MAY, Time For Another Beautiful Spring!
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Pretty!!
Chris0 -
Kathy - Your flowers are gorgeous!1
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Kathy you did it! Posted photos. They are beautiful. Love those purple blooms. I bought 3 different hydrangea plants. One is pink. Not sure if the others. I think I may not have given them enough space! Is that only one, or several?
Chris I have recently had trouble with posting again! Going to ha vs to check better.
Shell0 -
144.2 at 5:00 this morning. A bit unhappy. I have 19 days until surgery.
I remember your last posting troubles, Shelley. I hope it get straightened out soon.
Got the boys this morning. Meeting w/our trainer at noon then to Kaiser for and EKG and some blood work.
Well, need to get my shoes on.
TTYL
Chris0 -
Chris I sure hope your tests were good. I sure am hoping that it all goes well.
Worked on the new spots for my hibiscus plants. Will pour concrete for the edging Friday or Saturday. Looks like all my clematis plants made it through the winter. Now we need some warm weather!
Lifted weights this morning.
Shelley0 -
Chris - hope everything goes well with your surgery. It can be a little bit nerve-wracking :-)
I've had such a crazy few weeks. Work mostly. I am going to Budapest on Saturday for the week so trying to get myself together for that. Quite hectic.
I'm trying to focus on intermittent fasting. I sort of been right around the same weight up and down a little bit here and there. Anybody else do IF?1 -
143.6 this morning at 5:00. Thank you guys. Thank you for your support. Sorry for the whining. Just wish this was over.
Karen I think your job is crazy fun! Man! you get to go everywhere. I have motion sickness...no travel for this girl. I just want to POP into places. Can't even go the eight miles to the doctor's office with DH driving.
Getting the boys in a few mins. Having lunch with the woman who helped us get this house. Maybe going shopping after. Haven't been to Target in a week or so...
Later, my friends.
Chris
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It’s official I’m retired! Went to the office yesterday and turned in my laptop, travel card and badge. It’s a strange feeling...but I’m ready. Now it’s my time.
Chris- sending good thoughts your way!
Shelley - I would love to see your garden in person.
Karen - I have tried IF in the past...mostly making my own juices and following Joe across juice fast. Right now I plan to concentrate on more plant based meals.
Hi Paula....miss you.
So it begins...next chapter.
Kathy1 -
181.2 this morning....retirement weight...too many lunches and celebrations. Time to get to work to reach my final goals of 148.
Kathy
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Congrats! Kathy! You're going to love retirement. And Thank You.
Yes, Paula, I miss you, too. A LOT!!!
I did not weigh this morning. Got dressed and took my meds before I thought about it. It just keeps going up and up. ***sigh***
Chris
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181.2 this morning....retirement weight...too many lunches and celebrations. Time to get to work. Breakfast this morning...spinach sauté and two slices of turkey bacon.
Chris hang in I’m frustrated right now with my weigh ins. Going to increase my exercise now that I have the time and energy.Congrats! Kathy! You're going to love retirement. And Thank You.
Yes, Paula, I miss you, too. A LOT!!!
I did not weigh this morning. Got dressed and took my meds before I thought about it. It just keeps going up and up. ***sigh***
Chris
Kathy
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185.6 this morning. Still struggling a bit with at night time and eating. I fight all day and then at night I do give in which is not what I want to be doing! But I keep on trying!
Need to get myself packed to leave at about one today to catch my flight to Budapest. Always quite a long journey :-) this one should actually be a fun trip. It’s my boss a staff meeting and he has a couple of fun things planned which sounds awesome! Travel is usually so grueling so I’m hoping this will be a little different.
So at work we have a veterans association employee group and they are sponsoring a program called earn your stripes. Really anybody can do it you don’t have to be a veteran. So it’s essentially a fitness challenge where you exercise for the month of June and get certain points for what you do. If you go to our fitness center and do a couple of other things you get extra points. So I’m definitely joining At the end of it if you get a certain level of points you get a hoodie and some other prizes. I’m excited just to have anything else to help motivate myself LOL! So I’m gonna be working on earning my stripes this June!
Chris - that is one of the fortunate things about my job. It’s a little tough on the family, but being able to travel is a really fantastic. Sometimes it gets to be a little bit too much and not quite as glamorous as it looks, but I’ve learned so much about different cultures and different places in the world. I never would have been able to go at all these places without a job like this. Just to give you a little flavor I’ve been to India five times, I’ve been to Budapest about 25 times, Brazil, China, Singapore, Roma, Paris, Belgium, Canada about maybe 50 times, and I would say at least half of the countries in the US. I’m getting better at trying to spend time extra in these places when I can. Sometimes it’s an when it’s a two week trip it’s awesome to be able to spend a weekend somewhere. But even adding a day or so really helps you to understand the culture and where you’re traveling to. And of course the food! Being a foodie there’s nothing like eating your way through the city. Although it makes it very hard to keep weight off! LOL
Kathy - I am going to try to do some intermittent fasting while I travel. Might be hard because of the late European dinners but I’m going to give it a whirl!
Hope everybody has an awesome Saturday.
Karen0 -
Karen...WOW! I'm so impressed! What is your job? Do you have offices in all these places...sorry if I'm being nosey. If you are a secret agent for the government and can't tell me, I'll understand.
I like your work idea to earn your stripes. When I worked at the county office, we would do something like that too. I liked it if we had a 'step challenge'.
Thanks, Kathy. All the information that comes with the meds I take for my back and the arthritis say...may cause weight gain...so I'm not going to sweat it any more and just concentrate on getting through the surgery. Then I'll see what's what. Right now I have the most swollen legs...My socks are really tight and my lower legs pooch out above them. The socks leave their pattern on my legs down to my ankles. It looks pretty funny!
No real plans for today except reading.
Love you guys!
Chris
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Chris - so I work for a chemical company (Suez)...we clean water. I’m the global Customer Care leader ...I do have a team in each pole. Much of my travel is visiting them, or going to commercial meetings normally, sometimes conferences. It’s a great job...a little too stressful at times and I work to much...but who doesn’t? Lol. Just grateful to do something I enjoy for the past 20 years
About to take off...catch up with you ladies tomorrow. Have a great day!
Karen0 -
Layover in Munich...bread and pretzels everywhere!!! I have 3 hours before my next flight...so planning to get some good walking in!
Karen1 -
Holy Cow! Pretzel sandwiches??? I've never seen or heard of pretzel sandwiches! So crazy! I'll take a bell pepper and some egg plant, please...
Easy Saturday - grocery shopped w/DH - that was all. Easy Sunday. Zero plans. Beautiful day, today. Windy. We can heard the kids yelling at the soccer games at the school. Little kids chasing the smaller soccer ball around. So darling! Nick played soccer when he was 4 or 5 years old. He loved it. Fun memories.
143.6 this morning at 7:00.
Chris0 -
Kathy I am so happy for you! Congratulations! And I would love you to plan one of your visits to come my way. Retirement weight is one of my concerns also. Now that you have celebrated it is time to lose some serious weight. Show everyone that retirement agrees with you!
Chris my weight has gone up and it is driving me crazy. My doctor has adjusted my meds, so hopefully that will help.
Hey Karen! That is a crazy amount of food sitting out. I so would have trouble maintaining! Clean water is a great job! And all that traveling would get old sometimes. But the off time and site seeing would be a blast!.
OK going to start posting in Junes section. Come join me. And love the photos ladies!
Shelley0
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