Kimberley - I sure hope your cat is alright.. I hate it when animals get sick
My mom's cat is SO picky with her food as well, it's very cute. I'll keep my fingers crossed for him 
kykaree - I just have issues finding a good doctor, I found a good doctor in my home town, but I get there MAYBE once a year, and thats just not often enough. I'll find someone out here... eventually. I have a few issues I need to get worked out, namely IBS, Vestibulitis, and this silly nose thing. I know I can control the IBS thru diet, and I had a REALLLLLY good gynocologist a few years ago who showed me how to control the Vestibulitis. I really believe I can control most of the things wrong with me thru diet, I'd rather not take drugs unless it's REALLY bad. I like dance music when I'm working out
But I like DANCE/TECHNO music, not that new pop crap. However, I am a teeny bopper in a 25 year old's body.. heh..Sara - relaxed fit just doesn't look right! I don't know why women want that type of shape for their body.. I guess they get used to it. I am trying to convince the world, one woman at a time that they need something that has a straight line from the thigh down. So far, so good! Most people agree with me, but I also show them in my pants, and I actually have larger thighs.. 6 days off, I'm jealous
Enjoy Jill - "chowder" sounds sinful.. but it sounds like yours wasn't too bad
Of course, I am one to talk, I had pasta with pesto on it. It definitely WAS sinful.. but everything else I ate today was 100% perfect.. so it's all good So my computer works.. we THINK the virus isn't on it anymore.. but neither of us is really sure. So hopefully things work out alright with that. I heard from Marge again today, she's still working hard at work. I will pass along a little note saying how you all miss her.. it's scary about the internet.. how would any of us really know if anything happened?
Today at work I was approached by the manager and told that the full time employee quit.. and that she wants to sit down to talk about me taking her place. Hopefully it means a raise
I doubt it though... but I guess the fulltime hours will help out my pocket book! Well I am off to veg out, have a great night gals! -Aimee
And yet I keep going because I know that, at the bare minimum, I need to KEEP those 13 pounds off! 
I also found someone to cover myshift on Thursday night at the restaurant so I can go to my TOPS meeting (since I've only been to I think 3 since I joined). The group os mostly older women, but they are kind and supportive nonetheless, and I think I need that weekly accountability, ya know? So I am going to change my availability at the restaurant and not work Thursdays anymore so I can go to my TOPS meetings every week. I think having to get on a scale and tell the group whether I lost or gained for the week will help keep me in line. I'm also pretty competitive, and the top loser each week gets a basket full of goodies (everyone contributes a trinket, healthy treat, or money to the basket at every meeting), so I think making the weight loss a more competitive thing will be helpful to me, too. 
I packed my bag of food this morning, and it was full, so I zipped it up and left, but all I packed was dinner (regular salad and fruit salad), breakfast (a bagel and ff cream cheese since I got up late and didn't have time for my usual cereal), and snacks (a yogurt, a string cheese, and some fruit). No lunch to be found! So, now the dilemma is: do I get a salad here in the cafeteria for lunch (I'm afraid I will get SICK of salad eating it every day and TWICE today), or do I get the pot stickers at Ruby's or fewer than 500 calories? I was also thinking of maybe a 6-inch sub from Subway (sweet onion chicken teriyaki with lettuce --YUM!), but I don't think I want all that sodium (about 1200mg in the 6-inch!), plus I doubt I will have time to hit Subway after the gym and before my Ruby's shift. Hmm...I think I just talked myself into the pot stickers 
I still watch my sodium intake, though, since my father has high blood pressure (and they told me I did once, but then it's been normal ever since, so I chalked that one up to a stressful day). I'll be getting to the gym more now, too, especially since I'm going to cut back on my restaurant hours to only 2 nights a week. Jeff seems to be on board with the only eating out once a week thing, so weekends should go a little more smoothly. Now I just need to get him up and moving instead of watching movies all the time. We went miniature golfing a few weeks ago--we can do that again. We've also been talking about going bowling (been FOREVER since I've done that!), and we sometimes like to go feed the ducks (which involves walking around the pond)--anything to get us off our butts and moving a bit! I'm confident that all of this plus being able to go to my weekly TOPS meetings all the time will really help me with my weight loss. But good lord woman, you should never have to apologize to anyone for all of the hard work you've done! Also, I hope you weren't thinking my comment was personally directed toward you--there are a number of ladies on the 300+ boards that I post on who have also had much more success than me in the same period of time. You're an inspiration, not an offender, and every pound you lose proves to me that I could be doing more!
Early, early, early. Dang, did you know it can take several months for the last of the swimmers to be gone? No fair!