i'm back from w a. earlier today i weeded another rosebed. i guess i worked out there for about an hour maybe a little less. we have company right now. 2 men and a young boy. they are buying a bow.

vickie, is there a water aerobics class near you? i highly recommend them. we had a different instructor tonight. she didn't work us as hard as our regular one but it was all right.

kathy and vickie, i'm glad you are going to get to meet in october.

Hey everyone,

Rose I'll say 51. I know I'm probably wrong.

Kathy, it sounds like your focus is on the future. That's great! It gives you something to plan for and look forward too.

Niki, How bout them Yanks. Five straight against Boston. I'm watching the replay now since I only heard it on the radio. I want to see everyone after they win. The reporters said the players were pretty emotional.

Vicki, it looks like we both went Mexican tonight. I made the lazy girl tamale pie for the first time. It was great! I'm bringing some for lunch tomorrow and I'm going to cut up some avacado to go with it. I made Pineapple cheesecake pudding for dessert. I love going back and printing new recipes. Froufy I printed up your roast recipe. I may try it this weekend.

Anyway, hope you all have a great night. Work hard on your 2 x 2 challenge. I'm hitting the treadmill tomorrow. :woops:
Stacey

Hey gals!

Kathy, I'm glad Shaun got on his way okay today, and that you managed to hold things together. :) I know it's been a long emotional ride for you.
Oh, and Hi Kate! :wave:

Vickie, how are you friend? I hope that you are having a good evening. We almost went to Chipotle for dinner. I'm loving those burrito bols.

Sandra, you're just a little fish aren't you? We're still working on finding some activities to do. We want to do biking but they are so expensive, and there's no where around here that we know of that rents bikes. We'll keep looking I guess!

Rose, I'll guess 1 year!! :lol:

Gotta get to preparing for tomorrow...Good night!

Melissa your birthday is the same day as my brothers. My sil is going to have a little barbeque party for him since it will be his 45th birthday.

Stacey, you are right on,:cp: :flow1: we were married Aug. 19 1955. 51 years. Oh gosh that sounds like forever. lol I turned 70, this summer, hubby is 71 this summer.
Blue Skies,
Rose

That is amazing Rose!! Congratulation!!

congrats on your anniversary Rose - wishing you many more years of happiness!

Kathy - glad Shaun got off okay - I (like Vickie) would have been bawling my eyes out- you are a stronger woman than I!

Vickie - I am very proud of you for going back to your meeting - it could not have been easy - and I know it will help you get back on track! Good for you. Thanks also for the lane bryant link - I shall go check it out.

stacy - good luck on the treadmill tomorrow! Every little bit helps!

I had a bit of a rough night and miserable day at work - I was up around 5 am - let one little thought of work enter my mind - and then BINGO - that's all it took to start the worry wheels turning in that old head of mine! I kept trying to relax' and 'empty' my mind but it just wasn't working. I got up feeling so depressed and still overwhelmed.

I'm pretty sure it's a work related issue - (which is also affecting my eating of course!) - I have things to do that would normally have been done by my employees - and while I kinda know the stuff - I don't feel confident and some of it I've never done before and this is freaking me out!

And you know when you get into your office and there is a post-it note stuck to your monitor from the (acting) Director saying' urgent come see me asap re deployment of new staff' - it can't be good news! sigh.....

Yes it seems we can't deploy Mr. Winnipeg into the position we wanted to cuz it isn't vacant yet (well duh!) - so found 'another' REAL position - (yes my mgr called from home while on holidays as she is still watching all the emails) - but here's the government catch - that position is designated bilingual - and this fellow isn't - so need to change language profile of the job (english only) - BUT need to provide rationale, get upper level approvals, etc - and they want to know why you need to change this - and it can't be BECAUSE THE PERSON ISN'T BILINGUAL - the job designation is attached to the position not the person.

So all seems to be falling apart - and in fact Mr. Winnipeg did not call me today which was a blessing in disguise as I don't really know what to tell him??? So I sat all day in my office with most of the lights off trying to stay calm.....and I won't even go into the contact name I was given to get a code from - turns out this person retired LAST FEBRUARY - and we've been sending emails? Go figure - I finally called out of desperation - and got this exciting update!!!- talk about slow moving gov - this person still listed in gov directory with phone #/address, etc...and email still operational - geez!

Then a meeting I thought wasn't happening was - so had to review docs thru lunch hour - and got into the cookies- thankfully I keep arrowroot cookies in my desk - it could have been worse!

Good news is I did do my floor exercises this morning and went to the gym after work - bad news is I took ds to movie while dd was at dance camp and had popcorn for supper and one peanut butter cup (which resulted in a huge HIVE right under my eye) - hope it disappears before dh gets home (jamming) cuz he will have a fit!

Waiting for dryer to buzz then I should head off to bed!

Frouf:(

Thanks girls, 51 years have just gone by so quickly. At the time people said it would never last, as we were so young, I had just turned 19 and hubby had just turned 20. We were lucky, he worked for the Airlines until he retired at 56
Well off to bed. Take care now, look after each other.
Rose.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, ROSE!!! you and dh are a fine looking couple. you know i don't think you look anywhere near 70. you're a cute tomato.

melissa, i'm having a hard time finding swimsuits that aren't too low. my girls need more covering.

frouf, don't let it get to you. keep telling yourself--cruise, cruise, cruise. i'm glad you did the floor exercises. that has to be good for your morale.

kathy, how are you tonight? are you doing all right?

Good Morning Chicks! I'm just sitting here with my cup of coffee. Jim and I got all our first morning chores done. You know, feeding and watering the cat and dog, getting newspapers, taking out garbage, and making coffee.

Cassie has a bath appointment at 9:00 and Jim and I now need to schedule time on the treadmill. He's usually an early guy so he'll probably want to go first. I have a pedicure today at 4:15 and then I'll be coming home to cook dinner. I'd like to get out after lunch to get the things I need for dinner and do my chopping for today and tomorrow's dinners. Can you tell I'm already planning more after one day on Core?! :D

I did ok yesterday. I spent 6 points....too many...and probably ate a bit more than I should have. All and all not a bad day. I know I was obsessed and feeling a little anxious about being back on program. I know exercise and my meetings are REALLY the key. The eating usually follows ok for me. I'm coming up on my second anniversary on Core. I thought it would be easier by now and that I would have maybe been at goal. Enough excuses. Sigh.

How were all of you last night?

Good morning, I am watching my neighbors little boy this morning for a few hours, he is a few months older than my ds so he is very happy to have a play date. You have to see how cute my kiddies are, dd climbed into bed with her brother and he is now reading her a story, he is so loving & protective towards her, my older brothers always tormented me when we were kids :D my younger brother was always close to me.

Vickie you are doing great, I am the same way with the exercise, don't be so hard on yourself alot of us are right there with you.

Froufy I hope this situation works out for you soon, exercise is a great way to relieve some stress, like sandra said think CRUISE,CRUISE,CRUISE and when you are on the cruise have some watermelon Martinis they are real good :devil:

Melissa I forgot to mention, I Love your website!! Very Nice!

Sandra I find it hard covering my girls in bathing suits also, sounds like you had a great workout yesterday, good for you!

Kathy how are you doing this morning!

Stacey the Yankees did fabulous, what do you think about the new stadium they want to build. I read you use to live in Brooklyn, what part I have friends there, I grew up in Astoria Queens not far from brooklyn.

Rose if my dad was still alive my parents would of been married 46 years, they also got married at 19 & 20.:D

Kathy, Jim and I would LOVE to get together with you and Judd for dinner! We have several Fall birthdays but I'm thinking it won't be a problem to work around them. I'll probably have a birthday party for my BIL on Saturday, October 28th. They haven't scheduled yet but they usually pick Saturdays. Friday and Sunday are wide open right now. My Sister's birthday is earlier in the month so we should be ok there. Halloween is also booked for us too. It's so fun to spend it with the Great Nieces and Nephew! The Sears Tower view is breathtaking and US Cellular Field aka Comiskey Park is amazing. The other place....not so much! ;) How are you doing this morning? Have you been into Shaun's room yet?

Sandra, as much as I love my pool and the water, I'm not ready for public consumption in my bathing suit. I haven't been able to find one in the last couple of years that covered me well enough to make me feel that I could go to water aerobics. It's definitely a thought for the future, though. I'm sure we have the classes. We have quite an elaborate community program.

Stacey, I make a tamale pie also but it's a pretty elaborate recipe with polenta for "crust". I cut mine up and freeze it in serving sizes and have it for lunches. Jim wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. He thinks polenta and couscous are YUCK! I'm happy that he'll eat most Core foods because I would not cook two dinners. Nice job by the Yankees. We are not doing our job beating Detroit. The way they and we are playing, our only hope is the wildcard at this point.

Melissa, I'm good! I love the burrito bols too. It feels like fast food and I consider it Core enough...except for the cheese and I count the points. Did you have your Dad's party already?

Rose, I think my Sister and BIL have been married for 45 years. They were the same as you and DH, both very young. I think my Sister was 19 and BIL was 21. They basically grew up together and were lucky enough to still love each other when it was all over. Jim and I married late in life. We're praying for 50. Congratulations again! It is quite the accomplishment.

Thanks for the support, Frouf! :hug: It wasn't easy to go back. I was a little quiet during the meeting. I didn't feel I should be talking alot after not showing up for 3 months! Ugh! I am SO sorry to hear about your work issues. I was just telling Jim the other day how grateful I am that I don't have to deal with all of that anymore. It was especially bad the 2 years before I retired since I was the big cheese! I did have some good staff though so keep fighting for people that you know will make your job easier. Yesterday's meeting was all about not comforting yourself with food. It was important for me because I do that. We are supposed to try to create other comforts for ourselves....reading, games, exercise, shopping, etc. I'm going to try. Keep up with your exercise like you have been and it will take care of you until you get your eating back under control.

Ok....Jim is on the treadmill so I guess I'm up next. I think I'll go eat breakfast. I got up early so I can eat early. Yippee!

Niki, what a great story! I always wanted a brother. Sigh.

So last night and this morning, I've been all a twitter because today's the first day of Kindergarten for my dd #2. I had the plan of how the morning was going to play out all worked out in my head. And then, when I got dd #3 up, she threw up all over! There go my plans. :lol: Thankfully, my mom is willing to come over and sit with sicky so I can take the girls to school. And I guess my morning walk around the lake is out. Darn.

I did OK for a first day back on plan yesterday...until late evening. I was super hungry and nervous, so I had a piece of pizza and two pieces of buttered toast. Oh well, each day is a new one.

I'm off to take my medicine and try to calm myself. I think I'm more nervous than she is. :)

Angela

Angela, you're adorable! Calm down GF...it will all be ok. I was hungry and edgy too yesterday for my first day on back strict. We will succeed! My Great Niece went to her first day of kindergarden. My Niece didn't seem traumatized at all. I think she was ready for her to go.