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pegster · #46 10-09-2008, 01:45 PM

Hi Gang!

Sorry, but this is going to be a fly by. Dang it! I'm just too busy.

Shel: I'm SO sorry to hear of the death of your friend. I had someone like that for my Robyn's babyhood. She was very important to me and to Robyn. Then, my dd had someone like that for dgd during an awful time when they lived with us back in MA. (Well, it wasn't awful for me. I had my dgd right there to play with every day after work) Anyway, I know it is hard and I am praying for a swift resolution to your grief.

Thanks for the congrats. Yeah. It feels good to have lost it. I'm still close to 10 lbs lighter than I was when Rach popped in here with Beck!

Donna: The third Thursday in November is Thanksgiving day for us because of a "story" (and that IS WHAT IT IS) that when the Pilgrim landed in Massachusetts their ranks were severely decimated by the first winter. That is a true part of the story. The fanciful part of the story is that the Native Americans took pity on them and showed them how to harvest corn. In return (it is said) there was a big feast of Thanksgiving where the Natives and the Pilgrims all celebrated together. One big happy family. Of course, we all conveniently forget the part of the story where we killed most of the Natives with our diseases and guns. And, the part of the story where we took the land away from them and relegated them to reservations where, even today, they languish in poverty. Anyway, we do celebrate Thanksgiving today to ostensibly give thanks to God for all the blessings that we have been given over the past year and before that. I say "ostensibly" because for many of us it has become a day of gluttony and watching the football game. Now, don't think that I am bitter about this. I am not. I am looking at it with the eyes of a pastor who tries to get folks to see the truth of things when the advertisers would seduce us with just the opposite.

Well, end of sermon. You must have guessed that I am preaching this week!

I'm off to get my TB test "read," and then to do some errands. I've started putting Sweet Pea's hair in a topknot. Here is a pic:

It stays in for about 10 minutes or until she can scrub her face against the carpet or grass and get it out without me seeing.

Love you,

Peg

tiashanty · #47 10-09-2008, 06:19 PM

Peg: My goodness...what in the heck are you feeding that puppy? Has she ever grown! lol What a sweetheart!

pegster · #48 10-09-2008, 07:12 PM

Yeah. I think she weighs about 12 pounds now. She is full grown. Our trainer says that she is a little overweight, so we have cut down on her food. She's on a diet.

She doesn't seem to notice. She gets lots of treats usually during the day because we are training her to sit and to lay down, as well as to walk on the leash. I must say that she is doing absolutely brilliantly. She went on two long walks this morning, and has been VERY quiet ever since.

I know the feeling!

Here is today's picture:

MaryKay · #49 10-09-2008, 08:23 PM

Love the lil topknot Peg. How cute!

we've been busy, and it isn't going to let up.

DH is going on a cycle ride this weekend, which is good cause I do better packing and stuff when he is gone. Last year he was gone for a week and I got the kitchen remodelled.

I leave the 19th for Las Vegas, coming back the 23rd. Final walkthrough with the builder is Monday, 10/27; closing is Tuesday, 10/28, and moving truck is scheduled to move the BIG stuff Wednesday, 10/29.
sheesh. we are not packed like I want to be, but I can assure you we will be a lot closer by Monday. Gonna have to get some more small boxes. there are so many books (computer stuff) in this house!

I have scheduled a Longaberger basket party for Dec 1st - going to meet all the neighbors. well those who come.

I am soooo excited. still no carpet, but today they put in the dishwasher and microwave. stove isn't there yet. We ordered a new fridge to be delivered on Thursday.

YAY

BC · #50 10-09-2008, 08:58 PM

Shelly, I'm so sorry to hear of the loss of your friend and dd's "other family." Many hugs for you, dear heart, and for dd, too.

MK, what a whirlwind! I'll bet your neighbors will be delighted to have an excuse you meet you and each other, but WOW, are you brave to schedule a party so soon after your move in! I admire that.

Donna, you are back up to speed fast at work, whew! Ya know, I think I'm as shocked as you are that your son asked you to come for Thanksgiving, but how wonderful...........or does he want you to cook, LOL!!! (Bad Brenda

) And oh yeah, the "poop in the street" is just SO embarrassing. Peg, just wait

Peg, SP is SO adorable! Just wait though, once she gets used to her topknot, she won't feel comfortable without it. And listen, the story about dh being so clutzy with the leash made me fall over. OH YES! I KNOW THE TYPE! Really, I taped a guys hands and arm in class once, LOL, but it's not always men who can't get it.

Judy, I like to be able to walk my dogs "both ways" Some part of the walk is for me, straight and fast for exercise, but some is for them, stopping to sniff and mosey and check in at the doggie bulletin boards. Seems only fair

I imagine Lexie really enjoys her "doggie" type walkies on a loose leash.

Barb, hope you are getting your Dad's situation resolved and that he can get treatment for his back soon.

Waves to Alida, Heather, Rach, Bert.... Be seeing you!

Judy · #51 10-09-2008, 10:50 PM

Thinking of you all tonight.....
Barb -- your nephew, his wife and family on the passing of their baby
Peg -- in all that you have going on and that you are deciding on (BTW -- SP is precious)
Shelley -- in the death of your friend.
MK -- in the excitement of getting ready for the new home
Heather -- in the work of getting your new home
Donna-- in recovering at work after being gone for so long
Rachel -- in trying to deal with impossible situations
Alida -- in dealing with rocks and appliances and a job where you can't help but be in the midst of the boss' family business
Brenda -- waiting to hear on a job for your DH

I think we all need a

Tomorrow's Friday ---TGIF!

tiashanty · #52 10-10-2008, 12:04 PM

Hi everyone. I'm soooo glad that it's Friday. And, we have a long weekend this weekend. Just what I need to catch up on housework, a mountain of ironing, grocery shopping and yardwork. Hmmm, relaxing weekend it won't be.

I'm not too sure what this day is going to be like! It started out with my OMM falling on the floor...butter side down of course. Then while doing the dishes I splashed soapy water all down the front of my shirt. Then got to work and cut my finger. I'm hoping that's the third thing and I can get on with my job. (better than yesterday when I came into this building carrying a huge jug of water for the cooler and managed to fall on my face while carrying it....thank god no one was here to see me. Just ended up with a carpet burn on my hand where I skidded)

Brenda: Happy days ahead for you and a huge relief. Surprisingly enough ddil is doing the cooking (lol) but she did call to ask how to make dressing. She's making it the way I do for my ds. Maybe she learned something by their breakup this year? Sure hope so.

Peg: At least your dh takes SP for a walk. I'm not sure my dh knows how to attach the leash and collar. Walking is not his thing.

MaryKay: You must be so excited to get into your new house. I'm sure I would have been packed 2 months ago...that's what happens when the OCD cuts in.

Alida: Where are you?

Barb: You too...not often that I get in here before you do.

Everyone else a big HI. I'm hoping that today will be the day that I see myself caught up at work. I'm tired but it's a good tired ya know?

Remember I said that my Tia had been sneezing ever since we got home from holidays? Well, last night he sneezed so hard he gave himself a nose bleed! Scared the beejesus out of me. Didn't bother him of course, but then he's a cat! lol I've been watching him carefully since then and he seems fine. Jumped into bed this morning for his morning cuddle and purred the whole time and then went and ate. He's still sneezing though!

Scale went down just a tiny bit this morning, but I'll take it. At least it's going the right way.

babybluejay1 · #53 10-10-2008, 09:51 PM

Hey gang!! Working hard today with Curves, 50% off shopping at Salvation Army (wonderful finds of outside items for the cold weather coming in), errands, cleaning and then some treadmill walking.
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Shelley - Oh friend, I'm so sorry to hear about your DD baby sitter passing away. To have been able to trust someone fully with your DD had to have made an amazing person. (((hugs)))
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Donna - I watched that Biggest Loser episode and heard about those 300 calories you could burn doing JUMPING JACKS. I hate them plenty enough to have said, not worth it. lol / Congrats on the scale moving down!
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Doohickie - Only 15 more to go...you can do it! It's so awesome to have that skinny feeling. Love feeling good in the skin we're in!
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Peg - Awwww, what a great picture of Sweet Pea!
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MaryKay - So much fun with new appliances!!
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Brenda - Have a great weekend!
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Judy - Have a great weekend. Hope you get to enjoy some relax time with little homework to get done.
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Everyone else....Have a great weekend!! We have snow in our forcast. Think of me while I'm outside working on the houses.

bkloots · #54 10-11-2008, 11:22 AM

Saturday morning: Finally a moment with my galpals! I've spent most of the past two days at the hospital with my dad. They found a couple of compression fractures in two F5 vertebrae--whether old or new, we don't know, but definitely causing the present pain situation. He had hoped to get a vertebroplasty* yesterday, but it got rescheduled for MONDAY. Ack! He has to spend the weekend in the hospital, but at least they will control the pain, walk him around, and feed him. My sister and I will take turns being there, at least part of the time.

*Vertebroplasty: injecting a kind of "cement" into the spinal column to permanently immobilize the vertebra. Said to be very effective.

Peg, Sweet Pea is adorable, and I'm glad you're getting the hang of the training routine. There's no better companion than an obedient and dependable owner.

Shelley, I'm so sorry about your sad news. You're right about 69 being far from "old."

MaryKay, excitement on the horizon for you! Best wishes with all the details leading up to the move.

My friend and I are going to search out a farm today where we might regularly subscribe for fresh produce. I've been reading Michael Pollan's book In Defense of Food, and he's been reading The Omnivore's Dilemma by the same author. Both highly recommended. I'm happy to note that while Atkins (and the low-carb phenomenon in general) might have been over-the-top in assailing "bad carbs," the basic idea is and was very good, and not far from Pollan's mantra: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

For my part, I'm considering the OMM the best thing that ever happened to my diet. These days, I'm just trying to avoid sugar (in all forms), bread, "starchy" vegetables. And most of all, "too much" of anything.

It's a beautiful October day, and I need to get out in it.
Take care of you.
Have a blessed weekend.
Happy Thanksgiving, Donna!

babybluejay1 · #55 10-11-2008, 11:42 AM

Home with my boys today instead of working out at the house. Our boys are sick with sore throats and ds2 a stomach flu. DH left to work out in the snow while I'm here getting some chores done. We're more productive this way AND I have been up during the night and then early AM taking care of them while letting DH sleep in until 8:20am. We need DH to get plenty of rest so he doesn't get sick too. I made sure he was bundled up well in this weather. He does take the cold better then me too. Kids have eaten, have their blankets and are watching tv while I get a few moments to walk on my treadmill catching up online with my pals.
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Take a look at Doohickeys, skinny pauls thread. Funny picture of why men should not play with action figures.
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Hey Lowcarb Barb. Sorry to hear about your dad. Sounds like they have a plan to get him feeling a lot better with this surgery then he has been poor guy. I can't imagine what pain he has been in walking, sleeping and all.

Judy · #56 10-11-2008, 12:04 PM

Good morning everyone. Like most of you I am enjoying the weekend. My neighbor and I will attend another of the film festival movies this afternoon. I may try to sew a bit and of course there will be some "homework." Shelley, sorry that you are going to experience a sad day today. Heather, sorry that you have sick babies.

I'd like to add on to what Barb just said about not eating "too much". I believe that cutting back on quantity has been a large contributer (duh) in my recent success. I read an article comment in the Washington Post online earlier in the week. The blogger, a lady in her 80's, made the statement that one of her childhood teachers had emphasized that the stomach was only about the size of both of your doubled fists placed side by side. That's a really good visual. If you can try to keep the volume of what you eat to something that can fit inside your hands --- even with fingers outstretched, you can significantly cut intake. I also did a little back research on myself this morning. I discovered that even though the Fitday graphs, etc, only show results of weight changes for the past year, you can go back in time. The last time that I saw my current weight, 149, was in January of 2006. To get back to the goal weight of 138-140 I had to go back to the spring of 2005. The carb creep has had hold of me for a long time! As I looked through the weight records, I did find that for many many months, I stayed in the 143 to 145 range. I am wondering if that might be a more appropriate goal? Is that a set point? Is my goal too low, or am I just considering taking the easy way out? Whatever I decide, I am so pleased to be back under 150 and am definitely striving to be in the lower 140s soon. I guess the final determination of the goal weight is TBD.

Take care of yourselves and those you love. Try to do something for just yourself this weekend. You deserve it.

tiashanty · #57 10-11-2008, 11:29 PM

Hello....I'm so tired, my tired is tired! lol What a busy day!! Started out cleaning house and it's finally back to where it was before holidays. Laundry is all caught up, shopping done etc. Tried to take my bottles back to the recycling but they were closed...darn now I have to keep them in my car until next week. I put the money in my grandkids bank accounts. Went down to the farm to load up on squash and get pumpkins for the grankids and found they had no squash!! No!!!! We love squash. We've been having frost the last couple of nights and it killed the whole crop. Stupid..I knew I should have gone after work last week but I was just too tired. Now I'll have to buy them from the store and they just don't taste the same. After putting away the groceries I finally got outside and pulled the snapdragons and marigolds from the walkway. That filled 2 large garbage bags. There must have been hundreds of snapdragons. Then cut the grass for the last time. After sweeping the sidewalk I came in and told dh that I was finished for the day. I was so tired I could hardly walk!! So, I sad and watched tv until it was time to cook supper. After supper I got a burst of energy and took the dogs for their walk and then spent 20 minutes on the treadmill. If my scale doesn't go down tomorrow there will be heJJ to pay!! lol

Heather: How dare you say that "S" word. I feel so sorry for you getting it this early in the year. I've heard that it's going to be a long, cold winter but I'm not ready for it yet.

Barb; Good to hear from you. I was wondering why you hadn't posted. You're a good daughter being with your dad when he's having a hard time. I know he appreciates it. Thanks for the Thanksgiving wishes....I'm looking forward to having my ddil cooking it this year and being able to spend time with my grandkids.

Judy: I sure agree with you about eating smaller portions. I'm trying the same thing. But, I think the reason my scale is finally going down is because I upped my carbs for about a week and gave my system a shock. It's the only reason I can come up for the losses every day. They aren't big losses but the scale is moving downward and I don't feel so bloated.

In fact today at the grocery store there was ad on a magazine cover (Woman's World) that says alternating high-carb and low-carb days is better than the Atkins Diet. I bought the magazine but haven't read it yet. It might just make sense for me anyway.

Dinner tomorrow night might be interesting. Ddil asked for my recipe for stuffing which has sausage meat in it. I don't have a recipe it's just thrown together from watching my mom make it when I was a teenager. I told her that. She went to Costco and couldn't find sausage meat so she bought honey garlic sausages! I'm sure that will change the whole taste of the turkey as it cooks. Hope she takes the meat out of the casings. Hmmm, wonder if I will have to eat stuffing or will it hurt her feelings?

Dh went to town this morning for supplies for the store and came home with a present for me. Last year for Christmas he bought me a Cricut for my scrapbooking. For those who don't know what it does...it's like a small computer that you put cartridges in and then type what you want it to cut out..words or shapes. Anyway, he bought me a Cricut Jukebox. It's a machine that hooks into the Cricut so that I can use 6 cartridges at once. I think Monday when I'm home alone will be play day for me...I know I sure deserve some "me" time.

Dmil called this evening. Dh's brother finally went to visit her after not being around for 5 months. He brought her his share of the money for the monument for dfil so now all of the kids have paid their share and she can pay the fellow who made it. She was so relieved to have that bill paid. Glad that I thought of having all of us pay a share. She'd never have been able to afford it.

Okay...enough. I'm going to just sit now and watch tv...cause I deserve it. Happy Thanksgiving from Canada!!

Judy · #58 10-12-2008, 12:07 AM

Happy Thanksgiving to you, too, Donna. About the time we get our Thanksgiving late next month, we might be seeing a little of that frost that you have now. As it is now, Lexie and I definitely worked up a sweat on our walk this afternoon. Sorry you had to work so hard on your long weekend, but isn't it nice to have everything done.

Judy · #59 10-13-2008, 12:15 PM

Hello....... Hello.........Hello............

It's so empty in here that there is an echo. Where is everyone?

pegster · #60 10-13-2008, 01:27 PM

Sorry, Jude. Here and reading. Haven't anything interesting to say. My life is spent with this puppy, trying to teach her to sit and lay down. Honestly, she can get into the most obscure stuff, and then be a darling. Last night at midnight she was restless, so I brought her out to kitchen for a drink of water, and she went immediately to the back door. I let her out on the porch and she peed! Good Girl! Then we went back to bed and back to sleep much less restlessly.

You may be hearing on the news about our Santa Ana winds and the fires. We are no where near. However, it is burning near my dd's house. I don't think there is any danger. I haven't heard, so I am guessing that no news means good news. It is all over the news here. It is kind of wierd, because we are having only a gentle breeze here. I don't know what the issue is, but only about 10 miles from here the wind is blowing so hard that it blew over an 18 wheeler! But, they are calling for a bad air alert, so that means that I wear a mask today, darn it. It is such a wonderful addition to my wardrobe! NOT!

My weight, what I eat, and how I even take care of myself have taken a back seat to a lighht depression that has claimed me. I suspect that it is spiritual and not psychological. I DO so need to free up my calendar. I am feeling an incredible amount of anxiety about it all. But, I am afraid that if I quit anything they will think that I am inreliable. Sheesh!

Peace, Peg

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