Nessa thats great news about the boot now you can :carrot: on both feet

Laurie sounds like your feeling better - so glad for ya

Stephanie you go girl with those toned legs;)

I'm back chicks, think I'll visit some more while I eat my breakfast cheesecake. It is really going to be gorgeous out today, I'll have to find a reason to get outside for a while.

Hooray nessa, you are on a roll! Get your Beck on girl!
Kim, :hug: to you and DH. It's good that he's going to get the colonoscopy, although I'm sure he's dreading it.
C'mon fluff! It's springtime! Climb back on board. You are having your down time, which we all have to have, I guess, which is why you need to coast along with us for a bit until you get your mojo back. I know it stinks. My DH has lost weight like crazy just from me being on SB. He doesn't really stick to the diet, and didn't really need to lose much to begin with. Men have it so easy when it comes to weight loss! I am sure your DH thinks you're a hottie!
Good morning Laurie, sorry you are inundated with students today! I did my usual dark brown. Boring, but I think it suits me and it's a definite improvement over the skunk stripe of gray I was sporting!
Hi Stephanie, ooooh, good job -I want muscles too! Are you taking a class or doing a tape or what?
Gonna, good luck at the weigh-in!
tk, I'm sure you're very upset over the DS incident. :hug: he is young and you know him best and I'm sure you would know why he did such a thing. Maybe it will be scary enough for him to know that he could easily have been taken away from all his friends and sent to a different school that he won't do anything like that again. That zero tolerance policy seems a little stiff at times, but of course the schools have to protect all students. They can't wait until there is an incident and somebody gets hurt and then have everyone wanting to know why they didn't take action sooner. Not that it would have come to that in your situation, but I guess they have to treat all incidents the same. How is DH handling things? By the way, we got the curse as well. I fully intend to curse my own children in retaliation!

My bad ankle has been hurting. I sprained it very badly when I was in college in an incident that involved alcohol, and ever since it will ache when the weather is bad. And since we had some bad weather earlier this week I was hoping that's what it was. Anyway, since DD1 is my resident sports injury expert (she's been a dancer all her life), she has advised me that I shouldn't do the WATP anymore. She watched me do it yesterday and said it was too much impact. She says stay off it and do yoga instead for a few days. It makes me sad because I really have been enjoying and doing well with the WATP...

Schmoodle can you brace it?

I have something like this and it works wonders. an ortho can prescribe it

http://www.supports4u.com/aso.htm

Thanks Nessa that's what I was wondering. It's so sexy getting old after abusing your body most of your life!

my ortho said NO walking, running or jogging on the joint... so i do the Arc Trainer at the gym... but he wants my fat tush on the bike only....

bike, weights (not while standing) and yoga...

Yes ma'am, I'll keep that in mind. I think swimming too will be okay.
The description of that thing is funny, they really emphasize that it's made with "ballistic" nylon. Wonder why... Not usually a lot of bullets flying around when I'm working out, you?

Wait, no walking either?

It's the very thin very very very strong nylon. You can get that thing in your regular shoe.. that's very important. it's a pain to put on... seriously. but even with the stress fracture before i had the boot i was pain free with it...


NO walking... that's what he said... i didn't listen and look what happened...

schmoodle-yeah, I plan giving him the curse 10 times stronger. My others aren't old enough yet but I'm sure they will ask for the curse also. Yeah, I know that the school has to take care of every student but what gets me is that they know Powell and that when they went to investigate, all the other kids denied it. These kids know him and know that he is weak and falls for temptation so they do it to him and he's the one that gets caught and they will deny it because they don't wanna get in trouble. That's another thing that that adds to the frustration. DH feels like everything that was put into teaching him right from wrong just went down the drain. I told him that it didn't, this is just one of those life lessons he has to learn. Powell was 1/2 an inch short of being expelled and having to go to an alternative school. I don't know if he wants to get suspended. This morning during breakfast he told me, "this is the first time I've been suspended huh?" Almost as if he wanted to see what it was like to be suspended. He used to every now and then talk about other kids being suspended and now it happened to him. I'm just tired. DH wanted to kill him yesterday. He wanted to literally kill him. He was so mad and hurt by the whole thing. I'm just glad he wasn't having a PTSD moment because I think I would probably be scraping my sons remains off the floor today.

Schmoodle be sure and rest that ankle as often as possible

Okay, sigh, well no walking is tough, but I will try. It's frustrating when I was just getting into the exercise thing and the scale is finally starting to move again. I know you can relate.

tk - Yeah, that's why I asked. I'm sure PTSD does not help with being able to deal with stressful situations like this. You are right to try and figure out how to deal with his tendency to do what the other kids tell him. That can cause big trouble later on. My brother was like that and it made for a turbulent adolescence! But your son is young enough that you have time to help him figure it out. Wish I had advice on how to go about that, but I don't. But I do really feel for you because I know when something like this happens, we immediately start to question our parenting. At least, I know I do. But it doesn't mean you have "failed" or anything like that, just that your son is presenting you with a challenge. Any chance the school will work with you on moving him to another class or someway limiting the time he spends with these other kids that are a bad influence? That doesn't solve your problem, but might help keep him from getting into trouble in the near future.
Being a parent is so fun!

krystal... Keep your chin up.. Going off track is only going to make things worse. You CAN do it!!!!

TK...sorry about the DS1... that is totally punishment for the parents too..
Don't know if I want kids LOL

Nessa YAY!! to the boot off :) with my health problems I generally only cycle. Walking helps but I hurt easier with it. I also dance (I know a few line dances)

Kim- glad some of the tests are over. The colonoscopy won't be too bad. When I was in Nursing school I got to watch a whole bunch. Interesting... He'll be out of it for the actual test and he won't really remember it :)

Me... Just woke up, still in bed. Need to clean up the apartment, bike ride, put in my application for healthcare.... ship some boxes out for Ebay... go to work with DH (he's a process server...and I'm his secretary) oh and pick up a refill for BC (birth control...NO KIDS..at least not now)
Other than that its a B E A U T I F U L day in the neighborhood :)
..I like starting out with the daily chat, it helps brighten my day

schmoodle-tried switching classes but they wouldn't allow him, even after the first 2 weeks of school. Their excuse:they are already in a routine and schedule and they can't mess it up the child! To me that's BS. A child will catch up,they have no choice but to. They will adjust. He has nothing but bad kids in his class and poor thing, it's been like that ever since he started going to school 4-5 years ago. I've talked to other parents and their children don't have that many bad behaved children in their classes, maybe like 1 or 2 but he always ends up with the one class that has ALL the bad behaved ones. Uuuuuhhhhh.

Princess-really it's not bad. It's very rewarding and a wonderful thing to have children. I love all 4 of mine. It's something you can't explain. Sometimes I feel like giving them to another family.....lol....but I do love them with every inch of my body.

Good morning! It *is* actually still morning, so I'm coming in to say good morning. I'm off to a slow start today. I had a slower than normal run and am just kind of tortoising along. I haven't quite reached sloth-pace, but I might be there soon! I'm feeling a bit more perky since I got my breakfast (buckwheat waffle with a clementine and glass of tomato juice), so maybe there's hope for this day yet!

Linda, I hope your lunch in the park is nice! I bet Maggie will have a blast!

Ruth, I hope you have a wonderful birthday celebration with Shirleyanne! Is rum cake your specialty? I've heard you mention it several times.

Cat, I hope you get to meet your friend this afternoon! Sounds like fun!

Schmoo, I bet it would be really great to see a foal being born! I hear they come out feet first, which must be funny to watch. Although head first is pretty odd, too! Birth altogether is a pretty strange process!

Nessa, I'm so glad you got rid of that boot! What got you into it in the first place?

Kim, I'm glad to hear that your husband's spirits are up. My father-in-law has diverticulitis, so if he needs any tips I'll ask for you!

Krystal, we all go through those down times. I can tell you FOR SURE that if you clean up your eating, you will feel SO much better about yourself. Buckle down and take it one meal at a time, one hour at a time if you have to, heck, five minutes at a time if that's what it takes. Make a written plan of what you're going to eat for the day and stick with it. Give yourself 24 hours and your body will be feeling so good with all it's good fuel! You CAN do it!

Oooo, Laurie, Panera! Tom just went there for lunch the other day and was RAVING about it. We'll have to go next week when we're in Florida. What's your favorite thing to get?

Stephanie, I'm so excited for your calves! Yay yoga, indeed!

Gonna, was that program really sad? I didn't watch it for fear I'd cry through the whole thing.

Tawnya, good luck figuring out something to work for your son! Dr. Phil says you need to "find his currency". Figure out what really means a lot to him and then take that away as punishment. I bet some character-building lessons will help. I'm planning on starting them with Connor soon. He would never start trouble, but he's definitely a follower so we need to start NOW with giving him the tools to combat peer pressure!

TDI, starting with the daily chat is great, isn't it? Hope you have a beautiful day to go with your beautiful weather!

Kara

Kara I cried when I watched his lecture from the Oprah show and yes I cried lastnight not because it's sad but because it's how I want to live if I know i have lil time left on this earth.

Nessa-congrats on 11 days! It's such a wonderful feeling!

Fluffy, we all have days like that. I can just about promise you that your husband loves you and thinks your beautiful no matter what you weigh! Everybody has setbacks, but it's a strong person that can get back up on the horse and keep going. *hugs*

Pacer- yay calves! Keep up the great work!

TK, I'm so sorry to hear that you're in arms about this. I can't even fathom the stress that you are under. Chin up. He's 8. 8 year olds make mistakes. Mistakes don't mean that he's going to be a mass murderer when he grows up.

Also, yay crappy weather. I think it's supposed to hit us today! :(
The striptease workout is available Cox On Demand if you have it. FOR FREE! They have a ton of different workouts available. I was scrolling through them last night. I had never even thought about that before, but I'm definitely going to be trying them at some point.....if I can wrassle the living room away from DS and DH! ;)

Kara, Good Morning! Doesn't everybody tortoise along in the morning? ;)
I'm going to check out the character building stuff that you were talking about, it sounds interesting.

Me? It's a wonderful day so far, although it's supposed to rain and definitely looks it. I found a library that was closer to our house, but didn't have time to get there yesterday. I think we'll go there today, although I checked the online card catalog last night and the book that I really want isn't available :( I also found that they have a toddler time, but I would have had to pre-register. I have no idea why one would have to pre-register for a toddler story time, being as you wouldn't just leave the kid there...but whatever.
Hubs is applying for a job at another local university so he's been jumping through flaming hoops all morning....keep your fingers crossed! We could definitely use the extra money that it would bring in :)
Today is the start of my fourth clean day. I understand what you guys mean about not weighing yourself all the time, I've been driving myself crazy with it. I'm going to hold myself to doing it on Mondays during my home blessing hour (thank you, flylady!)....it will turn into a body blessing hour as well. Yay!

Like I said, tomorrow night I have a cooking "party" with my friends. I talked to the host, and he changed his mind on what he was having...so he's leaving the selection up to me and a friend. Perfect! I'm going through the cookbook now to find something. It might not fit every rule, but I'm going to have it fit within the parameters as much as possible. :)