The Daily Water Cooler Thread

Starlage

hey ladies! didn't check in yesterday- was very busy!

Marla and Shirley what beautiful pictures!! Nice to have an updated shot of yourself isn't it? Jenny just wait until you're all dolled up for something and shoot one- that's what I did. I'd love to see a pic of the boat Shirley! I can be envious

Well, BUSY DAY TODAY! I'm lucky enough to have a dentist that stays open every other thursday until 8PM- so generous of her makes getting to the dentist much more convenient for us daytime workin folks! So tonight I've got my appointment at 7pm. I get off work at 5 but because it's a 45 minute drive (I've been seeing her since I was little- worth the drive for a dentist you've been seeing and love for so long!) I'm not going to have enough time to go home first- just in case traffic's bad. Therefore, no exercising today! Not enough time. I've brought regular clothes with me to change into and dinner to munch on, and of course my toothbrush so I can clean before my cleaning. Funny how we do that isn't it? I figure it's common courtesy. Someone's scraping around in there so it shouldn't be nasty from the food etc I've eaten all day. lol. I'm glad teeth cleanings are only twice a year, wouldn't want to have to do this more often! Makes for a super long day, won't get home til around 830 i think. Oh well though, I've planned food for the day and as long as I stick to that plan I'll come out under my goal. I had a fantastic workout yesterday- It's nice to feel my stamina improving. When I first started all this a couple of months ago I'd be POOPED after just a half hour of sweaty exercising but now I'm able to go a good hour and feel fine afterwards. Yesterday I did the crunch bikini body dvd I have (kind of a cross between dance aerobics and circuit training i think) and then my mtv yoga dvd. WHOO! Glad I can go for longer now :happy:

Oh, the other *fun* thing in my life- my kitten's in heat and driving me mad! AGH! I feel so bad for the poor thing. I've always had male cats in the past so I've never had to deal with this before. She's constantly yeowlying all over the apartment, writhing around on the floor, crouching on the floor at the ready with her bum in the air. :ohwell: Must be so confusing the first time for an indoor cat that's not around males. I am inpressed though at the power of instincts.... haha. I've got an appointment to get her fixed in a few weeks so let's hope she's not in torture until then! I've read online that sometimes they're in heat constantly off and on and sometimes it's like 5-7 days and then over. I found it ironic that she started on the first day of MY period- maybe we're syncing up, hahaha. Oh well, either way it'll be over in a few weeks if not sooner for her sake I hope, and I just try to pay her extra attention when I'm home for now (and pray that she's not yeowling loud enough to annoy the neighbors when I'm gone- she gets REALLY loud.... no complaints so far though)

Anyways, I need to get busy and quit slackin. Have a good day ladies!

jrbanta

I had acupuncture today. It was wonderful. I forgot how relaxing it is. After they put the needles in (you don't feel them) you relax in a room with very little light and meditative music for 30 minutes. My body gets so relaxed and I can feel the energy flow within my body. Hopefully I'll see some results. We are going to tackle arthritis, hot flashes, and sinusitis.

HRM is here and set up to try this weekend. Interested to see how it works.

Leo's (my dog) is breathing shallow and raspy. I fear I may need to make that decision very soon. I can't imagine life without him here and greeting me every day. I went for a walk without him tonight. I'll have to get use to that too.

I'll tackle my photo situation this weekend. It won't be pretty....:grumble:

Tired and need to go to bed:yawn:

Jenny

mizpaden74

Your picture will be luv-er-ly!

and just hugs...

working overnight so I can supervise the minion at field day....booo....field day...:grumble:

bye me luvs -

Starlage

morning ladies :happy:

another half a pound down today, wahoo!! I do need to break myself from the habit of stepping on the scale so often though- hard to resist when i've got the calibrated ones here at work with me ALL DAY!!! Oh well though, I'm just thrilled I'm still seeing changes.

HOWEVER, I DID NOT MAKE IT YESTERDAY!!! gosh. So I had stuck to my menu plan ALL DAY, had dinner super early right after work at 5 before leaving for me dental appt @ 7. I was right around 1200 cals for the day at that point. The dentist was behind- by the time it got to 745 I was HUNGRY! Laying back in the dental chair trying not to think about my growling tummy was quite a challenge. I should've known I'd be hungry though With dinner so early and eating so lightly all day it wasn't enough to sustain me, of course right! Duh. The problem though- after leaving the dentist around 815 my tummy was YELLING at me: "DINNER, DINNER, DINNER!! What are you doing??? FEEEED MEEEE!!!" and on the way back to the freeway there's a taco bell- a weakness of mine, right after mcdonald's, lol. So of course I stopped through the drive through. I had a 40-45 minute drive ahead of me to get home, so I needed to eat something. I didn't make the worst choice in the world- I got a 7 layer burrito. I logged it this morning and found out it's not as bad as I thought! I figured I'd have added like 800 cals or something crazy to the day- found out that it's only 500 cals, but a terrible 69 carbs, 18 fats, 5 sugars and 1,090 sodium. ACK! Really though- it was DELICIOUS!! I hadn't had taco bell in a few months. plus it only put me over in calories by around 400, which of course still just gets me a few hundred away from maintainence calories so it's not terrible. I plan on exercising tonight and tomorrow morning so that I get at least 4 workouts in this week.

Big weekend ahead! Happy mommy's day you mommies. Tomorrow late morning I'm going to renton, wa (about a half hour away from me) to pick up my brother from the bus station. He lives in auburn, wa (like 45 mins away from me) but doesn't have a car. Mom hasn't seen him since christmas so he's coming to spend the night saturday and most of the day sunday before I take him home. I'm excited! I love when I get to spend time with my brother away from his girlfriend and her family (no matter how much i like them- always nice to get him to ourselves) so that might make a healthy diet and exercise a challenge... I'm going to wake up early enough tmrw so that I can try to exercise before I leave to pick him up and then sunday I might see if I can get a workout in after I take him home... but it might be kinda late so that might not happen. Oh well! I'll just do the best I can eating well. Going to the store after work today to get some more veggies so that I have that option!

marla, I LOVED field day when I was a kid! Why do you have to go? I don't remember parents coming unless they were volunteering to help out with things? It's a crazy day for parents and teachers but just think how thrilled the little ones are to get a break in their routine

jenny, sorry to hear about your dog :frown: what a hard decision. Good luck with that though, i'll pray for you I'm happy for you that you finally got into acupuncture! Hope it helps! I'm jealous you got an HRM, I need to invest in one! I'm never positive if I'm logging my dvd workouts properly- all I can do is guestimate!

Gotta get to work! Probably won't be checking in this weekend much if at all so have a great weekend!!

Starlage

i just realized i'm a third of the way to my short term goal of 150lbs, wahoo!

Shirley61

Starla: Congrats on your weight goal I just keep bouncing up and down. So tired of it. :sad:

Marla: Have fun on field day. Don't know what that is . Guess I am getting too old to remember

Jenny: Good luck with the acupuncture, hope it makes you feel better.

My weight was down as of yesterday, then hubby decided he wanted take out instead of grilling steak, sweet potatoe fries,
and salad. Instead we had Swiss Chalet quarter chicken, greek salad, multi grain roll and Chalet sauce. Today I am up a
pound probably from the sodium
Tonight we are having fresh fish pan fried, sweet potatoe fries and salad. Friends are coming over because the guys caught
the fish a few weekends ago. Its Perch by the way (mmmm). We will be indulging in alcohol, of course, so much for the diet again. I did walk for 40mins today and went shopping. Now I am going to do ironing and get ready for company.
Have a wonderful Friday!!

Also in case I forget, HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO YOU ALL, who have kids:bigsmile:

Shirley61

Okay I have some boat pictures. This is the boat we just bought and my hubby just
did the ad for the boat we have now to sell.

So, the pictures are on my profile, take a peek.

jrbanta

Shirley- beautiful boat. Looks like it would be a lovely time. Do you sail on a large lake or are you on the ocean where you live? I grew up on a large lake and had a little sunfish that I use to sail for hours. It made for some very fun summer days! Love your photos too.

Well work is a pain and I have a big decision to make this weekend. As an educator who typically works 9 months of the year (187 days) with the rest unpaid unless I work an extended service agreement and teach summer school, my calendar is now going to a stretch with the 187 spread out over 12 months. This means a reduction in salary since teaching summer school for extra pay is not an option anymore. I do have the option to add 20 days of full pay and work a 207 day year but I don't get to flex any days and the district makes the calendar. The one they proposed is horrible and gives hardly any days off in the summer (nicest weather in MN) and most of the days off are in the bad weather months. The calendar they proposed would make it difficult to go on a driving vacation, cruise, or be away longer than a week because they don't give enough consecutive days off. So the pros are 1) I'm lucky to be employed, 2) It would be good money and the biggest raise I'll ever get in my career, 3) help pay off debt and put money away for unforseen expenses, help with college tuition, etc., and 4) boost my pension pay out when I retire.:bigsmile: The cons are 1) the schedule stinks, 2) it's a high burn-out job and the breaks are needed, 3) too short of consecutive days time to visit my family in Michigan or go on a trip somewhere, 4) no flexibility, 5) working in a building with no air conditioning (MN is very hot and humid), and 6) I'll be crabby. So what to do? I feel I need to make the money while I can in case future budget cuts pulls back those 20 extra days but I really dislike the calendars they offered.:grumble:

So this has been brewing the whole school year and it has been a very stressful process. I need to submit my my first 3 choices in the order of my preference from a possibility of 4 calendars by Monday at the end of the day.

Have a happy mother's day with family and enjoy your weekend.

Jenny

mizpaden74

oh ew. I know you didn't ask for opinions - but I'm good at giving it anyway. I'd vote for no. You could always come up with extra money via moonlighting job that would still give you more flex than that and honestly if you don't have the time or strength to enjoy it, what's the point. For me, I would only want to take on more hours/responsibility if it truly spoke to my soul in such a way that made it clear it was the way to go. Feel free to file the above in the circle file!!

Starla - I'm so happy you have another loss!! YOWZA GURL. You are rockin' it. You are lucky to have good memories of field day. My memories of field day are just like most of my other memories of school time. Being the 'faty-four-eyed' who is slow and always last. While I HATE field day for me - I keep trying to make it a good memory for the dudes. I am usually the loudest one in the stands or on the field and make sure to be yelling their name while they are running by. (I luv'd being on stage back in the day, but was always just the recipient of the polite applause. Not the hootin hollerin the populars would get.) So, I yell and scream, pack fun stuff to eat they don't normally have and pray tor minimal amounts of crying over whatever. So far no tears. But they will likely still come when they hand out ribbons at school later next week. Somebody will have 'better' or 'more' ribbons and well you know... feh. Oh and GAH - my back! Sitting on the grass and bleachers or five hours. OW! And windburn. ow. Ok, I'm done.

But, my day ended with the most beautiful arrangement of flowers I have ever received in my life. Seriously. Ever. From? My mom. Word. Like most people - we have ups and downs and we certainly get on each others nerves from time to time, but in families - when doesn't that happen.

The 6-year-old brought home his gift from school (a marigold) and jammed it into the smack middle of the landscape rock instead of the pot I thought I told him to - but if it survives - it will certainly stand and be a fun memory.:flowerforyou:

Crammed weekend - final soccer for 10-year-old, dance recital for my neice (freappin' 4 hours), play date for 10-year-old, and trying to get outside work done. Woo.

It may seem strange to say this... but when I count my blessings - I feel like this post is right at the top. HUGS!!!!


Marla

jrbanta

Marla- thanks for your input. I haven't sorted out my feelings on this yet. I really suspect they will pull these extra paid days away the following year due to budget cuts, lay-offs, etc. so part of me wants to do the year to pay off some short term debt and be sitting in a great position by next summer. With what I make per day and hourly the money I would make doing a side job would never compare or give me what I hope to accomplish. I have thought of that too but don't want to be away from my family in the evenings or on weekends. Now it is just to decide a cut in pay for great days off or more income to update my home, help put $ away for college, weekends away, etc.?:huh:

I volunteered at Track and Field Day one time and never again. The put me in charge of a group of at least 10 little kids and they were squirrelly and hard to manage. I'd rather just watch my kid. My boys have always done community sports leagues from Kindergarten on up so many of our weekends and evenings were spent on fields or gymnasiums. I never took work off after the first volunteer episode to watch track and field day. Foot ball camp, strength and conditioning and then another football season are not far away. My youngest will be a junior and he plays high school football. I wonder if he will be JV or Varsity next season? Hubbie and I volunteer at the games in the concessions to help them out. It's either very hot or very windy and cold on those nights.

So far today is beautiful out and I really should get dressed and go out to the gardens and start cleaning them up. I also want to set up the deck furniture today. My bike will be back from the bike doctor this afternoon so I plan to ride with my HRM and see what calories I burn doing that too. Fun little gizmo...

Have a nice Saturday!
Jenny

Shirley61

Hi Ladies:

Just a quick note we had a fish fry last night, the husbands caught the fish. So our company came over
to indulge. Good times, good eats then we played mexican train (dominos) that's always fun.
I did drink :drinker: enjoyed that too.

Today hubby went to work on the new/old boat again. He called and is coming home and we are going
to a show (Water for Elephants). Popcorn and dinner later. Not a good weekend for dieting but I still
try to make good choices.

Tomorrow we are going to breakfast, and then seeing my two daughters, son-in-law, for dinner.
They are an hour an half away.

Happy Mother's Day !!

jrbanta

Shirley-Did you read Water for Elephants? That was an excellent book and my favorite ending of all time! Love the game Mexican Train. We played that on girl's weekends and with my family last Christmas. Sounds like you had fun and a good dinner.

Went shopping today to use some coupons. I bought a dress (smaller dress size than typical) and two pairs of capri pants (also smaller size than typical) Woo Hoo! I pulled out summer clothes that I stored in a box because they were too small last year and I fit into two pairs of capris and shorts. Some were too big! :bigsmile: So I think I'm set until my next smaller size and I have some of those in a box too. I'm such a Yo Yo!! :embarassed: I also put away jeans that have gotten baggy and found another pair in a box I could not zip in the fall. They fit! :bigsmile: Feeling good here and I owe it all to this thread and my SWat Walking Group. All of you amazing ladies keep me motivated and I enjoy the chatting that we do.

Never made it to the garden so I hope it is not raining tomorrow because that will be my exercise along with a bike ride. Tomorrow hubbie is grilling salmon for me. We will also have baked sweet potatoes and broccoli maybe a gin and tonic with lime??:drinker: Yum!

Enjoy your evening.:flowerforyou:
Jenny

jrbanta

Check out this website. Looks like good info and check out the articles on health. Interesting reads... It's a WW support site.

http://healthdiscovery.net/

Jenny

mizpaden74

guh - just did the "fit test" with my new complete set of Peak Fit Challenge dvd's. Holy aioli. I have been doing a couple of the dvd's for a few months already - she (Michelle Dozois) said the fit test was grueling - oh boy. Not very long, so I'm sure not much of a cal burn - but my legs are jello.

Haven't read and seen Water for Elephants. Worth it?

Shirley61

Loved Water for Elephants. Never read the book but heard it was very good.
I won't say anything about it unless you guys see it . Let me know what you think.

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO ALL YOU LOVELY LADIES !!!:bigsmile:

Leaving shortly to see my two daughters and we are going out for dinner.

Hubby got me a beautiful basket of flowers today and a card. How about you ?:smooched:

Have a great day, and Jenny kudos to your weight loss and getting into those clothes, Woot Woot:drinker:
Have a drink or two today I know I will.:drinker:

Enjoy everyone !!

mizpaden74

huzzah on the smaller clothes - woot-woott!!!:happy:

jrbanta

Happy Mother's Day Ladies and Starla I hope you have a nice time with your mom and brother. I spent the morning digging in and cleaning my perennial garden in the front yard. The tulips and hyacinths are blooming and it looks so much better. Gave the plants food and am now waiting for the rain that will fall soon. I still have two gardens left but they can wait until the next sunny day. We are due for rain for a few days.

My family gave me the funkiest garden decoration. I had admired it at the nursery last weekend. My hubbie took my youngest son there yesterday and let him pick out something for me. He picked this funky dragon fly that balances on a post. It's made of aged, rusty metal and is so funky I love it. Now to get the back yard re-landscaped so I can put it where I can see it from the patio.

Grilled salmon later on for dinner...

Have a happy and wonderful day with your families! I'll get to a new picture later this week. I didn't feel like blow drying my hair or putting make up on today.

Jenny:flowerforyou:

Shirley61

Morning;

Its Monday and back to work Ugh!

Had a great Mother's Day. Hubby and I went out for breakfast and then bought three dwarf lilac bushes
to replace my rose bushes which had root rot. Saturday I did some clean up in the back yard but it is still
wet and soggy in places.

My daughters got me a chocolate fondue set and a bucket of strawberry margarita/daiqaris which you add
the booze then freeze and two margaritas glasses for MD. Not exactly weight loss items but I will have
fun this summer. :bigsmile:

Have a great day u all!!

mizpaden74

unhh...I used a white strip last night and my teeth are killing me! Darn sensitivity. I want white toofers too!

Monday...nuff said.

Later gal pals

jrbanta

Session #2 of acupuncture. Feels so good!

Shirley-I love frozen margueritas. Have on for me too!

Mizpaden- I've used those white strips too. Mixed results. Can make the gums sensitive.

Well I made my work choice and put down the extra 20 days. We'll see what they assign me, probably won't know until next week.

Tomorrow is going to be beautiful out. I'm feeling like illness is upon me and i'll need to stay home...

Have a nice evening!

Jenny

mizpaden74

well I completely went off the rails last night. The temp soared to nearly 100 degrees unexpectedly - no air - sweltering in the office and the plant of course b/c well it is just a ginormous machine shop. It was yet another asinine day, couldn't even find time to eat my packed food, only went to bathroom twice in 10 hours. By the time I finally got cooled off at home I was literally out of control. I ate FOUR pieces of pizza. Even though two was plenty. Then I still ate two brownies and a bowl of ice cream. Wasn't hungry - just out of my mind. sigh... I know I have to just pick up today - but I also know today will be worse b/c I'll have terrible crashes and cravings... gah...

Jenny - glad your accupunture is helping - never tried it - I wonder if it would help with headaches?

Shirley61

Hey Ladies, guess what? Its Tuesday !!

Enough said.

Marla: My daughter used to use the Crest white strips and her teeth were aching.
I have sensitive teeth so I will not use them.

Jenny: I will have a few of those margaritas for you don't you worry !!:drinker:

Beautiful day here again will be walking at lunch today. Tomorrow off and will be helping
hubby wax the new/old boat. Yipppeee!! We are getting close to putting it in the water. :bigsmile:
Its on a cradle right now and you have to go up and down on a ladder (not for me). :noway:

Have a wonderful day!

What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within>>>Ralph Waldo Emerson

Starlage

well hello ladies!!

Sounds like everyone had full weekends! Unfortunately me brother caught a flu bug so he wasn't able to come over :ohwell: so that was disappointing. Oh well though, another time. Mom and I had a nice relaxing weekend as a result- hadn't made any plans because we had planned on spending it with him. We relaxed, watched a lot of movies and tv, caught up on out dvr'd shows- REALLY NICE! I made her some cheese blintzes (dont be too impressed- i bought pre-made crepes and the cream cheese filling was REALLY EASY :happy: ) which were SO YUMMY!!! OH MY GOD. So worth it. I could have been good for the both of us and used low fat ricotta instead of full fat cream cheese... but who wants to do that for a special occasion?? haha. indulged with a few glasses of wine total over sat and sun, so as a result I gained a pound (having pizza for dinner sat, blintzes for dessert and then blintzes again for breakfast will do that to you!), but I know I'll get it off easily been very good so far this week and plan on being good the rest of the week, exercising every day. YAY! OH, and another exciting event for me over the weekend, I got a new tv :happy: I still had an old tube tv in my living room- was working great up until a couple of months ago, it started randomly shutting off on it's own then turning back on a few minutes later. SO ODD. Never seen a tv act like that before. Started out doing it just every once and awhile but then in the past few weeks was doing it DAILY like three or four times a day. I was positive the tube would give out on me- didn't but I decided it was time to upgrade and jump into the 2000's tv-wise. I had to research of course because I know nothing about the newest tv technology and ended up with a nice 37 inch samsung lcd hd. I love it :happy: kinda disgusting how expensive tvs are now though! The cheapest poorest quality ones around 30 inches were 400-500 bucks! Couldn't believe it. So I spent (or charged in my case....) more than I had planned.... but oh well. It's a nice one that'll last me a long time. Good quality brand. ..... I watch too much tv :laugh: haha. I'm such a good couch potato! At least now I have a proper large wonderful tv to go with that part of me.

Anyways, need to get back to work. It's national oral, head & neck cancer awareness week and my clinic's holding a free cancer screening today. Makes for a boring day actually- normal clinics are cancelled so that there are lots of rooms available for the visitors to get their free screenings from our surgeons. Neat for the clinic to do but boring for us medical assistants off to find some busy work!

jrbanta

mizpaden-acupuncture does help with headaches and many other ailments. My coworker is going for head aches and another one has done so and said it helped alot.

Shirley-how many margaritas did I drink?:drinker: I forgot to have my gin and tonic on mother's day! What a dud I am... Have fun waxing the boat.

Starla-sounds like you have a ghost visiting in your house that is trying to get your attention with the TV-LOL!:laugh: Glad you had a nice mother's day with your mom and were able to relax. Sorry about not seeing your brother.

I took a mental health day today.:sick: It was wonderful. Who knew being crazy would make for such a nice day? I cleaned my house, went to the grocery, but was hungry too, so that was not a good combo. Bought lemon cupcakes and chocolate cookies with reese's pieces in them... Haven't had any yet. We are grilling chicken breasts for dinner and having chicken sandwiches on a whole wheat buns with tomato and lettuce, chips, etc. This afernoon I weeded, raked and transplanted out in my gardens. They need help! It felt good though.

My second acupuncture session must have helped because I slept pain free last night with taking Tylenol PM! Yay! We'll see how today goes after gardening and cleaning. I go again next Monday.

Have a nice evening. I feel a nap coming on...:yawn: Jenny

jrbanta

I met to say slept pain free without taking Tylenol PM!

mizpaden74

well, I have been lazy about logging and it shows...wahhhh...sigh...back at it...

I may have to look around and see if I can find any acupuncture here in c-town - (smallish town), I would definitely be interested in helping with my migraines.

Can't believe how freapin hot it has been this week - I'm dying. I'm not good with the heat and with no transition time - gack - I'm going to have to spend my next check on fans for work

FENCE!!! After five years - I finally have my fence. MY fence. Mine. Mine. Mine. It's up and looks fabulous. Yes!!! Too late to keep the kids 'safe' (uh...10) but perfect for keeping the super doo home and safe. Especially since somebody just started building a house right next to us and their are people everywhere and construction equipment running amok. MY FENCE!!

Work computer systems were down the whole day yesterday. No scanning got down, no hours entered, no inventory adjusted... oh what a mess. Today will suck. So much. And to try to get back on track. GAH!!! CALGON?

:noway:

jrbanta

Marla-same here in MInnesota. Where's spring? We went right into the dog days of summer. Yesterday was so hot and humid and then lightening, hail, rain some places in the Mpls. metro area last night. We just had the green skies and lightening with a few sprinkles. I'm going back to work today so hopefully I will be productive. Good luck with your computers...

I'll check in later. Zumba tonight!

Jenny

Starlage

:happy: oh my god I would kill for a jump to summer weather !! I understand the difficult sudden transition but man am I tired of winter-like weather in May!! It's so cold here still- usually in the 50's, if the sun happens to come out from behind the clouds for a peak at us it may get up to the 60's but that's it so far. Of course living in the pacific northwest usually means no summer til july or august... but we've usually warmed up some by now and transitioned to more sunny days and less cloudy and grey days. Oh well! Ce la vie. (sp?...... haha. sounded right but I duno how to spell it)

Jenny, So glad the acupuncture's helping!!! And we all need mental health days here and there, especially with all the work stresses you've had. Glad you got a day to relax!! (and I HATE going to the grocery store hungry too- I always spend more and end up choosing the wrong things!)

Marla, sounds like you've been waiting for a fence for awhile eh!? Glad you finally got it .

So a few weeks ago I turned on the tv in the morning to watch something while I drink my coffee and an infomercial was on about tracy anderson's method- her new "metamorphosis" program. It caught my interest... I watched for a good ten minutes before changing away. She apparantly does "different" kinds of moves that target the smaller muscles to shoot for slimming and sculpting rather that muscle gain... I'm still curious, so I shopped around online and realized that right now her newest line is too spendy for my taste- 90ish bucks for a three or four cd set and eating plan etc different depending on your body weight gain type (whether you gain in hips, stomach, etc or just all over). I'm not willing to spend that much on something new that I'm not sure works at but after googling realized she's been doing dvds for awhile and has some older ones out that are much cheaper! She has a dance cardio dvd and a mat workout dvd- since I'm not too hot on dance dvds (and read reviews about her lack of instruction- you have to mostly catch onto the moves, watch the dvd before exercising to it to get used to the moves) I found her mat dvd from a couple of years ago for $21 on ebay with free shipping, so we'll see how I like it! I may just keep watching ebay for used versions of her newest dvds if I like her style. I had decided I needed something new to add to my mix, so I can't wait to get it in a week or so and try it out. It looks like (from the brief clips i've watched online) a cross between mat pilates-ish workouts and standing cardio-ish workouts but she does different moves than I'm used to. So I think it'll be a nice toning dvd to add to my routine that's mostly cardio and nice different moves so my body's not so used to what I'm doing. Next up thinking about ebaying for an HRM.... but we'll see ;o) I haven't decided about that yet. I think it'll be easier to log things with one (i.e. feel more confident in how many cals I'm ACTUALLY burning as compared to what MFP guesses I'm burning). Anyways, those are my latest thoughts on this whole exercise/fitness gig i've taken on. It's hard to not get bored doing the same things... so, time to get more dvds! Also can't wait for the weather to warm up, maybe I'll try jogging again (when I tried jogging a few years ago it hurt my knees and i gave up.... but maybe now that I have more muscle it hopefully wont hurt...)

Anyways, back to the work day

Shirley61

Morning Ladies:

Yesterday was day off and errands as usual. The weather here has been in
70's . Today it will be 76-78 and it is just beautiful.

After errands went to the sailing club to help hubby with the boat. He put wax on
the boat and I used my not so good arms to wipe it off. Wax On, Wax Off. :laugh:
Well I lasted about a half hour got about half of the boat done while standing on the
ladder, not too bad it had a platform. After grocery shopping, Walmart, doing 20 mins
on my bike and then rubbing the boat I was beat. I left and he never got home until
7:00 pm . He had an electric buffer. I said next time get another buffer and do the
waxing, that's half the battle. He came home exhausted. Now he just has
to paint the bottom and then it can go in the water. When its in the water I will clean
the inside and help with the deck. We are getting there.

Saturday night we are having our first function at the club, Pig Roast, they used to roast
a hole pig but now they do pork loin and all the fixings. Its a nice get together there
will be about 16 at our table. Good fun and dancing.

Starla: I do strength training DVD'S and I do a challenge here on this site called Dance 2 which
is the Wii Fit. Its fun and you just do it to beat the highest score. I never beat them
because I do so many exercises its just one more to get in. So time is not there.
Its just fun.

Marla: Congrats on your fence. Hope it does the trick.

See you later ladies.

Starlage

ALRIGHT! Had a patient that hasn't seen me for a couple of months notice that i've lost weight :happy: nice!

Cake and punch social today at work for nurses week, I easily declined getting easier and easier to say no to that sugary stuff (especially store bought stuff like that).

Shirley, sounds like you've got a fun summer ahead of you with that boat! jealous!!

Not much else to talk about.... better get back to work!