Gettin' together -- September 2005
 

Thought I'd start a new thread... Welcome FALL!!!

Aimee, I meant to mention yesterday that I my boss shared an office space with another lawyer. When they moved out, they wanted to get rid of the big copy machine we had. I arranged with a friend of my boss's to donate it to his wife's church (everyone said ok to this). At the last minute the other lawyer said he wanted the copier to keep in his garage. :o I could feel the bad karma swirling around me. Screw the treadmill. Maybe there's some reason in the universe you weren't meant to have it yet.

I totally agree with you about turning the news off, Kimberley. It's good to know what's going on, but it can be overwhelming in too high a dosage. I could use a nap myself this afternoon.

Jill, three jobs?? You always did have amazing energy. You have to pay for lbs gained at Tops? Wow, that would be dangerous for me, heh heh.

Good for you re: all the clothes, Sara. I have to dig through my drawers and get rid of a few older, TOO BIG YEAH things. I bought myself a bathing suit this summer which was a huge step for me. I'd like to start swimming at the Y.

Hey, I caught a foul ball at the game yesterday! How cool is that. And we won. Life is good.... :dizzy:

Hey, hey...Long day here and I'm just catching up. Read everyones' posts, but am heading to bed. Poooped tonight.

It's Saturday morning here in Brooklyn. Seventy-one degrees, sunny. The cat is asleep in the bedroom and I just popped on the computer to say hi before I hit the shower.

My wish for everyone for this day, is for you to take time to take care of yourselves mentally, spiritually and physically. It's not selfish to do that, it's the opposite of selfish, because you can only give to others if you're full yourself. Ok, I know that sounds Dr. Phil-ish, but I do believe it.

And one extra thought, you're much more powerful to make change in your own life and in the lives of others than you think. I saw a news story yesterday where a 12-year-old boy said just about those words and I thought he sounded very wise for his age.

Take care.

Quick note from me.. I'm heading to Seattle until Monday... or Sunday, we haven't made up our minds just yet... I'll try and pop on.. if not? Have a GREAT weekend!!

-Aimee

How long will you be gone again, Aimee?

Not much to report here...just been hanging out with Howie this week and enjoying the downtime. This coming Saturday is our Biggest Loser 2 party and I've got to get crackin' on the House Party website stuff. See the Biggest Loser 2 House Party link in the 100lb Club forum for more info.

Here I am!!! I haven't been posting here, because I haven't much internet time anymore with all my exercise, my new work patterns, and trying to retain some semblance of a home life with the dh. I keep trying to convince him that if he exercised with me he would see more of me, but I haven't quite convinced him yet!!!

I took your advice today Marge (pretty good seeing as I hadn't read your post!!!!) and had a "me day". I went to the gym, and met up with a lady I see there, who asked me if I would like to go out with her some time, as she hasn't any female friends!!! I don't have many either, so I was really happy, she's a lovely lady, a stick insect, but we won't hold that against her!!!

I have stayed on plan with my eating this weekend, yay me!!! I went tot he shops and bought lots of fruit, so I have no excuses. I bought some pears that are so sweet, and they kinda taste like roses.

I have finally gotten into the swing of my new job. I am working in a specialist back pain unit of the largest health insurer in the UK. The team is made up of nurses and advisors (I'm an advisor) and I am learning so much. It's a lot more relaxed than my previous job, and more money!!! Gotta love that!!!!

Hope everyone has had a happy Sunday!!!!

Kykaree, great to see you! :D Your new job sounds great, and sounds like the kind of place Howie'd love to be dealing with. It's so great to see you posting!

Hey from Seattle!! We are having a fun weekend away... the first day we went to the lego store where I bought pink lego to build a picture frame... it shall be interesting! Today we hit up Bumbershoot, which is an arts festival thing, we ate too much, drank too little water, and got very wet when it started to down pour. It was lucky that I'm from around here... I brought an umbrella!

I am completely shocked, suprised, relieved I suppose... the gas prices? Cheap! We are paying nearly 5 dollars a gallon in Canada, so my mom is definitely going to fill her car all up!! That margin between Canadian and American gas prices are getting closer and closer, which is bad for you gals... but it's nice to see some equality on my part!

Tomorrow we are going to Bellevue Mall which is a higher class mall in this area, and we'll do some shopping (main event is Sephora, and Lululemon), and late in the day we'll head back to Vancouver. Hope you are all having a great weekend!!

-Aimee

Hey, when it started to rain, you should have tipped your heads back and had a good drink! ;) Glad you're having a good time, Aimee.

Hey, Kaylee!! Glad to read your great update!

Good for you re: the job situation. Great news. I've been doing lots of thinking along those lines but not much action! :lol: I don't have enough girl friends, so I should follow you're lead with that.

It does seem like the exercise takes up a lot of my time too. I enjoy it, and I'm seeing the results. Happy with that. Great to hear from you.

Aimee, I have some friends from France living here now, and the gas prices there are so through the roof that $3 to $4 a gallon sounds like a blast from the far flung past for them! Enjoy all the shopping! It's been so long since I've been to a mall! Hey, I want to shop too. (Marge looks in her wallet and thinks maybe a quiet day with the cat and bf might be the better choice :lol: )

Kimberley, that's great! I saw the tail end of that show last season. You should have a really fun time doing that.

We went to the park today and spent a few hours enjoying the nice weather on this federal holiday. We've been renting the HBO DVDs of Six Feet Under, love that show.

Take it easy, gals!

Wow, I had to catch up on reading here this morning--I normally just find my common threads by checking my "subscribed threads" under User CP, but since I hadn't posted on this new September one yet, it wasn't showing up! But I am here now, and great to see everyone posting over the weekend (unlike me)!

As for my weekend, it was fine until yesterday when I had a minor mental breakdown. I got so mad at myself for my horrible eating habits all weekend long (since Thursday night, really) that I just flopped on my bed and cried. Jeff had no clue what was going on, and I was crying too much to try to explain it to him. He was a good boy, though--just hugged me while I cried and tried to get me to tell him what was wrong. I eventually (after I had stopped crying) told him I was angry with myself for letting myself eat out so many times over the weekend. Of course, that doesn't really register with him as reason to cry, so I'm sure he still thinks I'm on drugs. His response was, "Well, if you didn't want to eat out, you should have said something and we could have stayed here." No, not understanding. Having been well under 200 pounds his whole life, I wouldn't really expect him to understand what it's like for a woman who has been over 300 pounds.

So here I am today, 6 pounds higher than on Thursday morning. How insane. I know some of it is water form the extra sodium of eating out, blah blah blah, but still, it's pretty ridiculous. To make up for it (at least a little bit), I have drastically cut my calories back for today and have planned less than 15 carbs for the whole day. I will be at the gym between jobs, and I am already sucking down the water. I know I won't lose those 6 pounds all by Thursday night's weigh-in, but I can at least make the effort to rid myself of the damage as quickly as possible. This was SO far beyond my typical off-plan weekend (and it wasn't even supposed to be an off-plan weekend at all!). I think I caught a major case of the "I'm so sick of restricting myself so now I'm just going to eat whatever I want and say screw the diet because it's too much work" bug (yes, that is proper medical terminology ;) ).

Oh, and about the jobs--once I see how much I can make with the editing from home position, I'll hopefully be able to quit Ruby Tuesday, so I won't be working the 3 jobs for very long--just until I get a feel for the new editing thing. Then I'll be back down to 2 :)

Well, sorry to have made this kinda long. I was in a bad place over the weekend, but I am back now. Happens to the best of us, right? Started off on the right foot, though, with my egg white and slasa omelette this morning and packed meals for the rest of the day. Hope everyone else is in a cheerier place--catch ya'll later!

not alone in that club!!
 

Oh, Jill, I can tell you one thing, I could SO relate to your post. I had the same problem this weekend because we went out so many times. When we go out my brain goes into TREAT mode. Afterwards I say to myself, what were you thinking?? :?:

I try to look at it this way, I'm turning around a lifetime of thinking patterns and habits. It doesn't happen in a day. Even after I've lost all the weight I want to, there are going to be times when I overindulge and have to compensate. I actually just go back on my regular pattern and don't try to make up for it because I figure I'm trying to get the good pattern and habits in my brain, not get myself into thinking I'm even more deprived, and don't want to feel like I'm beating myself up for a slip. I know everyone has different past experiences and copes with it differently.

It does make me feel down when I go so off program, like I'm letting myself down after a lot of hard work. At the same time, I really have come a LONG way in a couple of years. So you can pat yourself on your back for all you've done, Jill. Believe me, I know what it feels like to be over 300 lbs. Take it easy, Chickie.

I'm BACK! I don't have time to post, as I'm running off to work, but wanted to let yah'll know I made it home!

-Aimee

(BTW Jill, Marge, it must be a theme, I ate nearly everything in sight, and some things NOT in sight... not good, not looking forward to weighing)

It was a minute, but detrimental, shift in the Earth's rotation that did us all in! That has to be it!! I had a munchy weekend, too. I didn't go all out, didn't stuff myself, but I was over my calories three days.

I agree with Marge about not trying to make up for bad days. That's not how life works, you know? If we make mistakes, we have to just go on. If the weight loss is stymied for a week or two, that's just the repercussion. Like she said, it'd be too easy to feel deprived and like you're beating yourself up for a slip.

All we can do is take the bitter medicine -- realizing it really is medicine, that reality check -- and go on doing the right things. It'll come off, and it will do so without messing with our minds, you know?

((((big hugs!!!))))

My poor cat is under the weather. We have to take her to the vet this morning, it will be the third visit. :(

I'd much rather I was sick than my little Chloe.

Sorry to hear about your cat Marge, hope she feels better soon!

So I braved my scale this morning, and it turns out, I'm DOWN half a pound, probably because my saving grace is that if I don't eat a min amount of veggies a day I get stomach grumbling, and can't sleep at night. I often wonder if calories work in the sense that you can save them up, etc... it's not been true for me, very unfortunately I have to be extremely consistant with how much I'm ingesting a day. But I know others who did WW and saved nearly all their points for a splurge day, it seemed to work for them. Ah to have a young metabolism!

Well I am late AGAIN, my time is NOT well spent these days... talk to yah'll soon!

-Aimee

Hope your kitty's okay, Marge. We went through a tough time with our Elliott getting really sick a couple months ago, and we had to put him down. I still miss the Lellybutt. It's so hard when they get sick, even when they do get better it's hard when they're ill!

Aimee, congrats on the loss, you! Jill, I see your point about the calories and penny pinching.

Guess what....NBC wants their local affiliate and the local paper to do a story on us and our Biggest Loser party Saturday! We're not sure if it will be a phone interview or if they'll actually come to the house. :faint: I have SO much to do, I'm freakin' out doubly so now. It'll be cool, though! See the Biggest Loser House Party in the 100lb club - I'll just update in that one thread.

Glad we're getting our hair styled Friday, and I hope and pray my highlights turn out great (bartering ROCKS).

Kimberley - thats cool about the NBC thing! I wonder if I'll get to see you on tv!!

So, I had a meeting today with my Manager and Regional manager, it did NOT go the way I thought! I walked away with a promotion (Assistant Manager), a raise (1.20/hr, considering the company-wide wage freeze!) and the satisfaction that my manager is being transfered!! I wouldn't have taken the position if she was going to stay, while this is NOT my future, I definitely want that raise until I actually decide what I'm going to do. I am still considering the whole Nutritionist thing, I just need to get on the program and find that stuff out.. Also today at work another company was trying to recruit me, they pay FAR less though, but its nice to be wanted!

Anyways, I gotta go find some food! Talk to you all later!!

-Aimee

Thanks for the well wishes for poor Chloe. We'll find out the results of the blood tests today. She's hiding under the bed now because she doesn't want to go to the vet again. :( Poor Elliott, it's so hard to lose a cat.

That's very cool re: NBC, Kimberley. Keep us posted on that. :)

Man, Aimee, you're rockin' up there in Canada! Congrats all around. :)

You know, I can't stop watching that reality show So You Think You Can Dance. I love watching the contestants dance, but the judges are so freakin' mean.

Some days I feel like I wish I could go live in a commune in Iceland or something.

Keeping my fingers crossed for your Chloe. I remember that wait so well.

Guess what, guys! Johns Hopkins accepted Howie!! We fly to Maryland next week for a consultation with the neurosurgeon. His appointment's a week from today, Thursday, September 15th at 11:00am. The ball is rolling again, and we're so relieved!

Wow, great news for Howie! I know that place has a fantastic reputation. Good luck to him. It's always a huge relief to know you're in good hands for any operation.

Good news on the cat front, she doesn't have leukemia or AIDS. The vet thinks it's a new bacterial strain that she's having trouble shaking. I can't tell you how relieved we are. You know, you always prepare for the worst, but hope for the best.

Marge - cats can get Leukemia or AIDS? Where have *I* been?!?! I hope the best for her, I'll keep all my fingers and toes crossed for her! :) I really AM rocking, I got onthe scale today, and.. I am DOWN! I know I got on it yesterday, but I'm addicted! In the last week I've gone down 1.5 pounds! I don't have the heart to change my ticker, because I'm still up from that..

Kimberley - Thats GREAT news for you and Howie (we all know women worry more than men ;) ), yay!

Well I am off to eat crackers and tuna, yummy!! :) Have a good one!

-Aimee

The surgeon's secretary at Johns Hopkins was so funny...She and Howie were kidding on the phone about how wives ask so many more questions than husbands. When he was getting off the phone, he said "she said to tell you I did a really good job!". LOL!!

Woohoo for Howie and Chloe!! Glad to hear that Chloe will likely be able to shake whatever it is that is ailing her--will keep my fingers crossed for her till it's gone for good, though. And Howie and Kimberley will be in my neck of the woods! Johns Hopkins is an amazing institution. How wonderful that he got accepted!! I'll actually be in Glen Burnie, MD (just a 20-minute train ride to Baltimore) the weekend after Howie's appointment (the 16th-18th), so I'll be nice and close to send the good vibes :D

And yay for you, Aimee, on the loss (even if it's up from your ticker, you're at least headed back in the right direction!).

I weighed in at TOPS last night with a 1/4-pound gain. Not bad considering I was up 6 pounds on Monday morning after this past weekend's food orgy :dizzy: My TOPS book still says 279.25, so I'm still below 280 :)

While I might pop in to check up on y'all over the weekend, you probably won't be hearing from me for a while. I fly out of BWI on sunday evening to go to Raleigh, NC for an EPA conference for work, and I won't be home till late Wednesday night, so I probably won't post again until Thursday morning. The conference will probably be pretty dull, but hey, if I can get paid to be out of the office, I will do it! Plus I get to see my boss who just quit at the beginning of August to go to grad school in NC--we're meeting up for dinner while we're down there (the Graphics Manager, who used to share an office with my boss, is going, too), so that should be a great time! I will have to be very careful with what I eat--just because the company is paying for my food does NOT mean I can eat whatever I want!

Thanks, Jill! She's still going under the bed, doesn't like those vet visits! Can't blame her much, not very nice where they take her temperature. :o

Enjoy the conference. It might not be as boring as you think. Sometimes the hotels they put you up in have cool gyms too.

Aimie, yeah, cats are such delicate creatures really. Feline leukemia is a big problem for cats. As far as I know, there's no cure and it can cut a cat's like by 1/2 to 2/3. The insidious thing about it is that a cat can test positive, then negative but still have it. It can be spread from cat to cat. It was my biggest fear that Chloe might have that. The vet told us cats are virus sponges. He thinks she has a relatively new strain of a bacterial infection. We're giving her antibiotics for it.

Congrats on the losses gals! :) !! We'll persevere! Well, I promised to make lunch today, so gotta go.

Take care and have a good one.

Jill - Hope you have fun!! It's nice to get away, no matter where :) I think you are close enough to count it as 279! Thats amazing how precise that scale is.. crazyness!

Marge - I have always had indoor cats, we've always lived near a busy road, or in pure wilderness where most cats died from cougar/wild dog attacks. My mom has made a "cat run" in the yard for her cat, it's really cute, she has it set up so the cat goes out a window.

Phew, I am exhausted! I worked 9-2pm, and then my bf and his neice met me at the mall and we took her shopping, our deal of the day was 1 pair of jeans, 1 pair of sweats, a tank top and a long sleeved shirt for 34 bucks! It was almost impressive! Then we took her to Clair's, big mistake, 25 dollars!! On a purse, necklace, two sale bracelets, however we got some free gifts. I can't believe how expensive kids things are!! I was supposed to get a yoga mat, but I only got the video thus far. My brother and I are supposed to be doing Yoga everyday for at least 30 minutes... we shall see if he follows thru!

Alrighty gals! Have a great one! I have tomorrow off, I am SO looking forward to it :)

-Aimee

P.S. I updated my ticker, it was only off 1 pound.. so I figured it couldn't *really* hurt!!

Gorgeous day in Brooklyn. Rob and I went to the Botanic Garden today; we haven't been in a while so it was a nice break. There's a farmer's market near the park so we walked through that and bought some blackberries, corn and yellow tomatoes.

The cat run sounds cool, Aimee. If you think you're having sticker shock with prices now, give it a few years. I'm only in my early 40s and when I see how much stuff costs now sometimes I feel like I'm going to go into cardiac arrest. I can remember getting embarrassed when my dad made a fuss about prices. Ha.

Marge - the older I get the more shocked I am about prices, perhaps I'm getting cheap in my old age... I remember paying over 100 bucks for jeans when I was a teenager. Now I just don't want to do it, partly I suspect it's because I want to be thinner and look better in clothes, whats the point in paying the high prices for clothes I don't even want to wear? On the plus side (no pun intended), I've been doing VERY good with my diet. This whole summer has been about others, it feels like I'm having time to take care of myself now. Josh's health is great, I need to encourage him to eat more veggies and fruit, but it's easy enough. My friends all seem to have either taken a step back, or managed not to need me every second of every single day.. in these past few weeks I've felt pulled in every direction with no time to sleep. Today I did some laundry, cleaned my house, painted my toe nails.. it was wonderful :) Sounds like you had a fun day as well. Whats for dinner? We are having pork chops, mashed potatos with roasted garlic, and stuffing. Mmmmm, my mouth is watering! I'm off to hurry this process up!

-Aimee

Mmmm. We're actually having the same thing tonight that we had last night, roasted chicken, sweet corn from the farmers market, salad, and we're splitting a baked potato.

I pooped out a little with the diet this summer. The bright side being I've been doing well with the exercise and have been slowly upping my routine at the gym.

Today was another beautiful day. Acutally kind of chilly in the morning. Lounged for most of the day, took a nap, read, watched a little tv. Nice and relaxing. Sounds like the both of us are catching up on some us time, Aimee :)

Gotta get fortified for Monday!

Luckily I have Monday off, sometimes it just feels wrong to work on a Monday to me. So I enjoy having them off, even if it means I work every Sunday. Sounds like you and I had a simular experience this summer... not enough me time. Time to recop before Christmas sneaks up on us... My family is already starting to make plans, can you believe it? Josh refuses to travel around Christmas, which means we either have to spend it apart, or I have to spend it with his family. *have* His family is totally messed up, they make it out to seem like Christmas is some big thing, meanwhile they BARELY get eachother anything, gift certificates, etc, and they do NOT wrap things!! It's in a bag, with a name tag... sad huh?

Alright, I gotta run.. my mom is on the phone!

-Aimee

I used to travel every Christmas to see family. It can be quite a zoo at JFK, it's such a huge airport.

I have to say it feels excruciatingly early to me to make any Christmas plans. On the other hand, I hate having to do all that holiday stuff at the last minute. Wasn't there a time when Christmas was fun instead of stressful??? Neither of our families fit that Rockwell holiday sensibility. It's probably more like what the opposite of that would be. You have to deal with what you have to deal with.

This year I resolve to not go so crazy with the Thanksgiving food. I love to cook and bake, but I need to find a good balance. Tough holiday for me! I think the more I plan ahead the better off I'll be.

Have a good one.

Thanksgiving is never really huge for me, for the most part I just skip it. Usually because I'm working, but it works to not have to spend Thanksgiving with Josh's family. Thats so mean, isn't it? But his Aunt is slightly crazy, and his Cousin forgot us at his wedding, so we literally had no where to sit... this is the cousin he grew up with! I don't know, I really value thoughtfulness, and it drives me crazy when I am around people who aren't like that!!

I do love Christmas, my family is all about buying thoughtful presents, and we all spoil eachother. It's not *always* about presents, however, I do love them! hehe ;)

Whats in store for you today? I've taken the garbage out, and made a strawberry banana, pineapple smoothie with ground flax seeds for that needed protein and good fats. I try to start my day off right everyday, the BEST breakfast I had was on Thursday... it makes my mouth water thinking about it. I had two cut up nectarines, they were organic and so much more sweet and tasty, and I put them on oatmeal.. no milk, no sugar. It was yummy! Afterwards I'm going to head to the mall and hang out with my friend for a few hours, I know I NEED to go for a walk, so I'll fit that in there somewhere. The sun is shining, gotta get some of that in before the rainy season starts here! Alrighty, I am off, have a great one!

-Aimee

Howdy, howdy...I'm finally having a day o' relaxation here and it feels GOOD. Sunday we were up early (for us) since we promised Howie's mom we'd go to church with her. Her church and another Assembly of God church in town merged and are now meeting together at her church's location. Her congregation was small and they were struggling, plus they had no pastor. The other church has been growing and has outgrown their building, plus lacked the handicap accessibility they wanted. So, this pastor is now leading a combined group. Seems a good move for both churches, pretty exciting.

But, ohhhh, it was early. LOL!

We've got the plane tickets purchased and the hotel room reserved. We'll be there Wednesday evening through around Noon Friday, when we fly back home. There's a 2+ hour layover in Detroit on the way home, so it'll be a long day. If it was non-stop, we'd have made it a later flight so we could maybe do a little sight-seeing.

One of Howie's old co-workers lives in the area with his wife and baby, and they're meeting us at the hotel Thursday night; we're going to Bertha's Mussels for dinner with them. It's fun to think we'll be at a restaurant we saw Rachel Ray visit on FoodTV. ;)

my brother usually gives a check and a book, the same book he buys for the entire family. and hello, I'm 41 years old, I don't need a check. not exactly a thoughtful gift giver!! once he gave us a bottle of liquor (instead of a book) that he'd obviously gotten from someone else and didn't want. What planet is he on? :lol:

One year I'd love to spend Christmas in Bavaria.... :)

I've been eating peaches like crazy this season. Had some blackberries from the local farmer's market yesterday that looked and tasted fantastic. I'm going to miss the summer fruit.

Have a good trip, Kimberley. Your pic is gorgeous, bwt.

Kimberley - have a safe trip! :) Keep us updated on Howie!

Marge - I miss summer fruit already :( Prices have gone up on them like crazy, stupid fall/winter! Your brother sounds funny, and like he needs a sister like me! I am always calling my brother at christmas bothering him to find out what he's getting for everyone. Giving him ideas too! How much is that cheque? ;)

I'm not meaning to brag or anything, BUTTTT!! I slept for 10 hours last night!!!! Can you BELIEVE IT?!?! My stomach has been bothering me again and I've been doing that barely sleeping thing.. but last night Josh told me to take Pepto Bismol, and it WORKED!! Which unfortunately means theres a PH imbalance in my tummy, but also means that there is JUST a ph imbalance in my tummy. I'll look at the 2 week plan my mom did, see what stuff I need and start that on my neck paycheque. Get all this stuff sorted out!

Well I gotta run to work, have a great day!!

-Aimee

Good morning :)

Kimberley--good vibes being sent your way from Northern Virginia today (I flew home from NC into BWI yeterday--I wonder if we were at the airport at the same time? :o )

Aimee--glad to hear your stomach isn't going to fall out and that it's just a ph imbalance ;)

Marge--lol I think we all know someone very much like your brother with gifts :p

I am so tired. The conference was booooooring--lots of information I will never use (since it all pertained to web stuff, and I have absolutely nothing to do with web page creation or maintenance). I did have fun each night after the conference, tough, because we went out with my old boss who lives down there now, and we had such a great time--you know, those dinners that last at least 3 hours because we can't stop talking :dizzy:

Well, plenty of work to keep me busy since I was out of the office for 3 days. Plenty of work to do to lose the weight from all the fre food they gave us, too (though I know, as per usual, it's mostly water and much of it will be gone in just a few days). I'm not going to go to my TOPS meting tonight for 2 reasns: #1, it won't be a true representation of my weight as compared to last week due to the junk from the conference, and it will only serve to depress me, and #2, I am plenty busy enough without going to my meeting! I know, I know, I'm a baaaaad TOPS member :devil:

I can't believe I started this September thread saying it's FALL -- forget it! It's hot and steamy here. I hate it. Rob's on jury duty today, so I'm afraid that will put him in a bad mood while it lasts, with maybe a couple of days of lingering effects... :o My last experience wasn't too bad, I got on a jury with people I liked and they kept letting us out after half a day. And the courthouse is in Brooklyn Heights, which is an interesting neighborhood.

Yeah, with my family it's always a good idea to keep your sense of humor -- add distance and your favorite mood lifter, and Houston, we've got a go! :lol:

Amy, glad you got the sleep and the stomach problem is getting solved. I don't think the summer fruit is going to stay cheap much longer. The farmer's market is starting to switch over to apples. Not that we buy all that much stuff from the farmer's market, ha. The store is about 1/3 the price. The FM is a treat.

Welcome back, Jill. Congrats on the editing job :) I like working at home. I've never worked in a restaurant, but I've seen how cranky customers can be, and I'm sure I haven't seen the worst that's out there.

I do think you'll drop in numbers fast once your back on program. I'm always amazed how much my numbers can go up an down after a treat day or vacation. I've dropped 3 lbs in ONE day before. Now, how is that possible?? my head was still connected.

Gotta get to work. Take it easy gals.

Jill - WB! And congrats on quitting Ruby's, it's going to be very exciting! I wouldn't go to TOPS either, so you are justified!! Josh was telling me about how the Cosmetics Manager in his store was sent to a "spa week" to go to trade shows, and do various other things to aid their company... it was in France!! Can you imagine? I think it would be fun to go ANYWHERE on business, just to get away for a little while. I was really born to travel..

Marge - the Farmer's Market's are SO SO much cheaper here, thats where we go to get cheap produce, and it helps that it always tastes better too. Josh and I were looking into getting local organic produce delivered to our house for 30 bucks a week, its a great idea, I just worry we wouldn't use it all. It's so foreign to me to not get along with family... well not entirely true.. but with my brother, mom, and grandma, I love spending time with them, call them, talk to them about everything and anything. Infact, since I've been feeling ill lately my brother is getting super protective and was asking me to come out to Seattle for a couple weeks to heal my body, he's so cute my brother! Wouldn't it be nice if I could just take that much time off.... ahhh dream world!

I have today off, and to be honest, I don't want to accomplish ANYTHING, but I don't think I can get away with that. I need to make a list of things that get done, and pick the most important and easy! hehe... have a great day gals!!

-Aimee