Hey guys.

Noelle I love the pic of Michael and Rick with the wind. That is so funny. Now I really want to head over there too.

Anige good attitude about the bloat. I try to keep those thoughts in my head when I am about to start. PMS usually kicks in and I turn into a big baby about everything. Joe told me the other night he would much rather me be *****y than all emotional. What a thing to hear from a man.

Dips it is so nice to see you again. I am gald to hear that you have a doc appt. I guess it is a good thing that you are not sick havning to wait 3 weeks. I usually will go to the nurse practitioner but I don't know if they would let me do that if something was wrong.

CW good to see you too! What part of CA are you in? We are heading over there for Christmas. My MIL live in Orange county and we go there every other year to see her. Boy, are those plane tickets high right now. I am almost tempted to say we are not going to get gifts for eveyone if we have to go out there. There is no way I am going to pay $800 for the flight and have to shell out more money just for presents.

Not much going on with me today. I went and got re-measured for a bra. I thought I was wearing the wrong size and I was. No wonder I was uncomfortable. Thank the Lord I didn't go up a cup size. I think I am big enough. It figures though, I was looking to get a few things for the house and I couldn't find a darn thing. I really need to go figure something to eat. It is a little harder now that I am doing Core.

Noelle I meant to ask youif you are watching Rockstar. I love that show. I guess I am more of a rocker girl than I thought.

Hi girls, we are just back from the City Council meeting regarding the condo project. The council voted for approving the measure 7 to 2.....phhhhhtttt So i guess there will be an eyesore of a building in my backyard. At least we tried. I feel so drained right now. Even though the vote didn't go our way, I am glad this part is over....some of the stress can go away for now.

cw, I wonder where i could find some endangered species that I could let loose on the land back there, hmmmm.... The fight's not over yet... I hope you are recuperating from your surgery really quick like and feel much better. Don't worry about scaring kids, they're pretty resilient

Kempy, I have watched a few episodes of Rockstar Supernova...just to get an eyeful of Tommy Lee, but i haven't really been following it too closely. That is funny about what Joe said about being *****y instead of emotional... I am always *****y (I think so anyway )

Hey Dips I know you will kick some major butt on your Labor Day challenge Good to know Niko is keeping ya motivated too.

Angie, hey girl, hang in there with Brit. She needs you more than she wants to admit. I hope she straightens out for ya. I would love it if you or Kempy or anyone would come out to Hawaii.... even if it was a neighbor island. I would definitely come out and try to see you guys and maybe play tourist with you.

I almost forgot, yesterday my dad and I were walking home from the Farmer's Market at the park... there's a neighbor's dog that is tied with a length of clothesline and when we passed by with Lucky (our dog) the dog just jumped right through a hole in the fence--his lead was so long he could reach out to the street! He nearly knocked my dad off his feet with the damn rope. I was screaming my head off to some kids at the house to pull him back in to their yard and they just stood their with their mouths open like dummies. The only thing they said was "that's not my dog".... I was SO PISSED! My dad just got out of the hospital a month and a half ago and he's not so steady on his feet anymore. I called the pound and made a lot of noise and a formal complaint. I hope this dog with his ignorant owners gets taken away from them. They do nothing for his welfare and don't seem to care for the problems he causes. I hate stupid pet owners! Ok, end rant....

hello to all...... be back to chat tomorrow.

Good Morning everyone!! I just took Rebbie for a walk. It is so hot out. Oh and my neighbor mowed his fields and the sides of the road so of course it drove the snakes out of the field and into the road. Yesterday there was a nice big one squished in the road. SO GROSS!!!

Cal, I mean to congratulate you on coming back from vacation with a weight loss!!! Too cool!! I will use you as my inspiration when I get to go on a vacation. YOU ROCK!!!! Especially since I am sure there was so much nice rich food over there. Did you guys get to spend alot of time with Alberto's family? I hope so.

Dips, Good luck with your appointment. I hope everything is alright. I am glad to hear that Niko is doing well as well. I was thinking about you guys the other day.

CW, OUCH! I hope you heal up soon and feel better. Boot camp sounds like a great idea. I seriously think it is a spoiled issue more than anything. She makes it into a game to get what she wants. I have no idea why she is doing it now because it never happened when they were little. That is okay though...we have decided that she is to get nothing but her basics until she starts to at least appreciate the things we have tried to do for her. She can get a job if she needs anything else. When my sister had had enough of her and told her to pack her stuff because she is moving back home she held her up for about an hour and then as they were leaving she looks at my sister and smiled and said "See, I always win" nice attitude huh? I love her to death but she is so hard to live with now.

Kempy, I only get *****y. I can tell I am going to start soon because I have been waking up wanting to beat people this week. I always tell Jay and Alicia that if I am *****y just pay no attention to me because I am going to start my period any day now.

How does Core work?

Noelle, I am so sorry that they voted for the project. Could they at least build one of those tall privacy walls to keep the noise down for you gys and to kind of seperate them from yours? What will that do to everyones property value? Jay really wants to come over and so do I. Maybe if I cant make it this year then next year we will save our vacation money and drop the kids at grammies house and go on a romantic vacation alone.

Has anyone heard from Cherie? She was buying a new house wasnt she? I wished they would all come back. Julie? Red? Hi guys!!

Hey ladies, not much going on with me right now....just working. This morning I went and filed the complaint at the pound about that dog incident the other day. I forced myself not to go and look at the dogs and cats, because I could spend hours playing with them. I had to get back to the office and get some bills paid.

Angie, I gotta give you credit girl, for going out there walking in the heat and braving SNAKES! I went to take the dog out yesterday evening and it was still so darn humid that my shirt was soaking through before I even got halfway. It was so gross! I can't wait for it to ease up. It was only 84 degrees yesterday but the humidity was so high it was more like 90. Today is slightly better. i'm staying in the office with my A/C on....

other than that, nothing much going on. Gotta get back to work!

Good morning girls!! Well, TOM came and the bloat left!!!! YEAH!!! But the cramps are so bad today. I know TMI!! Sorry.

Noelle, luckily we dont have any really big snakes or venomous snakes in Maine but a snake is a snake to me and they are all gross!!
My shirt did that a few weeks ago. I usually wear black on my walks because when I sweat it doesnt show as much. Well, that day I was wearing light pink and it was breezy out at my house(on top of a hill) so i talked Jay into going around town. At the end of the walk the sweat started to show on my chest and we had to walk by a house of people we know and they had company out in their garden right by the road. I was so embarrassed.

Well, I have to get moving today and maybe actually clean the house.

Hello Hello, just wanted to say good morning/afternoon to you all

Getting ready for work but just wanted to let you in on a little secret...
Bath and Body Works is having an awesome sale online (and maybe in their stores but we don't have any in Hawaii) on those wallflower fragrance plug-in and refill thingies? I bought a bunch of those for $6 each and some of my favorite body wash, the "Breathe" line for only $5 each. Check it out, you may find something you like. Have a good one.

Hello my girls. So as I've been sweating it out waiting for my doctor's appt. thinking of all kinds of things that could be wrong with me [because nobody just has a 4-month long period for nothing] I finally got to see her. As soon as she props me up on the infamous "chair" and takes a peek inside immediately she says, "Oh! there's the problem." So all my mind allowed my ears to hear was "problem" and all I could think was cancer, disease, kemo the whole nine. So I'm like WHAT and she says, "You have a Pollop (sp)"
What the **** is that? She explained that it's a growth of tissue that suddenly forms at the top of the uterus but my special one managed to wedge itself into my cervix (hence the constant bleeding) so while a normal cervix is opened the size of a pencil, mine was big enough to push a thumb through. Eeeeew So she takes it out (smoth procedure, didn't feel a thing ) She shows it to me. The thing is the size of a grape! But she says I'll be back to normal now so all is well. She said that because of the size though, she's gonna send it to the lab to see if it's cancerous. (Great, more waiting and worrying for two more weeks)
But for now I am sooooo relived to be done with this thing. Do ya know how much money I've spent on pads!

DISCLAIMER: Please forgive me if this is TMI but I feel as women we should alwys let one another know what's out there so we're all aware

Angie- You are so much better than me. I hate working out in the hot weather. The cool thing about dogs is that they don't seem to care one way or the other. Good for you on braving the sweat and stares and going forward despite it all. Personally I like the sweating point. To me it shows I'm working and not prancing around trying to be cute. Work that sweat girl!

BTW Send Brit to my family for a week. I think that should do the trick if all else fails

Noelle- Thanks for the tip on BBW. I love perfumy stuff! I hear ya on the dumb *** dog owners. I would have done the same as you after beating somebody down first. Glad your dad is okay.

CW- You poor dear. I give you props for going out though. I am way to vain to be seen with bandages. You are a trooper and what a cool hubby you have.

Hi Kempy!- After my visist to the doc I realize tha women go through too much for guys to care if we're whiny, *****y or anything in between for what we have to endure each month!

TTYL

Dips, PHEWWWW!!! I am so glad to hear that you are okay. I am also glad that it didnt hurt to have removed. My sister had to have surgery for those on her insides. She hasnt had any problems since the surgery though so that is good. I will keep my fingers crossed for the lab tests to come back okay too.

Good morning!!! It is Weigh Day again!!! I am happy to say that even though a few days ago I was all bloated up before my period started but I ended up being down 1.1 pounds!!! YEAH!!

YAY ANGIE

Look how far you've come! My gosh girl, you are just melting away. You are doing so well.

A friend of mine works at a hospital and was telling me that she saw a patient with one of those things in her throat!! DAYUM! Can you imagine? Cancer doesn't run inmy family on either side so I'm not really worried. Then again, I don't know any of them who had a pollop either.

Hey girls, how's your Saturday going? I just got back from taking Michael to see "Monster House", it was kind of scary (for little kids), but we loved it. He also had his school orientation this morning. The school had a mini-exodus of teachers at the end of the school year (both 1st grade teachers, both 2nd grade teachers and some of the higher grade levels left), so Michael gets a brand new teacher. She seems really nice though--she's originally from NY state, but married to a Hawaii guy. Been in Hawaii for the past 6 years so she should be pretty well acclimated by now. I hope it'll be a good school year without any major problems Our church had a grand reopening too, just remodeled to accommodate 700+ people at a time. It was such a beautiful job too.

Dips, I am so glad you got that sneaky ole polyp removed. I totally know what you went through--the 4 mos. period.... yuck, I had the same thing at the end of last year. My doc (a she) referred me to a specialist and had him do all kind of invasive tests, but he said everything was OK. She said she detected some polyps in me as well, but they were just little ones . I will be praying for ya (in our brand new church) that everything is just normal with you, nothing cancerous or anything. My OB/GYn said that in women my age (and for you being MUCH younger), stuff like that is RARELY cancerous, so keep that in mind

Angie, YOU GO GIRL!!! You are doing so awesome!!! I went walking with my sis the other evening and my ankle went out on me again. It takes me about 3 days to recover everytime I screw it up so I'm sort of out of commission right now. I am hoping to be back on my feet by Monday!

Well, gotta run. I've got cousins passing through town with an entourage of 13 people. Lots to do before they get here! Ciao!

I think I am finally over the jet lag completely; I have been sleeping until 6 the past couple of mornings. Don't want to get used to sleeping any later because school will start soon.
Next week we can go into the school to meet the new administrators. We will have a new principal and asst principal. I'm just hoping that they have already hired the new 7th grade teachers; I would hate to begin the year without a math and/or science teacher.
We hit a record yesterday...118F (49C) degrees was the official high. We haven't seen temps that high since 1995. I guess we left Europe at the right time; they've been having some scorching temps there also.

Angie: You are doing so well. I hope things work out well with Brit. You are in my prayers. As for the weight loss...you are AWESOME!!! Keep up the good work, you are an inspiration to me.

Dips: You are also in my prayers. I'm sure everything turn out for the best for you. I have a different problem (if you want to call it that) TOM only visits me 2-3 times a year for 3-4 days. I told my cousin about that and she was happy hoping that "the change" was close. She is only 9 months younger than me. I told her I'm enjoying this right now. My doctor said I'm not starting the change, but at 47 I'm sure it is starting. I don't mind, I'm ready!!

Noelle: Ashley will have 'Meet the Teacher Night' about a week before she goes back to school. Last year they didn't have it until 2 weeks AFTER school started. It will be nice to meet the teacher before classes start. At my school, we have it on Aug 3. I look forward to meeting the parents and some of the students. I actually act stern even then so the kids will dread coming to my class and be nervous to have me as their teacher.
By the way, your pictures were awesome. I showed them to Ashley and she wanted to know when we could go, but she didn't want to go to the lava because it's too hot. When she saw your picture, she said 'I know her, she was at Disneyland'.

Hello to everyone else. I hope everything is going well for everyone.

Cal

Good Morning!! Jay took today off from his Mom's place so i am spending the day with him. Not much to report here.

Dips, I bet that if you had one in your throat you would feel irritation from it. OUCH!

Cal, When does school start for you? My kids dont go until the 28 of August.

Noelle, How is the boat coming along?

Kempy, How is Core treating ya?

I think I have another stray cat at my house. I wonder why they all pick my house. He is all black and he is a little skinny guy.He looks pretty young to me and I have never seen him before so I am thinking maybe someone dumped him. I have been feeding him but he wont let me get near him. When I go outside he runs out under the fifth wheel and watches me. He scarfs the food down when I leave though. Poor cats. People suck sometimes!

Well, I should really go do something constructive today. I hope everyone has a great day and you all get a chance to post today.