Good Morning Chicks! I feel ok this morning although run down. Jim is taking Cassie for her bath and will be running some errands. I'm going to shower and get ready after breakfast and wrap until I have to go for my hair appointment. Maybe I'll feel perkier after I get all dolled up.

I making dinner tonight and tomorrow and already know what we are having. Tonight is Chicken Chili with Core corncakes. Yum! Tomorrow is Spicy Chicken Cacciatore over ww rotini. It's truly delicious and might be one of my favorite Core recipes. It's loaded with veggies and flavor. I think I already posted on our recipe board. It originally came from the WW board but I think I tweaked it a bit for spices and such.

How were all of you after I went to bed last night?

Melissa, I hope it was the second of the papers and that you are now done with school for a while. I'm very much looking forward to chatting with you more. I'm sure your floors are beautiful. I'm very jealous. Jim and I are NOT handy at all. I'd love to have wood floors in our entry, small bath, and entire kitchen area up to the family room. I'm guessing it would cost us about $6,000 to have it done. I'm not sure how much it would add to have them take up the tile too. Can we see pictures?

Frouf, I used to hate those kinds of Mondays. It was great that you stopped at one piece of veggie pizza. I ate more than that the other night. Congratulations on your cruise. You are always your happiest when awaiting a cruise. I'm guessing DH didn't buy the xanax idea since you are likely going alone! My GF loved Puerto Rico. She's been all over the world. I'm content to hear the stories and look at the pictures. The cabin sounds awesome!

Sandra, you do sound like you are having fun. I'm glad that you are happy to be home. I was afraid you'd be sad.

Kathy, you have raised some generous children like their Mom. That lady is very lucky.

Rhonda, so where are you? Are you getting better. It's been a long time now.

I'm caught up with you all. I'll go make a menu thread now and get my day started.

Hey Sandra, how were those muffins?

Good morning! I am so late checking in ... where has the morning gone?

Your dinners sound very good, Vickie! Tonight I simply must cook dinner since I've been on strike for the last few days. If we have some WW ziti, I might make baked ziti -- otherwise it'll probably be LO roasted chicken with some sort of vegetable. There's just too much to do in the evenings to "waste time" cooking! I really should be utilizing the crockpot more.

I'll be back in a bit. I need to take a work break. I mean, a break from goofing off and do a little bit of work. Then I'll get back to my goofing off.

hi there. we just got home from lunch at applebees. i had the tilapia entree/rice/veggies. 6 pts. i don't know why they don't use brown rice, but i'm not complaining. it was yummy! we each brought home a dessert. curtis got something loaded with pts. i had the ww chocolate/raspberry cake. of course, we ate as soon as we walked in the door. don't know why we didn't just eat it there. my cake was 4 pts. i'm thinking it would be even better if i ate it there and let them fancy up the serving; plus, i'd order hot tea.

vickie, the fall muffins were fabulous!!!! i accidentally put in too much oil. (4 T instead of 4 t) (i know that was bad.) next time i'll use 4 t oil and maybe add some applesauce. also, this time i added some raisins. i may add some raisins and walnuts next time. i'll have to count waps.

kathy, i need to do some crockpotting, too. i got a recipe the other day that i posted here. i'm going to try it soon. i love to goof off. that's like me!!

Hey all! I'm a redhead. Well, reddish blonde anyway. I was looking too ashy for my taste. Anywhooooo....I just finished cooking and eating dinner and now I'm going to go spend some time with Honey Lamb.

I didn't wrap any presents again today. I'm going to be SO sorry if I don't get to it soon. I've been procrastinating badly. Now I don't want to do it tonight either. Santa would be SO disappointed in me.

I'd like to say that I was perfect on program today but I wasn't. I ate past satisfaction at dinner because I was ravenous when I ate. I'll not have anything else tonight except for my hot milk.

Have a great evening.

vickie, none of us are perfect. we just do the best we can. you were op--that's what counts.

i haven't wrapped any presents yet either. i did get the artificial, pre-lighted tree out and will put it up tomorrow. we're going to shayla's school program tonight. that should give us more spirit.

we each got 1.5 hour massages today. man! do i feel good or what!!

linda, i just read your post over on the other board. congratulations on losing that pound. tell dd congrats on reaching 10% . what a great nsv getting asked out on a date!! this makes me smile. i have been there--done that. 16 is a hard age sometimes.

i am anxious to go to ww this week and find out everything i can about the changes. it does sound like they are tightening up on core folks, doesn't it?

Hi all! I got through day 1 of teaching preschool this week. Now I just have Thursday to do, and I'll be free again for the next 4 weeks. Thursday we get to go to a nearby rest home and put on a little Christmas play and sing some songs. The kids are so cute, but clueless. Oh well, I have a feeling the residents aren't going to care.

I am really thinking of going to my doctor...for the last year or so, I've been really battling fatigue. I feel tired all the time, and I usually get at least 7 hours of sleep a night. Some days I have to take a nap just to get enough energy to finish my day. Granted, I am pretty busy, but still... it's so frustrating to think of all the things I'd like to be doing, but end up sitting in front of the computer because I don't have the get up and go to, well, get up and go. I'm wondering if I'm anemic or something. I always was when they tested me when I was pregnant, and I've not been very faithful in taking my multivitamin. And I know that allergies can cause fatigue, but I've been getting allergy shots for the last 2 months, so I would think that would be improving. I also have wondered if I have very mild asthma. I'm just trying to figure out what's going on, or maybe this is just the way life is and I'm just lazy and should just deal with it. Hmm.

On the food front, I've been doing terribly. I need to go back to full Core with no excuses. My mom and sister are heading back to WW meetings tomorrow, but I can't afford them right now. Doesn't mean I can't do the program though...I know it like the back of my hand!

I'm so glad this board is becoming active again. I need to remind myself that others are working the program, and that there are others in my boat (or on my wagon?)

I'm off to make some cute fleece hats for the girls for Christmas.

Later ladies!
Angela

Angela, please do get checked out if you think something is wrong. You're much too young to be so tired -- there really might be something going on. I feel like I've been tired for the last 15 years! It sure doesn't help having three kids (I know what you live thru every day) and a house to keep clean and people to keep fed.

I switched back to Core today on my online membership. Actually for maintenance it says you can switch between the two every day if you want to. While I'm personally not in maintenance, I am as far as my WW goal (which they set as 145) so I'm switching as needed.

I just finished making my lunch for tomorrow, and now Judd and I are watching The Devil Wears Prada. It came out on DVD today and he knew I wanted to see it, so he stopped on the way home from work and got it for us. I thought that was nice.

I talked to Shaun today and he said he might be going to Iraq in the spring right after his tech school is done. He was told yesterday that the type of plane he's working on will be going over and there's a good chance he'll be going with it. I guess we'll know more later. Meanwhile, he's really looking forward to coming home at Christmas for a week or so.

I finally decided that I'm getting my eyelashes dyed tomorrow night so that I don't have to wear mascara anymore. The mascara really messes with my contacts.

And that's about all I know right now. Food for tomorrow is decided, so I think I'll go start the menu thread.

Night, all!

Night, Kathy!

Hi All:

Whew, what a whirlwind since I got back from all these travels and all the emotional ups and downs. Then the stomach virus. It really only lasted about 18 hours but my tummy is still rumbling and I didn't take good enough care of myself today around food. Yeech...

Thank goodness, tomorrow is another day.

My home computer ISP has been a mess for a while and today the techie came out and supposedly solved it. I couldn't connect at all from home yesterday. It certainly has been better tonight, so I'm optimistic. I could connect to my U of Toronto email faster from Texas and New Mexico than I could from across town!!

Froufy! Another cruise! I'm so happy for you and envious. I'm going back on one of those as soon as I can.

So, I'm headed to bed myself..night all.

Rhonda

NSV ALERT!!!!

tonight at shayla's school program i spoke to our neighbor who lives across the street. he spoke back then asked me who i was. now that's a great thing to have happen.

angela, go to the doctor and find out what's wrong. you're too young to be fatigued like that. maybe those vitamins are all you need. we're all in that boat (wagon). i saw a sign on the gym wall tonight that says "success is getting up more times than you fall." we're all getting up.

kathy, i'm glad shaun is coming home for christmas. how is he doing? do you think the navy is helping him? wish we had a movie to watch now. there's nothing on. curtis is watching "miami ink."

rhonda, we've been in a whirlwind and our isp has been acting up, too. what's going on? i called our isp sunday and they now have it fixed. i couldn't get or receive e's all weekend. one friend told me his e's kept coming back to him saying we'd refused to accept them. oh my.

i just had a wonderful snack. it's not core but it's low in pts. it's the laughing cow cubes. (light lc cheese) it takes 5 to make 35 calories. i eat 6 on 6 club crackers. i feel like i'm indulging and i'm only eating about 5 pts. life is good.

night night, chickies.

Good Morning Chicks! I can't stay right now but I wanted to say Good Morning. I made a deal with Jim. He's going to run errands and I have to wrap....starting now.

So have a great day. I'll be back on my break to catch up with what I missed last night with all of you.

Happy wrapping! I really have to do that tonight too.

For some reason, those things aren't wrapping themselves like I thought they would!