Hi guys. Still pretty busy. I'm accomplishing stuff work wise but skipped this mornings work out because I just literally COULD NOT (well maybe not literally, but figuratively COULD NOT lacks the je ne sais quoi of literaldom). Anyway, I'm going to try to leave work in good time to get some semblance of a workout in this evening. I don't know yet which workout to do- I doubt I'll be back home early enough for a run and really I should do something strength-related but I'll think about it and decide on something before I get home otherwise, it won't get done. Predictably the scale had it's evil bounce upwards but it is what it is. I'm still staying on track.

lemonthyme: Yay the scale!!! I hope you finish your project soon so that at least one of your selves is released to do something else. Goodness me! What happened in Texas is truly sad and definitely joining you in praying for the community and those affected in any way.

Laurie: I hope you're doing okay vis-a-vis last week's surgery. No matter how minor, surgery is surgery and it's never a jolly time having doctors digging into you. Yay to less stressing about the job. I need a bit more of that. I have productions happening at the end of the month and nothing is ready!!!! PANIC!!! But I mean will anyone die because nothing is ready? No. So sigh. Sigh SighhhhhH!!! But yes, yay zen-ness and new found perspective. The daily weighing is playing with my emotions but My Fitness Pal is showing me all the ups and downs of my daily weighs and it's kind of cool to see how much I bounce around from day to day- cool in a "I'd really rather not" way if you know what I mean. I hope you were able to get out early and workout as you wanted.

Diane: I'm glad you're feeling better and could get a good night's rest. Probably a good idea to stay away from the gym till you feel capable so you can fully recover. I definitely relate to those "OMG what happened? why did i do that?" moments with food. Oh well! Today is a fresh day and a perfect opportunity to be back on track. Good luck.

Alright guys back to the grindstone. My only goal for today is to exercise this evening- anything at all, just get something done.

toasted: well if I finish one project I think I have like 75 others to take their spot! The only difference is it's just me and my presents or crafts/sewing/artistic endeavors and not depending on co-help to get things done. It will be all me baby! (to quote my kids). I have gifts I will be making for Christmas that have to get done and I really need to make a calendar for when I should have them done. I am so far behind in that sense. I have to get supplies to make things. This trip is a time eater in finding lower prices, supplies, clothes etc. Whoever said vacations were easy? Must be the well to do - and I am far from that! I can't just pick up and go anymore (well I never could - not independently wealthy to just go wherever whenever - however that would be nice some days I think!). And I posted that swimsuit pattern I am thinking of making for the trip. Hey - poundage less demands something fresh for warm climes in January!

diane: How are you feeling today? Did you get your body pump in? How was your soup? Candy has been tripping me up but good and the last two days it's slowly SLOWLY decreasing!

laurie: Ugh - surgery - even outpatient, doesn't sound like fun to just get back your mojo. Don't forget if you were knocked out for any period of time that crap stays in your system for about a year. Expect naps to be in order! Heal well! As for my skin hanging - who knows. I have been blessed w/generous bingo wings - hello grandma- however though I am not weight lifting - they are not as big as they were three months ago. Maybe the IF will mysteriously melt them away - one can always hope!

lil/vlada: How are you = you have gone missing! Hope all is well.

Hello all!

AM: just got 5 rutabagas peeled and diced and in the freezer - good for throwing in soups. I have yet to find a good mashed rutabaga recipe. I tried like a month ago and it was an epic fail. Smells good - last of summers bounty now away.

Got my walk in today and got through to my normal fasting time.. Yeah - something diet right today! I'll get there. I need to do my water here soon enough but it comes to cold months and the desire to push water into me goes way down. Bad I know. It's only happened moreso as I am aging.

Can i shout hope and mojo to the world that I'd FINALLY like to be in the 220s by next week? Is it too much to ask? Probably, but if I shout it out to the universe maybe it will hear me and wouldn't it be great if the 220s went by like a blink? I'd be more than happy! Alas - you know my struggle w/the 30s so why won't the 20s be the same.

Happy afternoon all. I am off to go find the elusive water, get the kid down for a nap, think of a quick dinner idea and maybe smile at the day. So far I think I have created 6 new frown lines starring at my screen.

Just a quick post today. We've had some training/meetings at work, so I'm a little behind. Just to let you know, I'm doing better, but I've given up for this week to do workouts. I just don't feel that I'm up for it yet, so I'll try again starting on Monday.

Have a great day!

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Maybe once again the 220s are mocking me and saying you will never get there. I went back up, why? I had a need for chocolate and peanut butter last night. It hit me like a truck and I caved. Ugh. I know it’s life and I know life has hiccups, hurdles and any other h word that will trip me up. So today I will try again as best I can. I was doing fairly well yesterday and then whamo!

I’ve got a kid home today as the program he’s in doesn’t want anyone w/even a sniffle. He’s disappointed and I’ll just flex with it. He is full of energy and one symptom. So we’ll hang out - it’s laundry day and all and he can lay around and feel better. Well do the brat diet and life will be better.

We’ve got our hotel changed and booked. And then I went online and read someone had bedbugs as I went further in reviews. Maybe it’s just me- but I always check whatever hotel we go to upon check in. Gross I know, but those buggers aren’t going to feed on me if I can help it. I’ve got lots of public health nurses in the family so I’ve been shown what to look for. Yuckola and I hope once again we dodge such.

So I’m in process of making my “to get and to pack” lists in between the messy project. At times it’s fun to look ahead to such. At other times it becomes a bit stressful. But I aim to try seeing me more good then not.

So the weight- well I’ll try to tackle today as best I can and hope to get the scale to move down and not up and not to bob along anymore. The only thing that screams at me is I’m bordering on failure. Alas - my spirits and thoughts about this journey today need to pick up and get better.

Happy day all. Send me good vibes to get it all on track. It will be a long time between now and the end of Diane’s challenge if this keeps up.

230s-queen here and I just did a big clean in the main bath. Gross. Can we develop self cleaning spaces? You’d think in today’s world it’d be simple to do and simple to mfg. alas someone else will jump on that train and make zillions. Anyone have simple solutions to keeping a fiberglass tub and surround sparkling? I hate it but have to make due with it. It’s a burr under my saddle.

My iPhone doesn’t like “that” and keeps changing it to threat. What the heck.

Snowing here. I just sat down to catch my breath. I wish I was one of those gals that enjoyed exercise. I don’t. I just do it because I’m suppose to. I don’t find excitement in it nor enjoyment. The only thing I like is if my scale goes down. Just saying- I’m grumbling this morning. I’ll shut up about such now. Back to a flowery world.

Anyone else readying for all the holidays? I’m looking for some different recipes. Nothing in particular except mindful of calores. I’m helping with a project at church that I agreed to last night. When will I learn to not overextend myself? Ok I’m giving my talents back so that’s good I can share w those and maybe someone will find some happiness in it. I have a list of gifts to make and our own little family - my list is almost done due to trip. And then it’s 2018. I blinked.

And I’d love the scale to blink or jump or find the 220s. However I must be the worst dieter ever to be stuck in one decade so long. This week I’m half heartedly doing it. I’ll have to find a happy space and get it going again.

Hope no one else feels this way and they are soaring w success. I’ll hang onto your coattails until then!

Lemonthyme: I'm sorry that the 230's have such a stronghold on you. I think there are those decades that are just really tough to get through. I think that the 230's were like that for me, as well as the 250's, so I'll have fun getting back through those again.... Ugh! I'm not as much into the holidays as I would like to be. I enjoy Thanksgiving Day and when you finally make it to Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, but there is always so much to do prior to it that I don't enjoy. It is hard to find stuff for gifts now that the kids are older. And then just trying to get stuff baked when I really shouldn't have that around is a little stressful to me. But I know that my family loves it. I guess I'm just a scrooge!!

I think I'm finally on the mend, but still didn't go to the gym. I just wanted to get through this and then get back to the gym and a regular schedule starting on Monday. I have off from work tomorrow for Veteran's Day, and I have some stuff I need to work on at home. Looking forward to not being at work!!!! But, I can't get lazy and not do anything tomorrow. I have my list of stuff to do!

A little off track on food yesterday again. I need another refocus weekend. ENDLESS BATTLE.

Hey all - I'm not lost or disappeared - just too lazy to post.

Lemon, you are so busy you make me tired! Sorry you are stuck still, but yay on getting ready for a trip. I'm sure you'll be bug-free.

Tomorrow is a holiday for me, so I will be home. I'll be busy, busy, making food for church fellowship. Not even sure what though. I'd thought I had my mind made up...but I've decided the stuff I'd picked out was just way too much trouble. Back to my appetizer pinterest board.

As for THE holidays, just call me Grinch. Bah humbug. I just cannot make myself care. If I weren't getting days off work it would just be another day. And I have Christmassy-type stuff to do too...so my mood better change. There's the Toys for Tots stuff, and our church's Hanging of the Greens - we do a service where the decorations are hung - and then there's the choir Christmas Cantata too...which is a big deal - we're small but mighty. lol We're also going to have Christmassy stuff at the office to some extent - at least a carry-in, and family get-togethers for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

And I'd be happy if I could just go to sleep on November 22 and not wake up until 2018.

So...grinchiness done. The scale and slider is updated to 271.5. Really, I'll be happy if I'm just in the 260's by New Year.

Got to go give my dog a pill.

150.8 - An earned bump, though. I woke up at 12:30 because my stitches were ON FIRE, and realized I was really hungry. So, in addition to the ibuprofen, I downed a couple of brownies and toast with peanut butter. =)

Lilion - Yay for state holidays! My kids have school and my husband has to work, though, so I will be in tomorrow trying to play catch up. I think it's great that you're enjoying the day, though. I have some concept of how much ALJs have to work (still waiting on a decision for a small, post-proposed order hearing that we had at the beginning of June), so I am not envious of your work calendar either. Really hope that the community is even more generous than usual to make up for the Toys for Tots vandalism. So disappointing that the kids are counting on them to be, though, and counting on you and others to work hard to solicit, gather, and process replacements donations, too.

Diane - I feel like you and I are queens of the never-ending to-do list. It never, ever stops, does it? Glad that you're not in the office tomorrow, either, though. Yay, Veterans Day! Really hope you kick that cold for real, though.

LemonThyme - I am over here rooting for you to make it to the 220s! It is such a milestone for you! I don't know if it makes you feel better or worse, but I have a pattern where I lose pretty consistently, then tend to hang for a while in a range, then start losing again. And it happens at those milestones frequently for me. The 220 decade tends to be tough for me, as does the 190 decade. But even when I'm not actively losing --for whatever reason-- I am grateful that the weight is not going up. It happens to me too much. I chill for just a bit and the weight shoots up fast. I hope Diane's holiday challenge works for you, though.

Toasted - Yes! I know how you feel about the deadlines. Nobody will die, but it's so hard to decide that they are not really paying us to be working 24/7 when they're expecting 24/7 productivity. And I don't know about Africa, but labor laws don't really protect here in the U.S., where we can be fired for virtually any reason. I keep telling myself if I communicated better that I would be able to manage my workload better. But the reality is that the work keeps coming in, and I'm the only one qualified to do it, so there I am. I bet it's the same in your world too. Kudos for still crushing the Whole 30 and for planning on the strength training. And thank you for the sympathies on my minor surgery.

As for me - I did some midnight eating, then woke up starving again, so I ate when I got up. Then I decided I should just eat everything available all day. Except, no one brought in garbage food, and I don't have garbage food in my cube, so I have just eaten lean protein since I got to work. Responsibility because I am too lazy to be irresponsible. That feels like a victory.

Hope everyone has a fantastic weekend -- a long weekend for Diane and Lilion!

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Ugh. Yesterday was not a good ending food wise - comfort food at this house and nothing good to offset it with and my scale bobbled on up. I DO NOT WANT TO SUBSIST ON SALAD ALONE. However I’m finding I think that’s what I’ll need to do and I’ll have to exercise more than my little walk I have been squishing in. I’m already attempting to stick with 1250 calories but I will admit I’ve struggled the last few days with it. I sound like a big whiner. I wish I knew exactly what I needed to do to get it to keep the scale going down. Maybe part of it is a mental challenge for me I’ve yet to crack. I just wish our bodies gave us a print out and we could give it directions on what and where we’d like to loose. Me and my great ideas. Taping my mouth shut might be the better course.

So my mini goal for the weekend is to get my butt out of bed by 445 and get to the gym and pedal away. Not my favorite way to start a day in winter but evidently a necessary way for me.

So I went and looked at shorts at jcp and of course the only style I liked had limited colors that I didn’t want, so I’m contemplating making some in December. I have a pattern I’ve not tried yet and maybe I can come up with something that works well. The good thing about shorts is they don’t require a lot of fabric and though my weights stalled my bum measures smaller so that’s less I will need in fabric. Will have to see what I’m game to try. I mean I already am making a swim suit so why not those too ADD TO MY LIST OF LISTS!

Anyone have fun plans for the weekend? I’m trying to finish that behomuth project and get it back to the gal to proof and check everything. Then hopefully I’m done with it for a smidge.

Anyone watch project runway? Not thrilled w the finalists. I think one is a one trick pony and I don’t get the aesthetic. Practical? Out of the box look? Um- where?

Lil: I’m always on a tear - I think when it all slows down I will find things to keep me busy. I do like downtime, but of late everything is a rush and things fill up. Sometimes too quickly. Hang in there w / the appetizers you were looking at! Do you do this type of fellowship weekly? Enjoy your day off.

Diane: wouldn’t it be nice if we had times in our day for just fun and relax and time for grand ideas? I find it doesn’t happen too often. I do hope your bah Hambugs settles and you find a bit of enjoyment. I too associate the holidays with food and sweet treats. Enjoy your day off.

Laurie: I tend to think mine is not a plateau but maybe a mount himalaya for me to get over. Hah! The thing that works for me is to be uber strict and micromanage and I usually get so frustrated in doing such that I give up. But I know there is a big difference between micro manage and trying. I best stick w the micro. Hope the healing is going better. I loathe stitches especially as the skin and nerves regrow. Hopefully yours are minor and few. Remember to break up the scar tissue by rolling as you heal. It helps prevent lousy scarring formations post removal. Happy day off to you too.

Toasted: where did you go? Are you lost in your scripts or taking a moment to go sit on the beach so close to you?

Ok gals - I’m off to think through my best course of action. My TOM evidently is way off once again - I loathe perimeno nothing is ever when you think. It’s been doing this every quarter or so. Ugh. I’m not one who likes change - I like status quo when it comes to health. So that factors into my plans for course of action whatever that may be. Can I ask: how do you all keep the exercise in your days? As I’ve previously mentioned I’m not a fan - I do it BECAUSE I have to - no other reason. Help me see the light and the benefits to why I should enjoy it. My sister says she enjoys the endorphins, I see it as a waste of time I could be onto one of my other projects.

Alas - my ongoing internal argument.

Happy day off (guessing y’all either government employees or in the banking/postal industry). Remember our great veterans and those serving! Know that thanksgiving is two weeks away (ugh) and Christmas 44 days away! Ok - I know we are all in stages of grimacing at that thought. Enjoy your Friday’s!

Added to so I don't look too desperate in my posts (hah!): I discovered we have another leaky toilet. What the heck? Two of them in the course of 3 months time, makes you wonder the darn life expectancy on a toilet.

I hopped on the scale pre shower and post bath - 232.8 - so I am holding all so nicely in the 230s (enter sarcasm here)! My goal for the weekend - get to the gym at the buttcrack of dawn, ride my cycle as long as I can without aggravating it all, eat in my calories if it pains me, and perhaps get my little walks in and make my family go with me on a longer one. Oh, and water - I have been avoiding water the last few days. It's winter in my head and I do not drink it as often, so I forced 66 oz before bed last night. Then the next bit of my goal is to keep getting up so dang early and going every other day. It's got to be done, no two ifs about it.

Ok - now I am off to deal with the mess. and I have a lot of them! Happy weekend all. I am sure I will be posting my on going struggles to leave this darn decade from hades.

Lilion!! We are grinches together. I feel exactly the same way about going to sleep now and not waking up until January! I so much wish I didn't feel that way, but it just isn't my thing at all. My family growing up was always into it all, and I was too at the time, but now it is just so much and so overwhelming, I just love seeing it all go away with the new year. There are definitely joyful times, but so much to do.

Laurie: Yep, lots to do today, but as my boss said: it is ok to just have a lazy day too. I don't really want to do that, so I'll get some stuff done today. I do want to get past the final stages of this cold, so I won't go too crazy. Hope you get some of your stuff done too!

Lemonthyme: You have some good goals ahead of you! I thought about trying to get to the gym this weekend, too, but I think I'll just go for a walk or hike if I have the time/motivation.

For me, I'm loving the day off today. I wish I could just work 4 days a week, but that's not happening either.... I have a few things to do this morning, but looking forward to going out this afternoon to do some outside stuff. Hope everyone has a good weekend!

Diane: sometimes we get burned out on being the main one getting everything ready for the holidays. I’m getting better each year in having DH help me with it so it’s not as crazy but I keep giving myself homemade projects to do and I’m the only one who can complete these tasks. In fact I spent this morning looking at fabrics for my trip. I plan to make shorts and a swimsuit and maybe some other items. Add that to Christmas list and y’all be hearing how crazy I am to complete.

AM: it’s cold today so my water thus far has only been in coffee form which isn’t great. I was doing some reading about adding cinnamon to your brew to help quell hunger. What do I have to loose? Not much. It doesn’t taste too bad so will see about it this weekend and how I do with such. Green tea hasn’t been calling my name either and in the summer I did find that helped in the afternoon when I wanted to gnosh on everything.

I plan to make acorn squash for dinner tonight however I have to find a protein to go with maybe chicken and then broccoli for another side - I’ll steam that. Sounds good - glad I finally figured it out. And it’s not ooey gooey pizza which has been standard at this house on Friday nights years past.

Hopefully someone pops in over the weekend. I’m sure I will be scrounging for diet convo and encouragement. Weekends forever trip me up.

Good afternoon!

Super quick check-in. I started this morning, and got distracted, then restarted my computer and lost my initial stuff. It's my "day off," and I've been here since 7:30, and refuse to stay past 3:00.

Diane - I want to join the work-4-days-a-week club! There are people I work with that do four 10-hour days and take the fifth day off. The reality is, though, that I do 10-hour days most days of the week, but am subject to answering email and phone calls even when I decide to take a day off, so . . . Work, amirite? Hope that your day off is busy and blissful, and that your cold is on its very last legs.

LemonThyme - Ugh. Inconsistent periods are making me crazy too. Some months, I wonder how it's possible that I can still be standing, despite losing what seems like gallons of blood. Other months, I wonder if someone's playing a joke on me, as I've never had lighter periods ever. And I can never count on them. I sort of guessed shark week was coming when I was super hungry the last few days, but was nevertheless surprised when Aunt Flo dropped in this morning. So, solidarity, girl. Solidarity. AND I am like you on the wishing I could relax instead of micromanage, but recognize that this tends to lead to my abandoning ship entirely. I wish I could just figure it out and be done.

Ate way too much, and really badly last night. And have been making bad food choices today. So - I am leaving the office very soon, and will pick up some items from the store for my work trip that's taking me to Georgia all next week. I will have food options with me so I am not bound by the "lunches" they provide. Then, I will head to the gym. Or maybe go to the gym first and avoid the after-work crowd. Either way, I am done feeling bad about my food choices and feeling physically bad because of them. Back on the straight and narrow. And I will weigh in tomorrow morning.

Hope this weekend is fantastic for everyone. Respect to all who have served, or have sacrificed so a loved one could serve.

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Laurie: I hate the unpredictability of aging. And loosing that parts predictability is a pain in the butt. But I guess we muddle through as best we can. Traveling sounds like an interesting predicament I guess it causes a lot of temptations to have to avoid and think through clearly instead of mindlessly. Good luck with it! Can I ask - as you were loosing weight and got to your goal did your family or co-workers act w/surprise once you had lost all of the weight? How did that matter to you? I’m just curious because I’d like to move off a chunk but have always wondered what others say or do because others always pipe up.

Diane: did you get back to the gym? How was your day off? Any hikes in your future? Hope the health has returned.

Lil: how did your fellowship treat work out? I think I’m taking a page from you and will make a slow cooked beer beef stew tonight. However I’m not 100% sure if I have a roast or not. Your gathering from nature intrigued me.

Toasted: I’m guessing you have internet access only at work? Well - I hope your weekend goes well. Will you be hanging w family? How did your rewrites go?

Hello all!

I did it. I got up at 445, it was blacker then black out w a light dusting of crispy snow on the ground. I went and rode the cycle round bursts of fast periods of pedaling. I don’t know if it will help but I tried. I had been doing 15-18 mins and upped it to 30 today. Oh I wanted to quit at 12 mins and then again at 20 and said reevaluate at 25 and hopped off at 30. I did it! Not that 153 calores is much more in my day but I did do movement. I’m trying to see how many days I can go and how often waking that early will fit w/me and my thoughts on the day.

Today will find me hopefully finishing the project. And I’d like to make 4-6 hats for the hat/mitten tree at church. And then I need to clean at least one surface because my house is driving me nuts. And then I’ll have to help DH change out that toilet as in the end the bolts also needed replacement. Ugh. It’s always something. Since his mom to dad are running to town they’ll grab that for us.

So I hope today goes ok. The good news I biked 10.6 miles. So in theory it got myself one town over - maybe if I view myself traveling it will be of interest. Who knows. Isn’t there an app where you can keep track of your “travels” w exercise? I’ll have to Look. Otherwise the day is full of stuff, when it ever slows I don’t know so I best hop on the ride. Tomorrow we have family photos - always something.

Happy day all it’s been 40 mins trying to get this done my youngest wants loves my oldest wants to do origami and needs help and this mama wants to run away. Enjoy your weekends!

Hey guys, Saturday check in for the win! I disappeared only because I had a lot of meetings last week- the horrible long type that last whole days and all you're thinking of is the pile of work waiting for you at your desk. It's like can we hold off the meeting and do a bit more of the working. Next week isn't going to be any better. We have a new client whose program we're designing next week and we have a 2-day workshop to do it in. 2 WHOLE DAYS of not working on my existing work. I'm nervous because my deadlines are pretty tight. Travel for production is planned and everything is booked and here I am running the risk of having actually nothing to produce. Sighhhh! "It will get done" is my mantra and so that's where I've been.

lemonthyme: Hey, I'm sorry things have been going a little roughly with the scale being such an uncooperative so-and-so. Your whoosh will come. I actually have better internet at home than at work, go figure. I just usually get home too late to bother with my computer and I prefer to 3FC on a computer because on my phone, autocorrect does me wrong frequently. I hope your vacation ends up being fun and worth it. I totally feel you about the bed bugs though. I sometimes travel a lot for work and some of the hotels in communities are beyond sketch. And for vacation travel, I scour the tripadvisor reviews as well, the mere hint of a mention of bedbug bites is enough to send me scampering... well like a bedbug.

Laurie: I hope your stitches are feeling a lot more comfortable. Hopefully, you're feeling a lot more where you want to be with your diet. My work vibe is exactly like yours in that I feel like I have to take things on and even when I delegate, I feel like I have to fix it. My boss says I shouldn't and I should guide people to fix their own messes so they learn but there's rarely the time for that. The work culture where I live is pretty much like in America (except no one would ever think of something as evil as only 10 days off a year and there's paid maternity leave for 6 months) BUT you can be let go at any time for any reason with 3 months severance and other than that we don't have any social services to help you in anyway after that. I'm a little luckier I work for a non-profit and we're creative airy-fairy types and kind of like a family, so even though there's a hierarchy, it's pretty lax and the open door policy is pretty open so, I don't feel in danger at all of being sacked, but I do feel pressure to deliver and not let everyone down. #LongSentenceAlert

Diane: I hope you were able to accomplish all you wanted on your day off and that you're feeling lots better. The struggle is real vis-a-vis staying on track diet wise. I hope this festive season ends up less stressful for you than usual and that you can enjoy it.

Lillion: Wow you've got quite a lot going on around Christmas, haven't you! I think we don't have Thanksgiving so for me, it's pretty much a straight shot from now to Christmas and my whole family is pretty into it but kind of also low-key so we decorate (only the tree) but whatever doesn't get done just didn't get done and it's like oh well.


I'm doing okay plan wise. I mean frankly, I could be eating less and being a little more disciplined but I don't want to be super restrictive like the last time I lost weight. I want to train myself for life where there are bites of this and that here and there. My goal is to not end up training my body to be efficient at super low calories like I did last time which means I have a calorie range of 1300-1700 that I'm trying to stay within which means I need ALL the exercise I'm trying to get in in spite of my natural laziness. Sighhhh. I went for a run this morning. It was brutal because it was sooo hot and humid outside. The scale is moving ever so slowly but I've been daily weighing for about 3 weeks and even though though the daily weights are pretty underwhelming, I am apparently losing weight from week to week so I'll take it. Okay I've been on here a while and it's making me nervous because sooo MUCH to do. I'll try to check in again soon. Wishing you all a fabulously blessed weekend.


EDITED TO ADD: CNN says you guys in the midwest and north east are having record cold (for the time of year) temperatures. I hope you're all okay and keeping warm. Hugs to you all.

Toasted: girl - those weather alerts are not too bad. We live like this every winter it’s just colder sooner and means a possible wicked windchill on the way like it could be 0 out but with a windchill it feels like -20 below zero. The last big big vortex we had was in Jan of 2014. Canada can keep their crazy cold air - I am all for it. . So as is - it’s winter in the Midwest. We deal with it as it comes. In fact when I went to the gym it was light snow on the road. 3 hours later when we did errands it had iced. Woot - fish tailing in the car around corners. I think for myself winter just gets to be too long if the cold and snow keep up last mid February. I guess that’s why we long for the warmer weather. But thanks for wondering and wishing well. We are a hearty type - we *itch and moan always about the weather but we all mutter through it and then when hot and humid we grumble then too. Hah!

Hope your weekend is well. My project seems like it’s only 1/4 left to be done. Yeah! I do hope you have an enjoyable weekend. I’m watching real housewives reunion for the moment. My goodness these women make me go WHAT?! Have you ever watched? Ok I’m off. I’ve got to get that project done. I’ll converse more later and not all about the weather. I’ll send you the snow and cold.