Hidie Ho All....

Girlie...((((Many Hugs)))- I have been through the kidney stone ordeal. Wouldn't wish that on the worst. My stent slide out early and my duct closed was hospitalized with kidney failure on one side for 3 days. All is well now. That was about 5 years ago. No problems since. It is genetic, and it really doesn't matter what you eat, if you are going to get them, you will. They do say try to steer clear of caffeine, this and that. I did for a while, but do not now. Many wishes for a speedy recovery and feeling better!!

Debbie - hope your sniffles leave you very soon. Feel better!

Got my walk in yesterday, almost didn't but pushed myself. Glad now that I did.

Hello to everyone else. Where are all of you? I love reading yoru posts, so bring them on.

Here is to a wonderfully OP day!

Annie

Girlie~ OUCH!! Hope you are healing well!!
Deb~ how are the sniffles? Felling better.

SO, my baby girl turned 5 at 8:01 am this morning. She is my heart. I feel such a goddess connection with her.
She woke up and asked, all bleary eyed, is today really the day!Then she said,” I need to wear my best dress.” AW!
One family brought her a set of My Little Pony, out neighbour gave her another one. My family gave $. I will open bank accounts for the kids this week.DH’s folks are stopping Christmas presents cause the kids dont need anything and will give $ too.
Bon Jovi ,on Oprah, yesterday was DREAMY!!!! Hard bodied little rocker guys with pouty mouths make me insanely happy!!!!!
DH watched it with me. It was fun. He is a skinny rocker guy with pouty lips too. Too bad he didn’t have millions to give away.
I need to decide how to use my day. I have 2 loads to fold. 3 to wash. Many toys to tidy. I will give some away.
Dishes to wash. Books to stamp. A few calls to make.

I am so happy not to be going out tonight!!!!

Hey everyone,
Hope ya'll are doing well. I feel a lot better, I did work today. Looks like we make our 100f today.
It is so sad watching the people trying to evcuate from the coast. It's like no one knows any back roads. They are all on the interstate... Stopped. I pray they all get to safety.
I goofed at lunch and went to Taco bell. I'm eating a 4pt ww dinner this evening but I'm afraid it too late...LOL.


Holly's little angel: HAPPY B-DAY!!!!

Everyone have a great evening

I am thrilled that I have come through the last 5 weeks of massive work and commitments unscathed.I kept myself balanced and even tho I was exhausted last Sat I was smart enough to go back to bed and rest.
I am proud of my acheivements.
Last night I relaxed and watched TV and folded laundry. It was nice.
I didn't snack.
We had a long gentle rain all aft and eve yesterday.Great for the hydrangea I dug up and divided in the morning. That was job. Definitely a work out.
2 little guys for the morning and 1 little guy in the aft.
I am picking up cucs today. I will work on dill pickles over the weekend.
We have 2 bday parties Sat aft and then a very casual gathering for DD on Sunday.
She had a wonderful Bday. Loved playing with her Little Ponies.
DS had a awesome day!!! He asked his teacher to be moved cause the boys at his table were distracting him from his schoolwork!! I am so proud of him. What a huge deal. He has been getting his work done. He has a spelling test today.He has seemed calm and rested for a couple of days. Yahoo!!
I am looking forward to today and the weekend.
Best go feed the kids and get them organized for their day.

Deb~ glad you are feeling better. The news from your way is pretty rough. Hopefully it wont be as awful as anticipated. HUGS!

Happy Friday Everyone,

Work has kept me so busy today, I have not had time to post. Hope everyone's day has gone well, and have a terrific weekend.

Chat at cha all on Monday.

Annie

Good evening everyone,
I had a busy day but I came thru ok. I sure feel a lot better.
I've been op except for exercise. I plan to go to curves tomorrow. I haven't been coughing much today so it should be ok.
Looks like we will not be in Rita's path. Since she turned more to the east and was downgraded to a 3. They say all the bad weather in north of the state will be east of Dallas. I keep praying it won't be as bad on the coast as they are expecting.

Holley: YOU RULE!! I believe in you. Just always take time to get enough rest.

Susie: hope you are feeling better. (((HUG)))

Everyone have a great w-end

Hello All,
I'm trying to get an early start on the day because I have so much to do.
I'm packing for our Sales Meeting trip. I need to leave my house by 3:30 p.m. I'll be gone until Wednesday.

I'm determined that I won't overeat at this thing. I don't drink anymore, due to my IC, so I'm not worried about calories from alcohol.

The meeting should be a good one. It will be fun to meet some on the new Sales Reps. The thing I'm looking forward to the most is that tonight we are going to see The Rolling Stones in concert.

I had a little loss at the scales on Thursday. I lost .25...I'll take it..the scales went down and that's the direction I want. I was a little disappointed at first because I worked really hard for a big loss...maybe it will show up next week.

I did feel like I had some mini success this week. I was in a store and they have out the Halloween candy. I can't have chocolate (IC again) but I love candy corn. I almost bought some but I had a conversation with myself and I didn't. Then yesterday was a very busy day and very stressful. I almost came home and at the Doritios that are in the pantry, but I didn't..instead I took my new Shape mag and went in the bed room and relaxed with it for 30 min.

It's about lifestyle changes right? So I feel that I did that...makes me feel like I can do this..I can continue on and reach 199.

Debbie: I pray for your safety.

Holly: Glad to hear that you are more relaxed and at peace with you. I just got a new Avon order and I thought of you. I love Avon! If I could order from you I would make you a rich woman! lol

Got to get busy ladies. I'll see you all on Wednesday.
Susie

Morning ladies, I am interested in some feed back.

First tho~ Susie~ woohoo rock on sister. I Love the Stones!! It will be a good show.I love your successes!!! Have a great trip!
Deb~ Are you heading to curves? Glad you are feeling better! Glad the storm has been downgraded!!

Is it me??
What is the balance between what I need and what my family needs and if their needs are just as important to them as mine are to me then is it their right to ask for it just like I do for myself?
This is my first real day off in 5 weeks.The cucs I had hoped to get couldn’t be got, so no pickles. So this morning at 7 am DD crawls in bed beside me and says she is hungry, we have a nice little cuddle and I tell her Daddy is already up go ask him, she kisses me and says okay mommy.
DS then crawls in and enmeshes both hands tightly in my hair and wiggles and whines and pushes at me. i told him I just wanted to lay quietly and please be still and he freaks out ,crys and stomps out of the room. A few minutes later DH climbs in on top on lifting my nighty, gropes a bit,I tell him I will get up in a few minutes, he scraped me with his beard by mistake, I tell him he hurt me, he stomps out of the room and slams the door.
Obviously they all love me and felt a need to connect with me. What I needed was a 1/2 hour to lounge in bed and enjoy some solitude. I didn’t get it and feel irritated. They didn’t get what they wanted and feel irritated. Hubby will sulk for a while.Big baby.
Is it a gender thing and just personality? DD usually listens and respects my requests. DH and DS always get mad and pissy.I always stand my ground and state my positon clearly to both. You think in 9 and 7 years respectively they would get it.
I feel sad right now that I dont get the tenderness from DH I would like( need).
I get it from DD and my cat. LOL!
If DH wants to have sex, which is how he communicates love, he should try giving me what i need to to feel loved, which is space, solitude and tenderness.Then I would come to him with open arms. It is hard to explain this to someone who cant stand to be alone. I am not sure he like his own company. Very much like DS.
Fro what it worth we have a regular, wonderful sex life. I am not sure how much he wants from me in life in general.
I have always struggled with the balance of my needs and those of my family. I LOVE to be alone as much as I love them. I lived alone happily for 15 years, I spent most of my childhood alone and feeling separate from my family.I love my own conpany.
So now I have a pissy hubby to deal with when what I want is to enjoy the day and him and the kids, puttered and clean, garden a bit.......

Is it a wonder I nurture myself with food?

Later, this aft, we have 2 bday parties to go to. I will check out the farmers market in town for cucs and pick up the south beach book.

Good morning,
I hope everyone is having a great Sunday. I'm still op except exercise... No surprise there.

Holly: I don't have any helpful input. My dh is all consuming. He absolutely thinks the whole world revolves around him...LOL.
later

Can't believe I'm finally in the groove and losing again. Weighed in at 200 today! So close, so close..... Onederland here I come!

Another 5 lb. flower point! Woohoo!

Penny: CONGRATS!!! YOU ROCK!
It's good to hear from you. Glad everything is going well for you. keep checking in. We need the encouragement

Hi Debbie,

Thanks for your kind words - I'm so excited that I might be in Onederland next week.

I hope you guys were ok with hurricane Rita. It looks like the damage was worse than they thought on the news yesterday. I guess they can't see all the damage right away as towns are real spread out in Texas. My thoughts and prayers are with everyone in your state who has been affected.

I see you are working out at Curves. I've been going there for two years now and I'm starting to see some muscles peeking out now that there's a bit less fat covering them! Curves has been a life saver for me as it's the only exercise I could manage to do as I have arthritis in my foot. It's also helped strengthen my shoulder after I had surgery.

Have a good week!

Penpal~ very inspiring!!!!

Deb~ I have heard rumours that not all men are completely self asorbed?? Crazy eh?

Happy Monday!!

Had a wonderful weekend. Went to the zoo in the rain, the kids and I actually had a blast, we used umbrellas and had a good time. The under water dome dolphin thing was cool, however they only had two dolphins in the tank and they were not very active It was cool anyway.

Friday night I met a GF at a mexican restaurant, had one medium margarita, it was so strong we thought they slipped mickeys in the drinks. We were completely drunk after ONE drink. Her daughter joined us, then we walked across two mall parking lots to another place where she had other friends meeting, stayed there then walked across Targets lot (me on the back of a cart and GF pushing it with all her might) OMG we laughed till we cried. THen went into Chili's to meet up with her daughters two friends that worked at Chili's. Nothing like hanging out with 20 yr olds. We had a smashing time, and was home in bed by 11:00 pm. hahaha. Woke with a headache, that was soon gone with help from the asprin bottle.

Holly - in my opinion, most men think the earth revolves around their butts. Take all the time for yourself you need. They do not realize how much you do around there and do not respect your "ME" time.

Penny - Way to ROCK girl, congrats on your loss.

Susie - mmmmmmm, rolling stones, I will be there with you in spirit.

Debbie - glad to hear you are feeling a bit better. Here is to a much better feeling week..

Got to get to work. WI tonight at WW. I am very jazzed about it. Hope to lose 2 lbs, so I can get my 25 lb gold star!!

Helloooooooooooooo to everyone else. Drop us a line or two.

Have a wonderfully OP day!!

Anne

Good morning,
I made an apple pie this morning. I used slenda instead of the white sugar. It still has 1/3 c of brown sugar. I afraid if I totally mess with the recipe no one will eat it. Oh well thats 1/2 c of sugar calories gone. Better than nothing.
As far as Rita goes we live nw of Fort Worth and we didn't even get rain.

As soon as my pie is done I'm going to curves...no excuses!

Holly: I heard that rumor also. DH was the youngest and was raised like a only child...BRAT I should say. After nearly 32 years I've took some of that out of him, But he still thinks he's the boss. I let him. It seems like a fairly harmless fantasy...