VIP LOUNGE! Welcome to the 2024 Fall 5% Challenge!
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My newest post card on walk. have a great weekend, sending hugs to everyone and blessings too.
Here is link for more info
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10891931/joyces-walking-adventures#latest
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@Tabatha_Cain , HOW COOL you got to the maze!! That's so cool!! I'd love to do one, not this year, but maybe next year. I keep hoping I'll feel better. With a heart specialist now, I am hopeful again!! The yogurt I use is Yoplait I think it's 6 ozs—the smaller individual size. Any brand is fine, make sure it's the VANILLA one, NOT the plain, etc. The strawberry would be okay, but I love the vanilla one. I am so sorry about the friend thing. It seems when we are single it's easier to maintain a friendship, many couples do the couple thing. I have a few friends who have autism, one of them is so funny though she faces many challenges. Her Mom is also a dear friend, I love them both dearly.
@Kurtize thats so neat!! What a great place to visit!! Do you know how many cards you've collected?0 -
@Dianedoessmiles1 Well I got the fruit in on day one. Thanks to the tomato! As this is transition week to the other building it's going to be a rough week. Just going to stay positive and go day by day.0
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Good Morning VIP friends:
I hope you are all doing well this morning. Today is Monday and I am looking forward to today starting. I got a lot accomplished over the weekend. We got the corn maze done as a date day, and then I came home and we did grocery shopping, and then yesterday we cleaned house. Joe vacuumed and cleaned the living room and I did dishes and laundry. Today I am feeling pretty good still. Oh and yesterday we also got majority of the leaves picked up from our front yard yesterday.
@Kurtize - Way to go on the Postcard.
@Dianedoessmiles1 - I am so sore from the maze, but afterwards Joe and I relaxed so as not to overdo it. I don't feel super tired at the moment so all is good right now.
Well I hope you all have a wonderful Monday.
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Well I can't wait for Saturday to come and go. We are in the process of transferring my Dad's car to my brother. Little sister has an opinion and keeps stirring the pot. She lives 12 hrs away but omg she's putting things in my parents heads. It's as soon as I leave she calls them. Then they call me. Then I have to explain why it has to be done this way. I said do you want me to come over and explain it again in person? I said the laws are different in NY than VA. Sometimes I feel like she enjoys making my life harder than it needs to be.3
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Plan Ahead
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HI all Happy Monday. @Dianedoessmiles1 not sure at least 150, not from this walk but total.
Tomorrow Don goes for his pre check in for surgery and CT test. It will take up most of the day they say. So wishing you a great tomorrow also.
Hugs
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HI All!! I'll be back later today or more likely tomorrow. Thanks!!1
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Good Morning VIP friends:
I hope you are all doing well this morning. Today is Tuesday and I am hoping it will be a good day. I am really enjoying my job and all that. I do have to get more activity in during the day. I know I do a lot of stairs since I work at home and my office is upstairs, but I need to concentrate on getting some strength training in definitely. We also have to stop buying junk food. I am gaining a tiny bit, but not too horrible. This always happens when I hit this weight. I never go below it. It is such a struggle I swear.
@SweetPeasMom55 - So sorry about all that issue. Maybe have a talk with your sister and tell her the laws in the state you and your parents live in. Or at the very least tell her to stop causing issues. I am not very close to my sister so I would just tell her to knock it off.
@Kurtize - Good luck with the precheck for Don's surgery. I hope all goes well.
Well I hope you all have a wonderful Tuesday,
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Hello team!
Sorry to miss the first two weeks of the challenge. We were in Italy and just returned on Saturday. It was an ambitious trip - 14 days - 5 hotels, 8 cities. Favorite stop was in Cassino, Italy - the birthplace of my grandparents. It was really moving. Then on to meet our tour in Rome.
Sights were great! The weather was hot in Rome and then as we headed to Pompeii the bad weather came in. Lots of rain. Hubby got a head cold as did many on our tour. I spent the last day of the tour in bed with food poisoning, likely from our hotel breakfast while in Venice. A third of the group were sick.
Slowly getting back into the swing. Still jet lagged and off my schedule but each day is a little bit better.
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Hi all, everything went smoothly for Don, now next thing is surgery on the 5th. Very windy today. Kayla seemed fine at her doggie day care. They are having a Halloween party for the dogs and I am taking her and dropping her off for a few hours. I have to see if I can find a doggie costume or a scarf. Other than that nothing new or exciting. Hugs all.1
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Good Morning VIP Friends:
I hope you are all doing well this morning. Today is Wednesday and it is going to be a great day. I am thinking it will be as I am hoping to learn some more billing in regards to our Florida Package policies. The billing sometimes confuses me because it is combined home and auto and a lot of time the home is Escrow billed and they want to know about the auto. Well that is hard to do when they are combined. So I am still learning that part.
@Lopeyp - I am so glad you had a great trip. Sorry the last day you were sick with food poisoning. Hopefully that is getting better along with the jetlag. Just rest up.
@Kurtize - I am really glad things went well for Don. I am sure Kayla will love the Halloween party at her Day care. That would be awesome.
Well I hope you all have a wonderful Wednesday.
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@Tabatha_Cain Sorry your guy forgot your birthday; the only reason mine doesn't is because it's the day before his ex-wife's birhday and the kids always remind him as well! LOL! He didn't exactly say happy birthday, he said, "Oh, so you're another year older!" Hopefully, your kids made it a special day for you!
@SweetPeasMom55 The sink looks AMAZING! Great work!1 -
Hi all happy Wednesday, we got Kayla a costume, the only one in her size was a banana, so Don has been calling her banana head. Will take pictures, hopefully she will be cooperative. Nothing else is new, hugs and blessings all.
Today's Inspiration:
All that is necessary to break the spell
of inertia and frustration is this:
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorthea Brande2 -
HI ALL!! Catching up here!! I had put on 13 lbs of fluid (I'm in congestive heart failure) taking the extra meds, exhausts me a lot. PHEW right now another 3 lbs go to and WOOHOO!! WOW!! About 10 lbs came off in the last 24. TY TY TY TY for your patience and continuing to post!! WTG!! You all ROCK IT!!
@Tabatha_Cain, were you able to learn the billing? As a consumer, I'd want to know that also. LOL I can make a dollar bill stretch so it works like a 20!! My Dad always loved to brag about the way I do things. Oh, I am not cheap (he taught me eons ago buy a good quality of things you like you'll save $$ in the end, he was right!) Every year we'd shop around for car insurance, for a bit we tried to bundle the car and our places, but the 2 of us live in different places (next door to each other as you know we had no issues with car sharing in this aspect). With the struggle of hitting a number and not losing, can you do some mindfulness around that? YOU ARE WORTH the BYE BYE to the weight you do not want, and you are a VERY STRONG woman!! LOOK at what you just went through with working, in the end, see how well it turned out. It was not at all easy for you!! That was a huge struggle mixed with fear, but as you look back at it,, HERO!! YOU DID IT!! YOU TABATHA ARE STRONG!
@Lopeyp , HEY WELCOME BACK!!! WOW!! That sounds like an awesome trip!! Other than the illnesses. So happy you got to go!! I'd LOVE to visit where my grandparents are from. I'd have to do that alone or maybe with a cousin or 2. My brothers would not be interested, neither would my friends. It's in Vermont only 4 hours away. That must have been quite the experience!! Were you able to meet any relatives? That would be awesome!! Your picture is magnificentO!
@Ronnie_happy2ranch , men are so strange and yet, so necessary.
@Kurtize, LOLOL POOR KAYLA!!! Awwwww Izzy and a batman mask (NOT For halloween, I had it and posting it because awwww it's cute!
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Good Morning VIP friends:
I hope you are all doing well this morning. Today is Thursday and it is Halloween. I am hoping to have a good day. Today I will be working and hopefully getting a decent amount of people signed up for AAA memberships. That would be nice. I got 2 memberships yesterday. I am really excited about getting those as well. So I have a total of 3. We don't really have a number we have to get right now, so that is not an issue, but we do get paid when we hit over 10 memberships we start getting paid. So that is nice.
@Ronnie_happy2ranch - He did say he did not really forget we just did not have the money for any gifts or anything. I told him I did not care about gifts I just wanted to spend time with him. Which we did not do so I was upset. He did end up apologizing.
@Kurtize - Our puppy isn't really a hold still kind of puppy. She likes to wiggle about so getting her into a costume right now would not have happened. Your costume sounds cute though. The nickname banana head also sounds adorable.
@Dianedoessmiles1 - Yes we are learning about billing. Little bits at a time though. I am struggling right now with the last bit of weight to come off. I have like 7 pounds go to.
Well I hope you all have a wonderful Thursday.
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@Dianedoessmiles1 Mine did take me out for dinner!
@Tabatha_Cain that's great that you were able to both communicate your feelings after all. Same, I would rather have the company and at least the words versus gifts.
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@Dianedoessmiles1 - I do have some cousins in Italy but I don't know them and they don't know me. LOL! One of my cousins here went there about 40 years ago and she couldn't communicate with them.
Sorry about your health issues. I hope the meds are helping.
Went on a nice hike with our seniors hiking group. It was such a lovely day in Boston today.0 -
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Kayla went to her party today. Here she is going to daddy to save her (wasn't the happiest about wearing a costume
Banana Head
I am not happy
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@Tabatha_Cain, WAHHHH I had you all answered and hit the wrong button OFF into CYBER LAND IT WENT!!! Woo-hoo on the job you are almost 1/2 way to the 1/2 way goal!! WTG!!! With your weight are you almost at your end goal? Or a yearly goal? I was right on track for the year, but my foolish heart decided to add in 13 lbs of fluid!! It is so much work to take that off (meds do it) at least I've never had to be hospitalized for it!! When they said I had congestive heart failure one of the nurses who stayed with me (When they were preparing me to be almost to sleep to do a heart catheterization there was a knock on the door. A gentleman had just been brought into the ER who was having a heart attack they "ASKED" me if I minded if he went first. I about JUMPED OFF the table so they could bring him right on in!! They were very impressed I was that willing to let him go first!! I INSISTED On it, but I believe they were being polite. no doubt they would of taken him first anyways. They told me when they took me back in because I asked "Did he make it? I know you can't say anything real, but did he?" They were all smiles they had!! The nurse told me at that time "Get used to being in the hospital from here on A LOT!" But, I do as they say weigh DAILY!! I see the gains as they happen. I've not had to be hospitalized for days on end with it so far.
@Patti241, has it been warm for you? Here today 75!! YO!!! We are usually in the lower to mid 50s.
@Ronnie_happy2ranch , COOL he does that!! How did the day go? Ronnie and I are both on the Positively Strong 4 Life team. She's awesome!
@Lopeyp, NICE on being in Boston today!! I just waved to the south for you! I am 2 hours up 95. I hadn't thought about the different language issues!!OOOPS!! makes sense! Today Boston must of been 75 to 80? We hit 75.
@Kurtize, OH MY Kayla looks ADOGABLE!! oh my!! THE CUTENESS!!! I'd have her wear that often.0 -
Hope everyone has had a fun Halloween! I unfortunately live in one of those areas where kids are scarce -- I haven't had a trick-or-treater to my house in probably 10 years.
Makes me kinda sad, but nothing I can do to change it.
The weather here has been amazing!! I think it got up to 78 or 79 degrees ... it was really a nice change to go out to walk the pup without needing my jacket! (The past few mornings have been COLD!!). If there's one thing Massachusetts is good at is keeping you on your toes weather wise!! hahaha I wish I had taken part of the day off to go visit the beach, but alas -- between work & school, I've been at the computer all day.
Hope everyone is looking forward to a great weekend!!
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Good Morning VIP Friends:
I hope you are all doing well this morning. Today is Friday and it is going to be a great end to the week. Tomorrow is my Father in law's birthday. So we will be going there for his birthday. Also to bring him some trees. I ordered some Norway Spruce trees from the Arbor Day Foundation as the company I work for did something with them for Earth Day last year. I finally got the trees which will be going out to my in laws property. So that is pretty awesome. I cannot wait to see them grow.
@Ronnie_happy2ranch - We try really hard to make sure we are communicating properly
@Kurtize - She is so adorable. She definitely does not like that costume.
@Dianedoessmiles1 - I am that close to my end goal. The doctor recommended either 150 or 155 for my weight. I am at 157.6 so super close. I am sorry you are now having trouble with your heart and fluid gain.
@cinebibliophile - Sorry your house has any trick or treaters. Oh I am loving the warm weather. It is great.
Well I hope you all have a great Friday.
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Diane: It was warm yesterday. It is raining today.0
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@Dianedoessmiles1 Well, aren't you sweet! It was a nice day!
@Kurtize Kayla looks fabulous in her costume!
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@cinebibliophile , Waving from the north of you (Depending on where you are in MA) Greater Portland ME area. I did go to Ferry Beach yesterday for YOU!! Isn't that nice? You loved watching the water, the sea grass blowing nicely in the breeze and of course the warmth of the sun!! You were smiling the entire time.
OH YEAH!! You saw a man doing kiteboarding!!
@Tabatha_Cain, What a nice gift for your FIL!!! I am sure he'll love watching them grow!! What a very thoughtful gift!!! Thanks!! I'll have to deal with the heart stuff and have been. When you all suddenly do not see me, I'm just going through something. I do bounce back though!! I am fortunate many suddenly have a heart attack some do not recover. I'm able to hold the kids and talk to them, many do not get that chance (grandkids). Since I am now retired, I am also fortunate that I do not have to worry about losing my job or medical bills drowning me. Many are so far in debt they'll never climb out. Brrr it's getting cold out after being in the 70s, almost 80s!! Yesterday I think they said we hit 79 in OCTOBER!! But, we know I ADORE SNOW!! Hehehehehe sorry for those who do not live in the snow zone.
@Patti241, can you please send some of that rain up herah? November ALREADY!!
@Ronnie_happy2ranch you make us smile. You are such a HARD WORKER!! You have your vision and are working towards it. I love November!
@Kurtize, we know November 5th will be very stressful for you. We are walking with you. Thinking of you. Hopefully once the 5th is over, you and Don work on his recovery and go forward.
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