Just wanted to tell everyone

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!!! KEEP SMILIN'!!

Hi everyone my internet was down for a while.

My weight went down half a pound yesterday

Don't know what I'm doing this weekend.

Have a good one.

Rennie, my plan is to get back on track. I did better yesterday, but as for a junk free environment that is not to be for a few more days. DD's confirmation party is tomoorow. I wanted to be casual and enjoy the day. That's my daughter, casual...so the house is full of brats, potato and macoroni salads, turtle cake, beer, soda, nachos, etc....hoping to get some exercise yet today between all the housework, yardwork and cooking!!! Have a great time at the camp ground!

photo, So happy for the good news about your friends health. Hang in there. Enjoy your free weekend. Don't fill it all with "to dos!"

Kappy, That was so insensitive. People need to stop looking at just the big picture and see the little people that make up the big picture. You guys stick together and support each other at work!

irshayes, not everything about the 40's being the new
50's is a good thing. Hang in there. Congrats on the engagement!

gt, step on yee ole soap box any time you like!

What's up Clyde???

Me, it's all about cub scout camp and confirmation. Packing, cooking, shopping, cleaning. All for wonderful causes though. Stress seems better today. I have a plan and I'm starting to attack right now!

Enjoy your Saturday!

Lovn: I think sometimes you need to just enjoy the day and not over worry about the calories for the day. I don't think you want to just binge, but eating what is there and having fun. It is all about your daughter and it is a big moment for her. You want to be able to rejoice in that, too.

Clyde: So, that's where you've been! Darn computers and the issues that come along with that!

Kappy: Just curious, what kind of work do you do? You don't have to be specific, but just wondering what kind of company it is.

Irish: It just seems tougher now to make ends meet than it was when our parents were our age. I'm not making excuses, but it really does seem more difficult to keep up. Hang in there!

GT: I think you are smart to make that decision about wine. I know that a lot of my weight came on in college when I drank a lot of beer. It is fine occasionally, but not all the time! I guess we have to be more sensible about what we're consuming! Darn!

Photo: Well, at least you get a break from the weddings. I hope you get some of your "to-do's" done. There are just those times when it is hard to keep everything in order! That's really good news about your friend, too. Glad to hear it. Oh... and good news for your cat!! We must keep them happy!

Well, my son's baseball team lost again last night. The good news is that he didn't get hit by the ball this time, so that's a first. I was not very happy last night though. One of the parents didn't realize that he had to work the concession stand and was not happy when I told him it was his turn. He came up later and apologized for his attitude, so I appreciated that. And the boy I hired to be the home plate ump said he really didn't want to be home plate ump, he just wants to be a field ump. (and you're telling me this NOW??) Luckily, one of the fathers stepped up and said he'd be the home plate ump. I owe him. Makes me wonder why I said I'd be a team parent. Not likely that I'll say yes to that again. I knew when I said yes at the beginning of the season that it was a mistake, but I wanted to help out. I guess I just can find better ways to help out.

Have a good weekend!

Happy Mother's Day to all of you who are Moms!

gt
If you were here I would have loved for you to come with us.

Just wanted to say hello to everyone. Hope all the lovely ladies here had a wonderful mothers day. Sure glad the weekend is over. Will tell you about it tomorrow.

6.4 miles at the zoo yesterday

Ward! Good to see you post! Where have you been?

I had a good weekend. We didn't do anything too exciting, but that was my choice. I know it was Mother's Day, but what I really wanted to do was get caught up on some of the things on my list. I was able to get to a few things that I've been putting off for quite awhile. So, that made me feel better. The next few weekends are going to be hectic, so I know I won't get a lot done then. My son's birthday is this week and he's going out of town for 2 days for a field trip. So, all the birthday stuff will be on Saturday, along with a baseball game, baseball pictures and a "hit-a-thon" fundraiser. Should be fun.

Hope everyone else had a good weekend!

Thanks Ward and Rennie for the Mother's day wishes. I hope you had great days as well.

Diane, I'm having the same feeling today. Why did I ever agree to be Cub Master. Our pack meeting, to end the season, is tonight and as of yet all the awards have not arrived in the mail. If they don't come I'll have parents that blame me rather than taking it in stride etc..at least your almost no show concession dad apologized. That can be a rarity. I've been Cub Master for 5 years and have never received any kind of thank you note or anything. Oh, I know some appreciate, but too few. Thankfully, I do it for the boys and not their parents!!

My daughter's confirmation was lovely. She was the caller for a song and she did really well. The service was nice. I had many people be very welcoming to my family who attended that are not members. The party after was very casual and we all had a good time. One of my brothers and my sister and families were no shows. Not so much as a card in the mail and they live 4 miles from us, but whatever, right? The people who were here wanted to be and we had a great time for more than 5 hours and my mother and I had a very nice day with no sarcasms of any kind exchanged. So, it can be filed in the "good day" column. Choir concert after scouts tonight. Busy, busy. If I get it to work the pic is of me and my DD just chillin at her party!

Ok, I've tried a bunch of times and all I see is box with a red X. I must be doing something wrong!!!

Hi girls.

Hope everyone had a lovely weekend.

Well for Mother's Day we painted my kitchen! Just what I wanted, yes really. I scraped the wallpaper off 2 years ago and I've been looking at drywall since then. We're not done yet there was a lot of priming to do. Then we had to choose the colour. Middle daughter helped me, she's the artist in the family. I took the lids of the cans when we got home and showed them the colours. Hubs and daughter both said they look like velveeta cheese and salsa!! So welcome to my cantina.

Now I need to get new lights, blinds and a new back door.

If we don't like the colour I'll just paint it again.

Clyde, I don't have the velveeta, but my kitchen pretty much looks salsa colored too and I need a new back door!!

Good morning all. I hope all of you who are moms had a great day yesterday.

Mine was . . . not so much. Everyone is sick, except me. Hubby did make a meal for me, but he really was feeling lousy, as was my oldest daughter. She didn't even get out of bed for dinner so I have yet to open her gift to me.

Her boyfriend did send me a text wishing me a Happy Mom's Day. He's so sweet. Apparently, he is coming to my house tonight after work to "take care of" my daughter. Ah, young love, remember what that was like? Yeah, I don't either.

Hi to everyone, and Happy Belated Mother's Day to all those who celebrate it.

What a weekend. I am still catching my breath. As someone who works full time, I find that Saturday is really the one and only day to DO anything - all the errands, the cleaning, whatever, it all happens on Saturday. And this one was no exception. I was out of the house at 8:00 a.m. and returned for good at 5:00 (with a brief pit stop to drop off newly-purchased groceries).

In the midst of that was another of my son's Little League games. They played an undefeated team, and we were missing 3 players, including the coach's son, who is a monster hitter. Well, we lost, 11-10, in a real heartbreaker. The boys were amazing, though - not one tear shed, and they were cheering and chanting til the bitter end. It was by far their best game...the other team just had some AMAZING fielding plays. We parents were so proud of them and best of all...the kids really understood just how well they played. Still, it would have been sweet to win. Maybe tomorrow night...weather permitting.

I hosted Mother's Day, as always. It was very pleasant, just sitting out on the deck, chatting with my family, and enjoying some sunshine. It was worth all the cooking and cleaning and preparation that went into it. I'm very particular about how I like the house to look when we have guests, even if those guests are "just" family.

I definitely indulged myself, food-wise, yesterday. However, I did send people home with doggie bags, and I brought the excess desserts into the office today, so there isn't much left at home. I really did not have much chance to exercise last week, so I am making that a priority this week! I refused to step on the scale this morning - why belabor the obvious! However, I'm determined to make this a good week for myself.

Weather here today is not good - way, way too cool for this time of year, and wet as well.

Diane - telecommunications. Rumor has it we will be having a lockout next year when the contract comes up. Lay off a ton of managers and have a lockout. Now THERE'S a plan!

Still don't know jack about the new position. The new manager is on vacation, won't be back until the conference call marathon begins tomorrow. It's possible as a result Wednesday and Thursday will be a whirlwind of activity to get everything done to be where I need to be on Friday. Or not. I'm more than a little fed up with trying to second guess what's going on. Or not, as the case may be! It's so utterly distracting and depressing. I'd really rather be putzing around at home than sitting in the office wondering. You can only clean so much, prepack so much. After that it's hurry up and wait.

Around the office you can tell who hosted the Mother's Day festivities for their families. They're either off today or walking around like Zombies! Happy, contented Zombies but also exhausted. I'm glad there were so many honored Mothers!

Didn't have time to post when I got home lol. Here was my weekend.

Oh my weekend was wonderful lol. My daughter went to a choir field trip to Kings Island this weekend. That was going to be great. I was going to clean house and pack and head to the zoo for the weekend Saturday morning. Sunday she was going to be home, I was going to be home and we were going to spend mothers day together.

The day started off bad lol, it got worse. First I go to the doc for a weight in because they have recalibrated the scale. The snooty nurse that refers to over weight woman as " the big fat woman " tells me how I better expect to add 5 pounds to what I think I weight because that is how much the scale is off. ( she enjoys talking like this to people trying to lose weight ) Well Wednesday my weigh in was 142 and friday it was 143 and this was after the 5 pound ajustment to the scale so that is great. I really lost more than I thought lol. I can't stand this woman and she is so mean to everyone. Use to really get me down when I first started going in for weigh in's but I am use to her now but darn .

My daughter calls me 3 hours from home. She forgot to take her Dramamine first thing in the morning and is sicker than a dog on the charter buss will I come and get her. Oh my gosh. I get on map quest and figure out where she is. I am going to get about an hour from her right in the middle of rush hour traffic in Columbus, oh nooooooooo. I have no house work done. No packing done. I throw a few things in a bag to take with me just in case she starts to feel better and I can stay down there ( I had ONE sock, a pair of undies that were 2 sizes to big for me, 4 sleeveless shirts ( it rained most of the weekend but at least not on Saturday) No pants, no t shirts, no sleeved shirts lol and remember the ONE sock lol. Anyway, I get about an hour from where the traffic is going to get real bad and she calls me that the meads have kicked in and she is feeling better ( at this point mothers day is going to be the girls funeral day lol ) but will I still come down in case she gets sick again. She has IBS and anything that is upsetting to her can really do her tummy in. Ok, well I am already on my way I might as well keep going. I get about 1/2 hour away and now she is feeling great and can't wait for the rides lol.

Well, this is ok. The house is clean enough I just wanted to run the sweeper and such. I took care of the animals. There are people there to take care of things. I was going to spend the weekend down there anyway just hate to be so unorganized ( at this point I had no idea what I had packed or didn't pack as the case may be ). I get to the peoples house we are going to stay the weekend at. Everyone is sick, I end up having to take care of everyone for the night lol. Hubby is thrilled lol ( oh by the way he took off work ( he works nights ) so I wouldn't have to face the rush hour traffic because I had no real idea where I was going except a map ). I go to get a shower and change clothes and now I find out about the ONE sock lol. The hubby calls his mother ( who we are meeting the next day for the zoo ) and is laughing about the one sock ( she isn't going to have a mothers day either with this kid because his funeral is going to happen at the same time as my daughters ). She takes me shopping Saturday morning and gets me clothes because you can't just wear ONE sock LOL. I am telling her no just get me a pair of socks she is saying forget it kid, you look like a bag lady and you are getting clothes. Happy early birthday and Christmas lol. So she gets me some pants and shirts and under clothes. We are at the zoo with a group of people. Does my hubby and his mother keep quiet NO WAY. I am being called the sock lady all weekend and everyone thinks it is just great fun.

irishayes, Hope your Monday was better than your Sunday!

LetsGo, I think you had the right idea by avoiding the scale. Mine was definitely a sad moment yesterday. Up 3 pounds from the first of the month. Everything has just been so hectic and there is no real end in sight until June. My mojo has flown the coop, but like you I am determined to find it again. I'm not giving in and just watching the scale go up and up. No I am not!!!

Kappy, yep, I was one of those Zombies too. I love when everyone comes to my house and eats and drinks and laughs. It's always worth the cooking and cleaning. Hang in there at work. How is your family? Mom, sister, niece, nephew?!?! I hope all is good on the home front at least.

Rennie, Ok, your daughter is lucky to have made it to Monday!!! Then again you kind of expected something before she ever went. It sounds to me like you knew your MIL was a soft touch so you packed so poorly so she'd get you knew stuff No, you wouldn't do that. Would ya now? Great job on the weightloss. I'm almost jealous ok, I am jealous. I have been so off track. I'm finding it hard to understand. A week and a half ago I was so happy about where I'm at. Eating healthy and exercise had become a way of life it was just who I am and now 10 days later I feel like someone who's taking the first steps. The sun is shining today and I have loads of healthy foods in the house. No excuse. None. Help me please!!!!

Clyde, What happened in the ballgame yesterday? I saw on the news the Brewers won, but in changing channels I saw the Cardinal catcher take his gear off on the field, but I was too late to hear what it was about???? How was your Monday?

This is a shout out, " Diane, where are you girl? Is all well? Let us know!

My Monday sucked as far as healthy choices, but the Pack Meeting went well. Of course no one said thank you to me even though I read a beautiful poem and spoke of all the parent's hard work and had everyone give themselves a round of applause. Oh well, par for the course. The choir concert was lovely. Our director has a tradition of letting seniors do solos at the spring concert if they choose. All but one did. Our Valedictorian sang "Popular" from Wicked. It was so cute and good. There's a large group of kids in that class that are really going to be missed. DD was so cute. The JH sang songs and did lines from their upcoming play, " Romeo and Harriet," DD plays Harriet and they performed the scene where she sees Romeo for the first time. At a disco of all places. She hammed it up so much. All flirty like. The entire audience was rolling with laughter. I can hardly waite for the performance. So, as long as life isn't all about losing weight it's all good.

Have a great day all!