Oh sure... go for the glamour!

Hey, open a new thread, Mauvais... sounds good to me. Half of those people never made it back to join us. And sometimes I want to re-read someone's bio. Without ploughing through everything.

Hey, my fantasy so I might as well live large (er, figuratively speaking)

oooh!! I have lost all the weight i wanted to lose, am a black belt in karate, and have opened an art shop/work space to sell our jewelry, MIL's paintings, FIL's photography etc. AND after publishing a best-selling poetry book (is this an oxymoron?) my DH has been given a full-time position at the University of his choice along with a grant and a semester off to work on his next book.....which MUST be done while we are resting in the Scottish castle we have been given by an admirer....

DH insists that I add that he starts a SECOND career as an ICE CREAM ACCEPTER!!!!!!! (He says this is a PAID position by the way!!!)

I've been denying and fighting it for a few days but finally I have resigned myself to the fact that I am SICK. I haven't been sick in a few years, but alas I have been stricken with some sort of devilish chest cold. DH suggested that my immune system is shot because of all the immunizations I have had to get for my Thailand trip. A couple weeks ago I was downing live typhoid thingys (virus, germs, organisms... whatever they are)... and a few weeks back I was getting shot up with tetanus and diptheria and both hepatitis A and B. So here I am, lying on couch, hacking and sniffing and sneezing and wheezing. I am so very pathetic. Soon I will be popping malaria pills. Well, I would rather be sick now than on my trip. How long could this friggin illness last?? I leave in three weeks.

Aw, Sojo. I'm so sorry you are feeling lousy. It probably is all the immunization crap.

I'm just a touch under the weather these days. I thought it was the dreaded N virus but it's not serious enough for that. Yesterday I forced myself to get up and get on with it and actually felt better. Amazing how a productive day can make you feel.

Off to start the coffee. Can you imagine my auto-timer for the oven does not auto-time the plug so I have to plug the damned thing in all the time. I need servants! I'd like to go downstairs to a proper Britich breakfast - not that I'd eat all that stuff but......

Have a good Tuesday, Alternachicks.

Sojo, you HAVE to get better before three weeks is up. Bundle up and look after yourself really well, hon. hugs...

Ruth, you too! Don't get sick now, sweetie!

Ok you sickies... get better soon!
Sojo, I hope you're better for your trip! A friend of mine just got back from Thailand a while ago... she loves it and buys tons of beautiful stuff for her shop here in Oregon (I have an amber & silver ring she got there). So get better, get there, and get shopping!!

Nothing exciting going on here. Totally blew it yesterday. Blew it in a "wow am I stooooopid" kinda way. I accidently mailed my bank deposit envelope. By the time I realized it and drove back to the post office here, they said the mail had already been sent to Bend. So at 8:30am on the nose I need to call the post office in Bend and have them find it for me and hold it. It should be in the "dead letter" department. But, how frustrating! I spent the better part of last night wondering how I could do something SO dumb....

So, that's my "excitement" for the day....

Terri

Good morning Ladies!

Sojo...I hope you get to feeling better soon. Make sure you get lots of rest and lots of liquids so that you aren't sick for your trip.

Terri--Thats a pretty funny story! Can't say that I've done that before. Let us know if the post office finds it or not.

Nothing new and exciting in my neck of the woods. Waiting for the bank to call either today or tomorrow to let us know if we've been approved for a mortgage or not.

It is really windy and cold here today. Almost didn't want to go out to the gym. But I did!

Did anyone watch Dr. Phil yesterday? It was about New Years Resolutions. There was a lady on there who couldn't figure out why she couldn't lose weight or stick to an exercise program. Anyways, Dr. Phil told her that we can't control how much weight we lose but we can influence it!
Makes good sense to me!

Anyways...I'm off to read the other threads.
Have a great day and I'll check back with you all later.

~Kelly~

I think Dr. Phil's advice on losing weight is right on. He says that in order to be overweight or gain weight, one must provide a lifestyle that sustains it. IOW, in order to be overweight, my kitchen must be filled with junk food or no food at all, I must eat out at restaurants a lot, I must sit on the couch and watch tv or whatever all night, I must avoid physical activity at all costs (e.g. driving everywhere, avoiding simple errands around the house, moving as little as possible in all aspects of life. never exercising), I must maintain eating habits that are detrimental to my health (e.g. skip breakfast, small lunch, huge dinner, snack all night), etc. Dr. Phil says that in order to lose weight, we must change our lifestyle and habits. It has nothing to do with willpower and everything to do with the our routines. Thus the focus should be on making a plan to change our habits and adopting a lifestyle that sustains weight loss.

Points to ponder....

Why do I want to eat when I am not hungry?

Why do I weigh 40 pounds more than I want to?

Why did I gain back 20 pound of the 40 pounds I lost?

Why do I feel like I have been ran over by a truck 98% of the time?

Why, why, why, why????


If anyone knows the answrs to these questions could you please let me know....

Well, I believe the answer to the first question would apply to all the others but I bet you knew that!

I agree, Ruth...if we knew the answer to question #1 and applied it, none of us would have come here to post in the first place.

How many Porties do you have, btw? My avatar is my most recent addition to our family.

Alright Ruth, I guess I deserved that....

Half way through with my Pracitcum for school... and school hasn't started back yet Finished my 1st hundred hours on Monday and have 100 more to do before May.... School starts back on Monday. I only have 1 day of classes and one day of clinical so maybe my life will not be a complete cluster for the next 4 months, then I will be a "real" nurse....

I started back on the straight and narrow yesterday... drinking water, eating better, and have the intention of exercising. I have to finish getting my house clean and my mid-term paper written, then I intend on exercising at least 3 days a week.... prefer to do at least 30 minutes a day but am going to have to work my way back up to that. I haven't exercised since last summer because of school and my newly discovered heart ailment. The medication I am on makes me feel better but it limits the amount I can tolerate when I do exercise.

Well, got to get the youngest kid to school and the run some E-bay stuff to the post office. I hope everyone is beginning to feel better.

Amy

Good mornin' ladies,

Got to the post office yesterday, filled out my claim form and the guy, who was really nice and very helpful, told me that people putting their bank deposits in the mail was a daily occurance. That in fact the only things they haven't found in the mail have been pets and children... They said they'd call me when they found it and I can come pick it up.

Amyjo - So good to see you again! I know how you feel. I ask myself the same questions - 'cept mine is "how did I allow myself to gain back 89 pounds??". It's all relative, I know, but ouch!
I guess it's all another one of life's lessons... at least that's how I look at it. There's something I'm supposed to "get" from choosing this life this time - now if I could just figure it out soon enough to have some slim time in this life!!!!

Merrylegs - Hi there! I don't think I've seen you before. Welcome to our crazy bunch!

Sojo - Dr. Phil's got a point - and it's a hard pill to swallow. We/I have done this to ourselves. I didn't wake up overnight having regained almost 100 pounds - and I'm obviously not trying that hard to take it off since I've been maintaining this weight for 3 years now. So, yes, it's something *I* have done - and it's the actions *I* must take to undo it. Hard stuff - but plain simple facts.

Off to find some caffeine...

Terri

I think that is the problem with society in general these days no one wants to be responsible for themselves and their own actions. To me Dr. Phil basically tells people what should be common sense or things they already know but they need to have someone else validate it for them. I love the fact that he doesn't let people get away with BS excuses and forces them to face themselves.

Hey Punkin!

Have you done anything about the situation with your guy yet?