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AW / Chat Thursday
I started WW about 3 weeks ago and have lost 5 pounds! Hopefully bootcamp will help me shed this even faster!
Our last sunset in Hawaii... Honeymoon 2010
Michelle & Michael
Married - August '10
TTC - Since September 2011
Michelle & Michael
Married - August '10
TTC - Since September 2011
IUI - 10/29/2014, BFP! EDD: 7/22/2015
Re: AW / Chat Thursday
Congrats! I'm so jealous of you boot camp girls. Best of luck to you all on weight loss! We should do a Biggest Loser TK DFW edition.
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For the first time in my life, I stayed at a B&B and got a pedicure last week. I also got new shoes!
Today is Thursday, which means one more day until the weekend and I'm crossing my fingers that my 3 day work week next week will be light and easy and the office will be empty.
Congrats on the weight loss!
I just ate an egg and cheese McGriddle and it was pretty much awesome. Regret level is hovering around 0%, which is likely induced by the pain meds but whatever.
I'm seeking Breaking Dawn on Tuesday night because #1 - I will have turned in the first draft of my giant research paper I have been working on all semester earlier that day and # 2 my office granted us a "bonus" day off, so I only have to work Mon-Tues next week! Woo!
I have two-fold AW today.
1) Yesterday I came back to Boot Camp after having missed 5 sessions. I wore a relatively slim fitting workout outfit, as opposed to my standard boys athletic shorts and t-shirt. My trainer said, "WHOA! I should use you as a weight loss inspiration example! You look fantastic!" I'm sure she was just pumping me up (which worked) but it felt great.
2) This morning, in the FRIGID outdoor workout session I almost skipped, I beat my previous personal best plank time by 15 seconds. I had to be kind of a b!tch about it and tell the girl next to me to stop talking, but I did it. RAWR.
How was it? I have never stayed at one.
Also, I am SO very jealous of all of you ladies with extra days off next week. We get Thursday, but that is it. BOO. I am just hoping I am one of the only people here next Friday so I can do lots of reading!
Chelsea - Woohoo! Awesome way to start the day, I bet it was worth getting out of the car, huh? ;-)
Leslie - I had a Chick Fil A breakfast sandwich...my regret level is at 0% and I can't even blame the pain meds. Heh... I have a super healthy lunch and dinner set to go, though.
Boot Camp Ladies - I'm excited to go back tonight and for Jay Day on Saturday! Also, Mark & I are signing up for December.
Sara - I just get Thursday and Friday off....but our people here seem to already be on vacation. I've been reading since last Friday, and I'm halfway through my 2nd book. I hope you get to read soon, too!
It was fabulous. Typically I'm very anxious/ready to get home around day 3 but I did not want to leave.
I feel bad because of my diet lately and am mad at myself for slacking off :-(.
But I am excited to get back to boot camp tonight!
I don't really have any AWs this week! Mine would be that I got a seasonal job, but the lady didn't call me yesterday for the interview. Which was weird :-/
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Natural Cycle (8/7/13)- BFP! Beta #1 (9/10/13): 509 Progesterone: 18.64 Beta #2 (9/12/13): 1118
I know it's a pain, but could you TN girls go over to TK and give your vendors again?
http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_texas-dallas-ft-worth_vendor-1
Bio
Yay for boot camp and weight loss. You girls are awesome!
We get next Thursday and Friday off. I'm very happy about that, since technically the market is not closed on Friday and we usually have to be here when the market is open.
For the first time since BL got married and needed our help, I posted on TK. Is it bad that I really had to think about some of the vendors? I am still not 100% sure we used Men's Wearhouse - but I think we did...
ETA: What do you girls think about this? http://community.thenest.com/cs/ks/forums/thread/60345420.aspx
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I have all next week off, and I'm so excited. We're having TG lunch today at work, and everything already smells so good. My boss brought appetizers & set them on the bar by my desk to eat now, instead of later, and I may have had a bacon wrapped, cream cheese covered jalapeno as Part I of my breakfast. Zero regret right now.
ETA: Leslie - I read a similar thread a while back about the same topic. I support having the pictures taken, if that helps the mother grieve, but I do not think that the person should be posting them as her profile pic. If anything, make an album - but don't publish it to the feed - so that those who want to go and look, can, but those who don't want to, don't have to. I also don't think I'd ever have the, ahem, guts to say anything to her - but I'd be wishing someone would. Grieving in your own way is one thing - forcing people to look at a picture of a dead person (baby or otherwise) is just not okay.
I don't remember all of mine either, much less the costs/minimums. I listed what I could!
Re: Your Link. I only read the OP, not the responses. I think its creepy, weird, and extremely unhealthy.
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Couldn't agree with you more on that point.
I think she needs to get over it. Her attitude towards this person bothers me. Either block it or stay off FB. You can't control what you see in your feed, unless you block people or stay off FB, but to say that she didn't have a choice in seeing it or not is ridiculous. Put your big girl panties on and act like an adult.
That person was me. LOL. My point is that that baby was alive in her body for nine months. To others it was never a living person but to her it was likely very different.
Almost every picture I have seen of a stillborn baby has looked like the baby was sleeping. I guess it just doesn't bother me. I also feel like you have the option of hiding people on FB and things like this are what that setting was made for.
To each their own though.
I agree. For parents of still born babies, those are the only pictures they'll ever have of their child. As far as posting them, I think it's ok on a blog or something like that, but not where someone is going to see them without warning. ETA: I have to say that I didn't read the link, and I can see how it would be upsetting to see something like that on Facebook. But to throw a hissy over it and make a huge deal out of it, well, that's just dumb.
My AW is that I just feel really hopeful about the future this week. For several months, I was feeling pretty desperate, as DH was getting almost no bookings and I was getting no interviews. But now, things are looking more promising, and I'm very excited.
Yeah, the attitude of the OP is a completely different kettle of fish.
Bahaha! I knew there was a reason that stuck out to me.
Yes, I agree the baby was living in the womb, but you can't really get a picture to post on FB of the baby - in the womb... unless it's the sonogram picture.
I think that posting a picture of the baby now, when it's passed (not to be harsh) is different than me posting a picture of me and my deceased Mother on Christmas one year. They aren't one in the same.
I agree with PP that a blog is acceptable to post the pictures, because people understand what they're looking at when they go to your blog. But I think that FB is not an appropriate place to post pictures like that at all. However, just because that's my opinon, doesn't mean everyone has to share it. But, it's something that I would never do.
Bio
Oh, I agree there. The OP does need to act like an adult about it.
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Re: Pictures
I support the mom's right to have them, and while I don't think it's a healthy or responsible decision to have that be your online identify (Because, if everyone ALWAYS equates you on FB with those pictures, it becomes your identity), I also wouldn't want anyone to bug her about it. I'm with those that say block the feed if it bothers you.
As far as the pictures themselves, I have a friend on FB who does something similar every year. Her baby was stillborn, and does NOT look like a healthy sleeping baby. I won't go into graphic detail, but it's very disturbing, and my heart breaks for her. But I use it as an opportunity to pray for her every time I see it. I never delivered my angel baby and it chokes me up just to type about it here. I can't imagine carrying for 9 months and losing something that precious, and I will never EVER bring myself to judge how a woman handles that grief.
Oh, I agree there. The OP does need to act like an adult about it.
Bio
I went to TKB this morning and I feel GREEEAAAT! So pumped. I need to remember this so I'll go back next Thursday.
I read the OP but not the responses. I do not think the OP should say anything but should just block her until she is through the grieving process and is ready to take the picture down on her own
I resigned as the Beauty Board moderator last night. I'm finally done with TK! It only took 2 years. I'll still go to the DFW board from time to time but that's it.
I can't believe Thanksgiving is next week. We won't know for sure what we are doing until Mel gets her schedule tomorrow. If we're staying here, I'll have to shop for everything this weekend!
I'm ready for Christmas music. (Sorry Tiffany!)
With All the Trimmings
Just do it!
ITA. 100000%
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OMGOODNESS!!!
Secretly, I am thinking of letting the two international boards go. Especially since I post so much over here, I feel like I neglect them.
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Oh and I forgot to add I can't believe I feel so great this morning because I was up half the night reading the new book club book. Could not put it down, wow.
Yeah, Brianna, I had just lost interest--that was when I knew it was time.
ETA: Michelle, woo hoo, congrats!
With All the Trimmings
Just do it!
Chelsea - I was just looking at your blog and I can not believe how big your kids are getting. I remember when you posted Dot as a gnome and she looked so tiny.