Confession Time! ((ABSOLUTELY NO JUDGEMENT))
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Thanks everyone. Its been probably 15 years since I weighed under 200. Feels pretty darn good!!!0
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I am so glad you all understand my frustration. The thing about K is that she renewed her FMLA the first of this month and I am thinking, here we go again. She used 4-6 days of FMLA a month from July through mid-December. When she was in a serious car accident and had to come back before she should have and has now permanently damaged her left hand.
She's used 3 days (all Fridays or Mondays) since she renewed her leave for this circulatory thing that leaves her short of breath, with swollen legs that make pregnancy look easy, and shoot her BP sky high. But it's really hard for me to feel sorry for her when a) she doesn't do her work when she is here and b) she hasn't changed any of her behavior risk factors for anything that can be causing this. I get mad at myself for being judgmental, but I get mad at her for leaving her work for me.0 -
@MoHousdon Congrats on your accomplishment in catching up on the thread! That took dedication!
You deserve a Major Award! (<---- This is a reference to the holiday movie A Christmas Story, which happens to be one of my favorite movies... the dad describes the "leg lamp" he wins in a contest as a "major award." Ha!! )
You mean this lamp?! In case you didn't know, I'm fluent in movie quotes, song lyrics, and sarcasm.
+1 for the movie. A Christmas Story is my alltime favorite. Luckily I work at a children's hospital so I can get away with playing it at Christmastime!!! I am also fluent in the above list!!
Which children's hospital do you work at?
Finally getting close to being caught up. I work at Texas Children's Hospital.0 -
Italian_Buju wrote: »WestCoastJo82 wrote: »WestCoastJo82 wrote: »That sewing machine! I want!
Mine is just a basic little Brother but it is pale pink - I can't claim responsibility for that though as it was my mother's before she decided she needed a fancier one.
I'm glad you all understand my feelings about frying food in the house. Soooo stinky. We don't have an exhaust fan over our stove either (or anywhere in the kitchen), so everything I cook lingers unless I open the windows. Not too practical in our minus 40 degree winters either as it's a recipe for a burst water pipe.
The smell of Saturday morning bacon haunts me all weekend, too, it's terrible.
So this doesn't help in the winter, but fry outside! I used to have a fry daddy that I could plug in, so I would plug it into the outdoor outlet and fry away. I'm debating setting up my camping stove outside the next time I do fried chicken to keep the fry smell outside, and I feel like that should work as well.
Re gross girls: I was an odd combination of total tomboy that loved to get dirty and rough house, but I would do it while wearing the most frilly dresses possible. My face and hair was always a super-mess though.
My daughters hair!.... I brush it constantly. Knotted up. I keep pushing her to be more SELF AWARE and start doing things for herself and without prompts. The struggle is real.
I will say I am quite proficient at simple braids though. I need to learn to french braid.
Yeah, I'm sure my hair embarrassed my parents. I would brush it sometimes, but it just would get crazy tangled anyway.
Mastering the braid will do wonders for you - I'm 33 and until I chopped all my hair off (pixie cut for the win!), my hair lived in a messy bun. I never really figured the hair thing out.
BTW - awesome on the amusement park NSV! I LOVE roller coasters.
Thanks! Worst times are after swimming or after waking up. I've made it a habit to braid her hair after her shower or before bedtime and that helps a LOT the next day.
I love coasters, too! The BEST part is Kings Dominion is a mere <15 minutes from home. We get season passes every year and we burn em up! It also has a water park inside so we often go swim then dry off by riding coasters before we leave. We also have a Busch Gardens-Water Country less than an hour away as well. Blessed!
Coaster fiend here. We have been known to book holidays based on what coasters were nearby. We were lucky enough to visit Ceder Point in Ohio a few years ago which I loved. I'd love to go back but it's a bit of a trek from the UK! Our most local proper coaster park is Alton Towers. Unfortunately there was a crash there on the Smiler last month and two teenagers had to have legs amputated! Hasn't put me off since I believe it to be a one-off and I'm sorry for those teens, but I'm sad the coaster will inevitably go - I've ridden it and it was a fun one!
That reminds me. Does anyone ever go to that site RideAccidents.com? It has stories like that on there. They are scary.
However, I love going to the amusement park as well and LOVE coasters. I haven't been in a long time.
When I was a kid, I watched a girl freak out on top of a ride, it was like one of those rides with several arms and a few carts on each arm that went up and down and spin. Anyway, she stood up, and fell out of the ride while she was in the up position.....I swear the whole park gasped. She broke her forearm, and the body was sticking straight out of it, like literally broken in half, directly out the top of her arm, through the skin.
She must have been in shock, because she stood up and walked calmly with an employee to the medical center. She is lucky she did not crack her head open!
Wow, that is scary! I actually know the exact ride you are talking about because my best friend, sister and I rode that one and my best friend freaked out. I'm so glad we were there because she probably would have done the same thing.0 -
Here are a few pictures from my anniversary trip.
This is my view of the coastline from first class. It was absolutely beautiful.
This is me and Mr. Mo. He is my everything.0 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »
I just got the sweetest surprise from my husband. Sorry had to share!! And sorry its so big!!!
@crosbylee I just got to the roses! So gorgeous! Well done, Mr. Lee (or is it Mr. Crosby
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Thanks and congrats on the promotion!!! Sounds like the vacation was awesome too!!0 -
So great, Mo!0
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Italian_Buju wrote: »GUYSGUYSGUYSYOUGUYS.
I spent the whole morning researching and talked to my husband and I think we might get to go to Peru after all in September!
There are several alternative treks to Machu Picchu other than the classic "Inca Trail" with the crowds and the permits and stuff, and after reading a ton about all of them I decided that the Salkantay trek would probably be an even better option for us. It's quieter, you don't need a permit, it is BEAUTIFUL, and it's higher-altitude (up to 15,900 ft) and more challenging than the usual trail (but they are able to use pack animals so we'd have llamas to carry our backpacks). I've emailed the linked tour company to see if they have space available and I hope so, because we'd still get to trek and see Machu Picchu but would get to do it in a totally different way. I'm so freaking excited and I am hoping so much that we can get on a tour!
Look at this! I think we have to do it this way even if we have to put it off until May because it looks amazing and so much better than the beaten path....
I want to live in this photo forever.
I kept looking at it and looking at it and looking at it. It is so beautiful. @peleroja please tell us what it is like in person. SO and I have a bunch of trips planned soon i.e.Tokyo then Italy (or vice versa) but I have a bunch of places I'm determined to go with or without anyone and Peru is one of them. (Although my daughter would be a willing travel partner to almost anywhere.) It looks lovely.
Those are the two places I want to go most: Tokyo and Italy. I can't wait until I can go. It may be a while though. Too much debt.0 -
Italian_Buju wrote: »I wanted to share a small victory too. I ate A LOT last weekend (each day had to have been thousands over with the bbq, cake, smores, Old Chicagos, alcohol etc). I figured I'd weigh in today and be about 10 lbs heavier like I did when I overate during Memorial day weekend. Today though, I had a 1 lb loss! No idea how that happened. I was good the rest of the week. I figured it was maybe the swimming on Friday and Saturday helped (or maybe just stress haha). That made my morning.
I'm now .6 lbs from having lost 60. I still have a ways to go though.
I did compare my pictures from my birthday this year to in years past and I can see a difference. Maybe I'll get brave and share something if I can figure out how.
Good Stuff!
Thanks. I am actually at 61 lbs lost now. Yay. I'm getting there...it's been REALLY slow but I'll make it someday.
I finally had a coworker last Friday tell me that she noticed I had lost weight. Good sign!0 -
Italian_Buju wrote: »I wanted to share a small victory too. I ate A LOT last weekend (each day had to have been thousands over with the bbq, cake, smores, Old Chicagos, alcohol etc). I figured I'd weigh in today and be about 10 lbs heavier like I did when I overate during Memorial day weekend. Today though, I had a 1 lb loss! No idea how that happened. I was good the rest of the week. I figured it was maybe the swimming on Friday and Saturday helped (or maybe just stress haha). That made my morning.
I'm now .6 lbs from having lost 60. I still have a ways to go though.
I did compare my pictures from my birthday this year to in years past and I can see a difference. Maybe I'll get brave and share something if I can figure out how.
Good Stuff!
Thanks. I am actually at 61 lbs lost now. Yay. I'm getting there...it's been REALLY slow but I'll make it someday.
I finally had a coworker last Friday tell me that she noticed I had lost weight. Good sign!
61pounds is something to be super proud of. Congrats!!!0 -
kellyjellybellyjelly wrote: »pofoster21 wrote: »Some of my relatives and friends of those relatives keep asking me how I'm losing weight. The same people will ask me multiple times. At first I thought it was because they just weren't remembering the information, now I'm starting to think it is because some of them don't believe me. I overheard one of them saying that it isn't that I've finally been correctly diagnosed and medicated no, it is because I've had the surgery. How I've managed to have that surgery and see them once a week without recovery time is a mystery!
I confess I really want to stop seeing these people and on the way out the door I'd like to slap a few of them. Not with a chair or anything too drastic. I also confess that while I have said I'm using a calorie counting site I have not told them it is this one. This is for me. They can sign up on their own, but I do not want to talk to them here as well. I sort of don't care if that makes me a jerk.
I am also tired of people asking me how I did it, signing up for the site, I friend them, and then they never log, don't weigh their food, never complete their diary and then tell me it doesn't work. Well guys, look at me... I lost 30 lbs. You say I look great. So...this does work. If you are honest and track religiously.
When customers ask me at work I always tell them using MFP, exercising a little bit, & the biggest thing for me is weighing my food on a food scale. I guess they want me to say that I snapped my fingers, stood on my head, did a back flip & the weight just melted off.
Exactly. I hate telling people how I lost weight (like the coworker the other day) because they just give you that look that says, 'yea right.' I just told her I count my calories. I told her I don't even exercise much more than I used to yet (I just do my physical therapy exercises but that's been all so far and maybe a walk now and then when my knee feels ok).0 -
seosaimhin wrote: »Confession: Sometimes I go to pro-ana sites and wish I looked like they do.
Me too. It's so sick.0 -
I may be the only one this appeals to - but I was excited about this!
There is now a seaweed that when fried tastes like bacon.
http://oregonprogress.oregonstate.edu/summer-2015/next-big-thing-sea-vegetables
@nonoelmo I'm an OSU alum. And today is a proud, proud day. Hee hee
I got really excited when I saw OSU and then quickly realized you weren't talking about my OSU
Obviously really behind, but I have this problem, too! I grew up with OSU = Oregon, then went to OSU = Ohio, then my first job was OSU = Oklahoma. Now I never know what OSU is referring to 0 -
riderfangal wrote: »Thanks everyone. Its been probably 15 years since I weighed under 200. Feels pretty darn good!!!
I must have missed the original post. Congrats!! Woohoo!0 -
pofoster21 wrote: »Ok guys I am not going to lie. I just stripped myself naked in the very busy Target parking lot so I could go grocery shopping after running. I was in my car. And I did do it in stages. But still.
HAHAHAHAHA! This is fabulous - and brave!0 -
5 for 5 commuting by bike to work this week makes me a happy camper. Thanks, Mother Nature! (I say this on the cusp of a week long heat wave forecasted to start tomorrow).
NSV.... my 2,000 mile goal for 2015 was just passed yesterday, a full 5 months ahead of plan which also gave me 5,000+ miles total since I started recording rides summer 2013. Nice milestone there.
Happy Friday friends!
Stellar job, buddy.
Agree!! That's pretty awesome0 -
rungirl1973 wrote: »riderfangal wrote: »Thanks everyone. Its been probably 15 years since I weighed under 200. Feels pretty darn good!!!
I must have missed the original post. Congrats!! Woohoo!
Thanks!!!! 0 -
riderfangal wrote: »Home sweet home! I missed you all and hope you haven't forgotten me. It was just too busy too post although I did try and skim through a few pages every night before bed which incidentally was never before midnight.
We had a ball. Tubing, swimming, quadding. A bonfire every night and too much junk food but I did manage to get lots of steps in. My 2 SILs and I walked about 4 miles each morning before anyone got out of bed.
No one has seen me since Christmas and since then I have lost about 37 pounds so I got lots of compliments. One of my nephews didn't recognize me at first lol.
Well I am off to unpack but wanted to check in. I have lots I want to respond too. Maybe I will get to it later. I did want to quickly say glad you are back @Italian_Buju
I'm so glad you had a fun trip! That sounds like a blast and I'm jealous.
That's so cool that you got so many compliments on the weight loss. You deserve it!0 -
kelly_c_77 wrote: »I confess I'd like to strangle my husband for eating my Graze flapjacks (by far the best of all the Graze snacks) without asking...especially when I buy him an entire box (or 2) of granola bars each week.
While muttering under my breath about how irritated I was by this, my sweet son reminded me that we're supposed to share. Lesson learned.
I also confess that I'm starting to freak out a bit because preschool starts in exactly two months from today! What???? Where has my little baby gone?
I misread that as grape chapstick at first. I have to confess I was totally judging your husband. I also felt bad for you because I thought you had a husband who would eat your lip products.
I loved your read of that, and your sadness over eaten chapstick
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This review http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/340987215 is one of the funniest things I've read and a very good depiction of a truly awful book.Italian_Buju wrote: »berlynnwall wrote: »berlynnwall wrote: »FluffySandwich wrote: »
I feel like I MIGHT be able to get some idea of an exact location if I always stand in the kitchen on the lookout, but sometimes these sounds are hours apart. Still going on today and they didn't happen before we went to Punta Cana. My boyfriend keeps saying that there might be a rat in the wall or something and I hope that's not the case.FluffySandwich wrote: »I'm almost done with Survivor 29 and I am really upset by the final three. One of them I like ok (and I think for sure is going to win), the other two I never really liked... and the person I wanted to win got voted out in fourth place. ARGH. Hate it when that happens.
On another note, I keep hearing some weird sound coming from my kitchen and I'm not sure what it could be. I told my boyfriend our apartment must be haunted or something. It almost sounds like some water is splashing on the floor violently, but I can't find anything wrong. We recently had an ant infestation so maybe a big ant is making noise in our wall as revenge for our ant murder.
Creepy. I hope you can figure out what it is. If you do, let us know.
Back in about 2009 or 2010, we had a few months were my whole family was experiencing weird things (in different locations) that I've never been able to explain to this day. It was really weird... I felt like we were all haunted for a while too.
I heard that your dreams get extra crazy when you're pregnant. I love dreams and keep a dream diary on my computer. Last night I dreamed that I had something stuck in my teeth... and I finally managed to pull it out- a long string of spaghetti. Then more and more kept coming, so it turns out I had like 20 strings of spaghetti stuck in that spot between my teeth. It was kind of freaky for some reason.FluffySandwich wrote: »Congrats @bkhamill !!!
I confess that I am only 21 years old and don't think I'm ready to have a baby by any means, but sometimes I have dreams that I am very pregnant or have an infant and wake up feeling strangely empty, confused, and sad. Any one else do this? Or did this?
I used to have those all the time in my early 20s. Now I actually am pregnant, my dreams have been completely devoid of anything baby-related. Funny how the brain works. I did dream my mattress was made of cheese the other night. I had to lie really still and evenly to avoid crumbling it!
For me, that was absolutely true. My dreams were much more vivid, and weird as all get out. Has anyone read Anne Rice's witch series? Before I found out I was pregnant with my son, I had a dream that I gave birth to a fully grown man (like in those books). Seriously creepy.
Lasher!
i used to be a total anne rice addict. Total.
i loved those books, but really how strange would it be like oh! here's my baby! then by the morning it's a grown dude? creeeeepy
Me too! I still have the Mayfair Witch series and probably about 10 of the Vampire books on a shelf. I had a total gothic horror phase, and it started with her books. I don't think it ever really ended.
If ya wanna get racy, read her Sleeping Beauty series that she wrote as Anne Rampling!!
right?!?!
everyone that's all 50 shades! OMG!!
i can't help but think, dude, you have NO idea.....lol
I never read 50 Shades, and do not care to. I was forced to go see the movie, and it was cheesy, and from my understanding, should have ended exactly where it did, without more books.
Exit to Eden was pretty good....although it got kinda love story-ish at the end, that is where it loses me.....
Warning: some quite a lot of swear words.
I'll have to check that out when I get home. Another funny review I saw was about the book on Amazon. I'll try to find it later when I'm not at work but the person went through and counted each time the same word or phrase was written. It made me laugh at how much things were repeated over and over again in the book.0
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