Frogger, I am a florist, PM me if you have any questions on the toss bouquet???? Okay?
The scale said it was 190.5. Nope, must be wrong. I lost that freaking pound last week. I have been doing so good. I am not discouraged, just was hoping to show a Monday loss! Dumb #'s! I can't get my ring off so, I am a bit swollen, so maybe in a few days the numbers will go back down.

Top o' the mornin' to ya!

I'm up too, flower. Really bad but was bad on the water over the weekend (not to mention food). However, I did my usual Monday Fresh Start and expect to lose that water soon.

Have the stew in the crock pot and made soda bread on Sat. So I'm off to the pool in a bit and then being as leisurely as I dare for the rest of the day.

Picked up my six boxes of G. S. cookies. Hope they fare well in the freezer.

Great Monday all. And esp. Kaylets in that mtg with the boss! Can't believe that veil price, Frogger. Do miss the Empress and where art thou, Wood Nymph? Wildfire, figure thou has thy hands full. And miss the Queen of Friday as well as she doth her adventures.

Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone!

Well, I went up a lb. this week. I hope it was just water because I was OP, but it still isn't what I wanted to see. Hopefully though, my weigh-in next week will be better. Sometimes, it's hard for me to keep my eye on the prize when I have a long way to go, plus the fact that I'm a slow loser. If I can remember that all these little positive steps will take me to where I want to be, it can help. I have been keeping up with my exercise and drinking plenty of water. Well, hope everyone has a pleasant day. Take care, all.

Hi Everybody! I'm feeling a touch melancholy today--nothing extreme, just enough to make me wonder what's going on. [hmmm, like the old Marvin Gaye song?]

Hottie, your guestion intrigues me. All I can say now is I was thrilled when I got to the point in my journey when it wasn't totally about losing weight and having a smaller butt, etc. [Not that those aren't excellent things!;) ] There comes a point when you start feeling strong and capable and energetic and you can connect that to all the good habits you've cultivated along the way--and you want to keep that going!

Which brings me to this: When I know what makes me feel great, why do I ever go off my program?! The eternal question....oh well, I always come crawling back!

Tender Tuesday!
 

Hello all!!

Frogger, you are getting closer and closer! Bet your veil will look twice as good as the more expensvie one when you're done w/ it!! Perhaps you could match a ribbon or smaller flower from your bouquet too. I am sure it will look just wonderful! How did you make out w/ your second trip to the hairdresser?? Better right??

Eydie- I can so relate!!! My Monday dawned bloated and up lbs and dread for what the rest of the day would bring. Not 10 minutes after getting to work, I found out that a "RUSH" request from last Friday had been misinterperted by the Customer Rep and then in turn, I has also made a mistake. Initially, we thought the client wanted us to submit paperwork Friday for him. Instead, client thought we were drafting a document for HIS review. So, the document's been filed as of Friday AND there's an error on it. Don't ask me why, but I can sign initially but a correction would require the client's signature. That's just how this particular state law reads. So, I was sure this was going to be UGLY. Took nearly all day to reach my contact, contact was having computer problems, then contact thought the same as I did, that we 'd have to explain to the client that we had made a mistake.
AND THEN, at nearly 4:30, my contact, called her contact at the state to clarify a statute in the law and ---- the state contact was just finalizing my filing ( what are the odds??) and offered to CORRECT the mistake to avoid the need for correction.

May sound silly but the relief was enormous!

Both of these ladies have no idea how their kindness affected me. That wasnt their interest, neither of them had nothing to gain from going the extra step. In fact, both of them turned down the chance to make additional fees by handling the situation the way they did.
Two strangers reaffirmed my faith in us humans!!

How many of us are disheartened this week? How many of us could be uplifted by a small gesture?
Shall we start with ourselves?? Do we need a extra hug to reaffirm how much we think of ourselves? An extra smile in the mirror to say, " You're the best, kiddo!"

Today's thought is:

"If you had a friend who talked to you like you sometimes talk to yourself, would you hang around with that person? " Rob Bremer

To today's best choices!!

Seems like international bloat week! It's the farewell from the :lucky: s, I'll bet.

You got it, Eydie. Why do we do it when we KNOW better. I love that feeling when I'm doing well, then I start just creeping over the line a bit, then.......Well, tomorrow's weigh in - hope I can remember that all day today. Am puffy and don't want to weigh water again.

Kaylets, isn't it wonderful to run into people who aren't in the "power" mode and want things to run well. What a relief!

Was meeting held?

Morning, Ceara, Arabella, wsw, dollar, flower, frogger, and all who are not flowing into my barely awake mind at the moment.

Good Morning All!!

Kaylets- Yes, the hair turned out lovely. A nice shade of dark brown is in my future. Right now it's a little too dark, as she had to go darker to cover up the flaming red. Give it a week and I'll be back to "normal".

I'll have to post a picture of my bouquet creation. (Once I get around to it!) Again, they are keeping me busy at work and I have little time to do anything else, let alone finish planning my wedding!! I SOOO need a vacation!


Hello and good day to Edye, Flower, Anagram, WSW, Ceara, Hottie and anyone else that has slipped my feable mind today!!!

Good morning everyone. The baby wants attention. So instead of an update I am going back to bed to cuddle! Have a better Tuesday than Monday everyone!

Ah, a baby cuddle~best way to start (or restart) a day.

Empress - if you're lurking as promised - still missing you.

Urgh. I'm addicted to you guys! Still lurking, feeling very :( and not able to think of much to post! Will return! :wave:

Hi Guys. Looks like Amarantha and I are sharing the same malaise. I'm experiencing horrendous body image issues and a feeling of 'why bother?' Fear not, it'll pass--always does.
So weird how I can check myself out in the mirror and think 'not bad' and in a few days I can revisit the same mirror and think 'yuck!'

Lots of things simmering away in my brain these days...can't seem to conjure up any happy thoughts!:( But I keep trying!

hi all!

i am op and doing my exercising. my water intake leaves something to be desired the last couple of days, but of course, today isn't over yet--. i am thinking of all of you and hoping everyone has a good evening. take good care of yourselves!

wsw

Tueday evening
 

OK, here we go, just follow my lead,

( To the melody from "Annie" )

"Tomorrow, tomorrow, the pounds will come off tomorrowwwwww, come what may, TOMORROW! TOMORRW! You're only a pound a way!!

Again!!!

I see you're toes tapping!! ;)

Who wants to start?? If-- ( not that anyone would do this of course! ) :D
IF you were going to fall off the wagon, how would you do it?

All right, you talked me into it-- And actually, this thought did cross my mind today -The thought was - " I could go for a Family Size bag of M&M's" But, since I was nowhere near any place that I could get them, I just drank my water. Did the water taste like M&M's??? No! Could I still enjoy them? Yes. But here I am.


As for the meeting-- nothing happened. I finally resent the email this am w/ an note that the first must not have been recvd as he always replies so promptly. He did reply that he DID see the first one but ----- didnt know how to respond to my request because he is not sure why I think I'm not meeting his expectations.
:?: :?:

That was an intersting start to the day.
Then 3 people called out and one who was absent yesterday came in very sick.
So, he did offer to reschedule our meeting but I saw no point when the unit was so shortstaffed which meant, I would be getting more work.

Then, I called the HR dept of the place my friend told me was hiring.( It would've been working for her) I called from my cell phone in my car ( took a few voicemails w/the HR dept to schedule all of this) - we had a nice chat and then she wanted to know how much money I wanted. I tried to pass it off with, "wasnt expecting to discuss money today" and she told me that I should know what the range was.
And its too low. I had to tell her immeadiately, too low to drive an hour when I have a job now, making almost $5 grand more.

She says she'll show my resume to other depts that pay more but I think that was a nice way for her to say, "goodbye".

So..... there you have it.

So....

WSW- tell me again - were you going to the gym?

Time to stir the tomato sauce-

:cry: :cry: :cry:

So sorry, Amarantha and Eydie, want you to feel better. I have to admit this has not been my most "up" afternoon and evening and I hope to bounce back so that I'm :lol: tomorrow.

I guess the only good thing about your phone interview, Kaylets, is that the decision turned out to be a no-brainer. Isn't it amazing what a convenient memory de boss has?

I guess it would be the peanut butter fudge thing for me if I really wanted to fall off the wagon. Of course, there's none of that conveniently here but there are some GS cookies with peanut butter filling. I must be

:twirly: even the though of p.b. didn't make me feel better. Maybe cheesecake, nope; peppermint patties, nope; hot fudge, nope. Could it be I'm losing the ability to drown emotions in food? Now wouldn't that be nice?

Anyway,:grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug:

hi!

kaylets-no, i wasn't going to the gym-to physical therapy, which is actually quite a good workout, though. as anagram said, at least the phone interview made it easy to decide what you wanted to do, but sorry the position, salary didn't turn out more like you may have wanted. i realize i am so tired while writing this, that in case nothing i say makes sense--it's me, not you!LOL! hmm--if i were going to jump off the wagon, i think i'd jump into some marshall fields frango mints. i can't believe i thought of that right now, since i haven't had any in years. it did sound good to me though. the good news is i don't have anything like that in my apartment, so i don't have to worry about it. i need to get to bed, but i just wanted to check in here. i'm certainly glad all of you are here. you really are a great group! well, take care, all.

wsw