Hello ladies!

Francie ~ I hope you did well at olive garden, I know some places do half portions (but they are still like having 2 servings). Just keep yourself in mind and eat in moderation...the chicken sounds wonderful!

Mindee ~ Hope everyone feels better soon. Having sick kids throws everything off, because you never know what is coming next.

Christina ~ I echo you on the exercise. I made it to the gym again today, so that made 4 trips this week. All I want to do is sit around, my arms are sore, but not hurting, so that is good.

Sassy ~ I finally got the laundry finished and put up! and the kiddies picked up yesterday and today, and DH got them to load the dishwasher, so mainly all I have to do is get the junk off my counter top.

Marti ~ I am back at the redecorating stage too, though going very slowly. Dh is off Thurs and Fri so we are finally going to paint the kids rooms...we have been waiting to get the wallpaper down in DS room, adn I didn't like using the chemicals, so I had to find a good steamer. Tried that outtoday, and it works much better.

Well, not much going on here either, Dh and I are going to a friends 30th B-day party tonight. I will have to watch the drinks, but it will be fun to have a night out. have a great night ladies!

hello ladies...how is everyone?

Cristina~ I have to admit, the breadsticks are my downfall as well! Congrats on your weight loss this week.

Francie~ How did your trip to Olive Garden go? Last time me and Tommy went I had gotten the chicken fetticini alfredo. But I only ate about half of it, and then brought the rest home. (come to think of it now, maybe that was why the scale didn't move that week!)

Marti~ Have fun! Did you survive?

Ellen~ Yup, I agree 100%! They seem to be doing much better today, but then again that is usually how kids go. You never can predict when they will be sick and for how long! Have fun at the party tonight!

Hi ladies,

Vann - hope to see you posting here soon. You've been missed. :hug:

Sassy - I just can't bring myself to exercise in front of Neal. Just too much jiggle, lol.

Mindee - glad the kids are better. Hope they stay well.

Trish - aww, we all have those times when it's hard to stay OP. I'm going through that right now, and sometimes it seems like a zombie has taken over my body, lol. I KNOW what I need to do, but doing it isn's always very easy to do the right thing.

Cristina - hope your back is better.

Francie - I had the apricot chicken (no breadstix) when I went to OG, and it was diet-friendly, and yummy, too. How'd you do? It's so hard in most restaurants! I ate too much at Applebees today. :o

Marti - DGD Macy turns 5 on the 21st, too! Her party was today. Then Mary's bd is the 22nd. Since Dale is in Mississippi, I'm making her dinner and dessert. Instead of a cake, she want my brownies, with praline frosting. I sure hope you've had a great day, and that you survived the kiddos, lol.

Ellen - wow, lots of us went to bd parties today! Not only did I go to Macy's but I took a friend out for lunch for her bd. We see each other only on our birthdays, for lunch. You're doing great with the exercise!

Sue - are you freezing? The high today was 17 with a wind chill of zero. Brrrrr! We're supposed to have temps in the 40s on Monday - woohoo, a heat wave!

Julie - how's the little one?

Tammy - what's going on in your life?

As I mentioned, I celebrated 2 bithdays today. One for my friend, and one for my DGD Macy. It was so cold outside that I just wanted to stay home. I've been working on the guest bedroom, and have a new quilt, shams, and valances coming. If I can, I'll post a link to a photo of them. The Link Eliminator may get it, but I'll try. :)

Other than that, not much else going on. How boring, lol.

TTFN!

Well..the menu online totally lied!!!!! They didnt have that at all. I sat there for 15 mins looking for it. I ended up getting the spaghetti with meatballs, ate half of it, then brought the rest home for dh. I didnt get to do my walk though because there was MA's everywhere and it was pouring down rain all afternoon.


Anyways..hope everyone is having a nice night!!!

Here's the Montgomery Wards link for the quilt:

http://www.wards.com/wards/prod_disp...?product=98476

Francie - what's an MA? :shrug:

master at arms (i think). Its the Navy police

MINDEE...thank you! :thanks: I was surprised I lost this week with not exercising like I was. How are the kids? Is Brandon feeling better? Are you? I LOVE the breadsticks at Olive Garden!

FRANCIE...WTG! That's what I did when we went this past Wednesday...I usually do that...half my food and put it in a to go container. DH will eat it the next day. Sorry you didn't get your walk in.

ELLEN...WTG on going to the gym 4 days this week! :carrot: What color will the kids rooms be?

JANE...back is much better! So much in fact I did 90 mns of exercise today. Actually did 95 the other day. Two BD's yikes!

Hiya SASSY, VANN, MARYKATE, TAMMY, SUE, MARTI and everyone else :wave:

Nighty, night!

hello ladies....how are you all doing?

well, after watching all the kids on Saturday, they all seemed to be doing well.
Logan is doing good....I haven't seen him tug on his ear. Brandon still isn't himself. He was looking really pale on Saturday while we were eating dinner. He went to the store with Tommy is picked up some chicken noodle soup. They got home, and he ate it. Tommy convinced him to take another bite until it was almost all gone. Tommy asked him if he was feeling okay, and he said no. Tommy asked him if he wanted to go to the doctor's on Sunday, and Brandon told him yes (which he never does!). Marissa, I noticed while getting her ready for her bath, has a little bit of a runny nose. So, we will be taking them to the doctor's office on Sunday to make sure that they are all okay.

Marissa has her 9 month check up on this coming Thursday, so I am going to be asking the pediatrician for a referral for Brandon to get his eyes checked out again and to get another speech evaluation done. The last time we asked the pediatrician about both issues, he said to keep an eye on it and we will go from there. Tommy agreed with me, so we are both on the same page there. Tommy's older brother Tim had to have surgery on his eyes when he was younger because of some thing that I can't think of at the moment. So, I mentioned to Tommy that the next time he talks to his mom to find out if the eye thing is hereditary. That way, we will have more info on our end when we go into the appointment on Thursday.

On another note, our furnace seems to be on the fritz. It will start up, and then when it does it sounds like it is on it's last leg. And since it is really cold out and doesn't look like it is going to be getting any warmer any time soon...Tommy is going to go to the office and talk to the office manager. He called her numerous times, but since Brandon accidentally pushed his phone into the sink, it landed in water. So, we are not sure if the calls actually went through or not.

We also got Tommy's w-2's so we are going on Wednesday to get our taxes done. Tommy called the lady about getting them done, and she told him that there are a lot of incentives for taxpayers this year. Plus, they still have the gift cards left, and that she would explain more to us when we go in there on Wednesday.

Vann~ It is good to have you back! :hug: :hug: :hug:

Francie~ That sounds like me when we went to Olive Garden this last time. I was looking for something that was low fat and good for me, and all I kept seeing was veal or eggplant, which I don’t like. So, I got the fettucini alfredo, ate half, and then brought the rest home for Tommy to eat the next day. I also made sure that I filled up more on salad so I knew I wouldn’t eat it all.

Jane~ I will head over there and see if there is anything to update on mine....I am sure that there is though!

Cristina~ You are welcome! I am doing better....I am still unsure about my bathroom area, but at least I am not living in there anymore! I am just hoping that when we take the kids in, that it won't be a waste of time. But I know that something isn't right with Brandon.....he just isn't acting like himself. We had chili for dinner, and all he wanted to eat was saltine crackers like I was eating on Friday when I had my bug.

Good Afternoon Ladies

Mindee - Glad the kids are better and hope Brandon will be back to himself soon. It is so hard on us Mom's when our little ones are sick and can't really tell us what is wrong.

Francie - Good job at OG. DH DS gave us gift certificates that can be used there or Red Lobster. I told DH that I have no idea what to eat at OG. I've never eaten there. I'd rather go to Red Lobster, but have to go to NC to find one. Sorry you didn't get to walk, but you still can feel good about your accomplishment.

Cristina - Sorry about your back and glad it is better. OMG 95 min of exercise. What an accomplishment.

Jane - Love the quilt set. I love blue but DH loves red. I've had 3 husbands (widowed twice) and the first one didn't seem to care much about any particular color, but the other 2 both love(d) red. So I go along with DH. However, I told DH that I am going to change the accessory colors in our downstairs guest bathroom to blue. All you JL talking on here about redoing rooms I might make that a project next month.

My weigh in this morning and I'm up a lb. I thought it was going to be more so I am thankful it was only a lb. I decided yesterday to get all my WW materials out. I can still use the ideas I've learned recently, but I realize that I need the Flex Plan so I that I will also learn to eat the correct portions and no more. I sort of practice started yesterday, but since I Sunday is my WI day and I like starting new things the first day of the week I am officially starting OP today. I plan to do my 1/2 mile on the stationary bike 6 days a week and hopefully be doing 1 mile by or during February. My stationary bike also works the arms. I hate that part. It tires me out, but is so good for me. Also plan to add at least 3 days of weights exercises. Got to do this. I haven't been making any progress and I just can't go another day off plan or another year with all this weight. For some reason I am suddenly in a motivated state right now so I better take advantage of it.

Hello to ELLEN, JULES, SASSY, TAMMY, SUE, MARTI and anyone else I missed. Y'all have a great day!

Hugs,
Trish

Hey..I'm having an ultra bad day. My cousin is accusing me of mistreating them & my grandparents the last time I was in Az. It just hurts so much, because it's not true. Both my cousins stopped talking to me for the longest time until yesterday when one of them wrote me on myspace. I'm just so hurt & upset. I've been crying off & on all day. Then I threw a huge hissy fit because I was just seriously upset and my stupid annoying neighbors called the cops!!! Just peachy keen. They came in and just took down our info. I've just been shaking and crying all day. I can't consintrate on anything because I'm waiting to hear back from my cousin. This whole thing is so stupid & immature. I did nothing wrong. Me & dh went through everything that happened while we were in Az, and couldn't come up with anything. I dunno what else to say...Hope everyone else had a better day.

Francie-sorry about your cousin. My dd found out one of her old friends are mad at her through a myspace bulletin. They exchanged a heated couple of messages and dd still doesn't know what the problem was. She says some people just can't let the drama of high school go and want to keep it going into their adult lives. She now remembers why they lost touch.

Trish--good job on the bike!! WW core didn't work for me--I need to count points.

Mindee--hope they get your furnace working--it's way too cold to have it not!!

Cristina--glad the back is better. My weakness at OG is their salad dressing...

Jane--that is a pretty quilt. We have a similar one on our bed.

Ellen--hope you had fun at your friends bday party!!

Marti--HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! sorry I am late.

Well I got to see that grandboy yesterday and today!! He is such a sweetie!!

Francie - I am so sorry your day has been so bad. It is difficult when these things and especially when we can't figure out what we have done. I've experienced that a few times in my life. Usually it is just a misunderstanding or someone gets a burr under their skin. I would back off and let things cool down and just let it play itself out. It may be one of those things like my late DH used to tell me "Just consider the source and move on. They can get glad in the same clothes they got mad in". Seriously, we cannot control other people and some times we do have to just let thing go, if you can. (Just my 2 cents worth which may not be worth anything.)

Jules - good to hear from you. Glad you are enjoying your sweetie pie.

Jane - I edited my Bios. I can't believe I had my birthday off a month, must have been thinking of my sister. Her birthday is in September, not me. I'm in August. Of course, could've been a typo to. LOL

Hey all. :wave:

I hope your all doing well. Nothing going on here to even mention really, boring......I know. But hey at least I'm not complaining!!! lol.

Have a Great Week!!!

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