Morning everyone!

I sorta laughed about the clothes shoping. I have almost the oppisite problem all my pants I buy are way too long. I wear 4 inch heals to work so my pants arnte so long & the guys still make comments about them being long. Can you imagine what it would be like if I didnt wear heals with my work pants? Jeans are easier to find short pants that fit but dress pants are different.

My weight is flexing some anywhere from 127-132 so I guess its not too bad but I did tell BF that I need to get back on track & be more careful to what I eat cuz I can tell a difference in the way I feel with both my blood levels & the way my head feels. He buys fast food much more then I do & thats the worse stuff for me. He has been waiting to eat till I get off work thats why its more fast food but he has made dinner a few night to where its ready or almost ready when I get off. He is more understanding about my head & levels then EX was.

Our Madison trip was great!! The weather was much cooler then it had been so we could walk around and & not be sweating & uncoferatable. The Zoo was under construction so not all the animals were available but that was OK. After the Zoo we walked State street they had the street closed off with it was like a side walk sale for all the stores. I bought a short & shoes for $11. I took lots of pictures so I could send to DS.

Our hotel was nice. The pillows sucked but it was nice to site in the tub for 2. We lit candles & played soft music. We sat in it both nites till we turned prunny. I cant wait till we do it again. I enjoyed being able to go out & not have to worry who saw us.

On our way home we stoped at Mount Horeb also know as Troll Town cuz they have troll statues all along the town. They also had the street closed off so we walked along & looked at the different venders. Another nice day not very hot.

When we got home I had a letter from DS. I can tell that he has changed. He said the church had a music concert that he cried a lot at. I cant rememeber if I told you a few weeks ago that he sent a cross to me saying that he bought 1 for him & for me thathe wears his all the time & wants me to wear mine all the time too. He goes to church every Sunday now & prays every day. He said that when they deliver mail they only deliver 2 letters to each of them so I am pretty sure DS has a stack of letters.

Dawn, what a nice time you had!

just sitting here, delaying getting ready for work, lol. I do have time to do a quick workout which I should. I skipped almost 2 weeks in a row, for me that's huge, but I've done 3 workouts in 4 days now so I hope I'm back on track.

have a great day!

Hi Ladies adn Aaron

Well not much going on - we finally got some rain today - got speakers and amp installed on my bike and it looks good and sounds really good- will take a picture and post it

DS2 was taking girlfriend home this morning and of course then he calls about half hour later and says he got into an accident and that everyone was fine - asked what happed he said he was at stop sign and didn't see the Ford Escape coming and pulled out and hit them - the damage to both vehicles to bad at all I was expecting way worse when we got there- however when he called me he said that the guy was driving but when we got there the cop was asking for the wifes drivers license so I asked DS who was driving he said Mike so I told him he needs to make sure the the cop knows it was Mike not the wife - after all said and done the cop said that they both said she was driving and Joey is saying he was driving and wasn't there to see who got out but that he did note that the drivers seat was a long ways backs- oh Mike's DL has been suspended and thats why they were saying she was driving- so now I guess the insurance company will have to deal with it-

Holly great job on getting back on track with your exercising -
Tammy glad to hear your time away with BF went great! Couples always need to get that time away it is very important to the relationship I think

Well girls I need to run have to get a few bandanas done yet tonight and starting going through clothes as we leave on Friday

Hi gals, I am still here. I want to crack down and lose 12 lbs by the 23 of august, that is the day my dad died last year, I was at 230 and I am at 242 now. I gained at least 10 pounds in just a few weeks after he died.

Hi guys! We are so thankful for RAIN in our area!! Yesterday it rained most of the day. Saturday we rode to Dubuque to pick up my glasses. Also went to the Harley shop, Sam's, Thiesen's and Subway for lunch. My "big" purchase was 4 big collage picture frames with nice matting. Each was $50, but marked down to $12 something. A deal like that made me think I need 4! We had the cycle trailer--plenty of room. When we got home, the glass had broken on all but one! Not such a good deal now... I'm going to see if I can get glass cut for the other 3--probably cost more than the frames did to start with!

Aaron, you can do it! Sounds like you have put your mind towards an exact goal. I know that has helped me. Once my 10 pounds are gone for the month, I can just maintain for a week or so. It gives me great satisfaction to be able to eat out, or have carmel corn... I know it seems stupid, but I'll even avoid eating croutons on my salad at the beginning of the month. At the end of the month--everything is fair game! Poor stratagy, but it is still working for me!

Tomorrow--I've said that word many times before--I incorporate the "4 letter word" XRSZ. Some people spell it exercise. I've got high hopes that I have lost enough weight that I maybe won't keel over after walking a block! My real motivation to exercise is so that when we go to Hawaii, in November, I will be able to do the hikes without holding up DH and our friends.

Reda, sorry to hear about the accident DS had. Bummer. Glad no one was hurt. Are you selling bandannas on line yet, or locally?

Holly, good for you for being on track again. Sounds like you almost missed the workouts. I'm not sure I will ever get to THAT point!

Dawn, It's great that you 2 had a good time! Isn't it good to get away for a weekend?!

Hi Tammy and Tami!

Hmmm...I learned today that blue Gatorade does not set well with me for breakfast. At least not today!

I thought that the day was draggggging on. Come to find out--the clock just needs batteries!

I'm 1/3 of the way to GOAL!

For a "treat" I got myself 2 new pair of jeans and several shirts for the IMPROVED me!

I lied about the exercise...that starts today, not yesterday. Don't want to push it you know... Think I'll walk to Subway for lunch. That would be a start. DH was good to remind me of the August promise that I made about daily exercise. He knows that I am dreading this part. For the first time since we have been married, I weigh less than DH.

I will never get down to my original weight though! I mean really... 8 pounds 2 ounces isn't really very realistic is it?!

Colleen, you're so funny! and ONGOING congrats!!

Hey Aaron, we have faith in you.

Can I tell of somthing that's bugging me. Last year on our Toy Run, this lady who is an officer also (Treasurer) and I arrived at the parking lot where our leg of the run was to leave. This guy Rick was going to lead, he's a member but hardly comes to any meetings, that's cool. He has his own motorcycle touring business, so he does dig the leading thing. He asked if Margie and I would be road dogs - Margie and I said no, we didn't want to. I thought Rick had his own friends picked out for road dogs. And there is only one place a road dog was needed, right there when we were to exit (a cop car was going to escort at the front).

so we start to get in line - Rick first, then he says (or asks) if he can have two lady friends, each on their own bike, be behind him? Protocol 'maybe' would be for Margie and I to be next, as I am VP and she is an officer, but we said 'sure'. So it was Rick, then the two ladies, then Margie and me, and about 25 behind us.

We take off, and as I look in my mirrors, I see that the group already got broken up because there was NO blocker/road dog holding up traffic. Not a huge deal, but we're supposed to stay as one group.

So...as our meeting Wedneday night, as we were discussing this year's Toy Run which is next Saturday, I said, 'Rick, we do need a road dog for when we leave the Stone Grill, we didn't have one last year' and he said, 'That's because you and Margie were blocking my signals'.

I kinda snorted, and said, 'yeah, because we're so BIG??!'

WTF?

And NO ONE else there stuck up for me and Margie!! not my husband, not her husband, not our Pres...what the ****.

I looked at Margie, and said, 'bullshit' and she said 'yeah'.

Thre was a little scuffling/silence/hemming/hawing and then our Pres said well, there needs to be a blocker there, and Rick agreed and said there would be.

Later he came up to me and said he didn't mean any offense, i just listened and didn't say much...but what he said was just nonsense, and that no one in our group stuck up for us / nor shut him down, that feels wrong.

well if anyone read all this, thanks I had my first real bad day yesterday in such a long time, started crying at the grocery store and couldnt' stop. Pathetic.

What a stinker that yay-hoo was to you and your friend Holly! I agree. He should have had help lined up if he was going to be the "leader". At the very least he should have waited and got the group all back together. There was no need to blame this deal on someone else!! So sorry you had such a rotten day!

Less than 100 pounds to go to goal! I can do this! I even had pizza with my daughter this week at Pizza Hut!! Salads are my best friend!

Where is everyone?!

Hi Girls and Aaron

Made it back from vacation- had a great week off work!!!!!
It was busy busy but great after gambling I came home with $90 less than I went with- now that was even better.....

Holly that is a bunch of crap and I don't think I would have taken it as well as you did-

Well gotta go but will check back in later

Hey chicks and Aaron!

Colleen, woohoo!!!

Reda, welcome back! glad you had a great time

so last week, I realize now that I was pms'ing big time, and that contributed to a lousy day at work, the bawling for no reason, and getting so irritated at that 'yahoo' at our meeting. So all's better now

I did confront my husband at not sticking up for me, and got a bit of a shocker. He said that he considers me an equal, and by that I need to fight my own battles. I think that is stinky!! don't best friends stick up for each other? I think I'll ignore and forget what he said

Our Toy Run went smoothly, we had overcast skies in the morning and then actual sun; much different than the forecast which was dire and saying all rain! so we had LOW attendance, maybe 500 bikes instead of 800-1000. Oh wel it was still good and a safe event, no mishaps which is the most important.

Been working 6 days a week, just because my summer job will be over before I know it. S'okay, but it does just leave me with one day to do housework and that is sucky

the warm summer (though nothing compared to some of you!!) has kept me from working out, booo. Down to 1 or 2 times a week, not good for my muscle tone! But worked out for an hour this morning, got that out of the way.

Hi to Tammy, Dawn and TamiL!

Hi Gals. I won't reach my last goal I set of reaching 230 by aug.23. I have stayed the same. I do have a new goal that I will start working for on monday. I want to get down to 210 by next spring. My wife and I are ready to lose weight again. If I watch what I eat for a week I should be at 240-245, so I have a ways to go. I will post eack week to let you how I am loosing. I find it so hard to lose in the summer with all the parties and get to gethers.

Hi Girls and Aaron

Well we were taking off this morning going to Harley Dealer about 120 miles away DH found a bike he likes seriously so we took all the extra stuff off his bike last night so that it was ready to trade in if needed-
however after he got everything off last night started it to move it and no throttle- not good so he took everything apart again still couldn't figure it out'so online we go and tried several different things with nothing working then we had 1 last thing to try something with an acuator(sp) and wala throttle working but man that was an scary hour since we were taking it today.... Woke up this morning and its raining so this is going to put us behind a couple of hours but as soon as it quits we will take off

Aaron, I am with you on the losing during summer it just doesn't work - I have come to realize this so I just try to maintain then when fall hits I will get back into weightloss mode-

Holly, yes I would expect DH to back me up even if he knows I can fight my own battles- I would have stood up for you but then again I am that type of person and most know it (probably because most have seen me in actual physical fights and not just once) through my years around- Dad was in service so we moved alot and as stubborn as I am I just didn't take other kids crap that they thought they could get away with - boy they didn't know what they were getting into-

Well I suppose I can get some house cleaning done before leaving-
Have a Great Weekend

A quick hello. Sorry I have been MIA.
Life has been crazy! On July 10 (the day before my bday), my MIL had what we thought was going to be a "simple" hernia repair. So my DH takes her to the hospital to find out it is a 7 hour HUGE surgery. So, she has the surgery (which ends up in3/4 of her pancreas out, her spleen, and the hernia repair)..... so without having to say so... of course cancer was suspected.... but we were not told that before. She did not want to "bother" us, and his sister did not think it was need to know information. So, after she made it through the surgery we were told it was NOT cancer.... However, she got pneumonia, she was put on a vent, and stayed in ICU. Well, after 2 weeks of ICU, they decide they cannot get her off the vent so we had to get her to hospital that specializes in getting people off the vent.... which is 1.5 hours away. NO one will go see her, so we have been EVERY night after work. We get off at 5 head that way and back to home for bed at 11. Then all over again the next day. Well, along the way she hit a complication and the pancreas is now leaking and no one will drain it.. nor will they re operate. SO..... she decided this week, she wants to go home.... even though the doctor tells her she will may not last more than a couple days. BUT, in the meantime I found out by her report she really does have pancreas cancer (or had it before they took a majority of it out), and not it has metastisized (spread) to the adrenal glands, but that is not confirmed, but we don't want to put her though another test b/c she has declined any operation (no one wants to open her back up). So, this week we are getting her house ready for her to come home. That is her last wish.... and by golly that is what she will get. My DH sister is WORTHLESS, she has only been to see her 1 time on her own and 1 time with us in 3 weeks. She came up to the hospital smelling like weed..... and the list goes on.
So, I am sorry I have been MIA and not participating much.
Reda, I would like to see a pic of Karly...... but I don't have FB.
CC, you looked HOT on the bike slow race. You so rock the biker chick look.
Dawn, How is DS? Will you get to go to graduation?
Aaron, I see you are still progressing with the WL.
Tami, sounds like you had fun in Maine.
Colleen, GIRLLLLLLL You are sooooo ROCKING THE WL. WTG!!!!

I am going to get off her for now. Not sure when I will make it back on. We will have to be the MIL primary care givers at night. We don't know when she will get here (possibly this week if she can get off the vent)....... We just want her to be happy.

TTYL......
Oh, needless to say the WL is at a stand still......

Tammy it is so good to hear from you, and huge to you and your DH for all that you've done for his mother..truly the last things we can do is do what our parents wish for, or make them happy. Really stinks that the sister has done so little!! she sounds like a write-off.

Reda, I wish I could have hung around you as a kid, you could have fought the mean kids that called me fat that must have sucked with DH's bike getting it ready but now I know that it turned out good, congrats on his new one!!

Aaron, summer is the worst for trying to lose weight! Parties and snacky foods. and beer. Hang in there, you will get your groove back!

Had a chilly ride to work yesterday, it had been 50 degrees when I woke up, then dropped to 48. I'm not used to that yet! but I warmed up once I got to work.

Hi Dawn and TamiL!

everyone have a good day