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it's 8:05 here and I'm done w/ my work...besides answering phones of course. THIS SUCKS!!!
Last night I was pretty productive...Don was working late so I came home, put away laundry, washed all the towels, emptied the dishwasher, loaded it back up, cleaned up in the kitchen and around our table, and got all the trash together. By the time I was done Don was walking in the door w/ pizza for dinner. We'd gotten a digital converter box a few weeks ago and I finally hooked it up and got it working on our tv downstairs while Don was still at work...we only get 1 channel CBS, but it was nice to watch real TV again.
Maintenance is supposed to be coming into our townhouse this week to change out the air filter...so the dog and cat are locked up on our bedroom together this week...I feel so bad for them. If the dog was out there's no way a maintenance man would enter b/c of her bark and the cat isn't on our lease (we're not paying rent for a darn cat) so she's gotta be locked up too.
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Happy Hump Day! Today's Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent. Since today I have to fast, I'll decide by church tonight what I'll give up/do extra but right now it's shopping...only essentials for the next 40 days.
Last night I really just didn't feel like cooking so we went to bourbon street grill. Then we came home and lounged around. I told myself I've finishing the paperwork today so I can get it all turned in today and tomorrow.
I'm ready for Friday because I get my nieces this weekend. It's either a beach day Saturday or fishing at the lake Saturday. The decision will be theirs. I can't wait to see them!
For Lent..what do you do when you slip up and go shopping for more than the essentials? Do you put money in a jar or something like that?
I want to give up cursing, but I need some type of penalty if I slip up I think. I'm not big into lent...I've done it a few times, but I really need to stop cursing so much.
Good Morning!
YAY for hump day! Instead of trivia tonight the bar is doing bingo. When I texted my friend about it I felt like I was a little old lady making her plans for bingo.
Last night I finish the new Jodi Picoult book Sing You Home (or something like that) REALLY REALLY REALLY good!!!! I love all her books and this one didn't disappoint.
Humpity Hump Day! I've been having an issue with some of my international colleagues the last few days, so I'm less than thrilled to be at work. But we gotta pay bills, right?
Last night was kind of a bust - I got home from work, made tacos for dinner, and then had to leave for a nursing class. Got home from that, gave fatboy all his meds and then crashed. Slept awesome except for the fact that K kept pesting me...and all I wanted to do was sleep.
Going to be productive at work today...unless TN gets in my way.
Jen- I also need to give up cursing so much. I am really bad. I also think working in a school and having to censer myself all day makes it worse at night.
The book is about. Long story very much shortened. Husband and wife have infertility after a still born the divorce she becomes a lesbain they want to use the final 3 frozen embroys to make a baby. The husband had found jesus and so fines her lifestyle wrong they go to court over they embroys.
"My Sisters Keeper" was my favorite by her till I read "19 minutes" which is about a school shooting. I have read all of her books. I read them in under a week and now have to wait till next March for her new one to come out.
Its only Wednesday? Guh.
I have my least favorite tasks at work today; mailing checks and entering the credit card receipts into the accounting system.
Please tell me I'm not the only one who doesn't sleep as well if their H isn't there. He's going with his brother to brothers beach house today to paint and they're going to stay overnight. Combine that with the thunderstorms we're supposed to get tonight and the fact that I usually watch Ghost Hunters....yeah, I don't think I'll get any sleep tonight.
Married / The Cookaholic Wife
xtine--that book sounds good, i will have to get it from the library. i just read one of her books for the first time and loved it.
last night i worked late, got home and reheated chili. SO lazy. gerren was still returning from his day skiing, so i just lounged 100%. could not have been any lazier. at 10 pm i did put away two loads of laundry.
today is gerren's bday, so we are going out to dinner, his choice. i bet you a million bucks he choses pizza hut
oh the simple taste's of my husband.
busy day at work this am and then a loooong afternoon meeting before heading to the gym to run another 5K. i am so proud of myself when i can run over 3.2 miles without stopping! huge accomplishment! way more so than losing weight with WW, but the two together? i have been on a high all week!
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Happy Wednesday! We have a staff mtg in an hour and I'd rather hang myself than hear my ex-boss speak. Luckily, I just pounded my cup o coffee, so I'm ready for her b!tch azz. <--apparently I curse too much too...
Went to dinner last night w/ MIL. I'm currently suffering from a carb hangover. Damn On the Border. I couldn't resist the warm chips and polished off a bowl before I knew what I was doing. Still...10 lbs lost and still going, so one slip up won't kill me.
Jen & Xtine-I just started my first Jodi Picoult book last night (My Sister's Keeper). Explains why I'm so tired today. 20 pages in, I'm already intrigued by her writing style. I just had to "quit a book" on my kindle. It was driving me BSC. It took place in 12th century England and I couldn't keep the characters straight b/c apparently back then, you just named your kids the same name as you. 3 Edwards, 3 Hughs, 2 Eleanors, 4 Joans, I had to give up. On to Jodi!
CONGRATS! that is awesome! what are you doing to lose the weight?
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Married / The Cookaholic Wife
Ugh, so I'm already feeling the effects of my new medical cocktail. I got maybe 3 hours of sleep last night and my stomach is still giving me issues every time I put something other than water near my mouth. Well, I need to lose like 40lbs ASAP, so I guess that helps in some sort of screwed up way. I didn't get to enjoy my cupcakes nearly as much as I should. However, giving them out at work gave me a good pick-me-up.
I would have totally called out from work, but my supervisor (who NEVER EVER takes vacation) asked me to cover for her today and tomorrow so she can hang out with her sister who is visiting from across the country.
So I need to adjust my diet so I only eat things that don't set off my stomach and start exercising more. I knew deep down that something like this was coming, but ugh!
Sorry I'm so whiny. Usually I love Wednesdays.
The Princess of Anything is Coming!
Had a dream I was queen.
Woke up. Still queen.
not that i am trying even REMOTELY to get knocked up, but i want to lose weight BEFORE i get pregnant (in a gazillion years) so i can be 1) healthier and 2) a skinny pregnant woman who only shows in her belly.
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good morning girlies!
man...my house is so messy right now. It always makes me feel guilty to come in here and see you guys talking about how much house work you did the night before.
I've been working so much lately. I just don't have the time.
Also, congrats to all you girls losing weight. I REALLY want to start working out. But like the housework, I can't imagine when...
TTC since 2010
Me: 36, slightly elevated FSH. Everything else (hysterescopy, HSG, b/w) normal.
DH:30, with super sperm? >200mil post wash
BFP #1 - May 2011 - m/c @ 8weeks
IUI #1 - July 26 2012 - Femara = BFN
Suprise BFP Jan 15 2013. Hope this one sticks!
Also, it's generally more difficult for heavier girls to conceive.
The Princess of Anything is Coming!
Had a dream I was queen.
Woke up. Still queen.
I'm not super heavy. I've put on some chunck we will call it. I also will be the pregnant girl who loses a ton of weight at first because I will not be drinking the bud light anymore. So I am hoping my baby bud light that i have right now will just morph into baby Cav.
You don't look heavy at all! I was just adding it. I more mean around my size.
The Princess of Anything is Coming!
Had a dream I was queen.
Woke up. Still queen.
this is why i want to loose weight too...so whenever we do decide to start TTC i hopefully won't have my weight working against me
I guess I'm terrible but I just ask for forgiveness...say an extra "Hail Mary" and do my best. I've given up meat, chocolate, caffeine, soft drinks, etc before. It's easier to do with foods than with cursing type things.
If you want a penalty then I would do a money in the jar type thing. My parents had a "no more bad language" jar growing up and put a $1 in it every time a bad word was said. After X amount of time they'd give the money to charity or do something good with it (not for themselves or the family). I'm pretty sure they still have the jar but money never goes in there anymore.
I saw this book at B&N last night and took all I had NOT to buy it. I love Jodi Piccoult! I loved 19 Minutes and House Rules. I can't wait to read this book. I've read most of the newer ones so now I'm backtracking and reading the older ones. I just finished Change of Heart.
hey ladies!!!!
It snowed last night. UGH! We were down to having no snow left in our yard. That has left the building now! my normal 15 minute commute took me an hour this morning! RAWR!!!
All I want to do is surf the internet today though. I'm convinced we have a ghost at our house and I want to find some history of the land while cruising the web today.
I forgot about House Rules. That I think is my favorite book of all times! Her newer ones I feel are so much better then her older ones.
WHAT!!!!
I wanna know what you find out...that karazy!
Yeah, our dog will randomly bark at the wall. 2 weeks ago, J came home and the dog was in the room behind the front door standing with his hair on end growling (this dog doesn't growl. He would probably wag his tail and kiss a robber carrying our tv out of the house). But the big thing was last week, J called me at work and asked why i came back home that morning. I said i didn't. He said he was in teh bathroom getting ready for work, heard the front door open and close and then about 10 seconds later open and close again. When he went out there, it was unlocked. I was conviced that maybe he just didn't lock it the night before, but that still doesn't account for what he heard. We've also been hearing weird noises and stuff.
OMG. If this was happening at my house, I'd move out. As it was, H was at a R/C plane meeting last night and at some point, Petey went to the door to the side yard and started barking like a maniac. I was totally freaked out. But Petey barks at people walking by the house, so it was probably someone walking their dog.
HAVEN'T YOU SEEN PARANORMAL ACTIVITY!?!?!?!?!
Oh no! Maybe it's YOU!
ETA: Totally joking about the paranormal activity thing. But I'm totally reading about ghosts and stuff now and getting freaked out.
The Princess of Anything is Coming!
Had a dream I was queen.
Woke up. Still queen.
FREAKY! I don't remember the show name, but it's on the animal planet...it's about how animals pick up on spirits or whathaveyou in homes.
Yeah, I watch ALL the paranormal shows, etc. I've had other experiences in my life that have made me believer in the paranormal (or spirits). I was glad something happened while J was there though so he doesn't think I'm nuts!
Hello beeothskies! Happy Wednesday! I do not observe organized religion, but I was raised Catholic. This year for Lent I am giving up being nice to people who don't deserve it, dealing with aholes and liars, and the conservative agenda.
Last night I returned stuff to Old Navy, horked down some McD's in a fit of hunger and weakness, and got my summer quilt at Marshall's. I'm so glad I didn't buy one online, I saved myself a boatload. Holler.
At home I let the dogs out, changed, packed my lunch and made a big pot of chicken stock. I watched the Lifetime Amanda Knox movie, then MFD got home and we watched Chopped.
I got into bed at 11 and read until about 12.
This morning I met a college friend across the street for coffee, I haven't seen her in probably 12 years. It was nice to catch up!
Morning ladies! I'm home studying and I just finished one section so it seemed like a good time for a break. Last night we had a yummy dinner at Kona Grill and it wound up being a really good time. Jeff is at a local conference which ends today - he's presenting a poster and he was texting me all morning because he was bored and killing time. I really wanted to tell him that all the texts were seriously slowing down my studying and affecting my concentration, but I know that I do the same thing to him when I'm alone waiting for a bus or a train so I stuck it out.
I was very 'meh' on the idea of My Sister's Keeper, but maybe I'll give Jody Picoult a try. I just bought a ton of Kindle books so it will be a while before I get through them, and before I'm willing to spend money on books again.