Just stopping in to say hello quick!

Yesterday I bought new rollerblades, the ones I had were close to 10 years old and really cheap. Tried to just buy new wheels for them but it was $35 for new whhels for crappy blades -or- an $80 new pair on sale for $40! Guess what i chose!?!

So this morning I tried out my new blades (2.5 miles)... what a HUGE differance they make in my preformance! I am very impressed! Sam and I had breakfast then walked to Walmart, which is about a mile away from our house, and bought new bikes! We rode home our new Mongoose split frame bikes (very 'bouncy' with all the suspensions), taking the long way home about 3 miles!

Gotta run... shopping and weeding is calling my name.. oh, wait... that's Sam!

Wowsers, it's been a few days since I've posted, life has been a little crazy on my end of the world! My update! Friday I spent the day with my friend and we hung out, went out for a nice sinfully delish dinner! Pesto Penne with chicken and tomatos, sooooo good! It was nice to get away and spend some time with my friend, we went to her place in Vancouver.. which is about 45 minutes away. Saturday was a sleepy day, the people upstairs are sanding their floor I believe.. I'm not entirely sure.. but they were up and at it around 7:30am!! Too early for THIS girl.. We went to a VERY boring Wedding Shower, I tell yah, not so great to hang out with people you don't know, have nothing in common with for 6 hours. Our present was well-recieved, which was nice.. I'm like a fat Martha Stewart! I LOVE to wrap presents, and make them BEAUTIFUL! :) Today I worked all day, but got woken up at 7:30am AGAIN! So before work I went for coffee, picked up a paper and am keeping an eye open for a place without a children's playroom above the ENTIRE place. Grr! Tonight was a pretty humbling evening, my mom called me with news. She was out on Saturday and got a pain in her chest and back, it was so bad she went to the hospital. My mom doesn't go to the hospital. After hours of tests, and waiting for results, they discovered it wasn't a heart attack (takes 6 hours for the enzymes to be detectable in the blood). They suspect it has something to do with her liver, or the fact that she has no galbladder. She's going to call doctors tomorrow, find the one who is experienced enough to help her out. Very scary stuff though, especially with a mom who doesn't go to the doctor unless it's REALLY bad (I get that from her).

So thats my end of the world, and it's getting a little late! So I will be back tomorrow to catch up with all of you gals! Take care!

-Aimee

Aimee--I hope your mom finds out what's wrong and gets it fixed pronto! I hate doctors, too, but I certainly don't get it from my mom--she's at the doctor's every time she sneezes too hard, and she pops OTC pain relievers like they're tic-tacs. I, on the other hand, HATE taking medicine (I do take "the pill," but it's as a cyst prevention medication since my doctor called me a "cyst farm" when I had just turned 16), and I only go to a doctor if I REALLY need to. That's why it took me over a month to get my darn toe fixed :p

Sara--you're so active; no wonder your weight is just melting off! Walking or biking around my house is pretty much equivalent to begging to get hit by a car. There is SO much traffic, and they certainly don't slow down for anybody. Seems like everyone is in such a rush to get everywhere! Jeff doesn't help, either. We went to Panera Bread a while back, and I asked him if we could walk there (less than a mile). He looked at me like I had 6 heads. He indulged me anyway, and we ended up walking, but now that we only eat out once a week, there's no more going to Panera (or Subway or Glory Days or Applebee's, all of which are within walking distance). At least we did get off our butts this weekend and go play mini golf--it's a start :)

Kimberley--I couldn't find the no-salt-added diced tomatos at my store, but the sodium wasn't too bad in the ones I bought anyway. Also, I have heard that you can rinse your canned veggies to remove even more sodium since it doesn't all get absorbed into the food, so I rinsed them off a bit before dumping them in the pot. Whether it actually makes a difference or not, at least it's still not 600mg per serving :o

*a moment of silence for Diana's Clematis--even though I have no idea what that might look like :p

So I forgot to mention that Jeff got out of work early on Friday. Apparently, his shop lost power, so they all just closed down and went home, which meant he went to my home. I hate it when he's there before me because then I don't have time to clean up before he gets there :p Anyway, so I came home, and he had bought me a houseplant, which was sitting on my kitchen counter waiting for me :D This is a big step since he has only bought me flowers ONCE winse we started going out over a year ago (and that one time was for my birthday). It was just a normal flowering plant (probably from a grocery store) with kinda dark magenta flowers (can't think of the name of it of the top of my head), but it was special because he thought of me. What a good boy :D

So we saw High Tension on Friday night. I HIGHLY recommend it to anyone who enjoys a good slasher horror movie. I hope when it comes out on DVD that they release the full version--it was originally a French film, and they had to cut a lot of scenes out of it to make it R-rated in the US (it was originally NC-17). I'm glad it was good because we have been waiting for it to come out for FOREVER--it was supposed to have been released back on Valentine's Day, but they kept pushing it back. But yeah, totally worth it. Leave it to the French to finally make a good horror movie (after recent horrible disappointments like Saw, Darkness, Boogeyman, White Noise, etc.)--who'd a thunk it? :p

We also rented Dog Day Afternoon, National Treasure, Racing Stripes, and Sideways. I had heard Sideways was good, but I thought it was kinda dragged out. It was okay overall and had some really great parts, but some of it definitely could have been cut out. National Treasure was awesome! I'm totally into kid/family movies, and this one was a good one. Racing Stripes, on the other hand, had a little too much gross humor for my liking. I'm sorry, I love the talking animals and such, but do kids today really need to see things like farting and pooping and flies falling into piles of dung?! And we wonder why kids today are so confused as to what is and is not appropriate behavior :soap: ...Anyway, Dog Day Afternoon was definitely worth the rent. There are so many great older movies out there that I have yet to see. I sometimes wonder why I waste my time on the newer crap.

Alright, off my movie tangent and back to work. Hope everyone's weekend wrapped up nicely!

Just another manic monday....
 

Hello ladies. I hope your weekends were terrific. I have been busy w/ school, the house, the kids..lol. I managed to get back on track w/ a vengence, and lost some more weight. It's now officially time to change my short term goal! woohoo!!! Finally made it. It almost makes not eating all of my favorite foods worth it.....almost. :D I know a lot of you can still eat your fave foods, but I'm one of those that have to cut it out completely, (at least for now) or only eat a small portion of it once in a while, kind of like a really cheesy treat..lol.
well, I have to finish my homework before class, and then spend some time w/ my kids...they are going on vacation w/ the ex, and I won't see them until next week...I usually don't go more than 2 days w/out seeing them, so I'll be a mess for at least a couple of days. So you will more than likely see me more during the times I would normally be w/ them..lol. so until then, have a great day, I miss you all bunches, and I'll talk to you later I'm sure!

Oh, Aimee, a six-hour marathon bridal shower sounds like pure torture to me, even if I were best buddies with many of the women at it. *shudder* It must have been interminable. I'm glad to hear your mom's heart was not the culprit in the episode and hope all can be straightened out soon for her.

Sara, my ankles turned in sympathy at the mention of roller blades. You are a dynamo, I tell ya!

Jill, if you're going to live together, ya better get used to Jeff seeing the place before you've had a chance to make a cleaning whirlwind through it! ;) As far as Diana's poor clematis, I'd imagine it looks like a dried up little brown twig with roots clinging to it. In their hey-day, they're quite lovely, but dead? Not-so-much. They're really pretty when alive , though!

Heather, we'll help you ride the child-withdrawal waves until your kiddos return. When I was little and we lived in Illinois, I used to spend summers with my grandparents in Ohio. Considering what a butt my dad was to mom, I don't know how she stood it. Never thought about what it was like for her -- I just know I always looked forward to being with my grandparents!

I'm enjoying the view from our now living room/dining room. It looks out on our front yard through a big picture window and I just love it. I think I'll be spending quite a bit of time here.

The lady who's bartering with me and redoing our front wall called this morning. Since it had been raining a bit, she said she'd hold off until tomorrow. She plans to get her at noon (yay for us, LOL!).

aww, Kimberley, your dogs are adorable!! I can't wait to be able to get a dog again. We had a toy fox terrier named Chico (had to go on a special diet because he was overweight at 12 pounds--was only supposed to weigh 10 :dizzy: ) from the time I was 4 until I was 17. The apartment I'm in right now doesn't allow pets, though, and even when I move in with Jeff, I know I won't have the time I really need to devote to a new dog, so I'm pretty sure we will just get a cat, since they are much more independent. Jeff is open to the idea of a cat, but only if it's all gray--something about some cat from some cartoon that was all gray--who knows.:dunno: boys... But I will be plenty happy with a cat--gray or not, I just want a pet that I can, well, pet :D I did the hamster thing in college, but they were a little more nippy and less cuddly.

Nothing from Aimee yesterday--hope her mom is okay! :?:

Heather--way to go on the short-term goal! :cp: I'm plugging away at mine, too--kickin' the exercise into a higher gear.

Speaking of which, I dragged myself to the gym and did my 30 minutes on the elliptical yesterday. I tried weaseling out of it by going home to get my belt for job #2 (a required component of our uniform), but I decided to just bag my shirt out over the top of my pants enough to hide the fact that I'd forgotten my belt. It worked--the manager sure didn't notice, so sssshh, keep it on the down low ;) Point is, I had a legitimate reason to skip the gym, and yet I went anyway, so I'm really happy about that :D

My work schedule has been changed. I worked yesterday, and I work today, and that's it for this week! I told them I could still work Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays, but I have a feeling they're just going to keep me on Mondays and Tuesdays now. That's fine with me--that gives me a day smack in the middle of the week for chores and errands and an extended workout (since I can only fit that 30 minutes in between jobs--without the job #2 shift, I'll be able to workout longer 2 days a week now :) ). I'm really hoping this exercise addition will get me rockin' the weight off--I really want to go to Kings Dominion!!!

Speaking of which, I don't think I have told you about my new motivation. Kings Dominion is an amusement park in Virignia (with some kick a$$ roller coasters). Well, I bought 2 tickets, and they have to be used by October 31st (the end of the 2005 season), so I need to be able to fit my a$$ into the ride restraints by then. I haven't told Jeff--after the disappointment of not being able to go to Six Flags while we're in Georgia next week, I want it to be a surprise when come October, I suggest we go to Kings Dominion :D

hidoodelydo to you all today..lol. Thanks for the congrats! it means a lot. and way to go on your exercising Jill. Its so wierd, cause I am not one of those that loves to exercise, I only do it to lose the weight..lol. but i am starting to look forward to doing it. yesterday i had a ton of stuff to do, and didnt get to it at the time I normally workout, but by the evening, I kept thinking about not doing it that I finally just did it..lol. So I guess I'm trying. I'm so proud of you! I'm proud of all of you that go and workout, because I know how hard it is.
Well, Im off to clean the house. I know once it's done it will stay like this until about 2 hours after the kids get home next week..lol. Have a terrific Tuesday all, and Ill be back later

oh, I just read some of the other posts I missed. Thanks Kimberly. I appreciate it. I felt really bad when we dropped them off at my ex's house yesterday. My 9 yr old son is very sensitive, and he just cried cause he didnt want to stay w/ his dad....it broke my heart. and I love your pictures. Your room is gorgeous! Im sorry to hear about your mom Aimee. My dad went through something similar a couple of years after they took out his gall bladder and they finally found out it was diverticulitis....I'll put her in my thoughts as I put all of you.

Your King's Dominion plan sounds like a winner -- what a reward! When you go, we want pictures. :) Good for you getting the eliptical in, too.

We've not had a terribly exciting day, though we've done more than we usually do before Howie goes to work. Both got haircuts, then we stopped by his mom's church and assembled the desk we gave them from our office.

Jeez, where is everyone? Now we got Heather back, but Aimee and Diane seem to have vanished.

Well, not much to report on my end of the world. I didn't get home till about 11 last night and only made $45, so I'm tired and broke :p But at least I know I don't have to work at the restaurant tonight, so that's always something to look forward to. That means I'll have more time at the gym after job #1. As tired as I am, I will go to the gym--I want to make sure I have a loss at TOPS this week. Since I've joined, I haven't recorded a gain at any of my TOPS weigh-ins, and I'm not about to start now!

Heather--I'm definitely not one who loves to exercise either--far from it! :lol: I hate getting all hot and sweaty and tired, and it takes so long (it's not just the 30 minutes of working out, it's the changing clothes and the showering and the driving to the gym and the packing the clothes...my 30-minute workout takes about an hour :p ). They say that you begin to enjoy it after a while, but I know I have gone through spurts of working out nearly every day for months on end, and I don't ever recall actually enjoying it. However, when it becomes such a constant like that, I always feel guilty when I don't go, so I guess that's a good thing to keep my butt going to the gym :dizzy:

Well, I do have an itty bit of work to do (less thn an hour's worth), so I guess I'll go get that done before anyone comes in while it's still quiet in the office. I hope it's not so quiet on our boards today!

Sorry I've been MIA lately, my computer has been acting up, so it's really hard to type! Everytime I hit the space key it lags the space, doesn't work, or does like 80 million spaces. It's not my space key, so I'm thinking I have some really nasty bugs on this comp, my brother is coming July 1st to reformat it :) Fortunately, my mom is completely fine, she's already been to see a doctor, and her doctor is going to run a bunch of tests just in case... I suspect that she got a little worried since a few of her friends around her have been getting cancer of all sorts. I am hoping that things with my mom and brother will work themselves out, they've been having some problems lately and after what happened with my mom, my brother revised his summer vacation plans to extend his trip home.

Well thats all I've got time for now (and my space key is working normally! ), I'll try and come back after work to properly catch up on how everyone is doing. Take care!

-Aimee

Aimee, your keyboard may be defective. Try another one and see if that helps. :)

We're sitting out on the patio enjoying some coffee. It's actually kind of chilly here in the shade! We're going from 90-degree days to ones in the upper 70's. Unbelieveable!

mmm...70s...it's supposed to be 93 here today :o

Hey! I am home! Early too :) The bf went home from work sick today, he was sick yesterday too, the poor boy doesn't realize his body is screaming at him to eat healthy. Silly boy doesn't know how to listen to it. Either way, I'm forcing him to drink PURE cranberry juice (it's a possible UTI).. I'm evil.

Kimberley - I totally just thought it was my keyboard, so we switched it with our old one, it didn't work though. It'll be fixed soon though :) Plus we'll have SO much extra room on our computer when we reformat, Josh's mother gave us the computer with ALL her programs on it, so it loaded with things we'll never use. Your patio sounds lovely :) We had a jump in temp from 30 degrees down to 12-15, celcius.

Jill - I want a cat.. and a dog! We were at Josh's co-workers house the other day and they had 3 adorable dogs. I fell in love with two of them, and so they tried to find me one. Their friends do the Fur Babies website, and thats where they got one of their dogs. We can't have pets here either :(

Heather - I am going to look up diverculitis, see what I can find about it. Thanks for the tip :) I am the only one in my family WITH a galbladder, everyone has had it taken out by the time they were 21, and I'm now almost 26. I suspect I'll have it for LIFE now! Kid withdrawl, I can't imagine that just yet... I am FAR too selfish to have children yet. One day possibly..

Alright, I must go tend to the bf.. have a great night!

-Aimee

In the process of re-assembling that desk yesterday, I managed to inadvertantly get in several sets of crunches as I lay on my back beneath the desk and leaned up a bit to screw plates together...Man, is my chest sore! Coupled with that muscle tenderness today was the sudden realization that the doohickey at the bottom of my sternum is sore (it's the "xiphoid process", if you want to get technical, and I didn't know what it was called until I caved to paranoia and looked it up). ;) Isn't it weird to feel bones where you don't remember having them? Ouch!