:wave: HELLO MIOSS HAPPY :wave:
GOOD LUCK AT THE DENTIST....I THOUGHT I FELT YOUR BREATH ON THE BACK OF MY NECK!!! :lol3: :lol3:

forgot to watch the Biggest Looser last night.

Oh well. It will be there next week.

If you want a good workout--rearrange your furniture. My shoulders are sore this morning.

Food yesterday was on plan and I didn’t feel deprived of any food because I incorporated some “bad stuff”.(By that I mean the stuff I usually will binge on) My fat grams were still under 40 grams. Exercise consisted of 1 mile according to the pedometer. Tonight I have plans on going to the gym to walk on the treadmill or use the walking track upstairs for thirty minutes. It should not be as hot up on the track since it’s cooled off outside. I can sleep late in the morning.

Speaking of sleep,I could not go to sleep until 1 a.m. this morning. I didn’t have caffiene yesterday either. It was to cool outside for the a.c. to kick on inside. I opened a window (just a crack) last night so the house would cool off. It was 56 on the bank display when I came to work.

I stepped on the scale this morning and was shocked to see 181.8. Monday I weighed 186 and now down to 181.8. That’s another 2 pounds. This has to be fluid pounds. This is logical considering my problem wtth fluid. I need to stay on plan this week end as much as possible. It should be easier since I’ll be going to my uncle’s.

Morning all,
Happy - just for you, I will not discuss work, except for the funny bits at least for today. I'll just get on with it and not whinge, throw wobblies, or get up peoples noses. Just for today anyway.

Ceejay - going well there, a bit of bad stuff is not always bad for us. LindaT used to have a square of Dove dark choc every night. Not sure if she still does. Someone in the office brought back some Swiss chocolate from a recent holiday. I had a square of the nut variety but have decided that it is much to sweet for my tastes now. However that didn't stop the chocoholics from demolishing both blocks.

Happy - good luck at the dentist. My list has diminished since the last visit and with a bit of luck after one more trip, there will only be cleans and 'advice' on what to do with the temporary filling. I would prefer to have an implant put in when the tooth is removed however, the price is formidable so it probably won't happen. I'd be happy with the Mimosa for breakfast. Could be a nice way to start the day.

Ruth - oh dear. A gym junkie at our age!!!!! Surprising how quickly it actually gets under our skin right. Best of luck for Miss Lucy today and I just love the name of the Vet. We have a Dr Bite in our surgery and he doesn't!!!! Have fun in the city. Shame you are not using the Bently. Now wouldn't that be fun! You might like to prod Carla while you are in town? Lucy could give Zen some exercise. Oh no, she's away working somewhere isn't she?

Well, that's about it. I've got to go sort out the deadlines for next week for the team and then see if I can meet some of my own.

Have a fun filled day.


Mel -

Ouch!! I felt that prod all the way from the wilds of Oz.

I'm not working out of town, although this month there has been (and will be) more work in my life than I really enjoy. And the clean eating challenge has gone totally by the board - as a friend often says, 'I'm just not feeling it'. In fact, I'm not feeling like much of anything except booorrrriiinggg, which is why I think it's time for me to spare you all the daily moaning and take a little break from 3fc. There'll be plenty of lurking, of course... And I'll be back once inspiration hits and I finally have something to say. I'll be thinking of you all.

Ruth, I do hope the appointment with the vet went well and you had positive news about treatment for Lucy. :hug:

Time to feed the furballs. And for now, a big :grouphug: to all the lovely worldly chicks. :wave:

So you didn't meet your challenge, doesn't mean you have to leave and lurk! We could all do with some encouragement from time to time. Specially down this end of town - but I'm not allowed to talk about work.

You can't feel anymore dumb and boring than I do at this point in time. I'm even considering taking the entire weekend off just to get out from under for a while. Don't know what I will do with the time but I'll think of something. Freo on Saturday, Araluen on Sunday maybe.

Carla, don't you dare stay away! When we are off plan is when we need to be here!

Ceejay, water weight or not, it's a loss! Sorry about the sleeping problems. I hate that!

Shad, I giggled get out from under comment. Aren't you always down under? I hope you have a good weekend and a break from all the work crap.

MEL, I didn't realize those repercussions of 9/11. We were very sad here too although we sure weren't affected as much as folks in your area. I think that will always be a sad day.

Happy, I can see the sparkle of your teeth from here.

Madcat, Hollyhock, Roseblush, Meadow - big :wave:

Lucy had her first chemo treatment yesterday which is supposed to make her more comfortable. She gets another in three weeks. Don't worry about side effects too much - the dosage is very low. She may be tired, lose a bit of fur and have a digestive upset but the vet says likely not as she has age and her attitude on her side. My aim is to give her as good a time as possible until it's departure time. I'll try to stop going on and on about her.

Today I will finally get at the picture boards for the open house (Ontario Doors Open) at the Church this Saturday. Luckily I have tons of photos of the Church and congregation going back to the early 1900's. We are going to supply refreshments but Claire is looking after that - she's a real Betty Baker, worse than me! Saturday night we have a surprise birthday party for Claire so I'll have some cooking to do for that....veggie tray and some dim sum type starters.

Whoops! It's Thursday and time to tote the recycle stuff out to the road. I'm still in my robe but to heck with it!

Have a lovely day.

RUTH~ WHY WOULD YOU STOP GOING ON AND ON ABOUT HER....SHE IS PART OF THE MAINSTAY OF YOU LIFE. WE ALL HAVE SAD THINGS TO SHARE AND IF WE CAN'T TELL EACH OTHER WHERE ELSE CAN WE GO? SENDING HUGS TO ALL OF YOU :hug: :love:

I WILL BE BACK TO CHAT GOTTA RUN. PATHMARK FOOD SHOPPING. BUT....

SHAD~ ON YOUR POST IT SAYS "MEL- " WAS THERE A FAILURE AS WHAT TO SAY?? :rofl: :rofl:

REALLY GOTTA RUN NOW :moped:

Good morning chicks.

I wrote a big long post just before midnight and I don't see it this morning! Must have turned into a pumpkin - boo hoo.

I will try to summarize as I am running late as usual...

Carla - please don't leave us. I do so much enjoy your sense of humor and perspective - it does wonders for my mental health. Please reconsider and if you feel you must lurk, we appreciate you letting us know what's going on instead of worrying and wondering. :hug:

Shad - you KNOW I sincerely hope - that I was just teasing you about the work things. :rofl: Sometimes it reminds me of the chaos theory - a butterfly flaps it's wings in Aus and it creates a wind tunnel that blows papers all over Happy's desk half way around the world :lol: :df: I'm glad you're feeling better tho I do admire your steel courage to do a hard workout even when you're sniffling and coughing. I say go away for the weekend - even if it's to a modest place where you can just walk among nature and get a little peace and quiet. You know that after a series of long, long days eventually the body/brain just gives up in spite of what you'd rather do.

Ruth - I wholeheartedly agree with what Mel said. Cripes, Lucy is family and if you can't talk about her here, well then what good are we? I enjoy hearing about her. Someone who eats the crotch out of panties and gives me a good belly laugh is ok in my book. :queen: What do you make for dim sum?

Mel - did you get your check cashed and get the last of your money? Better shopping trip I hope? I just got a new set of pots and pans. Come on over and we'll cook up a storm! Shad can ply us with mimosas tho I have to figure out where I'd buy champagne in this goofy land - probably at the liquor store in the wine section.

Ceejay - congrats on the pounds down. I fully support moving furniture around - it gives the impression of a whole new look about things. Isn't this cool weather delightful? I'm loving it. Sleeping better too. You brought up a good point about getting a subscription to 3FC to avoid the ads. I forgot about that - it gets really dreadful here, especially late at night. I may try that. Thanks for mentioning it.

I had to cut the dental appt short yesterday. It was a new hygeinist - why do they always seem to come and go quickly in a dental office? She was young and sweet and very polite but gosh almighty - she was a little TOO enthusiastic with that scraper too. After several jumps when she hit sensitive points :yikes: it actually got to the point where reflex had me actually pulling away from her. She kept apologizing but never figured out that she was scraping too hard. Man it felt like she was scraping my skull - sorry if I'm giving you the heebee jeebies. I told her to stop, we were done and I wouldn't even let her polish my teeth. I'll do the job myself at home. And thus set in motion a chain of events in which nothing went according to plan yesterday.

I am still behind but I am not stressing. Will figure out what the highest priority is, and work my way down from there.

And with that, I had better save this and be on my way.

Madcat, Meadow, Holly, Painter, Nae :wave: :wave: :wave:

I'm right in there with everyone else's comments to Carla. Don't leave all us all alone and unprotected. Baby, it's cold and scary out there alone! :lol: Stay and play with us. If you don't feel like keeping with the challenge, so what? We are the last to point fingers and laugh - well, ok, we’ll keep the finger pointing to a minimum. Sometimes it is time to fly and sometimes it's time to turn our attention to other things. Life interferes with our best intensions.

Likewise Shad go ahead and vent as much as you need to about work. Frankly, I find the stories amusing and horrifying at the same time. There is a reason consultants get paid more than full timers… if things weren’t FUBAR’d, they wouldn’t need us. Poor planning and then they throw a boatload of money at it – as if that makes time stand still or something.

Happy~ Hey, I’m hoping encouraging Shad to vent really doesn’t have some sort of shadow effect on your workload. :lol: So I was going to ask how the new job was going but I guess that is the answer, eh? But are you at least happy you made the switch (even with the workload)? Do you see the light at the end of the tunnel?

And Ruth, if you need to tell Lucy’s tale (tail?), we are here to listen. Though I have never met her, I still love Her Virtual Doggieness because I know what she means to you. Heck, if all we are allowed to do is pull happy smiley sunshine out of our a$$es then why wouldn’t we just stay home and talk to ourselves? :lol: Hope your Doors Open goes well. How many locations do you guys have opening? And what are you doing for it? It is such a neat program.

Mel~ Hope the shopping trip went well and all the rude people got the heck out of your way. Maybe you need to add a big air horn to your traveling equipment. Thar she blows! :lol: Maybe a bullhorn?

Wow, Ceejay, you managed to add in binge foods but not binge on them?? Good for you! That is so good. I find this fall weather plays havoc with sleep patterns.

We come we talk, we don’t talk, sometimes we just throw in the occasional dumb comment, or a joke and there ya go. We are the Worldly Chicks, hear us type!! I’m off to do some work. ‘Cuz really, I get up, I go to the gym, I go to work, I go home. Now THAT is boring. :lol:

Madcat, I spewed coffee over your "happy smiley sunshine out of our a$$es" and am running for a mirror to see if there is any in mine ready to pull out! Too funny! We have the Old Mill in Delta which is a National Historic site and then there's our Church which is on the the heritage tour and also part of the Ontario Doors Open initiative. It'll be a busy weekend and I'm hoping a cool one. My 1811 costume is scratchy fabric - fustian? Well named because I fustian hate it!

Happy, I would have complained loudly to the dentist! No wonder they don't last if all of them are like that.

You know, yesterday it was the car; today my furnace refused to turn on. All I wanted was a little shot of warmth while I took my bath! I'll hit reset and hope it was just a glitch!

This is not getting those pictures mounted ... outta here!

Went to bed at a decent hour last night and my body clock woke me at 7 a.m this morning. I felt fully rested.

House work has began. Bathroom and kitchen has been cleaned and one load of laundry is through and another waiting to be put in the dryer.

Exercise has been completed for the day in the form of riding the stamina bike for 30 minutes. I’ll be mowing the yard in a about an hour. The weather man has rain in the forecast and depending on the hurricane’s movements we may get torrential down pours later today and tonight with possible flooding.

Yesterday was not a total wash out so to speak but I did go over my fat grams and I didn’t wear the pedometer so I don’t know if I completed my mile. Probably not, simply because my stomach didn’t feel right. Infact I think I dozed a couple of times at work. This is kinda unusal for me.

I was going to wait until 11 to start mowing but I think I hear the neighbor’s lawn mower. It’s nice and cool this morning.

Oh Carla--Don't even think about leaving us. You are not obligated to do a challenge.

Ruth--I have always love to hear about Lucy and Hershey. It's time for the furnace, :yikes:

Madcat--Your routine sounds exactly like mine except I'm not going to the gym as I should.

Happy--I've gotten in the habit of reminding the hygenist, dental assistant, and the dentist that I have sensitive teeth. It's supposed to be on my record but they very seldom review it. Sorry you had a bad experience. I'm going to move the furniture one more time later on today. I've finally figured out that the sectional is "left handed" and I think there is a piece missing. Get ready for some rain from the remnants of the hurricane.

Mel--I knew that the Pathmark stores exsisted but didn't know there locations.
Way back when I used to work in the factory I printed cases. This was one of the brand names.

Time is escaping me this morning. By the time I get the load of clothes out of the dryer it'll be time to get the lawn mower and weed eater to work in the yard.

I MUST BE THE ONLY ONE TO SAY THIS BUT IT COMES FROM MY HEART...CARLA I KNOW THE FEELING AND IF YOU FEEL THE NEED TO PULL AWAY THEN DO WHAT IS RIGHT FOR YOU. SOMETIMES I HAVE TO DO THE SAME THING. LIFE GETS TO BE A BIT MUCH TO BE "FUNNY" ALL THE TIME :rofl: NOT THAT I WANT YOU TO GO BUT YA KNOW????:hug:

I CASHED THE CHECK. ALL THE BOYS ARE HAPPY. PUTTING IT AWAY FOR A RAINY DAY OR CHRISTMAS. WE'RE ALL USING CASH THIS YEAR. DIDN'T GET TO THE MARKET BUT TOMORROW I WILL. THE BUS GOT CALLED FOR SOME MEDICAL APPTS SO I GOT OFF. I STAYED OUT TOO LONG BOTH DAYS AND MY HEAD IS SPLITTING. I DID READ THE POSTS BUT JUST CAN'T ANSWER. I NEED TO TAKE THE ZXYRTEC AND LIE DOWN SO I CAN FOOD SHOP TOMORROW. OR JEN WOULD HAVE TO DO IT AND AT HER WEIGHT SHE BUYS ALL FATTENING FOODS :lol3: :lol3:
CHAT MAYBE TOMORROW. NITEY NIGHT :cloud9:

Morning all,
Carla, I think I came over a bit harsh and grumpy yesterday. Forgive me, I'd had a rotten day. Life goes on and I'll get back to the routine yet. Work and life (not to be confused with each other) goes on and we have to do what we have to do. So lurk away. We love you.

Mel - I'd better not leave you out in the cold today. Danged if I know what went wrong yesterday but I'd never just hang you out there and leave you to dry. You know that. It's Friday yeehaa. Had breakfast with the PM project team manager this morning and he is now aware of the problem I had yesterday. I have said I will deal with it, but I just want him to be aware of the situation. I think I'll be trying hard to hang this team together until the end of the project. Time will tell. Glad you got your cheque cashed and put away. I hope those bank fees are not back in your account as well. Wouldn't it be nice if things went back in as fast as they came out!!! Wishful thinking there.

Happy - more bad experiences with the dentist. Those hygenists always feel like they are doing more harm than good. I'm sure I don't have enough plaque to cause that much drilling and buffing etc.
I knew you were joking about the job. I do understand the American sense of humour mostly even if I can't understand the accent at times. And whatsmore I know that the prevailing wind here goes east and south - I don't have a direct line to Happy's desk so I can't take credit for landing you with all the DW's (user) problems. I have enough DWits of my own to take care of. One of the guys at breakfast this morning was having problems with his UAT (User Acceptance training). Apparently he has a South African in his class who considers the world begins at his right ear and ends at his left and there is little in the middle. As usual this person began complaining at 8.00am in the morning and by lunch G was developing a sad case of swallowed swear words. Finally he said that he was pondering a problem and it was taking forever to find the right words but --- If we configured SAP (computer program) to cater for every F***wit in this company we would have a program that would continually loop in a long oval and would speak with a SA accent. He then calmly continued on with the next UAT test script. I felt like cheering since my problem is also SA.

Ruth - I think this board is an 'I Love Lucy' page. We just love to hear of her exploits and misdeeds and adventures. Any dog that chews eyeglasses and knickers is fine by me. It's funny and sad and we want to know how she is doing. We are cheering for her :encore: Not that we don't want to know about Hershey, but Lucy has the same warped sense of humour as I do. Go Lucy!

Madcat - FUBAR'ed - gotta love the acronyms. One of the other team leads wondered why I was referring to FRED when I was talking to my computer (as you do) so I explained that no Fred was not the name of my computer - it stood for F*ridiculous electronic device. Oh she said, maybe I should call mine fred as well. Nope - yours is alfred. ALFRED? - yep another lousy one of the above.

Ceejay - get into that furniture and get moving. Great for the shoulders, triceps and biceps. Then you clean behind where they were and work out the legs and knees with squats and lunges. Good onya.

Right time to round up the herds and get moving. Fair amount of droving to be done today.

See you

((Carla))

HI Ladies!!
Life is busy but good. The Rush concert on Wed night was fabulous. They played 3 hours. I got to see tons of old friends before and after. Some I hadn’t seen since before hubby and kids. Felt very Hollyhock-ish to be there. I have walked 3 X’s this week so far.Food has been better but i am very hungry around 10 pm when i get home at night. Getting lots of my fruits and veggies in tho.

I am up a bit early to give myself some time to think and sit with a coffee. Having a busy, strange and pleasant week.
I have been gone from home most days this week for approx 12 hours a day. On Wed I was out from 9am til 1am. Work has been going incredibly well and it is so much fun.Really, I get to do funky hair and laugh and chat all day and get paid for it. Today is pizza day for the kids so no lunch packing! They dont need to get up til 8am.
I said to hubby last night, I have hardly seen my babies, i have been gone 12 hours a day. He replied, that is how it has always been for me. He is pretty much gone 6am-6pm every day.
The interesting piece for me is that because i am gone til after 9pm, he is caregiving in the evenings but he is going beyond that and this is very new. He took the kids ti piano lessen last night. He has picked up milk and bread and garbage tags. He arranged an outing for DS with another kids............he has been verbally supportive of me about my avon biz and the time it takes. None on this has ever happened. Not once in 11 years.What ever changes I have made for myself. And really, in the beginning it was to empower myself so that I could be independent so I could leave him; have in turn empowered him some how. It took 9 months.......and it was ****......I am deeply thankful. Mind you i am still carrying the load. I am doing laundry,feeding pets,paying bills around the fringes of my commitments and making meals( love that crock pot) and taking care of all the kids school stuff etc. I am stressed out over money and scheduling and my clothes are in terrible shape and my appearance matters for work and keeping everyone happy. I deeply miss my kids. The kids are doing fine. I will have lots of time on the weekend with them and next week i am only out 1 evening for work.Nothing else. Things will have settled down some. My DD turns 7 next weekend. We will have some festivities for that and we have a wedding, out of town. Looking forward to my BIL’s 40th this weekend. There will be some good long time friends there. Hubby is looking forward to going too. Again.odd but pleasant.
Today I work from 9-3 and the shop and then I am working at the fair with Avon from 4-8, home by 9pm. Taking a change of clothes for the fair gig.Hairdressing is so hard on your clothes. Everything has to be washed every time you wear it from the hair so it gets worn fast and perm solution and colour splatter and ruin stuff. I wear an apron but it is sneaky stuff.My clothes are plain and simple but in my former life and a hairstylist-cool chick my clothes were, well, cool.
Time for breaky and a shower.

'morning chicks

I'm behind as usual. Too many deadlines. Worked until 1:30 this morning. Dashed into bed for a few hours of sleep and up at 6 again. I'm hoping one of my friends can help me with a very overdue project.

Will try to get back tonight.