Black Team Week 17!

good morning black team! apparently, today is star wars day.....so, May the 4th be with you :laugh:

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i just noticed my pregnancy ticker.... hot dog or cheeseburger?! eww:noway:

When do you get your sonogram to find out which barbeque food you are having? :laugh:

i have my dr. appointment next week, so hopefully we'll set up my ultrasound appointment then. i'll be 18 weeks in 3 weeks, so i hope i'll know in the next 3-5 weeks

Marla- I say sign up for the half

Lori-You have always been an inspiration to me.. You can do this ma am you are stronger then you truly know you are..I promise..

I am working with dear hubby today just in the office..Hope all is well I just got done with lunch making DD lay down for a nap..I may also..

I did it!!!!!!!!

Lehigh Valley Half Marathon-- September 12.

Marla- I say sign up for the half

Lori-You have always been an inspiration to me.. You can do this ma am you are stronger then you truly know you are..I promise..

I am working with dear hubby today just in the office..Hope all is well I just got done with lunch making DD lay down for a nap..I may also..

I did it!!!!!!!!
Lehigh Valley Half Marathon-- September 12.

Yay Yay Yay..I am so excited for you..Mine is almost one month behind your Oct 16 2010.. This team always rock..but this year its different!

Well, Lori got me really going today-- 5ks don't get me excited anymore. Been there. Done that. I'm thrilled that I go into the race knowing I'm going to finish, and all that jazz-- and I love the experience. But, it's not like the thrill of last year's first one. and there's nothing pushing me--

I like having A) the money on the line-- $55? I ain't throwin' that away, my friends-- personal pride-- I've committed publicly now to you folks-- you raise me up!!

Have much to learn-- eating and drinking during runs? That does not compute. And yet, I'm learning it is rather significant. Plus, I have a tendency to dehydrate anyway because I steer clear of too much water-- HYDRATION is going to be key--

So I have quite a learning curve ahead of me, but 18 weeks to do it-- ample time.

Thanks for the encouragement as always, my team-- you rock.

Marla- I say sign up for the half

Lori-You have always been an inspiration to me.. You can do this ma am you are stronger then you truly know you are..I promise..

I am working with dear hubby today just in the office..Hope all is well I just got done with lunch making DD lay down for a nap..I may also..

I did it!!!!!!!!
Lehigh Valley Half Marathon-- September 12.

Yay Yay Yay..I am so excited for you..Mine is almost one month behind your Oct 16 2010.. This team always rock..but this year its different!

Well, Lori got me really going today-- 5ks don't get me excited anymore. Been there. Done that. I'm thrilled that I go into the race knowing I'm going to finish, and all that jazz-- and I love the experience. But, it's not like the thrill of last year's first one. and there's nothing pushing me--

I like having A) the money on the line-- $55? I ain't throwin' that away, my friends-- personal pride-- I've committed publicly now to you folks-- you raise me up!!

Have much to learn-- eating and drinking during runs? That does not compute. And yet, I'm learning it is rather significant. Plus, I have a tendency to dehydrate anyway because I steer clear of too much water-- HYDRATION is going to be key--

So I have quite a learning curve ahead of me, but 18 weeks to do it-- ample time.

Thanks for the encouragement as always, my team-- you rock.

Uh oh.... blame me!

Thanks for your encouragement guys. It's not that I haven't been doing it. I have been. Just not with the same gusto that I can do it. I guess if coasting is cool, then I'm cool. I'm kinda tired of coasting I think. I'm hoping that since my body has been at this point for a year and I haven't been giving it 100%, that if I really, truly kick it up a notch that maybe, just maybe, I'll see progress. I sure am hoping anyway!

I believe I will spend the rest of this week planning out a new workout. I will continue this week to do the same old same old. I'm excited for something new. I have been wanting something new for a long time, but honestly haven't had the time or energy to sit down and work through it.

Oh, hubs and I are signing up for the gate to gate run, so I do need to start running more to get ready for it.

I'm sure DH leaving has some impact on everything. He recently got hit with another training in Montgomery for the month of June, but hopefully he'll be home on weekends since it's close. Then he leaves on July 24 for his deployment training. Right now he's starting to go through his 'detaching from the family' phase that comes every time he leaves. He turns into an even bigger crank *kitten* than before, in fact to the point that you want to offer to pack his bags and drive him to the airport. I told him so much today. He loves it so when I express my opinion.

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Honey-- my husband LIVES in detachment phase-- I often offer to pack his bags for him.

I swear you crack me up.

Happy Birthday Ms Jeannie!!!!!! You Taurus you! I hope you have an absolutely fantastic day!!!!!!

Happy Birthday Ms Jeannie!!!!!! You Taurus you! I hope you have an absolutely fantastic day!!!!!!

Oh Donna you have NO idea just how Taurus I am...........:laugh:

Thanks my friend!

Can I pretend today is not weigh in? I'm about a week out from TOM and sweets are calling to me. Calling loud. I ate 4 cookies last night at bedtime with milk. Bad. I also woke up in the middle of the night with a stomach ache regretting it. :grumble:

I've been up about 3 pounds since the weeekend. Beer at the ball, cookout on Sunday= 3 pounds faster than the speed of light. Had I been a really good girl this week it would be gone by now. I wasn't a really good girl. I wasn't even a good girl. I was however a girl. Ahhhh my friends, win some, lose some.

Our 8th grader had to be at the school at 3:15 AM for his 8th grade trip to Disney. When I found out the time he had to be there, I said "not it!" Hubs took him. I did get up and see him off. The other 3 kiddos have dentist appointments at 8 this morning. I'm gonna let them skip school and take them shopping. They have money. It's burning holes. 2 of them haven't missed a single day of school other than when we took our Orlando trip as a family in September. This is the time of year I let them miss a day or two just for fun as long as their attendance has been good otherwise. Alex did miss a few days when he had the flu but he's been good too.

My kids know don't tell me that they have a headache, belly ache, other ache. Unless you have a fever or are throwing up, you are going to school. Don't call me from school complaining that you don't feel well...... I'm not coming for you. (Every once in a while when they have colds and complain how bad they feel and I make them go to school and then I get the cold and feel like somebody ran me over, I do feel bad.) However, it's a life lesson. I never took off work cause I felt crappy. I went, sucked it up and made it through the day- cause that's what you do. You can't keep a job long when you call off for every sniffle. Plus, when you are a single parent you need to save every single sick day for your kids! More than once I took a sick kid to work with me and plopped them on the couch in my office. So glad I had an awesome boss!

Can I pretend today is not weigh in? I'm about a week out from TOM and sweets are calling to me. Calling loud. I ate 4 cookies last night at bedtime with milk. Bad. I also woke up in the middle of the night with a stomach ache regretting it. :grumble:

I've been up about 3 pounds since the weeekend. Beer at the ball, cookout on Sunday= 3 pounds faster than the speed of light. Had I been a really good girl this week it would be gone by now. I wasn't a really good girl. I wasn't even a good girl. I was however a girl. Ahhhh my friends, win some, lose some.

Our 8th grader had to be at the school at 3:15 AM for his 8th grade trip to Disney. When I found out the time he had to be there, I said "not it!" Hubs took him. I did get up and see him off. The other 3 kiddos have dentist appointments at 8 this morning. I'm gonna let them skip school and take them shopping. They have money. It's burning holes. 2 of them haven't missed a single day of school other than when we took our Orlando trip as a family in September. This is the time of year I let them miss a day or two just for fun as long as their attendance has been good otherwise. Alex did miss a few days when he had the flu but he's been good too.

My kids know don't tell me that they have a headache, belly ache, other ache. Unless you have a fever or are throwing up, you are going to school. Don't call me from school complaining that you don't feel well...... I'm not coming for you. (Every once in a while when they have colds and complain how bad they feel and I make them go to school and then I get the cold and feel like somebody ran me over, I do feel bad.) However, it's a life lesson. I never took off work cause I felt crappy. I went, sucked it up and made it through the day- cause that's what you do. You can't keep a job long when you call off for every sniffle. Plus, when you are a single parent you need to save every single sick day for your kids! More than once I took a sick kid to work with me and plopped them on the couch in my office. So glad I had an awesome boss!

Lori-- every post of yours I read, more and more I'm convinced we're twins separated at birth.

I don't let my kids stay home, either-- the high school ones, that is-- and the homeschool ones? Puh-- I don't care how bad you feel. If you can sit on the sofa and watch a movie, you can sit on the sofa and do your math--

Beth-- you look great. Keep up the good work!

(I want to eat the face of that boy of yours-- what a cutie!)