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Monday July 16th Randoms

Hey everyone! How was your weekend?

When I got in this morning a coworker had sent me an email forward ragging on Obama and Muslims.....I'm not getting into politics here, but that was not something I wanted to read.

Re: Monday July 16th Randoms

  • TheWopTheWop member
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    Weekend was ok.  We had a wedding to attend on Saturday.  I have to say it amazes me what people wear to weddings.  Nothing trashy or slutty, but so many people seemed to underdress!  One woman was wearing a tie-die dress with leather boots, and another guy was wearing a regular t-shirt and khaki's with flip flops.  This was a really nice, somewhat fancy wedding, why would you dress casually?  I don't understand. 
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  • TheWopTheWop member
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    I ate waayy too much over the weekend.  With the wedding on Saturday and the cookout with friends on Sunday, I seriously need to watch what I eat this week and hit the gym hard. 
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  • imageTheWop:
    Weekend was ok.  We had a wedding to attend on Saturday.  I have to say it amazes me what people wear to weddings.  Nothing trashy or slutty, but so many people seemed to underdress!  One woman was wearing a tie-die dress with leather boots, and another guy was wearing a regular t-shirt and khaki's with flip flops.  This was a really nice, somewhat fancy wedding, why would you dress casually?  I don't understand. 

    At the last wedding we attended there was a woman wearing a huge t-shirt, athletic pants and high top sneakers. She also didn't let go of her Big Gulp through the entire ceremony and reception.

  • I have Joe Diffie's "Prop Me Up Against the Jukebox" song stuck in my head for absolutely no reason......
  • TheWopTheWop member
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    imageTeacherToBe6:

    imageTheWop:
    Weekend was ok.  We had a wedding to attend on Saturday.  I have to say it amazes me what people wear to weddings.  Nothing trashy or slutty, but so many people seemed to underdress!  One woman was wearing a tie-die dress with leather boots, and another guy was wearing a regular t-shirt and khaki's with flip flops.  This was a really nice, somewhat fancy wedding, why would you dress casually?  I don't understand. 

    At the last wedding we attended there was a woman wearing a huge t-shirt, athletic pants and high top sneakers. She also didn't let go of her Big Gulp through the entire ceremony and reception.

    Wow. And Yikes!  There must have been something special in that Bib Gulp cup! 

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  • Anyone have their menus for the week?

    So far I'm thinking veggie ziti, chicken with goat cheese, lemon salmon, and maybe steaks on the grill one night.

  • Well I swallowed the camera capsule and am hooked up to all these wires and a monitor tracking machine to take images from the camera. This is supposed to look through my small intestine mostly and then go through the whole digestive tract. Gotta go back in at 4:30 to get unhooked. Blah.
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  • TheWopTheWop member
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    imageTeacherToBe6:

    Anyone have their menus for the week?

    So far I'm thinking veggie ziti, chicken with goat cheese, lemon salmon, and maybe steaks on the grill one night.

    This week I'm doing Aloha Chicken burgers

    http://allrecipes.com/recipe/aloha-chicken-burgers/detail.aspx

    Homemade sloppy joes

    Frozen Pizza

    Not sure what else we'll have this week.

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  • Holy crap it's hot. I don't know why I let myself think that we would be ok in an office without A/C during a summer working with my DH who comes unglued in the heat. We have 5 fans going and its 87 degree's in here right now. Normally we would have stayed home and tried to work from there but we have 3 clients scheduled through the day.
  • imageTeacherToBe6:

    Anyone have their menus for the week?

    So far I'm thinking veggie ziti, chicken with goat cheese, lemon salmon, and maybe steaks on the grill one night.

    I have a roast in the crock pot for tonight.

    This for tomorrow. http://www.skinnytaste.com/2012/06/crock-pot-chicken-cacciatore.html#more

     

  • So a friend of mine on FB just wrote that she just took 2 month old baby to her first chiropractic visit. Thoughts?

     

  • It seems people are getting lazy with dress at weddings. I knew some of DHs family would show up in jeans and tshirts and there wasn't much I could do about it. I had to deal with that myself and learn to be ok with it. I was surprised that most came in their "nice" jeans.

    Last night we had meatballs with pomegrante chipotle sauce and cream cheese in the crock pot. They were great! Next time I am going to try and make my own meatballs though.

    TTB - I've seen a chiropractor on and off for 12 years and it really has helped me a lot with headaches and back troubles. I would love to take my daughter to the chiropractor but my husband is very much against it so I will respect how he feels until she has an issue that a chiropractor can help with. They say that birth is a "traumatic experience" and early adjustments, even the day they are born, can help with ear infections, colic, and other issues that babies have. I would only take my daughter to one that is actually certified in adjusting children though - there is extra, special training that Chiropractors need to do to be "certified" to adjust children.

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  • imageTeacherToBe6:

    So a friend of mine on FB just wrote that she just took 2 month old baby to her first chiropractic visit. Thoughts?

     

    I've never heard of an infant going before. I have a terrible taste in my mouth from my previous chiropractor that screwed me over, so my opinion is maybe not so fair.

  • Ah yes, a bad experience would definitely make me question if it would be a good idea or not. I would have to trust the chiropractor and be adjusted by them myself before ever letting them adjust my child though. I think that if I were to take Hannah at this age (17 months) she would freak out. If you start them very young, they know no different. Smile
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  • DH and I did the Michigander bicycle tour this past weekend. I wrote about it here: http://thelocalcook.com/2012/07/16/i-survived-the-michigander-2-day-bicycle-tour/

    It was not easy, that's for sure, but it was still fun and I'm glad we did it. I only hope we can keep up the exercise.

    I leave for Honduras really early tomorrow morning. 

  • imageWendyGR:

    I leave for Honduras really early tomorrow morning. 

     

    Have a safe trip Wendy!! 

  • imageTeacherToBe6:

    So a friend of mine on FB just wrote that she just took 2 month old baby to her first chiropractic visit. Thoughts?

     

     

    If I developed a trusted relationship with a chiropractor or kinesiologist then I would most definitely take my baby.  Birth is hard on a baby's body and adjustment can be done very gently to help get everything lined back up where it should be.  It can also make a HUGE difference with reflux, which has been plaguing a lot of kids lately.

    I have a kinesiologist now that I love and I would definitely take my child if I had one.  I trust him with my health, & he's made a much bigger difference for me, than any DO or MD ever has.

  • That's GR for ya. Shutter.
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  • My Mil wore tye shirt and black pants to our wedding. :-( Granted it was in a chapel in a casino in Vegas, but everyone else wore fancy dresses. All the men attending even schleped suits all the way out there! I'm still baffeled by this one. She did break down and wear a dress to a different sons wedding at Meijer Gardens this summer. I mean I haulec a wedding dress 2000 miles you couldnt pack a skirt?!?! lol
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