It's been 5 days since I've had soda and I feel more alert and focused. I've just about gotten to the point that I don't crave it either. But the headaches are brutal.
I've pretty much given up soda. I used to drink regular, then diet daily, then I went to once a week, and now I don't seem to want it. I know it bloats me something terrible, and I just don't get pleasure from it like I used to.
Great job, the headaches will get better soon
I'm almost ashamed to admit it, but up until about 12 years ago I would drink upwards of 100 oz. of Coke each day.
Ok, none of us are going to speak about what we ate or drank 12 years ago
I used to think an excellent evening included a 2 liter of Mountain Dew and a big bag of Cheetos, preferably followed by a bag of twizzlers and a small mountain of Hershey's kisses
Hey guys I just wanted to drop in since I've been MIA the last two weeks for the most part. I had my professional engineering test today so I've been up to my neck in studying. However it was wonderful to take a 8 hr test on a rainy day. So now the fun starts 10 +/- weeks of waiting for results on a multiple choice scan tron test. Anyway I'm going to try and catch up tomorrow, yall have a good evening.
Tim, I know you did a great job! I took a professional certification test a few years ago and also had a long wait for the results. The thing is, you did everything you could do, you've taken the test, and now you have to let it go for awhile. Don't drive yourself crazy thinking about it. Studying for and taking the test was a big task, and you have accomplished it! Congratulations!
My ds2 takes his first one tomorrow. It is also supposed to be a rainy day. I know he has been studying for the last three months. He has not been home from college since the semester started so he can study. (He has done some things besides study so I know he has taken some breaks. we saw him about two weeks ago.) He is coming home after the test tomorrow to help celebrate dh's birthday.
Dona --
to dh! I know you have been missing ds2 this term. I have faith he will do well. He learned his study skills from 2 pros!
Speaking of scary movies/shows - did anyone watch American Horror Story on FX?? I started to watch it by myself and had to stop - very creepy. Did end of watching it with DS and DH. I will not be watching that show alone.
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Janis! That work schedule is brutal. I just did about 3 weeks of 10 hour days, and I am starting to recover. I hope when this stretch is over you can take some time for you
I haven't seen American Horror Story, but it sounds good....I used to have to watch the X-Files with the lights on and dh.
I'm not a big scary movie person, maybe the Shining was the scariest. A year or 2 ago, my friend and I were going to see a movie while her teenage dd took my ds to a kids movie, but we hadn't looked up times so when we got there, the movie we wanted to see wasn't at the same theater, so we looked through the movie notebook to see what the available movies were about and decide on this one that was described as someone witnessing a crash on a race course, and surviving and feeling like he cheated death, and we thought is was going to be an emotional type movie, but it was called Final Destination. It was horrible. We had no idea it was a gory bloodfest. It was hilarious. My friend emailed me a while later when it came out in 3D to see it again. NOT!
I am on the Pamela plan to stay on track til thanksgiving 80-90% of the time, tracking every bite I eat. I started knitting a scarf so instead of eating while I watch tv at night, I'm knitting, and that is helping. My goal is to lose 5 pound by T-day, and enjoy the holiday weekend, then back on track that monday until Christmas weekend. Tracking every bite, except for the actually holidays.
Kathy -- I will not see those Final Destination movies, they look awful! It is a good story, though! I'm with you on the
Pamela plan, so far so good! I used to do counted cross stitch, but I just seem to have stopped. I have projects I could go back to, I'm just not feeling it. Maybe when winter settles in
Saturday QOTD:It's Sabado Gigante BL Style! 1)What is one thing you will do today to have a BIG impact on your healthy upcoming week? And for those of you willing to enter the Twilight Zone 2) The radioactive spider bit you, that nice Cullen boy bit you, you discovered there's Mayfair in your bloodline -- based on your personality, what kind of supernatural creature would you be?
Today I ran 10M! This is huge for me as it's my first run of that length since the Providence Half in August. It sets me up with a ton of confidence and will power to resist the goodies. I am not going to waste all that effort by filling up with junk! Ok, hopefully the second part wasn't too obscure or just not fun for people...The Mayfair witches are the protagonists in a series by Anne Rice. As for me, I would be definitely be a witch. I would be planning and making spells, using lists, being organized and methodical. With my luck I'd get a house dropped on me, too!
I'm SO SORRY that I haven't been on in days! I got up early this morning to chat and found my mother sitting in the dining room, handstitching trim onto DD's halloween costume! I couldn't just blow by her and sit on my butt in front of the computer! And I am literally 7 minutes away from walking out the door to an all-day swim event.
And for EVERYONE.... stay the course this weekend! Just say NO to Halloween candy! IT ISN'T WORTH IT!! Pick one tiny treat, enjoy it, and move on! When the last trick-or-treat child is gone Monday night, put the leftover candy in a plastic grocery bag, tie it shut, and find a place to donate it first thing Tuesday morning! (Or send it to the office with your significant other or to the classroom with your child.... I'm sure the teacher will love it!
We miss you, too,
Pamela! That is awesome advice. You are correct, it just isn't worth it. I bought the smallest bag of candy corn I could find today. I know I will be satisfied with just a few because they are so sweet. I'm going to eat them, and then give the back to dh to eat or throw away, his choice. I'm saving my ration of dh's homemade popcorn for Monday night, and that is my Halloween treat. DS is not trick or treating, and I know we won't have leftovers, we never do. I may pick out one, and only one, piece to have post-popcorn, instead of my usual one piece of Dove each evening. I know I will report how I did to everyone here the next day, so it's all out there and I have to follow it
I don't know a lot about supernatural creatures, but I would want mine to look like Morticia from the Addams family
Yep, she's a good-looking one! I think I'd want to look like Halle Berry's catwoman. Nothing ugly there!
Expecting anywhere between 2 and 12 inches of snow by morning! It's going to be heavy and wet and there are supposed to be strong winds so hopefully we won't lose power! We got the acs out this morning!
Wow, I hope you guys don't lose power. My dh took ds's air conditioner out of his room this morning. I guess we're all acknowledging Fall is really here
I know what you mean about losing "new pounds" - I was down 3.5 this week, but had been up 5.5 over the previous two weeks. I can't wait to start losing "new pounds", too.
Yep, I'm still working to get down to new lbs. I hate to think how far I have to go, but it's less than 10, so I can see getting there
Were going to head to Wal-Mart tomorrow because we still need candy for the trick or treaters.
We don't have our candy yet, either. I think it's best for my sanity not to have it too far in advance!
Maria
We were in Miami several years ago and stayed at the same Westin in Hollywood Beach where the mlb teams stay and there was Albert, just hanging out in the lobby of the hotel looking fabulous. I just drank my mojito and drooled. It was a lovely vacation.
I made myself a few costumes and ds has worn my astronaut and cave woman turned cave man a few times. 
We have a football game this afternoon at 3:30, and I have a feeling we'll both be coming home cold and wet.
for your son! I hope he does great. And I think you deserve an award for your culinary endeavors for the holidays! You are so nice, I would just tell them to order a pizza! 
You probably like your ILs more than I do, though 
When I was pregnant I asked dh what kind of mobile he thought would be good for over the crib. He said he wanted the flying death monkeys 
and friends...
I would have to say my favorite is when DH would decorate my car for Halloween by putting orange and purple LED lights on the luggage rack (I just plugged them into the converter we used for the portable DVD player). They were a big hit in elementary school but now of course, no one will let me get within miles of the school with those things now. 
