I am SO excited! DD has been staying at her dad's since we came back from Myrtle Beach in June (she left around the 15th). She was staying w/her stepmom who is 9 months pregnant helping care for her little sister. DD's dad has been away training for work and dd thought it would be nice to stay and help out. Well, the baby is due any day and dd does not want to miss her baby brother being born so I haven't seen her for about a month
But, I am leaving Monday afternoon (driving about 3 hours) to spend Monday night and Tuesday with dd! She always spends a good amount of summer w/her dad because she doesn't see him much during the school year, but she's never been gone for a month. I was hoping to get there today but work is keeping me here so we decided on Monday.
I'm kinda hoping her brother is born while i'm there, I would love to see him when he's born. A side note-dd's dad/stepmom and I have come a long way. There were a few years when we did not speak except to say "let's meet at this time to pick up dd". We now attend her functions together, they've invited bf and I to a picnic in August, and I am pretty excited about this baby. I think this is very healthy for dd.
Jill
Summer Challenge Goals: 1) Walk 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week 2) Plan weekly menus
Originally posted by Brie: How close are you to the fires Denise???
Big Sur is about 85 miles as the crow flies.
It isn't the nearness of the fires... it is just the number of them. At one point, about 1,000 square miles were burning. I think that it is less now.
Nelson didn't think that the smoke was less yesterday... he said, "I think it is about the same as it has been for the past month". He might be right... but it seemed worse to me. Not as bad as the week of June 23rd... but worse than last week.
This is a good map (you have to schroll down)(although the little dots don't really do justice to how big a fire might be)
Originally posted by GoingSkiing: Ugh... it is 109 out where dh works... which makes it about 104 here. And even worse, the smoke has blown back in. Yuk.
Going to take a shower and go to the library.
How close are you to the fires Denise???
Out of our beliefs are born deeds; out of our deeds we form habits; out of our habits grows our character; and on our character we build our destiny.
I am close to as big as I have ever been. Ever since my back surgery, I seem to have just gone down hill - not able to "do" like I used to. I am walking most mornings for at least a half hour - sometimes an hour.
The actual point is that my eyes are always surprised at how I look when I see myself in a mirror. Now, I'm surprised at how big I look. After I lost 80#, I was surprised at how thin I looked - I still thought I was big. I seem to have trouble with my body image coinciding with my actual body.
I have taken some steps recently - small ones - but they seem to have me turning a corner. I'm down about 7#.
Originally posted by Nbox: Last night I sat down and browsed through our photo albums from 2-3 years ago. I wanted to see if I could find a pic of me where I could see the change, a sort of before and after thing. It was really hard to find pics of me and even harder to find pics where you could really see what size I was then. I finally found some (initial reaction: Eww!), but what feels so strange is I can't *see* the difference between me now and me then. I'm 30 lbs lighter and I know what the tape measure says. I'm wearing pants that are really baggy on me now but fit well then... and I still can't see it. Maybe I never will. Maybe I'll have to try and *feel* it instead. Weird!
Puck, I'm the same way. I still don't really "see" myself as particularly thin. I found that from looking at our trip pictures, I'm still very hyper critical of how I look and thought I looked "fat" in many of the pictures.
On the other hand, I never saw myself particularly obese either even when I truly was.
I still have that image of a 150 pound or so woman in my head that I carry around with me. That's kind of how I see myself now, and how I saw myself when I was heavy.
I've been at goal for over 5 years now and that still hasn't really clicked for me.
I figure if I can just keep at it, that will eventually change.
PS There are never lots of pictures of me no matter what my size as I hate being in pictures! Cori forced me this trip ; )
Out of our beliefs are born deeds; out of our deeds we form habits; out of our habits grows our character; and on our character we build our destiny.
Last night I sat down and browsed through our photo albums from 2-3 years ago. I wanted to see if I could find a pic of me where I could see the change, a sort of before and after thing. It was really hard to find pics of me and even harder to find pics where you could really see what size I was then. I finally found some (initial reaction: Eww!), but what feels so strange is I can't *see* the difference between me now and me then. I'm 30 lbs lighter and I know what the tape measure says. I'm wearing pants that are really baggy on me now but fit well then... and I still can't see it. Maybe I never will. Maybe I'll have to try and *feel* it instead. Weird!
****************** “The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight because by then, your body and your fat are really good friends.”
Originally posted by Tayhudson: WHAT????!!!! At that point, did every one offer to pay for his/her meal?
Dawn
I don't know how many of the others knew what was going on or that John had not cleared it with his grandfather first since he often does pay for everyone. I know I was not prepared to shell out $132 for me and dd on the spot and I don't think that anybody else there could either (except maybe my sister). I had taken a hundred with me with the idea of paying for the two of us but they did not do seperate checks and I had no idea it would be THAT MUCH and daddy will not take cash money from me even when he pays for something for me or dd. (My daddy is a saint and everybody knows it.)
"Live your life so that you are not afraid to sell the family parrot to the town gossip."
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this has happened to me before. expected to pay for a family meal to celebrate graduation. once we arrived, we looked at the menu prices--oh my GOD! dh and i ordered one appetizer between us and split it. appetizers were already hugely expensive, and large portioned. one (among others) thing that irked me was that people ordered huge expensive entrees, and then left 75% of the meal uneaten (to throw out), and ordered lots of alcohol, and then stuck us for the bill. i was furious. dh was trying to stay calm.
Goals: 1. Stop thinking like a chronic dieter and start living to inspire. 2. HALT (hungry, anxious, lonely, tired) I will stop and tune in with myself should I experience these things, and respond with something healthy. 3. One word 2008: courage 4. Eat slow and mindfully.
Originally posted by BrenauMom: I am really PO-ed at my nephew tonight. He is 37 years old and invited 12 of us (friends & family) to a really expensive place for dinner. When the $800 check came he handed it over to one of the guests (his grandfather) to pay. He had NOT cleared this with him beforehand, but I am sure that was his plan all along.
Yes, you read that correctly! $800 for 12 people. And no one had any alcohol.
WHAT????!!!! At that point, did every one offer to pay for his/her meal?
Dawn
"Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You have to set yourself on fire." anonymous
Posts: 4302 | Location: Indianapolis, IN | Registered: March 15, 2004
I am really PO-ed at my nephew tonight. He is 37 years old and invited 12 of us (friends & family) to a really expensive place for dinner. When the $800 check came he handed it over to one of the guests (his grandfather) to pay. He had NOT cleared this with him beforehand, but I am sure that was his plan all along.
Yes, you read that correctly! $800 for 12 people. And no one had any alcohol.
"Live your life so that you are not afraid to sell the family parrot to the town gossip."
Posts: 4039 | Location: NE Atlanta (Chamblee, Doraville, Norcross, Duluth) | Registered: March 15, 2004
I'm in New York City to try out (again) for Who Wants to Be A Millionaire. My test is tonight at 7 p.m.
I love New York and my cousins I get to visit with (one took me out to The Oyster Bar last night - I ate cheaply, we each had one beer - the tab was over $80!) Thank you, cuz!
I am already a little homesick. They're working during the day and I get to wander on my own which is neat. But I miss dh and ds. And Patches, too!
I know its easier to just give in to Mom, but please, please, don't. Can you schedule something else today, if not shopping? Or a one-on-one trip with you and dd?
Signed,
got the front lawn mowed, the rest will have to wait till next week.
and everybody knows it.)
If I'd ever done that to my grandfather, he'd have told me I was nuts and given it right back! 
