:( NO i'm not holding :lol: own fault :nono: me and the easter bunny have been best buds for the last few days :lol: i need to get rid of whats left so that i can get back on track :D will be doing firewood, pulling broom and a bit of gardening today ;) hopefully that will burn some calories. :wave:

Good morning ladies,

Hope everyone is doing good and having a good weekend. It's going to be raining off an on here most of the day so I am going shopping this morning then going to work cleaning house this afternoon and getting things sorted and ready to be taken to work on Monday.. all 4 of us women will be there so we are going to clean up the retail center and get it ready to open on May 1. We still have some transplanting to finish but it's not ready yet, so that works out well. There is so much to do and so little time to get it done, now just 8 more weeks and it's over till next season... :coffee: :dizzy: but we've been doing this for so long.. guess we should be used to it by now.. I swear each year it's goes faster.... :lol:

Next thursday is my 32nd wedding anniversary, dh told me not to worry about it, he was going to make plans to celebrate, he won't say what just that I'll enjoy it.... ;) hey I day of not doing a thing would be nice.. maybe a hot tub in a hotel room somewhere... ummmmmm we'll see....

well, I am off. My little medal :devil: is going down so slowly but I'm hoping at least it'll keep going down...I am still going to curves 3 days a week at 7 am....there is no way I could go after work, I am just to tired... and I will start getting more walking in during work,,, now that we'll start selling etc. I'll be moving around more. I usually lose during these next two months so hopefully with a little more care I'll be able to take advantage of the busyness and lose even more.. course we sweat a lot as it gets pretty darn hot inside....our own personal sauna. :lol:

Ok, I am just rambling... I need to get moving..it's so quiet in here, since we're down to the four of us.. we have to keep posting or we'll be swiped off the board completely.

Have a good one Meg, Cathy and Chris. Catcha all later.
Dahlia

Hi, girls -
I've been trying to pose for about 45 minutes! The site is giving me fits. Last night I couldn't get any of the message boards to open. Tonight I posted a long message to you (serves me right) and when I selected preview - I lost the whole thing. Just tried to rewrite it and hit the backspace button and lost it all and now the smilies aren't working. Grrrrrr. Does anyone else have problems like this on this site?

I weighed in today at WW after being out of town this week and LOST THREE POUNDS! (Picture the dancing banana, cuz I can't get it into the page!) My leader said I should go out of town more often!

:lol: WELL DONE CHRIS :bravo: i have'nt had any problems at all but i did'nt get online yesterday and one girl on another thread said that she had probs so it might just have been a saturday gremlin :rofl: here is your dancing banana :cb:

I'm gonna get out while the sun is shining and transplant some flowers and set up some pathway lights. Hope you are enjoying your day :D

chris - great job on the loss!!!

well, let's see...funeral, dan had flu, 8 hour rehearsal, meg's 35th bday party at which sister does not show and BIL leaves ten minutes after arriving, meg get's flu....I think that about covers it.

I am exhausted, even though I have slept like 18 hours. had to work today, but yesterday I went to bed at 1pm and stayed there till 8 this morning. got home at 2 and got in bed. am up now to get dan from work, and get some soup. have been on clear liquids. did manage to keep down a muffin and a slice of toast.

the weather here is amazing. it was 80 yesterday. pretty great for april.

anyway, got to go....

have a good one...
meg

Meg,
Sorry to hear you've been having such a rough time... hope you are on the mend and things get back to normal for you, if that is possible. LOL

Been working our butts off, wish that were literally true..:) to get ready for our opening day. Sunday we had 75 but yesterday a cold front came thru around noon and it got darn right nasty out, cold and windy and rain. Lasted a couple hours today it is suppose to be sunny and it's already out so it should warm up.

I am holding my own as far as the weight is going. It is going slow but that is suppose to be the way to go so I hear. :)

Good morning Chris and Cathy. Hope you're both well.

Will catch ya later, got to finish getting ready for work. Lately I seem to be forgetting something all the time... to much on my mind I hope...

Dahlia

Hi, team -
I swear I've had nothing but trouble trying to get in and read the message boards - not to mention posting anything!! I have a computer geek friend that I'm going to try to check things out. Maybe I need an upgrade to my Internet Explorer.

Before I forget - beignets are a french donut. They are basically deep fried dough that is drenched in powdered sugar. If you've ever had a funnel cake that's what they taste like.

As for what my job is - I'm a trainer at Lockheed Martin - I train engineers on how to be managers/leaders - a daunting task at best. I also do a lot of career coaching. The job itself can be great but I've had some challenges with crazy co-workers and incompetent bosses over the last few years (of course, it couldn't be me!) Okay - I now have access to Bold and about 6 smilies....this computer is being too weird.

So if I don't post - know that I'm thinking of you and sending you cheers and supportive thoughts. You may have to rely on esp since my computer is sooooo weird!

While I was in New Orleans (figured I better write as long as I can....) I found a poster of a youngish Marilyn Monroe working out with weights. I have it in my "work out room" - that should read - "unfinished section of the basement with storage shelves around the perimeter and the treadmill and weights in the middle" It works - as I've been trying to focus on exercise this wee, she's my inspiration. The first 2 weeks of WW I was just focused on points and water. This week I'm adding in the exercise (and boy do I hurt! I can't find a smilie that looks crippled!)

Have a good week, girls and hopefully, my geek-friend can fix this monster machine!

Awww Poor Meg :grouphug: hope you're feeling better Meg and Happy Belated Birthday :hb:

Chris, it could be a software conflict :dunno: i have a program on my pooter and i have to turn it off otherwise i get lots of gobbledegook when i check in here :rofl: the funny thing is that this program is supposed to get rid of files, pop ups and junk to speed things up but it does just the opposite :lol3: could there be anything running on your computer that is doing this? if so, its worth exiting the program and then trying to check in here :crossed: your job sounds very interesting :) i wish i'd have had an interesting career instead of just working for a living :lol:

Dahlia, hope things ease off soon.

Good morning ladies,
First of all Happy Belated Birthday Meg. :hat: :hb: :gift: I hope things are going better for you.

Today is my 32nd wedding anniversary and dh told me to pack an overnight bag and that we would be leaving work before noon to go to an undisclosed destination. He is such a sweetie. :lucky:

I see we have lots more cute smilies...

Our newest dgd is about to arrive any day now. I am anxiously awaiting the call so I can go babysit while she goes to the hospital. They only stay in one day now these poor women...and at our hospital after they give birth they have to get up and walk to their rooms...how uncaring that seems... is it really better for them or are the nurses etc. just getting lazier... oh I know they used to be working in the fields and stop, drop the kid and go back to work... but there was also lots of deaths to infants and women at that time....sounds like we are going backwards in some areas.... ok, enough rambling, have to collect some things to take down to work... so I'll catch you all tomorrow.....

Have a good one.
Dahlia

thanks for the birthday wishes. Dahlia - happy wedding anniversary. Hope you have a GREAT weekend, and you are an inspiration to us, being married so long.

well, my show opened last night, and was a HUGE success. the kids totally shined, and the parents loved it. we have 3 more shows - one every night this weekend. my niece is the lead tonight and sunday night, so I can't wait to see her perform tonight. there is a 10 minute ballet in the show that I choreographed, and it turned out beautiful! we use a fog machine, and a veil falls from the rafters - and everything went off without a hitch! I am so proud.

because i was ill, i haven't really been eating. my appetite hasn't come back, which is a good thing i think. hopefully it will translate to a loss!

well, hope you all have a GREAT weekend!
Meg

I tried a long post (I swear that should teach me to be so long winded) to you Wednesday night, clicked on preview and lost it all again. No more previewing - you'll have to read through my typos and misspellings! Today it won't put in any smilies or font changes. I have no idea if there's something else on my system that's causing a conflict - there's so much garbage on these computers these days that I never use and don't even know about!!

Yesterday I went in for an echocardiogram and a stress echocardiogram and got fitted with a 24 hour monitor - all because I had a heart scare back in March. Good thing it wasn't too big a scare since it's taken this long to get scheduled for these tests!! I had bronchitis at the time and during a walk with the labsweeties I had what I found out later were classic symptoms of a heart attack - by the way, it turns out women often don't have the pain down the left arm - I didn't have that or really much "pain" at all, so I didn't realize what was going on. Haven't had any symptoms to speak of since the bronchitis went away. I just think my years of asthma and the bronchitis just triggered the episode. Anyway - going through all these tests and I'm sure I'll find out there's nothing wrong.

But last night, I got home from work early, and laid down to take a nap at 4, planning to get up and work out after. I slept until 6 am!!! This heart monitor is going read out pretty boring!! So I worked out this morning to get it to have something on it!!! I'm off work today (have every other Friday off) and as it's SNOWING (Colorado's version of April showers) I'm going to clean out my pantry - get rid of all the old stuff from past attempts at cooking and pick out some recipes to try this weekend. At least sleeping for 14 hours kept me from eating!!!
Cris

Hi Ladies,

Dahlia, Happy (belated) Anniversary :D what was the surprise? hope you enjoyed yourselves ;) i'm sure that you did.

Meg, glad the show was such a success :cp:

Chris, you nut :lol: did the workout have an impact on the heart monitor? :rofl: i'm sure you have nothing to worry about :)

Well, the easter eggs are still going down well :rolleyes: but i should be free of them this weekend :cb: then i can get back on plan, about time too! :shrug: don't know why i'm in a "can't be bothered" mode :dunno: this usually happens if i'm depressed but i'm not i'm just busy doing stuff around the property and have let things slide :( i'm so sick of reading how well everyone is doing that i've decided to get a piece of the action :lol:

Hope you all have a great weekend :wave:

Well, Ladies... I have much to tell you... first of all thank you for the anniversary wishes... and it was a great surprise...we left work at noon, stopped out for lunch at a local Big boy,, I had a salad and a bowl of soup... then on north, where we stopped at a casino to play for about 45 minutes... cause we had time as dh hubby put it... then we continued on north.. till we got to a small Inn near a large lake.. well we had been there a few times before to eat, they have good food but I never realized it was actually an inn... so was surprised when he said to wait while he went in for the key... anyway, it is an inn for adults only, for intimate occasions as the brochure says... our room was called New Orleans, we had a full size polynesian spa in our room, a king size water bed, a fireplace with a log to burn......dimmer switches on all the lights, plush carpeting NO PHONES, a small tv tucked under the canopy of the bed which was a huge wooden bed with a MIRROR on the ceiling of the bed/top. Wine glasses were provided, and candle holders.... dinner and breakfast of whatever you wanted... included... it was so romantic... we even dressed for dinner, he told me to take something dressy since we would be having dinner... anyway needless to say I loved it and him.....very much.... then to top it all off, on our way home I called my son to see how our dil was doing and found out he had taken her to the hospital at 6 this morning, the other grandpa was with the kids till I got there... so we went to hospital right away and arrived there just intime to hear our new granddaughter crying.... she had just been born, so I got to hold her almost immediatley,,,, right after daddy did.....she was 4 days early and weighted 9 lbs. 3 oz.. 21 inches long....so I went and spent the rest of the day with the other grandkids, we went to visit mommy and new sister for a little bit, then to the park then to Wendy's for supper and I just got home a little bit ago... it has been a wonderful last couple days.... as for eating... I enjoyed being out yesterday and we ate lavishly.... but I will be back into my routine starting in the morning...

OK. well I am happy and excited.... just wanted to share with you all.
Chris, I hope all your tests come out negative, and Meg, congratulations on the show, glad it was a big success, I bet you feel very good about it.. and you should be very proud, you worked hard on it....

Cathy, just get rid of the eggs.... EAster is over. LOL

Dahlia

PS Chris,, don't preview, you can always go back and edit after it has been posted.

Dahlia, the surprise was awesome :cloud9: i'm so glad you had a great time and to top it off with just arriving in time for your grand-daughters birth must have been the icing on the cake :D

2 more creme eggs to go and then i'm a choc free zone :lol:

Ok Cathy, Meg, and Chris, we fell off the screen,,, hope you all had a nice weekend. I went back to Curves this morning. And am super busy at work getting stocked and ready to open... my next scheduled day off is a week from Thursday. Was suppose to be Tuesday but had to switch with one of the gals already..

Not much to say, just wanted to get the thread back up to the top. So you all better post soon.

Dahlia