Hi everyone
Sorry I haven't posted in awhile just been very busy and hard to get on the computer when everyone else needs on.
Wow the weather here has been awful. A little better today but all our schools are closed one of the major road ways is still closed it has been closed since yesterday morning. All the county roads are to be considered closed. I worked yesterdat and it was crazy there trying to make sure we had staff for all our shifts and making sure people who couldn't get home had places to stay. My daughter and grandson couldn't get home and my husband had to stay at a friends house as well. Im heading out this morning to blow the driveway because I can't get my car out.
Last night was weighin night needles to say didn't happen because I couldn't leave town to go to my meeting. I had a good week so I think I did fine next week should be good if I have a good week again this week. Well got to run the snow is calling my name.
Hi all just lurking around...seeing what everyone is up too. Sounds like people are stressed and the winter has gotten people down. Just rem spring will be coming and the birds and the fruits we love with be out in the stores! So there is hope!
Just hang in there...dont be in dispear..just rem we are all trying our hardest...and sometimes our there are pit stops ....but if it was all so easy then there would be nothing to feel proud of. If you eat bad...doesnt mean its over...thats the beauty of weight. It can be taken off....thank god!!
SO anyways im doing ok. Always battling and trying my best..working out and trying to eat healthy. However this weekend was my moms bday and i had some really good birthday cake with no regrets cause i have today to work it off along with the so many weeks!! And i am working it off...
Sister's surgery was successful. Mass was benign. Yay!
Don't think I congratulated you yet on new wheels (sometimes read posts in backward order due to time). I hate to go through the car purchase thing but just love driving a new one. I too had that kind of night. Woke at 3:20 from a dream I knew was a dream but didn't like anyway. Could not sleep so downstairs at 4:00. Two slices of raisin toast about 5:30 and a bowl of cereal about 10:30. I can see me being off schedule all day.
Also hope you're feeling better, Empress. And you as well, Arabella. Glad you had a successful party.
Well, my bad day just got worse (and it's not even lunchtime here yet!!)
I just got a call from my boss who chewed me out for something and I have no idea what she's talking about!! All I could do is say Ok, I won't do that anymore. Apparently yesterday I sent an important email and she's bent because I left someone off. So I sent it to that person this morning after I talked to them. She said what I sent this person and what she got where 2 different things. NO!!! All I did was hit forward on what I sent in the first place. It's immpossible for it to be different. She insists I doctored the email. WHAT THE *F* EVER LADY!!!
Then she has my manager go into our conference room for a phone conference (my boss and manager are 2 different people; both bosses, just I report to the manager who is always here. The boss is always offsite.) I know it was about me. I'm SOOO fed up here. I'm sure you guys have heard me before. But I'm scared to leave because I heard it was bad to do that if you were trying to buy a house (as we are trying to by my fiance's parents house by june or july) I also heard it's not so bad if you get a job that actually pays more. So I'm torn. I don't think I can get a job that pays more at this time. I was thinking about going to work for Molly Maids. Anyone ever worked for them? No nights or weekends!
Ok, I guess I'll get back to work. Thanks for letting me continue to rant today
Anagram, So glad your sister's okay. What a relief that it's over, huh?
Arabella, thanks for sharing your menu ideas. I'll let you know what I decide--samosas will definitely be on the menu though. Hmmm, I wonder if whole wheat tortillas would be a good fake for chapattis? [Oh, and I'm feeling tons better, thank you!]
Ceara, that might have been me doing 4 miles on the treadmill. It takes me about 54-58 minutes to do it and I'm really hoofing it then. And if you're new to treadmilling and going at a 3.9 mph pace you're doing amazingly well!
Frogger, Breathe, girl! You're right--you're having a horrible day. It's got to get better--hold that thought!
Welcome back to a few of you!!!
Believe me, I know life get's busy - Il totally understand - just know that you were missed
Dollar - I'm so sorry about the winter you're having, when out here it's sunny and bright. We've had a pathetic, wimpy winter - it snowed *one time* months ago. Completely abnormal.... and then places like where you are are just getting blasted. Stay warm and be careful out there!
Scooby - Yes! Spring is coming! Of course so many people here already have bulbs popping up (confused flowers). I too am looking forward to the fruits, longer days and less clothes (not that I'm runnin' around nekkid on May 1st, but'cha know what I mean??).
Frogger - You rant all you need. I have a co-worker/friend going through something similar. Nothing he does is right for his bosses - even when it's what they ASKED him to do. It's got to be frustrating for you. Just remember.... breeeeeeathe..... then at them!
Anagram - for your sister!!!! *whew* what a load off huh? Thank goodness that came out ok for her...
Yes, I love the new wheels, the smell, etc. It rides like a dream - I'm actually looking forward to my drive to California next month! (but not so much the plane ride though!).
Eydie, Eydie, Eydie.... you've created a monster . I've spent every freakin' second of my spare time reading a story on Fanfic. Completely far fetched - and completely engrossing! It's become new "escape reading" for me.
Ok, all, time to go do some work (who am I kidding, time to go surf n' kill time)
Torn between taking nap or dying hair a fascinating new color of RED before the school bored meeting. Nap will likely win, hair can wait! Day going well dietwise ... inspired by the Dr. P show yesterday showing how one can have a healthier meal less expensively than buying high calorie choices (the guest was from the Phoenix area, as they hooked her up with the Valley of the Sun YMCA at the end of the segment). So I cooked and froze some frozen chicken, corn and cherry with D'Vinci sf syrup meals at 315 calories, almost NO fat. Very good. Old Dog thought so, too!
Frogger: It is not a good idea to leave a job right before trying to get a mortgage, but if you do so, make sure you go right into another job with no off time AND make sure the new job is in the exact same field as the old job and, yes, pays more money so that you can say you left the old job because the new one pays more. That is the only scenario that makes sense to mortgage companies and bankers!!! (Not meaning any disrespect to bankers or mortagee company employees if any are reading this or are one of our stalwart Victorious Valentines!)
Sounds like your boss is an idiot (to make no bones about it) and therefore, unworthy of your giving her the power to make you stressed. Eydie is right, just breathe in and breathe out and think of lovely pink valentines floating gently up to nestle among fleecy lace clouds in a marble-blue sky!
Anagram: Hoorah for thy sister in getting through the procedure and having it all come out good! I know thou must all be relieved. CONGRATULATIONS ON THY DOWNWARD TREND!!!
Scooby!!! Good to see thee (in the virtual sense, of course)!!! Thou be right, the weight will come off and we will all succeed ... and a bit of birthday cake be a GOOD thing ... fires the metabolism!!!
Dollar: Glad thou came in from the cold also ... although it soundeth as if the cold be with thee in thy homeland as well. It's a bit on the cool side here today, but nothing like thou be suffering through! Stay warm!!!
Punkin: Sorry thou be also under the weather ... maybe thou can come home early? Mmmmm, scones!!! (Homer voice!)
Kayletsi: Thou hast cited my absolute favorite of all time Joseph Campbell quote!!! "Follow thy bliss!" ... indeed. What a lovely man he was.
Sword Bearer: Thou be a font of inspiration for poor Elbertine Pep! Thankee for thy stalwartness!!! Congratulations also on thy gym consistency!!!
Ah joy! For the second time this week I have managed to get in an outdoor walk (about 30 minutes each). Not great but more than I've been able to do for months. And today it was just about freezing when I did it. But I feel SOOOO much better for it. And I had a nap, Empress, so I know why that would win and will probably help you stay awake during the bored meeting. So embarrassing to nod off when covering such interesting people.
Dietician at clinic says I can give dh a little spag sauce with his meatballs and pasta this evening. Not much but she's hoping to perk up his appetite a bit. I'm getting the impression I've been holding to his prescribed nutrition just a mite too tightly - that is I've been following the directions but then here and there they'll say "well, he needs thus and so" so maybe I'm gonna loosen the noose and bit and do a bit of common sense changes now and then so he actually gets more nutrition by eating food than having them add stuff during dialysis. At least until he's tested again later this month. Then if we need to tighten totally, we do.
Anyway, today was a better day. Don't know if it was the good news about my sister, the walk, the sunshine, dh driving himself to dialysis or all of the above. But it was better. also am more convinced than ever about that little come and go bug. Neighbor was telline me that he and coworkers have had something similar. So now no need to beat me up over that.
Sale on chicken tenders so stocked up a bit. Always good for a quickie meal on the Geo Foreman. Feel like dancing - just no partner. Spring, spring, spring, spring. (After VD and St. Patrick's challenges, of course.) With any kind of luck, maybe I can break the 200 by Independence Day - first I've looked that far ahead poundwise. getting cocky.
Wow seems like forever since i posted here, well still in school lots of assingments and stress to go with it . but im there, have three writing papers due in a week. my head hurts but i missed you all, so i just spent the last 30 minutes reading up on all the posties i missed. cant beleive how you guys can talk.lololol
thanks for the interest in my schooling, and hello to all i missed you . i have also been fighting depression with medicine its a bummmer but i cant fight it off. look at the world/???? how am i suppose to think of my future and war at the same time??? its very scary to me. i keep focusing on God and i dont know what the future holds but he does, i have to think positive, but it s hard somtimes. i worry about everything. well i have to take my son to church hes in awanas, kinda like bible school, seee ya later..
love to to you all and God bless ....later and lighter senamay....
We are back on!! Only one computer at a time but at least we have resolved part of the problem. And since DH is still recovering, he isnt that interested so here I am.
How nice to be missed!!
I also send my daily thought to by email and have heard from a number of folks wondering where I had gone.
Honestly, it does seem like blue moon as it seems everything that could go wrong is....lost a brand new remote starter for my car ( it was just installed Sat!), am getting calls at work regarding things that on the second reading are being interperted the opposite of how I processed them... and then finding out 3 hrs later I was right in the first place.... I called to check on something and was told they hadnt recvd it so I spent 2 hrs embarrassing myself by calling many other contacts asking if maybe I sent it to them... we were almost to the point of telling the client when I called the first place back again to double check...and spoke w/ someone else who took 5 minutes but when they came back told me..." Yes, that was filed w/ the state this morning".........Wonder when the first person was going to call me back to let me know they found it after all??
And did I mention the computer???
Ah well.........whaddya gonna do.......
How does that song go... "Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug!"........
Anagram--Hooray!! For your sister. of course!!
And I think its a good sign that DH 's menu can be "beefed up"
I envy your walks outside-- I was thinking how good a walk would feel.... I think I'd leave footprints though!!
Aramantha: A new hair color?? sounds interesting.....
QVC showed a smoothie machine on Sunday for about $39.00-- With a spigot... is that where you found yours? I thought you said Wmart but I couldnt find one there....
Senamay-- GOOD FOR YOU sticking with school-- Hope the meds start working soon and making a difference for you.
Frogger-- Sounds like your day(s) and mine are mirror images.
Maybe if you offer to have someone else send the email they recvd from you to the person, then they will realize its the exact same email. Just a thought.
I checked out Merry Maids one time. Around here, its just a dollar or so above minimum wage.
Scoobysnacks- hey there stranger! Have you recovered from your surgery?? TELL ALL!!!
Dollar-- Amazing how cold some of these days have been!! And I wont even say that you should be used to it!! We are supposed to be heading back to the low low numbers tomorrow. Too bad I lost my remote car starter already!
Eydie: I have to go back and see what Fanfic is!! I am intrigued!
Punkinseed: Well look at you in a NEW CAR!! ( Announcers voice from Price is right) very very nice. And what's with saying 4 scones but not saying what kind of scones ---- the new Dunkin Donuts ones? or homemade.....
Arabella-- Is month end finished?? were you not feeling well too?
how is DGS?? still trying to best Houdini?? Is your DH back from his trip?
Storm warnings for early this evening to last all night!!
Here's something I thought most of you would enjoy....
"I hate my job" days... a therapy!
> >
> >When you have an "I hate my job" day try this:
> >
> >On your way home from work, stop at your pharmacy and
> >go to the thermometer section. You will need to purchase a
> >rectal thermometer made by "Johnson and Johnson."
> >Be very sure you get this brand.
> >
> >When you get home, lock your doors, draw the curtains,
> >and disconnect the phone so you will not be disturbed
> >during your therapy. Change to very comfortable clothing,
> >such as a sweat suit and lie down on your bed.
> >
> >Open the package and remove the thermometer. Carefully
> >place it on the bedside table so that it will not become chipped
> >or broken. Take out the material that comes with the
> >thermometer and read it. You will notice that in small print
> >there is a statement: "Every rectal thermometer made by Johnson
> >and Johnson is personally tested".
> >
> >Now close your eyes and repeat out loud five times: "I am so glad I do
>not
> >work for quality control at the Johnson and Johnson Company."
> >
> >Have a nice day and remember... there is always
> >someone with a worse job than yours.
Sometimes you just have to "grin and bear it" in more ways than one, my lovelies.
Did I mention last Saturday that I bought myself a Ceramic teapot for the stove. With a whistler in the lid? The top is large enough yoiu can fit your hand in w/ a sponge which is nice. Sure beats the sauce pan I was using to heat up water!!
PS- Did I mention that DH and I found the Misto Pump I've mentioned before at BJ's?? The price was aprx the same as what we paid but at BJ's it comes as a "gift pack" boxed w/ a bottle of olive oil. So its a better value. I'm thinking I'll give a friend one as she already loves olive oil but still uses those sprays.
Need to stop and get water on the way in to work so....
Today's thought is:
"If someone shows you how they are, believe them' --- Maya Angelou
That reminds me of another story that I've been sworn to secrecy about (surely that doesn't apply to online friends? ) Here goes: a couple of years ago, DH was having some test procedures and had to have a couple of enemas before he went to the hospital. I bravely offered to administer, because I knew it would be a little awkward for self-administration. Well, we lived in a little cabin in the woods then, down a long lane, and nobody ever came to the door. It was a warm summer morning, about 7 a.m. so I didn't close the door. DH assumed the position, and I did my duty. About 5 minutes afterwards, there was a VERY loud knock on the side of the screen door, some guy coming to see if we would like some of the wood on our property cut down. Because of the loudness of that knock, I couldn't help but wonder if he hadn't been at the door a few minutes earlier and snuck away until he figured the deed was done (and perhaps had stopped laughing).
Whew! At last the story can be told!
DH is back from the last trip, but leaves again on Friday, returns Tues. or Wed. and leaves again Sunday for another week. And then may be off again soon for a couple of weeks, depending on whether or not his co. gets a job they've bid on. A good thing came of all this travelling though, in that I do appreciate him a little more than I did, and came to realize that I don't totally love it when he's gone, don't totally enjoy being by myself. Trade-offs either way, I guess. And when you get used to one, it's hard to do the other. Live with 'em or without 'em, I mean.
Still ill, although a bit better each day. Trying to take it a bit easy.
Can't respond to everyone individually right now, although I'd like to. Thinking about all of you! Let's take this day and do the best we can with it. Love to all.
Actually, I'm already having a better day. I suddenly decided to weigh in this morning and I am down 2lbs (now I'm 230). I have hit my mini goal already for the Valentines Challenge!!! I can't believe it. I don't think I could have met my goal though without being sick with the stomach flu last week. That's really bad to say, I know. But moving on. I'm very happy considering I at 2 egg mcmuffins for breakfast, at lunch, had 2 goo goo clusters and a big n'tasty in the afternoon, AND had 2 grilled cheese sandwhiches and a cereal bowl of salad for dinner. Man was I a yesterday. It was all stress. Today I WILL do better.
So far I have eaten a bowl of honey bunches of oats w/almonds and added half a snack box of raisins to it. I'm thinking of switching to a higher fiber cereal like bran flakes and adding my raisins. For some reason, I'm on a raisin kick. Maybe my iron is low or something. I want raisins in my cereal, I want raisins for a snack in the afternoon. Gotta have them!
Anyway, finally got a minister who said he had an associate who would be available for our date. His associate was supposed to call last night. He didn't. He had my home and cell number. No call. My fiance and I talked about what we're going to do if we can't find someone. Our wedding is on a saturday and he figured we could just go to the courthouse on friday and get married, then have the "wedding" on Saturday. I don't know how I feel about that. I suggested in the beginning just going to the JP so we wouldn't have to pay for a wedding. (We're paying for the entire thing ourselves) but he would hear nothing of it. But if it's what we have to do...
As you probebly know, (I think I posted it) that I gave my future MIL 1 thing to do for the wedding. Find a photographer. She has yet to even attempt to do this. So I've been frantically searching and most are busy that day. One came back with he has the time, but his packages start at $2400 with a $500 deposit. WHAT???????????? Start at $2400? Geez louize. No thanks
Hope you ladies have a wonderful day. They are calling for snow here starting this afternoon. YIPPEE!!!!
at them!
for your sister!!!! *whew* what a load off huh? Thank goodness that came out ok for her...
. I've spent every freakin' second of my spare time reading a story on Fanfic. Completely far fetched - and completely engrossing! It's become new "escape reading" for me.
TREND!!! 
(Homer voice!)
Wacky Wednesday!!
) Here goes: a couple of years ago, DH was having some test procedures and had to have a couple of enemas before he went to the hospital. I bravely offered to administer, because I knew it would be a little awkward for self-administration. Well, we lived in a little cabin in the woods then, down a long lane, and nobody ever came to the door. It was a warm summer morning, about 7 a.m. so I didn't close the door. DH assumed the position, and I did my duty. About 5 minutes afterwards, there was a VERY loud knock on the side of the screen door, some guy coming to see if we would like some of the wood on our property cut down. Because of the loudness of that knock, I couldn't help but wonder if he hadn't been at the door a few minutes earlier and snuck away until he figured the deed was done (and perhaps had stopped laughing).
yesterday. It was all stress. Today I WILL do better. 
