In search of my body...not the one I ate! Part Deux... We sit at the popular table!

[DisneyWorld Delight]

My own personal favorite was when I dreamt that I was giving George Clooney a tour of the Capitol. Nothing happened beyond that... (see I dream of George Clooney, but I don't know what to do with him... )

I can tell you it DOESN'T include a tour of the CAPITOL!!!!!

 

[DisneyWorld Delight]

By the way, forgot to mention...

I ran 6 miles this morning! Goddess = me.

I can't believe your first race is this weekend!!! How exciting. I bet you are scared. But, you'll do fine! 6 miles, just because! You'll do great.

 

[goofyfan-12]

I can tell you it DOESN'T include a tour of the CAPITOL!!!!!

Like I said - who dreams of George Clooney and keep the situation to a strictly professional atmosphere???? Sometimes I am just a freak...

Goof

 

[HockeyKat]

Good afternoon! Sorry not to have posted sooner - I went to bed last night and today I got my sick butt up and took myself to the gym. I still have the world's worst head cold ever, but at least I did something today. Now I just want some lunch and a nap! I will have lunch, at least!

Paula, that stinks. I think he's an idiot for not showing up to meet fabulous you, and I bet that's why he didn't. I bet it's not an emergency or anything at all to do with you, but just his stupid insecurities and issues and baggage that he let get in his way. So, I feel sorry for him that he missed out on spending time with you.

I love that you have hope, and that despite everything else, you still put yourself out there. And sometimes it hurts and sucks, and I know, because I have times when friends or potential friends hurt me so much I just want to take my ball and go home and never, ever, give another person a chance again. But, in the end, I don't. I cry and listen to some Billie Holiday and write, a lot, and drink some wine and cry some more, and then I get up and go on.

Hope is what keeps me going all the time. Now, this thread is a good example. I didn't come here for friends, but I found them. I believe more good things are out there, not just for me, but for you, too. And for all my friends here, because I see what good people you all are. And Kat, my friend, I have to respectfully say I do think you put yourself out there - at least halfway - or I never would have been so honest as I have been with you.

But that's the beauty of friendship. It can surprise you. And I think just maybe, even at our most cynical, we all share some sort of hope or belief in possibility, or we wouldn't be here, and we wouldn't be Disney fans.

But, hey, I could be wrong. Or it could be the cold medicine talking. Okay, gotta do my info for Liz, because my last one really sucked.

Thanks!!! That really does mean a lot. I am trying harder as part of my campaign to not be fat anymore, to be truer to myself and reach out to people. Some of my recent experiences have also forced me to do so, and I am forever grateful to all of you in my life who have made it feel safe and comfortable rather than scary.

I am sort of down today, for some reason. I think it's the crummy weather. But hey, we are on our 3rd inch of rain in the last 24 hours, and we really need the rain here, so I guess I shouldn't complain.

In other news... there is a possibility that Mr Kat might get laid off this week. His company has a "big announcement" that they canceled a somewhat major management/incentive related trip so that everyone can be in town to hear it. We will be okay if this happens, but it would certainly not be a good thing.

 

[born2bird]

By the way, forgot to mention...

I ran 6 miles this morning! Goddess = me.

You are going to great this Sunday. What are you worried about? Goddess = YOU, no doubt. I am going to try to repeat my 4 miler tonight to see if it stuck or if it was just a fluke.

I just got back from the house that I am helping clean, an hour away and it is 10:45. I got there about 10 this morning and we worked straigh through to 1 and then again until 6. Went and had dinner with their parents and then unpacked some things in their new place, washed the dishes etc. I have never and I mean Never seen a house of a hoarder. It was absolutely shocking the amount of crap, filth and junk that could accumulate in one house. My friend told me that there were trails through the house, I didn't expect them to be shoulder height. OMG it was intense

Anyway, showered and sitting down for now and then off to bed.

You are such a great friend to help with such a HUGE project. It is sad to think that someone actually lived in that house.

HI EVERYONE...I'M HOME!!!

DID YA MISS ME????

Well - we're back. Had a great trip - ate, drank, and...ate some more. Definitely in vacation mode! Gained a little, but nothing "KAT -a- strophic" I crack me up. I think Kat had set the bar pretty high on her last trip to Disney...couldn't quite achieve that status!

.... KAt -a-strophic. Poor, Kat.Welcome home!!

So...what would it take for you to feel guilty about all your *bad choices* while on vacation? Could it be the mega calories from the food/alcohol consumption? Could it possibly be the fact that your gym clothes were neatly packed in your suitcase, but never touched? Could it be knowing that Erika is out running like Forrest Gump every day, and the only sprinting I'm doing is to cut off some little kid in line for Test Track? Or could it possibly be the fact that as you are awaiting your order of egg rolls outside China, YOUR TRAINER FROM THE GYM WALKS UP BEHIND YOU AND SCARES THE CRAP OUT OF YOU! Yes, that's right. Thursday afternoon, after I've managed to eat and drink my way rather blissfully thru the week, there she is. Miss Picture of Fitness sneaking up behind me. ah well - I just look at it as job security for her!!

That is hysterical! What were the chances of her running into you?!


SO - I've been gone just over a week - and OMG! Our little family has grown again! I've got some catching up to do! ...and am I to understand that Grumpy isn't our only guy now?

Laundry awaits...and mail. YIKES the mail. I'd better go to the post office and pick it up...I understand that report cards were sent while we were away....

Good luck getting back into the routine of real life. I hate those first couple of days after a vacation.

Ok, I am going to put myself out there a bit here, so be gentle, please.

I guess I am a cynic. 8 jobs, 3 layoffs, multiple betrayals and breakups later (including friendships), at 32, I don't trust anyone but myself. I do love my husband, don't get me wrong, but if he decided tomorrow that I am not worth his time, I will hide in a hole for a while, lick my wounds, brush myself off, and get back out there. Same with my job. I assume that sometime in the next year or two, my bank will merge with another, or decide I am expendable, and I will be out on my ear.

I live my life assuming that the worst is going to happen to me, and am surprised when things go well. Maybe that has kept me from some good opportunities, but it has certainly helped with my coping skills.

I am a person who feels too much, and it just winds up hurting me, so I have build up a thick hard shell. You can get underneath, but you darn well better be worth it.

I think we all have to do whatever it takes to get through the day and if that means being cautious with our hearts than so be it. At least you are aware of your defense mechanism and I am sure that if a great opportunity or chance for a fantastic friendship were to come your way, you are bright enough and self-aware enough to notice.

Hope is what keeps me going all the time. Now, this thread is a good example. I didn't come here for friends, but I found them. I believe more good things are out there, not just for me, but for you, too. And for all my friends here, because I see what good people you all are. And Kat, my friend, I have to respectfully say I do think you put yourself out there - at least halfway - or I never would have been so honest as I have been with you.

But that's the beauty of friendship. It can surprise you. And I think just maybe, even at our most cynical, we all share some sort of hope or belief in possibility, or we wouldn't be here, and we wouldn't be Disney fans.

But, hey, I could be wrong. Or it could be the cold medicine talking. Okay, gotta do my info for Liz, because my last one really sucked.

Thank you for this. You have such great insight.

Like I said - who dreams of George Clooney and keep the situation to a strictly professional atmosphere???? Sometimes I am just a freak...

Goof

I have no words...

 

[DisneyWorld Delight]

Thanks!!! That really does mean a lot. I am trying harder as part of my campaign to not be fat anymore, to be truer to myself and reach out to people. Some of my recent experiences have also forced me to do so, and I am forever grateful to all of you in my life who have made it feel safe and comfortable rather than scary.

I am sort of down today, for some reason. I think it's the crummy weather. But hey, we are on our 3rd inch of rain in the last 24 hours, and we really need the rain here, so I guess I shouldn't complain.

In other news... there is a possibility that Mr Kat might get laid off this week. His company has a "big announcement" that they canceled a somewhat major management/incentive related trip so that everyone can be in town to hear it. We will be okay if this happens, but it would certainly not be a good thing.

Kat, sorry your down today. You have a few reasons. 1. Monday 2. Rain
3. Unknown "big announcement" thats enough to make anyone feel down.

Take 2 hugs , tell someone (Jeff) off, buy some lipgloss (pink, not red), and call me if you don't get better.

 

[3DisneyKids]

Ummmm....Jeff is mine, not hers... And you call yourself keeper of the cast! Ha! She doesn't need to tell HIM off...(unless of course it would make her feel better and then I will loan him out whenever! )

 

[DisneyWorld Delight]

Jeff is her arch enemy at work. REMEMBER? Duh!

 

[3DisneyKids]

Jeff is her arch enemy at work. REMEMBER? Duh!

Goddess of the lists....cast and arch enemies!

 

[3DisneyKids]

You are going to great this Sunday. What are you worried about? Goddess = YOU, no doubt. I am going to try to repeat my 4 miler tonight to see if it stuck or if it was just a fluke.

Kim--thought I would share this with you...I posted this on my team thread earlier. (By the way, have you considered joining one of the WISH racing teams?) Anyway, good luck with your 4 miler! I bet you can do it!

From other thread:

I am just doing my first race this coming Sunday. I have no idea why I am such a chicken about it. I think I have impostor complex when it comes to running. I have only been running for just over 3 months and I keep feeling that eventually my body will catch on and say, "Wait a minute....we don't run....what are you thinking???" and I won't even be able to run a half a mile.

 

[DisneyWorld Delight]

Goddess of the lists....cast and arch enemies!

(whispering- Gosh, I hope his name really is Jeff. That'd suck after declaring it so, wouldn't it)

 

[HockeyKat]

Hehehe... his name is definitely Jeff. I am not pissed at him today, though. His "indiscretion" of Friday has been duly reported to my management.

Today, we have major production problems. Whee. I thought it was awfully quiet this morning, so of course the bottom fell out at 3PM. The implications will likely mean the rest of the week is going to suck too.


Erika, you are a goddess. DWD, you are even more of a goddess for remembering arch enemies!

I will take the hugs... not the lip gloss though (have to keep my girly self under wraps!! ).

 

[DisneyWorld Delight]

I will take the hugs... not the lip gloss though (have to keep my girly self under wraps!! ).

Yeah. Show no mercy to the guys at hockey.

 

[believen]

believen - I see your here all the time now. Are you just trying to catch up with the last 100 pages?

I'm trying to catch up! But my fam won't let me. They want to eat.....take my computer....talk to me.....they just don't understand how far behind I am!

So much has happened here, I'd reply to everyone, but I have no words of wisdom, just Life is hard sometimes and it sure helps to have someone to listen. It amazes me how y'all are here for each other and it all started with a desire to lose weight and get in shape for ourselves!

I'll condense the last months of my life, you can fill in the rest! SIL passed away on April 16. I've been driving back and forth taking care of 2 families(45 minutes--I hate to drive!) The kids dad wants them, is taking great care of them, a mixed blessing and we have no legal rights...
So I have my life back and I'd like to drop about 45 pounds and look hot!

So, to all

Vicki

 

[BrcsDisneyPrncs]

Paula - Honey, i'm so sorry, but you are better off! No jerks needed!

Paula, Dawn, Kat, (and everyone else..)... i seriously some days when i sit here and read the words that we all write, i feel like someone crawled into my head and spilled my emotions out across this board just in someone elses words. It's eerie to me how people can understand and feel such similar feelings....

Erika - for the love, if you don't stop running like that you are going to DIS-A-PPEAR

Uhoh, i must have been a very bad chicken... my name isn't even LISTED on the cast list... i better send dwd my info....

 

[goofyfan-12]

I'm trying to catch up! But my fam won't let me. They want to eat.....take my computer....talk to me.....they just don't understand how far behind I am!

So much has happened here, I'd reply to everyone, but I have no words of wisdom, just Life is hard sometimes and it sure helps to have someone to listen. It amazes me how y'all are here for each other and it all started with a desire to lose weight and get in shape for ourselves!

I'll condense the last months of my life, you can fill in the rest! SIL passed away on April 16. I've been driving back and forth taking care of 2 families(45 minutes--I hate to drive!) The kids dad wants them, is taking great care of them, a mixed blessing and we have no legal rights...
So I have my life back and I'd like to drop about 45 pounds and look hot!

So, to all

Vicki

Vicki - I am so sorry for your loss, but I am happy to hear that you think the kids are in good hands. We are here if you need us...

Paula - Honey, i'm so sorry, but you are better off! No jerks needed!

Paula, Dawn, Kat, (and everyone else..)... i seriously some days when i sit here and read the words that we all write, i feel like someone crawled into my head and spilled my emotions out across this board just in someone elses words. It's eerie to me how people can understand and feel such similar feelings....

I agree - this feeling of knowing that I am not alone in my neurosis is just scary...

Erika - for the love, if you don't stop running like that you are going to DIS-A-PPEAR

Uhoh, i must have been a very bad chicken... my name isn't even LISTED on the cast list... i better send dwd my info....

cast list, bad chicken or not - you are part of this bunch...

Goof

PS - still no reply from the jerk... (not that I am really expecting one at this point...)

 

[3DisneyKids]

I'm trying to catch up! But my fam won't let me. They want to eat.....take my computer....talk to me.....they just don't understand how far behind I am!

So much has happened here, I'd reply to everyone, but I have no words of wisdom, just Life is hard sometimes and it sure helps to have someone to listen. It amazes me how y'all are here for each other and it all started with a desire to lose weight and get in shape for ourselves!

I'll condense the last months of my life, you can fill in the rest! SIL passed away on April 16. I've been driving back and forth taking care of 2 families(45 minutes--I hate to drive!) The kids dad wants them, is taking great care of them, a mixed blessing and we have no legal rights...
So I have my life back and I'd like to drop about 45 pounds and look hot!

So, to all

Vicki

Thanks for the quick update. Sorry for the loss of your sister-in-law, but I guess if there is a silver lining here, it was that everyone was able to say goodbye and hopefully she went in peace. I am sure that you will continue to be an amazing aunt to the three kids...and if they are meant to be with you, it will happen in its own time.

Erika - for the love, if you don't stop running like that you are going to DIS-A-PPEAR

Uhoh, i must have been a very bad chicken... my name isn't even LISTED on the cast list... i better send dwd my info....

HA! Not a chance...I never lose!

 

[3DisneyKids]

For those who are fans of the podcast....Webmaster Pete (Owner of the DISboards) just posted this:

I'm sorry to have to tell everyone, but Bob Varley passed away this afternoon.

We postponed todays show because Bob wasn't feeling well, he thought he had food poisoning. When his wife Diana came home from work, she found him in their bedroom and he had apparently been dead for a few hours.

That's all we know right now - all of us are heading over to their house to be whatever comfort we can to Diana and Brian. I'll update everyone as we find out more, but I ask that you all please keep Diana, Brian and the rest of Bob's family in your thoughts and prayers.

We've all lost a wonderful friend - a friend whose presence can never be replaced, and whose memory I will hold close to my heart for the rest of my life.

Pete

 

[HockeyKat]

That's too bad E.

Man, what a horrendous crap-fest of a day. The bottom seriously, seriously fell out of our app at 3PM and is still fubar. I was on a problem call from 3-7:15, left for hockey, and got back on the call from 9PM-11PM. And I get to be in Wilson, NC (about an hour from here) at 8AM to spend my day wearing a fire-fighting hat.

However, they did fire my coworker after all. Spent some time basically going la-la-la while she was obviously being stood over and packed up her desk. I feel bad for the girl, but she really wasn't the right person for the job and had accomplished exactly zero in the 6 mos she has been here. We are sooo swamped all the time that everyone really has to pull their weight.

My hockey team won, but I pulled a groin muscle (which, doesn't feel very good at all).

Off to get some ice and a snack. Hope everyone else had a better day than me!!

 

[3DisneyKids]

fubar.....haven't heard that in YEARS!