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Rocktober... I :cursing: it!

Good Wednesday Morn, Gals!~~ Yikes! It looks like we got out of September just in the nick of time! On to October! We can make it ROCK, girls! We are violets & those steel magnolias have NOTHIN' on my Vi's!! So c'mon everyone... let's start fresh today (if you haven't already) and make this a great month!! I love you all... & my heart goes out to each of you with personal woes... which is all of us on some level... but that, my friends, is called LIFE... it's beautiful & horrible all at once. We're all in this together -- I'm here for you & I know that you're here for me! When you're at your last straw... think of your Vi's & let us be strong for you!! That's what I do!! I think to myself "There's a group of amazing women out there who love me & are with me in spirit right now... make them proud!!" It helps me!! Smooches to each of you!! Make it a great day!

DIE PIE! TracyKS... use the motivation from those folks on TBL to keep you AWAY FROM THE PIE!! I'm heading upstairs to watch it as soon as I wrap up a few things. I find it very motivating!!

Woot! Guess the new siggy says it all!! C'mon girls -- let's do this thing!!

Afternoon, Vi's~~ Couldn't get on this morning... then had lots to read to catch up! Too funny Kat -- You go girl! You're my hero! TracyK -- WHAT are you up to?? Sounds like no good! :thumbdown: Haydee -- Yep, get thee to a doc, dearie! Judy -- It doesn't really sound like you had much of a summer up there this year... now it's 50s already?? Ai yai yai! Terry & Tracy -- Yay on the clean eating! Me, too! Well, one day... 1.5 if you count so far today, too!! Janie -- Be careful or you'll end up doing ALL our hair in June!! But then maybe you could write off the trip as "work"!! Laura -- Ew. Just ew. Jenn -- This is said with all possible gentleness & honesty: Get. Some. Help. Pam -- You PB the best -- always an entertaining story w/it! Take care of yourself! Suzie -- What's up today?? I just got back from Zumba! -- fun once again... & full-on sweat-fest, too! The kids are off from school today for Rosh Hashana (sp?) (Happy New Year, btw) & they went to the Y w/me (they played racquetball together -- how sweet!) & peeked in @ me and I think they're STILL laughing at me... stinkers! Make it a great one, Vi's!

Tracy... yes to the pb, no to the crackers! (dang you move fast!)

Sounds good, Laura... make sure you do the exercises! Anything to help you feel better!! Don't go there, Tracy!! Do not visit the evil office 2 doors over!! This is my worst time of day... between now & bedtime... so ha ha, half the day is "worst" for me!... but I know it & must persevere in my new Day 1 of being "good"... aaahhhh! C'mon Tracy... if I can do it, then so can you!! Let's be good together!!!

Just got back from doing my weights circuit @ the Y. My arms are all wibble-dee wobbly... wow they are out of shape! Doing good on eating + I've exercised for the day. Yay me! :thumbup:

Hmmm, hadn't thought about the scale thing that way, Kat & Tracy. See, my thinking was (IS!) that if I don't weigh, then I can ASSUME that it's going down (especially if I eat properly & exercise) so I won't want to wreck it by cheating... & if I can do that for a whole month, then it actually WILL go down! See the mind game?? Because I hate, hate, hate it when I am eating well & exercising regularly & the scale shows nothing... THAT's when I figure "what the hell then!" and go blow it. Seeee how sneaky I have to be to trick myself into compliance & hopefully success?? You go Kat! Give them what for!

Good Monday Morn, Vi's~~ I'm w/ya'll on the eating LC + trying more mini-meals... + I WILL go do weights today! I think I've actually GAINED wt in Sept... WTF?? This is making me crazy! (& I've got enough crazy already!) I need a new approach, so I've thought up the novel idea (lol) of not weighing on the scale for the WHOLE month of Oct! To just focus on eating properly and exercising... & then seeing where that takes me in a month. My prob w/the scale is that if I see a loss, then I'm happy & it's easier to be "good" that day... but if I see a gain or a same, then I get bummed out & tend to blow it that day... so that's why I'm thinking of giving it a longer time period of the month. Me & my mind games!! Wanna play?? :biggrin:

Good Morn, Vi's~~ ((Terri)) Suzie said it all... we are all with you today! TracyK -- O.M.G!! I'm so excited for you! Pamela -- Dontcha love mojitos?? I discovered them this summer!! mmmmm Laura -- So glad you have the appointment on Monday! I worry about you & the peanut! Janie -- I think the debate was worse than your hair!! Kat -- Take it slowly, girlfriend!! TracyK -- Hope you're feeling better today! Hi Judy, Haydee, Jen, Suzie! Had a busy but fun day yesterday. My mom came up & we hit 2 yarn stores... then went out to lunch @ my fav salad place... then I actually got a little teeny tiny nap... then it was off to the PTA Fall Fest, which we had inside, so it was nuts-o, but it was packed & everyone seemed to be having fun... then my mom, sis & I went to hear Alexander McCall Smith speak (he's the author of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series of books + loads of other books) it was fun & funny, he's a very entertaining speaker... then (it's after 9pm at this point!) we went out to a tapas place in old town & had a pitcher of sangria & lots of little tapas... mmm... then home & bed... BUT... meshed in w/all that was that my FIL was admitted to the hospital yesterday w/a slight heart attack! So my DH & his mom were back & forth on the phone... they're 2.5 hrs away... so DH went up @ 6:30am this morning... it was minor... but it's still nerve-wracking... Other than all THAT... I think -- *think* -- that this week's running around like absolutely crazy is done with... that this week should be more back to "normal"... phew! Make it a good one, Vi's!

Hey Girls... I'm here... doing a quick catch-up read on all of you... great news, TracyKS!!... I am mental. That must be it. I am still so stressed out & eating like a fiend... how come I can't be one of those people who DON'T eat when they're stressed?? Ugh. Too much to worry about & not enough time to any of it well. I hate that. I keep thinking "next week it will be better"... well, maybe it will! Love to all!!

Hey Vi's... Soooooooooooo busy & Sooooooooooooo stressed out!! Friday is our (MY!) annual PTA Family Fall Festival @ school and OF COURSE it is supposed to rain Thurs/Fri/Sat! 1st time in 9 years that's it rained on this event! On my watch, of course. So everyone's flipping out & we've got to figure out how to move it all inside (LOOOOONG story as to why we're doing that rather than bump it back a week)... suffice it to say that I am GOING CRAZY w/people & trying to get everything done... I am EATING LIKE A PIG... I KNOW this is how I got to 317... STRESS EATING!!!... I am hopeful that tomorrow will dawn a new day + I will be able to get to Zumba tomorrow night... ugh... I am trying to be gentle w/myself but it is hard... After Friday I should be able to go back to my "normal" amount of activity... not this hyper-mode I'm in... yeah, right!! Wish me luck!!!

Good Monday Morning~~ It looks like we're all off to the races again today... we sure are a busy group of gals!! Too bad we can't harness our energy for lightbulbs or auto fuel, huh?? Busy, busy day for me... busy week, actually... Friday is our big fall PTA Family Festival, so this week includes lots of work to pull it all together... including baking 2 cake walk cakes on THursday!! Yikes! Ate horribly over the weekend... what is with me?? I do GREAT during the week, and then un-do all that on the weekends. I've ALWAYS been that way... ugh. Love you all... gotta dash... have 3 kids bouncing around the house w/a 2-hour late school departure today, which makes everything discombobulated...

Good night, my lovelies! :thumbup:

Phew! Now I can exhale about Kat!! TracyKS... ?????

Good Afternoon, dearies... No Zumba'ing today... I think that might kill me!! I checked the schedule & it's Tues mornings & Thurs eves... so I'll go when I can!! Today I'm taking "off" from the Y... just regular running around will be my exercise for today! I am a little bit sore, actually. I'll go tomorrow & do the weights... DD was in a "photo shoot" this morning for a wonderful, local toy store in old towne Frederick... she loved it! Then we did errands... Target, PetsMart, lunch @ Pizzeria Uno's -- where I got a salad that I *thought* was healthy but it turned out to be not so much... sigh... -- Sam's Club, & home. Go out in a couple hours for another HS soccer game... then it's home & clean the whole house for our visitor to arrive tomorrow @ 8am!! I'm a perpetual motion machine! Make it a great day, everyone!! (Bubba Gump's from Forrest Gump -- one of my all time fav movies!!)

Thank you, Judy!!

Ok... Bodybugg report! I clocked 4,706 steps in the Zumba class -- :biggrin: -- that's almost 1/2 a day's worth in 1 hour!! My cals burned per minute got up to 9.8!! + then they burn higher afterwards, too! I am AMAZED!! C'mon girls -- like Judy says: GYAIG!! It's fun!!

Woot! Another NSV this evening! I went to the Y w/DD & DH... they were going to play racquetball & I figured I'd do the treadmill or the weights... but as I was walking in I saw the schedule of aerobics classes and starting @ 6 was a "Zumba" class!... I'd seen a piece on it on the "Today" show about a year ago... latin-dance inspired exercise... so I thought I'd "give it a whirl!" (my motto!)! All I can say is "Whoo!" It kicked my butt -- but in a fun way! All that latin music made me crave a 'rita after!! ha ha! I was soaked w/sweat -- seriously, my hair looked like I just got out of the shower! DD was incredulous, because it is known far & wide that "Momma doesn't like to sweat!" This is all part of my new resolve to try new exercises & GMIAG!! I am proud of myself that I was spontaneous and tried something new!! I will definitely go back if/when my schedule allows (it is *very* rare that I can do something like that in the evening, but because ds was sick & dd amazingly didn't have an activity, I was able to tonight!) Going to go log in on bodybugg & see how many steps & cals it was!!

Poor Kat!!! All my purple power for her right now.

Anyone heard from or checked in on Kat??? (I don't want to assume that I should...)

The best laid plans... Just got home from picking up DS from HS... he's got a cold & sore throat & is exhausted & miserable. He's upstairs sleeping now. I think it's probably a bit of the new school year & his athletic schedule catching up w/him, too (soccer EVERY day... 3 games this week!). He's been the star of the team so far... out of a total 6 goals for the team this year, he's scored 4 & assisted w/the other 2!! He's loving it... but as I said... I think it's all catching up w/him!! NOW I'm off to finally BEGIN my day!!

Uh, yeah... THAT'S too big! There... that's better...

Just testing updated siggy...