Mornin' one and all and Happy Friday eve!

Wrist is still very, very sensitive, but there was never any bruising or swelling so I assume it is indeed "only" a sprain. Either way, it's a pain to not have a left hand when you're left handed... I have a removeable cast/splint on it (received from my days as a massage therapist) and if it shows no improvement, or worsens over the next few days I'll have it checked - but it's already a little less painful than it was yesterday.

Typing works ok since I have one of those ergonomical keyboards, but after a few minutes it starts to burn, so I'm going to make this as short as possible!

We're all gonna be Aunties!!!!!!

Momma Frogger!!!! Congratulations on the tadpole!!!!! (that's apple cider for you, not wine!) I'm SO excited for you! Now, you need to take good *emotional* care now too - if that $#%(& boss lets into you again you need to somehow put an end to it - stress isn't good for you especially now!
Do you know, when I worked for WW the number of times I saw women lose weight and immediately get pregnant (either on purpose or not) was amazing! It's like your body says "oooh, I feel so good and healthy!" and everything else just clicks perfectly. When I lived in CA, one of my neighbors was a WW class member of mine, she had a 12 and 14 year old, lost 50 pounds and had a surprise pregnancy - and blamed me and WW!!!

Cerise, actually, I was referring to a bout of real life vertigo - in the sense that the room spins even if you haven't moved. I had it about 7 years ago and it was awful! Apparently it's something in your inner ear that goes temporarily haywire, but almost always resolves itself within weeks. The blood pressure drops creating temporary dizzys I don't consider vertigo - just a free ride!
About the noise I heard when I fell yesterday, I've been talking myself into thinking it was actually a noise from the ice... I broke both bones in my left arm when I was about 9 years old (skate boarding) and broke a bone in the center of my right wrist when I was about 12 (rollerskating) - the bone break in the center of the wrist is closest to what this feels like, and IF that is what I actually did there's nothing they can do for it anyway, 'cept splint it and not use it (ditto for when I broke my foot 9 years ago). Advances in medical science my foot... (no pun intended!)

Zadie, OMG!!! I hope you're ok! Make sure you get as much fluid in you as you can, food poisoning can be deadly! I'm sorry about your ankle too, talk about bad timing! Like Cerise said, how can you run for the bathroom???? Check in as soon as you can!

Amarantha, I like the idea of a 21 food trigger challenge. I wonder if being forced to confront a binge food in that way might take some of the power out of it. For instance, in October my goal was to NOT buy or eat any Reese's PB pumpkins. I didn't eat or buy even *1*. So when Christmas came around, and now Valentine's Day - the trees and hearts don't even appeal to me. You may have something there, let's do it!

Kaylets, Culture Club????? I LOVED them!!!! Now Karma Chameleon is going to go through my head all day... Sorry, I haven't seen any licorice tea either, but like Cerise, I also wouldn't have been looking for it either.

Wildfire, Thank God DH is ok!!! A crumbled bumper can be fixed, you can buy another car, but DH can't be replaced!
The zoo game sounds hysterical! D'ya know, "My Guy" keeps saying he's afraid to come to Oregon because he's afraid of Bigfoot?? Like they're running around rampant or something!!!! Ooooh, whatta hoot!

Ceara, ok, worried about the "bad stuff" and "not good phone calls". Hope everything's ok??

Well, so much for being brief. Must away, work becons and if I wanna have my typical loafin' Friday I should get something done!

Toodles,
Terri

Yowza, hello everyone! I have three hours to kill before meeting with my publisher and then am going to drive another hour to do a late meeting ... as the person I came down here (two-hour drive) to interview wasn't there, nor was the quilt I was supposed to take a picture of ... but they brought that in so I have a pic but no story. So I'm stuck in this town all by myself and on somebody else's computer. This needs to stop.

Venting, and I'm not deleting it ... Cerise, I didn't see anything out of order on your previous posts and you don't have to feel you don't have the right to vent ... I personally enjoy your venting ... so vent some more because it's good for all of us! Om shanti!!!!

Zadie, hope you feel better soon ... I liked your advice to Frogger about discrimination ... it exists but it isn't to be tolerated!

CONGRATULATIONS TO FROGGER, who will soon be joined by a royal tadpoll ... how do you spell tadpoll? Anyway, that's great ... take care of thyself!!!! Yowza!!!

Punkin, glad thy hand feeleth somewhat better ... BTW, I have certified massage therapist on my list of potential careers ... I wonder if I am too old to go through all the classes, etc., and start a career and I wonder if I'd like it and be good at it?

Again, I can't find the QOD ... gotta go wander now ... if only there were a mall in this town. Sheesh!

ceara- DH is very excited. He's all smiles wanting to call everyone we know. I called him into the bathroom to look at the test and he's like what does it mean???? Is that second line supposed to be there? I told him only when your pregnant. He smiled really big and gave me a big hug. Then I ate too much dinner and got sick. Awww, expected motherhood.

P.S. If you're keeping score, we've been married 8 months this saturday. LOL

Darling Frogger, CONGRATULATIONS!!!

You are going to be a BRILLIANT mother! I'm so happy that you're starting a family with your DH! Is your Mom excited for you?

Zadie's right - nobody needs to know about your pregnancy if you choose to continue to look for other work. Oh, I'm so happy for youuuuuuuu...

Dearest Amarantha, thanks for your assurances about my venting postie. I can get pretty vicious when I'm not feeling myself, and I felt like the...oh, I'll PM you. No use in tantalizing the other s on how vicious I can be if I refuse to share it. Your intereview subject stood you up? Poor lady. Does that happen often?

For the record, I think you'd be a SPLENDID Massage Therapist, and I think your work, while strenuous on your hands, would be restful for your soul (not to mention, you wouldn't necessarily have to travel much). Your personality has a perfect combination of strength/assurance/centeredness for the job, IMHO. Go for it!

Punkin, poor baby! You seem to have broken a lot of things! I haven't broken anything but a minor wrist and, well, yes, I did crush a vertebra in my neck, which is pretty serious, but I'm perfectly normal now. Mostly. Chronic neck pain but totally manageable. I was never in traction or anything. Just wore a Cervical collar for a looooong time. Anyway...I'm glad your serious about immobilizing your wrist for now. Saves pain later on.

Zadie, I'm glad the violently sick part of your troubles is easing off. Are you at home resting or what? Hope your Leif is being very, very compassionate. Thanks for that reminder about workplace discrimination. You sound so...lawyerlike! In a good way...

Ceara, what's going on? Tell your sisters all about it. Speaking of gun nuts - I found out that my brother and SIL keep a .22 pistol in their closet for intruders. Couldn't believe it. And in my last job in Oregon, one co-worker brought one of those Glock guns for another co-worker to borrow since the latter was narc-ing on some suspected drug dealers in his neighborhood. Yee-ikes! Boyoboy am I glad to be working in a nice, respectable professional office now.

Ouch, Wildfire. Does your husband have any whiplash or anything? Must've been pretty frightening for both of you. I'm sorry your DH was the victim of idiocy. I'm SO glad he's OK.

Eydie, aren't you sweet? Thanks for letting me be me. I'm still not feeling up to snuff - I'm pretty touchy and stuff, but I hope it goes away very soon. I'm glad things are moving forward for your kitchen situation, though very slowly. It must drive you mad not to be able to cook. Cooking is such a satisfying, wholesome, almost sacred service, and I hate to think that you can't do it for now. for the wastewater scrutiny!

Kaylets, I had the most marvellous tea last night at a bistro. "Woo wang" or something like that. Have to get some for meself. It's herbal, non-caff.

OK, loves, getting to work. Love to all!

(how you doin', Anagram?)

Hello all!

I saw the posts this am from work but couldnt respond as I'd havent reset KayletsI yet ... and I was wishing I didnt have to wait till now...

Congrats and Best Wishes Frogger!! Its so wonderful when new parents are so excited !! Sending you big (((((((((((((((((((((((CONGRAT HUGS))))))))))))))!!!!!

Try not to wait on the doctor too long... Be careful with yourself...

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As for those of you in Sick Bay... glad to hear of most of you are recovering ...
Fluids and rest, rest and fluids....Ceara-- you don't mean that the food poisioning was not an accident do you???

YIKES!

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Still seeing us on the news??? I'm not complaining after I saw what was happening in Boston, Maine, etc...

I brought an afgan to work with me-- no kidding, the office is brutal sometimes... and I said to myself.. maybe you should think about that knitting machine again...

ok...

things to do...

KETTLE IS ON!

Congratulations, Mr. & Mrs. Frogger!!! A little prince or princess to add to our Royal Court! So you'll be having a September baby? Oh, how exciting!

Cerise, how was your second day of WW? I weighed in on my way home tonight and I was down 0.2lbs. Yippee. And I thought I was doing so great, showed a 3 lb loss on my own scale this morning. Hope the PMS lets up soon.

Amarantha, sorry about your wasted time today. What a drag! I agree, I think you'd be a fabulous massage therapist. Go for it!

Punkin, glad the wrist does not seem broken, but please take care of it! Happy to hear you at least have a cast to put it in. I didn't know that Bigfoot lived in Oregon!

anagram, come out from under that palm tree and visit with us!

ceara, hope whatever is going on isn't too serious!

Zadie, glad you are feeling better!

Thanks to you all for your concern regarding DH's accident. He was lucky and didn't suffer any injury as the impact was at a rather low speed. He found out today that the body shop found parts for his car so we're hoping the insurance will approve the repairs. It is a perfectly good running car, purrs to life even after not being driven for weeks on end!

I'm off to plan a trip to my beloved east coast. Not until June probably, but I'm going to do the research for a weekend with my best childhood girlfriend.

Stay safe and warm!

hi seattlejo-love your new icon!

hi wildfire-so glad your dh is o.k. after the car accident! the puppy in training to be a Dog Guide you saw at the mall recently must have been pretty cute to watch. i have now called one more organization to request an application, so my baby steps are getting a bit larger on that front. congrats on the weight loss!

arabella-congrats on the 2 lb. loss! thanks for the link. interesting info. loved seeing your beautiful picture.

frogger- i'm so happy for you! congratulations!!!

hi ceara!

punkin-sorry you hurt your wrist. hope it heals quickly.

hi eydie! thinking of you.

zadie k.-sorry to hear you sprained your ankle and got food poisoning. not fair! hope you feel better soon.

kaylets-glad to hear your vertigo has not returned. hope it remains that way. hm--licorice tea does sound good. i haven't ever seen it anywhere either.

hi amarantha-all the driving you have to do for your job makes me tired just hearing about it. it must be challenging.

hello anagram-thinking of you and hoping you are enjoying the time in that florida sun.

hi cerise!

i finally got a chance to catch up on your posts. have been getting a few more things done in preparation for closing on the 26th. also started physical therapy for my back yesterday. the p.t. seems very nice and looking forward to doing this twice a week for a month. have been doing well op. last night, a friend came over and needed a sympathetic ear and wanted to go out for dinner, but since i had already had mine, i offered to go with her, but just not eat. i was proud of myself for not "pretending" i hadn't already had my dinner and scarfing something down. instead, i was there to give her support and listen, and i stayed op. believe me, there was a time when i would have had that second dinner without a second thought. definitely a nsv for me. well, i hope everyone has a good evening. take care, all.

wsw

Yo! Thanks s for the input on massage therapy ... I am going to look into whether I can find a part-time school program to learn more about it!

Wildfire, sorry I missed the post about thy dh's accident and Ceara also sorry I missed out on the gun discussion ... hope all is well, both with Wildfire's dh and the gun situation ... a couple of nights ago there were a lot of gunshots in my neighborhood ... not sure if I posted about it ... couldn't find out what happened ... this neighborhood is a mess, sociologically and criminologically speaking.

Punkin, thanks for responding on the trigger food thing ... I'd thought of waiting until Mardi Gras be over with but the number of pb cups I ate on the road yesterday convinces me that a trigger/obsession food 21-day challenge is desperately needed the dreaded Valentine's Day season where there's twice as much candy in circulation as normally ... from my standpoint, anyway ... I am going to post it on a separate CCRRMM thread and hope that's ok with everyone and that the rest of this club forum thinketh not that we are taking up too much room ... just meant to be a food related thing that any CCRRMM can participate in or not ... it's not meant to compete with the NOLA walk, which is so motivating us to get out and get going ... I know I wouldn't have walked yesterday at all if it hadn't been for the NOLA ... and I thank SJ again for starting it up!!!! Yowza!!!

Cerise, pm me if thou wisheth to talketh!!! Om shanti, kiddo!!!!

Ceara, I'm so sorry about thy dog ... can only imagine what you are going through ...

And how awful that thy 95-year-old grandmother is in the hospital because of what seems like preventable carelessness on the nursing home's part ... it may be true that the poor lady that died had rights, but couldn't the home have been a tad more careful that the infection didn't spread ... 95 is too old to get an infection like that ... hoping it all comes out ok ... and for thy friend's dh as well ...

Sorry about the furnace if it's broken ... mine's not worked since 1997 ... never replaced it as a space heater suffices ... I hate furnaces and sympathize with thee if thou needest to get it fixed.

I posted the 21-day challenge thread if anyone wants to do it ... won't hurt my feelings if no one bites ... just an extra thingie ... I'm not going to eat any candy for 21 days! Period!

Ceara, I'm so incredibly sorry to hear about Katie. That's one of the hardest things ever. Hard to make the decision and then missing her---I'm hoping you have some time off to process it all. A couple of years ago we had a dog that was diagnosed with inoperable cancer and we held onto her as long as we could, and it's never long enough. I always feel moved to say this, corny though it may be, "better to have loved and lost"---and I'm sure Katie was loved and she loved every minute of it!

About your Gran, that's a hard one too. We're kind of going thru that with Garry's mom. The truth is she's not as strong, alert, etc. as she used to be-but she thinks she is or at least she tries to snow us all into thinking she is. We want our loved ones to retain their dignity and independence, but when is it wise to step in? If you figure it out, please let us know!

I'll be thinking of you, wishing you a peaceful heart, and a relaxing long weekend, I hope!

By the way, for anyone interested, Susan Powter is going to be on the Wayne Brady Show today. I'll be tuning in for that one!

Confession is good for the soul.....I haven't been doing so well lately. Way off program. I've simlpy been eating TOO MUCH. Actually had a mini-binge at the reception yesterday with a pesto torte I'd made. My weight is up 4 pounds and I'm so embarrassed, since for a brief shining moment I was at goal. I'm not out of the woods yet. I know that it's my fear of success that holds me back, I know it beyond all doubt.

Susan Powter, what ever happened to her? huh. I'd tune in but I'll likely be no where near the TV.

I'm about to declare today as a no program day for me. In a few minutes I need to go buy donuts for the trainees, I'm meeting Cerise for lunch (which will be easily OP since its the two of us.) However tonight I've got a date with my sweetie at a little fancy restaruant I've been dying to try. I want to savor and enjoy the moment, not be counting points of it all.
*sigh* Oh, and I was up 3lbs last night. That might be because I was using a different scale. I'm trying to tell myself thats ok, and I just need to get a scale at home for consistent use. We'll see

I am going to the gym tonight, but thats only for a brief workout and a chance to shower/blowdry get dressed nicely before we go out.

Sorry guys busy today, no personal responses. Know that I'm thinking of all of you and hope you are all ok.

Darling Ceara, I can't tell you how deeply I feel for you. I don't know what I'd do if I had to say goodbye to a beloved animal friend. I don't know how I'll survive B'Elanna and Simone's moving on someday. My most caring thoughts are with you today - I know your dog friends feel well-loved by you, and are grateful for their time with you on this planet, for all they don't say it much.

I'm also deeply sorry for your Grandma. It's so hard to decide between preserving a loved one's autonomy and dignity and keeping them well. Why do those things seem to be in conflict so much of the time? I'm hoping that she gets excellent rest and care today, and that you do, too.

And I'm sending good thoughts to your friend's husband. Here's a big (((((HUG)))) for you, dear. Be good to yourself today.