Hello everyone, I'm slacking a bit at the moment in terms of keeping on top of everything, but I'm still here in spirit, and still getting closer to the magic number of 199. Only 25lb to go now!

Not much time for personals (or much else), my sister's staying with me because she's come over from Spain to have some sort of nasty stuff done at the hospital after a dodgy smear test so I'm trying to spend lots of time giving her TLC as she doesn't know many people now and is missing her bloke and her pets over in Spain.

Next week I should be back to normal though, for a couple of weeks at least!

Well my bags are packed and waiting at the door.....so I will "see you all" when I get back......best to all of you!
Lilybutt

Good morning,
I had a very productive day yesterday. I cleaned off my china hutch that have been past over lately. Took everything off and washed it. Got some other shelves done also. I didn't realize how bad they had gotten. We live in a very dusty place.
I went to curves and it was my weigh and measure day. I'm down 4lbs and total of 15.50 inches to date. I changed my goal weigh for challenge to 265.

Holly: Ride that pleasant wave of well being and happiness. Don't let their pettiness ruin it.. WOOHOOO!! HANG TEN

Yp1: Hope you have a good visit with your sister. You can make a bad experience much more pleasant by just being there for her. I'm sending prayers your way.

Lilybutt~ hope your trip fulfills your dreams!!!
YP~ It is nice you can be with your sister when she needs a shoulder!
Deb~ WOOOOOOOHOOOOOO!! you rock sister!!!!!!!!!

Dinner last night was a success.Less people than confirmed so we have leftovers for dinner tonight.
The meeting went well. Wrapped up yearend stuff. We have a parent training conflict resolution workshop next week, Wed to Fri. I have booked off from babysitting. We will finalize the parent handbook next Thurs evening.
Got home at 9pm last night. Didn’t go to bed til 1:30.
First I kissed my angels goodnight and flitted about tidying, did a load of wash and folded another. Gathered the trash.
I watched some of the Brad Pitt interview. MMMMMM. I adore him. Besides being the sexiest man alive, I love the way he speaks and processes his life and sees it as a gift and journey. It was the icing on a delish cake of a day. Later I watched Canadian Idol and thought through the events of my day and then I read for a bit.

Today I need to “design” a flyer for Gala Days/Turtle Races to go out to the local schools this Fri.
I still have pots to wash from all the cooking yesterday.
4 little people here today.
I need to have breaky.

Have a peaceful day!!!!!

Holly, is it time for Turtle Days already? I hope you can share the flyer with us.

Debbie--4 more pounds gone, woo-hoo!

Just a quick hello between meetings. Hope everyone has a great evening!

judy

Hi Ladies,

Just checking in after weigh-in. Down .6 . HMMMM. Not very good, but I will take it. I am sure it is catching up from racing this weekend and some beer drinking. Dang it. I need to make better choices. You know it isn't like you can NOT eat and then drink beer, so my only other choice is to NOT drink beer at the track. BUMMER. I stay OP, with the exception of Saturday, meals I do fine with, but nothing is as fun as sitting at the track and drinking cold beer on a hot summer nite.
I did something really fun today. I went to my girlfreinds daughters house, and took care of 4 kiddies, all under the age of 5, 2 of them were twins 6 months old. She had to work in the morning, and then sent her on a pamper day of a haircut, and whatever else she wanted to do. No grocery shopping, or anything like that. Just for her. If she wanted to sit in a park alone she could. I got there at 8am, made a pot of coffee, and she went to the office for a bit, then she left at 10am, and had a day to herself. I on the other hand ran like a crazy woman, did dishes, did laundry, rocked babies, and took all the kids on a bikeride/stroller ride for over a hour. I LOVED every minute of it. She came home at 5pm, looking so beautiful, and happy. She called 2 x and both times I said, "we are fine" and hung up. Told her not to call again, I had her cell number IF I needed her. (which by the way I could have used her, but didn't call, Big time proud of myself). I am whipped, exhausted, and God is grinning at me thinking You are absolutely crazy lady. I even gave all the kids baths when I got there. YIPPIE. I don't know how she does it, other than she is about 15 years younger than me. I know I couldn't do this everyday.
HOLLY--You can relate I am sure.

Decided I am going to do this at least once in July, and once in Aug. before school starts back to let her have a treat day. Her hubby called me a few times, and he thought this was wonderful. I maybe should do it at nite once so they could go out together?

Anyway, I am dead tired, will do personals tommorrow if time allows. Happy day. Angel kisses to all.
Sandi

Good morning,
I did fair yesterday on food, nothing to really to brag about. At curves I did double my first round then single the other 2. Boy, that wore me out I going to save that for days I don't work.

Sandi: You are a angel!! Time off when you have little kids is so important. I was lucky I always live close to my mom.
She was good to take them, or even better stepdad kept them, Mom and I would go out. That was a real blessing.
I think I'm moving to ND. Your right nothing better than being at the track. I was born in NC and lived there off and on. Everyone built cars and were at the track every time it was open
DH doesn't share my love for racing.
I would go every w-end if he did. This fri night Ds1 and I are going to the craftsman trucks then sat we go to the Irl. Of course the beer is just part of it.

Holly: I'm having my iced coffee enjoying my morning. When the sun comes up I've got to go check on my tomato's I have some that should be ready this morning.

HAVE A BLESSED DAY.

Sandi: YEAH!! F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C
Loss. YOU ARE A ROCK STAR.

Mornin'
we are into racing too but it is not nas HUGE here. My family jokes about my hubby being from NC, he is a good ole boy from right here tho. He loves his wrecks and fixing them up. He has about 10 at his folks, 3 here. We live between 2 popular tracks.DS LOVES races too.
I am holding steady at 225.
I have a couple of small grumbles today!
It is not all good cheer today LOL!!!!!!!!!
Yesterday was delightful!!!!!!
4 kids all day yesterday. It was peaceful. I did ALL those dishes and relaxed a bit.
We went down to a neighbours to swim all aft. 31c and steamy hot here. It was glorious. Came home and heated up leftovers.Back down to the neighbours so DS could swim too. I am such a nice mom. Dropped the kids at home, went to the library and picked up an Elmore Leonard book. I keep hearing about him but have never read any.
Spent a couple of peaceful hours hanging out with my hubby. We were up late again.
Here are my minor gripes, #1-I aked DH to bring in the garbage pails and clear the dinner table and he did neither. I just did them while I was getting the kids packed up and ready for school. I was a tiny bit irritated.
Gripe #2- LOL! My good friend’s neighbour asked us to host a bday party for my friend and I gladly agreed.It was supposed to be about 20 eoeple for a fire& festivities, byob and very casual. It seems to have grown from what I have heard from people planning on coming( yikes). My angst is that my house looks like a bomb went off. I have 4 kids today, 6 tomorrow we have baseball tonight and gymnastics tomorrow followed immediately by this gathering. When the heck am I going to get this stuff done!!!!! At least I am not preparing any food.

What I want to do is put together the fort under the stairs in the basement for the kids!!!! The paint is all dry!!!! I will probably do that first and satisfy my creative juices and then do some cleaning at nap time.

That’s about it in my exciting life!!!!!

Have a cool refreshing day!!!!

( thank god for central air)

TurtleRaces/Gala Days

We race turtles...really!!! It is approaching the 30th annual.It is a weekend of Gala with dances, roast beef supper, breakfasts,children's entertainment and the very famous turtle races. Kids go out and catch a turtle in the crick or river and name it , train it and race it, then it is humanely returned to it's natural habitat. it is pretty exciting stuff. ...again, REALLY!!

So far we have had speedy 1, 2 and 3 and none have been speedy!!

The dances are outdoors and LOADS of fun.After everyone wanders around town backyard hopping after 1AM til the wee wee hours. Then you get up at 8, go to the church service, eat breaky and attend the events, like 4 on 4 hockey, bed races,picnic games...... the whole town comes out for 3 days. Gotta love it.

Hey, where is everyone!!!

I really liked this!

“In the Final Analysis” by Mother Teresa

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered…
forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives…
be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies…
succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you…
be honest and frank anyway.

What you may spend years building, someone may destroy overnight…
build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, people may be jealous…
be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow…
do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough…
give the world the best you have anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it’s all between you and God…
it was never between you and them anyway.

Hi Ladies

Ahhh, Friday. DS has his BMX race tonite. He is major excited, DH has his Modified race tommorrow. Gotta love those weekends. Me, I am battling either a headache or a weird neck?? I am not sure. Just home from lifting weights and doing the toning program, and walked for 45 min with dog. I am feeling accompolished.

Debbie, Yeah, you REALLY need to move here. We could go to the races together. I love it. This year we aren't taking a family vacation other than when we go to the lake for 13 days, because we are RACIN'. I love it, and love the people, the drivers, the fans. It is so relaxing, tense, exciting, funny, scary all wrapped into one.

Trying to get my little nephew to bike race this year with my son. He is only in 5th grade, but that is when our DS started, so he should be fine. He is so nervous.

Bought him the racing gloves for his birthday. So maybe he will get excited to do it? Not sure.

GF came in this morning to workout together. She likes it as much as I do. NOT. LOL. Hope all has a wonderful weekend. Where is everyone at? We are missing you girls.

GM holly.

Love Sandi

Hi Everyone - Happy Friday!

I have been browsing but haven't posted since Tuesday I think! It's harder to get online at my new job. It's going very slowly here, but I know soon I'll be telling you how busy I am!

I haven't gone back to the gym yet...but my eating has been pretty good. I eat fruit every day - something I rarely did. I've been making fruit salads, and having sandwich bags of fresh, clean grapes to grab to take with me. I've been drinking sugar free tea and water. It's been so hot around here - in the 90's.

At my old office, people munched quite a bit at their desks. They don't here, so that helps with my snacking...and if I do snack, I make it fruit. I have been craving wheat pitas with cashew butter and grape jelly...mmmm!!!! I've been eating this for breakfast and lunch each day, with fruit. Today though, I am having a turkey wrap w/o any mayo.

I am going to try to incorporate exercise into my days next week since I know how my work weeks are.

My dilemma is that it's so hot, I don't feel like doing anything after work...we don't have central air. So if I go home and exercise and take a shower, I get sweaty again. Perhaps I will try going to the gym in the mornings again? It's been so hard to wake up every day this week so far. HOW can I wake up at 4.45a if I can't wake up at 6.45a? I will think of something. These are all just excuses anyway!

Hope you all are well.

Girlie

Good morning,
Just a quickie to let you know ya'll are on my mind. I've been thinking, we are the SISTERHOOD OF THE SHRINKING PANTS.

Getting a little work done before heading out again. I'll do personals later.

Have a grrrreat day.

Hi, Sandi, Debbie, Holly, Girlie, and anyone else out there too busy to post!

I was offered and accepted a new job and I'm as happy as a clam I'll start sometime in late July. On Friday broke the news to the two co-workers who are mostly likely to cry and I'm not relishing more of these conversations on Monday. Even so, it's the right thing to do, and I'll have a lot more positive energy for things like focusing on the race to 199.

Debbie--we are the Sisterhood of the Shrinking Pants Size, I hope! Someone posted a thread under Success crowing that now she has a butt. If I'd known she was looking, I would have happily FedExed her most of mine...

Keep cool, ladies!

judy