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Not gonna lie, I totally cried. But it was nice to see Andrew Lincoln get to show some real acting prowess - Rick can sometimes be a bit of a one note character to me, and his ending scene last night was incredible. What a great episode!

I have none of my own, but my s.o. has 5 y.o. twins. Seems like enough work for me, so no more. :)

Yup, Prescott here. Might be moving down to the hell of the valley in the next year or so, though.

backwardslant. I'm not the greatest artist, but I manage. Feel free to start a game with me!

I majored in Philosophy with minors in History and Mathematics. It's amazing that I am employed at all.

A really nice wine fridge. Or tickets to next year's Wimbledon final. :)

YAY! I'm so happy that we won the challenge (really, all the rest of you won it for us). :smile: Stacey, you did such a great job putting it all together! Now to get through this week. I'm worried about this one, probably more than the others. My knee is still giving me trouble, so I've not been able to do any of my normal…

5. Oh, I forgot to add - I'm also ambidextrous, which can be quite useful.... :)

Those sound great - thank you!!

1. I am a synesthete - I have both grapheme-color and number form synesthesia. 2. I once gave myself a black eye while getting up in the middle of the night to look up a word in the dictionary (it's an obsession with me). 3. I don't care about the argument between unique/unusual here, even though I'm a word nerd - it's all…

All of these stories make me so very glad I live alone. :)

I think it's sounds awesome! Thanks to everyone, and a great big thanks to Stacey (ArmyWife) for putting it all together for us!!! Go YELLOW/PURPLE teams!!! :)

I would go with either carrots, celery, sliced bell pepper, or some combination of those. :)

That looks awesome! Great ideas, everyone. And thanks to ArmyWife for putting all of it together! Hmmm, my only other idea for a snack would be an apple with some unsalted almond butter (or peanut butter). But we have an apple already in the day - maybe some other fruit or veggie with the nut butter? Or maybe some cut up…

I'm so impressed by all your great ideas!!! I definitely vote for the pumpkin chili. The breakfast omelet/scramble and fruit sounds great as well. And I still haven't come up with anything different for lunch, but I think lettuce wraps sound great. I also think the dessert idea is an awesome one! I can't remember - are we…

Wow, those are some really great ideas, everyone! I'm so impressed! I'm afraid I'm probably not going to be much help for this one, but I will certainly try to think of some ideas too. As I told ArmyWife earlier, I'm a vegetarian and a lot of the things I eat would probably be weird to most people. LOL. I love the idea of…

Super bump! Sounds amazing!

That's what I'm hoping for! I know Stacey and I are working our butts off, so I hope all the rest of the teams are too. I really want to hit that 40 pounds overall so we can bring you back!!! :) The MM competition is super fun and is definitely helping with my numbers. I wondered how 2 competitions at a time would go, but…

Yay! We both made it! What a rotten week overall, though. That would sure be nice if we could all lost the 40 pounds and bring some people back. I'm not sure if that's too likely - it would be an average of 3.3 pounds per person this week, which is a lot! Especially for some of our smaller people in the whole group. But I…

Hi there, herstrawberri! Welcome to MFP and to our fun group. :)

I think you will definitely be safe. I don't remember for sure how many people are going....but it sounds like a LOT of people gained weight and most people didn't do very many burpees. Tira actually double-checked with me to make sure I didn't have a typo because apparently I did WAY more than everyone else. I told her I…

It HAS been awfully quiet in here lately. Where/how have you all been?? Any exciting news?

Hi Stacey, that sucks about those Burpees being tough for you. They are definitely some hard work and can be pretty high impact at times. That is awesome about your weight loss this week, though!!! I definitely think that will keep you here. It sounds like a lot of people had trouble with the challenge this week. I really…

LOL. Stacey - you aren't loving those yet?? :) I'm actually kind of liking them. Of course it's easy to say that right now because I'm not doing them at the moment. In the midst of things - they aren't my favorite thing in the world. I'm really, really, really hoping I can get enough in to win immunity this week. I've been…

Me too! I'm so so so bummed about losing you, Kristi. :sad: I really thought maybe this week we'd all be safe, but I just got lucky with my scale since I didn't beat Don in anything either. I'll definitely have to ramp it up this week. But please do stay with us, like Stacey said - we are all a great team together, even…

Clearly I am a fan of at least one of those names. :) Great picks!

Stacey, that is awesome!!! That is a TON of sit ups! Coincidentally, I also have an old injury from volleyball (torn rotator cuff) which impairs my push up motion. I also only did 20 a day on those. Kristi, that is cool about our run times - we must be right about at the same level. I know we are fairly close in weight, so…

Ugh, that sucks. :( I hate it when my body does the opposite of what I'm working hard for. Your weight gain is probably just a temporary thing and has more to do with water and fluctuation than anything else. I'm sure it will right itself shortly! :) Hopefully either your 5K time or your sit ups will be enough to get you…

Ok, just checking in. How are you all doing? Everyone think they will be safe on Sunday?? I'm really hoping my running time will be good enough to keep me safe. If not, then maybe my sit ups. Definitely not the push ups, though. LOL. I've run my 5K two times officially (with some other running in between to work on…

Jaygirl, I think 1000 sit ups is awesome! Keep up the good work! Stacey, we are so glad to still have you even though we had to lose Ivy. :( I'm so excited that your treadmill is coming today - that is awesome! I definitely don't want anyone to go home this week. Do you guys have a strategy for how you are tackling this…