Happy Sunday!

I vegged yesterday in a semi-coma after ALL that driving and 10 days with a bunch of hormone-driven 15/16 year old boys. San Diego was fun - beach was great - boys were entertaining - baseball was so-so - but it is nice to be home. Today I have to do some wash, school supply shopping, get kids' haircuts, etc.

Hope everyone is having a nice weekend.

Kel

hi kel, welcome back! It does sound like you had fun, but the aftermath can be tiring!

It is veg-city here as well. I didn't get into the shower until the afternoon, just read and puttered around. This house is so dirty even I couldn't stand it. I mopped and dusted and worked on the laundry. DH has helped with that. He is offering Chinese food for dinner and I will take him up on it!

food not too good, still trying to get over the gooey-brownies with ice cream. You can edit this if you like, Ruth.

that's it, not too energetic, just hangin!

dottie

Afternoon...
Well I was motivated today and cleaned out 3 closets! so much crap! now I am watching the olympics and tooling on the puter...I love sunday afternoons
-L

Happy Moanday
I hope that the vegging you did this weekend gears you up for the week. Cool and well yucky day ahead. i love summer and am hoping it arrives sometime soon...low 70's is not what I have in mind.....

Off to get coffee and feed the doggage...
-L

vegged the day away yesterday, but I'm back in the saddle today. I do feel rested, and also got some stuff done. I'm waiting for DH to get home from physical therapy on his knee, then dinner and early to bed. good sleep makes a huge difference in the mornings...Made the chicken with garlic and lime from the Flylady.net site, it was great!

have a good one,
dottie

Sounds like lots of vegging going on over the weekend. It's been too hot here to do much of anything. I think I'm sending roots down into our big recliner chair. I can't believe I watched three movies yesterday.

This morning I went to the pool but I think I may have caught a UT infection because I feel like I have to pee all the time, even when there's nothing much there to pee and it hurts a little. Darn! I hate when that happens. Trying to flush it out with lots of water but may have to see the doc.

Linda - Try some cranberry juice or some cranberry tablets with lots of water. I keep the tablets on hand for those times I'm starting to 'feel funny' and I can usually head the infection off. Hope you feel better soon.

Kel

Wow - Humpday already!

I'm up early (*blinking blurry eyes*) to pack the Tahoe with Melissa's stuff and take her off to SF for college. We've been so busy the last few days what with just getting home from vacation, getting boys ready for school (they started on Monday) and packing Melis that I haven't had time to really reflect that my little girl is leaving the nest. It will probably hit me when I get home tonight without her.

Quiet 'round these parts lately - hope everyone is well.

Kel

OMG! Hump Day and I've not posted. Sorry but the SBD Board is really busy with lots of Newbie questions. I also am having major delays in posting and reading - just on this website. 37 seconds to open a post to read is too long!

All is well - Girls are contentedly preggers, I still am the same weight, my knee still bites me, Harry hasn't done anything ridiculous lately, etc. Damned rain never stops long enough for the grass to dry properly so we have quite a hayfield around the property.

BBQ Italian sausage for dinner tonight - if the rain holds off. We have green beans and tomatoes from the garden so it must be summer.

Hope we all had a happy Hump Day!

Having bday celebrations today, so will not eat low carb, I mean really.........crab alfredo, over angel hair pasta!! YUM, If I was making it, it would be low carb, but since it is being made for me, I am gonna eat it. HA Weighed myself this morning I am now 164 lbs, WOO HOOO. Hoping I don't put on a tonne tonite, am gonna have wine too. Hope u ladies are all enjoying your day!

Happy Birthday, Meowna. Do you think if I hopped on a ferry right now, I could join your birthday celebration? It sounds divine.
I haven't been op on ANY plan in a couple of weeks and I feel like a blimp. Somehow I managed to stuff myself into some non-stretch cotton pants and top to go to a farewell lunch for a friend today. Could have ordered salad but no, I had a steak sandwich with french fries. Amazingly, I could only eat a few of the fries which is a "good thing".
No sooner did my infected finger heal (well, it's been a few weeks but it doesn't seem that long ago I was going through all that hassle) but now I have a urinary tract infection. Anyone who has ever gone through a UTI knows how miserable it can make you. Today was the first day I felt well enough to get more than 50 feet away from my bathroom. Hoping the antibiotics do the trick. I'm also guzzling pure cranberry juice well diluted so one way or another I'm going to get better. A friend teased me that UTIs were caused by too much sex. As IF! There's as much likelihood of that as there is of me getting pregnant. ZERO! It would almost make the UTI worth it if that was the case.
I have been lurking but not posting much because I'm so ashamed of my lack of will (or won't) power but I'm really in need of inspiration and I know this is the place to find it.

I'm around, but pre-occupied this week. Dieting is not happening. The best I can do is eat fruit to keep the ice cream demons at bay! At least the chocolate cookies are gone. Whew!

DH and I have offered to bring his mother up to NY to have her chemotherapy with my oncologist. she lives alone out in the boondocks, and was too afraid to go through chemo, so refused it. But she has a good prognosis if she has the chemo, and she agreed to come to NY. All the appointments are set, and we are going to go pick her up next weekend. It is a huge upheaval for us all- for her to close up her apartment and move in with us, and for us, well, where do I begin? I am really freaking out at having someone live with us(probably for 6-8 months). we have to clean out my computer room/office and relocate it into the upstairs extra bedroom so she can have a first floor room. Thank goodness there is a full bath for her to have to herself. Mostly I am grateful that we have the room, otherwise she had already told her doctor she wouldn't have any treatment. So we have quite a journey ahead. Stay tuned.

I am going to Niagara Falls with my DS,BIL andDN on Sunday for 4 days. I'm so glad I decided to go on this trip, it will be a great get-away before MIL comes. Can't wait to just have that fun, tourist-y vacation. Fun-

hi to everyone-
have a good night,
dottie

Dottie, I'm sorry that everyone's lives are going to be disrupted - we are all such creatures of habit and don't like to venture out of our comfort zone, huh? That said, I really want you to know that you are doing a great thing for her, your husband and yourself by taking her in and helping out. I know its going to be uncomfortable at times, for everyone, but try to just keep positive thoughts about it all and focus on what is really important - the rest is all really just fluff and details, right? Family, love and taking care of each other is what is really important. In the future you will look back on this and have a really good feeling in your heart. The world needs more people like you in it.

Kel

Good Morning,

So, any good plans for the weekend ? Watcha all up to ?

Tomorrow is build a bear w/the girls and then to Micky D's for lunch, Sunday is DD Gracie's 3rd birthday party, a barbie one of all things I think I'm more excited than she is We are having Ice Cream cake from Carvel, you know the kind w/the crunchies in the middle ziti, nacho platters, burgers & dogs. Easy things.

So that would be it !

Today I leave work at noon, only 2 more friday's left I can leave early

This cold / virus I have is taking its toll on me. I almost drove myself to urgent care yesterday on my way home from work. When I left to go home, its about a 10 minute walk to my car, my legs got like rubber, I was dizzy and it felt like some one was sitting on my chest. But I made it home okay and just sat. I went to our medical dept here and they gave me antibiotics w/some decongestants so I'm hoping that will do the trick, since my doctor is such an asswipe. When I saw her 2 weeks ago she gave me caugh medicine, never checked my BP or my ears for the dizzyness.. she said when the cough syrup is gone, and I'm still coughing to call her and she would prescribe antibiotics.. I said okay and I did that. When I called to get the antibiotics she said no, I'm not giving you those, I'll give you an inhaler ??? I said WHAT !??? NO, because I felt like she was treating the symptoms and not the cause... dumb

I have to find another doctor real soon. I called my Hubby's doctors office yesterday to see if any of the dr's there could see me, and they asked me if it was an emergency, so I told them yes, I was dizzy and having a hard time breathing... the nurse/receptionist said.. sorry we can't see new patients for 2 - 3 weeks. Follow up w/us then ???????????? Nice place huh. (Thats why I went to our company medical dept b/c nobody would see me).

Sorry I haven't been posting much, I'm just soooo exhausted and drained from being sick for over a month now.

Hugs and have an excellent weekend (((SMOOCHIE)))

Calgon, take me away ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Leens, that sucks that you've suffering with that illness for so long. Switching docs sounds like a priority ASAP. Hope you are able to enjoy your weekend plans despite not feeling good.

I can't beleive that I slept until after 9 this morning! Guess my body really needed it as I've been burning that candle at both ends all week. Don't have much planned this weekend. Bry has a haircut this afternoon (he declined one last Sunday saying his hair was 'fine' but then started school and has now decided it is 'waaaay too long'!) Then I just need to do the usual: laundry, clean-up, spiff up bathrooms, vacuum. Sunday Bryan has been invited to pitch for a team of some of the guys from his fall ball high school team in a scrimage game. Most are not tournament ball players so Bry should blow them away (sorry, bragging mom moment there). Cody may go with us to watch as he knows many of these players from school.

I've had short, sparatic (sp?) contact with Melis - she gets free weekends on her phone so I hope she will call for a good talk today. From the short conversations I gleened that she is paling around with a group from her dorm and they have been having a great time touring around the city, learning the bus system, etc. Today I hope to make sure she isn't having TOO much fun, if you get my drift. My daughter has a good head on her shoulders but she is only 17 and out in the big world by herself for the 1st time.

It's going to be hot, hot, hot here this weekend (it's Sacramento in August, what do I expect?)

Hope everyone is having a nice weekend!

Kel