NOW is the time! It's MINE & I AM WORTH IT! (friends welcome to tag along!!)

[toystoryduo]

, , and more , Julie. I pray that you have a peaceful, blessed week ahead.

P.S. Our butterflies came out of their cocoons this weekend!

 

[Amy&Dan]

Julie,

I hate it when I lose a post and I am sorry that happened to you! I hope this week is going well for you.

 

[toystoryduo]

Happy Mother's Day, Julie! I hope you have a nice day today. How did your garage sale go?

 

[goldcupmom]

Just quickly updating a bit as I have a minute. Still here, still chugging on.

Garage sale good Friday, Saturday the worst EVER! But all in all, ok.

Trying to get logged in to score, but can't. will be back to continue this as I can.

 

[goldcupmom]

So, I qualified, started scoring, scored 3 papers & go the message 'there is no more work available'. And now can't get in to score. Bet the tech people are going nuts!

Back to life in general......

Food is horrid. Exercise is minimal due to high winds & schedule. Plus, I seem to be developing what I think is plantar fascitis due to pain in my left arch and extremely tight left outer calf muscles. fun fun fun!

Today was DD's last day of HS! And with 30 mph sustained winds, they didn't move the senior picnic indoors....gusting to 60, so I imagine she will be calling soon to come home. And, she works in 2 hours.

We will get DS20 car back today, $4000+ later and another engine. Also will find out what was wrong with the other engine and bring it home disassembled. Then to file & hopefully get the money back. VERY frustrating! But at least the sharing a vehicle issues should diminish.

DS23 continues to be a PITA. Still overdrawn continually and now has allergies & rampages around screaming, crying, pounding on doors, trying to throw up etc. because at 23, I am not calling to make him a Dr. appt and not going with him. I have things to do.

Still no prospect on vacation, but my DSis did book the cruise we have talked about for 2 years (since her 1st cruise). We had decided that this year we would cruise for my 50th, DDs 18th & graduation & DSis 5 year chemo anniversary. Makes me sad to even think about it, but just not a good financial decision to spend that kind of money right now.

Oh well....life goes on!

Off to get some lunch & get a couple things done here while waiting to hear if I can score more or not. sigh.....

Hope all is well with everyone! I miss you!

 

[Amy&Dan]

Julie, are you sure you can't take that cruise? Can just you and dd go? I am so sorry it may not happen, it really stinks plain and simple when financial crap out of our control limits us on what we can do. Not fair!

Congrats to your dd on graduation, I know you are proud.

Good job staying firm with making ds23 deal with his own allergies!

And I really pray you get this car thing worked out and get that money back.

Hang in there and post when you can. Maybe life will settle down a bit and those winds will die down! Hope you didn't get our snow.

 

[toystoryduo]

Oh Julie,

I am sending lots of your way. I hope there is a chance that you can still go on that cruise!

Congratulations to your DD on her graduation!

I hope everything works out with the car situation. I know how frustrating that has been for you.

I hope you have a nice weekend!

P.S. How did your garage sale turn out?

 

[lovinaz]

Congrats to DD!!! What a milestone.

Maybe something will happen and you will get to go on that cruise after all.

 

[goldcupmom]

OK, I finally have a few minutes to get here....only 3 more hours min. to score today. It is driving me NUTS!!! as I am literally sitting at my computer for 8 - 12 hours/day, but a mixed blessing....I am avg between $16-$17 hour but it is tortuous. I feel my brain cells dying.

Anyway.......DH decided that I should book a cruise no matter what, so after 3 days of throwing up & a week of putting it off, yesterday I did it. I still am not certain I should have, but it is done now....except for paying the credit card bill when it comes

So, I will leave on 7/20 for Tampa, DH & DD will leave on 7/27 and then on 7/31 we 3 and my DSis & her DH will take Carnival Dream & do the Eastern Carib. I need the break desperately, but am so uncertain of the $$ issues that I'm not sure I will really be able to relax & enjoy.

DD is officially graduated. Long, boring, of course, & DH & I left early as just the processional was almost 40 min, & with almost 900 kids, 150 faculty and almost 10k families, we wanted to escape before the crowd. It was a mess!!

DS20 vette came back today. I haven't talked to DH yet as to the bill, but I'm sure not cheap. They did, however, write their notarized statement of all that was wrong.....performance parts we paid $1k for a single part that were stock parts costing like $150, pistons too large for the cylinders that are now grooved & that were the cause of oil leaking into the engine ruining it & parts they said were broken & we needed to pay them to rebuild again are perfectly fine. The 'new' engine mounts we paid for are original to the car with worn gaskets & 1 is broken....and the list goes on. I can't believe that we will lose this lawsuit, but this is NM, we are white & the business is hispanic, so you never know....I know how terribly racist that sounds, but it is true here.

DS20 still unemployed, but waiting to hear if he has his internship w/ church this summer. he has 3 summer classes, then 18 hrs fall & 17 spring & he graduates.

DD is still underemployed, but not too worried since she has a full ride scholarship.

DS23 is same as always. DH broke down & took him to Dr. GRRRRRR!!!!! He is still continually overdrawn & can't pay me what he owes, borrowing gas $$ from DH & late on his phone & car ins. & DH just doesn't care to intervene. I still contend we are enabling him to have his bad habits, but not my place to comment....or I at least quickly get shushed whenever I speak.

Off to score again...more in a bit.

 

[keenercam]

Hey, Julie! I am so glad you have that cruise to look forward to and I only wish it didn't bring money stress with the happy feelings. You do SOOOOO much for your family that you deserve this trip! I can't believe your DD graduated HS!!! I am trying to remember when I met her? Was it 2007 for the Tower of Terror? or 2008? You must be so proud of her. What is she going to study? Where is she going to school and will she live at home? On the one hand, I hope that her start of college might be one less person for you to take care of, but I know how sweet she is and what a good relationship you have with her, so I'm sad at the prospect of her not being around a lot for you.

Looking forward to keeping up here and sharing the excitement about your upcoming cruise! Where are you going in the Eastern Caribbean? We did St. Martin and St. Thomas on Disney's eastern itinerary and it was wonderful!

 

[toystoryduo]

Woohoo! Woohoo! Woohoo!

You're going on a cruise!!!!!!!!

I am so excited for you, Julie! I know that you're concerned about the money aspect, but please don't worry. It will all fall into place! You deserve this vacation, my friend. I am so happy for you!

I hope you have a nice weekend!

 

[goldcupmom]

No, Cam, DD is not leaving anytime soon! She is going to UNM in Albuquerque like DS20 is, living at home & will drive about 5 miles to take public bus to campus. Her scholarship will then cover all tuition, fees, books & incidentals for the 4 years and she can keep her job. Her plans are medical school as she wants to be a pediatrician.

 

[Amy&Dan]

Julie, I am so happy you are cruising!!!!! You so deserve this and I am really happy your dh said it should happen. Good for him! Do not feel guilty, do not overworry about that money, it will all come together. You only live once!

I really see both your side and your husband's on the ds23. Not an easy position to be put in, I will just keep praying that things improve and ds23 comes to realize he is worth more and so are mom and dad!

Good luck with the Corvette and congrats to dd on her graduation!!!


Cruisin time for Julie!

 

[goldcupmom]

Well, I just got the 'no more work available' message so the scoring project I was on is over. Projected to last up to 3 weeks, lasted just under 2. Oh well...it was good while it lasted. I got in exactly 100 hours - the max I could, and scored 23,734 answers @ 7c each. not bad for 2 weeks.

And, I can now resume life...and 1st on the agenda is clean my filthy carpets & the house!!! UGH!!! But I also need to focus on getting my miles in. Right now I am behind 12.29 for the month, but am still ahead 23.95 for the year....sashi & I have walked 317.67 miles so far! Unfortunately, it is HOT now here so I still will have to be getting up around 6 as by 9 it is unbearable for me ......sun is much hotter at 6k'.

Off to update the exercise thread & head to church. More later....I have time now!! Hope everyone is having a good weekend!

 

[goldcupmom]

Frustrated.....

So on 5/20, the day after booking the cruise, I decided I needed to REALLY get serious & started a new Bugg program to lose 13 lbs by 5/20. I figured that was realistic - started at 168, hoping to reach 155 which would be 3 lbs less than when I left last summer & hopefully clothes would fit. I'm certainly not making 138 by 7/30 as I had hoped, but am now working towards that by the end of the year.

Since 5.20 I've had an average daily calorie deficit of 1620, eating avg of 1333. I've walked daily - total 15.34 miles and done shred each day. I've been chugging water. Stepped on the scale this morning and UP 3.2 pounds !!!! I wanna tear my hair out (but it probably doesn't weigh much!

I"m hoping that it hurries up & evens back out. I should be down nearly 2 lbs by now. I WI again on Thurs.

It's not that I'm not trying. I'm measuring everything. Sat. night we went to symphony at the zoo for our anniversary & had one of their picnic baskets. I had 1/2 about a 5" turkey sub, MAYBE 4 oz of red wine, romaine lettuce w/ no dressing, 3 cheese cubes, 2 grapes & 2 spoons of whip cream with 3 strawberries. I skipped the cheesecake, the truffles, my 1/2 of the wine, the salmon, capers & crackers, the olives. UGH!!!!!

Today I started moving furniture to clean the living room carpet. That will take me most of the rest of the week. Next week I'll do dining area & hallways.

Hope all is well with everyone. I'm hoping to catch up with journals soon!!

 

[toystoryduo]

Sending some your way for weigh-in this week. No worries on the scale, my friend. You are doing all of the right things!The scale will cooperate soon. Keep up the good work!

I am so excited for you that you get to go on your cruise! How many more days?

I hope you have a wonderful Wednesday!

 

[goldcupmom]

I just wanted to share this new painting by my nephew, Paul Jackson. I think it says it all about the gulf coast oil spill. This & others of his work are at pauljackson.com & on FB. He has given all his FB friends (anyone who asks) permission to use as the profile picture. Title.....'Fowl Language' & I know a lot of people along the gulf have a lot of foul language to spew about all this.

 

[Amy&Dan]

Julie, I like the painting, I feel so bad for all the people on the gulf who are going to lose their livlihoods for who knows how long. And I never see anyone talk about the rig workers who died.

Don't worry, those pounds will come off. It is SO frustrating when that happens but don't give up. I think you can lose that weight by your cruise, your body is just holding onto some water and adjusting to the hard work you are doing.

Have a good weekend, its hot and windy here how about you?

 

[goldcupmom]

Waiting, Waiting, Waiting, for the swamp cooler guy to come back & put in the new motor & pump. He got it torn apart & had an emergency call yesterday....

Please pray for DD. She has been dizzy off & on for a couple of weeks...we thought sinuses. finally took her to Dr & they think maybe migraines as it is what she described a couple years ago after the bad combo of drugs/shots...being on a spinning teeter totter. So, they gave her 2 sample pills of what she took then, and an rx which our ins. refused to fill until she could prove that she had tried 'at least 6 other drugs for a min. of 30 days each'. So Dr called in something different...and 6 pills (up to 2/day) is a 14 day supply!!! She seemed slightly better yesterday as headache part was gone & more off balance instead of dizzy. Then last night got much worse, cried for 3 hours in pain until I gave her benadryl & got her to sleep in my bed. Tuesday I will call & try to get her in to the neurologist again. I wouldn't be surprised if migraines. My DMil had them so bad she was hospitalized several times a year with them, and her DDs have them and my DNiece has them horribly.

Needless to say I didn't get much sleep last night.

And my weight is REALLY p*$$ing me off! Thursday I was 168.6. Today I am 169.8 and have been PERFECT! Yesterday my total calorie burn was 3676 & my deficit was over 2100. WHY??????UGH!!!!! But I am not giving up but I surely need to see it on the scale about now!

Still shampooing carpets. They were totally DISGUSTING!! Living room done, Dining room 1/2 done & then hallways. Plan to finish Dining today, then having DSil over for dinner as it is her birthday & she is all depressed over being 56. DD is supposed to work 10 - 4. Hoping she is ok to do that.

More later. Hope all have a safe & happy Holiday weekend!

 

[toystoryduo]

I feel so bad for your DD. Sending lots of prayers her way. I hope she starts feeling better soon!

Keep up the good work, Julie! The scale will start cooperating soon!

Have a safe and Happy Memorial Day weekend!