In Search of My Body - Not the One I Ate, VOL 8...It's Never Too Late To Start Again!

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Lisa - I think it is great that you are going to WDW for Christmas. Gotta do what is right for you sometimes!

Megan - so sorry for your guy woes.

Jo - sorry for the sugar cravings. Been there, done that. I quit sugar cold turkey for 2 weeks and it made a world of difference.

Everybody else! Hello and will be back later! Gotta catch up a few other places.

 

[3DisneyKids]

Yikes! Can't believe that this is the first time I have checked in all day! I had a GREAT day, though. 9 miles total. 6 earlier in the day (and three of those were with the Cute One ) and then three more later tonight. Felt so good! And I am within my points. 2 days in a row. Phew!

I agree with Erika.

Erika is exactly right. Exactly!

Ahem. Tag Fairy. Yeah, these need to be added. Just sayin'

That's the other thing Stephen calls us. A "cult of women"

Yeah, Jeff calls you all my "make believe friends."

I am on the other end of the spectrum. He encourages me to work out as much as possible. Sometimes if feels like he is micro-managing it! Like if it is a Saturday and I have a 5-miler planned, he'll be like, "I'm home today...you should make it 7 or 8..." Or if I don't have much planned on a certain day, he will say, "Why don't you hit the gym?" Too much pressure sometimes!



That is SO exciting Lisa. Your family gatherings will each be special in their own way - but to wake up Christmas morning at WDW? OMG that is going to be incredible.

So. Are you going to be asking Santa for park tickets?

LISA! So glad you will be at BWV for Christmas. I understand your reasons. That was POWERFUL what Jean said. Good for you. Go. Take care of YOU. And of course, we will miss each other again by DAYS. Ugh! This is infuriating!

And yes, I am aware that I owe two more days of the TR. They are coming. Really.

Coached the girls' game tonight and it was fun. They played well! Busy week-end coming up with both softball and soccer games, but that ends up being good for me. I get extra workouts in while waiting and am not home to mindlessly snack! And tennis tomorrow, Monday, and Wednesday for me! I am playing well, so that is good. It's a crap shoot, you know. Some days I am decent, and other days I am downright awful. I'm never truly good, though. I am somewhat of a beginner to the sport. 4 years. And in Maine, the season is only like 10 weeks long, so cumulative I haven't even been playing a year.

More to say and more folks to comment to, but work calls. I'll be back.

 

[poppinspal]

Kat- Sorry I didn't want to respond to your comment on my facebook status only because not all of my response I need to share with the world. Today was a beautiful day finally, I can feel summer in the air. I paid the $590 it's costing me for a flight and a hotel for 5 days in San Francisco with my best friend in August. (How is that all a flight cross country and hotel cost, that's a whole lot less then I expected!) AND.....I fit into a size 2 at American Eagle. (I know I'm clearly not a 2 in every brand but the fact that I am in one brand and a brand I couldn't wear at my heaviest is just amazing.) So that's a hugely long answer to why life is so good today. It's just the little things.

Hard to believe I got dumped on Monday, things are just feeling good right now. I am having one of those days where my confidence is getting a boost. Love that feeling.

Off to bed with me but I have comments galore tomorrow. Oh and... it's almost Friday!

 

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I really want to see the sun. Very cool about your trip Megan. Not so cool about work E.

 

[HockeyKat]

Awesome Meg! I love those days when everything seems right.

80 and sunny here today. First time we've seen the sun since before last weekend.

I blew off hockey tonight, bad me, but I am just sick of Thurs night hockey. This was the last session and I don't think I am signing up again. I am planning on taking that $$ and putting it toward the Galloway club, assuming I get through this seminar on Sat and the first run the Sat after. I am a bit afraid of going to this thing alone...

Instead, we went grocery shopping. Now the house is totally stocked with healthy stuff.


D and I are celebrating our 5th wedding anniversary tomorrow (or should I say today?). We decided to stay in and make a nice dinner at home.

 

[cantwaitvaca09]

HI ALL HAPPY FRIDAY


9 miles, WOW E, Way to go

Meg, size 2, OMG thats great, Happy for you,

Kat, Happy Anniversary
If I were in NC I would go with you to the seminar!!!!

EE, hope the sun comes out for you soon!

Have a great day all

 

[AKASnowWhite]

Happy Anniversary Kat!


Meg - size 2 Awesome for you!

Erika - good luck to all your teams this weekend!


I did track again yesterday. Not perfect, but not horrendous either.

Ususally I do pretty well at work but yesterday I had an almost unavoidable issue. I made carrot cakes. (yum). And those get cream cheese frosting. Well, I had made cream cheese frosting and it was in a container in the fridge, but not enough for what I needed. There was a 2nd container that one of the other gals had made BUT no one had labelled it (wicked pet peeve of mine. anywho.) It *looked* like maybe it was cream cheese. Or maybe it was Vanilla Buttercream. How to tell? Sniff it. Couldn't tell. Crap. Now I have to TASTE it. I took a teensy smidge. Too small to really taste properly. So I took a little bigger smidge. Then I had to taste the cream cheese to compare. That's fine. But did I really need a big spoonful?

As soon as that sugar hit my taste buds, it was all over. It was like giving an alcoholic a shot of tequilla. OMG the cravings started. I wasn't hungry - that wasn't the issue at all. It was entirely the taste buds sending out S.O.S. messages to my brain to get 'em some more of that *good stuff* pronto.

I did track it though (as best I could estimate).

Today it's bike ride, work, trip to the feed store, 4H meeting. Busy day. Hope you all enjoy your Friday!

 

[cantwaitvaca09]

As soon as that sugar hit my taste buds, it was all over. It was like giving an alcoholic a shot of tequilla. OMG the cravings started. I wasn't hungry - that wasn't the issue at all. It was entirely the taste buds sending out S.O.S. messages to my brain to get 'em some more of that *good stuff* pronto.

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I SO UNDERSTAND!!

 

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No sun here and my keyboard is messing up. Grr.

Kat - Happy Anniversary!

 

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Sorry EE, I heard the weather say your due for some bad storms today.

 

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Thanks Jo! It's going to get ugly today.

Does anybody have experience with iron on transfers? I'm curious to see if one brand is better than another.

 

[3DisneyKids]

OK, DVCers and those who speak DVC--help me with this one.

We are adding on more points. As I mentioned in my TR this is Jeff's choice! Unbelievable, I know. But I am pouncing on the opportunity. Because my brother works for ABC, we get his CM discount. And usually you have to choose--either take the CM discount or take the current incentive offer that DVC is offering to anyone off the street (it is usually something like $8 off per point or something like that--differs per resort and per number of points you are purchasing). When I bought 5 years ago, I decided to finally pull the trigger after a year of researching because they announced that they would stack the discounts--I got both the CM discount and the regular one.

Well, right now they are doing it again. Actually, my guide called me back in February to tell me--and I said no thanks at that time. But now that Jeff is on board, it is a different story. So I called my guide this morning and yes, they are still allowing me to stack discounts. And it is a good deal. I get the percentage off the top (just over 20%), plus the per point discount, plus all of 2009 points and all of 2010 points. So it adds up and it will be a great "per point price" -- and even better if I rent out some of those extra points. I also get a free 3 night cruise for adding on. Right now we are booked on the 4-night podcast cruise in December, so I would likely cancel that and then would have all of THAT money to add to the pot, making this add-on even cheaper per point.

Have I lost you yet? I know Kat is still with me. And Lisa, too.

Anyhow, without factoring renting points and without factoring the free cruise, here is what I am looking at per point:

BLT = $84 per point
Grand Cali = $73 per point

Again, this will actually be less once I rent points and use cruise money, etc. But this at least illustrates the current cash differences. Obviously, GC is cheaper. But as much as we LOVED it there, it is in California and we just aren't going to go there very often. At best once every 3-4 years and maybe not even that much. BLT, on the other hand, is my hands down first choice resort at World--where we go 2-3 times per year. But it is more out of pocket. Dues are about even at this point.

So here is where it gets more tricky--we NEVER use the home resort booking window advantage. We just don't plan our trips out that far in advance. 3-4 months at most. And often even closer in than that. So truly, home resort shouldn't matter to us. But for some reason, I am just not comfortable with GC being our home resort if we aren't going to be there...even though it shouldn't matter.

Hope you were able to follow this--thoughts???

 

[poppinspal]

Hi ladies! What a crazy day at work today, it was picture day! But yay for Friday!

I should mention once again being a 2 is awesome but it's only one brand. But hey still awesome.

Lisa- I think it'll be great for you to spend Christmas at Disney. You deserve a great holiday. I'm a bit jealous actually.

Kat- Happy Anniversary! I'm so jealous you're still playing hockey, looks like summer hockey might not be happening for my group. Have I asked you about where in North Carolina you are? My brothers friend is marrying a girl who is from the area and we're going down for the wedding in late October. The wedding is in Denver, NC and the reception is at a place in Belmont, NC. Is that near you at all?

Nancy- I totally know that feeling, like once you've had one taste of sugar you can't stop craving more. It's bad. Just reading about your craving is making me have sympathy cravings.

EE- I'll keep my fingers crossed for you to get some sun this weekend!

E- Yeah DVC is confusing to me. I tried to look at the whole renting points thing for my family and it made my head spin. I'll just say wohooo for your husband wanting to add on more points.

It's a beautiful summer day here, unfortunately the pollen count is SUPER high and I'm struggling. But I'm seeing Robin Hood tonight, yay for a new Russell Crowe movie! And tomorrow is my first morning of bootcamp, I hope I can handle it.

 

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E, I will leave Lisa and Kat to answer you. But YAY YAY on more points!!

Meg. HAPPY FRIDAY

EE, How ya doing down there, I hope the storms are gone

 

[HockeyKat]

E, I answered via email.

Kat- Happy Anniversary! I'm so jealous you're still playing hockey, looks like summer hockey might not be happening for my group. Have I asked you about where in North Carolina you are? My brothers friend is marrying a girl who is from the area and we're going down for the wedding in late October. The wedding is in Denver, NC and the reception is at a place in Belmont, NC. Is that near you at all?

Thanks!!

Belmont looks like it's near Charlotte. Probably about 2, 2.5 hours from here? I am in Raleigh-Durham. My address is technically Durham, but I am about a mile from the line that would put me in Raleigh, about 5-10 min from the RDU airport. It all sort of blends together anyhow, Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill.

We do hockey all year round here. Summer is usually best for adult leagues since the kids are off and we get earlier, cheaper ice time!

My women's league is super cheap anyhow, though, since we run it ourselves. We basically rent the ice for an hour on Sunday afternoon and all of the scorekeeping, reffing, league organizational stuff is done by volunteers. Our 10-game season is $100. There are only 3 teams, so you play 2 of every three weeks, and you are always playing the same two teams, but it is SO much fun. So much more about having fun and playing together rather than mean competitiveness, if that makes sense.

 

[lisaviolet]

Erika,

How exciting. Most days I've been thinking and thinking "where is Erika buying her points?" and smiling and daydreaming and smiling.....

Yes, I am living through you. Great joy your life is providing me!

I LOVE IT! In fact, I often dream of winning the lottery so I can come on here one day and say, "DVC POINTS FOR EVERYONE!!!!"

Erika, I hear the guides are pushing OKW extended contract to newbies and such - is that NOT an option for you? If it is I would go for it. Low maintenance - that's where I would go for not using home resort. There shouldn't be a reason why they are marketing it to many and not offering to you. If you like the idea - be forceful. And I would be pleased to stay in the GV with you if you actually use the home resort booking one year. (You know I understand not using - everyone else this was my first time using home resort advantage for myself in five years of ownership)

However, if you HAVE TO choose between those two. Remember LIFE CHANGES and maybe one day perhaps you and I will be early bird booking people - maybe in our sixties. Do it this way - IF one day life changes and you want to use your home resort - close you eyes - which one? I assume BLT for you.

SO EXCTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

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I want my pros and cons list a la Kat Erika!

 

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Thanks so much everyone for the lovely thoughts on Christmas!

I'm so appreciative. It was such a vulnerable post for me. I honestly don't think I can do another Christmas at home for awhile and I obviously am feeling some guilt about that - although I know in my heart it's the best decision. So thank you. I felt physically sick posting that the other day. Lord knows why I do this stuff.

I'm listening to live BW feed RIGHT NOW. I SO LOVE THE BW! And Kat's new BW points!

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/bwv10

 

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Oh Nancy - park tickets!!!!!!! Wouldn't that be great?

 

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Kelly ( no one tell her if you know) - just let's say hmmm didn't LOVE Grey's but more than that it almost did me in emotionally. I was already struggling and it almost did me in.