Hey Gals! It's Friday! I have the day off, and I have tomorrow off too I do work Sunday, but I'm starting to enjoy my job. I dunno where THAT came from! I'll take it though. Cute, but weird story... this girl I work with just called me because she had an "incident" with a boy, sex, and no birth control. I just think it's cute that she called ME for advice... does that mean I'm old though?
Anywho!
Kimberley - you are soon off for camping.. I hope you have a GRAND time
Sara - Wowsers, look at you go! You are only 7 pounds from your hot stone massage! If I could just borrow some of that drive.. heh. I'm having issues dieting these days, nevermind EXERCISE!
The only good thing I've been doing lately is cutting back on portions, and doing some ab exercises. I have lost a little bit off my hips/lower belly roll area. Which I'm sure has returned with my period.. but that water weight will be off in a few days.
Alrighty, I lost my train of thought.. so I'm going to go relax and enjoy my day off, have a great one gals!
I pretty much give up on makeup in the summertime, except for some lip gloss. It's really warm here today, especially inside the house. I'm loathe to turn on the A/C, though, because we won't have it this weekend and I don't want to spoil my poor, pitiful self like that only to be hot when I get there!
Aimee, have a great weekend of relaxation. Glad you're liking that job more now! Sounds like you've been elected den mother, LOL!
The plan is, Howie and I will sleep from about 11pm-4am, get up, and head out about 5am. That'll get us there mid-morning. I'm presuming tomorrow will be our treat day since that's when the main potluck dinner is together. Sunday, we're meeting Sara and Lorraine at a restaurant in Frederick, MD for dinner before we head home. Yay!
So far, no poison ivy from my weeding rampage yesterday. I'm keeping my fingers crossed (and my toes, and my eyes). I have some sorft of little thingie on the corner of my mouth - a fever blister, maybe? It's not noticeable, at least - hope it stays that way! I had a herpes simplex virus when I was a child -- it was type 1 and I spent the week of summer camp in the infirmary with blisters all over the inside of my mouth and throat. Evidently the virus stays in your system forever after that, just hids in your nerve endings and pops up every once in a while. That might also explain the occasional little itchy bumps that appear in between my fingers, but go away as fast as they came.
Last edited by Gardenwife; 06-24-2005 at 04:37 PM.
Hello everyone, I've been so busy lately. I have really missed posting here.
I am keeping busy with the exercise, I've stepped it up a bit with the gorgeous weather here and for the past two weeks have gone to the gym AND pool every day, before I start work at 12, and doing exercise either a walk or the gym at work at lunch time. It's really helping my stress levels, and the way I figure it, I am too busy to eat!!! Well, overeat that should be. I love my veggies too much to give up food. We had roast chicken with baked butternut squash, snow peas and sugar snap peas for dinenr tonight, yum!
Nothing exciting to report here, just same old happy life! I was meant to go to my new job in mid July, but now it won't be til mid August, as they dont have the capacity to run the training yet, and I was actually quite relieved, the weather being so good, and the new job not being shifts, I want to keep to my current exercise regime til mid August now, and see whether I can't meet my end of Summer goal!!!!
I'm baaaa-aaack! And off to a wonderful </sarcasm> start for the week...I rolled over in bed this morning only to find--the sun shining?! But no, my alarm goes off aroun 4:30am, so there should be no sun out yet! I must have accidentally turned my alarm off at some point this morning, since I KNOW I set it correctly last night. I ended up getting to work almost an hour late, as it was 6:09am when I jumped out of bed (I'm usually at the office by 6). Ooooh well...c'est la vie!
Anyway...my vacation was great! Jeff's aunt, uncle, and cousin were soooo nice. On Thursday, Jeff and I went to the zoo in Atlanta with his uncle. On Friday night, we went to the concert Jeff had bought tickets for (it was the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra playing the music from the Final Fantasy video games). I really expected to be bored out of my mind. I mean, really, vdeo game music? But it was AWESOME! I would go again in a heart beat. I'm really glad he made me go On Saturday, we went to a place called Callaway Gardens. They have a butterfly house (I LOVE butterflies!) and a lake and a huge beautifully-landscaped vegetable and flower garden to walk through--it was really fun and relaxing. The weather was very hot (in the 90s the whole time we were there), but it wasn't very humid at all, so it didn't feel as gross as it does here. We hit almost no traffic at all on the way down on Wednesday (we got up at 2am and were on the road by 3 and arrived at their house in Georgia at about 1:45pm--and that includes an hour stopped at Denny's for breakfast and multiple gas station stops), but we hit a TON of traffic on the way home yesterday. We survived, though, and got home safely (even if I was ready to pull my hair out due to traffic frustrations)
As for food during the trip...HA! Actually, it could have been a LOT worse. We ate almost every meal out except breakfast, for which they bought us Krispy Kreme donuts I hopped on the scale when we got home yesterday (in normal clothes in the middle of the day), and the damage doesn't seem to be too bad at all (especially considering I normally weigh "empty" in the mornings). I think all the walking around (the zoo, the gardens, and we even walked around Atlanta quite a bit the night of the concert) helped a lot. Of course, she sent us home with the remaining Krispy Kremes and almost a whole 12-pack of regular Barq's root beer, so of course I had donuts for breakfast this morning I can't go to the gym today, either, because I was in such a rush to get out of the house this morning after waking up late that I didn't grab my restaurant uniform, so I have to go all the way back home to get that between jobs. ARGH! But I will be okay. I will drink TONS of water to help "flush" the bad stuff out, and now the donuts are GONE, so I can't eat any more of those
Poor Jeff also came down with a cold while we were down there. He seemed to battle it off okay--ended up with mostly just a runny nose. However, I started getting it, too, so now I am taking my DayQuil religiously and swabbing with Zicam every 4 hours (that stuff really seems to work!).
Well, hope everyone else is still doing well. Can't wait to hear about dinner with Sarah and Lorraine. I like coming back from a vacation knowing I only have to work this one full week before another long weeking (4th of July next week!!) and then 2 more full weeks (after that 4-day week) until another 3--day week when my family is coming to visit for my birthday. July is going to fly by!
Welcome back Jill!! Glad to hear you had a good time Krispy Kreme Donuts eh? My mom and I always go in (When we are in the USA that is..), get the free donut, and order iced coffee's. They are SO sweet and melt in your mouth, and one is often enough. I am craving one now... BAD JILL! It was quiet without you here! It's just been very quiet around here all around lately.. I don't know whats going on!
kykaree - wowsers, you sure ARE stepping it up! We are having spring/fall weather... it's rainy and cold! I'm NOT feeling motivated to buy a bathingsuit today, or even leave my bed. I got these fancy new runners and don't want to try them out in the rain.. it better go away soon!
My world is pretty boring these days, with all the rain and nasty weather, I've mostly been staying home and eating bread (Which explains the 3 pound gain recently!). I'm really hoping this weather will clear up and I'll be able to get this vacation stuff ready to roll! I leave early Saturday morning, for 13 days I'm VERY excited to have time off work, to get away.. and hope to enjoy lots of BBQ's, lots of hiking, and lots of beach time! Well Ladies, I am off to plan some shopping .. have a great one!
Hi, girls -- back home and catching up. Our dinner with Sarah and Lorraine was wonderful and stretched into a 4-hour visit at the restaurant. What a great time! One of the servers took a couple of pictures of us right before we left, and I viewed them on-camera in the van on the way home. Can I find the darned card now, though?? It's not in the camera and not in my laptop's card reader...
All I can figure is I took it out of the camera once inside the house, intending to put it in the laptop, but then put it down somewhere. We didn't get home until almst 6:00am, so I was pretty scattered and ready to sleep. Aaaaaargh! I've looked everywhere I can think to, three times now. Hope I can find it.
P.S. Howie and I were not on plan at all this weekend, but we're back on it today.
Last edited by Gardenwife; 06-27-2005 at 07:45 PM.
Whew, I'm on late this morning--thought someone might beat me to the morning post! No such problem
Glad to hear you guys had a great visit, Kimberley! I saw Sarah raving about you guys on her own thread in the 100's group
13 days off! Jeez, Aimee, you make my 5-day vacation look like a holiday weekend
I really wish I could take a REAL vacation--just me and Jeff, no family of any kind, stay in a hotel or something that is NOT a relative's house...I haven't been on that kind of vacation since my junior year of high school when I went on a cruise in the Bahamas, and that didn't even really count cuz it was a school trip, so we still had curfews, early wake-up times, and rehearsals!
One good thing I did find out yesterday is that I am working tomorrow night so I do not have to work on Monday night, so I get 4th of July off! Yay!! I LOVE fireworks soooo much! I didn't get to see them many times as a kid--I guess that's why I still act like a kid about them now
Well, back to work. I'll hit the gym between jobs today, then I have to stay till close at the restaurant tonight because I am hostessing instead of serving. Catch ya'll later!
Goodmorning! Phew, I am suffering from caffiene withdrawl! I plan to get coffee today, so that this headache is NO MORE! *insert evil laugh here* I am STILL planning to go shopping today, my friend yesterday slept until 12pm, and ended up calling me at 2pm. She's having issues with her bf, and she says when she's upset she doesn't feel like doing much. I guess I could understand that, but it's not really me. My bf has never really upset me to that kind of degree, we've always worked it out. I am thankful for my relationship!
Jill - 13 days is pretty crazy huh? I just don't see how it could be relaxing without taking that many days off! Plus I am going home to see my mom and some friends, the time is going to go by WAY too fast. You know, I've never taken a vacation where I've stayed in a hotel before! When we went to Florida for 6 weeks when I was 13 we stayed with friends, and my vacations always revolve around seeing family or friends. However!! In August I've made plans to go to Vancouver Island with a friend for 4-5 days to go surfing.. that'll be my first vacation without my family or bf! The Bahamas sound amazing.. I really need to travel some more. I got the evening of July 1st off, so I could also go see fireworks.. BUT! They CANCELLED fireworks for Vancouver. Does that seem insane? It's like cancelling fireworks for Seattle... just WRONG.
Kimberley - I always do that.. and then spend DAYS looking for something. Find it soon, I look forward to seeing that picture! We all deserve days off plan, just glad to see you promply got back on plan!
Well I am off to do my measurements, while I'm not losing pounds (and I'm up 3 as I mentioned yesterday), my measurements are slowly working their way down. I have been consistantly doing abs, like everyday, I've been REALLY stretching them out, and have been warned if I have muscle soreness to take a day off. Same with arms, I'm liking how strong I'm getting, since I only have 3lb and 10lb weights I've been doing arm curls with those, and its getting easier each day I'm definitely looking forward to the hiking portion of my vacation and getting stronger in that sense as well... alrighty, I am babbling and need to go call my friend see if she's out of bed yet. Have a great one!
I was pretty much on plan yesteday (except the extra peaches and cottage cheese I got off the salad bar at work, which isn't much of a splurge), and yet my weight is WAY up this morning, even higher than when I came back from vacation! Who knows--I'm not going to worry about it till my weigh-in tomorrow, which is my real "official" weigh-in day. I'm sure I'll have a big gain to record at TOPS tomorrow night, but on a lighter note, it is the first weigh-in of our 4th of July contest there, so I know I'll at least have a big loss the week after the holiday so I can maybe win the contest The important thing is for me to GO to my meeting and not stay home because I gained
Aimee--hope your measurements went well...I'm sure the wieghts have had a positive effect!
Goodmorning Jill! Very quiet on here, huh? I did my measurements and was pleasantly suprised, I didn't realize it until a couple hours later.. I was SO bloated yesterday! I have lost 3 inches off my hips/lower roll! I guess the abs HAVE paid off, I have worked pretty hard at doing them though.. speaking of which, I took yesterday off. I was just TOO sore!
I found a bathingsuit! I had borrowed a top from a girl at work, but it was FAR too revealing for my tastes, so I went to Wal-Mart and just got a very plain black top, I have some blue bottoms from a few years ago, so I'm SET! Now if only that sun will come out! I'm not sure I'm READY for a bathingsuit, I have been eating SO much bread and pasta lately.. yesterday I had pasta for lunch and bread at dinner, someone needs to come smack me around!
My friend decided to go to the gym yesterday instead of hanging out with me, now normally that would be just fine, but she didn't end up going to the gym, and has been saying she's going to go for 4-5 weeks now. And then later she "broke up" with her boyfriend, meaning she told him to get out of her house, and packed up all his clothes. When he left she called and begged him to come home.. which he hadn't at 9:30pm last night when I last talked to her. I will be interested to see how it plays out. Makes me VERY thankful for my relationship, I know if I jumped down Josh's throat at the reasons she jumps down her bf's throat he'd put me in my place... or I'd hope he would because.. wow.. she just goes right after him. Anywho.. this has just been on my mind lately and just needed to blow off some steam I am off to work, have a great one gals! 3 more sleeps!!!
Hey, y'all. I've just been busy the last couple days, and also fighting the sinus thing -- our weekend camping kinda threw me for a loop, I think. The drive home was miserable while we were in the mountains, darned ears just kept popping and my head felt like it was going to explode a couple times. Now there's a nice visual, eh? K-pow!
Did you see the photo of us with Sarah & Lorraine? It's over in Sarah's thread now (found the missing compactflash card! Yay!).
What a great picture, Kimberley! I know a million people have already said that in that other thread, but I'll say it here I hear ya on the ears popping while driving--when I lived in PA for college and drove back and forth to CT, I had to drive through a lot of mountains in PA on I-81, and it never seemed to fail that I would have a cold when making the trip, so my ears would pop like CRAZY! Not to mention I have bad ears anyway (can't even count the number of ear infections I've had on all my fingers and toes, plus swimmer's ear, plus having ear tubes put in because I lost about 80% of my hearing when I was younger...), so I never looked forward to high-terrain trips!
Aimee--way to rock the tape measure! I'm so glad you're seeing results, even if it's not on the scale. I think I'd rather lose inches than pounds anyway, honestly.
Speaking of pounds...I weighed in this morning at 297.5. Ouch! I thought it would all come off when I came back and started drinking water like a fish, but my ankles are still very puffy, my fingers are a bit swollen--I had at least 10 servings of water on Monday and Tuesday and probably about 15 servings yesterday, so why can't I stop retaining water? I want my ankles back, damm!t! Oh well...at least, like I said, I should be able to post a big loss to counteract this big gain at next week's weigh-in.
Well, I'm off to work and eat my breakfast (sooo hungry--I usually eat an hour and a half earlier before I leave the house!). I just keep telling myself that tomorrow is Friday...have a great one, all!
Water retention stinks, I know. Are you eating a lot of processed foods? The high sodium in them can cause you to hold onto fluids. Sometimes it takes a while before the water guzzling pays off, too.
Water retention sucks. And I'm far too tired to be up this early, even though it's 8am, and really thats not early.. I'm just SO tired and SO sore... bbs to post!!
I has a meeting with my boss today--got some great news! My raise has finally been approved by ALL levels and is completely official now...I got a 26% increase! I can't tell anyone here (since most people here only get about 4%), so I had to come share my excitement on here. I'll first see the new amount in my July 22 paycheck
Also in the meeting, she gave me 3 projects to "take ownership" of, so I get to lead and coordinate anyone I enlist to halp me, and I get to have direct contact with the client (something I have been wanting). Also, there's a big project heading our way within the next couple of months that she said she wants to turn over to me, so that'll be a huge step. She said she's basically turning me into another her She likes it, though, because the more Medicare stuff I work on, the more time she has to work on EPA stuff (her degree is in Environmental Science, so that's what she would rather be doing). I, on the other hand, like doing the Medicare stuff because it's easier to understand, so I think their long-term plan is to have her head up more of the EPA stuff and have me take charge of most of the Medicare projects. Yay!!
Alright, I'm all done tooting my own horn now. I just HAD to share it with someone since I can't talk to people here about it all!
I do work Sunday, but I'm starting to enjoy my job. I dunno where THAT came from! I'll take it though. Cute, but weird story... this girl I work with just called me because she had an "incident" with a boy, sex, and no birth control. I just think it's cute that she called ME for advice... does that mean I'm old though? 
I hopped on the scale when we got home yesterday (in normal clothes in the middle of the day), and the damage doesn't seem to be too bad at all (especially considering I normally weigh "empty" in the mornings). I think all the walking around (the zoo, the gardens, and we even walked around Atlanta quite a bit the night of the concert) helped a lot. Of course, she sent us home with the remaining Krispy Kremes and almost a whole 12-pack of regular Barq's root beer, so of course I had donuts for breakfast this morning 
I can't go to the gym today, either, because I was in such a rush to get out of the house this morning after waking up late that I didn't grab my restaurant uniform, so I have to go all the way back home to get that between jobs. ARGH! But I will be okay. I will drink TONS of water to help "flush" the bad stuff out, and now the donuts are GONE, so I can't eat any more of those 
It was quiet without you here! It's just been very quiet around here all around lately.. I don't know whats going on! 
to everyone else!!
Oh well...at least, like I said, I should be able to post a big loss to counteract this big gain at next week's weigh-in.
