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[dumbo_buddy]

alright people - i'm calling it - we're in for the hershey half oct. 2012. so, eastcoasters - get on it!!

yeah so the vaseline go see was a total dud. wound up waiting around for an hour. thomas was SO good and just playing and hanging out. then they called his name and all hell broke loose! screaming! crying! wouldn't stand where they wanted him. you know, typical 2 year old stuff. turns out they only wanted pics of his hands and feet anyway. and i'm not even sure they got that.

oh, and OMG people are SOOOO WEIRD!! one mom was there - polish i think and was obsessed with her kid. let to poor kid play. i brought out some toys and the kid wanted to play with thomas - let him! then her kid took some of thomas's annies cookies. and the mom freaked. i told her it was ok if they shared. she examined the bag. at first i thought maybe he was allergic to nuts or something. no, the kid is only allowed organic. puh-lease! there were some total stage parents too. it was really great people watching. oh and there were adult models too. you know, like 6ft+ tall amazon women with huge skinny feet. it was pretty hilarious that my kid was running around them and at one point he threw a squishy ball at one of them. the model looked soooo happy about that. lol! professional models + my kid =

well, usher didn't see me workout today. oh well. way too hot. waaaaay too hot. now we're just hanging at home and trying to stay cool.

51 days til disney!

 

[Worfiedoodles]

Good Afternoon, and !

Nancy -- Sorry the go see was a dud -- although it sounds like it provided plenty of entertainment It sounds like your visit yesterday was the best you could have hoped for, so a good outcome. I can't believe your Disney visit is so soon! I have to get back to reading your TR, I was enjoying it and then got sidetracked. Oh, and I just have to say -- I often hold myself to a 6 in at Subway, there are days I know I could eat a footlong What your mom did to your room was just wrong! I cannot imagine doing that to my child I don't think my mom moved a thing when I left for college. Please do not feel bad about the friend and her reproductive issues -- we all have issues of some sort, and while it's good to remember we are lucky in some areas, there are definitely others where we have not been so blessed. And on the Evanovich front, maybe that's why I can't really get into Morelli -- juvenile pervert!

Lindsay -- I agree this heat is too much. I'm not running again until Sunday, when our high is supposed to be 80. My BIL and SIL are coming down Friday night to go to a Red Sox game, and he announced last night he wants to go for a run Saturday morning. Of course my silly husband agreed. I hope they both don't have heart attacks I think Dennis is smart enough to stop if he realizes it's just too warm, the jury is out for BIL.

Rose -- I keep forgetting to ask you, when you are in WDW do you go to the Babycakes in DTD? They have g-f treats, and I believe you can now order in advance from them the same way you would the WDW Florist for cakes, etc. I've never tried it, but I've seen it I am so sorry, it must have hurt so much to find the baby things. It's good you are blessing someone else who will be able to use them. Are you packed yet for your trip? I think I would be I know there is so much going on and you will be checking out places to live so it's not really a vacation, but there will be fun, I am certain. Mike just seems like a fun guy!

Lisah -- I need to do a better job faking it. Lately all I want to do is go home, crawl into bed, watch T&T (yes, it's on almost every night), and not think about what I should be doing. I'm trying to ignore the fact I have a Half in 2 weeks. I am woefully undertrained, bursting out of my clothes, and so wishing I had actually ate the way I intended We'll get there, right?

Kathy -- I am sorry I'm doing a cruddy job keeping up with your QOTDs. I know you are doing a great job, I just don't seem to have any oomph to get over there. Maybe later...Anyway, thank you for being our coach. You are such a patient and giving , we are lucky to have you!

Taryn, Jude, Corinna -- Hope your heat is not too hot to handle!

I wish I had something new and exciting to report...well, Dennis did call me out of the blue today and ask me to research a quick trip to Montreal. I may get a little getaway yet!

My scale is on an upward swing, so nothing good on that front. I know I need to rein in my eating, but knowing and doing seem to be two completely different things.

Oh! I started reading "The Help". I wouldn't normally read something that isn't written in proper English, but I decided to give it a try and it's sucked me in I'm just a few chapters in, we'll see how long I last.

Everyone have an awesome Thor's Day!

Maria

 

[dumbo_buddy]

hey boston friends - looks like oct. 1st i'll be up in your neck of the woods. wake forest (the college i went to) is playing boston college in football. my friend andy from school lives in arlington, ma with his wife and i invited us up there for the weekend - lol! my bday is 10/4 so i thought it'd be a fun way to celebrate. plus, i haven't been to a wake game in a few years now! and coincidentally my friend and his wife's anniversary is on 10/4 too. (they did it so i'd have a really big birthday cake of course)

not sure how feasible it is to get together but just thought i'd throw it out there

 

[Worfiedoodles]

hey boston friends - looks like oct. 1st i'll be up in your neck of the woods. wake forest (the college i went to) is playing boston college in football. my friend andy from school lives in arlington, ma with his wife and i invited us up there for the weekend - lol! my bday is 10/4 so i thought it'd be a fun way to celebrate. plus, i haven't been to a wake game in a few years now! and coincidentally my friend and his wife's anniversary is on 10/4 too. (they did it so i'd have a really big birthday cake of course)

not sure how feasible it is to get together but just thought i'd throw it out there

We should definitely try to plan something! We used to live halfway between BC and BU, but then we reproduced and needed a yard for the offspring. Maybe we could meet somewhere in Somerville (or even Arlington, I was just thinking Somerville has a lot of cool places in Davis Square), or we would be happy to come into Allston/Brighton and meet you there (or Downtown) before the game, if that makes more sense...will you be tailgating before the game? When are you going home? We can't have you come to Boston and not see your buddies!

I also literally live 5 minutes from the airport, but I don't think we want to do a Meet there

Maybe Kathy has some good ideas?

Ok, back to the boring webinar I'm supposed to be watching...

Maria

 

[dumbo_buddy]

ok all of those town names sound so familiar but i'm sorry that i don't know exactly where they are! my girlfriend rachel used to live in sommerville so i'm pretty sure i've been to davis square - if we went out to the bars it would have been there, right??

the game time is still TBD so we'll have to wait a little to figure it out. but right now i'm hoping we'll drive up friday night and then leave sometime on sunday. we will probably tailgate. well, as much as i can tailgate with a 2 year old and a very pregnant belly!

yay! looking forward to that weekend even more now

 

[lisah0711]

Hello Princesses and Belles!

Quick post before I go and pick up DS.

Rose, I know that you will be glad when you go to FL and see what is going on, one way or another.

There are a lot of strung out people everywhere lately. DH has gone to work at 6 am all week because he can't sleep and figures he might as well work. It is totally goofing up my morning routine!

Nancy, I'm glad that things went okay yesterday. And you have to admit those folks at the Vaseline thing sounded pretty entertaining. I'm envious of you and your Boston Dismeet!

Lindsay, it didn't look like you were doing the let's get the kid to hide me tug o' war at all in your picture! We have lots of those pictures so I know exactly what you are talking about.

Robert had a virus when he was an infant that affected his baby teeth (made the enamel soft -- poor kid had crowns when he was 3) so even with his injury I hope Ryan will be the same.

Hope the first night of football goes well!

Maria, I can always think of things I wish I would have done differently. I'm trying to let those things go and just accept what is more that is hard to do! I hope that you will get to see Cam when you are doing your race.

The "fake it til you make it baby" came from Rose, I believe. There's still some faking here but it is getting better.

Hello to everyone I missed! Hang in there!

 

[mommyof2Pirates]

Nancy- thomas' go see sounds so comical at leas you had entertainment. How exciting for your boston trip and to meet up with our bostonians. And woohoo for being 51 short days away from disney.....Im so excited for you.

Maria- I think when you were talking to lisa and said that you want to come home everyday and lay in bed and watch tv, and that your popping out of your clothes. Well I just want to say I am right there with you. What is wrong with us. Im going to try really hard this weekend to make a plan for next week. We can do it...I know we can.

Ok I am planning on Hershey 2012 but I have to say that I will not be able to confirm that until closer to the time of registering/booking...just have to make sure I have the funds for that. I saw the pkgs and it doesnt seem like an expensive trip for me but still I need to wait and see. It sounds like it would be a super great time.

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today was a bit slower at work which was nice. I needed a break! Tonight we took Ryan for his uniform. He is much bigger than the kids on his team. They put him on the 5-6yr old 1st year team but he is only 3 months shy of 7. They are going to evaluate how good he is and they will determine if he should move up. I am on the fence. I dont want him to be on a team that the other kids are not on his level but yet I dont want him on the older team and then not to get as much playing time. Yes he is only 6 and this is what we have to worry about. Anyway I guess we will see soon. The funny part was that he has such a big head he didnt fit any of the helmets. They had to search all over to find him one. Everyone was laughing but not in a bad way and I could tell it bothered ryan. He got a bit teary but held it together. He is getting very sensitive lately. Is this the age that starts??? He was very mad at me that I posted on facebook that he wants to marry selena gomez, he was actually in tears about that. I felt horrible.

Anyway I really really wanted to go out for a run tonight but dh told me I would kill myself since I havent run in a few weeks and the heat index was still 100 at 8pm so i listened to him. I am running 4 miles this sun with my relay team of moms from ryans school. I am a bit nervous because I think I am the heaviest and slowest one there. It upsets me because in my mind by this point I wanted to be alot lighter. ugghhh why do I do this to myself.

Ok I feel like I am rambling so I am heading off to bed. Have a great evening.

 

[mikamah]

Good evening, Princesses!!

My coaching stint is over, and though I did keep up over there, I didn't get my act together at all. I say as I just ate a congo bar. I'm right there with the rest of you who are struggling, and trying to figure out how to get my focus back. The past 3 weeks, I've gotten 3 days of exercise in each week, but only run once each week. I wrote out my training plan for the sept half, but am not as motivated to stick with it as I was the princess. I'm glad I have the half coming up because otherwise, I think I would probably have given up all exercise completely. I do not want to get a DNF, and I want to beat my princess time, which if I do any regular training at all, should be easy for me to do since I won't have a camera and I won't be weaving back and forth across the road to take pics along the way. Though the course is much hillier than the princess.

We're heading camping tomorrow right after work. I'm not looking forward to trying to sleep tomorrow night in a tent in this heat. We're about a mile from the beach, so I'm praying for a seabreeze. I have already said, michael will be hot and tired from camp that I will cut him some slack, and not expect him to help me set up much. That way he won't hear me swearing when I'm sweltering and fighting with the tent.

He lost his glasses at camp today. I hope he finds them tomorrow. It was late in the day and he had left them at the aquatic area when he was swimming, so hopefully someone picked them up. He has an opthamologist appt in 4 weeks, and they have been decreasing his prescription slowly the past couple times, so I'm thinking if he doesn't have them he can use the old ones and use none at times til we go to the doc. He was so upset. So I couldn't get upset. At least we have vision issurance now, and it won't be 400$, but should be less than 200 like last year.

Thanks for all the support during my week of coaching. It was nice to chat more with the new bl members that I haven't really gotten to know much. It's such a nice group there too, and so nice to see the thread so active still into the summer.

Rose- I can only imagine how many memories you are bringing up going through your whole house. I love what Tom said to you about his home being with you and Mike, where ever that may be. He is such a sweet and caring boy, even though he may have his moments. You are a great mom, and he knows it. I hope the rest of the cleaning and packing goes smoothly for you.

Nancy-I just can't imagine how your mom could throw all your stuff away and change your room on you without telling you. Extra hugs for you. I would love to meet up with you when you're in Boston. Maria's suggestions were great, and I'm game. Other thing was if it's a nice weekend, we could meet outside somewhere, either boston common, or along the charles, or a park near where you'll be in Arlington. I wrote it on my calendar so I don't sign up for call that weekend. Thanks for the offer for pension advice. My brother is also an accountant, and he helps me too, but I'll keep that in mind.

Lisa- I'm faking it til I make it too. Sorry for all the stress you've been under. Money worries are the worst. I also feel that things always do tend to work themselves out the way they are supposed to. It's still a worry though. Though, I guess I'm lucky I don't have a dh to fight with about it. 5 days til vacation!! Are you going to the lake again? With that beautiful, peaceful deck? I hope so. What a great place to regroup and relax.

Maria-I loved The Help. Though my english isn't probably the best itself. I'd love to get together with Nancy when she's here, too. Have you been able to run this week on the treadmill? Your race is in 2 weeks? You are going to do great, and I'm sure it will be a fabulous weekend. Are you doing a dismeet?

LIndsay-It was brutally hot tonight to run. Glad you chose not to. I hope you and dh can work it out with football that you can get some running in again. It's so hard to juggle it all. Michael has a big head too, and had trouble with the baseball helmets when he first started, so we bought him one. Michael's a sensitive kid too, but I tend to be a bit sarcastic and tease him too, and once in a while go too far. I think when it's a new thing, like Ryan and football, they probably don't want to be singled out as being different, even though it's no big deal, they are sensitive. I'm sure he will be fine, and he and Selena will make a lovely couple. I'll never forget a few years ago, taking care of this really messed up woman/drug abuser, who was also a mother, and another nurse saying to me, that no matter how bad a mother we think we are, we are really never going to damage our kids the way some people do. You are a great mom. Mom guilt is the worst, though.
Oh, and on the braces, michael had some teeth pulled a few years ago, so he has retainers holding that space, and we see an orthodontist, every 6 months, and haven't paid anything yet because they are watching and waiting until more secondary teeth come in before they can start any work. He's missing a permanent tooth on one side so those teeth will fit, but the other side is too crowded, so we'll see what happens. I'm not looking forward to that bill either. Those braces will probably cost 2 or 3 disney trips.

I don't know if I'll be back on in the am. I want to cut up some fruit before I go to work, and I hope to get out of work early and head up to Maine.

Oh, and on Hershey 2012, I'd love to, and like LIndsay will need to wait and see. Fingers crossed it will all work out.

Hope you all have a fabulous, princessey, weekend!!

 

[mikamah]

Eeeek, I killed the thread.

Though I'm going to chalk it up to the fact that you were all getting your 6-8 hours of beauty sleep all princesses need.

Now I'm really shutting the laptop down and will see ya on sunday!

Have a fabulous weekend!!

 

[Worfiedoodles]

It Lives! No Kathy! I promise you didn't kill the thread!

I'm eating my breakfast quickly before I head out to work, going in early today, so I planned to post later...

Anyway, have a wonderful trip, stay as cool as you can, and get a little relaxation in, too!

I hope Michael's glasses are found. It is interesting when we can't do the "upset mom" thing because they're already so disturbed. I feel like I have a really great rant, but of course I can't use it. Sometimes Dennis and I laugh about it later.

Have Fun!

Maria

 

[lisah0711]

Good morning Princesses and Belles!

TGIF! It sounds like we are all ready for a week-end of relaxing and regrouping.

Lindsay, sorry about the sensitive kid thing. I didn't have any brothers so I was quite surprised when I realized how sensitive DS could be about things -- those guys aren't all jokes about body functions and turning things into weapons.

I'm sure that you will do great at your relay this week-end. Don't compare yourself to the other Moms. Just compare yourself to where you have been and how far you've come and that you have the courage to keep going, even when things haven't gone the way you had hoped.

Well, I'm going to miss you Coach Krazy Kowgirl Kathy! I hope that you have a wonderful time camping this week-end and that sea breeze finds you.

Hope that the glasses turn up. We've had the same problem. I just don't remember to remind him to wear his old glasses or the chums when he swims and he doesn't remember himself because he is too busy having fun.

We are going to Lake Okoboji for a five nights next week. It will be a quick trip. My Mom is coming here to get out of the heat in Arizona and take care of Sadie and Wally, our dog and cat. She likes to do laundry so I am going to ask her to help me catch up. We will be with Ed's family except BIL will not be there because he is still recouperating from his treatment. We are going to try very hard to unwind. They make very strong margaritas at lunch so that helps.

Maria, you are going to do fabulously at your half. It's your first non-Disney half isn't it? So it's going to be different but a band every mile has to be fun plus it sounds like there are a lot of people -- I was reading 17 corrals? If you do a Dismeet and meet Susie (escape) please tell her hello from her fellow Incredibles.

Have a wonderful day ladies!

 

[dumbo_buddy]

kathy you didn't kill the thread! i didn't get back on last night because thomas went to bed a little on the late side and john and i watched the first episode of "the big c" on showtime on demand. i'm sorry that michael lost his glasses. hopefully they turn up soon! i started sweating when i read that. not to bring up mommy issues again but even if i got upset that i lost something (the time i sat on my retainer at camp and broke it comes to mind) i would still get it. so i just want to thank you on behalf of michael for not giving him a hard time about the glasses. he was upset, that was enough. you are such a great mom! have fun camping. is there any electric where you're going? can you bring a fan? it is going to be SO HOT.

i think you did a great job coaching. it's tough in the middle of the summer. i'm finding it hard to keep up with the thread. i like to do the personal replies but have given up a little on it. some people refuse to do any personals! psh, that's just bad thread participation behavior!

maria and kathy i'm looking forward to heading up to boston! i wonder if a sunday breakfast/brunch meet-up would be best? depends on the game time on saturday i guess.

lindsay glad you got a breather at work yesterday! i'm also glad you didn't run last night. it is WAY too hot! i saw the pics of ryan in his uniform and he looks so cu...no, not cute...handsome and tough! loved the gun show pose!!! i tried to "like" it but the internet was acting weird last night.

rose hi! how was your day yesterday?? did you get any sleep last night? i hope so!

lisa we had a little money tiff here last night. not that big but just...annoying. going down to that go-see in the village yesterday cost me $24 in parking and i was only there a little over an hour. like i WANTED to spend that much!

you mentioned robert having a virus when he was an infant and it affecting his teeth. when i was about 6 months old i had a 104 or 105 fever (something super high) and as a result i had very bad yellow staining on my teeth. i remember being like 7 or 8 and people asking my why my teeth were so yellow. i had to have bonding over it done then. it's strange how sickness can affect teeth, right??

lisel hi! everything going well in your training? tinkerbell half will be here soon.

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well, folks, i would LOVE to complain about the heat but i can't now. the today show just had a segment on about refugees from somalia. it was so disturbing. mothers are walking for a MONTH at a time with their children to find water and ....well i won't continue but it was really sad. so i will NOT complain that i have to stay inside in my air conditioned house.

needless to say i didn't work out today. it's 8am and 89 already. that's just crazy! i may head out to the mall later just to walk around. i really don't like shopping but i'd like leave the house even if it's for just a little bit. we'll see.

we don't have any weekend plans. need to think of something. in the meantime, i'll go make breakfast

 

[dumbo_buddy]

lisa looks like i was posting when you did. have a great time at the lake. what day do you leave? how far is it from you? sounds nice and relaxing. have a margarita for me, will ya??? also, your mom LIKES to do laundry. man, i really missed out on some good mom action!

my cousin johnny is 11 and is the most sensitive kid i know. he's a worrier and is always hurt or something. when he came to disney with us in january we'd all go on a ride. his sister mary and brother michael would get off and be like that was awesome! but johnny found something wrong with it. his neck hurt on RNRC. there was something poking in his back at small world. his ice cream was too melty. he burned his tongue on the breakfast pizza at crystal palace. something! the sensitivity is border line annoying. he has always been like that though and now i just laugh with him about it. we were down at the beach last week and he told me that thomas poked him in the eye. i just joked that he's getting beat up by a toddler.

these boys are deeper than i thought!

 

[lisah0711]

lisa looks like i was posting when you did. have a great time at the lake. what day do you leave? how far is it from you? sounds nice and relaxing. have a margarita for me, will ya??? also, your mom LIKES to do laundry.

Yes, my Mom likes to do laundry -- when we all went to WDW for Christmas for 8 nights we did something ridiculous like 15 loads of laundry. But we had clean towels and clothes!

Poor Robert had a tough time when he was little. He had two sets of ear tubes, was hospitalized for pneumonia, had a nebulizer for asthma treatments, yet was always a happy, smart guy who was always in the 95th percentile for height and weight. When we had his tonsils out in kindergarten because it was giving him apnea all those troubles went away. We should have taken those tonsils earlier. But it's all good now -- he is taller than me and has his deep voice now and hardly ever is sick.

We are going to Lake Okoboji on vacation which is in the northwest corner of Iowa. We fly into Minneapolis on Wednesday. Make a quick stop at Mall of America and then its about a three hour drive. Ed's family has a lake cottage that has been in the family since 1893 -- 118 years. It was probably five years old when it was purchased and some of the original structure is still there. The rest was mostly added during WWII so it is a funky old place. We are lucky because we stay in the honeymoon cottage, a guest cottage in the back, that was built in the 50's -- it's the only place with air conditioning and we have our own bathroom instead of sharing with everyone else!

Things are expensive in the city and everything is more expensive these days it seems to me. I was telling Ed that I think we have inflation already. Our receivables have taken a little spike and that always makes us testy -- we get testy with each other when we should be on the phone calling our clients asking them where their payment is.

Stay cool today and take it easy. Hopefully some cooler weather is on its way soon!

 

[dumbo_buddy]

lisa and maria real quick before i forget - so i'm the SLOWEST reader on the planet and am only on chapter 3 or 4 of this new book. but i just have to comment on stephanie and her perception of herself. she describes herself as not fat but insinuates that she could stand to lose a little. then goes to say that she is 5'7" and 130 lbs. and...i hate her.

 

[Rose&Mike]

lisa and maria real quick before i forget - so i'm the SLOWEST reader on the planet and am only on chapter 3 or 4 of this new book. but i just have to comment on stephanie and her perception of herself. she describes herself as not fat but insinuates that she could stand to lose a little. then goes to say that she is 5'7" and 130 lbs. and...i hate her.

Seriously, I'm 5'7" and weigh 140 so what does that make me?

I'm so jealous that you all are going to have a meet!


Lindsay--I need to go check out facebook and see Ryan in his uniform. Tom was a little sensitive, too. Though not like Nancy's cousin. Goodness, I think that would drive me a little crazy. I think the big thing is, they don't want to feel like they are being made fun of, and even if we are just oohing and aahing cause we thing something is cute, they sometimes thing we are making fun of them. Does that make sense? Mike likes to say--you let Tom watch way too much Oprah. It's made him too touchy, feely.

Kathy--Have fun this weekend! I hope the weather breaks and it's not so nasty where you are.

Lisa--Tom was sick like that when he was little. He had a spinal tap at 18 mos. He was sick so often and so bad that the pediatrician encouraged us to keep him home one winter. We did asthma, the nebulizer, er visits, blood coming out of the lining of his eyes from allergies, etc. But he's very healthy now, so that's all that matters. Was it at the cabin last year that you ate a bug while running? Or were you just worried about eating a bug?

Maria--I had no idea that race was so close! Did it seem to sneak up on you?

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I hit the Y this morning and did 30 min on the elliptical and lifted. So I made my maintain barely--I hate relying on the last chance workouts--cause let's be honest it's just water weight, but mentally I really will take any victory right now.

So here's what has been going on this week. Wednesday on my day off Tom and I went shopping for something for Mike to wear to his interview. (yes, Mike could have done it, but it was better this way, trust me.) So Mike is 6'3" and weighs around 160 pounds. He is a 32x34. Really he should be a 31x34, but that will never happen. His shirt size 15" 34-35. These are not really off the rack sizes. The shirt is not as bad, the pants--uggh. You can find dockers in this size, but we didn't want dockers. After checking a couple of stores we ended up at Macy's and they had 1 pair of dress pants--luckily we liked them. It took us a while to find a shirt. It turned out the original shirt we bought was too big so we went back to Macy's Weds night with Mike and then did some shopping for Tom's new house. Then last night we hit up target for more house shopping and in a bit we are going on what I think will be the last house shopping trip before Tom goes back to school. He's going back on the 3rd.

Mike and I were going to go down to help him move in, but Tom is going down early because he starts work on the 7th, I think. Monday the new ac/furnace is being installed. Sometime in the next 10 days they will be out to repair our windows (which I am happy to say cost way less than half what new windows would have cost). I'm sure something else is going on--oh yeah, and next Thursday and Friday Mike and I will be in Florida. My Melbourne travel guide came yesterday so I am planning on sitting down with that in the next day or so. Yesterday at work I found out they scheduled a meeting for data conversion for our big project right when I am going to be at the airport on Thursday, so I'm really glad I told her about what's going on. Normally I leave around 3:00 on Thursday anyhow, but I would have had to come up with a reason for why I needed to miss the meeting....so that was nice to not have to deal with.

So the next 10 days will be a little crazy, but being busy is good. I'm a little sad about Tom going back to school, but a little happy too. Happy that he seems in such a better place, sad because we had a mostly nice summer and I have really enjoyed having him around the last couple of weeks.

My hip is bothering me today, so send good thoughts my way that the itbs stuff is not flaring up again. We are supposed to go 9 or 10 tomorrow, so we'll see. I really need the stress relief.

Have a super Friday!

Have a great Friday!

 

[dumbo_buddy]

hi gals!

just got back from taking thomas to the movies. we saw winnie the pooh. it was SO cute! thomas was a good boy too. granted, he ate about a thousand and one cookies but whatever. we got to watch the whole thing which was really nice.

thomas was so good in fact that i decided to treat myself to a burger and fries from checkers you can tell we were a little in the ghetto when we ate at checkers. haha!

rose - sounds like a busy next week for you!

lisa - sounds like a fun trip and a really awesome house! how cool that it's been in the family for so long! i've been to iowa a few times on business but that's about it as far as my knowledge of iowa

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little guy's taking a nap and i think i'm going to do a little DISing and thinking about my upcoming trip. even after my burger and fries i'm still hungry. gross.

 

[Rose&Mike]

Soooooo, anyone want to guess what new tires for a 2007 Mazda 6 cost? If you guessed $618.00 you win a prize! We took Tom's car for an oil change and tire rotation and when we went to pick it up I saw on the slip that it said they didn't rotate the tires. Why oh why did you not rotate the tires, I asked. BECAUSE there was cracking in all 4 sidewalls!!!! Uggh. Did it not occur to you to tell me that when you called to say the car was ready to be picked up that the tires were shot, because now I have to spend another day dealing with this!!!!! But maam, the tires will be ok probably for another month or so.......Ok, yes I am absolutely going to send my child through the mountains back to school with tires that MIGHT last another month....So, the new tires are going on tomorrow. Good thing I am an anal compulsive saver and had car repair money in my budget. (Actually it was for the down payment on my next car, but I'll be using it for car repair.) My checkbook is taking a major hit this month. Anyone want to take a guess on what will break next????? So for his birthday on Sunday my DS will be getting 4 new tires, new bedding, a new bed and a new desk. Oh and I forgot, and a paid for renter's insurance policy. What a great birthday present.

 

[dumbo_buddy]

Soooooo, anyone want to guess what new tires for a 2007 Mazda 6 cost? If you guessed $618.00 you win a prize!

ouch!!!!

 

[mommyof2Pirates]

Rose- Sounds like the one year my parents got me a winter car clean up...oil change, antifreeze flush, fluid replacements, etc. oh and a new part (cant remember what) that I need replace. That was an exciting birthday well at least i didnt have to shell out my own cash so I was greatful and Im sure tom is too. I bet that is it now....I think you had your fair share.

I hope the hip is ok and good luck on your run tomorrow. sounds like you have quite a busy week coming up...make sure to get your rest.

Nancy- a cold movie theatre was a great idea today. Glad you made it through the whole movie. Good job Thomas

Lisa- Your trip sounds like so much fun. I agree everything seems to have increased in price. I just cant stand it anymore. Im speaking openly now and I hope I dont offend anyone....I was so aggravated at the grocery store the other night. Here I am struggling to put good food on our table and heres a family checking out in front of me with 4 kids all well dressed in brand names including all of them in bright and shiny jordan sneakers. They bought their groceries with their access (gov. assist card). As I walk outside with the few bags of food I could afford I see them loading their groceries into their cadillac escalade. I seriously wanted to hurt those people. I am so annoyed anymore about stuff like this. I work my but off and these people are reaping the benefits more than I am. Now I know and believe there are people who truly need the assistance but its times like this that just gets my blood boiling. Anyway I really went on a rant here but yes I noticed just about everything has gone up except my paycheck...hopefully soon that will change.


Kathy- I hope you have a great weekend and that the tent stays cool for you.

Hi Maria and Liesel

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Mike got out early and picked up the boys at my moms so at 5 I left work and came right home. It felt so nice!!!! We had turkey bbq sandwiches for dinner and they were yummy. I am also happy to report a 2lb loss this week. It is the same 2lbs I have been loosing this challenge but its a loss none the less. My goal now is to keep it off plus loose more! I can do it!

Funny kid story to share: We heard them upstairs and could tell they were playing cops and bad guys. Then I heard Ryan: "where are you hiding your drugs", Nick: "Its in my pocket officer", Ryan: You better stop resisting arrest or you will get tazered" Wow I guess those times we let them watch cops with us probably wasnt the greatest idea. I had a talk about how this isnt the right thing for little boys to be playing and that if they play cops one person can be a robber and the cop has to catch them. So then we here this: Ryan: "put your hands up robber" Nick: "I didnt do anything officer I was home with my wife" Honestly its quite the entertainment around here.

We have no plans for tonight or tomorrow. The kids races were cancelled tomorrow do to the severe heat warning. I was happy about that. We have our Central air set at 73 and its 78 in here. We checked that it was working and it is but its so hot out it cant even cool it down. Its insane and yes nancy I hate to even complain about my house being 78 vs 73 after reading your post about somalia so Im not complaining by any means I am just saying.

Ok well I hope you all enjoy your friday evening.