life philosophies....and gall bladders
 

Hey, Canadian hot chick, my dad always says he's the one to cause ulcers and not get them. I believe him when he says that.... :lol: Hope it's not an ulcer for you, or the gall bladder.

Yeah, Katrina is a shocker. I sincerely hope it doesn't turn out to be the disaster they've been predicting.

Stress will never end, I suppose. Between the family and the job, sheesh. But at least I didn't drown myself in twinkies and ice cream, and Doritos, which I probably would have in the past. After a while I think the better habits start to stick.

Hope everyone gets rid of all these headaches. This is the last (long) weekend of summer, we get to start new with glorious fall. Thursday Rob and I are going to one of the last Brooklyn Cyclone baseball games. Hopefully that will put a good spin on what was otherwise something of a sucky season.

Take it easy, chakitas!

Ohhhh Marge, Marge, Marge Marge Marge, you have been gone for FAR too long! My boyfriends step brother recently moved to New York, so if you see a scrubby cracked out guy begging for money with a Canadian accent? Kick him for me.

Which brings me to my vent today! I went with my bf's mom and neice to take her shopping for new clothes. Why you ask? Because her crack whore dad left her with her mom (who doesn't have custody for a REASON), and went out to New York to hang out with some girl he met from the internet. He packed up ALL her clothes, which I have spent TONS of money on, not to mention all the other clothes she's been given.. and THEN her fricking mom takes her away, not telling ANY one where she is, and takes her to her boyfriends house, who has threatened to kill our neice before. What is WRONG with people?!?! The once normally outgoing girl got scared today when we had to ask a sales person a question... it just angers me. Alright, I'll stop there.

I'm watching Oprah today, very good show! It's about your health, and has the author from the book "You: the owners manual". I bought the book for my mom, and it's a good one!

-Aimee

Hey, all. I'm whupped, just really tired. Please forgive my not replying to your posts, Jill, Aimee and Marge, though I did read them all.

Our friends in Thibodaux, LA are fine. It's a mess down there and they have no power, but they're safe. Their plant nursery had quite a bit of damage in the form of a McDonald's billboard falling smack on a bunch of their stock. They didn't have insurance for anything except the inventory within the structure there, so they may be out quite a bit.

Howie's appointment didn't bring any big surprise: He definitely needs surgery to relieve the stenosis in L4-L5. It was weird looking at the myleogram CT-scan, because you could see where the spinal canal was wide and the nerves all fanned out like they're supposed to be, and where everything gets narrow and bunches them all together. :(

The doctor was really cool about our getting a second opinions from Johns Hopkins - he encouraged us to do so. His secretary called them while we were there and found out who would get the reports, and she's taking care of that part. Now, we wait.

The nausea and such Howie's been feeling were of enough concern to the doctor that he wants Howie to stay home this week to recover from the myleogram. Boo-hoo, has to stay home from work. ;)

I think I'm going to bed soon. No problem sleeping tonight, especially after such sketchy sleep last night while half-listening to Fox News' coverage of the hurricane and wondering how our friends were faring.

Later, taters.

Kimberley--glad to hear your friends survived the storm! Of course, now is the hard part--they same some people could be without power for up to 6-8 weeks!Didn't make much $$ last night--walked with $51. 2 more nights to go...

I applied for a job listing I found online that is for working from home--no, not your typical sales calls or spam emailing people. It's editing reports from mystery shoppers before they go to the clients. Editing? Yeah, I think I can handle that, since it's what I've been doing for 40+ hours a week for almost a year. Also, mystery shoppers go to all kinds of service-oriented places to do their reports, and I have worked in retail, restaurants, self-storage rental, and a movie theater--I figure that plus my editing experince makes me a pretty good candidate. So, I applied, and then I had to take a skills assessment (they gave us 2 sample reports and had us make a list of everything we would change), and I got a response email from the woman that I did a great job and should hear something relatively soon :) I would be much happier with that over Ruby Tuesday, since it is just sitting at the computer and working from home. I think I could handle that ;)

Aimee--bout time you went to the doctor! I hope it's nothing serious, but I am glad you at least should be able to find out soon. Jeez, between you, Josh, and Howie, our group needs to be on constant medical alert!

Gosh, I'm sleepy. I just keep yawning. I don't know how I'm going to stay awake working on such exciting materials as MSP (Medicare Secondary Payer)--situations when Medicare is a primary claims payer and situations where it is secondary to another primary source. Oi!

Aaargh, had a whole post written and somehow wiped it out. *sigh* A synopsis:

Aimee, hope you get some answers quickly and feel better soon.

Jill, was the restaurant less busy on the bad tip night or were people just more stingy? The mystery shopper editing sounds fun. I do mystery shops for a couple local companies. Unfortunately, the majority of the assignments are in Columbus, so I don't even bother applying for them due to high gas prices eating up any profit in them.

I decided to stick with Friday weigh-in, even though it was up 3 pounds. :( I stuck to my calories but had too much salty stuff and bread, plus not enough water, I think.

Alright, I have a horseshoe up my rear.. because I'm getting a Treadmill, for FREE!! Josh's parents have to rearrange their house for the neice to move in permanently, and since the treadmill isn't being used, they are giving it to MOI! I feel very lucky to be able to get it :)

I slept last night!! Only for 4.5 hours, but wow, it felt pretty good :) I did the test this morning, and it aggrivated my stomach. It was pretty citrusy. I am looking forward to sleeping tonight, hopefully I can get a full night in :)

Jill - my mom used to do editing like that, she used to also do transcripts from tapes for people. It definitely paid the bills, and she could take breaks when she wanted, or work during the night if she had a sleepless night. I hope you get it! :)

Kimberley - Gotta love bed rest, especially on the last week of summer! It couldn't be better timing if it was planned! Glad to hear your friends are alright, I've been watching a little coverage on Katrina, it's pretty scary stuff! I can't even IMAGINE such a thing!!

Well, I'm off to try to eat something less gurgly!

-Aimee

Whoops, got up a little late this morning--got out of bed at 5:30, which is normally when I am leaving! I am good, though--I had taken a shower when I got hoe around 10:45 last night, so I just jumped out of bed, got dressed, grabbed a jar of pineapple for breakfast, threw my laundry in the dryer, and flew out the door. I was only 10 minutes late :)

Last night was weird--very steady at the restaurant, but not very busy. I never had more than 3 real tables at a time (and by real, I mean a table that I actually had to do anything for--I had one table of 3 ladies who sat in a booth for over 3 hours, and all I had to get them was drinks because they all just ate salad bar, so I don't count that as a real table :p ). I walked with $60. Not bad.

Well, the scale gods seem to be smiling on me this week so far--hopefully that will carry over to tomorrow so I will have a good weigh-in at TOPS. I have to work again tonight, but it is Wednesday, so tomorrow, I get to go home after job #1 and just take a nap! YAY! It's the little things ;)

Actually, I might NOT be able to take a nap. I am contemplating making a cake for one of my boss's birthdays. Her birthday is Sunday, so we are having a party on Friday. I might do one of those big sugar cookies or brownies in a round pizza pan with cream cheese frosting, a bunch of sliced fruit, and chocolate drizzled over the top. My mom used to make those for me for my birthdays when I was a tenager, and it's not hard to make a healthier version so I don't feel quite so guilty if I have a piece (reduced-fat brownie mix, frosting make with ff cream cheese, ff chocolate syrup on top, and of course the fruit!). Wow, talking about it now makes me really want to make it--I think I HAVE to do it now! Maybe--we'll see how I feel tomorrow (aka, how tired I am!).

So, enough babbling--oh, Aimee, what is this "test" you're drinking? Is it for the possible ulcer? What is the drink supposed to do?

Aimee, too many druggies in this town for any one to stand out, but I'll keep my ears peeled for a Canadian accent ... :o Your poor niece. Kids are so innocent, they shouldn't have to deal with that sort of stuff. LOL re: embedded horseshoes. The treadmill is my favorite workout machine.

Kimberley, what is stenosis? Is Howie ok? I was watching footage of Katrina damage yesterday and was practically in tears along with the news reporter. Unbelievable. Here's to a quick recovery to your friends.

I like working out of the house, Jill. It saves me lots of money on clothes and commuting costs, not to mention eating at home instead of having to buy lunch. I'm around fewer people, but considering some of the people I've worked with, I don't consider that all bad!!

Had to take my cat Chloe to the vet yesterday, she was so lethargic for 2 days in a row we started to get worried. Turns out to be some sort of infection, so we're giving her antibiotics for a while. She already seems a lot better (nothing like getting that goo spit all over you twice a day, I might add).

Thank buddha this is the last day of August!

Take it easy all, rest, relax, do something calming for yourselves.

Hello Lovely's!

Heres a quick review of my last few weeks.... I've been working My A$$ off at work, no less then 50hrs per week because my boss can't seem to get off hers and hire someone to replace me. So in the meantime I'm doing 2 jobs. AAAGHH. I've had ZERO time for you gals and the great support of this site.

I have my fingers crossed that I finally got over the damn plateau I've been teetering on for the last 2 months. Stuck between 241 and 245 since June! Weighed in on Monday and I was at 238 yesterday I peeked and I was 237, so far so good!

Donated via the Red Cross website (www.redcross.org) this morning for the Hurricane 2005 Relief, and I'm giving blood on Sunday morning with Sam and Mom. I only hope that the help comes out in droves for us as much as it did last December for the Tsunami people.

Hope everyones day goes well... I'll hop back on this afternoon after i run some errands! See ya.

Wow, busy morning!! Just a quick note form me, as I'm late, AGAIN, and gotta run out that door soon!

Jill - the test was to test for an ulcer, it was some lemonade tasting drink, and after 30 minutes I had to blow into a tube, er, also before I drank it I had to blow into a tube. From my understanding it is to test for some bacteria.

My stomach is calming itself down, or rather I'm being the food police about what goes into my mouth. I was able to sleep 8 hours last night! I need to do some catch up, but that'll have to be for another day...

Marge - I cannot believe how much I've missed you!!

Sara - nice to see you! You will push through that plateau... you are doing such an awesome job too btw :)

-Aimee

It's so good to see people posting again! I just got up a little bit ago, and am just catching up.

Stenosis is narrowing of the spinal canal, where the nerves go down the back. In Howie's case, it's caused mostly by his scoliosis (curvature of the spine). This link shows more about it.

Right now, I'm comparison shopping for canister vacuums. We have hardwood floors throughout our living space upstairs and I've been using a Shop-Vac for my cleaning. It has great suction and nifty tools, but all it does is blow like crazy and kick up an incredible amount of dust in the room. That's not helping my allergies or headaches, I think. ;)

My MIL's vacuum bit the dust, so she needs a new one, too. We'll just split the cost of one. So, I'm looking at a few canister vacs with powerheads that will clean both carpet and hardwood. So far, I'm down to a few models (Hoover 3765-040 or an Electrolux or Kenmore canister). I need to keep it below $225 or so and am looking at reconditioned models of the Electrolux and Kenmore since they're pricier to begin with).

Anyone have any recommendations?

I went with a model I'd not even considered before, a Fuller FB-PTCAN canister vacuum, and I got it from a local mom & pop store that's been here in town for 30 years. It looks really sturdy and has powerful suction. I got a deluxe toolkit with a really nice, reinforced 12' long hose and various attachments with horsehair bristles. Can't find much info on them, but I know Fuller's parent company is the one who manufactures them and I'm waiting until tomorrow to get that company's name. This business services everything they sell and do routine maintenance like belt changes with no labor charge if you've bought from them. Aside from the usual buyer's remorse at any big expenditure, I feel really good about this vacuum. With the 8' hose plus the 12' one in the kit I bought, I can pretty much do all the dusting in each room without having to move the vacuum an inch. ;)

So that horseshoe? It was ripped from my rear, and now it stings. Josh's mom asked me yesterday VIA text message if I wanted her treadmill, which I replied "heck yes". And then today she sold it, she says she didn't read my text message. I have wanted a treadmill for about 10 years now, and would have even paid the 250 dollars that she sold it for to have it. I'm actually pretty upset, I don't get how someone could offer me something and then just rip it away like that. Now Josh refuses to go over there and help her clean and ove a ton of things, which suits me just fine... it fells extremely mean what happened.

Kimberley - Josh sells vacuums! He recommended a Hoover Wind Tunnel, he even just came over to make sure that I show you the website.. he's too cute sometimes!
http://www.hoover.com/db/xq/asp.hvrP...nelBagless.htm

I had another pretty good day, I had 14 servings of fruits and veggies today, a little high with the fat grams, thanks mostly to the chicken wings we had for dinner.

I also got a call tonight from my friends mom, who asked if her daughter was with me, which I replied no to. This is when she told me that my friend told her dad that she was going to Bellingham with me today. Which means my friend went to Seattle to see a baseball game, with a guy who is using her for sex and money and who has no respect for her at all (he recently took rated R pictures of her without her knowledge or consent, and most likely showed his friends, and refused to delete them when she asked, complete pig). When I called him for her one night, he started flirting with me, and he doesn't even know who I am... ugh, he gives me the creeps. Reminds me of a balding Bud Bundy, which I wasn't allowed to watch as a child because it was so sexist.

Alrighty, I think I better hit the sack, I'm really ready for this day to be over.

-Aimee

heh, I wasn't allowed to watch Married With Children when I was younger either. I also was not allowed to watch Beavis and Butthead. So, of course, I always watched it when my mother wasn't home ;)

So great to see evryone drifting back now that the summer's almost over (it's September already! :o ). I say September already, but really, I wish it was October--can't WAIT to move!! I have been finding more bugs in my apartment lately--2 spiders, a waterbug, and a centipede within the past few days. This is after having lived there since last November and only having seen one spider up until this week. I REALLY hate bugs, so I keep my can of Raid handy at all times :p

Well, according to my home scale, I'm down at least 2 pounds for this week, but we'll see what the TOPS scale says officially when I weigh in tonight. I also have to lose next week--since it's a holiday weekend, it's double fines at TOPS if we gain (normally 20 cents for every 1/4 pound we gain, so next week will be 40 cents per 1/4...1.60 per pound! gotta make sure I lose weight not money!).

SO GLAD I am done with Ruby's for the week. My feet hurt (need to buy some new inner soles for my work shoes), my back hurts, and I am DEAD tired. Wow, could I complain a little more? :dizzy: The brownie and/or sugar cookie cake thingy I was going to make today is a no-go..we are having the party next week instead of tomorrow, which is just fine by me--means I can go home and NAP before TOPS :D

I had a late night last night, after I posted here my friend's friend Jamie called me, and him and I talked a little about whats going on. And I told him that she was 100% in Seattle at the baseball game, he called her mom to let her know... I can't even imagine doing that crap anymore! I pulled various things like that when I was about 15, mostly it involved going out without telling my mom where I was. Jamie was telling me stories that my friend "forgot" to mention about the guy she took off with... he actually told my friend "I own you". I know I won't be going out with her for a few months, and I'm sure her mom will take away her cell phone, car.. etc. Silly girl.

Jill - Can you believe I've switched to Monday's as a weigh in? I think it's completely insane, but a friend of mine wants to switch to that day. I'm finding an insane amount of spiders these days too! I went to the bathroom the night before last and there was a HUGE one on the wall behidn the toilet, it's now dead on the floor... I hate to kill them, but I'd hate to have them alive even more!! Enjoy your nap :)

Alrighty, I should be getting ready for work.. I'm pretty darn tired.. when I get home tonight I REALLY need to shut off the ringer on my phone, and just hit the sack ASAP! I'm watching some of the news on the Gulf Coast, it's shocking really. So many people died from not evacuating, I'd run, far and fast if it were me. Oh right.. I gotta go to work! Have a good one!!

-Aimee

Mondays are probably a good weigh-in day--keep you honest over the weekend! :devil:

Yeah, I kept thinking I would have evacuated before Katrina hit, too, but the problem was that the traffic was so horrible that at one point, officials told people it would be safer to stay than try to leave and get caught in your car when the hurricane hit! I'm sure flights were booked solid leaving the area, too. I know I'd sure rather hide in my attic than be in a Honda Civic on an open highway! One woman on the radio yesterday morning said her family was don there and left before the storm, but it took them 20 hours to drive the 300 miles to safety :o I used to be able to drive from college to my parent's house (about 350 miles) in 5.5 hours. Craziness!

There were an insane amount of cars, I wonder how long before Katrina hit that people were told to evacuate. I'm watching how Bush cut short his 5 week vacation to help deal with this stuff.... 5 weeks?? I work retail which is not important compared to his and I'm lucky to get a WEEKEND off! Alrighty, enough from me, I really should leave for work... I'm going to pick up breakfast.. I'm just not into making stuff this morning!

-Aimee

vacation???
 

Rob told me Bush has taken more vacations than any other US President. That's all I'll say about that....

Hope Howie does ok. Sending good thoughts. (On a lighter note: Shopping for vacuums, that sucks! :rofl: )

Ahhh, I'm dying reading about Katrina and the lower states. We sent small amounts to the Red Cross and to the ASPCA. It makes me so angry to hear how the local and fed governments have been handling it........ :mad:

Ooohh, I never weigh myself on Mondays....no way (weigh). I do it Fridays, for some reason Thursday seems to always come out lower, go figure.

Wanted to write more, but we're leaving early for a baseball game (Go Cyclones!) (it's against Staten Island, last game of the season before playoffs).

Remember Aimee, no one can own you, unless they give you extraordinary amounts of money and at least two houses in outstandingly beautiful parts of the world!

Have A GREAT EVENING you gals.

Hey ladies!

I have such a feeling of closure on the fat(er) chapter of my life. Yesterday I took my too big clothes to the consignment shop that I really like. You have to pay a $5 fee to 'join' and can only take in up to 30 items each time. They pay you 40% of the sold price for your items over the course of 3 months. 2 ladies from work have already pilfered through most of it, but I brought in 30 items yesterday and they took 29 of them! Score!! I then came home and spent 4 hours (yeah... 4) steaming (i hate irons, so I bought a steamer) clothes in my basement. I have another 2 trips worth to take in, and that's only fall/winter stuff and only 'high end' merchandise. They wont accept Walmart, Shopko, K-mart brand items just Kohls and better. I was so nervous that they were going to reject a lot of it, it would have been like a personal blow, I always thought of myself as a pretty nice dresser! The owner was the one helping me and she kept saying that I had really nice items, (yeah... ego boost) I told her I had a bunch more to bring in because I had lost about 75 pounds and I though she was gonna pass out! Poor thing.... she only weighs 110lbs (she told me) and that's like 2/3 of her!! She'd have like a thigh and a torso left! She asked me if I had 'the surgery', I was like "**** no! I did it on my own!" Made me feel pretty special. Then I bought an Old Navy dress shirt, Gap jeans and Lane Bryant dress pants there for a total of $28.

More on the shopping victories... was at Walmart last night and they had some really nice Misses button down dress shirts in the ad that just came out, I tried on an XL in the store over my t-shirt... and oh, yeah... did a happy dance right there! It fit!!! now if my pant could catch up, we'd be in business!

Went to work today for a half day, now I'm supposed to be cleaning the house... hard to do from the computer! Saw gas went up... it's $3.09. UUGH. I hate it. have to bring some Vaseline to the pump with me next time... except that's petroleum based too, so that'll probably be too expensive to buy... oh well have to grin and bear it I guess.

My work is matching employee contributions to the Red Cross for the Hurricane Relief effort. I donated yesterday before I knew that, so, of course, I did it wrong and now have to submit my reciept. It's cool though, we're being matched up to 1 million dollars (total contributions). We have 3 systems down there that are destroyed now... not that people want cable tv in that area now, but that's a crap load of people with out jobs just from my company alone. I wish there was more we could do.

Sam's brother just got out of basic training (in Georgia) we're hoping that they send him to do clean up in new orleans or mississippi instead of sending him to north carolina, he'll get shipped over seas if he goes to NC.

On a happier note, yipee it's September!!!! Crisp air and dead leaves are on the way!!! oh, yeah, and my birthday. Sam's taking me out for sushi for my birthday dinner, yummy! I told her to invite my parents, cause then my dad will pay the bill. Sneaky little brat arn't I?!

catch ya'll later...

Great to see all the posts, still. I took my MIL to the outpatient surgery center for a colonoscopy today (whee!), then crashed shortly after getting home. Just got up and am hungry, but am feeling really wiped and trying to find a shred of motivation to cook what I'd planned to cook! ;)

I've already bought the vacuum. I did consider the Hoover, but I would have wanted the next step up (3765-40) which has a powerhead. No one carries it locally and I didn't want to mess with buying it online. The vacuum store guy made a lot of good points, such as how many manufacturers make you mail your vacuum to them if it needs repairs. He services everything he sells, a big point for me. He only carries a small number of brands, ones he can recommend as someone whose worked on dozens of brands for 30 years. Felt pretty good after talking to him, and I like buying locally when I can.

Sorry about not replying individually...Just feeling wiped out for some reason. I think it's a lot because of all the awful coverage of the gulf coast miseries. There comes a point where you have to turn the news OFF and realize you don't have to know every sensationally-presented detail in order to pray for people and help with their physical needs.

Good news! I got the position for the at-home editing thing! I go in for an orientation on Wednesday. The woman who called me yesterday said they pay between $20 and $125 per report depending on length, how detailed they are, and how much editing they need. She said they can take anywhere from about 30 minutes to 6 hours to do, so the pay has to be adjusted accordingly. They will tell me how much I get for it when they offer me each individual piece to edit. She also asked if I have weekend availability because a lot of their deadlines are Mondays at noon. Not a problem--since Jeff and I will be living togther soon, I won't mind putting in a few hours on weekends. I'm so excited about this opportunity--may be my chance to really quit Ruby's (although I don't know if I will ever really do that, since #1, I like the people, and #2, I'm a sucker :p ).

Well, the TOPS scales were not quite on with my home scale. According to the TOPS scale last night, I stayed the same. I HATE that my scale says I lost 2.5 pounds when I weigh in the morning but that the TOPS scale says I maintained--I'm not complaining since I am happy I didn't gain, but it just bothers me that it's so inconsistent to weigh-in at 6:30pm after eating and drinking and working all day--much different from weighing in first thing in the morning, after I pee, before breakfast :p But, what are you going to do--I'm pretty sure no one else will go with me to a TOPS meeting at 4:30am, so I'll just have to sigh and deal with it. I KNOW I lost those 2 pounds, even if the TOPS scale doesn't show it :)

But anyway, even according to the TOPS scales, only 3 more pounds till I have lost a total of 30 since joining them (my starting weight there is 306 since I had already lost a few pounds before I officially joined), so maybe I can do that by next week. Then I need to find some way to speed up my weight loss, as it's getting quite sluggish again (maybe actually GO to the gym again? :devil: ). If I watch my foods next Thursday, then I should easily be able to have my 2.5-pound loss reflected even on their scales!

Sara--congrats on the new clothes! Gosh, and XL--it'll be quite a while till I'm there, but I can't WAIT! I seem to have the opposite problem as you as far as proportions, though. I wear a 22 pants and can wear anywhere from a 24-32 shirt depending on brand, style, and material, but my shirts always have to be bigger than my pants (and it isn't because of my chest, these bitty little B cups :p ). **singing**I'm a little B cup, short and stout...**

Aimee--I agree--I don't even get 5 weeks of vacation time total for a year, let alone be able to take 5 weeks off all at once!

Marge--you are smart to donate to big organizations like that. I heard on the radio about how people are trying to be nice by making care packages and sending them down there, but hello, the mail trucks can't deliver them! Donating to a organization with the manpower and resources to really get things done is the best way to go.

Alrighty, time to get crackin', since I have been in the office for half an hour now and have done NOTHING! Hope everyone has a happy and safe Labor Day weekend!!

Goodmorning! I slept!!!! 9.5 hours !!! Woohoo!!! My stomach was completely quiet until this morning, it felt SO good, I am definitely going to repeat that tonight, tummy feelings willing! My friend also came home last night, she called me, and then dropped off the creepy dude she was with (I could hear him screaming at her in the backround, creeeeepy!) and came to my house. I calmed her down, prepared her to see her mom, and called her mom to say she was safe. I even took the girl home and made sure she got into her house and was going to talk to her mom about everything thats been happening with that guy. Hopefully it went well!

Marge - I wouldn't want to be owned, however I am quite willing for people to pay for my love... if only my parents waited until I was OLDER to get divorced, it just doesn't work now! ;) In Canada we hear a lot of flack about Bush, I wonder if I've ever heard anything positive about him... Except that he sure can balance work and vacation! ;)

Sara - thats awesome that you can sell all those clothes! I'd love to entertain the idea, however I don't know that I'd have the time or energy... and I don't know if they are all in the best quality. You can use the money to buy NEW smaller clothes! :) Yay!!

Kimberley - I've never had a colonoscopy, but they sound SO SO unpleasant! I haven't been watching all the coverage on Katrina, it's pretty scary/sad stuff.. and I prefer to live in a fantasy world where nothing bad ever happens! This isn't entirely true... but I just can't watch it.

Jill - that really sucks about the TOPS scale, I'd be crushed. I always thought it was weird to weigh at such a late time.. my mom's weigh in at WW was always after dinner time, baffels me!!

Alrighty, I am off to find some food! Have a great one!

-Aimee

I forgot to post that I started a September thread
:D