My presentation script is coming along. I will start practicing it tomorrow. I dont know how Im going to memorize everything 
All I can think of is that by this time next Saturday, I will be done with it! The furbabies are finally asleep. Theyre finally getting along a little better. I ordered some free postcards yesterday from vistaprint as invitations to my gingerbread house party. I cant wait to get them so I can mail them out! Time flies so fast, the party is in one month! I hope everyone is having a good weekend. Its now starting to feel like Fall around here 
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something public so it will really hold me accountable.
just reading through doing my usual lurking and decided to post.Men! I don't mean that to be sexist - but we all know that most - not all but most - men are like that while most (again not all but most) women would have been asking for a ride.
Rose and Taryn - I think it's so hard to see some you love treated unjustly. DH has been through that at work and sometimes I have to actually stop myself from storming the office! I KNOW he's a great guy and does a great job. I don't understand how some of these people get in the positions they are in. Why is it ever acceptable to have an employee at any level, let alone management, be nasty, rude and unapproachable?
I'm very happy for our extra hour tonight! DD has a cheer comp tomorrow and then straight to church for her 3 hour confirmation class. I'm there too helping with the dinner...what was I thinking when I volunteered for this for 2 years?! I need to learn to keep my mouth shut.
I'm in a pretty black mood right now...I think I'm going to watch a Two and Half Men.Maybe have a glass of wine. I know what it's from...we are trying to work with our lender to adjust our mortgage - this has been going on since July - and they have filed foreclosure on us. We have a settlement meeting with them in court on 11/19 to reach our new agreement, so there will not actually be a foreclosure, but it's still out there. Anyway - today while DH and I were at the urgent care some realtors actually knocked on our door. DD was here with a friend and the realtors saw them through the window so they ran and hid in dd's bedroom while the dogs barked (good girls and dogs). DD said they sat there in our driveway about 15 minutes then they stuck a generic letter on our porch saying they have someone who wants to buy our house to help us out of our "financial situation." I'm angry and insulted and I think they need to be pretty glad I wasn't home! Am I overreacting? Perhaps. But this is my home and stay away from it and us! They crossed a line.
Okay end of rant
It go really chilly here tonight so I went to go put on some warm pjs. I found some that I had which havent fit for years, but I never got rid of them because I liked them. They even fit me better now then they did back then. That got me thinking...If I was able to make it this far, I can definitely go a little further. My ultimate goal was to reach 128 to be in a healthy BMI range. Im four pounds away. Ive been kind of stuck here, but only because I havent put as much effort in it due to my schedule. My schedule will start clearing up one week from now. So I am giving myself a challenge: to lose 12 pounds in the next 11 weeks. That will put me at 120, a 60 pound weight loss. Why 11 weeks? 11 weeks from now my family, friends, and I are going on a Disney cruise. Two weeks after that is my 29th birthday. It would be nice to celebrate reaching my goal, which I havent seen for over ten years. Lets just hope I dont gain any weight on that cruise!
Thats my rant of the day. As you can tell, Ive been thinkng a lot today. I just hope I stay this optimistic and motivated for the next 11 weeks. Maybe I should put up little signs all over my house or a countdown calendar? or even one of those thermometer graph things
Well Im off to bed. Im tired of sitting in my office. I literally sat here for 9 hours straight. Good night!
I have also found out since I started my journey almost 2 years ago that I am a lot stronger than I thought. What doesn't kill us.....
It go really chilly here tonight so I went to go put on some warm pjs. I found some that I had which havent fit for years, but I never got rid of them because I liked them. They even fit me better now then they did back then. That got me thinking...If I was able to make it this far, I can definitely go a little further. My ultimate goal was to reach 128 to be in a healthy BMI range. Im four pounds away. Ive been kind of stuck here, but only because I havent put as much effort in it due to my schedule. My schedule will start clearing up one week from now. So I am giving myself a challenge: to lose 12 pounds in the next 11 weeks. That will put me at 120, a 60 pound weight loss. Why 11 weeks? 11 weeks from now my family, friends, and I are going on a Disney cruise. Two weeks after that is my 29th birthday. It would be nice to celebrate reaching my goal, which I havent seen for over ten years. Lets just hope I dont gain any weight on that cruise!
Thats my rant of the day. As you can tell, Ive been thinkng a lot today. I just hope I stay this optimistic and motivated for the next 11 weeks. Maybe I should put up little signs all over my house or a countdown calendar? or even one of those thermometer graph things
Well Im off to bed. Im tired of sitting in my office. I literally sat here for 9 hours straight. Good night!
Everything happens for a reason I guess and this was the kick in the butt that I needed. Perfect timing too as I found it a couple of weeks before this round of the challenge began. Well, I had a pleasant surprise on the scale this morning, down 4 pounds
So sorry about your knee. If you can rest and ice some more as much as possible, hopefully it is a strain and not more serious. Hang in there.
I think some more adventure rides would be great, too, but not just them. A more scary/pirate/adventure type park, using themes from other movies. Funny, G-force comes to mind because we loved it and are guinea pig people, but I decided they didn't use the characters because because of the guns and violence. ( or maybe the movie wasn't well rated and Up was better) I'd love to see an Up balloon ride. But I guess they did that at dtd. I'll stick with my nursing job.
Whoo hoo!! Congrats. 21 pounds is awesome in less than a year. I definintely think slow and steady tends to stay off more permanently, too.Well, I had a pleasant surprise on the scale this morning, down 4 pounds
Last Sunday when I last weighed I was UP 3 pounds after a bad weekend of eating so those are gone and 1 new pound is gone. I have now lost 21 pounds total and 10 pounds on this challenge. I started last February so I've been going v-e-r-y slowly until I found this group.
So glad you're doing good with the emotions lately. And staying under goal is aweome to have that buffer.They are loose now. I'm at 132. My goal weight is 135 so I'm doing good, under rather than slightly over like I've been running. This week was a test for me to see if I'd just slip back in to old ways of dealing emotional stuff. And I'm doing ok. Some things are worth the pain.
You can do it!! That is a very reasonable goal. I like the idea of a chart out where you can see it.
It must be a great feeling to be confident and know that your kids are proud of you. I think I've visited that t-shirt thread too. It's fun to make the matching shirts.I started my journey 7 years ago. I was ashamed of how I looked and didn't want to be seen in public. I went out for necessities and that was about it. Now I'm confident and love to get out. I'm proud of myself and my kids are proud to be seen with me
I found the DIs while planning one of our past trips. There have been quite a few and I don't remember which on it was. I stumbled into a thread about designing shirts for trips. I had done that before and was able to share what I had done. That thread is still running, but is now one the 26th thread. I have a close knit group of friends over there..
Whoo hoo!! Happy birthday to dd!!!I think I'm all set for the b'day party tomorrow. I printed out a bunch of coloring pages for them to do while they watch the movie. I sorted out all the goodie bag items, I got out the plates, cups and napkins. Tomorrow we will just need to pick up the cake, a big TS balloon and order the pizza. Total cost for this party should be about $200. Cheapest one I've done in a long time!!!!
TTFN
Did you get your extra hour? michael came in my room at 5:30, but didn't want to go back to sleep, so I sent him out and got another hour and a half.
just reading through doing my usual lurking and decided to post.
I'm in a pretty black mood right now...I think I'm going to watch a Two and Half Men.
Okay end of rant
Unbelieveable how those realtors are so pushy. I hope your dd and her friend were ok. I can only imagine how upsetting that could be for them. Your trip sounds fabulous. I went twice before I had my son, and we did the Blarney Castle once, and the cliffs both trips, and definitely the cliffs were one of my favorite places. It was so beautiful, and I remember leaving there freezing on the march trip, and stopping in a cute little pub for toasted cheese sandwiches and Harp as we left the cliffs.
Well, I think this last week has been one of the longest of my life! This 'novella' sums it up - unfortunately it is pasted from my WISH journal as I am out of time.
I'm a horrible 'BL' member at present. I've read a few posts here & there, but no time to breathe.
Cam, Hugs to you! I get it! I was 16 when I had my ankle rebuilt and was told I had a 50% chance of ever walking normally again! You will make it thru, but it's pretty much being in mourning for a bit. Praying for you!
And now my current saga......
Saturday, 10/30, DS21, his friend & I spent 7 hours at the shooting range qualifying for our Concealed Carry permits. It was amazingly fun! And I passed!
They all decided I need a huge revolver instead of my compact Glock. I am more accurate with it...or one handed, left handed....go figure! But, I don't think I could carry a revolver bigger than my dog!
Got home around 4:30, made dinner, started laundry. At about 6:30 went to check on laundry and the downstairs was flooded with sewage...AGAIN! Only this time spread a bit further because there was no carpet/pad to soak it up.
Called State Farm & had to file a totally new claim (another $500 deductible), ended up in a hotel Sat/Sun because couldn't get the plumber out. All luggage packed, so everything in Walmart Bags. Left hotel Mon morning w/ everything in cars. Plumber couldn't come out. Back to hotel. Did the same thing Tues morning. Plumber to come between 8 - 10. Never showed. Called him about 10 & he forgot to write it down. Back to hotel with our fancy luggage. Had another guy come out who sells the pumps & he told DH needed to replumb, rewire, move pump outside, etc....about $12k. Wednesday the real plumber came out and we had the 1/1million chance of getting a defective pump. Fortunately, pump company took it back & the additional plumber cost was under $200. We got to move home Wed night. Poor dogs were suffering from being alone.
DH had to take off M - W. Monday morning, he tried to start his cycle at hotel & battery dead. Bought one Mon night. They sold him wrong size. Tuesday I had to go get a different one. If he hadn't had vacation left, I would be a total basket case. Constant running, not knowing what is going on, etc.
This last 'flood' took out my laundry room floor, so now replacing it is being paid for. Only damaged a few pieces of laundry and a hamper, so that is good. Everything else is out of the house. I have 2 20' storage containers in the street out front. Have had workmen all week. Lots of time for them spent waiting for a plumber as they didn't want to fix things only to have them get soaked again when the pump was replaced.
I didn't get online to qualify Wednesday, but just needed to before 8 p.m. tonight. And I did qualify, so next 2 weeks I will score from 11:30 - 8p.m. Hopefully quickly as I'm paid by the read.
Painting is done, but they will come out one more time when they put in the molding & finish doors to touch up. I am having downstairs family room, hall, bathroom, closets & laundry room tiled. Tile guy comes monday afternoon to rip out/haul away carpet & prep floors. After tile he will carpet DDs room and the staircase. DH is insistent on doing the laminate upstairs in living, dining and hallway. With any luck, I will have furniture before Thanksgiving...but with DH doing the laminate, I'm not certain. They won't move us back in until everything is done.
My freezer is now on the back sunporch along with my washer. No washer/dryer hooked up is driving me crazy! But life goes on.
God really has a sense of humor. On my 'to do' list for the year was to paint/carpet one room of the house. Due to the 'flood' all but kitchen, 2 bathrooms, 3 bedrooms are being redone. Even the molding/woodwork. Not how I planned to accomplish it, but God thought this was best.
Food has been horrid, eating out for almost a week, not drinking much as a bathroom trip took 20 min & a car ride. Not exercising. I am managing to maintain most days, but barely. I think just the sodium in fast food is killing me.
Hopefully life will calm down a bit now. At present, I'm hunting for DS21s car keys. He has only one set and we can't find them anywhere!
Need to finish the Claim on damaged goods so I can start getting some $$ back that I'm spending. Hoping to get at least one really long walk in this weekend and more than 4-5 hours sleep/night. Time will tell! Hope all is well with everyone!
. It was hard when DS had his surgery... I was worried, of course. But it worked out SO WELL!! I wish I had pushed to have it done YEARS before... my DS was about 6 or 7 when he finally had it done.
), I had this headache, and I had had 3 cups of coffee during the day because I was feeling sluggish and so I was drowsy but wasn't really sleeping! ARRRGGHHHH! The time change does make for a nice "bonus" hour, so I decided to spend some of it here. But my head hurts too much to read for hours, which is what I would need to do to catch up. but I know that you all understand. It seems like MANY of us have had some craziness in life right now.... we shouldn't let the "need" to be reading/replying/posting here on the DIS add to the stress.... this is supposed to be for FUN and FRIENDSHIP and SUPPORT! RIGHT?? for you! I admire your attitude you are taking with it. I guess god just had a different agenda for your home improvements.Glad to hear from you Taryn. I hope you had a better show that you thought you would.
these boards. 
Ryan wants to start football this summer which involves practice 4 nights a week until school starts and then only 3 nights a week with games on saturdays. It honestly makes me cringe. I hope things slow down for you soon.I think Mike and I have a plan. He's going to let his boss know on Tuesday how frustrated he is. He's also going to start looking for something with another company. If by Jan/Feb we are still here, then he's going to start looking for something in his company either here or in another state. That will give whoever they hire a chance to get settled and he won't look so reactionary. I am trying to look at all of this as kind of like weight loss--it's a process and a journey that can't be fixed or settled overnight. And if I have learned anything over the last year, it's that sometimes good things take time.
that is a very stressful situation. I totally agree that those people were way over the line. Healthcare needs to be private so I think personal finances should be to. Total cost for this party should be about $200. Cheapest one I've done in a long time!!!!
TTFN
Well, I had a pleasant surprise on the scale this morning, down 4 pounds
After ccd this morning we are going to salem to tour the House of 7 Gables with the cub scouts. Hoping it all goes well. We only have 5 scouts, but they can be a little rambunctious when they're all together. There's a great park down the street, so I figure if they're good during the tour, maybe we can stop at the park afterwards.
Have a great sunday.
Sometimes I cant believe that I have two kids and my oldest is 6. I still feel like it was just yesterday I was a kid myself. I guess that is being young at heart. either that or just coming to terms with the fact that I am indeed getting older and I became an adult 14 years ago. The break is over. Back to the grind.
to everyone who needs them.
I can't think of anything that's not good about 32ounce beer and cheesecake.The 32 oz beers were so fun, and the barvarian cheesecake do die for.
Hope you're all enjoying your weekend.
Hang in there. And do you know which real estate agent it was so you can tell everyone you know that they overstepped.
I think this strategy works great. When I am really stressed about an upcoming event, I tell myself, in xxx many hours it will be over. I don't want to wish my life away, but I feel less nervous and overwhelmed when I can break it down.
I think it's pretty common to adjust your goal as you get closer, because lets face it, when you have a bunch to lose, you can't really picture what a certain weight will feel like. And you also don't know how difficult or easy it will be at that point. I have moved my goal down several times. I think you have a good plan, just be open to readjusting depending on how things are going.
Isn't that an amazing feeling?This week was a test for me to see if I'd just slip back in to old ways of dealing emotional stuff. And I'm doing ok. Some things are worth the pain.
That's great! Can't wait to see the clippie!Well, I had a pleasant surprise on the scale this morning, down 4 pounds
Now I am feeling very motivated to get my 25 pound clippie - only 4 pounds away!
Very exciting!I stayed up until midnight last night and ended up buying tix for Mary Poppins for this February. I'm so excited, I've been waiting to see this show for over a year.
Everyone have a great Sunday
Have a great time Kathy! We did cub scouts for a few years and some of those boys in our troop were WILD.After ccd this morning we are going to salem to tour the House of 7 Gables with the cub scouts. Hoping it all goes well. We only have 5 scouts, but they can be a little rambunctious when they're all together. There's a great park down the street, so I figure if they're good during the tour, maybe we can stop at the park afterwards.
Have a great sunday.
Pamela--you are not a pseudo friend--just busy right now. We know you'll be back.Rose and Taryn.... praying for the best for both DH's job situations. I try to remember how LUCKY we are every day that DH is in a good reasonably secure job that he likes. Sure, occasionally he has to deal with somebody he doesn't like, but overall he is happy. I hope things work out well for both of your families.
I miss chatting with all of you here. I feel like one of those pseudo-friends who only calls to talk about her own problems and never listens to yours....
I'll try to get back on later today and check in again. Love to you all......P
Hope the headache is better. And I keep asking Mike--are we over reacting to all this--and he says nope, every time. He is much more rational than I am. He said no matter what it was a vote of no confidence--at least for this new "restructured" position. We really are very fortunate--never been laid off, DS got to grow up with neighbors and friends that love him. It just might be the time to move on... It's actually been a nice mental break. I was trying to explain it to our friends last night--I think when we are training for an upcoming race I feel a lot of pressure to stay on task. Well the next race we have officially scheduled is Princess. So this was a good weekend to take a little break. And I have exercised 240 minutes so far this month, so I'm not a complete slacker. 
Hi ladies! I'm sorry I haven't posted in the past few days. I'm still here and I'm doing fine, but I just haven't had anything much to say. I guess I'm in a quiet kind of mood.
With my race coming up in 2 weeks, I did my last LONG training run yesterday. The last 2 or 3 miles were HARD and I was in considerable pain for the rest of the day. Most of that pain is gone now, aside from just ordinary muscle soreness. I've been doing 4 minute run/1 minute walk intervals but I think I'm gonna monkey with that a bit over the next week and see how it feels to run shorter and see how it affects my overall time.
I also want to remind everyone to send in your WIN numbers. I have only heard from TWO people so far!
Y'all have a great week!
