Wendy - uhm yeah, I'd be freaking out if Josh got shot... actually I'd probably be crying non-stop!! And to study on top that that?? Yikes!! Hope things calm down a bit! What are you in school for?

Shari - its always something for me too! Glad the computer thing is worked out, and I'd die without a cell phone. I am not on it all the time, but I like to know it's there... hopefully you can get a replacement soon!

My back was pretty sore this morning, I wasn't able to sleep... so I went to the chiropractor, and he straightened it all out.. he says I'll need a few more visits to get everything 100% to normal. But man oh man, the first hour or so my back felt GREAT, so great that I went into work (I had called in sick but they couldn't cover the shift). Well, I got to work and it started to seize and throb.. omg.. the pain... the chiro warned me, but I was NOT prepared. Luckily someone came in for me and I was able to come home, stretch it, and take some pain killers (which I cannot take at work because they leave me too drugged up to drive). So Shari, when you say it's always something with you.. this is my always something with me moment! Anyways, I better get to bed, big day tomorrow.. I'm working until 10pm, and then I have to pack up to go to Winnipeg for the weekend!

-Aimee

Thanks Aimee~ it's been pretty tough around here the past couple days. He's been in and out of the hospital because the ammo that he was shot with was dipped in pesticides and he's been having severe reactions to it. Hope he's all better soon, poor guy, he's been through enough already.
Heading to school, my last day!! I have a math exam to finally get my grade 12 (20 years after I should have), I'm pretty proud of myself that I made it this far but honestly I'm not sure if I'll pass the exam, to much on my mind haven't been able to concentrate on anything but Steve. I also completed a one year course and am now officially and Education Assistant/ paraeducator!
Have fun in the Peg Aimee!!=)

Wendy - CONGRATS on the grade 12... I definitely regret not getting my grade 12. Fortunately in B.C. you can apply to university without it, as a "mature" student, mature being 19 or over, :lol: Anyways, thats what I did, I went to university for 2 years. I am 1 course short of finishing. Silly really. Anyways, so what happened to Steve? And pesticides? Who would do that? Of course he'd have a reaction to that... they are so bad for yah! How did all of this happen? This world baffles me... I sure hope he gets better soon, vitamin C to build up his immune system.. he's going to need heal. Is this going to effect when he moves to N.D.? Also, if you aren't ready to talk about all of this.. you don't have to answer my MANY questions!

OMG! So I slept! For 8 hours, STRAIGHT! I got up to pee once, and thats IT! yay :) So relieved :)

-Aimee

LOL! Thanks Aimee!:hug: I feel good about being the only kid in the family(5 girls) to actually get grade 12!!We can apply as a mature student here also! Although in Manitoba getting your GED is no longer considered an equivavent.

As for Steve he was delivering a soepena (sp?) and the guy shot him through the screen door, Steve saw the gun and pushed his partner off the deck and took the bullet for himself. Probably saved the womans life! The ammo, it was dipped in the pesticides, they didn't know what it was till the next day just said it was some sort of bacteria.Needless to say with a temp of 105 and huge blisters he had to get an IV for a few hours and seemed to get some relief out of it.

He still has full plans on moving to ND in July, we can't seem to get used to being apart, it's really hard!LOL! So the plan is wedding in June and he moves to ND after that........yes, thats right all this yapping about "the wedding" is OUR WEDDING!!!!;)SURPRISE!! =)

Glad you got some rest! How's your back feeling?

Hi Shari!!:hug:

Where is everyone else? Come back, I miss you!

Off to try sleep, night!

OMG woman!!! Why have you not shared all this info with us before??? Well congrats on the big wedding! Do you have a dress? Is it going to be a big wedding or something smaller? Are you nervous? How's the planning coming along? WOW! What does Steve do for a living? I think those are all my questions for now.. you'll have to forgive me... if it wasn't so early I'm sure I'd have more ;)

Anyways, it's time for me to go shower... and then it's OFF TO WINNIPEG for the weekend, everyone keep your fingers, toes, ears, ANYTHING crossed that I find the perfect place!

-Aimee

Ya, he's in jail. just another thing to stall our plans! LOL! I did well with hiding the wedding stuff until I got the ring on his last visit, now i want to tell everyone! Heehee!

Do any of you eat soya beans? I'm addicted to them!Ugh! I got to go buy more!

OGH! I'm SOOOO bloated, I think I gained 5 lbs in the past hour, TOM starts tomorrow =(Got some news from Steve tonight, turns out he has to go for surgery on his right eye now, his retina is detatching, if you remember he's gone through 7 surgeries on his left eye already and lost 70% of his vision from it all. Well, he went to a new Dr. and they said they may be able to fix the damage that the other people did!! He goes in next week to get the right eye done and then will schedule for the left eye after the wedding. Lets pray all turns out well for the poor guy!!
Weighed in today at 138 still so I'm happy about that but now I SWEAR I've gained 5 lbs of water weight! I feel gross!
Off to bed with me, hope you all have a great weekend!

P.S~ I'm now addicted to soy beans!! =)

GROSS!!!

My mom invited us over for dinner tonight. She made pan fries fried in LARD and then omlets fried in bacon grease!! OMG! I ate what I thought would be enough without hurting her feelings but THAT WAS GROSS! My poor boy tried to ead fried eggs and was looking at me like he was thinking "please help me mommy, I don't want to ate this!"Finally he said "this is slimy" and walked away from the table, can't say I blame him!
Anyway thats my vent for the day, night!!

Wendy ~ That sounds disgusting!

I hope all my girls are having a great weekend!

Hey gals! Been busy here in Winnipeg TRYING to find a place! First place I saw, which I thought would be the best? WORST! The carpet was ripping, and worn thru in some places.. and the appliances were from the 80's, yuck! I saw another place that was nice, but it didn't have everything we wanted.. plus the bathroom was short... thats the only way I can describe it. Anyways! Luckily I have one more place to look at today, the area is decent, a few blocks away from where we were originally looking, has a pool, workout room and a balcony where we can have a bbq :) It sounds GREAT so far, plus it's nearly 800 sq ft! Fingers crossed that everything goes well, I have an appointment to see it at 3:30pm. Talk about last minute though.. I leave tomorrow morning at 7am!

Wendy - it's shockingly cold here! I was actually wishing for a hat when I was walking around on Friday! I hope everything goes well with the surgery! Sounds like it's a good thing though :) What kind of ring? Also - that food sounds pretty gross!

Shari - congrats on the loss! You probably lost what I've been gaining! I've been eating so much bread here, which makes me SO bloated! Maybe I should pack up my Wii when I get home so that I can't find out my weight until we move! :lol:

I think thats it from me.. I might have a nap today... my flight home was booked on the wrong day so I had to rebook, but all I could get was Tuesday at 8am (gotta be there at 7am), and so I get to Vancouver at 9:03am, and have to get home shower, I work 1:30pm-10pm. It'll be SO nice not to be 1 hour minimum from the airport and 30 minutes away from work... ahh I cannot wait :)

-Aimee

Yes it is,the weather SUCKS! Supposed to warm up for July and Aug though!
My ring is a 1/2 caret oval solitaire! It's BEAUTIFUL!:D
Good luck with the hunting, LMK how it goes!

Shari~ Good job on the loss!! =)

wendy - wow, this is some good gossip!! Congrats on school and the wedding!!! That's so awesome!! What was your mom thinking with that food. I'm not one to turn down some greasy food, but that just sounds bleh!! Ring pics, please! I hope everything goes good with your guy's surgery.

shari - congrats on that loss. How's your NEW computer been treating you lately?

aimee - so how's the big move going???? I wish I had gone with you to check out apartments. I love house/apartment hutning!! Did you end up finding something?

So sorry, I haven't been around. I just kept forgetting to log in. Not much has been going on with me. Went to see No Doubt and Paramore last Friday. It was awesome! That's about the most exciting thing that I've done lately.

I've been slowly creeping back up on the scale. I finally worked out yesterday after a week long hiatus. Still trying to get into my groove.

I'll def be back to posting more!!

Glad to see you chickies are still around!

Hey girls! Not up to much today, just eating my edemame which I'm still addicted to, I could eat a bag a day but I have to curb my desire for them!! LOL!
I'm down one more Lb!! Only a couple more to go and then I have to learn to maintain, don't know if I can do that, scary!!

Ro~ Told ya it was good!!

Aimee~ how was the last apartment?

Shari~ hey girl!!

18 days till I'm a married woman!! =)

Honey... I'm hooooomeeee! I feel slightly insane right now, I've been up and at 'em for 21 hours! Yeah, insanity! So the last apt was pretty good!! I filled out an application! The building is older, but it has a pool that I think I can do laps in, also has a workout room with an elliptical trainer, a bike, and a universal weight machine thing. Uhm, Sauna... and a view of the Red River. 8th floor, new carpets, new paint, new toilet, new tiles in the bathroom.. all new floors actually. Hopefully I'll hear something SOON!

Wendy - you might know the building! Riverview towers on the corner of Stradbrook and Donald. Older building, built before I was born.. Yes! Pictures please! 18 days to be single, eh? You know... if I were coming straight to Winnipeg I could come and take you out for one last night on the town... we are moving in 16 days... but we are staying in BC to have a little vacation.

Rosario - Yes! I wish you could have come with me tooooo! I wish I had planned a little better and could have seen a real estate agent to possibly look into buying.. ah well, it can still happen! Dude, I am TERRIFIED to get on the scale... nothing good could have happened in the past couple of weeks!

Well, I am exhausted... I must try and sleep! Have a good night ladies.. although you smart girls are probably all in bed by now!

-Aimee

We got the place!! Yay!! I am very excited :) I saw something on the news last night that the vacancy rate in Winnipeg 0.9%!! Thats just insane!! So I feel VERY lucky to have found a place, and a place with new carpet!

-Aimee

:woohoo::woohoo:Good for you Aimee!!!!Yep, I know where you are going to be living! Happy to have you as a neighbor!:^:


Well, I only have 1.2 lbs to go to reach goal!!!:DAnd I found out today that I passed my exam!!, I'm a high school grad!!:dizzy:

Checkin' in, not much going on, painting a room at my parents and going to the park tomorrow with Ryan, we need some time away from the house! How's everyone doing?

Hey Ladies! Sorry I haven't been posting, it's been crazy over here!! Packing, going to dinner, out for drinks... everyone wants to see us suddenly! I am so completely exhausted, and I can't even tell you about how much weight I've likely gained. I just wanna sleep in!! Tonight I am coming home and going to bed at a decent hour! Anyways, I will catch up soon.. hope you all are doing good :)

-Aimee

wendy - ooh you know what I think of when I hear edamame?? tempura!!! that stuff is awesome. Just had some on Friday. not exactly as healthy as edamame but it tastes soo good. at least it was veggie tempura! Congrats on finishing school!!!

aimee - congrats on finding a place! Hopefully it's smooth sailing from here on out. come on, step on the scale...you know you wanna...I did and it hasn't been as bad as I thought. You might be pleasantly surprised.

shari - my solution is to suck it up, stop being a spoiled brat and just do it already. if you're going to be insane for a bit and walk around in the heat, at least carry a water bottle, girl! that's dangerous! gald you got home safely though.

I did have a good run for a bit since I had last posted. But that all stopped on Wednesday. Thursday thru Monday I was plain bad, bad, bad. Lots of food and lots of Lazies. The scale wasn't too bad though, so at least one good thing came out of it.

Oh gosh, I envy you Aimee. I would love to be moving into my own place. Living with boyfriends parents is starting to take it's toll on me. I'm going to have to look for some kind of outlet to blow off some steam (maybe, exercise?). We kind of can't afford our own place right now cause bf is only part time. So until he gets full time (which should be in a couple of months) then we can at least start to think about moving (I hate money). Oh gawd, I cannot WAIT for that day!!

that's all I've got right now :wave:

I suck at posting. wow.

Hi girls!

So, I did it... got on the scale. I am up to 263! That's up 3 pounds since I weighed myself after TOM, but up 6 pounds overall. Yucky, it wasn't the 8 pounds I had predicted, but pretty close! I do wish I could work it in to diet while I am getting ready to go, but a lot of the time I don't control what I'm eating. Anyways, it'll come off once we get settled into the new place..

Wendy - how goes the wedding plans? Pictures please :)

Rosario - Josh and I had to live in a reallllly tiny place to be able to afford to live on our own. We had to do it though, I couldn't live with his parents, and my mom had a one-bedroom place, so that wouldn't work either. We tried long distance relationship, it was pure torture.. so if we planned to stay together we had to get out on our own. Weirdly enough once we did move out, Josh got a promotion... turns out his manager was waiting for him to get more mature, and thats what did it!

Alrighty, I gotta run to work.. I'll talk to you all later!

-Aimee

Teeny tiny little chocolate cupcakes and egg salad finger sandwiches at grads today...not good! LOL!

My son graduated from kindergarten today!! And I gratuated grade 12 and got my Educational assistant diploma also! Busy day!

Now my parents want to go out for dinner...fish n' chips! ACK! Oh well, enjoy the day right???

Wendy - very busy day!! How's those wedding plans?

Shari - moving day is Friday!! I still have quite a few things to do, I'm not freaking out just yet... okay nevermind, I am freaking out!

It's been busy over here, everyone wants to see us last minute, which is really nice, but SO overwhelming when we have so much to do. Anyways, it's a silly complaint. I just keeping saying no, because everyone was invited to TWO going away parties.. The wii is all packed, so I have no idea how much I weigh since the 263, I think it's a GOOD thing! heh..

-Aimee

Hi everyone! Sorry I've been missind in action!Been busy with the wedding plans. Tonight my hunny comes home!!! So very excited to see him!! Tomorrow we get the marrige licience, wine, cheese for the wine & cheese here at the house, the pendant theat we had engraved for Ryan...and the next day is just as busy....and the next day too! ARRRRR, breath!! LOL!
I'm up 2 lbs, been binging bad, not happy with myself but Ithats how I manage myself, whatever, only 2 lbs.
Catch ya later! Gotta run!
Oh I still have to get a pic for you ladies here....

Hey!

It is hard to catch up on posts while on my blackberry and riding my exercise bike, but I will try and come back later.

So just because I haven't been posting doesn't mean I haven't been trying. I have been exercisine a lot, I hope for 2 hours a day but it doesn't always happen. It doesn't leave much or any time to relax but hopefully it is worh it.

My boyfriend also had a good scare from hiw doctor so we are doing low GI (diet) - pretty much leat foods that are low GI to keep your blood sugar level. Only been doing it since last Monday but I seem to be acually losing weight - funny because it isn't a whole lot different then how we were eating. Maybe it is the fact that my boyfriend is losing weight too keeping me motivated. Whatever it is I am thankful to finally seen the scae move - hopefully it keeps going.

Lots of events in the next few weeks: bridal shower, baby shower, wedding, my birthday - so hopefully I can keep it all in check.

Aimee - I guess the big day is almost here. Once you get moved in and settled you might wanna give the low GI a try - I think it might be usefull for you. No refiend sugar/flower etc.

Hope everyone is doing great!

Quick note from me tonight.. Movers have come and gone! We are staying in a hotel tonight, and leave in the morning! Tons of our friends came out tonight and we went to see another friends band play. It was fun... sad. It's sad to leave friends. Anyways, tomorrow we hit the road! We are going 8 hours to my mom's place where we'll hang out for a few days! :)

On a side note, the hotel we are staying in has a pool, so since we finished cleaning about 4 hours earlier than we planned we spent the afternoon in the pool and hot tub :)

-Aimee

Hi girls!! Just a quick hello today, I'm off to the hairdressers soon, have to get Ryan up and ready for the day! Beautiful day for a wedding although the weather is not co operating with us! Grrrr!
Anyway, I'll catch ya later!! have a good weekend!

wow, so much is going on.

Wendy - you're getting married already? That was quick!! hope it was a very nice one!! Let's see pics!!

Shari - i hate the mall too. Me and crowds of people do not go well together. I was in line to see Transformers 2 and it started getting pretty packed in the waitin area....i thought I was going to start yelling and go crazy! what's your dress look like?

aimee -are you at your new home yet? I hope you're having a safe trip!

courtnie - I'm glad you have your bf to support you and motivate you for weight loss. What are the details about this low Gi thing?

Sorry I have been MIA. I told you I keep forgetting to come over here. Nothing really new for me. I'm gradually climbing back up the scale but I'm still trying to work on that. Worked out on Monday night. Skipped last night because I was exhausted. The plan is to workout again tonight.

My eating has been ca-razy. But trying to get that under control too. Same ol same ol, you know?

Hope everyone is doing great!!
:wave:

Wendy - hope all went well and you two are busy enjoying eachother ;) Pics!

Shari - I'm in love with malls, I could spend entire days in them... :lol: so walking around a mall sounds like great exercise to me! Although I have to say I have issues with plus size clothes in the USA, they never fit me right. It's a different story in Canada, we've got some good clothes! We also have a knock-offf spanx thats amazing!

Rosario - we have arrived! Our stuff gets delivered tomorrow, so for now we just hang out, Josh needs to go find out his schedule. Just boring stuff! I can share your sentiments on crazy eating! Yesterday I had 2 mini cinnamon buns, an energy drink and twizzlers for breakfast.... yikes!

I am relived to have arrived, it was a looong drive! 4 days of driving, but we took the really long way to go see my mom and then to go thru the rocky mountains. Beautiful! I put all the pictures up on facebook! Anyways, I am off to find breakfast! Talk to you gals later!

-Aimee

This is our new view! Also one with me in it too, I look pretty terrible, not too sure why I'd post such a full body picture of myself! Ah well.. if I can't be me here.. where can I!

-Aimee