Good luck, Sandra! I can't wait to hear how it went!

Good Morning Chicks! I'm a busy girl today. I have errands and an Eye Specialist appointment today. I'm also having a dinner date with Honey Lamb at my favorite Core italian restaurant. We have been there in a couple of weeks since I was sick so we are looking forward to it.

Rhonda, I have been right there with you before! How on earth did you ever avoid eating the chocolate? Get that new oven GF. Either I'd get the new oven or I'd swear off baking. It makes me crazy when I make the effort and it comes to nothing....or next to nothing.

Sandra, have a GREAT trip and good luck in your competition!

Frouf, I'm sure you're going to have a wonderful trip. What is the date that you see Wicked?

Well, there's a bad thunderstorm on it's way through so I'm going to get off of the computer for now!

Hi Everyone
Just thought I would check in for a few.
Not much happening here. As usual. Did go get my hair trimmed. Just the bangs and the ends. Letting grow. May donate it when it gets long enough.

FROUFY HAVE A GREAT TIME. Dont forget to use sunscreen. RELAX. And enjoy yourself. Are you going to any "nude" beaches. There is a couple in our WW class. They went on a cruise. And they went to a nude beach. Said they did take off anything. Wife went once. But the hubby went back. Said he wanted to make sure he didnt miss anything. Said you wouldnt believe the people that were on that beach. Said there were some. that should have never took their clothes off. Will miss you!!

ONTARGET Have a great time. Will miss you. Hope you win.

VICKIE How are you doing. Hope you are feeling better.

HI TO EVERYONE ELSE
Well am going to get off here.
Just thought I would check in to say "HI"
Have a great day.
coco

I Will Not Panic! I Will Not Panic!!
 

So now really bad weather predicted for tomorrow morning of course! I am going to throw up I am so anxious! Seems we are now expecting 20 cm (about 5 inches) and ice pellets - starting midnight tonight. I can probably assume I will miss my Chicago connection - assuming the airport remains open and my flight even takes off! I have printed off alternate list of flights from Chicago to FLL - altho Chicago weather does not look promising either! I shall have to remain optimistic and treat this as an adventure.

I did call United to see if I could fly out today (gorgeous dry sunny day here) but no 'waivers' for weather at this time - would cost me $150 to change airline ticket plus additional cost of hotel/food for 1 more night (guess I am a cheap froufie?:o ). Might call again later. Otherwise I hope to eventually get to FLL in time to catch the ship on Saturday! Wish me luck!

Coco - hey what an idea - I could have my very own private beach - just strip down and let everyone run away screaming!:dizzy: :dizzy: There actually is a top deck on the ship which up until last week was considered the adult/top optional deck - and I was planning to visit - not to expose myself of course - but it is usually very quiet up there - only adults - no kids running around - lots of loungers to be had too! Alas, it is no longer 'adult only' - not sure why Carnival changed this so suddenly!

Originally Posted by :
Frouf won't miss you: she'll be sunning herself and drinking the drink of the day!!!

Rhonda - I will SO miss Sandra - in fact I will miss her so much I will need SEVERAL drinks of the day just to calm myself down - so there!:D

Vickie - hope all errands and appts go well - thanks for weather updates and info - I will definitely be in touch should I get stranded in Chicago either way (march 1 or 12 - seeing Wicked on the 11th by the way!).

Now time to finish cleaning up and organizing my office!

Frantic Froufie

Hi girls! Do you remember me? :lol:
Just running by to say hi since it's been FOREVER since I've posted. The past two weeks with Pampered Chef have been absolutely insane, I've been gone every night of the week. I promise to catch up this weekend...I'm hoping it will be a relaxing, calm one!
:grouphug: I miss you all!!

Happy Thursday everyone. Frouf, have a wonderful trip. And remember it is an adventure! As long as you make the ship.......YOU WILL MAKE THE SHIP! Positive thinking, positive thinking...

I know we are going to get "the storm" tomorrow, but we should have mostly rain. I need to check to see if its changed since this morning.

Well, I finally took care of myself. Went to the DR this morning to get antibiotics - the head cold that I ended up with after a touch of the flu turned into a sinus infection. The Dr gave me a one a day high dose antibiotic which should clear things up quickly. What worries me since it worried the DR is that my right ear is sort of blocked. He said that with the virus going around there have been a 2 of his patients who had hearing loss due to the virus! Both were elderly but he wants me to email him when it clears. The good thing is that it did clear up on Monday but was back to being blocked yesterday.

Other than that, things are going well. I'm on a conf call at work right now -- paying attention of course :) My scale is still down, so that is a good thing. Off to read. BBL.

Hi Everyone
Well it is starting to get windy here. And it is raining. They have some flood watches out. Until sometime tomorrow. But as of now. Our county isnt in it. But who knows that could change.

FROUFY will say a prayer that the weather will be good for you. I am so excited for you. Cant wait till you get back to hear of all the fun things you got to do. Be safe. Have a wonderful time.

BLESSEDWITHSARAH Hope you get to feeling better. It is awful when your ear feels blocked or achy. So take care of yourself. Hey try this. Take a sock. A clean one. Put some rice in it. And stick in it the microwave for a few seconds. Just until warm. And then put it around your neck and ear. That sometimes helps. I have taken a tube sock. And done that. When my neck was hurting. and it made it feel better.

SEPTEMBERSGOAL Yes I have missed you. hope you are doing ok. Do you like doing Pamper Chef. I have several things. Of theirs. And the best thing I have. And I use the most. Is the bottle/jar opener. I love that thing. And the spatala for the non stick pans. It cuts and everything. I love that too.

VICKIE How did the eye appt go. Hubby had a eye appt yesterday. His was good. Need to go myself. But just havent made the appt. Will do that one of these days.

Well guess I will get off here. Just thought I would stop in and see what was going on. Hope everyone is doing ok.
coco

Hello to all!! Good evening from pleasant north Texas!

It has been a crazy day with coworker out today and everybody needing something RIGHT NOW ... or even yesterday! I just told them to line up and take a number.

After work I went to Walgreens to get Judd a clipboard for his shooting scores (appears that papers fly all over the place). I wasn't ready to come back home so I decided to go to Michael's and take my barn print to be framed. First quote was $400. Um, NO ... this is just a picture going over my family room fireplace! Let's work on it. We picked a little different frame, a different mat ... okay, now we're down to $300. Um, no. Keep working. I finally cut it down to a standard size instead of the elongated size. We got it to $250. I said okay, I'll go think about it and wait for a framing sale. The lady said maybe there's a sale next week, let me call my manager. Sure enough, starting Sunday there will be a 50% off custom framing sale, so she got authorization to let me go ahead and have the sale price. We went from $400 to $125. I can live with that, so two weeks from now I will have a nicely framed barn picture. I'll post a picture of it when I hang it up.

No dinner for the masses tonight. If they're hungry, they know where the kitchen is. I'm not eating. You know, I've about decided that two meals a day is all this little tummy will hold. I've been trying to force in more calories and it just isn't working. The meal last night from Chilis, while really good, nutritious food, was enough for three meals for me and probably enough for two meals for most people. I don't know how anybody can go to a restaurant and eat the entire portion size that's put before them. That's absolutely too much food for one person.

Check you all later!

Panic Yet Again!
 

Well I had to stop fussing about the weather long enuf to have my major LUGGAGE MELTDOWN! What a fiasco - finally weighed the 'big' one and it was over 57 pounds! YIKES! Well started unloading it - but no where to put the stuff I still wanted to take!

Had to haul out the rolling duffle bag - instead of the weekend bag - found out one zippered side pocket 'damaged' by my darling son! ...and so now I have a 'train' - will attach the 2 together and hope I can get thru the airport without knocking anyone over! ..and I have no big beach bag - had to pull oUt the big canvas Carnival beach bag and I am NOT HAPPY!

To be honest on the way home I will just pay any charges and be done with it - not worth it to stress so much - between weather and luggage I will have an ulcer by the time I board the ship! (assuming I actually get to Florida).

I am so NOT in a vacation mood it's pathetic - I sure hope I snap out of it! I had to call Ray and cry to him on the phone - he did try to calm me down. I think the fact I was tired and hungry didn't help - too busy REPACKING to eat - finally made myself a sandwich at 10 pm!!!

I am never cruising or travelling again - I obviously can't handle the stress of packing and can't seem to lighten the load (maybe Coco was right - need to head to a nudist colony or nude beach where clothing and luggage won't be an issue - ha ha ha).

Hope everyone is fine and well and stays warm and safe while I"m gone! Will check in if I can!

Love you all and will miss you all!:hug:

Froufie:D

OK, good idea, Frouf...you stay home; I'll go in your place!!!!

Chickies..there is NOTHING but the weather to talk about here today. Wow...wind, thunder, lightning and snow, snow, snow. I do so hope it doesn't ground our Cruise Queen tomorrow.

I had to get out in it to go to meetings and events that did not get cancelled. I've seen bad weather here before, but this was really special. At least, I could walk and take the subway, which was not affected much. There were places on the sidewalks without snow...why...because the wind was so strong it blew all the snow off. Now, that, I don't think I've seen before.

I'm home now, safe and sound, and going to bed!!

Rhonda

Hello to all you core gals,
I haven't been around for a while, my body is betraying me my starting to not work right. I have some burling discs and a compressed nerve which sometimes makes walking difficult, so have switched to the bike and a gazelle which don't hurt as bad as walking. Doing PT right now, all of the children have moved out now and we are alone, think of it, honeymooners again. I have been working on getting my exercise/sewing room in shape and will have someone here tomorrow to do the heavy stuff. I am sticking to core and my husband is doing it with me and he lost 7# this week and I am down 1.8#. I have a couple of skirts in a large and we will be vacationing around our anniversary in April. Have a good weekend if you can.
Vivian

Frouf, PLEASE try to have fun. You're right....the stress isn't worth it so let it go and pay the fee or whatever it takes. Have a drink on the plane and surrender.

You know I understand how you are feeling right now because I am the world's biggest worrier and control freak/planner. One of my favorite lines from Wicked is delivered by Glynda near the end of the play. She's talking to Elfaba about the "shoes". She says....."they're just shoes. Let it gooooooo". I don't know that it really relates to your situation but it always makes me smile and I try to think about it whenever I'm in a panic about something I cannot control. You've done everything that is within your control my friend. Now you just need to let it goooooo and have the best rip rorin time ever.

I'll miss you for sure!

Frouf, the weather is still holding here, my friend. There should be next to no snow accumulation but they are still predicting windy conditions. Still and all, the city is used to wind so I'm thinking if you can just get here...you'll make it to Florida.

Good bye Frouf,,,,,,,, crossing my fingers and anything else you make your flight today!

Good Morning Chicks! It's cold and very windy here. Frouf's plane isn't cancelled yet, just delayed. She's having a hard time getting out of Ottawa. If she makes it out, I think she'll make it to Ft. Lauderdale at least before her ship leaves tomorrow.

I've got errands again today. Busy, busy, busy! My eating is getting back to normal and that is a great thing.

Patti...love that new chick!

Vivian, it's so much better when both in the house are pulling in the same direction. It's good to hear from you.

Thanks for asking, Coco. My eyes are great because the pressure has gone down to 18 and 19. That's high for most people but I have thick corneas so the Eye Specialist is good with that level. No damage in my eyes at all from the high pressure and the thermal scan they took yesterday shows no change from the same test 2 years ago. Life is good!

Enjoy your day Chickies! I need to find the strength motivation to exercise. I wasn't blessed with Kath's good fortune in this area. I MUST exercise to lose since I'm not willing to eat like a bird!