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Hi all! Yes, sorry... London, UK :) Feel free to add me anyway!

Quick grumble grumble... My request for the base pay review was denied. How is it that people in Personnel never seem to say things in a nice way and always manage to make you feel like a maroon?

Good morning, ladies!!! Yes, I took two days off work and went totally MIA from here, so apologies! I have about 4 pages of posts to catch up on, so I'll have to do individual responses later, but weighing in at 229.4. Back up again. Shoot. In all fairness, I ate A LOT of crap starting Thursday evening. Joe's company gave…

Yeah buddy, just broke a bracket off my braces while eating an apple.

Okay, so I've worked my McRib in for dinner tonight with a small fries! The eating for the rest of the day is pretty sparse, but I'm still getting lunch and a PM snack in, AND have 100someodd calories left for the day, AND AND I'm still under on sodium! Yes, I shall enjoy my crappy dinner. I haven't had a McRib in probably…

Three packages of fun for me, Pam. Peanut M&Ms, Almond Joy, and Starburst. Also... is it just COMPLETELY wrong that I really, really want a McRib and am trying to work it into my calories tomorrow?

Those stupid funsize candies sure have a lot of calories. No matter... still have 376 cals for dinner. I'm thinking scrambled eggs on toast and an apple.

Just looked through it. I love some of those dresses in there. Shoot. I need some professional work clothes. Some of those dresses on the first page would look nice with heels or boots... So, something that annoys me about lululemon. They only go up to a 12! I need to lose about 50 pounds before I could even fit into that…

Okay, not a lot of individual responses... Hosanna, heard anything on the current house offer? Keshia, I don't yet know where in London I'll be living. I think once I know what my allowance will be, I can get a better idea of where to start looking. The office is actually in Gatwick, so I have to live somewhere with good…

Wow, I have some catching up to do. Weigh-in... 227, on the nose.

Wheee! Lots of talkers! Thanks everyone for the congrats! I need to catch up on posts and will do an individual posting later this afternoon, probably. In the mean time. What has two thumbs and grew a pair of balls and asked for more money? This girl. When I really got to thinking about it, if the exchange rate tanks, I…

The raise is A LOT less than expected, but I suppose when you factor in that they cover housing, it's a hefty raise? lol

Got my letter! It's official! :drinker:

Morning, ladies! Tasha, Joe and I have already discussed that we will have many a skype date and that I need to get him a good webcam and mic! The other good thing is that when you're an expat, they pay for your visits home, so hopefully I can do that from time to time. Your poor brother with the giraffe! That's hilarious.…

Yay, new thread! Welcome newbies! And I have time to catch up now! Okay, so first off, I apparently didn't set goals last challenge. But last challenge was more or less a disaster for me, so I think it's safe to say that any goals I would have set would have been a fail. Goals for this challenge: 1. Pack all lunches 2.…

Hi Ladies! Have to catch up later... weigh in is 230.2 which I believe is exactly the same as two weeks ago? I can't recall. Will do a longer post later!

Amy, I'd love for you to visit! I think it would be fantastic to meet you! :bigsmile: Katheryne, Mom has known for a while. She's sad that I'm going, but knows it's a great move for my career so seems to be happy for me. I also have a sneaking suspicion that she thinks it's a good thing because she probably assumes it'll…

Kerry, glad I could make you laugh! I'm so ready to get out of this office today. I "stumbled upon" a like called "136 Creepy Wikipedia Articles" and that's what I've been doing with my afternoon. Victoria, got word on Tuesday that Personnel had approved the transfer, so it's only a matter of time now! Mind you, getting…

Oh, also... Amy, get better already! I feel so awful for you and the pooches. Sad to hear that you may have to get rid of Loki. Marlee is horrible on a leash when it comes to me. She'll just pull until the leash is fully extended and trot along. And if I shorten the leash so that she's forced to walk beside me, she pulls…

lol, all this talk of padding the paper! It reminds me of college when I used to push the font to like 11.25 to see if the teacher would ever notice. I agree that 20 pages on the Hunger Games is a bit much! But I LOVE Lacey's (I think it was Lacey) idea of getting into the nitty gritty of the government of Panem. You could…

KatheryneLynne, we call them "beanies" down here. Or perhaps it's spelled beenie.

So... pardon me if we've talked about this before, but where do y'all go for work clothes? I'm tired of feeling frumpy every day.

So, I thought of this yesterday for the new challenge name... If I'm not mistaken, we'll hit U.S. Thanksgiving at the end of the next challenge, so perhaps "Shedding the Stuffing"? While I agree that it's difficult and somewhat frustrating to keep up with newbies and who stays and who goes, if this was a closed group, I…

Morning, folks! Not much to add today yet... But Hosanna, awesome NSV! Love the pics!!! Victoria, love those pics too! You look great! Sarah, your half marathon story was inspiring and barftastic at the same time! So proud of you! I've decided I wanted to take Friday off as we'll be going to the Texas Renaissance Festival…

Hi ladies! Mega catching up post. First off, I'm taking a TOM pass. I weighed in this morning and it was just a sad, sorry state of affairs. All my clothes are tight and my fingers are enormous... I've been drinking lots of water, but none of it seems to reappear. Bloating and water retention, much? Ack. Okay, catchup on…

Amy, is there any chance the pooches got into some chocolate?

Jessi, he could probably find a similar program in the UK, but it's a certification that can't be done online because they have lots of labs and working on machinery and what not. Kerry, first of all... picture is awesome! Second, I hope it would only be for a year... I think the current idea is he goes to school for the…

Thanks for the support ladies. I know deep down that Joe and I can make it through anything... I've just been burned so many times in the past by men that it's hard to have 100% confidence. But again, I'm so crazy proud of him for making this decision. Finally getting around to shopping tonight. Made a list... hopefully it…

Lacey and Pam (saw your post after I posted this!), it's a program for Instrumentation offered at the local community college, which is highly desirable in the petrochemical industry. http://sanjac.edu/sites/default/themeglobal/includes/print.php?prcode=4INST if you're curious. The good thing is that he should be able to…

Hi Everyone! Victoria, of course you can sample! Then again, I purposely left everything at my friend's house so I wouldn't eat it all! Nothing huge to report on this end, sorry I haven't been doing individual responses lately. I'm starting to think that if I don't wake up at 5am, I'm never going to get workouts in.…