Good morning and HAPPY FRIDAY!!! Just checking in before I get the kids off to school. Not much planned today except paying a few bills and check on my dad since my mom is out of town. May even get a mani/pedi. But really, I would love, love, love, to stay in my jammies!!! I'll pop back in later to catch up on last night's posts.

Hope you all have a SUPER DUPER day!!1

Renee

morning all. Just wanted to say hi before i go out for work. I have to work today and tomorrow, but i do have Sunday and monday off...which is good.

have a great day all.

Hello all, hope you have a good day. I know that mine is going to be super busy. We are getting ready for a huge visit, so I am wearing comfy shoes and am going to be ready to work my butt off. Hopefully there will be no incidents like yesterday.

GG, have a good day at work.

Lisa

Good morning!!

The past two days have been great professionally. I went in to school Wednesday and was informed that one of the national trainers for the reading program was going to come into my room to observe and teach a lesson. If it was just her it wouldv'e been okay but my principal and other people were there to. Anyway she said I was doing great and that the kids were really picking it up. Yea!! Then yesterday I went to a training for another reading program I am doing that I had not been trained on. I was just winging it, well my winging it was just fine. Yea!!! If your counting I have a group of students for two hours and we do 4 different reading programs. The funny thing is technically none of them are my students. All of my ED students we have sucessfully integrated for reading.

Enough about me. I hope everyone has a great day!!!

Jasmine

Good morning! Off to work out in a few minutes...have already unloaded and reloaded the dishwasher, started laundry - my exciting day!

More later!

Mornin' All,

Been keeping busy for a couple days. My plumbing problems are fixed for now. At least I can keep the water main on. Gotta check in with unemployment and my recruiters today. Also have to check into when I can take the state real estate exam. Probably one day next week. Want to make sure i pass it on the first try, because it's $60 a shot.

Have a great day!

Morning Everyone,
TGIF!! I am so happy that it is Friday and payday. But that means that I have to pay bills before I can spend any money. I am going to my nephew's wedding next weekend and need to have an outfit for it. So going shopping with my mil and my sister tomorrow.
I heard on the radio this morning coming to school that the teacher who was shot yesterday was shot in front of her fifth grade classroom. I think that is just horrible. Her husband shot himself later that afternoon. She is still alive at this point. Makes you stop and think that there are a lot of sickos out in this world.
Well we went bowling last night. I had a lot of fun. But didn't get home until 1 this morning. So after I got my stuff down to get ready for work today, I finally went to bed at 2. So I skipped my morning workout and slept an extra hour. My goal is to get my workout in tomorrow morning. I did eat good at dinner though. Had 12 boneless chicken wings, some celery and a few nachos and that was it. Usually I eat half the nachos. Yeah for me for showing some restaint. I did have two drinks at the bowling alley. A grapefruit and vovka and pineapple and ameretto. Very tasty.
Renee enjoy your day to yourself. Hope you get to treat yourself to a mani/pedi.
Lisa sorry to hear that you had a crazy day at work yesterday. Hope it goes well for you today!
GG have a good day at work. Sounds like you have a great plan for making your pt appointments strecth out for a couple months. Keep up the good work!
Jasmine that is so cool about your days at school the last few days. That must make you feel very proud as an educator. My principal keeps bragging about how I have worked hard this year to get our MH program where it needs to be. But the funny thing is at the beginning of the year when I asked him to do some of these jobs around the school with my kids he was a little hesistant. Hope you have a great weekend!
Dawn enjoy your workout. Which one are you doing today?
Hi to everyone else. I will chat more will you all later. Have a great day!
Kerry

Mornin' All,

Kerry ~ How awful! Those poor students... Yes, there are a lot of sickos in the world. It's a sad day when schools are no longer safe. We had a tragedy here yesterday too. The policment and city council members shot in Kirkwood, MO just makes me feel ill. We lived in that town for the first 5 years of our marriage and it is the neatest little area. The community was shocked when it came out about Michael Devlin and now this.

Hello to GG, Lisa, Renee & Jasmine!!!

Delta ~ my day is starting off much like yours; empty dishwasher, fill dishwasher, laundry, yada, yada, yada. I don't know if I'll be able to handle the excitement of it all:-). TGIF! Have a great day ~ Joan

P.S. Holli ~ I've been thinking of you... hope that you're doing better.

Good morning everyone! Got my day started with a serious exercise and boy are my muscles burning! Slim in 6 Ramp It Up is a killer. Not much planned today. Will maybe make a trip to the playground so my dd can play for a bit. Have a great day everyone!

I am finding that since I have lost some weight, My skin is sagging (primarily in the face) and I am looking older than I am. Any suggestions?

BTW Good morning every one! I am hearing mixed reviews on how good, But hope every one is healthy.
Lauren- good luck on your test, I know you can do it.
Every one- congrats on the losses and healthy eating.

I have cheated a couple of times with M&Ms. One of our evil Drs brought them in just because.
But my meals have been mostly healthy. Tried a new honey oat whole wheat bread recipe. If I make about 5000 more of those I could build a house.
Well, I'm at work so... I better go work.
Laters

Danger ~ too funny! What is in this bread?! M&M's are not safe in this house. I find that if I buy the snack size bags for the kids I won't open them. However, if I buy a large bag there is no stoppin' me. I love those babies!

Back again! Got the work out in and laundry done...today was a step workout.

Danger - I love M&Ms too - just stand and look at the bags in the checkout lane. I don't have any advice about the skin.
Joan - are you still "stranded" at home without a car?
Heather - hope you recuperate from the workout. Have fun at the park - ours is buried in snow!
Kerry - have fun shopping tomorrow.
Lauren - I hope that your meetings go well with the recruiters.
Renee - did you get your mani in today? How is your son feeling?
Hi GG, Lisa and Jasmine.

Hope that everyone has a great Friday!

Hi Joan- the bread has all the normal stuff, But when prepairing the dough the recipe says to heat the milk and honey to "luke warm" and add it to the yeast and flour mixture.
Any other bread recipe I have ever made says to heat liquid to a specific temperature range and mix in a certain amount of sugar. So I either didn't get the liquid warm enough or I didn't feed the yeast enough. The dough didn't rise very much. But I have never made bread like this before, so I figured I would complete the process and see what happened. My husband thought it was tasty, but very dense. We ate two tiny peices and I threw the rest to the chickens. Back to the drawing board. I think I will activate the yeast the way I know how for the next batch. I'll let you know if it works.

Hey ladies!

Just got done cleaning/rearranging the kids' rooms...been doing that and laundry since 9am. Done for today...going to get some dressers for Cadence(actually from DH's grandmother), so Frankie got the one that was in her room. Also got rid of three giant trash bags of stuff...needless to say I'm beat city.

Joan, was just watching the news coverage..thought about you. I forgot about the Devlin thing was there, too. I remember when it happened, I told DH I lived near there. crazy. Hope you are having a good day!

Well, girls, my back is killing me, so not gonna stay on today. I desperately need an adjustment. For now, I'm gonna go stretch on the floor for awhile.

Sorry so short..hope everyone has a super evening!

Pam

hi everyone, well I am slightly better but still pretty much an invalid, I can't talk cause I slur from all the meds so James has been calling in to work for me, but I can type okay. I shot up to 224 today, probably cause of water or all the pain meds and salt, who knows, so I'm not counting it. I have stayed on plan though.

the doc sent me to get a cat scan yesterday, and she called today to say all is normal so at least there is nothing wrong. She gave me an rx yesterday for a narcotic and also an 800 mg of ibuprofen; it wasn't til my fourth dose yesterday (I was bad, you're only spposed to have 3 a day but shoot, I was in major agony) that I got any kind of relief. I hope my boss isn't mad I haven't been able to clal in or come to work, I missed so much last year from the m/c and robberies and all. James has been an angel, he helps me walk when I need to take care of "business", fixes my food for me, helps me change position when I need it, and he's washing my car for me right now. the light flashes are gone, but without being doped up its unbearable. your posts made me cry they were so sweet, and brooke especially thank you for your kind words, they make me feel not so much alone. k I'll check in when I can, gotta get away from screen - stay on plan everybody, you can do it!