I was doing really well this week, fell off the wagon a bit today, but i should be getting my monthly friend this weekend and i was REALLY stressed out yesterday so I knew this would happen. Doesn't excuse it but unlike every other time i fall off the wagon im not letting this ruin my weekend. Back on traack tomorrow.
Good idea! Your stress level will thank you for getting back on track. No sense in letting the stress of eating off plan add to your current stress level!
Yesterday was my boyfriend's birthday and we ended up getting in a huge huge huge fight. I thought we were breaking up. It was a really bad day and I stayed over there last night and we talked and worked everything out but I still feel a bit off. We don't have BIG fights very often so it throws me off and im having trouble getting past it.
I'm so sorry. I know how you feel. When DH and I have had the occasional blow-out, I feel like I'm walking on eggshells for a few days. I have the terrible moment, mid-fight when I really HATE him (or at least hate whatever aspect we are fighting about).... but when things blow over, I realize that I don't want to live my life without him. He really is a great guy and I need to remind myself of that when his little habits start to drive me whack-o!
I'm sure you are having all of these feelings today too. Maybe a run or good brisk walk could bring on some "happy" endorphins?
Work has been crazy. I'm sorry I scared you all with my loose snake story haha! Happens all the time at my work. I went to my other manager today and told her about how boss boss did not allow me to take my break on Wed and that i didnt think that was right. I doubt anything will come of it but I feel better having told her about it.
You DO need to speak up about it when things like that happen. Even if nothing comes of it, at least you will know that you stood up for yourself. But if it continues to happen regularly, you should document it and mention it again.
Let's see, my favorite tv shows? Haha how much time do you guys have? I watch A LOT of tv. I write for an entertainment blog and i also have insomnia so that sort of happens when you combine those two things. Some shows I can think of offf the top of my head that i'm looking foward to are:
Doctor Who which started last week
Misfits
Sherlock
Criminal Minds
Community
Parks and Rec
30 Rocks
Archer
Its Always Sunny
Downton Abby
Fringe
Glee
Modern Family
Probably more but thats all I can think of off the top of my head. And half of those are UK shows. I watch a lot of UK tv.
Speaking of tv I'm going to go watch some now and relax before bed. Off tomorrow, going to do homework and then go to an end of summer party at my boyfriend's aunts house.
Gotta admit, I didn't recognize the names of most of those shows..... figured I was living in under a rock or something.... glad you mentioned they were mostly UK shows.
I did enjoy Modern Family a few times when it first came out, but I just don't have much tv time in the fall/winter and I usually save it for my reality shows.
Care to share a link to your blog?
Thanks for all of the great responses regarding my Fall/Winter wardrobe.
I have a feeling that once I go through my stuff from last year, I might find a few things that I can use as "starter" pieces. I have a habit of buying things that "don't quite fit YET" - so I might be able to shop right from my closet.
After I do that - I'll have to tackle my "miscellaneous" clothes. I have waaaaay too many lounging/sleeping clothes, too much underwear and more socks than I can count. (And I'll wear flip flops until it snows - so I don't need too many socks!!)
I envy minimalists
- Laura
I know how you feel about the louging/sleeping clothes. For some reason I kept getting pajamas for a few year for Christmas. And I am the type to usually "save" the new stuff until the old stuff wears out. Well.... maybe I should just mention that my current favorite winter pajamas were bought when I was PG with DS who is 13 1/2!!
(yup, I've had to take them in a few times.... all the buttons are gone and I've sewn the front shut, and they are totally RATTY!)
Anyhow, needless to say that lead to many years of "saving" pajamas! And DH was working with Vermont Teddy Bear and their affiliate, Pajama-grams for a few years, so I got some beautiful pajamas from him.... but I kept saving them! I cleaned out my closet last year and gave my mother TWO beautiful sets of size XL flannel pajamas from Pajama-grams.... complete in their fancy boxes and all! THen I cleaned out my pajama drawer and put another few things in the Goodwill bag. And maybe, just maybe, this winter I will let those ratty 14 year old jammies go to the dump.... maybe.
Yes, there is guy/guy kissing later in the season. I wouldn't say I'm comfortable with it, but it's also one of those things where you've been waiting for them to get together for so long (like, literally yelling at the TV week after week) that when it happened all of my friends and I were pretty much doing this:
Also, Mom called a little bit ago. Our Magical Express stuff came in the mail today!
I'm not homophobic, but I would like to be prepared for this I suppose. Actually, I would like to be prepared for anything like that, be it girl/girl, girl/boy, or boy/boy..... because it may mean it is something that my 13 year old shouldn't be watching. I had a little "moment" last night when Finn was praying to his "grilled Chees-us" about touching Rachel's chest (I know that the Dis would bleep out b**b). And then, of course, he got to touch it. I'm not sure what DS was thinking at that moment. DD and I were chuckling a bit. I will talk to him about it today when we are alone. Then of course, there were the cheerleaders (Santana and Brittany??) who were making out??? What the heck was that all about??? Weird.
I know, in some ways, this is kind of "real life"..... kids do stuff like this. But honestly, couldn't it just be a nice show about Glee club with lots of cool music and dancing and a bit of drama?? oh well. Guess I'll just have to think of it as lots of good "teaching" moments!
We're in single digits until we get on the road to head to our new home! I'm a little worried about the storm near the gulf so keeping an eye on it. Hoping everything will be okay by the time we leave.
I had a really hard afternoon. I was almost in a panic attack when I couldn't find the photo albums that I have of Josh and Maddie pictures. I spent Josh's entire deployment in 07 putting those together. The more I pack up the more I realize I still haven't found them. Alan keeps reassuring me that we have them even though I've not come across them. I'm praying I just packed them away in a box and forgot about them.
To get everything off of my mind I had to get out of the house. I went over to my mom's and hung out with her and my uncle who I've not seen in YEARS. It was a nice 6 hours to get away from all the stress and not worry about anything. I may go over tomorrow for a few hours and hang out. Then come home and tackle things I need to finish up.
I know one thing is for sure. I'm going to be sleeping like a baby the beginning part of next week. I have 7 training sessions left to burn before I leave. I'm doubling up sessions on M, Tues, W with another trainer. Then Thursday is my final training session with my trainer. I orginally was just going to keep them and use them in FL but I don't feel like driving half an hour into Orlando to go to the gym.
Next week is going to be crazy...
When you DO find those albums, maybe you could consider scanning the pictures and storing the discs in a safe deposit box somewhere? That might make you feel better.... especially since you will be living in hurricane territory.
I've always been SO paranoid about keeping copies of our pictures. When the kids were little (pre-digital picture time), I would label all of my negative sleeves and leave those with my Mom.... and I always made duplicates of the 8mm home videos on VHS. I kept the photos and VHS tapes and gave Mom the negatives and 8mm tapes to store for me. She still has them!
Now, since we are digital, I don't worry so much. We keep a separate back-up hard drive for the computer stuff, plus I upload to Shutterfly and Walgreens every so often.... plus, when I am feeling ambitious, I back up to discs. Admittedly, the back-up drive and discs are all right here in my house with the photos, so if my house disappeared or burned down, I'd be sunk. But the next time I get all of my discs caught up, I'm going to leave the folder with my Mom.
Enjoy the last of your training sessions. If you can't use them up, can you "gift" them to anyone?
Love your positive attitude, pamela!
I'm trying to keep it postive today... especially since the scale was up again today! What the heck???? I'm not stepping on that stupid scale again until next Friday. And DH and I are going to stay totally OP this weekend...... no big splurges, no movie popcorn, no burgers, no pizza. Of course, now I'm singing "keep it positive" from "Legally Blonde, the musical" in my head! 
I stocked up the kitchen with lots of fruits and vegies, yesterday, and have am committing to not eating out this weekend. We will go out for supper the first day of school on wednesday, and that is it. We've been making smoothies lately for breakfast and using the chobani yogurt, they are filling and last a while. I want one now, but don't want to wake ds up yet.
I'm going to run/walk with a friend at 10 this morning, and hope to get back into a run/walking routine with the new school year. I've definitely slacked over summer. I love the fall weather to for getting out and moving.
Hope you all have a wonderful, holiday weekend.
It sounds like you are fully prepared for an OP weekend!
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Morning friends! What a beautiful morning to start the holiday weekend! I thought DD would be up early this morning. She wanted to head to the park to do a trial run of the bike route for next weekend's triathalon. Guess she is in no hurry??
My oat bran hot cereal this morning was MOST unsatisfying. Not sure why. Maybe I added too much cinnamon?? I usually enjoy it, but not today. Maybe because I was craving pancakes? I thought that the hot cereal would fill that craving better than eggs, but I guess not. I bought some beautiful peaches at the farmers' market yesterday and will have one of those in a few minutes.
Anyone else here on Ancestry.com? They are having a free access weekend to some international records. I got into this pretty heavily a few years ago, but let my subscripton lapse because I didn't have the time to work on it. I decided to re-up my subscription for just this month and spend my free time with it. I've got a few leads that I've needed international access to pursue, so I want to be sure to get in a few hours this weekend. Too bad it is such a sedentary pursuit... but it is FUN! It is kind of like being a history detective (yup, I love that show too!). And most recently I was able to trace a direct ancestral lineage (of myself) back to the Revolutionary War! I actually had (at least) two decendants who fought in it (they were brothers). I think that is so cool!
DH's parents were both first generation here (his Dad's older siblings and parents were born in Sweden, his mom's parents were born in French-speaking Canada), so I definitely need the access to the international records to work on that branch. I did pay for international access for one month last year so I could find the immigration records. I did find the ship manifest containing his aunts and uncles names and his grandparents. That was pretty neat!
Anyhow, I am rambling. I see that our new Fall Challenge thread has begun, so I am going to pop over there to say HI!
TTYL................................P
headache
(olive oil, salt, pepper). I did have dinner planned, but they had fish fry at the store, so I got a small meal. I did some vacuuming and cleaned the bathroom tonight-what an adventure! First discovery: the sink is not level with the counter, so I couldn't just wipe the water into it like at home. Discovery #2: We have some sort of Lysol wet/dry "Swiffer" type thing that took two of us to figure out. Now I'm about to do some reading for class. I added a few more hours at work on Monday mornings from 8-10, so that will be a few extra bucks each week.
for the scale this morning but you have the right attitude
and now a "Glee-athon" with the kids.... no time for the TM today!!
I'm definitely feeling the stress of work. This morning I called CVS to refill my bp meds and was wondering why they didn't call for my auto refill and when I spoke to the guy he said it wasn't due through my insurance until 9/10, so I said okay I'll just wait until then. I only have 3 pills left, so it's only a couple of days and then as I was getting ready to go for a walk with DH and DS I saw the refill that I had picked up a week ago for it 
Guess I'll be set for awhile! 
Tours always tire me out, so I came back and napped for about an hour. 
