Diana - we posted at almost the same time! Which msn version do you have? That virus I got the other day was ONLY bothering my msn, we had to go and delete the old one and get the new version, and now it's working fine :)

-Aimee

Kimberley~~~Hattie is a gorgeous Kitty, and looks so much like my Misty did..she was so beautiful, with such an attitude. Then I had to go read the blog, and now am crying like a baby...I just dread the day when I will have to lay my Baby to rest too..he is such a baby, and even though he has a few mor years left, it makes me cry just thinking of it...The only thing that gives me Peace, is knowing that, someday, he will be there waiting for me when I get to Heaven, unfortunately, so will my bird, lol who will probably proceed to peck me in the head and poo on me...

Aimee...we only have the msn mail...We have RR DSL, and use MSN mail for our main email, it has been acting funny all day, hopefully will be to normal soon...LOL. Ahh, the joys of owning a PC!!!

When your bird poops on you in Heaven, just try to smile. ;) One nailed me under our sycamore tree yesterday - ugh, high-velocity bird poop from 70' up above me!

Our veggie plants arrived from our friend in North Carolina and I spent 5-9:30pm working outside getting them planted and mulching our raised bed in anticipation of planting it full of herbs. So far I only have a little basil plant and a stevia plant (natural sweetener - awesome stuff, 30x sweeter than sugar).

Meesa one pooped woman tonight, and sore. After today, I should weight nothing. Really, zero, zip - I can't believe there's anything left of me! ;) I'm consuming a bit of my calories in a rum & Coke (not Diet Coke, either). Howie has to be at the outpatient surgery center at 7:00am, so I will probably head to bed early tonight.

We probably won't do a weigh-in at our doctor's tomorrow since his appointment is so early. I weighed on my MIL's scale last night, though, and it said 218. I can't remember whether hers is a pound lighter than the doctor's or a pound heavier, but either way, I should be under 220! La la la la LA!!

Wow, Kimberley, I can't WAIT to be below 220--that's awesome! :cp:

So I am now officially down 15 pounds from my highest (known) weight. No matter how long it took me, I am glad to be down. I am glad to be below 300. And I am glad to have all of you to listen to me whine when I get down about it! :thanks:

Tonight, Jeff and I are going to the movies to see High Tension, the new horror flick that opens this weekend. In an effort to resist the candy and soda (I don't eat the popcorn at theaters since I worked in one for over 2 years :corn: ), we are going to dinner before the movie. I made a reservation at PF Chang's, the amazing Chinese restaurant right across from the theater. Without a reservation, it's usually at least an hour-and-a-half wait! I already checked the nutritionaly info online, and I know what I'm going to get. We always split the Chicken Lettuce Wraps appetizer (630 calories and 8g of fat in the whole thing, so I get half of that) and the Ginger Chicken and Broccoli (621 calories and 21 grams of fat in the entire dish) or the Chicken with Black Bean Sauce (640 calories and 22g of fat), unless I go with the scallops, which has even fewer calories--have to see what kind of mood I'm in. It kills me that the salads have more calories than the regular entrees :dizzy: . So I will certainly stay under 1000 calories for dinner, only had a low-carb bagel for breakfast with Brummel & Brown butter (made with yogurt, so lower fat--total of about 220 calories for breakfast), brought fruit salad as a snack, and will grab a salad in the cafeteria for lunch, so my day will be slightly high in calories, but not much to worry about (it'll be a little high in fat, but since I hardly eat any fat during the week, that's probably a good thing, especially since it's all very little saturated fat). Planning ahead for my restaurant foods is so helpful--I wish EVERY restaurant posted the nutrition information online!

I talked to my father on the phone last night when I got home from TOPS (where I posted a 3-pound loss since the last time I went, which was 2 weeks ago). I LOVE talking to my father, and I don't get to do it much. I talk to my mom all the time because she has an office job, so we chat while we're both at work. My dad, however, works in a mill and cannot use the phone during work. He gets home at 4pm, which is when I usually start my shift at the restaurant, and he goes to bed at about 9pm since he gets up really early for work (apple doesn't fall far from the tree, eh?), so I'm not even usually home by the time he's in bed! I miss him so much--if I got along better with my mother, I would probably move back to CT so I could be closer to him. It just made me really happy to talk to him, especially since I know he doesn't really like talking on the phone, and he called me! My parents will visit me for my birthday at the end of July--they'll only stay for a weekend, buy me lots of stuff, and then go home, so I always like when they visit ;) I'm so spoiled...(but I like it that way :p )

I really have like no work to do today. I know my boss will be out all of next week, so she is going to contact the client and tell her that if she has any questions or issues concerning the product we are delivering today (huge thing we have been working on since before I even started working here), she should contact ME :o I'm very excited to finally be in a slight position of responsibility--I feel so grown up :D
Well, I guess I'll go putz around and find something to pretend to do. Kick of the weekend right, ladies!

WTG! Kimberley...that is something to be very proud of...the day I am below 220, I will cry....I weighed 220 when I first moved here. I am ideal at 170...not too thin, not too fat...I never want to look like a stick...And WTG! Jill, as well...just keep doing it...no two ppl are alike, and though it may be easy for one woman, it may be something you will have to work on for life, but, all good things are worth the work and the wait. Jeff is helping out now too, so that is a step forward for you, and, I bet, the way you are going, a year from now, you will have lost over half of what you want to lose...me too....I just took a Preg test...no babies here...It gets depressing, but, not looking at it at anything other than what it is...so, now, I wish I would have my P...That would be nice..Have all the signs, swelling, bloat, mood swings, but only spotted lightly 2 days and no TOM...UGH!!!!!

Howie felt fine after his procedure, so we weighed in after all. I weighed 219! Happy happy, joy joy! We then stopped for our weekly Egg McMuffin goodness. Happy happy, joy joy! Err, well, it was really good.

Question: If you order a large black coffee and get home to find you've actually been given a large French vanilla cappucino, the calories and fat do not count, right? Hope not, 'cause I sure didn't dump that baby down the drain just now. ;) It's treat day for us, so I guess it was serendipitous.

Kimberly - It dosen't count at all! Not after a great weigh-in, and a sperm-free husband!

Jill - Chinese food sounds soooo good to me. Sam and I have been trying to find a great place that's close to where we live. We had an excellent place at our old apartment but we move 3 cities away from there, so it's a pain to drive 20 mins for take out and 20 mins back home while your food getting colder by the second!! Last week we walked to a place her frined at work recommended. It awas a 2.5 mile walk each way, and the food was absolutely excellant! I think we found our new favorite!! I usually get the Broccoli with garlic sauce. The 'meat' at those places usually isn't trimmed well enough for me and I end up with a bite of grizzle. UUGH! I absolutly refuse to eat any meat-like chunk that's been deepfried either, and that was before dieting!!

So, yesterday I finally came inside after spending most of the day getting the ground ready for our weekend landscaping project, all I wanted to do was check-in with all of you and feel connected to our cyberworld, and the darn thing wouldn't let me on!! I was so sad! I felt so cut off from my friends!

Sam is really impressed with how much work I did outside this week (I am too actually!) the old Sara would have spent her entire 6 days off watching tv or reading a book... not this new and improved one though!!! I mowed and edged our entire lawn (we moved here in AUG last year, there's no telling WHEN the lawn was last edged) we now have an additional 6" of sidewalk and driveway! I hauled all of the lawn I dug out to the city compost center. I dug out a garden area that we are finishing this weekend. We do not have a back door, so Lexi's 'spot' is in the front yard, I don't think it's fair for the neighbors to have to watch her take a couple poops a day. We bought some retaining wall blocks and decorative grasses to build up her spot a little and she can hide behind it to go!

Cooked like a fool most of the morning today. Made a cold past salad based loosly on a mediterranean flavor. It's got whole wheat pasta, barley, onions, broccoli, carrots, black olives, minced garlic, tomatoes, mushrooms, feta, oreagano, basil, salt, pepper, and a dressing of olive oil redwine vinegar and balsamic vinegar. I tasted it (which I don't normally do anymore) and it's really good! Yum... can't wait for lunch! Also made a rhubarb cake using a recipe from my mom and tweeking it to make it a healthier choice. Having company tonight, a guy from work who's hot for me. He know's I just want to be friends with him but he keeps trying... oh well. He, along with everyone else, dosen't know that Sam and I are together (we've been for almost 2 years!). We don't advertise it, but we also wouldn't deny it! When we were really just roommates, we were asked all the time if we were, now we really are and no one asks?! How crazy is that?! sorry I guess I totally got off topic...

Have a great day everyone!

Boy, that salad sure sounds good; just from those ingredients I can tell it's a winner!

I crashed and took me a much-needed nappy. Just as I was drifting off, there came a knocking at the door. It was our friend Amy, bearing a little bouquet of red carnations and a card. She and her husband John are our best friends...And let me tell you, they are rotten. The carnations, Amy pointed out, were snipped. All the flowers were down in the bottom of the cellophane at the base of all the stems! And John had taken two deflated pink balloons and taped them inside the card to resemble, uh, the boys. What a riot!!

Where is everyone? I know, it's Saturday! ;)

We succumbed to temptation yesterday; even though it was our treat day, we way overindulged. I brought home Chinese take-out around 6:30pm, and then late at night we ordered a large ATW pizza. We both feel blah after eating all that - we're not used to it anymore. It's so easy to do when you spend a whole day just lounging around and watching TV like we did. When I work out in the yard, I don't even think about food until I'm so weak and hungry I'm forced to! Bet you can relate, Sara, after your day o' trimming and edging!

Today's a new day.

Hey there....
 

:dizzy: Hey all...no one is around in the Summer weekends eh? So hot and humid that I am literally sick to my stomach...Has beeen terrible here this week. And sooooo many weeds..UGH!!!!! My Clemaits plant I planted in the back died, GRRRR...TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE...but, I do have 2 small tomatoes already, so that's a big plus, hehe...No bike rides yet this week either, way tooooo hot for me...Anyhoo, here are a cpl of pics for ya to glance at...My peonies are beautiful this year...and this dolly is going on ebay today....HAG1! :D

I love peonies! We have a few really old bushes on our property, and I need to divide them after they die back. You sure your clematis isn't just going dormant, pooped out by the heat? Ours are doing well, but they get shade in the hottest part of the day and have a lot of underplantings to keep the roots cool.

Hey there Kimberley...Nope...Clematis was dead as dead can be...UGH!!! one I planted out front is fine...don't know what happened in the back...Sigh...lol. eh, what can ya do? Sometimes it happens..HAGN!!!!

Your spaghetti sauce sounds great! I need to buy no-salt-added diced tomatoes.

I'm pooped today...Yesterday, my MIL offered to help me get the house cleaned up a bit since we're having company. While we were cleaning, we got to moving furniture (she and I are really good at that, LOL). Now our living room has a dining room table and chairs in it. We moved the table and chairs from the kitchen out there, put our little antique drop-leaf table in the kitchen with just two chairs...we moved our TV armoir to the office, where I put the desktop in it, and then we dismantled the big corner desk we had in the office. I mean, we were BUSY!

And I still have some cleaning left to do. Heh. Guess that happens when you get sidetracked...