Ack Jolly - I was trying to compose my post between work as you posted. It sounds like you're seeing the brighter side of things a little bit today. I'm real glad to see a little lift in the spirits. So to speak.

Arashi is doing great, I'm the one with the sore legs!! I haven't ridden since Sunday, and I'm not sure if I'll have time till Friday. I kind of have to play it by ear right now. I'm hoping to get that saddle this week! We'll have the money to go to the auction this weekend and look for more goodies. Plus I am going to buy my son some fairly inexpensive boots, since he's growing like a weed. Don't want to pop $100 plus for boots he's only going to wear for 4 months, you know? Horsetown had some for about $30 I think will fit him well. Wee! How is Chance doing?? My son, bless his heart, actually took his pony (he rides the sweetest little mare named Strawberry - I told him we aren't buying him his own horse till he's older and decides if he's actually going to commit to owning a horse for the next 20 years) over the 8 inch jumps at a trot!! He was so proud that one time, she actually hopped over one instead of just trotting over it. I was so proud of him! Second time in the ring!! *goofy mommy look* He is such a trip!

Alright, I'll stop babbling on.

Sharla - I think a lot of that was mentioned in the older thread, so don't feel like you missed something. You know how these things drag on, and when you first come into a thread sometimes it's hard to know who's doing what.

Hello Ladies!

Did the initial walk through today. Just some touch up paint, as the fridge was delivered. Big fridge--they didn't have one in stock in the warehouse, so they had to upgrade to a 26 cube! We do the final walk through tomorrow morning and look to be closing next Wednesday. It's okay, because we should be getting the keys tomorrow if things go well.

I was on the run all day today after dropping my son at the babysitter's house. Did the walk through, a little grocery shop, lunch with a friend, back to apartment to get ready for work, picked up son at daycare, ran to doc's office for son's 2 year check up, ran him back out to the Base to his dad, then I ran to work. Can you say tired? I am exhausted and it doesn't look like it's going to end. I attacked some pizza my hubby brought home because I was starving.

Hippy: Okay, I searched for that song, but I couldn't find it online. I know I have the disc somewhere. It was a 90's dance song, I believe sung by an African-American lady, let's see, what are some of the words...."Got no time for you girl, no hippychick, no hip, hip, no hippychick". Um, that's what I remember. Heehee. Was a real "deep" song, you know!! Maybe someone else can remember who sang it. Maybe it was Crystal Waters?? Hmmm...

Jolly: Is this a guy you dated before? I all for friends hooking up friends. The last two hookups I made for friends ended up with marriage. Guess I maybe have a knack for it. Plus, if it doesn't work out, you can usually get some free lunches or dinner because the friend feels bad they set you up with a loser! heehee. Kidding!!!

Raven: Girl, I am so excited to be meeting you! It's 50 up here right now and hasn't stopped raining in a week. My fave time of year. Reminds me of Oregon. Your prayers to the fridge gods worked!!! (See details of walk through above!) Glad Arashi is doing better. I still need to get into the chiro. I'm marking out the last week in September for you to be here. I know you will be busy, but hopefully we will be able to fit in a lunch or dinner! At least come see the house purchase from ****!!!

Back to work ladies!!!

Chachee (exhausted and draggin' her wagon!)

50 degrees.......that sounds soooo good! It was 96 here yesterday and the heat index was 106. The humidity was super sticky, wet, nasty! The swimming pool feels like bath water.

Raven, what a proud mom you must be!!! I'm all for the goofy mommy looks! I'm not allowed to give those anymore! Not around anyone anyway! No hugs, no kisses, especially when Jordan's buddies are around! Only at bed time! Sure is hard to let them grow up. Jordan will be 13 in October so he quickly becoming his own person. He use to believe everything I said, now he thinks I know nothing!!! To be quite honest, I miss my baby! My husband thinks we should have another but I think he's crazy!!!!!!!

Chachee, load that nice, big fridge with lots of good stuff!!! I still have no idea about that song. To be honest I don't even know who Crystal Waters is!

Jolly, Tracy, Where are you all? Tracy, are you lost in a mound of green veggies?

Hope everyone has a smile on their face today. In every negative there is a positive!

Good morning all. How is everyone? Chachee, I hope things go well with the final walk through. I am glad things are moving along, even though you are so busy. Bet you can't wait to move in. Hippee, I don't envy you the heat. It is hot and sticky here too, but not as bad as you. Raven, get back on your horse.

I had a wonderful ride last night. My horse behaved very well. And, I did get an email back from the guy. I have to respond as soon as I am done here. My friend set us up a few years ago. We talked a bit, but nothing came of it. He said he wanted to get together when I was by him in a few weeks. Yeah.

Have a great day all. Hope to post more later.

Ladies,

This will be a quick post for me as I am only working half a shift tonight. WE GOT THE KEYS!!!! WAHOO!!! Can you tell I am excited? We didn't close, but that should happen next week. There were a few things that needed to be fixed, but the crews were all there working all day today fixing them. We signed off on the walk through. Really good news is they are special ordering the oven I wanted at no extra cost to us. It should be here in about a week. The builder said to just order it and give it to us. He should, since he delayed our move almost a month and a half.

It's weird, because even though I have the keys, it still doesn't seem like we own a house. Maybe when we close and sign all that paperwork and hand over the $2000 check it will seem real. Oh, other good news is that none of the keys worked earlier, so they had to change all the locks out. That's really good news because we were going to change out the locks anyway.

Okay, I gotta work a couple more hours then off until Tuesday. Home computer is still down, so I will check in with you ladies on Tuesday night!!

Wish me luck!!

Chach

WOW, where is everyone this morning?

I will be facing big challenges this weekend with it being the holiday. We will be going to a theme park Saturday and a Cookout Sunday.....hmmmmmm, I wonder what I will eat at the theme park? Surely there will be something.

Chachee, I'm glad you got your keys! Now you can load the new fridge with lots of stuff to cook in your new oven! How exciting it must be to be buying a house!

To everyone else....hope you have a great holiday weekend!!!

Good morning, everyone. Chachee, I am glad to hear the walk through went well. I am sure it will finally feel real once you sign the papers. If not then, then when you pay the first mortgage payment haha. Still, I am glad it is finally getting to the point of moving and settling in. How wonderful for you. Hippy, good luck with your eating this weekend. I don't have any particular plans, so I just have to deal with my normal weekend eating demons. I am having bbq spare ribs, mashed potatoes, and an awesome spinach salad. Yumm. Good luck over the weekend. YOu have been doing so well, don't give up now.

I am planning a weekend of riding, sleeping in, and watching the first two Lord of the Rings movies. Getting ready for next weekend's horse show. Unless my friend was able to get my computer up and running, I will probably be unavailable for quite awhile. I am only working Tuesday and Wednesday next week. My exercise has been good, my food not so good. So I keep struggling. My mood has improved, and I am actually setting up a date with someone. I am waiting for him to email me back, but he wanted to get together with me while I was at the horse show. So I wait

Have a wonderful weekend all. I will check in as often as I can.

'Morning folks! Looks like we're going to have a quiet weekend on the thread between moves and no home computers and people off doing real life things.

I'm kind of already writing off this weekend food-wise. Exercise should be cool, as I plan to do weights again, and cardio if I can. Tuesday is a whole new week, though - and I'm flying to AK in 3 weeks. I'd like to try to get myself firmly back OP and at least back to where I was by then. Sometimes lately I feel like it's 1 step forward, 2 steps backwards. I let the stress wreck me this week. I tried not to, but for whatever reason, I just buckled. I just don't want it to turn into a "giving up" thing. I think I need to fall back and punt, as my father would say. Step back, take a bigger view, analyze my time and all that, and figure out what I can do to make the next three weeks flawlessly OP, for food, water, AND exercise. I think this trip up to AK to see my Dad is probably underlying a lot of the tension. There's a great deal of sorrow and fear associated with it, and of course, I'm eating it. Now that the trip is a reality, I can't seem to ignore those emotions quite as much as I was doing earlier. It's going to be very much a "one day at a time" kind of thing.

Chachee - I suppose you won't see this till Tuesday, but I hope everything goes SO smoothly for you! I can sure relate to the "I can't believe it's real" syndrome - though not exactly on the same scale, that's still exactly what I'm going through with my horse. I *still* look at him sometimes and it hits me that he's mine. No one can move him off the property, no one can sell him, ride him, or make decisions about him but ME. It might take a while for it to sink in, but enjoy that amazement while you can! It's a really cool feeling, actually.

Hippy - I hope your weekend isn't a disastrous one foodwise, but you know - if it is, just pick yourself up and move on. Along the way we're all going to have bad days, but it's not failure, it's just a bad day. In any case, ENJOY! I hope you have great fun!

Jolly, my girl - I really hope you hit it off with this guy! I'm going to miss your posts! I'll cross my fingers that your friend got your machine going, and maybe I'll see you around this weekend, eh!?

Tonight is Nickie's lesson which was supposed to be wednesday, but didn't work out, then was supposed to be last night, which didn't work out. Last night was scary - we got all set up to ride, and then it started to rain. Riding in the rain is no big deal, so we went on out to the ring. I managed about 3-4 loops, just settling in, when the big drops started. Then it started to *pour*. Not good enough - lightning and thunder. That's when we called it. So we made the mad dash for the barn, and by the time we all got in, we were completely soaked. And by the time we'd gotten the tack off the horses, the epicenter of the storm seemed to have settled directly above Rosa's stable. It was intense, and it was scary. The thunder was horribly loud, and I was scared the lightning was going to hit something very close. And it lasted for a LONG time. We had no choice but to just sit in the barn and wait it out. So... didn't get home till very late, and decided on subway because there was no way I was cooking. We were all very wet, very cold, and very tired. Adventures in GA weather. Woo. So tonight we're at the stables again - hopefully it won't rain out THIS lesson. Tomorrow morning Nickie is going to a clinic with a very good local trainer to critique her riding. Ought to be interesting. Then we have 40 gazillion other things to try to get done this weekend, too. *rubs eyes* Maybe if my boss lets me off work early today because it's the Friday before a holiday I can get a head start on some of it!

Have a GREAT three day weekend, everyone!!

Hey, Raven. REal quick. I hope you liked the package. Just post here for awhile. We are having server problems, and I have not been getting some emails. I really want to hear from you though Have a good weekend.

Jolly! I LOVE THE SADDLE!!! I talked to Rosa, and she's giving me the name of a guy she uses for repairs like that, and she says he's really reasonably priced, so I'm going to get ahold of him probably next week and have those tears stiched. I love the saddle pads, the blanket, I used the 48" girth and the lightweight dressage-ie saddle pad last night... there is so much and it was so great!! I'm going to hit the laundry mat probably next weekend to wash all the big stuff.

I think that saddle will work SO well with Arashi! He's such a blocky little feller, being a QH and all. Shadow is a little more streamlined, so she can use a regular or medium width, but that's a wide and it fits Arashi just SO well. It was PERFECT. (And it fits my butt, too.) I'm very excited about getting it in to get the tears fixed, and start using it regularly! I'm going stirrup and leathers hunting this weekend.

Raven, I am soooooooo glad you like it. I loved that saddle - the seat is so comfortable. It is too big for my boy though. I am glad it fits your horse. I am so glad you liked everything. I was waiting to hear from you. Hopefully they will have the server thing straightened out soon. Or I will get my home computer going some day. It is so frustrating right now, because I don't know if the guy emailed me bacck or not. And I don't want to appear too needy and email him again. Yikes. I want someone to talk to! I will try to check in herre again before the weekend.

Oh my gawd, I found the most wonderful place to buy horsie things! I got a cool pair of rocker stirrup irons (and leathers), a couple nice eggbutt snaffles (one copper, even!), 2 nice cotton black leadropes, and a really pretty burgandy nylon halter for my boy! It's this little hole in the wall place run by this really old guy... it's GREAT!!

Jolly - there's no harm in shooting off a quick e-mail to him saying you didn't want him to think you were ignoring him if he'd sent you an e-mail and you didn't respond because your server ate it. JUST BE YOURSELF!!!! *hug*

It's starting to get all thundery again. I hope it's not going to be another washed out riding night.

Good morning all I hope everyone had a fabulous Labor Day weekend. Where are you all now????? I have only two days of work this week. Which I have to say seems like the perfect work week. I will be at a horse show all weekend, so think of me. And post lots, so I can talk on Tuesday when I come back.

I did a lot of sleeping in, movie watching, and napping. Did get some riding in, but did an 18 mile bike ride with my step sister (she ran, she is training for a marathon), with the seat all the way down due to a stripped nut. My butt is so sore. I went to ride yesterday, and my horse was wanting to be squirrely, but did decide to behave at the last minute (wheew).

Have a great day all. Hope to hear from you later. Congrats, Raven on finding the horsie stuff. Bargains are great.

Good morning all! What a busy weekend! It rained Saturday so no theme park. That was okay because I was afraid I wouldn't eat well there. Instead we went bowling and out for pizza. I had a salad and pulled the pizza topping off of the crust. Sunday we had a cookout. I had a hotdog on a bun, one day before I was suppose to have it but I ate it anyway. So, I got up this morning and gained 4 pounds.....Oh Boy! Now I will do phase 1 AGAIN until I shed those pounds. I knew sureley 1 hotdog and bun didn't pack on 4 pounds so I decided it must have been the booze. I don't drink very often but when I do I do it right. I chose wine, the frozen wine breezers, I drank alot of those So I learned when they say you can have wine maybe that means just a glass...not 2 bottles!!!!!! Oh well, today is a new day!

Hope all had a good weekend!