Hello ladies

MICHELLE...you are welcome sweetie. I honestly don't know why some people are the way they are and that person, ugh! I think she was just down right rude and mean to you and it was totally uncalled for.

SUSAN...glad you had a nice weekend at the beach. on the 3 pounds!

SASSY...thank you! Wish I could say I had a nice one. WEll, actually, it was, just down in the back and that wasn't any fun at all. Couldn't do much at all, still can't. Glad I have DH and the kids to help me out. All those tests you had made me think of DD when they were trying to find out what was wrong with her. She had to drink that nasty stuff too and they didn't see anything. They just didn't want to believe that a 15-year-old had gallstones and they kept treating her like she was crazy and just making this up, ugh.

Hi to everyone else

Today is WI and I am happy to say I am down 1.8 pounds. Considering last week was a terrible for eating. I started off good but knew there was going to be two days of bad eating. Still didn't do so bad, not as bad as I thought. Hoping for a bigger loss next WI. We'll see...

Take care ladies and I hope everyone is having a good day!

I meant to say Happy Birthday earlier Cristina!! Sorry - hope you had a nice day Congrats on the 1.8 pounds!!! - that is great.

I think I will go get my salad for lunch. Ify with M at the moment. Trying to merge our 2 lives might be too difficult. He wants peace and quite .......lol - and I don't think my life is that. Not until these kids grow up at least. anyway - kind of makes me ill but I need to let it go.

k- chat later....

Thank you Susan!

Sorry to hear about you and M. I do hope everything works out. Did he think kids were quiet? Lol Hang in there missy, and don't give up. Merging two lives/families is and never will be easy but it is well worth the work and effort if the person(s) are worth it. And it seems to me from all you've said, M is worth it and you sure as **** are! So just hang in there.

Was getting ready to log off and get up off my butt and get something done. Thought I would check the thread again. So...ta ta again ladies.

Have a good Monday!

Hey Cristina,

Sorry to hear about your back, I sure know how that feels! Yeah its like the medical field refuses to beleive that we actually know what we're talking about our own bodies! Crazy. Well at least they found something, Cysts, but don't know how they would cause all of this, but possibly, will have to see next week!

We went and looked at a couple condos today, we really like the 2nd one, going out tomorrow to look at apts. We just want out of this apt and to be closer to work and the in-laws.

Take Care,

Sassy- Good luck on finding a new place. Change is good. Hope you find out what they can do for the cysts. Something to make you feel better, I hope.

Cristina- Congrats on the loss. Keep up the good work.

Susan- Sorry also to hear about M....hope things work out the way you wish them too. Man, you are not taking baby steps...you are sprinting! Good job!

Michelle- How is your sis doing now? I sure hope she is okay. ALSO...I am like you as far as being a slow loser. Seems like I work and work at it and the scales won't budge. This time I have noticed that my legs are thinner, even tho the scales aren't moving much. SO you might be losing some inches. Keep up your good eating and WATP.

Nice to see all you gals.... I am trying to be good this week after eating CAKE over the week-end. (twice) I rode 3 miles on the bike tonight and it was great...the wind in my hair, all that jazz. LOL Hope to go 4 miles by Sat. *fingers crossed*

Hi to everyone!

Hiya Girlies!

SUSAN...I was like you at one time. I think I still have a hard time sometimes. I was married for 12 years, then single for 8 and then along comes V. I told myself I was ready for a relationship but when it happened I had a hard time dealing. I fought it in the beginning. Figured he would probably get killed or something so what was the point. I think I just didn't want to allow myself to be happy. But, yeah, I wasn't sure I wanted to change things for a man, lol. But I am glad that I did even though it was hard, and still is sometimes. I hope you and M work things out because you both deserve to be happy.

SUE...thank you!You are doing great wtih your walking and biking, keep up the good work missy! I told V no cake for my BD...for once he listened, lol. The kids wanted it but I didn't want it because I know I would have eaten too much of it. When we went to Olive Garden I brought a slice of the lemon cake home...that was my BD cake.

SASSY...hope you guys find the perfect condo/apt. I am glad that they know it is cysts but what can they do or what will they do now?

HI MICHELLE, KATY, & SusanNYC!

Taking it easy still. Don't want to make my back worse. I do hate that I can't walk or do any exercise. I have managed to keep up with the laundry though, with the help of the kids & V. It totally sucks having the laundry room in the basement! Anyway...

Hope everyone is having a good day!

Hi Ladies...

SUSAN...sounds like you are in love big time missy! I think it is when we least expect something to happen, it happens. Sometimes there has to be compromise too in order for it to work. I do hope things work out for the best with you and M. He seems like a good man and you guys a good couple.

SASSY...ha, I think what I just said to Susan applies here as well. There is a reason you guys are looking for a better place and if you think you can make the payment I would say go for it! You only live once! In the long run you will be happier in a new place and being close to your in-laws. About the refinancing of your car...I would definitely check that out completely before doing anything. There could be upfront fees to pay and maybe even a longer loan. Also, remember that everytime your credit takes a hit (someone checking it) you drop a point. And yes, decent banks will make/send all kinds of offers. Sometimes they just get a mailing list I think and send to anyone and everyone. Just be careful there. But hey, what do I know, lol!

HI to everyone else

Nothing much going on. Had some errands to run...went to Bed, Bath & Beyond and pick up some Wedding Day scented candles. It's almost the only place that has any left and when they are gone, they are gone. Didn't find any placemats that I liked so went to Target. Decided on some plain black ones...looks nice on the new table and with the black in the valances. Felt good to get out and walk a little. May be doing the yard sale Saturday after all...feeling much better, just need to be careful. I figure Monday I will be able to get back to my walking and exercise, woohoo! Anywho...that's about all I have.

Have a good day ladies!

Thanks.......

Well we aren't taking it. Two reasons really. We discussed it last night and decided it was silly to move from one apt. to another, even if the other is a lot better. But its a HUGE jump from what we are paying here, so we wanted to wait a bit and maybe save some money. We know we could afford it, but we decided to "tough it out" here and save some money so in 6 months - 1 yr. Instead of an apt or a Condo we could buy a house. Plus we still aren't 100% sure what is going on with fil, so we kinda want to wait and here we don't have a lease, so we can leave whenever we want, we just have to give them 30 day notice. Where if we got the new place, we'd be tied into a year's lease.

Also I'm glad we aren't going there either as they had false information about my husband on his background check, some things showed up that was not true. My husband called the County Sheriff's Dept and they have nothing on him. So he called the apt. place back and told them and asked where they got the info, at first he said they didn't want to give him the info, but when he said he spoke with the county sheriff, then they did. They got it from a credit reporting company? Which I don't see how they got that type of info from them, but DH says that they probably did a web search and my DH's name is a common one, there are lots of people by his name.

Anyways, we aren't moving and we got the deposit $$ back that we put down. So no big deal. I just told DH last night that I feel stupid for even going through with it yesterday, but he said, well at least we backed out before we were into a lease, etc. We just had this feeling that it wasn't the right thing to do lastnight and after all of that crap, I think we did the right thing by getting out of it.

Yeah I know we need to look into the refinancing very carefully, but if its legit, it would save us a ton of money on the interest we are paying an extremely high one right now. So we will of course look into all the "ins and outs" and the "small writing", etc. before just doing it. But this is one of the top banks in the world and I have never gotten a thing from them before. If we get anything like that its usually from something that we've never heard of. Not saying that it couldn't be a scam, we will check it out completely first. I just thought it was nice to be noticed for all the hard work we have been doing on our credit is all. We've been really busting our buns on it.

Well guess that is all I have to say, so thanks for the advice, but we already made up our minds about the new apt. We're NOT taking it. Staying here and saving money for a house instead.
Take Care,

I hear ya. Its always scary when your changing something, esp. a move like that. I wish you all the best. I feel a lot better now. I know we made the right decision in waiting.