Good Morning All!!! It's Friday!!! I thought the day was awfully slow to arrive. Work has been crazy this week. Leenie, I envy you having next week off. I'm just thankful I have Monday off.

What's everyone's plans for this Labor Day Weekend? We're going to work on the garage conversion. DH has gotten very far on it this week. He go all the insulation up and it's time to put the dry wall up. I'll be painting the outside of the room where the garage door used to be. The siding doesn't match the house.

DS's GF applied for a job at the school district I work at and I asked the hiring person yesterday if she got it and she didn't. I feel really bad knowning but not telling her. I hope she finds out oday since I don't want to tell her when I know she'll ask this weekend. I think that it's better for her going to school FT and being pregnant not to be working so it'll be okay. We already said we'd support her. I just know she'll take it very personally and the reason she wasn't hired is that she needed 1 yr of experience for the center to be reimbursed from the state. She was lacking that experience.

Again my prayers are with the southeast. This is sure a humbling and helpless feeling for the rest of us.

Have great Friday and I'll be back later (when normal people get up).

TGIF Good Morning Everyone


Morning Marie...

Who are normal people?

I was up at 4:30 trying to figure out if I could make it out of bed to go to work.. Being in bed laying on the heating pad everything seemed fine. Been going slow. Took 2 IBprofen so far... trying not to use the Vicadin unless I really need to. Going to try to go to work for 6... Hopefully they can give me something to do that wasn't the job I was doing yesterday before I went home.

Was going to try to get on the scale this morning but didn't. I think I am going to try and wait until sunday since I had pizza last night for dinner. Wasn't in the mood to cook.

DS is still grounded... I feel like such a meanie. I told him if he could be good, do what he's told, listen, do his chores, not throw a fit or cry when he's told to do something for 2 days. I would let him off. He made it one day... so we restarted.

DD still has the temper tantrums going but she doesn't like timeout to much so they were less then normal yesterday..

The house is still a mess. I need to clean it's driving me insane. Hopefully after work I will be able to do something.

Last Day of Work this week... Nice 3 day weekend coming

We had plans to go out to do stuff.. I had wanted to go to the Blueberry festival, BUT with gas at $3.50 we are staying home.

Well have to finish getting ready for work.. hope everyone has a good day.


/hugs
Stephanie

Morning Ladies
I've been up since 4:15 with Allergies! but I'm proud of myself I had a what would Marble do moment and decided to exercise. So I watched MTV and sweated for about 45 min
Marie sounds like you will be very busy this weekend!
Steph that stinks about the festival I hear you on gas tho, we are supposed to go to PA for the weekend but we'll see
off to work bbiab
Kierie

Hi Ladies

Nice to see so many bright smiling faces in the morning

No plans for the week to come, I just want to wake up when I want and not at 4:30 am.

KO, it seems like everyone's allergies are in full bloom this week. Mine started yesterday, I could not stop sneezing, my DD is coughing, OY. Ragweed I believe.
Good going on the exercise

Stephanie, feel better

Marie, have fun with the fixing up stuff (well you know what I mean lol).

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend.

Gooooooooooooood Morning Ladies,
It is sunny and nice here in Ky. I walked 2 miles this morning and got that under my hat...that always makes me feel good......getting the exercise over with........helps me make better food choices too since I put forth the effort and TIME to exercise a bit.

I went grocery shopping late last night to avaoid weekend crowds.What a mistake.I forgot it was Sept.1st..................oh well.I shopped carefully with coupons and all. Managed to buy 98 % healthy...the one indulgence I bought(indulgence calorie-wise) I left at the check out because I bought the wrong one for the $1. coupon......... so decided against it! It was fattening anyway...thats what I get! The diet angel must have been watching!!!!

No special plans except it is the Grand daughters turn to spend the night..last weekend was the Grandsons! They keep track!

Later taters
Ashlie...I hope your back improves some today!
Cathy.Happy Belated anniversary wishes..was the steak good? Duh.......

morning everyone. wow this thread is sooo much better than the SB daily chat. cause i live on the west coast, by the time i get up in the morning there's already 2 pages of chat. soooo hard to read up on.

last nite was a bad nite for sleep. i didn't get to sleep until 3:30 am and then woke up an hour later with a nightmare. i remember it had something to do with my dessert lasanga I have plans for (for those of you that don't know, i'm going to culinary school in january to become a chef) but somehow managed to wake up with a terribly sinking feeling. Got back to bed relatively quickly (1/2 hour) but was up again at 8:00 getting ready for work. Sleep has really become a problem for me and I'm on the waiting list for a sleep disorders clinic but its 6 months long!

on another note, i'm on day 5 of South Beach and going strong. I even ride my bike to and from work everyday and i can tell riding to work is har din the monring cause its ALL uphill. nice on the way home though.

last nite was a crazy nite for emotions. i was pissed off originally cause i am fed up with my job. i've been screwed over for two years and know i will be losing my job on october 21st (i'm only around right now to train the person that is stealing my job). then i started talking to a good friend of mine in korea about the disaster that is katrina and became really really worried about my friend selena who lives in new orleans that i can't get a hold of. THEN i went outside to take the garbage out and ran into the really hot hawaiin bartender that i have a huge crush on. we were chatting and he was flirting so i became really giddy. tee hee...he's so hot. so i went through an emotional rollercoaster laste nite.

my vertigo is really bad right now too. i had to go of my zoloft cold turkey because i don't have any money to buy new meds so i get it all the time. not a good thing for riding a bike or going up or down stairs.

anyway that's enough gripeing for me for now.

hope everyone else is doing well.

Hey everyone!

School has gotten off to a nice calm and uneventful start...........I'll take it!
Oh ya by the way.............I got the job! NO more weekends, nights, xmas etc unless I decided to work It isn't offically on paper but it is a go! Thanks for all your love and support.

I am working the long weekend away........but that is ok it will pay all the back to school bills off! I am making rice and meatballs for supper and just doing a bit of a tidy......should be a quiet weekend around here!

Hi and hugs to everyone of you!

LIz

Nefarious Wytch,

I am SO proud of you (and everyone else who's working on their eating habits) for doing so well with SBD. Im sure youre well on your way to becoming healthier and happier. Years ago I decided to try Atkins, and do you know what happened? I couldn't even last three days on that darned plan. Three days!

The fact that you have made it 5 days is fantastic, and as I understand it, the longer you go without 'cheating', the less cravings/desire you'll have for the foods you shouldnt eat. So, you're on your way! :0)

Evening Everyone...

I skimmed through everyones posts but couldn't concentrate long enough.. My head is killing me.. I made it through work today but at lunch they sent me to the doctors because of my back. Thank goodness for that.. I found out that I have a severe urinary tract infection and it's up around my kidneys now.. which explains the back pain... and I was lucky it wasn't a kidney infection... Well I did some research...

Symptoms of Urinary Tract Infections
Bladder Infection

* strong, constant urge to urinate
* sharp pain or burning in the urethra during urination
* inability to fully empty bladder
* possible blood in urine
* soreness in lower abdomen, back, or sides

Kidney Infection

* above symptoms
* back pain
* chills
* fever
* nausea
* vomiting
I had all the symptoms of the urinary/bladder infection when I was at the doctor and I also had the backpain, Nausea and vomiting.. but now I think I have a kidney infection as well.. I've recently had the chills which are terrible and I have a fever of 101.1 so today is not a good day... I am on antibiotics and am taking motrin so cross your fingers that it breaks soon.

Hope Everyone else is having a good day

/hugs

Liz - You must be so excited. Congratulations!!! You'll have normal hours, that's going to be such a change. My sister is a nurse and she loves working holidays because she gets paid 2.5 times.

Ashlie, good thing you went to the dr. I've had kidney and urinary tract infections - they are the worst. They did give you the analgesic (sp?) to kill the pain. It used to be a prescription but now it's over the counter. The one I have is called CYSTEX. Turns your pee orange, but kills the symptoms in an hour or two. Definitely worth the money and the time to go to the pharmacy.

Nef, good job on sticking with the SBD. I heard the first two weeks are killers but great for losing.

Okay, work is over for the week and I got everything done that had to be done for the start of school. TGIF!!!

Tonight I'm going to use my Gazelle (elliptical thingie) instead of my exercycle. My knee is a little sore and the bike aggravated it last night. So I'm going to try something else. Food wise - I had high calorie foods but very little of it. My portion control has gotten really good.

I started prednisone yesterday since the asthma has been out of control. I feel better today, but still need to use the albuterol. I figure by tomorrow, all should be good.

Talk to you all later - hopefully not in the middle of the night tonight. I'd like to stay asleep past 3:00 in the morning.