Biggest Loser Princess and Tinker Bell 2011 and 2012 -- OLD please see NEW thread

[mikamah]

Good evening!

I loved the princess photos, Rose! They really made my night. I hope the insurance can get settled and you don't have to pay that much. That is ridiculous. Your trip sounds awesome. I had to do the math, but looks like 9 days 8 nights away. Awesome!!

Lindsay-Good work with the healthy eating. I'm doing pretty good, but not perfect. I didn't start tracking again and need to do that. I don't know why it seems so hard this week. I'm glad it's the weekend, and tomorrow I'll be able to hire my personal assistant with my mega millions to track my food for me.

LisaR_Michael had fun picking his numbers and tonight we had a good chuckle talking about what we will do with the money. He is going to buy a ladder so he can climb up into the attic crawl space. We laughed so hard, 640 million dollars and I'll buy a ladder. I'm looking forward to paying off my family's mortgages, and being able to commit to marathon weekend 2013!!!

Dottie-Glad fil did well with the bx. Prayer for some positive news and a plan. How fun is it to embarrass our children. Sounds like ds probably loved it a little too.

Jen- Love listening to kids laugh so hard they pee. Even if its more work for you.

Dona-Hello there! Love to see you poppin in over here too.

Hello Nancy, Maria, LisaH, and all our other friends out there!!

I was on facebook and the mom of a boy on michael's baseball team last year messaged me. She heard what team her son is on, and michael's not on it. It's kind of a bummer. We had a fun time last year, making fun of our children, and then cheering really loudly when the coaches started being a bit negative later in the season. Ah, good times. I just hope his coach this year remembers that little old ideal of good sportsmanship. I'm hoping for coach Joe M., and I'll be thrilled if he gets him. We should hear over the weekend since sunday is the final baseball clinic night. I can't believe april 1st is here already.

We are going to bed early tonight, so time to get the boy moving. Have a great weekend everyone!!

 

[mikamah]

I knew I forgot something. Rose, who am I supposed to cheer for tomorrow, Kentucky or Louisville? It must be crazy in your neck of the woods. I hope your team wins!!

 

[Rose&Mike]

I knew I forgot something. Rose, who am I supposed to cheer for tomorrow, Kentucky or Louisville? It must be crazy in your neck of the woods. I hope your team wins!!

Kentucky.

Yep, a little crazy. The race starts at U of L's football stadium and I told Mike no wearing UK shirts tomorrow morning. The police have plans for handling issues after the game tomorrow. Be glad when it is over.

We actually bought $20 worth of lottery tickets. We never buy lottery tickets. I texted Tom to tell him we were buying tickets and he said he was too. And there is a pool at Mike's work. Just crazy. Mike and I were talking about what a ridiculous amount of money that is.

Dona--we are staying in Marathon--which is between Key Largo and Key West. I don't eat seafood, but I know Mike is excited about it. We are both excited about this trip. We've been wanting to go to the Keys for a while.

Ok, back to being stressed out about the race.

 

[Worfiedoodles]

Good Afternoon, PrinTinkaDonMickeys!

Rose -- I can't wait to hear that you had an awesome race, I just know it's coming! I imagine it is very crazy in your neck of the woods right now. I'm going to watch a sci fi movie and just avoid it altogether...for some reason college basketball just doesn't draw me in. Your Princess photo album is awesome! I'm lovin' it! Your anniversary plans are wonderful -- what a fantastic way to celebrate 25 fabulous years!

Kathy -- Best of luck with the coaching situation! It is true that the coach can make a big difference. I admit I'm glad Ben is done with the organized sports. It is a shame because he has a runner's build, but he couldn't be less interested in running.

Nancy -- hey, whatever gets you to your goal is good I am so proud of you for sticking with it with everything you have going on right now. You are full of WISH spirit!

Lindsay -- I made my Friday good. It was a pretty stressful morning at work, so I treated myself to watching a Jane Marple on netflix before my hair appt. in the afternoon. Unfortunately, I also treated myself to three small bags of chips, but that is another story (all accounted for, WW is helping me in that regard!). No boredom here, I just go to bed if I can't find anything better to do. I'm always tired enough to sleep, so not an issue I'm reading a murder mystery, so that is keeping my evenings entertaining.

LisaR -- What a lovely evening you had. That sounds so nice, roasting the garlic and then heading out to join your family...hopefully not in thundersnow! That is something I think I'd like to experience once for the novelty.

Dona -- So great to see you post! How are the plans coming for your family trip? I believe you said BLT was going to be your homebase -- how exciting!

Dottie -- Wow, hope you had a Happy Birthday -- 'cause you needed it after your slip at TKD That is a great story, even when we aren't trying to embarrass them, somehow we manage to...sending for your FIL's results

Jen -- I pulled back on the LRs after Princess, I need to get some weight off, and that means being active more days, which I just can't do if I run 10M every Saturday. I run 4M before work three days a week, and then the LR on Saturday. I get up around 5 during the week, and I'm usually on the TM 8ish on Saturdays, for however long it takes. It's just a priority in my household. Dennis is doing LRs on Saturday mornings, too, so that helps. During the week I'm off the TM in time to say goodbye to Ben before he heads out for the day. He doesn't need us to get his breakfast or get him ready anymore, so that makes a big difference. You can fit them in, it took me awhile to find a schedule that works, don't be afraid to experiment until you find the right combination

LisaH -- Couldn't forget you -- we're getting ready to watch our 2012 Disney planning dvd! I hope you are having as much fun as I am right now

I slept through my workout yesterday. I had to get up at 2:30 and take a claritin, so by the time I was asleep again 5am was not happening. I think I needed the rest but I regret it because I ate far too much yesterday (all accounted for and I am far from blowing the week, but still...) I knew I had too many carbs when I woke up in the middle of the night hungry. I'm going to definitely curb them today so I'm back to my normal eating.

I ran 5M this morning, and it was the first time since Princess I approached my normal speed. It felt good, but I could use a nap right now. Ben has a lock-in at church tonight, so Dennis and I are going to my favorite Mexican place. I can have shrimp fajitas (no tortillas), a serving of chips and salsa, and 1-2 glasses of sangria. I decided to be flexible with those points, we may have a drink in the bar before we are seated. They put so much ice in the glasses, I'm probably not getting the full points, but I'm still counting them

We are skipping the traditional pancake breakfast at church tomorrow (no, I do not want to waste my points that way), and just going for church. I hope to walk for an hour on the TM tomorrow afternoon. I'm trying to get an hour of exercise in most days.

I helped my friend purchase MYW tickets yesterday. It is becoming very real for her. She can't believe how much planning she has to do -- ok, wants to do. I told her should could go tomorrow and she'd have a great time, but she wants in-depth plans for the Parks, so I'm going to help her with those next.

It is fun planning her trip -- but I wish I hadn't given her all my books, because I'd like to work on ours

Have a great evening!
Maria

 

[Rose&Mike]

Race Report
Papa John's 10 Miler; cloudy, ~60 and humid at the start

I was pretty anxious before this race. The last race I ran that didn't end up with an injury/ and or rehab was Princess 2011!

We picked up our numbers, etc the night before. If we do this race again i think we will just pick it up on race day since the expo was a non-event. I did see the needling guy from my pts office there, but I did not stop and say hi.

We got everything ready the night before and were able to sleep until 5:45. Which was awesome! I woke up a bunch, but fell back asleep. I had a half a piece of pb&j toast and some hot water and did some stretches. My back felt fabulous on Friday, and was stiff in the morning but I told it (my back) that it was not going to give me any problems today. Yes, I have resorted to talking to my back.

We left our house at 6:30 and were parked and ready to go by 7:00. It was about a 10 minute walk to the start. They were playing music and everyone kind of meandered in. We probably started up too far, but we were there so early we just wandered toward the front. I saw more women in full makeup here than at the Princess. I felt slightly under made up. Seriously this one chick who looked like a serious runner had on major eyeliner, etc. More makeup than I normally wear anywhere. It was impressive!

Ok, sorry off topic. The Papa Johns camaro (from the commercials, PJs started in Louisville) was the official pace car, which was cool. It was a very anti-climatic start. There were ~9000 people signed up for this race, but only 6912 had finishing times. I think a bunch of people went to NOLA for the game!

The first 3 miles were pretty flat. And fast. We didn't take the first two walk breaks cause it was so crowded. We were running ~9:15 pace and I knew I needed a break if I was going to keep that up. We were doing run 2:00 walk 30sec. I really, really like this interval. At mile 3ish we were at a 9:50 average pace. That is when we entered Iroquois Park. Miles 3-6 are rolling hills through Iroquois Park. It was rough. This one girl running near us kept leaning back on the downhills and I just wanted to push her forward--her butt is going to KILL her tomorrow! The Park was mentally tough. By the end of the park we were about .1 over the actual distance--we tried to stay to the outside for walk breaks.

Leaving the park is a nice downhill--where we skipped a walk break or two and then it's back the way you came--which was pretty flat. I was very nervous when we left the park that I was running out of steam and that my time was going to suffer, but once we got away from those hills I started feeling better.

Mile 7-8 I did the traditional race day--why do I find this fun???--questioning. Mile 8 I started getting really tired/rubber legs. Mile 9 started with a BIG highway overpass down to Cardinal Stadium. It was hard. We took one walk break up the overpass and then Mike said--ok you can go the rest of the way without stopping. And I thought I could.

But at about 9.6ish I started getting dizzy so we took a walk break. And I am really glad we did. This was right before we entered the stadium. We got to run around the football field--which was cool. But it was turf and very very spongy. I think if I would have hit that dizzy it would not have been good. I had rubber legs at that point and just wanted to be done! I ran across the finish line--but did not give it that usual hard push. Just kept running and was very, very happy to finish!

I had a banana and an apple (which was yummy) and some pb and gf pretzels that we brought along. Mike had a piece of pizza. They had bagels too but he didn't want one.

Overall, I was very pleased with this race. it was well run and interesting. The hills were challenging, but doable. Mike made a comment when we finished that maybe we went out to fast, but our splits were essentially identical, which I think is awesome and once he realized that he thought it was good too.

It was SUCH a relief to finish with only normal aches and pains. I am definitely sore, and I left nothing out there. And I need to ice and stretch and show up for Yoga on Monday, but I truly believe that maybe I am on the mend this time.

Here's my stats. I am really pleased. We saw Mike's old boss when we left and he commented that he was surprised that Mike didn't run away from me. Yes, it was the day for inane comments. But I am happy to say that we beat him. Which made me happy. I will take my small victories wherever I can find them.

Thank you all for being my friends, and listening to all the pt/rehab/injury stories. Hopefully that is a thing of the past.
Oh--our final distance on my garmin was 10.17. I was aiming for below a 10:15 per mile pace, so I think if you add the extra distance, I hit it.

Distance
10M

Clock Time
1:43:15

Chip Time
1:42:44

Overall Place
3252 / 6912

Gender Place
1227 / 3793

Division Place
188 / 529

5Mi
51:14

 

[Rose&Mike]

Maria--have fun tonight! Enjoy that sangria tonight! I did not like college bb until we moved here. And I still prefer football and baseball, but they kind of breathe it around here. It's hard not to get sucked into it!

Dottie--love the embarrass the kid story. I still embarrass mine! Hope things are going ok at your house this weekend.

Kathy--I hope you get a good coach--or at least some other cool parents!

Nancy--I showed Mike that sandbox. He was very impressed! How's the tummy?

Lisah--nap today?

LisaR--I need to roast me some garlic! i don't know why I always forget about that. yum!

Lindsay--are you relaxing at all this weekend?

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Ok, I think it is finally g-f beer time! Have a good Saturday.

 

[dumbo_buddy]

Rose- I will be getting to WDW on may 19th. Any chance for a meet-up??

 

[donac]

Good SUnday morning

Congrats Rose on your race. I am glad that you had such a great run. YOu have a lot to be proud of .

I just wanted to fill you guys in on what I have been up to.

We just finished two weekends of the local high school's production of ANnie get Your Gun. It was a lot of fun and hard work on the costumes. If you don't know I have been working with the local high school (not the one I teach at but the one my sons went to since it is 5 minutes from my house)

The week after the show I then had to work on some costumes for the 50th anniversary show. This was fun since it was all adults working on the show. They were so happy with whatever we did. It also helped that my son and his gf and my friend's daughter were in it. My son had no big parts but he was in at least 8 different numbers and got to perform with his gf. It was a wonderful night with some great performances.

I am in the process of planning my AUg trip. I have 3 nights at All Star Music in a family suite and then there will be 5 nights at BLT MKV. We have all our ADR's planned. With just our family we have just one for SciFi. With the rest of the family we have The Plaza (MK), Via Napoli, LeCellier and Trails End in FW. There is also a reservation for tea but I don't know if I am going to do that. Most are for lunch or 5 in the evening so that we don't eat too late. We don't usually have this many reservations but we have 12 people in the group so we felt we needed it. Also I think with so many adults (My family and our two sons and their gfs, my sister, her dh, their two daughters and one of their friends and another sister. There is only one person who will not be 21. )I think we are going all over the place and it will be nice to have one time to get together during the day.

I am looking at air fares and am not like what I see. I have also checked autotrain but we need to see what is going on.

I am also on the look out for a discount on my room. I am hoping that this will come out this week.

I will be checking in every now and then to see how you guys are doing.

Have a happy and healthy day.

 

[dumbo_buddy]

hi dona!! so glad you popped in! sounds like the show was great! oooo and some trip planning...yay! i'm curious about the all star suites - they look pretty cool. BLT MK view will be fabulous. we loved our stay there in september (just lake view though).

maria - how was dinner? i remember lock ins from when i was a kid. thinking about it now just makes me sleepy!

kathy - i know my kids are going to want to play baseball and i hope we get good coaches who are into sportsmanship. my cousins are in the local league (one is 12 and the other is almost 9) and some of the coaches are crazy! how's poko??

lindsay - ok spill - what ADRs are you going for?

rose - not that your anniversary trip will be about seeing a crazy family from the bronx but....we'll be in disney from may 19-26th.. so....maybe we can catch up for a drink or something? being with two little boys is the opposite of relaxing so maybe just a fly-by hello? up to you! we only have a few ADRs in the beginning of our trip when that couple will be there with us (just til tuesday) and then the rest of the week is completely free except for the KTTK tour that i'll be doing on wednesday. i hope we can make something work!

lisar - sounds like dan's run went well! when and where is the race? oh and thundersnow? we had that last winter and it was nutso! last winter was when we had like a billion inches of snow. when that thunder started i remember all the local people on facebook putting statuses on like, "WTH IS THAT?!?" lol!

dottie- how was your birthday?? and FIL? thinking about you!

jen - how much longer til the trip? did we get a full run down on the planning yet? did i miss it? i need to look further!

lisah - more arizona pics please!!

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ok guys. so....things have just been so nutso lately. it's like one thing after the other. i know they say when it rains it pours but sometimes things can just get out of hand! we had a nice time at the easter egg hunt but my stomach was still hurting from the night before! i just felt so blah. thought maybe it was just the weather because it was cold and rainy. after we got home i started to feel even worse and ran out to the drugstore. i just had a feeling.....and yep....i'm pregnant.




can you believe it??! you can't??? good because....april fools day! hehe. just kidding!

my stomach is actually still bothering me so i think i'll go in for that colonoscopy/endoscopy after easter. john's colonoscopy came back great by the way, don't know if i reported that. no sign of crohn's! woot!

john is sleeping in because the baby didn't sleep great last night so i'm not getting in my morning run. darn. i think i will go after they get back from soccer. while john and thomas are at soccer i'm going to take matty to mass for palm sunday. can't believe easter is next week.

what are you doing for easter? what do you do for the kids? we are going to PA to the crazy in laws. ick. i've managed to stay away from their house for almost a year and a half so i guess i have to go.

ok, need more coffee. xoxo

 

[Rose&Mike]

Rose- I will be getting to WDW on may 19th. Any chance for a meet-up??

OMG! Absolutely! We will be there the 19th, 23rd, 24th, and morning of the 25th! Too exciting!!!!

I thought you were going earlier in the month!!!

 

[Rose&Mike]

Seriously Nancy, almost had a stroke.

 

[Worfiedoodles]

Nancy, you win!

Maria

 

[lisah0711]

Seriously Nancy, almost had a stroke.

Nancy, you win!

Maria

Isn't that the truth?!?

 

[lisah0711]

Good morning fellow athletes!

This is the best greeting ever, Maria!

I'm breaking things up into two short replies. I was reading along while I was gone -- just hard to reply using mostly the iPhone.

Dottie, so, so sorry to hear about your FIL. It is a tough row to hoe, for sure. Jake may take it better than you think he will -- seems sometimes that the kids handle it better than the adults.

SO lets talk more about fitting in those runs....You guys are doing some amazingly long runs that I am guessing at times are taking over an hour...how are you fitting that in? I know a lot of it is just getting up and doing it but I am not a morning person so getting up and running in the morning would be like beating my head against the wall....after work I feel like I have to get home and spend time with family...I had for a long while been going to the gym after work but I leave the house before they get up and then I don't get home till pushing 7 so I feel guilty that I have not seen them all day and may only see them 1-2 hours when I get home....just like others I find it extemely difficult to find "ME" time regardless of how important it may be.....

The good news is that the really, really long runs that take over two hours are only at the end of your training and there are just a few so it's not too bad. I'm an early bird so that won't help you. I think that you just have to do them and not worry about the guilt. The truth is that your family will be better for Mom taking some time for herself to work on an important goal for her. Really!

DOTTIE hope you had an amazing day!! I think I will have a piece of left over cake for you....that is just the kind of person I am

It's amazing how close your birthdays are together!

Dottie, embarrassing our teenage children is our right as parents!

Rose, a big woo hoo and for being back on maintain. And a big for the PT billing.

Maria, another big and and for your weigh in! A one pound adjustment is fabulous and I know you will be seeing those numbers you are looking for on the scale very, very soon.

Kathy, I did pre-natal yoga, too. It was fun. Actually I really enjoy yoga -- I'm really good at the part where you lie on the floor and do nothing!

Lindsay, nothing says spring like a couple of pretty new dresses!

Lisa, so glad that you are safe and far away from the fires!

Thanks for all the nice comments on my pictures! I was just posting them on FB 'cause I didn't want to make people's eyes glaze over by whipping out my Tinker Bell CD on my visit!

I'm probably about to get in trouble with the smilie police so I will stop for now. BRB.

 

[lisah0711]

Hello again!

Rose, I'm so glad that you had a great race yesterday and best of all no injuries! Your anniversary trip sounds so wonderful! And a little BL Princess meet to add to it!

Lisa, congratulations to Dan on his long run! I thought it was very sweet of him to acknowledge how hard it is to carry on your normal activities after!

I'd never heard of thundersnow at all until a few years ago. Jim Cantore made it sound like it happened all the time back East -- I've never heard it ever until recently.

Lindsay, hope that you didn't spend your Friday night cleaning. Congratulations on being in ONE-derland again for good! You are so rocking it with all your activity.

Maria, how was the planning DVD? Tell us all about what you have planned so far! Hope your lockee isn't too cranky today. Life is pretty sad here where it is the last day of spring break.

Jen, have a wonderful time on your trip!

Dottie, hang in there!

Nancy, so sorry about the tummy. But, boy, did you have me going for a few seconds this morning. My mouth was hanging open and everything.

Dona, airfares are crazy right now. Does Southwest fly out of an airport near you? If you sign up for their emails, they seem to be having specials every Tuesday. I'm figuring those airlines are going to have to blink soon and have some better prices or their planes will be empty this summer.

Rose, loved the race report, too.

I had just been talking with JG about pushing it at the end of a race -- you know in his books he says you can run the last few miles in a race if you are up to it. I was asking if you ever trained to do that 'cause you know I never just run for any length of time. I have my 5 mile race coming up here on 4/22 and I'm wanting to push it and come in below 80 minutes -- my first race was 1:48 and last year it was 88 minutes. (I see our Rose did her 5 miles in 51 minutes but I'm not in her league). His suggestion was to try 40/20, 60/30 and 90/30 intervals at the end of my short runs to see which I liked best. He said those short walks will help you to run faster during the running parts. Then he told me to be sure I didn't run any faster than 5/55 on my 8.5 miles today. I'm going to give the faster intervals a try today.

I'm done with the bike portion of the Krocman! It is cold, snowy and sleety here and I wish I could stay home and snuggle under my electric blanket but the thought of telling my coach I bagged my long run is getting me out the door this morning.

I'll have to see if Ed took any other Arizona pictures because I didn't -- sorry! It was a nice trip. Robert really enjoyed it -- he must have told me a dozen times how much fun he was having. It was stressful for me with both families. No big drama or anything but just a lot of pressure, probably mostly put there by me. My sister isn't speaking to me or my Mom so there was that to deal with, too. Let's just say that I'm looking forward to hanging out by the pool at Old Key West with a pina colova or two!

Have a great day ladies! I missed you all!

 

[liesel]

Nancy Best April Fool's joke ever!! Seriously, I hope your stomach is OK. for John being Chron's free.

Maria I had a sangria yesterday too.

Rose Thanks for the race report, I'm glad you had a good race. Is someone contemplating a solo w&d trip, thus tempting me to do a solo trip as well?!

Lisa for the bike portion being done. Sorry for the family drama, I'm glad you still had a good trip.

Lindsay I know you'll be in onederland to stay!

OP eating and 3 mile run in the same day. Its a miracle! I've been doing one or the other lately and I need to get it together-7 1/2 weeks until my bday and I want to be in onederland by then.

I had better go to the grocery store, have a wonderful evening!

 

[camnhan]

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Here is our plan for May for our 25th anniversary. We will be gone from the 18th to the 26th.

18th--work half day (Mike); drive to south of Atlanta (about 600 miles)


19th--drive remaining 270ish miles to WDW. Visit Epcot for end of flower show. Hang out at pool. Have dinner. (not sure where yet. We have a room ressie at OKW, but hoping our BWV waitlist comes through).

20th--early breakfast. On the road by 8:15 am and drive to Key Largo. Ride glass bottom boat at John Pennekamp state park. Drive to Marathon. Stay in Marathon 3 nights (20, 21, 22)

21--drive to Key West. Tour Key West. I already found a restaurant that said they will do g-f.

22--snorkeling and kayaking in the keys. I will be honest here--I am TERRIFIED of snorkeling. But Mike really wants to so I am going to try. We snorkeled at the sea world dolphin thingy and that was scary enough!

23--leave early and drive to BWV. Afternoon drinks by the pool. Anniversary dinner at California Gill at 9:30 w/ fireworks. I am so excited about this!

24--something at Disney--not sure what. Need to make dinner ressies.

25--DHS opening to see some Star Wars stuff! Late (or early) breakfast at Kouzzina. Leave early afternoon to drive to SC. Visit with Tom.

26--breakfast with Tom. Drive home.

I still have some planning to do, but I am excited. [/QUOTE]



We are doing CG at 9:20 for our anniversary dinner !!!!!!!
Can't believe I am going to miss you both by a month
Sounds like everyone had a good weekend.... I ate my way through it and can tell am up like 3 lbs what an idiot I am!!!
17 days till Disney and I am gaining weight

Good news, I have committed to a 5K the first week of may so need to get my butt in gear!

Well just wanted to check in real fast before I called it a night... Zachary slept foe 3 hrs today so I am only going to get to cat nap as he will be up for hours yet....

 

[donac]

Lisa thanks for the suggestion about SOuthwest. They do fly out of Phillie. We are thinking about leaving out of Phillie since my ds2 and his gf are at Rowan University and that is just outside of Philladelphia. We can pick them up on our way to the airport.

Nancy nice APril Fools joke. You had me going for a while.

I am going to miss Rose and Nancy at DW by 3 months.

 

[dumbo_buddy]

Seriously Nancy, almost had a stroke.

Nancy, you win!

Maria

Isn't that the truth?!?

hehe silly me. it's funny....because it actually happened last year!

Jim Cantore made it sound like it happened all the time back East -- I've never heard it ever until recently.

ok, am i totally crazy to admit that i love jim cantore?

I had just been talking with JG about pushing it at the end of a race -- you know in his books he says you can run the last few miles in a race if you are up to it. I was asking if you ever trained to do that 'cause you know I never just run for any length of time. I have my 5 mile race coming up here on 4/22 and I'm wanting to push it and come in below 80 minutes -- my first race was 1:48 and last year it was 88 minutes. (I see our Rose did her 5 miles in 51 minutes but I'm not in her league). His suggestion was to try 40/20, 60/30 and 90/30 intervals at the end of my short runs to see which I liked best. He said those short walks will help you to run faster during the running parts. Then he told me to be sure I didn't run any faster than 5/55 on my 8.5 miles today. I'm going to give the faster intervals a try today.

wow lisa! 1:48 in one race and 88 min in another? that's such a great improvement! must because you're in onederland! what intervals does JG run at (with? in? what is the right preposition here?)? i love that he gave you such thought-through advice. he seems like a really good guy, right? what intervals did you use for the tink?

My sister isn't speaking to me or my Mom so there was that to deal with, too.

wait...what? what's going on there? phooey for family drama!

i can't wait to hear about OKW. we might stay there in jan...

OP eating and 3 mile run in the same day. Its a miracle! I've been doing one or the other lately and I need to get it together-7 1/2 weeks until my bday and I want to be in onederland by then.

you go lisa! onederland by your birthday sounds like a great goal!

hey rose, lisa's birthday is may 23rd...sounds like we should have a cocktail together to celebrate lisa, want to come join us???

17 days till Disney and I am gaining weight

Good news, I have committed to a 5K the first week of may so need to get my butt in gear!

jen, get it together lady! no gaining before disney! i always use disney as a great way to motivate myself to LOSE! that way i can really indulge on the frozen margaritas and soft pretzels! keep the 5k race in your head and think about that before eating too much. summer is coming and we all need to squeeze into bathing suits soon!

Lisa thanks for the suggestion about SOuthwest. They do fly out of Phillie. We are thinking about leaving out of Phillie since my ds2 and his gf are at Rowan University and that is just outside of Philladelphia. We can pick them up on our way to the airport.

Nancy nice APril Fools joke. You had me going for a while.

I am going to miss Rose and Nancy at DW by 3 months.

darn! it would have been fun to meet up! how far from philly are you? and newark is more expensive? have you checked out continental or delta out of newark? which is closer? i flew out of newark dec. '10 to mco because it was alot cheaper. also, have you signed up for airfarewatchdog? they send me an email almost every day telling me prices from LGA to MCO (lga is 15 min away from us so our airport of choice). you may catch a deal on there.

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thomas slept his first night in a big boy bed and it was a success! after we closed the door and turned off the light he screamed for about 15 minutes "get me out of here! mommy! daddy! help! get me out!!" but then fell asleep. he woke up this morning and just sat in bed until i got him and changed his disgusting poop. guess that's the next step...we'll wait til after disney to deal with the potty.

baby slept in thomas's crib and did pretty good. we put him in the guest room and now the house is full of JUNK all over the place from moving all sorts of clothes, linens, etc around. so much cleaning to do today!

the gal that does mommy and me with me caught her son's stomach bug so i'll be solo today. hoping we don't get it. don't think my stomach can take anymore ick feeling! have to schedule that lovely colonoscopy

ok, time for breakfast, more coffee, shower, and "baby school". have a great day everyone!! xoxo

 

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Good morning athletes!! Hello from me, the dog walker. Not feeling very athletic lately.

Nancy-You are evil and I loooove it. So glad you aren't pregnant, but you stay away from that husband of yours til his post snip-snip check. Don't want your little joke to jinx you. I love Matty. Do you call him that all the time? So cute. So happy John's colonoscopy went will and was negative for crohns. I'm glad you are going to have things checked out. Will they do the gastro and colon the same day? Hopefully you can get it all done at once, and have everything checked out, and get you feeling better. I'm sure nerves don't help in that department. I'm so jealous of your wdw trip and meet up with Rose and Mike.
Poko is good. She really is such a good doggy. I'm so lucky. She hardly ever barks, have I told you that. Occas out the window at a cat or dog walking by, but even if we are out walking and other dogs are barking and going nuts, she wags her tail and just smiles at them. Now the jumping up on people thing, is really her worst trait. But we're working on that. Oh, and the occassional poop-eating. She loves our new couches, and is only in the crate on work days. It's nice to be able to run out for an errand on the weekends and leave her out.
Just saw your post. Sweet little Thomas in his big boy bed. So glad he slept so well.

Rose-Love the race report, and love, love how good you felt afterwards!! I am so happy for you. I'm glad you beat Mikes old boss too!! Love that!! What's next on the agenda for you? Kentucky derby half?

LisaH_Welcome home and back to reality. Sorry the trip had some stress. What's up with your sister? Silly girl, here you are coming for a visit and she isn't talking to you. Sheesh. Hope she gets over herself, and things turn around. When are you going to OKW? I can't remember. Is it a family trip. I'm having a hard time keeping everyone's trips straight. Except for mine which is not happening this year. Whaaahhhh! Funny michael was playing with his yeti-everest car this morning saying he was on Untamed at Canobie lake park, and I said, you must be on Everest, that's an everest car, and he said, "no, i can't remember everest it's been so long since we've been there." What a heart breaker. It's only been just over a year. But man he knows how to pull the heartstrings. I need to get him back. asap. He can't remember everest. I'm being really good with money, fingers crossed his memory will be jogged on marathon weekend.

Maria-You and ww have totally inspired me to try ww again. I pulled out my points plus book, and started ww yesterday. I am going to do the points plus plan as it's written, not like I've done it before, if I didn't know a point value, I'd use the old ones. It was hard to take 3 points for a light hamburger roll, but I did it. And planning next weekend too, 3 points for light beer or 4 oz of wine. I'd better get to earning some activity points. Hope you had a fun night and enjoyed that sangria.

LisaR-How's the exercise going? I feel like the good eating vibes got here yesterday from you. Gotta do it!! Hope you had a good weekend.

Lindsay-Is it official? Do we need to have another ONE_derland party? I don't want to start partying til I get the official word, but I am ready!!!

Jen-I agree with the others and it is hard to fit your exercise in but it is worth it in how it makes you feel. Yay for a 5k!!!

Dottie-Hope you are doing ok.

Dona-Your disney trip sounds just amazing. It sounds like meeting up for a meal each day is the perfect solution, and even if some of you might skip a meal or two, you have it as an option. Remember this is yours and dh's vacation too, and you need to have fun together, and not make it all about keeping everyone else happy.

Hello to anyone else out there!! I feel like I missed someone.

Well, I am a very, very happy baseball mom! Michael got the coach I was hoping for, so I was thrilled and even more as I read the email, his assistant coach is the brother of my sisters best friend, so we know him well also. Funny there is a disney connection too. When my dad died in 95, my sister was planning to go to disney the following april with her best friend and her whole family, this coach included with his pregnant wife. After my dad died, my mom, me, brother, and sister decided to go too. So in total there was more than 20 people there, but it was such an amazing time. We had one nephew who was 5, but their family had I think 5 kids under the age of 7. I think back and my mom had such an amazing time, and what a nice escape it must have been for her after losing her husband. Soooo anyway, I am totally thrilled with the coaches!! And his friend Max is on the team too, my friend karens' son, so it is going to be a fun year!! And if there's an early practice, karen would be able to pick us ds for me from fun club.

The weekend went by way too fast. Now if the work week would speed by I'd be happy.

I'm on 10-2 today and then ds has a orthodontist appt. I'm hoping for a watch and wait again. Marathon weekend depends on that.

Have a marvelous monday everyone!!