Wow, it sounds like Thursday was a sucky day in general for everyone! Know that you are all in my prayers, and that I'm sure that things will work out...and you deserve that.
I take major comfort in this verse (hope I'm not offending anyone by sharing it: "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD , "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." -Jeremiah 29:11
I hope that Friday is a great day for everyone to make up for the yuck of yesterday. And I'm so thrilled to hear that many of you did a great job staying OP! That is such a major feat! I feel so empowered when I am able to stay OP in spite of great stress!
Mamacita, I think your supervisor needs some serious help. It is so frustrating when people do not support you! But do yourself a favor and don't let it make you feel unimportant! You are important, especially to people like me who hate needles and rely on people like you to draw the blood quickly and well so it hurts as little as possible and add some humor along the way to make it a better experience. I can't tell you how grateful I have been to the kind and patient phlebotamists I've met over the years! When the administration gets nutty here at school, I just try to focus on the students, who are the real reason I'm here. I hope your patients give you some great encouragement in the next few days and help you remember why you are really there. That said, big hugs
and know that your supervisor might not know the truth, but *we* do.
Ruth, I'm sorry yesterday was so heinous! Today sounds like a lovely day, though! I hope you have a great time goofing off and enjoy the hectic parties tomorrow. Your peonies sound gorgeous and I am jealous! I would love one, but they are so expensive! Please do share pictures when you can. I would love to see pics of your whole garden...it sounds like paradise! Hope Lucy feels better on her new diet. Our pup's diet is very restricted, so she has no chance to become plump, but she also has a super-short coat, so we would know right away. The kind of coats your puppers have hide a lot!
Jodi, I hope you greatly enjoy the summer schedule! It must be fabulous!
: And huge congratulations to your ds for making preprimer! He is well on his way to reading...getting to preprimer is a major accomplishment!!!
How old is he? He is one lucky kid to have you for his caring mom!
ADD, I am so sorry you are going through this, but I must say how in awe I am of your courage and bravery in the face of bullies!
I think you have done a great job of standing up for yourself, which is awesome! I'll keep you in my prayers and hope that things work out for you! Keep us posted, 'kay?
I'm very happy today is Friday! Our servers were being worked on yesterday, so I didn't really get any posts in. We were working offline all day, which was a bit odd. But I got a lot done.
Had the Spinach dumplings for dinner last night. They were a pain to make, especially since I couldn't find WW bread crumbs anywhere. Has anyone else seen them? However, I have to admit that they were totally delicious! They did fall apart in the the pot when I didn't put a ton of them in there. I would also say, if you decide to make them, put less salt in. It calls for two teaspoons, and you put that in the water when you cook the spinach. I heated it in the micro., so I added the salt to the mixer when making the dough. It was way too much salt for that method!
We'll go out to dinner tonight...maybe Applebees. They have a WW menu that has some possible SBD choices, but they do not list a lot of nutritional information, which I find annoying. Oh well...
I am hoping to go to Jo-Ann's and pick up some fabric to make these adorable wallhangings for my friends. The fabric is so darling...little shoes (with titles under them like "earthy crunchy shoes" for birks and "too high shoes" for a pair of heels) and little bras (with titles under them like "date bra" and "ouchy bra"), little purses, and tons of cute sayings. One of them reminded me of you guys. Something like, "No friendship is dearer or more close that that of friends who are dieting together!"
The pattern for the wallhanging is a shoe and a purse made out of the fabric. It is so cute!
A friend just e-mailed me to see if I wanted to go to a murder mystery theater performance on a local train! That would be awesome!
I hope everyone has a much better day today and a fun-onmenal weekend!
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