Black Team Week 14!!!!

You woke up at 4 to go potty-- I woke up at 5 with a killer charley horse in my calf-- ( is that redundant? Do you get charley horses anywhere else BUT the calf? And are they Charlie horses or charley horses? I wonder about these things)

Anyway-- I woke up hollering, "Ah! Ah! Ah!" Hobbled to the kitchen for a glass of water figuring I'm dehydrated, causing the cramp. I've been drinking veggie juice all week, with occasional water thrown in-- but with the heat this week, obviously not drinking enough. (plus, I have an extra pound or two to show for my veggie juice fast-- unfreaking real)

However, I'm one of the fortunate-- my head hits the pillow, I sleep-- bang, bang-- just that quick, too-- drives my husband crazy for obvious reasons-- ha.

Have a great day everyone--

Marla - I get these all the time. I think the horseback riding makes my calf want to be stretched (heels down, Janie!!), so when I stretch with my toes pointed my calf cramps up. What works for me is to flex my foot - by stretching out the calf again, it makes the charley horse go away. Not sure if it works for all, but worth a shot (and better than the screaming hobbling...).

I've gotten the same kind of cramping in my hamstrings. Its what you see sometimes when people play baseball and suddenly fall to the ground and grab the back of their leg. If I had my choice, I'd rather have it in the calf.

Hope you are feeling better.

All - I did ultimately fall victim to the peeps on the fridge... horrible failure... although I did log them..

I hope everyone has a great day.. Janie

One more thought on charley horses (am i passionate about this topic?) - potassium helps..

Not sure if there is room in the veggie juice fast for a banana - but they are a lovely source..

Thanks, Janie-- and yes, I did stretch the leg and flex the foot-- but it was not budging-- youch. The juice has tons of potassium, I checked on the bottle, and I've been on it for four days. My blood pressure medication has a warning that it depletes potassium and I've been on that for months--

it's hell getting old.

I'm going to be hiring a personal trainer to help me with weight training-- that's been missing all this time. He's a cutie patootie-- great attitude, beautiful brown eyes, will work cheap and is very respectful-- ha-- my 14 year old, Aaron.

The lad, bless his heart, is very into fitness and weight training (and it shows, the creep) and works out faithfully every other night. So, I'm going to hire him $5 a week to be my trainer 3x a week-- don't know why I never thought of this sooner. The kid is tenacious-- with money on the line, he won't let me say no.

You wanna talk creep. This is my 27 year old brother (he was taking a pic of his tat, but you'll 'get the picture').

I have the same genes. Why don't my abs look like that? :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Just thought this needed to be posted again!! :blushing: :blushing:

Weight is still the same. I have been to the gym almost every day for a month and some days twice. Not really sure why I am still gaining and wondering why my muscles think they need to be like a body builders. I am happy with how they are now could someone please tell my body to start losing the fat now!!! :sad:

Marla I so wish I was up there to give that EFFING brother in law a swift kick in the HEAD!! :mad: :explode: :grumble:

I'm going to be hiring a personal trainer to help me with weight training-- that's been missing all this time. He's a cutie patootie-- great attitude, beautiful brown eyes, will work cheap and is very respectful-- ha-- my 14 year old, Aaron.

The lad, bless his heart, is very into fitness and weight training (and it shows, the creep) and works out faithfully every other night. So, I'm going to hire him $5 a week to be my trainer 3x a week-- don't know why I never thought of this sooner. The kid is tenacious-- with money on the line, he won't let me say no.

You wanna talk creep. This is my 27 year old brother (he was taking a pic of his tat, but you'll 'get the picture').

I have the same genes. Why don't my abs look like that? :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Just thought this needed to be posted again!! :blushing: :blushing:

Weight is still the same. I have been to the gym almost every day for a month and some days twice. Not really sure why I am still gaining and wondering why my muscles think they need to be like a body builders. I am happy with how they are now could someone please tell my body to start losing the fat now!!! :sad:

Marla I so wish I was up there to give that EFFING brother in law a swift kick in the HEAD!! :mad: :explode: :grumble:

Thank goodness the pic doesn't have his face on it. He might kill me for putting him out there to be drooled over. LOL Young punk anyway. You guys imagine what you want, sorry I can't go there with you. He's my brother. Eeeeeewww! I still say I have the same genetic make up and I want those abs! Guess I have to start working on that one.

I think I'd be like you, Lori, if I had the house to myself. When they're all gone, which happens seldom, I usually start cleaning-- laundry, tidying-- I have my mother in me-- she never sat down until her house was immaculate. (to the naked eye-- she was a superficial cleaner-- believe me-- )

But, with the kids always afoot, ugh-- my stubbornness outweighs my neat streak. I refuse to spit into the wind or, as Jackie wrote on facebook, "brush my teeth while eating an Oreo-- " which is how she likened trying to clean the house when your kids are home.

My kids are never NOT home. Sighhhh--

That's where my Cruella DeVille kicks in. I won't live in a messy house, and I refuse to clean up messes I didn't make. So the kids have assigned chores. They don't always do 'em without a healthy, uh, motivation-- (read-- kick in the pants) but they have 'em just the same.

This morning, I got done with my typing, walked out and the kitchen was spotless. However, it must be said that the girls had a friend sleep over and they simply wanted to get outside quicker and know they weren't going anywhere until their chores were done.

I'm rambling-- really need to get off this computer-- as soon as the cat's away, I spend wayyyyyyyyy too much time "relaxing" at the computer-- I'm out of here for a bit.

Later, my friends-- and Lori, I'd kill to drool over your brother's face, too-- but I guess that would be kind of a creepy request.

Hubs 'invisibe' stain is quite visible. ........ :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: I'm going to take pictures so I can share. I can't stop laughing.......

In all fairness to him, the sample in Lowes on pressure treated wood really did look like the plain pressure treated wood. HOWEVER, I have cleaned ours and used the brightener on it- as I read was the 'proper' way to do it- before I started the staining process. The bare wood does look really good right now. Too bad it wouldn't stay that way.

Still laughing....... and headed back to continue staining!

Invisible stain.....:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Invisible stain.....:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

what invisible stain?



Looks great-- I think.

Janie - Please forward all unwanted-Peeps to Lori-PA. :flowerforyou:

Lori-FL - Is it bad that your posts make me laugh? Some shopping I hate too. For me it's bras. I have needed a new bra for the last couple months but hate shopping for them so badly that I've been squeezing into the ones I got after losing weight last year. :huh:

Naw, not wrong, my life is amusing to me, so why not others too.

See-- it's not just me, Lori--

You always just tickle my funny bone.

Kati-- where were you on the night of April 6th?

I was at home cooking dinner and snacking, snacking. snacking.

Is it sad that on my work breaks I stop in here to talk to my friends? You'd think I have none that verbally speak back...... oh well.

I just came to a sad realization. The stain I got IS the color of treated lumber. I spent 2 days cleaning it and making the wood bright and white and beautiful. Now I am going to spend countless days and hours turning it back to the same color it started. How sad is that? It seems wrong on so many levels. I guess I should rest better knowing my wood was properly prepared. :noway: