Good Monday everyone. I love Mondays now as I get to catch up with all my maintaining friends! Just hard to find the time to read and post to everyone.
I'll try though...
WardHog-- gross on the caterpillars! Our tomatoes are going crazy and are just starting to ripen. I love tomatoes!! LaLaLaLa about school starting soon! I'm not listening. I feel like summer just started and I have to go back to work/school in a month. Not happy about it. I haven't gotten any of my projects even started that I wanted to do this summer. I feel like time is flying by.....
Hi Pat and Jay!!
Shannon-- sounds like a nice, relaxing weekend. Personally I don't know where my weekends go. I had great plans to clean the house and I did squat about it. Very frustrated.....
Allison-- glad you are feeling better and the scale is cooperating with your lack of appetite. We saw The Proposal and loved it too. Now we are waiting to see Harry Potter! I also want to see G-Force but I don't know if it will be cute or just stupid. If my dd doesn't want to go I may have to borrow a kid from someone!!
Hi midwife!
Jessica-- sounds like a great time in NYC!! Waffles with ice cream actually sounds pretty delish to me! I used to love belgian waffles with fruit and whipped cream on top but I haven't had any in forever. I'm sure all the walking around you did burned a lot of calories.
Enjoy your kitty sitting Dagmar and good luck staying OP. I wanted to kill my kitties the other night. Wilbur has bulimia (not really but he throws up after eating all the time!). So, I was dead asleep and heard him retching. Where? On my bed of course. So I sat bolt upright-- tossed him off the bed just in time-- and then had to play find the throw up in my bedroom. Once I finally got back to sleep, I was awoken by Charlotte doing this incredibly loud whistle snore (on the bed of course). I couldn't believe how loud it was!! Dd said the next day that she heard her snoring too-- it woke her up from across the hall!!
Meg-- I am LOVING the summer fruit too! I was grumpy last night that I was out of my nightly chocolate low cal fudgesicles but didn't feel like going to the store. So dh and I had big bowls of fruit instead-- I'd already had my morning fruit so I really had a ton of fruit yesterday! But still had it again this morning too!! I want a pedicure too. I had my nails done Saturday (I have acrylics) and they asked if I wanted a pedicure. I said no because I didn't want to spend the time or $$ but I really do want one!! I figure when I go back for my next fill it will be right before my cruise and I'll get pretty toes done then.
My weekend--- if I can remember-- Saturday I had my weigh-in. First time in over a month because I worked 2 Saturdays, was out of town for one, and one was 4th of July and WW was closed. I was up 2.6 pounds but I was fine with that as my previous weight was some low fluke that I've never seen before or since! Then I went to the gym and did the running club for the first time. I've only started running recently and only by myself on the treadmill so I was a little intimidated to try. There were only 4 of us and we ran 2.2 miles in about 21 minutes. I was gasping for air and my quads are very sore but I made it. I'll try it again I think. Two of the ladies that ran with us are from my other classes and they said they always watch me in class (both latin dance and boxing boot camp) because I have "great form"! Me?!?! The person who always felt so uncoordinated and klutzy my whole life? They don't know how good they made me feel. I had to choke back tears. The instructor is my fave instructor that I take boxing boot camp and latin dance from. He was trying to talk me into trying a spinning class which I've never done so I may try that soon as well. After that, I did my nails, cooked dinner.... the rest of the day is a blur so who knows what I did?!?!
Sunday I had to work..... I usually work 4-5 hours on Sunday but we had extra training (3 hours) for the new computer system they are rolling out. It looks like it will be great once we learn it but it is so different and I know it will take awhile to learn. The bad part is we just did a simulation and the real one will be with lines of members in front of me..... I was exhausted after that and debated skipping the gym but I've only missed one day so far in July so I dragged my sorry butt there.
Today I went back to the endocrinologist about my thyroid and my eye disease (Grave's eye disease). My thyroid results were fine but he is recommending I see an eye surgeon. Not to have surgery at this point but to get a baseline to see if I may need it down the road. My eyes are very dry and I'm experiencing double vision. I forgot they would make me get on the scale so I was pleased to see 126 with my clothes on and after breakfast. My BP was super low (98/56) and my pulse was 50. I expected them to congratulate me on how healthy I am but they never saw me heavy so they don't know how exciting it is to see great numbers!!
Thursday dd and I are going to go visit older dd in Southern California at the camp she is working at. Dd is grumbling about the long drive. I haven't driven myself for a long drive in forever and I think this will be the longest drive for me. I'm a little nervous especially since the doctor told me to be very careful driving. Older dd has her first real boyfriend. He is another counselor at the camp. I hope to meet him to see if he is a decent guy. We aren't overly excited because he is 1. too old for her (she is 18 and he is 25), 2. another race and religion from us (believe me we aren't bigoted but it can just complicate relationships). I hope it isn't too serious and it ends when the summer ends (though she will have her heart broken I'm sure-- that is just the kind of person she is). She is very overweight and I know she is liking the attention but I hope she isn't falling too far, too fast (as it sounds like when I talk to her). I met my dh when I was 18 and I tell her that was way too young even though it worked for us but I'm sure in her mind she is at least as mature as I was.... Oh, the joys and worries of parenting.
I guess I felt like writing a novel today. Sorry for the length!!