Sherrie that is to great that the DAD cried!! I am so proud of you for holding up tough!!!

Peach you don’t want larger boobs?? I keep getting the ones for enlarging the penis and keep forwarding it to DH!!! send an email to jiff then have her send one back so you can place the addy in your address book.

Sill the room sounds wonderful. I love that kind of stuff. But no decorating for me yet. Kids destroy everything no matter how good it is

Sherrie?? KID do that I just did that last week. Ugh I just cleaned the crust stuff and am leaving the rest for when I can get to it!!

Hi teaki!! Welcome back!!

For me here the coffee is on. Packed all last night for camping and am ready to hit the road but I will be naked!!! I have not gotten to my clothes yet hopefully tonight. But I am doing OP tonight so it will be late. So not much time. I will be here for a brief time on Sat. if I get up early then I will have much time to do what I need to do. But for now work work work. Have I told you how happy I am to be working???

It's a cool (for the south) morning.

Sil, Commerce I haven't been in quite some time. We pass it as we drive home to Virginia, and the growth of the outlets is unreal. So many stores, so little time.

Taking the daughter to have a touch up on her hair. After all school starts Monday and we can't have the same hair-style as we did in May when school got out.

peachie I'm glad you enjoyed the beach. Going to the beach is one of my favorite things to do, even when I was over 300 pounds. My motto was, strip to the suit, stand for a few minutes, let the fellow sunbathers gawk, sit down and enjoy the rest of the day. Worked like a charm!

Sherrie, glad you survived the first day of school, how did Tommie like it?

Jiff when you finish with your
Mom's laundry, I could use a hand.

Loved the NYC chick meet photos. Jiff and peachie, you have both lost more weight since I saw you less than a month ago. Way to go!!!

Wanted to update you on my Dad and thank those who said a prayer for him. He is better physically, but mentally he is a little out of it, they believe it is due to the strong drugs they were giving him. He is pulling little stunts that on a normal basis he would never do, like pulling his feeding tube out 5 times, and talking out of his head, my sister said he is cussing like a sailor, something my Dad has never done. My Mom is worn out, she refuses to leave him, she will only go home long enough to get a quick shower and change clothes, while my sister stays with Dad at the hospital. We do see improvement, but they think it may take a while for him to be back to normal.

More coffee needed
Debbie

Morning all...... I haven't even put up the coffee yet - anyone willing to share a cup w/a poor caffine (sp?) deprived gramma?
I am sooo glad this particular week is over.... I "bit the bullet" and did what I had to do yesterday - did NOT drink a pitcher of margaritas (altho I wanted to!! - my stress level was so high that it wouldn't have stayed down) - and owned up to the error. The client is (tada..... drum roll of understatement here) not happy..... but, there is nothing more I can do. I now have to pay the penalty and move on ....... whew! thank heavens it is done! Your support yesterday really helped me to deal, thanks chicks!

Between my ears is full of so much swiss cheese that I can't even remember who said what yesterday... so please accept my apologies for not responding to everyone...... I truly appreciated your encouragement and support.

Sue, - gee, I don't think you ever mentioned that you like your work... How did you enjoy your payday?? Hope the camping is great ... but take care of the clothes, after all, we don't want to scare the bears in the woods, do we

Deb..... so glad your dad is doing better..... it's so hard when they're not close enough to be there ...

Time for coffee, shower and then off to get a manicure/pedicure! I'll be doing a "little" (believe me, very little) work today, and then some relaxing!
Have a great day everyone. I'll check back with you all later......

A sort of fly by post.........

...the AC now works .... no AC guy .... I checked the fuses! Duh!

... wrote cheques all afternoon yesterday

..... this morning I bake pizzas and pineapple cakes for the Bake sale tomorrow

..... this afternoon we organize and price the yard sale stuff

Nice to see Teaki back with us and Rubirose too of course.

Wish I had time to say hi to everyone but the store opens in 18 minutes and I need to get flour and stuff. Will try to pop in later.

I'm feeling like an airhead.

Oh yes the darn scales show I have gained 7 pounds this week! That must be a lie!

Good Morning,

Quickie, boss is here

JIFF...meet you at the candy shop in 30 minutes

Hope everyone has a great weekend.

Love, Leens

HEY! does that candy shop have sugar free chocolate hard candies? Well, I maybe I will stop in there today right after I get the crickets for the lizards.

I think I may make a run to Old Navy today. My neighbor works for them in n.y. and gave me a shopping pass so I best move my butt and do a bit of back to school shopping.

Beauty of a day and I am still pining for the beach. I am having fantasies of being old and alone and spending all of my money (where is my money?) for a bungalo as the shore, riding an old bike with a front basket and a HORN that I affectionately call my Italian 10 to run errands with and spending hours walking and reading on the beach .

REALITY CHECK....I need crickets, I need to keep working on the basement, scrub a toilet or two, laundry, kid maintanance and then I should consider dipping my head in a bucket of loreal.....or perhaps not and letting "it" all grow out so I can be on my way to my beach fantasy....hmmmmmmmm that might work!!!!!

Well, I love you guys, and read every word you write and am sending greetings, and hugs, and prayers and ALL of the good stuff your way for a happy happy HAPPY day!

peach

Hey Peach, Shop Rite has diet chocolate soda. I think the name is Faygo. Its not bad. Bet if you put low fat or sugar free vanilla ice cream in it mmmmmmmmm.

A very good friend of mine gave me a recipie for I think its called Iced Mocha Coffee........listen to this. A cup of coffee, packet of sugar free hot chocolate and some cream mmmmmmmmmmm or fat free creamer. I bet hazelnut coffe would make that even better. Anyway pour it over ice and whalllah !

I need a hair cut, I'm starting to feel like 'Cousin It' - remember him from the Adams Family lololol...only difference is, he had a better figure haaaaaaa

Okay I'm really starting to feel silly, so I better stop here. Maybe I'll go to my mom's house and play in the sandbox for a while.

Love, Leens

God Morning you busy chicks!

I triedto get inot here earlier but my server was down. More scoop on the cable vs. telephone modem--stupid me (DOH!) forgot we do our banking online! So now we have to rethink the whole issue--geeze louise! One thing we both agree on is selling our car--we have two and we bought the second one when we thought I was going back to work. Altough I love having two vehicles, it really is a drain on money when there really is no call for it. So dh is going to talk to one o fhis coworkers whose daughter is looking for a cr to go to university with. Hmmm, we'll see what happens.

Miree was a star at the dentist! I really thought she was going to freak out, after all she is just three and these things usually don't go over too well. Well, she just ate it up lock stock and barrel! She has perfect teeth, all cleaned and shiny white and she got a sticker for having a great check up with no cavities and she got to get a treasure for being a good girl at the dentist (the dentist has a treasure box for kids). I had also planned a trip to the dollar store (her favourite place) so she hit the jackpot! Also got her haircut--looks way too cutie now! and got a sucker there. She was in seventh heaven since every place we went to she got something. I even had to go and pick up a prescription and the pharmacist gave her a fridge magnet. I'm telling you, she is rapidly addicted to going out and shopping--such a girl! I can't wait till she gets older!

Deb, glad to hear your dad is recovering

Sue, have a great camping trip!

Leens, hide from you boss!

Peach, I still can't get overthe fact that you have lizards. And the mere fact you have to get crickets is freaking me out!

Jiff, how is little girlie two shoes doing? I hope you're whipping her into shape!

Jenny, that has happened to me 2 nights in a row except it was Miree!

Ruth, that was really funny about your AC, imagine all it was was changing two fuses!

samsg, hope your clientwill be a little more understadning albeit not happy. After all we're just human!

Dottie, I hope you can take a much needed rest this weekend!

Annie, when is your day to go back to school? It varies here--just curious.

Hope you all have a great Friday!

So, ok. I'm really doing so good sticking to the Atkins induction...but...um....so. this ketone breath? or is it just me? what do i do about that!?
anyhoo
it is FRIDAY! I seriously need to look around and get to know all of you from past posts.......I havent been all that social!

Morning Everyone! Another pretty day here. I am a real slug today. Didn't sleep well and dear TOM has come for a visit. I even curled up with the comforter on the couch while DS was at football instead of doing my workout. I AM going to get that in today, but it is going to take MAJOR will power to do it that is for sure. Didn't get to the walkin closet yesterday, got involved in a bunch of other littler projects and ran out of time...(could this be procrastination?????) Looking over the movie schedule today to see if there is one more movie DS and I can sneak off to before (sigh) school starts. I think I mentioned that we saw "Signs" last week and it was AWESOME, so anything else will have a long way to go to keep up.

Pooky, I KNEW that Miree would do great at the dentist yesterday! Good luck with that cable thing. Our first day is like the 19th.

Leens, the Mocha coffee sure sounds yummy!

Peach, maybe you could make it a one stop shop and get chocolate covered crickets. I too am a beach comber at heart. When I was young (er) I spent almost every day on the beach or sandbars of the Mississippi. All springbreaks in college were spent in Florida. What in the *ell am I doing in land locked IL!!

Jenny, so glad to see you back, been missing you! By August 26th, (my birthday) DS and I will have been in school a week. Argghhh!

Ruth, oh shoot! A fuse! I'm glad you got the problem solved, I heard the weather is going to heat up again.

Samsgram, sorry things didn't go well for you, hope you can put it behind you and have a better day today.

Debkay, hope your father keeps improving every day. I am keeping you all in my prayers.

Sue, make sure you pack everything we only want "bears" not "bares" in the woods!

Sil, good job on planning for your outing. Your wall pieces sound so pretty. I am gradually working into the Fat Flush program. Got in the cranwater yesterday and evening primrose and had that soup. This is kind of a gradual process for me.

Jif, glad to see you back, don't let that job get to you, your health is too important!

Hello to Rubirose and Teaki and all yet to come!!!

Hello, everybody. I'm just so thrilled with my new cable connection. I had no idea things could happen so fast on the Internet when I was used to sitting around waiting and waiting and WA ITING for pages to change and websites to appear. This feels like a miracle.
NOT like a miracle is the way my weight fluctuates. Last week down one pound, this week up 1-1/4. I've been totally OP too, even though the darned Ketostix refuse to change color. Do you think it's possible that our bodies adapt to being low carb and refuse to go into ketosis after a while? It never happened to me years ago when I was on Atkins but the last few times I've been on a low carb diet, after the first few weeks I can't get the color to change on the test strips. AND I can't lose weight. I write down everything I eat and track it on FitDay and I'm well within my range for carbs, protein and fat and even calories. I drink more water than my poor bladder can handle and I've been slowly increasing my exercise. What gives?
Anyhow, I have to leave in a sec because Sears has a big sale on and I see that I can get my very own Free Spirit Recumbent Cycle for only $167.99. Regular price $279.99 so that's quite a deal. I really hate going to the gym but if I set this thing up in my spare room with the little tv in there to watch, I just might make a habit of riding it every day. Ya think?
Ruth, I won't believe MY scales if you won't believe yours. OK? Deal.
This morning I had my two poached eggs on a couple of slices of my home made low carb bread. I calculate 6 gr carb for the two very small slices. It wasn't too bad toasted. Better than the last horrible batch. But then, what wouldn't be?
Nice to see Teaki and RubiRose posting. Actually, I saw Teaki and her very darling granddaughter just this morning for a wee visit. The little gal seemed to want to drown herself in my pond. You sure have to be quick to keep up with these little ones.
Bye for now.

I just love this guy! Makes me grin every time you guys put him in your posts!

Tommie had a terrific day at school yesterday, and even better today. She is turning into quite the little story-teller, too! Although, she told the story soooooooooooooooo many times yesterday that when her daddy called, she refused to talk to him. I told her she was being mean to her daddy, and she said, "Mom, I KNOW what I'm doing!" She is a trip!!

So, I'm off to collect some money that someone owes me who is finally able to pay me back. Tomorrow I have to get a new cell phone FINALLY! Why do those dumb things break exactly 1 year and 1 day after you buy them? The warranty people must build a self-destruct button into them!

I'll talk with ya'll later! By the way, Leenie, if Cousin Itt has a better figure than you, then Dumbo is putting me to shame right now! Why can't I lose any weight????????????????

Sherrie, everyone has a better figure than me, I'm like a tree trunk with boobs you know one of those big red woods in California.

I don't know why you can't lose weight just as I don't know why I can't....well I do know, I'm not comitted period.

Anyway sillies, gotta run. Finally the bambino is in bed

Have a great weekend

Luv Leens