Good Morning
Just got back from my morning Jog....That sounds so weird comming from me! I've never been a morning person...or a jogging person till recently (I'm still very slow :tread: ). I shudder to think about this fall when I'll have to be up and literaly running at 6am if I want to keep up with it. When I was still in my college town (I only graduated 3 weeks ago :cb: ) I would go on jogs at 9 or 10 pm and I loved it. But somehow I don't think late night running would be such a good idea in Harlem :nono: so I've switched to mornings! :sunny:

Hope you feel better Michelle!

Bep - nice work with the WATP, I heard that a lot of people really like those and get a lot out of them

<eyes roll >.............my co worker - grrrrrrrr- I had papers in the copy machine and he stops to look and says "something I need to sign??"

No, dip...the world revolves without you......ugh - he is just so in my face all the time. He needs to moooooooove on - has been here too long.

*sigh*

Hi Michelle!! Ain't he cute?? Heck yes!! lol....I am looking at a place this afternoon, close to sitter. It is small though but thought I would at least look inside. There is a place up on OC too that I might call on......Like your avatar too! It is good to have you check in!! Susan/ Scuzin lives in Gladstone - we should all get together before she moves back east!!!!

Susan - :bravo: on the jogging!!! I can't do that - hurts my knees and I jiggle too much. I like walking though. :D

I had a ham omlete for breakfast - so good and lots of coffee!! Enjoyed chatting with this one lady co worker - kind of a mom type - and she is so funny. I enjoyed that.....better get to work!!

Yippeeeeeeeee skippy...I have broken out in the hives big-time. :P I don't know how though. I haven't had any medicines or weird foods. This morning I ran to the local grocery store with the kids for a couple things. I stopped at a couple garage sales on the way there. When I got back, my ankle started to itch a bit. I thought I had been bitten. Pretty soon, I noticed the 'bite' was spreading and thought maybe whatever had bitten me was still in my pants so I changed but couldn't find a spider or anything like that. Within the hour, my whole calf was swollen and itching and was covered in hives. Now, both of my legs are swollen and itching and covered with hives. My back is starting to itch now so I think whatever it is is headed there next. I don't have any adult benadryl so I took some children's benadryl just now. I hope it helps...I am going to crawl out of my skin pretty soon here. When I stopped at those garage sales I wasn't in any tall grass or anything like that so I have no clue what happened.

Have a horse pee on the rash Bep! :bravo: jk

Sounds painful!! You should go have it checked out at the doctors!! I would - just to be safe.

OK - I just had a big post and lost it ..grrr

shorthand
Bep - calamine and baking soda baths
Susan/ NYC - Yay on jogging - I can't jog to save my life, well, maybe for that, but not much else
Michelle - Yay -you're back - yeah I'm too busy
Jules - I check the BB board on Survivor Sucks...there's good live feed recaps there. Do you think Dani is a goner? They were good noms, IMO. Janell rocks

Susan/PDX - good luck with the househunting - GS is such a nice community.

Hi to Shawna, Cristina, Sassy..and everyone else!

Kids had friends over this morning, now we are hanging out and recuperating :P DS' friend got pissy with me over the TV. He brought a video (!) and got miffed when I told him ( 3 times mind you) that we don't watch TV during the day. Then he waited til I was outside with the little ones to put it on anyway...THEN he tried to make it sound like I told him he could do it...grrrr Well, his mom dealt with him when she picked him up and he apologized quite nicely....so all is well. But really - is there a show somewhere called "Playdates Gone Bad" that I could submit this to? Classic.

Have a great afternoon everyone.

Katy There is this nice place for $715 a hundred more (I pay 615 now) but has a garage and w/d and is 100 sq feet extra! My mom said no....*sigh*.....I need to learn to budget,,,,,,how boring.lol
Anyway, I was given a van from my fathers *estate* and was thinking of giving up my car ($180 payment) but again my mom said no........"you can't give up a Toyota!!".........ummm, ya I was,,,,,just a car....and it is making a horrible sound. Though I heard someone say they filled up their van for $58!! My Toyota is 23....

anyway, have the munchies.......maybe I will escape and go to Trader Joes....and I agree Katy...I couldn't jog to save myself...:p

Michelle I would be too lazy for a townhouse! lol
I lived in one a month before I was promoted and the bathroom (only 1!) was upstairs. If I was downstairs and felt the urge I would stand there at the bottom looking up on all the stairs and think........"do you really need to go??" ugh........I am soooo lazy! lol
I have a downstairs now. I think it is pretty nice for the price. Outside is a nice grassy area with the pool. I think the manager who lives next door and myself have the nicer units.
anyway - blah blah....my mom went and looked at one place that I thought was cute but when I talked with her she said they were dumpy........<roll eyes>
Isn't it weird we don't agree on anything?? I should stop asking her....lol.......omg! I just talked to him...he said $550 with the hardwood floors or $575 if he puts in carpet! What a deal!....I can see it Monday....yay...

T.g.i.f.
 

Hiya Chickies...

Meant to get on yesterday and try to keep up but it just didn't happen. Grocery shopping and errand running day plus I had to stain a little more. For now we are done with the pergola (patio cover). We still have the side to do but we got the main part up so it is going to wait. This thing kicked our butts for sure.

HI and :welcome: SUSAN...glad to have ya here and looking forward to getting to know you. NYC eh? I always thought it would be a cool place to live...I like how they walk everywhere-but heard it is expensive to live there. Glad you have family there. I have always wanted to jog, just can't right now. I do hope to work my way there one day...jogging that is.

SUSYQ...I like your nn and your siggy and your newest avatar! Think this one is the best. Happy house/apt. hunting! Hope you find the perfect place for you and the girls. I told V what you said...he laughed. Of course I am done staining for now. And :thanks: I should actually have walked more miles but took breaks in between...especially this week. Can't ever get anything done when the hubby is home. But yeah, this was supposed to be sort of a vacation for him. It wasn't actually his vacation but rather the company had shut down. HE said he can't wait until Monday so he can go back to work and get some rest, lol! :lol: I have kept him busy with my honeydo list...although the pergola has taken up most of that time. Who would have thought it would take this long to build one? Not me...

SHEL...the Kia Optima's are nice...saw some when I went with DS looking for a car for him. When i first saw a Honda Element I thought those things were the ugliest things I have ever seen! But now they have grown on me and I think they are cute little vehicle's. And as Katy said, Honda's are good cars. I know several people who have honda's and they love them...they are dependable cars. Two of them were toyota owner's for many years before switching over to the honda. Hope you knee is okay.

KATY...you'll have to show us before and after pix of your house. I would love to see the new colors! They sound really nice...of course I am partial to green. If you don't like green you really don't want to come to my house, lol. Glad Leigh managed to get an a.m. slot at her new preschool. I hope she likes the new one better.

JULES...you sound like me! I too wasn't close to my parents and I vowed that my kids would always know that I love them, always. And that I will always be there for them. V knew when we married that my kids will always come first. It may sound mean but that's the way it is and he has accepted that. He knows I love him. We decided to go have lunner instead of dinner. I hate crowds and dinner on a Friday night?? Ugh! Lunner is my word for late lunch/early dinner. When I first said that V looked at me like what the heck are you talking about woman?! :dizzy: We went at 3:00 today and it was perfect...there were a few people there but it was very nice. Normally when he is home for this long we get on each other's nerves after a a day or two, lol. But I must say this week has been very nice.

BEP...you better watch it missy...I think Jules and SuzyQ are closing in on who you are and where you live, lol. Anyway, I hear ya! With DH home this past week my eating and exercising hasn't been the greatest, the water either. But I am getting back on track...thanks for sharing the pictures of your babies...you son is a handsome little guy but you DD is adorable! I love them when they are that age...not sure what age she is, she looks to be about 1 1/2-2...but so cute. I too do the WATP and love them. I have to say though...during the summer/spring months I mostly walk outdoors, and do some, very little treadmill walking. But come winter time when it's cold and windy...that is when the WATP videos come out. I'll do them every other day just to mix it up.

SHAWNA...I enjoy looking back in pictures also. Some days I will pull out the photo albums (and I have lots) and will spend hours looking at them with the kids-we laugh so much. And yeppers, your grandma was right....time goes by too fast and the kids grow up waaaay too fast! Glad you got all the boxes emptied.

MICHELLE...glad to see you are here missy. We don't want to see you go. I am finished with the staining for now...but there will be more later, not near as much this time though. When i get the film developed I will share the photos of what we did. But I am free for a while and can get back to the computer daily again. I hope you get to feeling better soon. You've had a rough time lately it seems with the migraines and now your stomache. :hug: I don't know about onderland this WI...maybe the next one in two weeks. This hasn't been the greatest week for me eating/exercise and water wise. I did get some water in and the four bottles on some days but not like I should have. But I am getting back on track.

KATHY...hope all is well with you and yours. We miss you lady!

Okay, I hope I didn't miss anyone. You ladies have been posting like crazy. I agree with you Katy about the size of the group/thread...when it is too big I too have a hard time keeping up. And miss a day? :yikes: watch out. Takes me forever to get everything read. I try not to miss too many days but sometimes it can't be avoided. Anyway...hope everyone had a GREAT Friday! See ya tomorrow :wave:

GGGRRRR

I also had a nice long post catching up with everyone and it is gone. Why oh why does that happen?

Anyways hello to everyone.

Sister Susy, I will keep mom busy while you go and check out places. And excuse me, where did your beautiful picture go?

Cristi you will need a vacation after DH goes back to work. Are the kids helping you guys at all?

Michelle, I hope that you are feeling better. Have you been having any problems sleeping at all? I read that is a cause of migranes.

Katy, you have just come up with a great new reality show. There is probably some really bad playdates that have gone on. What do you have planned for the kids for the summer?

Susan from NYC hello to you. Do you get paid anything for your volunteering? Or do you have to come up with all your spending money also?

Jules I am glad that you are getting so much practice with your kids. Now when you are done here, you can come and visit me and help us out.

Shawna hope all went smoothly in your move, and that you get a few days to relax before you have to go back to work.

Sassy isn't it great to have time all to yourself at home? I think I will try and take a day off next week so that I can do that.

Sorry if I missed anyone.

Had a real crappy week at work once again. Makes it 3 weeks in a row. I am almost thinking that I need a new job. Cole sprained his ankle a couple days ago. He is really quite heavy and it is getting hard to have to carry him around all the time. I am watching Whose Line is it Anyway. I really have a good laugh whenever I watch it.

Well I will run now and put a certain little guy to bed.

Chat later

Kathy

Sissy Kathy!!! My goodness - took you a whole week to find us!! I am so glad to see you post! I am in love with Napoleon......geeky nerds are hot in bed, didn't you know that?? Gosh.....
My nephew who is 4 broke his leg, he gets around in a wheelchair - they were carrying him everywhere - now they let him fend for himself. How much does Cole weigh?? Gaby is 52 now

Michelle - I think I said "what do you think" and she said "it looks like a dump"...lol Personally I think where she lives is a dump but I would never say that. My whole family is like that - very opinionated. My one sister (not you Kathy) gives opinions on child raising & relationships.....though she has no children and has never been in a serious relationship. lol.....anyway, I love the dump!!! I went by tonight and it is one of the better units with extra windows in the kitchen and living room - because it is an end unit with a back door and a little side yard with a pretty tree and it is so close to everything ....I like the idea of hardwood floors and area rugs - especially with Gaby.

Hi Cristi - Tell Vince I am the same way.....can't wait til Monday and work so I can rest!!! What is nn?? You probably burned calories staining. You have done so good in the walking - very inspired!!! :)

Shel- What are you up to this weekend???

Bep - Hope you are getting relief from the rash!!

Shawna - hi :) You ever get the girls boxes unpacked???

I am going to sleep, so tired. Chat later....

Arrr! I'm bored out of my mind :dz:
Its Friday night and I'm siting at my parent's computer :stress: I can't wait to move, 40 days and counting!

Ate a little too much in the way of dessert and bread throughout the day, but its hard when living with people who eat either hot dogs, grilled cheese, or take out every night...these are my parent's! what ever happened to home-made meals and vegatables? All the kids left four years ago (I'm the youngest of 5) so I guess they don't feel they have to worry about it any more.

As for the volunteer program, Kathy, I get a house to live with other volunteers, we get food covered and a small personal stipend to cover personal items or movies or whatever. Other than that...nuthin'! We are supposed to commit to living on what is provided and not use savings accounts or rack up credit card bills or anything like that.

lol - cute Susan. I have a wonderful 4 1/2 year old that will keep you busy. We are hanging at the dog park tomrrow - you are always welcome to join us.
What did you have for dinner??? How far do you jog?? I meant to ask that earlier.

I had rice a roni for dinner...not the best but it is my favorite. I also had some veggies chips from Trader Joes.....salad sounds good for tomorrow~

k - night :hug: :hug: :hug:

Hey Ladies! ;)

Sorry this is going to be a "quickie" I hope that doesn't leave anybody feeling cheated. lol.

Knee is better! :thanks: for all your kind concerns and get well vibes! ;)

Calling on Monday to schedule a sleep study done. Hub said I've been snoring bad lately and last night I guess I quit breathing once. He has sleep apnea and has already had a sleep study done & has a machine.

I'm just working this weekend. (I work every weekend. lol) I did enjoy my time alone on Wed. that doesn't happen a lot. lol.

I bought a Walking Away the Pounds DVD, not exactly that brand, but the same concept, so I will try it and see. ;)

I guess that is about it for now.

Have a Great Night/Morning and Weekend! :D