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Holy cow Annie - watching TV till 3 and then up for work in the morning? I couldn't do that anymore. In fact, been particularly tired this week, don't know why. DH too. Wow a whole day off - must feel better than a vacation. Yippee!!! Please don't spend it cleaning or doing laundry.
Happy...cause I remember what his Johnson looked like. Short and FAT. Not really secretly desiring his at all. Was with him for 25 years, hard to forget what it looked like.
Yesterday was a rough one at work. There were issues with the servers where our reports run, so they kept failing all day. I literally didn't get anything accomplished yesterday...so I woke up early and came in at 5 am. There are still server issues...so I'm not getting as much done as I'd like. My weight is up today...which is a bummer. At this week's WW weigh in, I was up 1.6 lbs. I expected it...2 weeks without exercising and all. No problemo. I think my lungs are doing a little better, so I'll start easing back into moving with some gentle exercise. I'm really, really tired today...have been all week. But the weekend is nearly here! Yay!
Annie - So happy for you that you have Sunday off! Fingers are for excellent weather for you. Please spend it doing something fun, okay? Glad to hear your DD's surgery went well. It's a shame that will make for riskier pregnancies. Nice of you and Bella to take such good care of her. to her. Twizzlers, M&M and a ham and cheese croissant! The breakfast of champions! My dogs aren't into Twizzlers...but they love the very occasional Peanut Butter cup. Of course, the prefer PB dog treats so they get lots of those. Since you aren't sleeping at night, I hope you're getting enough rest and not running yourself ragged. You don't want to get run down, girlfriend. And about your dream.....very, very, very weird. I don't remember what my ex-H's Johnson looked like...but I was only with him for 7 years and that was 20 years ago.
Shad - So the doc doesn't have you on cholesterol meds? I'm on 2 cholesterol meds and 1 BP med, and both are doing really good now! I use fish oil, oatmeal and high fiber to help with my cholesterol. Bad cholesterol is now in the healthy range...but my good cholesterol is still low. Doc says I need to work out more. As for the butter...how do you feel about whipped butter...supposedly it's healthier for you, though I have no idea why.
Ceejay - How nice of your nephew and his wife to invite you to come visit!!
Mel - I am breathing a little easier today. Still coughing a lot, but not quite as tight in my lungs. How nice of the politician to give you kudos and recognition of your hard work. My fingers are and I'm sending : for Jen's call tomorrow.
Happy - We often leave our front door open at night (with just the screen door closed) and we have a fan in the doorway to cool the house down. And I have to admit, there have been nights that I forget to close the garage door. But again, we live in the sticks and all our neighbors look out for each other. Ooops. The basement flooding situation is much better. Everything's dry and DH is going to caulk the leaky window shut tomorrow or Saturday.
Well, back to work for this chick....got a meeting in 10 minutes and less than 2 hours 'till time to go home! Yay!
Chelle...what a great attitude on the weight gain and you are still ahead of the game. Only 1.6 up. Not so bad. This week you can kick b*tt and take names later. Rock on sista!!
Annie - I think for me, it's different when I kinda expect the weight gain. When it comes after I work my arse off and eat perfectly, then I get pretty upset. But this week, I really kinda expected some sort of gain. Thanks for the words of encouragement, sista!
Thank you ladies for the birthday wishes. The phone rang around 9.00 a.m. and my bil called me to wish me a happy birthday. He was calling for my sister. He's so sweet. I've had many more bday wishes on FB also. I still have not heard from my uncle or the other sister. It's been a good day so far.
Sad news is that I made myself go to the doctor's office today. I had another one of those racing heart episode's last night that woke me up and this morning after taking my bp which was 151/83 and pulse rate 101. The bp was the same at the doctor's office but the pulse rate had gone down to 96. That's a little frightening. I always have in the back of my mind that heart disease runs big time in my mom's family. He also drew blood and did an ekg. The ekg was normal. That's the first ekg I've ever had. He's checking my potassium and tsh again also. He's thinking it's stress or maybe caffiene. I'll know tomorrow about the test. I told him about working the 44 hours overtime. He told me a human body can only take so much. I also told him I didn't know how well I had it when I worked for him. He gave me a 24 hour bp med which is stronger than the last one. There was a Nurse's help wanted on the door. If there is ever another receptionest opening on the door I'm putting in my application.
Annie
what strange dreams you have! How is you dd?
Michelle
Your bronchitis is probably the cause of the gain this week. You do have a great attitude toward your weight loss goal.
Happy, Mel, Patty and Laura a big wave.
Can you believe September is just around the corner?
I did not get to the gym yesterday. I was feeling exhausted after two very long, very stressful days at work...so I played in the yard with my dogs, and they gave me a pretty good workout. There wasn't much on TV, so I went to bed early (8 pm) and fell asleep right away. I woke up to let the doggies out at around 11:30, and it felt like I'd already been asleep for about 8 hours. I guess my body needed the rest. My chest is a little more clear today - making it a bit easier to breathe! Yay!
DH and I don't have any big plans for this weekend, the weather will be kind of cool (mid 60s) so we probably won't do any fishing and instead work around the house. DH has to caulk the leaky basement window so we don't have any more floods. I told him I'd help him clean the gutters, even though we'll have to do them again after the leaves fall. Since it will be cool, I might even get some weeding done in my perennial flower garden. And I'm planning on going for walks and/or going to the gym.
I'm SO looking forward to Labor Day weekend!!! My work is closing at noon on Friday the 4th, and DH and I are taking 9/8 and 9/9 off to have a nice LONG Labor Day weekend and my b'day is on the 9th. We don't have any special plans as of yet...but the weather is supposed to be gorgeous - hopefully good fishing weather! It'll be SO nice to have 5.5 days off! Ahhhh.
Ceejay - Glad you had a nice birthday! Sorry to hear you had to rush to the doctor's office. I'm glad your EKG turned out normal. I've had a couple of those - more "baseline" than anything else. He is right about all the overtime - the body can only do so much...and 44 hours of OT is quite excessive! It's no wonder you've been stressed out. You've got to put yourself and your health first, Ceejay. I hope there's an receptionist opening at your doctor's office soon.
I guess I must be the early bird (or "day fowl" as Shad calls it) today and beat everyone in. A big to all!
I'll check in later to read what's going on with all you wonderful ladies!
HELLO EVERYONE. SORRY NO PERSONALS TODAY. I TRIED TO SCAN YOUR POSTS. MAYBE I'LL COME BACK LATER. YESTERDAY I LEFT ANOTHER WEBSITE AND SAID GOODBYE. SAD BUSINESS BUT NOW I WILL JUST KEEP 3FC MY "HOME". THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF TIME I CUT OFF THE PC IS NOW OVER 2 HOURS @ DAY BECAUSE OF SLOW LOADING AND SLOW READING! I AM HAPPY WITH LESS PC READING TIME FOR SURE. SO ARE THE EYES. INCASE I DON'T COME BACK LATER....
WISHING YOU ALL A VERY HAPPY AND SAFE WEEKEND
Location: A beautiful and peaceful place in the woods
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Good morning chicks,
Happy Friday.
Mel, I know it's cost prohibitive for cable internet - I can't even imagine how slow dial up is for you. We will find some way to communicate, even if it's telepathic
Michelle - I hear you on anticipating the long weekend - and you almost have a week off there! I can feel your excitement. Hope you have a fun and relaxing couple of days. I'm sure getting to bed that early was just exactly what you need. Weather down in the 60's? Geez what's going on over there? That's late September weather - well ok September is next week. Still I see that it's been a rainy and cool summer for you folks. I think with that much of a loss last week, you can't get too bummed with a small gain - kinda like stepping on an old dial scale - the around blips back and forth before it settles down. Just keep to program and you'll be back riding the tide again I'm sure. You have a great attitude!
Ceejay - that's not good with the racing heart and pressure. I hope they find a cause and treatment. DH was going through that - part meds and part he had to cut back on the coffee somewhat.
Gee Annie, what time do you get home from your CVS job? You must be shortchanging yourself on sleep
Shad - did you get your loo work done?
We booked a second trip to use the last 3 of my vacation days. We were going back to the yurt place in November for the Leonids meteor shower but that's close to Thanksgiving and not that far from our Christmas trip up north. So I rethought it. We are going instead in October. Going to try and catch the colors - it looks very pretty up that way in autumn and with the big variety of trees they have, they have a long color season because they don't all pop at once. We are also going to spend some time looking around the area as well as looking at some properties. I'm sure it will be here before we know it.
And that's about it for now. Better get a move on and get the work part of the day done with. Have a good one all.
Long week, shu weeeeeee. Drive to St. Louis last Sat home on Sunday w/hangover. Worked both jobs Mon Wed & Thurs. My meat is beat. I drank a little Kahlua (sp) and skim milk (like a white Russian, only with skim milk instead of cream...I am on a diet...hahahahhaa). That relaxed me enough to fall asleep and only woke up twice but was lucky enough to go back to sleep within 15 mins each time. Don't feel too bad today. Work tomorrow a CVS...2-10P, which is usually about 10:20 pm. It is kinda nice getting a little paycheck in between the regular bi-weekly Humana check. It is kind of like getting child support without having to deal with exH or kids. ahahahha
T and I MAY go on a ride Sunday, it is supposed to be sunny but only 68 degrees. We will see. He told me last night he may sell his ride due to economic hard times. He may have to take a 17% cut in pay come October. That is on top of the 5% he took back in December. I told him at least he has a job. That is not very comforting to us any more. It is getting harder and harder to make ends meet. He had to pay almost 500 bucks in book rental for the two boys. That didn't include the 250 he paid for school clothes. Which was getting off cheap if you ask me. I think I will miss the Harley more than I will miss....naw I am not going to say that.LOL
Oh crap....will be back for personals...gotta go put some fires out.
Wow, fires out for now. Waiting on numbers from corporate. Maybe they won't come til Monday and the rest of this day will be smooth.
Another WOW....Donatos Pizza just delivered FREE 2 pepperoni, 2 sausage, and 2 cheese pizzas for being such a good customer. I am on a diet so I am eating the cheese pizza...lol. Funny how we justify things in our minds.
Chelle...cleaning gutters. Yuck..I am afraid of heights so it takes a lot for me to do that. The only time I got the guts to climb the ladder to do my gutters, I got up there and they were clean. Thank you Jesus. I guess since my neighborhood is only 6 years old with no trees, there isn't anything to clean in the gutters. Glad to hear you are feeling better, my dear, better to kick arse next week. xoxoxo
Ceejay..thanks for asking, my DD is feeling much better today, she just called me and said the biopsy came back very mild displasia therefore no more action and goes back in 6 months for testing then.
MEL...glad you didn't OUST us and only OUSTED the other site. We love you too much here for you to go by the wayside. Take care of you and those eyes. You will have to get that braille monitor and keyboard. LOL
Happy...I get home from CVS between 10:15 and 10:30pm. But I am way too wired to sleep. I usually lay down about 11 and asleep maybe by 12. Last night I think I was asleep by 11 or so. It all finally catches up with me and I actually get some sleep. Only happens about one night in a two week span. The new trip sounds as much fun as the last one. PLEASE take me with you......
Belly is quite full of cheese pizza - one piece - thank you very much. Not been doing too badly on food today. Had cottage cheese and fresh cut up tomato out of the garden for breakfast. Don't plan on eating much tonight, T is coming over and we are going "necessary" shopping. (Necessary shopping = mousse, hairspray, deod, shavers, pads, etc)
Well better get back at it. Will try to post this weekend. Work tomorrow at CVS, off on Sunday. Maybe Sunday I can post. Just depends on the puter....it is making a LOUD noise on ocassion, hope that doesn't mean it is going to take a poo on me.
Mel - I'm glad you chose 3FC as your internet home. I hope you're resting today and that your eyes are doing okay. Have a good weekend, girlfriend!
Happy - Don't know what's going on with the weather, but I'm glad that right now, they're saying it will be warmer and sunny for Labor Day weekend. DH says that we'll work around the house tomorrow and hopefully go fishing on Sunday - will probably bring along a sweatshirt just in case. So nice to hear that you're going back to the yurt place to see the fall colors. Do you think you'll have any time during your Christmas trip to meet up with a 3FC friend at Gurnee Mills? Looking at properties near the yurt place? Are you and DH thinking about becoming real estate moguls?
Annie - I don't know how you're not just fallin' over with exhaustion after all your working. I hope you and T get to ride on Sunday. So sad that he may have to sell his ride. Sorry to hear about the pay cut, at least he'll still have a job. It's funny...after the stressful week I've had...I can say that while I don't always love my job...I DO ALWAYS appreciate my job. Glad to hear you got the fires put out for now and that you enjoyed your free pizza. Today is 1/2 price salad bar at the cafeteria...so that's what I'll be having for lunch. Hopefully, they have some of their homemade hummus left....YUMMM! I'm not afraid of heights, but I am afraid of ladders (I know...that's weird). But it's still better for me to go up and down a ladder than DH with his bad knees. We have 9 tall trees in our yard and the neighbors have several as well, and we have little maple tree seedlings growing in the gutter from all the spinners. :Glad to hear your DD is feeling better and that the biopsy came back good.
Well, gotta get back to it....4 hours 'till the weekend!
JEANETTE~ I AM SORRY THAT YOU HAD A BIT OF A SCARE ON YOUR BIRTHDAY WEEK GOOD LUCK WITH THE TESTS NICE OF THE BIL TO MAKE THE CALL. HOW SWEET IS THAT. HOPE YOU WILL BE FEELING BETTER OVER THE WEEKEND/ PROB JUST NERVES AND TOO MUCH OVERTIME
MICHELLE~ YOU WILL WITTLE THOSE POUNDS OFF ONCE YOU GET 100% COOPERATION FROM YOUR LIUNGS!! THAT'S WHY YOU COULD BE TIRED TOO...THEY ARE WORKING HARD TO GET OYGEN.....LIKE YOU ALREADY DON'T KNOW THIS...CAN'T HELP BEING A MOM HERE!!
ANNIE~ HOPE YOU GET SOME REST UP OVER THE WEEKEND AS WELL. YOU'RE BURNING THE CANDLE AT BOTH ENDS!! STAY WELL AND LET TONY DO THE WORK
HAPPY~ THE NEW TRIP SOUNDS GREAT AND YOU CAN GET THAT RENEWED SPIRIT BACK AGAIN!! THEN COME HOME AND PASS IT ON TO THE REST OF US!!!
SHAD....GUESS YOU WILL BE HERE SOON. WAKE UP SLEEPY HEAD
TODAY WAS JUST A WRITE OFF. PEOPLE WERE NUTS ALL DAY. TENANTS WERE JUST ALL OVER THA PLEACE AND VERY "NEEDY". I HAD TO ASK THE OFFICE TO GET AN AMBULANCE FOR A GUY ON MY FLOOR THAT NEEDS TO BE OBSERVED. HE LOST HIS NOODLE MORE TODAY. VERY SAD. AND I THINK HE'S NOT EATING. GOD SAVE US.
THE SENIORS SEEM TO GO NUTS NOT ONLY WITH FULL MOONS BUT WIOTH STORMS AS WELL. WE HAD THIS LAST WEEK WHEN "BILL" FLEW BY AND NOW HERE COMES "DANNY". MUST BE A BAROPMETER THING!!
WAVING TO EVERYONE AND HOPE YOU HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND. I NEED A MUCH DESERVED REST AFTER TODAY. JUST CALLED THE DELI TO ORDER FOOD FOR THE WEEKEND. I AM NOT COOKING!!
I'm really, really tired today...have been all week. But the weekend is nearly here! Yay! 
for excellent weather for you. Please spend it doing something fun, okay? Glad to hear your DD's surgery went well. It's a shame that will make for riskier pregnancies. Nice of you and Bella to take such good care of her. 
to her. Twizzlers, M&M and a ham and cheese croissant! The breakfast of champions! 
As for the butter...how do you feel about whipped butter...supposedly it's healthier for you, though I have no idea why. 
: for Jen's call tomorrow. 
But this week, I really kinda expected some sort of gain. Thanks for the words of encouragement, sista!
HOPE YOU WILL BE FEELING BETTER OVER THE WEEKEND/ PROB JUST NERVES AND TOO MUCH OVERTIME 
STAY WELL AND LET TONY DO THE WORK 
