Happy weekend, everyone. I'm up early for me - Howie's been up since 9:15am, enjoying some quiet "Howie Time" before heading out for a few hours with a friend. I could have stayed in bed, but I woke up and figured I'd just get up. Now that I've had my Kashi & blueberries, I kinda wish I'd stayed in bed. ;)

If I go back to bed, I'll sleep too long, though, and the office still needs to be cleaned. I tackled 95% of the bedroom last night, but the office awaits.

Ahh, Saturday at last! I got to Jeff's yesterday and took a nice 2-hour nap. Mmmm, loved it! Then we went out to TGIFriday's for dinner (I LOVE their Jack Daniel's sauce--the chicken strips appetizer and the JD burger--soooo delicious). Then we just came back and watched a movie, then crashed. I was asleep by midnight and up around 9:15 this morning, so an AMAZING night's sleep for me. Yay! We're supposed to go to an Orioles game in Baltimore today, but it's rainy and very blah outside, so we'll see how that goes.

Tomorrow we'll probably go to Annapolis to the PA Dutch Market--they make the BEST soft pretzels and fresh milkshakes. They also make really good beef jerky, and Jeff is out from the last time we went, so he wants to go restock. We didn't go see Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy last night cuz we were both too tired, so we will probably either go see it tonight or sometimes tomorrow. We'll see...

Kimberely, I once had high blood pressure at a dr visit (don't remember what it was exactly, just high), but I have had 3 appointments since then and had normal BP at all of them, even though I didn't really change anything I was doing, so hopefully it was just something in particular you had that day.

Alright, well, I am STARVING for some breakfast, so as soon as Jeff gets his butt out of the shower, we're off to grab some grub. Hope everyone's weekend is going great!

Happy Saturday! It's almost Sunday.. and I get to sleep until 10:30am! Yay!

Marge - It feels like it's been 20 years since I was under 250 pounds.. soon I will be there, and soon YOU will be there! We just gotta work at it! Yay! Shopping! I enjoy shopping for others, not so much for myself.. or if I do, Iknow what to buy and where to buy it at.. I don't stray from what I know now that I'm a plus size. I can't wait to shrink more. Speaking of which, I got on my scale (I'm addicted I know!), and it's gone down half a pound! I'm under 260! 259.5.. lol.

Kimberley - I wanna stay in bed!! I am very very sleepy tonight, I was thinking about it and I realize this is the first Saturday I've worked in almost a year, it's a very rare occurance for me. You are one cleaning machine, I recall you doing lots of cleaning, so my question is.. are you really that messy or are you just doing a deep spring clean? teeheee.. I should really be cleaning more often.. I'm just SO lazy!

Jill - you are pretty busy on the weekends! On my weekends off, I pretty much lay around the house, eat a little, and get a headache from lack of movement ;) So that doesn't always happen.. but it's happened before.. sad.. really sad. So I have an unhappy story about Jack Daniels, I was out for my best friends 19th birthday, it was the two of us, and whoever we could find out that night. It was a Wednesday night in a small town, we found a few guys, anywho.. to make a really long story short, one guy dared me to do a bunch of shots in a row, which I did. I ended up with the hangover to end all hangovers the next day. And now I just can't stand the smell of it. I do have some very very funny pictures of the evening though. For some reason my friend and I decided it would be funny to change clothes to see if anyone would notice.. no one did, but we sure thought it was funny. I think at one point we were flagging down cars and inviting cute boys to the bar.. oh my.. alcohol = bad!

Alrighty! So I don't know what I normally babble about, but I came to the conclusion I need to do weights. As I was saying yesterday that I lost 11.5 inches in 22 days, so I've been working on doing that. Yesterday I was a good girl and started a new weight program. I think it was on my 2nd day home (I had to move home almost 3 years ago), and I was watching an Oprah (did you see the one on Friday Marge? I cried and thought of you!!), and she said you only need these certain weights. They were, squats, lunge's, shoulder press, chest press, butterfly, dumbbell fly, arm curls, and tricep extentions. I don't really know what I'm talking about now, I'm kinda just talking, if I was on the phone I'd be talking just to hear myself talk.. Time for bedtime! Have a goodnight! And I'll chat to you hot ladies tomorrow!

-Aimee

Yes, I am that messy! Howie and I are both certifiable messies, I'm afraid. Between our clutter and the combination of two cats' and two dogs' hair...I'm really happy we have a wee two bedroom house. Once I start cleaning, it's not so bad, but I put it off forever because I hate the getting started part.

gm all...I see everyone has had a more exciting weekend than I have lol, Rod has had to work 12 hour days ( or midnights) all week since Tuesday when he went in for his first night...he has to do 12s until Monday night or Tuesday morning, whichever, so he has been sleeping...and I am trying to stay quiet, LOL...been rainin so not a hard thing to do, but have found myself eating very bad things from boredom ...and TOM...so, now this was shot to ****....hope to get back on track today..but boy am I super hingry um, er, I mean, HUNGRY :D right now, ugh!!!!well, anyhoo, hagd!

Happy May Day, everyone! I'll be starting a new thread today, just to make navigation easier.

We were planning on going to the botanic garden today then.... RAIN, rain, rain. So, we're staying home watching videos today. I saw Supersize me yesterday, yikes! Made me get up and exercise! (So, not that exciting in these parts, Diana :lol: ) And, hey, put that Snickers bar down! :drill: (actually, that was ME last weekend! :lol: ) One of these days you should take Amtrak down to the city here and run around with me. (Well, not literally run....)

We definitely will get there, Aimee. And now you're under 260!!!! I love leaving one set of ten for another! Don't you feel like you have to mentally redefine yourself? I love doing weights and resistance machines. I love getting more muscles. My scale has a BMI measure and I'm seeing that number go down, which is a great feeling.

oh my.. alcohol = bad! --Aimee

heh heh, once I went with a girlfriend (a small person, keep in mind) and for some reason we thought it would be fun to do tequilla shots! We'd never done it before, and it would be a new experience! Not good. We were walking down the street drunk as skunks (where did that phrase come from, how could a skunk ever be drunk?) acting like idiots. We ended up at her apartment eating rice in the hopes that we wouldn't get really sick (in vain). I did learn from that experience, I'm happy to say.

The Dutch market sounds cool, Jill. There's a Shaker Village north of the city that I've always wanted to see. It's a little out of the way of everything else.

A friend of mine's sister just moved to NY from France for 3 years, so we're going to get an authentic French meal cooked for us next weekend. Rob and I are thinking about visiting France next year to see my friend and her boyfriend. (She came with her mom and dad a couple of years ago and I gave them the 50 cent tour.) Her dad has a small plane that he flies around the alps. If I get invited to try that out, I'd better start really losing weight :lol:

See ya all in the May thread!

Happy Sunday, all! It's almost 11:30, and I'm still waiting for my turn in the shower. His cousin made us breakfast, though, so at least we don't have to go out for one meal this weekend (mmm...pancakes, sausage, and potatoes). I think the plan for today is to go to the park and walk around the pond and feed the ducks, then to lunch at Luigi's (one of his favorite restaurants that happens to be near the park), then to see Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with his younger cousin. Then, of course, we have to watch Animation Domination on Fox tonight--brand new episode of Family Guy--woohoo!!! I do love me some baby Stewie. No PA Dutch Market today--apparently, it's only open Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, so we missed our chance.

Yesterday, we went to the Orioles game, but we left before it was over because it was very wet, and they weren't winning, anyway. So we took the train home, and then Jeff and I had a minor spat, so that took up most of the evening between tears and trying to talk and silent treatments, but it's all good now :)

Yes, Aimee, alcohol=bad. I have completely stopped drinking--haven't had alcohol since last July. I wouldn't say I was an alcoholic or anything like that, but I definitely couldn't stop when I'd had enough. I never had just a few drinks, I would always at least hit the double digits. My view was that if I'm going to drink, I was going to make it worthwhile and get totally trashed. So, yeah, some interesting things happened as results of my drinking in college (and a little after college), so I have decided to just stop before it does become a major problem. Jeff also does not drink a drop of alcohol, so it's easy for me not to as well.

I guess being semi-active on the weekends is what keeps all the restaurant food I eat on the weekends not catch up to me so badly. Limiting my calories during the week helps to balance it out, too, so my body is definitely not stuck in a monotonous diet rut. When I go to the doc's on Monday, I'm also going to request some blood work. I'll have them check my iron and cholesterol and do a FULL thyroid test. I have been sluggish even after 12 hours of sleeping on the weekends, and, like I said before, I have been cold much more frequently (I'm usualy almost NEVER cold). Also, I have been dieting since January, and just finally lost a total of 10.5 pounds?! I usually hear people talk about how quickly it comes off at first, but 3 months for 10 pounds? ARGH! I know it's good that I am heading in the right direction whether it be slow or fast, but if there is a reason it's so slow, I would like to know so we can maybe fix it. If not, then I guess I'm just not doing what's right for me and my body (which will be equally as frustrating, since I don't really know what else to do). Alright, off to wait for my turn in the shower. Have a great end to the weekend, ladies! OH, and are we starting a new thread for May?--Okay, so I am mildly ******ed. I copied and pasted this message in the new May thread :p