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

[lisaviolet]

Kelly! Beyond excited for you!

 

[adsrtw]

I'm in Florida and just met a DISer in the restroom.

 

[HockeyKat]

That's so awesome!!

I am packed and ready, at work for another half an hour, then on my way!!

 

[lisaviolet]

Amiee! So envious. There is nothing I LOVE more than a road trip. Nothing. NOTHING. (well..hmmm. ). Did you hear that cutie? Road trip non-lover you. And in the winter! Oh boy. The peeling of the clothes. The taking off the shoes. West Virginia! We go a different route. Some go 75 but I adore 90/79/US19/77/26/4. I have no idea why I just listed that. Besides how it fuels my soul.

I got vetoed for the first time this year. Because PIT came in so incredibly low on Airtan. Why did I do that to myself by finding it? Under $200 for prime spring break!

Liz - so sweet. to you. I effed up - really. I feel the same way. I"ve only had one test - besides a mound of paperwork and releases - for Nathan and am strangely at a standstill.

Liz and Paula - please know the weighing in is what makes you both so successful but you already know that.

Kat! off soon. Exciting. Loved hearing about your cardio capacity and weight affecting the game.

Are you all sitting down?


RED - DEE?

We are moving back downtown. And I BEYOND thrilled. It's like I'm getting body parts back. Honestly, that is what it feels like. We have missed the walking everywhere. Groceries, NBA games, you name it. I have missed the streetcars - subways (oh boy do I have a story from yesterday). The people everywhere. Funny I love people everywhere but don't like people.

(House will be on the market hopefully in a week. Downtown is so hot that conditional won't work so has to be selling first. For inquiring minds we would love to have our own tiny places there but real estate is nuts in Toronto so can't do it even renting with our salaries - this is not a won't leave each other issue. Though we will always be part of each others lives regardless.)

Anyway, we never wanted to go. We were going because everything fell through over and over and we were drained. Things have gone crazy downtown so we will be small unfortunately and that's not good for someone entering my life or hers but I WILL NEVER EVER AGAIN give up an ounce of happiness so that I feel that I"ve done something "right". NEVER. It will just have to be and wait.

So thrilled and of course STRESSED to the max. You are the first people I've told cause I can imagine the sh!t we are going to get elsewhere - the judgements. But I don't care. I'm proud that we aren't just staying stuck because we chose this.

It will be hard for Jean. She wants to go. Is tired from the commute but has adored this home and space.

 

[lisaviolet]

I'm in Florida and just met a DISer in the restroom.

Oh boy. ENVIOUS!!!!

That's so awesome!!

I am packed and ready, at work for another half an hour, then on my way!!

Have fun Kat!

 

[AKASnowWhite]

I'm in Florida and just met a DISer in the restroom.

whilst I am so very happy for you, EE....

I am THRILLED BEYOND WORDS for Lisa! OMG. You must be just beyond ecstatic. So, so happy for you. Downtown is so who you are. I'm giddy.

 

[AKASnowWhite]

RED - DEE?

that right there cracks me up. Speed skating Why do we have to wait FOUR MORE YEARS before another winter olymics. <sheesh>



ok. back to being productive. Safe travels Kat & EE!

 

[AKASnowWhite]

I'm in Florida and just met a DISer in the restroom.

how potentially awkward.

 

[HockeyKat]

LISA!!!! So happy for you. I know that downtown is you.

Will you eat it too much on selling? I hope you find something you both love soon.


Nancy, I agree on the winter olympics. If it weren't for this trip I would totally be going through withdrawal.

 

[lisaviolet]

Okay my subway story.

So I'm on the platform and it's busy so people are around. And I think I hear "help". And you know sort of out of body thinking how could that be there are peole all around. Not crowded rush hour or anything but people on both sides.

And I look down and there's a woman with her pants down and undewear down quietly mouthing "help". And the scariest thing is that I'm walking beside a man who doesn't stop with me and there are at least two people that must have passed her - she confirms this later - but I know this because of the layout.

I guess they thought she was mentally ill or on drugs. We have a lot of both downtown - really sometimes one in the same of course. You don't get mental health assistance - drugs and alcohol are right behind. But when doesn't either mean you do nothing to "help"? That makes me want to cry.

She had a form of epilepsy. And her pants were down because she had to self administer a shot to herself not to go into full seizure.


Everything worked out fine in the end. But I'm still perplexed why the workers in the station didn't pick this up on camera. There are cameras everywhere on the platform. And no one helped her or checked if I needed assistance.

Jean's theory is she just didn't exist. . As in angel or something. Playing with me folks. Jean's not that all out there. Because she said some interesting things to me. I said whatever Jean and the man who picked her up was what? But Jean had a field day at my expense. No one helped a women on a subway platfrom and no one seemed to react to the camera - and no one said a thing to you as you walked her up two levels. No one Lisa?

 

[lisaviolet]

LISA!!!! So happy for you. I know that downtown is you.

Will you eat it too much on selling? I hope you find something you both love soon.


Nancy, I agree on the winter olympics. If it weren't for this trip I would totally be going through withdrawal.

No we are VERY LUCKY Kat. VERY.

We sold our downtown at 100% asking so although that market has gone insane that is a bit of a buffer in that we could purchase comparables about the same and get parking (we never owned our parking which SUCKS). But we want larger but it's changed so much in less than a year so that will be a pipe dream now.

We bought here in a low low market that has moved. Ie. We kind of stole the house and the sellers were kind of annoyed because it was brand new and they had put in over 20 000 in upgrades when they had it built six months earlier. But that was the market last year. We should be listing over 40 000 more - less than a year later.

(It will be an interesting sell though - specific buyer because it's a bungalow semi that is worth more than some two storeys. Ie. needs a buyer that wants a bungalow and understands that market - so could take awhile)

So with real estate costs/buying things we no longer need/lawyers/land transfer we should come out a little ahead. Hopefully. VERY LUCKY.

 

[lisaviolet]

I am THRILLED BEYOND WORDS for Lisa! OMG. You must be just beyond ecstatic. So, so happy for you. Downtown is so who you are. I'm giddy.

Thanks Nancy! That helps. Because it's been very difficult for me to feel the/any joy because Jean wants it but is sad. I have to figure out in life how to be joyful and be with other's feelings at the same time. I tend to veto mine which is hardly productive.

So thanks.

that right there cracks me up. Speed skating Why do we have to wait FOUR MORE YEARS before another winter olymics. <sheesh>

I know, eh? It will soon be but a distant memory.

Hey did I know you all know that you had a record Winter medal count but did you know how HUGE that is - that in 1988 you had SIX medals? Wow that sounds insane. I heard Mr. Costas say that. Six? I should go google that. But insane jumps over those years.

how potentially awkward.

I hope you find something you both love soon.

Thanks as well Kat.

I know YOU'LL get this. It has been agony to get all the properties coming to my inbox for the last week! Agony. Why? Because conditional is not going to work. So they come and I eat them up in glee and can do nothing until we sell.

 

[lisaviolet]

Kelly - I must go back and read. When do you start? So exciting!

 

[cantwaitvaca09]

Nancy, thanks for the post, I did not know what the fever cut off was, so you made me feel better that its 100, I think the kid was 98.9 or something like that this morning.


Kat, Almost on the road, Happy Travels to you, Say I to "Cindy" for my girls!

Lisa, I am happy for you. I am glad that you are not "settling" and who cares what other people say, don't let anyone give you ****.!

EE, Already in FL, Thats awesome! I wish I was there.

 

[lisaviolet]

Nancy, thanks for the post, I did not know what the fever cut off was, so you made me feel better that its 100, I think the kid was 98.9 or something like that this morning.

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Jo I'm sorry. I missed your post. I was so excited about Kelly's job! And finally sharing my news.

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[lisaviolet]

Nancy and Erika! In a few days getting everything set will be but a distant memory says the woman with no children. j

Can't wait to hear all about it.


Where are they going Erika? G and Gs? Jeff's still away, right? Did he enjoy Chinese New Year? Quite the festivities.

I'm so procrastinating. So many things to get done today.

 

[AKASnowWhite]

Okay my subway story.

yikes! That's rather disturbing! She's really lucky you came along when you did!

I'm so procrastinating. So many things to get done today.

ahhhh. The story of my life

 

[adsrtw]

So happy for you Lisa!

Can't wait for the rest of our group to arrive. Heading out the door for dinner at Jiko.

 

[AKASnowWhite]

meh.

Having focus issues.

I'm too excited.

 

[adsrtw]

I swear that I am not drunk, but valet was nice enough to help me find the truck. Agh.