. WHEN ARE WE GOING TO THE BEACH. why do I even tell them. Anyway glad to see us all posting and some of our MIA chicks back. Gotta to run one is crying and my 3 year old bully is the cause. Plus the rest of them are chanting beach beach beach beach.

I just have a moment... I had a nice surprise this mornning 213.5. !3 lbs to get below 200. That is seems so doable.

cac

Hello everyone,
Well our day is going well here Except my lunch stinks!:: I went running errands w/DD#2 and went to SAMs and got fish and nuts and other stuff. Then took DD@ thru drive thru to get her a hot dog so I got a roasted chicken salad from KFC I thought that looks good WRONG I just ate the chicken off and am now headed for the kitchen to see what I can have. Still have not gotten on scale I am too afraid to look
The rain looks like it might be going away but we shall see. Have to figure out whats for dinner tonight. I really would rather go out to dinner but alas our babysitter had to cancel she had a 5inch hole cut into her on Wednesday and she is just not feeling that great. (Skin Cancer AT 20!!!!!!!!!!) The prognossis is good though.

Well I guess I am going to go scavenage around my kitchen and see what sounds good and is OP. I will be back.

Ok back again!!
I found something to eat. A little cantaloupe and I have a mimi cheese pizza in the oven. Its made on a Latortia with tomoato sauce and cheese. Thought it might satisfy the craving for pizza too.

Barb that is just awesome!!
Sheq: I want to come shopping too!!!
Kiko right there with you TOM Just try not to eat everything in sight and just think next week how many calories and the exercise you will get trying to make that baby
Cac Way to go!
Ellis Feel Better
Laurie Just think you will have your time next week. Keep up with the Jazzercise it helped me last time I was dieting.

I love making pizzas on La Tortilla tortillas! I add sliced mushrooms and onions and canadian bacon. I have also switched to turkey pepperoni or canadian bacon for the rest of the family. That way they get less fat and still get a good flavor.

Sorry to hear about your baby sitter. I hope she gets regular skin checks and that the cancer has not spread. My sis had melanoma and I've had 5 precancerous moles so I take it seriously.

Jennie - Thanks for the info about the school. I had never heard of that one before. I must take a look at their web site...sounds interesting.

Add - Your story about the campus is annoying, to say the least. I get soooo angry when I hear about students being treated this way. On the campus where I work, administration is very concerned when students are treated this way and want to know about them. I think that on most post secondary campuses (not all, but a lot of them, anyway), the faculty think that they are the customer (because in their view, the campus wouldn't exist without them), and that the students are there to be treated in any fashion that they choose. Strides are being made to change that treatment, but can't be done unless the behaviour is identified. I don't know the structure of your college, but I would certainly be doing something about the incident - try the Dean/Chair of the faculty (unless that person was involved ), if so, go above their head; your student's union is another good lobby group for this kind of behaviour; how about submitting an article for your student newspaper (letter to the editor, or something). You just don't need that kind of treatment at all.

Well, I just got back from my 70 minute power walk. This is the third day a 1 hour, so I can feel that it is getting easier, but I am still tired. The weight is coming off though and for that I am thankful. I was at the campus computer store this morning and ran into another employee. She was amazed at the weight that I had lost over the summer. Puffed chest, sucked in stomach...

Bye for now. Have a great weekend.

Peggy, I'm so glad that you received a compliment...it feels so good, doesn't it!

Where do you work at your college? I'm in career services at a small, private, liberal arts college, and we feel the same way about students...they are treated well or else! <making cutting motion across neck> Our nursing supervisor is a crabby woman, but everyone else in the department is sooo nice. I think ADD should go to school here!

I'm in security - the switchboard falls under me, parking (the most thankless job ever), we contract the guard force, so they are my responsibility, keys, alarm systems, that kind of stuff.

If you had a student advise of an issue such as ADD had, what would you advise on your campus? Our career services and counselling department are in the same area, so some of the mistreated students show up in that area. We also have a President who wants to know when issues of this nature happen - his exec assistant deals with them, so we have lots of avenues here to pursue bad behaviour from staff.

If something like that happened, I suppose it would go first to the Academic dean, who would then deal with the people in the department. It's harder with the academic department staff, because they don't have as direct a supervisor as the staff in department offices. I know it would be dealt with quickly and harshly. Though some of our students are a bit , still they are definitely our customers, and as fellow human beings, too, they deserve our respect. We aren't allowed to all go to lunch at the same time, so what happened to ADD probably would never happen here, but that kind of rudeness is just inexcusable. I agree with all that you told her...GREAT suggestions!

And yes, you have one tough job! Parking on any college campus is just very frustrating and difficult! Do you like the work, in spite of the frustration?

Just wanted to post a quick hi-the kids are whining for dinner. LOL. Spent all day at a back to school meeting for work. Train, train, train. We spent all day in classes. We went over all of the new policies and procedures. Hopefully this year will not be as stressful as last year (the district re-arranged all of the schools and transportation which equaled mass confusion!).

I got my route, it is 4.5 hours and I got both students in wheelchairs for the district to stretch my route. I also went in and chatted with my boss and she suggested I sign up to do a special needs kindergarten route to give me that financial boost. If I don't recieve a kindergarten route then realistically I am only losing 1/2 hour per day from last year and financially for us, this is doable. DBF's job is giving us more financial freedom and my paychecks are becoming more of my spending money rather than paying bills and trying to survive on them.

I'm glad it all worked out, I was so worried! The other sn drivers have been good to me to by welcoming me to this division and giving me extra training and stuff so that I am well prepared.

O.k. I heard a crash from upstairs, I have to go investigate! Chat later.

Well crap. Yeah I'm having a regular size bagel. It fills me up so I'm not hungry until 3 hours later when it's time for my snackysnack.

So, I still look like this and I'm thinking I may be coming down with something. All day long today I've just felt icky like I may be fighting off a fever or something. I don't know. Thank God Job #2 called me off so I don't have to go through that tonight. Yesterday the high was like 82, and then today it was 53 here. (Weather channel said 68 for the high, but that's junk because it was only 53 at 3:00 this afternoon.) I think it may have something to do with how I feel today.

My stomach growled all day today, too, which is surprising because I haven't really been starving since I started SB. I ate my giganto bagel for breakfast, couldn't even wait 2 hours for the peanuts, then had my brown rice/cheese casserole less than 2 hours later, then my cheese stick 2 hours later, and had 3 and a half hours until I was off of that job. My stomach was roaring at 4:30! I came home and had more than I usually do for dinner (salad with cottage cheese and a whole wheat tortilla with spaghetti sauce and cheese on it.) My stomach feels a little better, but otherwise I feel like poop.

I'm supposed to go meet a friend in an hour but I think I need to just lay on the couch, as I do have to work at 9:30 tomorrow morning. Then, after a long day at work, I have to clean my entire house since I'm having a PartyLite party here Sunday night. Grocery shopping comes early Sunday. Ugh, forgot about church, too. Hopefully no guilt trips from Dad this weekend....don't have time for everything.

You all have a lovely evening. Talk to you later on this weekend.