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Good evening ladies. It's been quiet around here without Karri and with Janet all busy getting girly to go to Stagecoach! I hope she is having a great time.

Well, I had a magnificent day! In EVERY way....can I share? Of course I can, we're all sisters....

When I was on here this morning I was wired and left for a walk. Went for 50 minutes. Came home and was freezing because it was only 28 degrees out there. Can you believe I stayed out for 50 whole minutes while it was so freaking cold???? Yeah me!!! So anyways, I was cold and DH was still sleeping so I went in and he "warmed me up." Okay...maybe that is an over share....but it was a completely new thing.

Then after shower and getting cleaned up (all before 8am mind you) I had a healthy Breakfast and then my mom and I went to town (that would be the one with the Walmart) for the day. Took the two youngest quacks, left the eldest to bond with DH. We had the best time at Wally world. There was this whole rack of clearance. I decided that I had enough clothes for right now but would need smaller t's soon. So I picked up a BUNCH of $3 shirts....size medium. Well I tried one on earlier. And I fit in a medium!!!!!! Holy freaking unbelievable! I'm almost tempted to put on my mom's smalls and see how far I have to go.

Okay...before. When I was getting ready for my shopping trip, I asked dh if he had mother's day figured out. He didn't really have much of an answer so I asked him if I could pick my own gift while I was in town. He said that it depended and I told him I wanted a wii. So he said that it was fine. Well Walmart didn't have them. I called and he said "oh darn, that's too bad." Like a real jerk. Well when I got home he had one sitting here for me. I guess they had them here in town. He said they had like 9 of them.

Well just played boxing and I suck. My eldest decided to humiliate me by laughing at me the entire time. I guess it wasn't such a great idea. Talk about ruining a great day. I guess I shouldn't be so thin skinned but who ever taught him to be so cruel? And he comes home crying because the kids are so mean to him. Well ..... never mind. I'll leave that thought.

I guess I'm off. I'll talk to you guys in the morning.

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Steph- After I drank my coffee this morning, I got dressed and we all went to Target. While we were walking around, my son says Mom somethings going on by that group of people. I think they have Wii's. Sure enough, they did! We got a Wii too. :) Everytime we go to Wal-Mart we ask, but they never have it.

My sons been playing with it. I only got to try to bowl for like 3 minutes. I'm sitting here reading the Sunday paper and Wal-Mart has the pre-order Wii fitness. It says to get it on their website. I might do it.

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Peaches and Jackie- What did you girls win at?

MANGO I WAS PLAYING SLOTS. 7_15_4.gif

I am not having a good day.

About 5pm last night I started shivering and shaking... I thought I was just cold because the sun was going down and it was getting chilly in here. But I couldn't stop shaking for two hours. My hands were like ice cubes and hurt really bad. DH wrapped me up in my electric throw blanket and then a heating pad for my hands. I shook so bad all my muscles and joints were hurtiing. When I got warmed up the shaking stopped, but I had a temp of over 102. So, I went to bed. this morning... 100+, headache and generalized aches and pains.

someone gave me the flu!!

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PHYL-SORRY TO HEAR YOU WEREN'T FEELING WELL. GLAD YOU ARE ON THE MENDS. TAKE IT EASY AND DRINKKKKKKK

No time to go clothes shopping today after all./quote]

LINDAA SORRY TO HEAR THE SHOPPING TRIP DIDN'T PAN OUT. I HAVE ON A COUPLE OF PAIRS OF 14'S I STILL WEAR. I DON'T GET IT. I CAN WEAR 10'S IN SOME, 12'S IN OTHERS BUT I STILL WEAR MY 14'S IN 1 BRAND. HOPE YOU GET A DAY THAT YOU CAN SPEND ON YOURSELF SHOPPING. IT IS SO FUN TO GO CLOTHES SHOPPING NOW. IT IS AMAZING.

Only four bottles down today. I'm not very hungry so I'm not drinking as much. Checked out a gym this afternoon. It's only about 15 minutes from here and not so expensive. 90 days for $90.00. Nothing fancy, just machines and a locker room with showers. The only other one almost that close is $300. to join and $69./month. Of course, they have the pools, whirlpool, sauna, steamroom and all the machines............but dang, that's a lot of money!!.

KIRAJH GO WITH THE CHEAPER ONE IF YOU DON'T WANT ALL THOSE EXTRAS. DON'T GET ME WRONG THEY SOUND NICE BUT WE LIVE CLOSE TO THE YMCA SO I HAVE TO PAY FOR ALL OF THAT AND I CAN HONESTLY SAY THAT I HAVE NEVER USED THE SAUNA OR THE POOL. MAYBE AFTER ANOTHER 30 LBS.

Went for 50 minutes.

CONGRATS ON THE 50 MINUTES. TIME HAS DEFINATELY CHANGED US HUH?

And I fit in a medium!!!!!!

MEDIUM TODAY AND SMALL NOT TO FAR OFF. CONGRATS AGAIN.

Well when I got home he had one sitting here for me. I guess they had them here in town. He said they had like 9 of them.

MY GOSH YOUR WHOLE DAY SOUNDS AMAZING!! THE TEENAGER LAUGHING....GRIN AND BEAR IT. JUST THINK WHAT COMES AROUND GOES AROUND. BELIEVE ME I HAVE A 15 AND A 16 YEAR OLD AND HAVE TO SAY THIS TO MYSELF QUITE OFTEN. haha IT IS NEW. KEEP PRACTICING AND YOU WILL BE WHIPING THE PANTS OFF OF HIM IN NO TIME. THEN YOU WILL BE THE ONE LAUGHING. 4_1_219.gif

Steph- After I drank my coffee this morning, I got dressed and we all went to Target. While we were walking around, my son says Mom somethings going on by that group of people. I think they have Wii's. Sure enough, they did! We got a Wii too. :) Everytime we go to Wal-Mart we ask, but they never have it.

My sons been playing with it. I only got to try to bowl for like 3 minutes. I'm sitting here reading the Sunday paper and Wal-Mart has the pre-order Wii fitness. It says to get it on their website. I might do it.

MANGO- HAVE FUN WITH YOUR WII. I AM GOING TO GET THE WII FITNESS AS WELL. THAT WILL BE MY GIFT TO MYSELF AND ANYONE ELSE IN THE FAMILY THAT WANTS TO PLAY. MY SON KEEPS [/url] TELLING ME HE WON'T PLAY BECAUSE HE SAYS IT IS JUST EXERCISING BUT I BET ONCE HE SEES ME DOING IT THE COMPETITOR IN HIM WITH COME OUT AND WE WILL BE 'PLAYING' TOGETHER HAVING A BALL. 7_5_142.gif 4_17_210.gif

JANET I HOPE YOU ARE HAVING A GREAT TIME!! WE ARE WAITING FOR A FULL REPORT

KARI-HOPE OUR RUNNER IS GETTING WELL RESTED FOR THE BIG RUN. WE ARE ALL ROOTING FOR YOU. KARI-KARI-KARI  18_1_37.gif

YOU HAVE YOUR OWN CHEERING SQUAD.

OK ALL WE JUST GOT HOME FROM THE CASINO......AGAIN..........ABOUT 45 MINUTES AGO. I JUST HAD TO CHECK IN WITH MY FRIENDS HERE AND CONFESS. OK FIRST.......YES WE LOST......(NO BIG NEWS. WE FULLY EXPECTED TO BECAUSE WE WON WELL LAST WEEKEND.) OH WELL THAT IS THE WAY IT GOES. WE HAD A GOOD TIME.

I WAS NOT A VERY GOOD BANDSTER TODAY. I DONE GREAT UNTIL WE LEFT THIS AFTER NOON. I HAD SOME MIXED NUTS...NO BIG DEAL...BUT THEN AFTER THE CASINO WE HADN'T EATEN AND EVERYONE WAS HUNGRY. IT WAS ALMOST 10PM SO NO PLACE 'GOOD' OPEN SO I WAS JUST GOING TO WAIT UNTIL WE COME HOME (I KNOW IT WAS TO LATE TO EAT ALREADY BUT ALL I HAD HAD WAS A CUP OF Soup FOR 50 CALORIES AND APPROX A HALF A CUP OF MIXED NUTS) ANYWAY MY AUNT SAYS LETS JUST GO TO MCDONALDS AND MY UNCLE SAYS THAT SOUNDS GOOD AND SHE LOOKED AT ME. I DIDN'T WANT TO BE THE ONE TO COMPLAIN BECAUSE IT WAS LATE AND NOTHING ELSE REALLY OPEN AND IT WOULD BE RIGHT OFF THE INTERSTATE SO WE WENT. I HAD A GRILLED chicken WRAP WITH LITE RANCH AND A SMALL FRY (I SHARED THIS WITH MY AUNT AND UNCLE BOTH BECAUSE I USUALLY PB ON THEM BUT I DIDN'T TODAY. I CAN ONLY ASSUME IT IS BECAUSE IT WAS LATE AND MY BAND USUALLY OPENS UP AT NIGHT) I JUST FEEL TERRIBLE ABOUT IT BUT NOW I HAVE TO 'PULL UP MY BOOT STRAPS' AS JANET SAYS AND MOVE ON. IT IS OVER.

TOMORROW I AM DOING MY HOUSE CLEANING RIGHT AWAY IN THE AM AND THEN GOING TO DO MY REGULAR EXERCISE AND THEN TOMORROW AFTERNOON WE HAVE A 3 MILE BENEFIT WALK FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES THAT WE ARE GOING TO SO I AM HOPING ALL THAT WILL WARD OFF MY REPRIMAND.  17_1_10.gif 

OK IT IS NOW 12:30AM AND I AM GOING TO GO TO BED. I JUST WANTED TO SHARE/CONFESS. GO AHEAD UNLEASH THE TONGUES NOW. :) HAHA

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Jackie,

Okay, I know I shouldn't be so thin skinned. He's a teen ager. Why do I let him get to me? Well usually I don't but I think it must have been some pms going around. I know I went overboard but he needs to learn to be a little kinder. I don't know. Shame on me. I'll try to remember to laugh about it and not get so bent.

Now...about your food. Are you really beating yourself up for Soup, 2 servings of nuts and a snack wrap? We have to learn to make good choices and all that but you did. You didn't order a quarter pounder. You didn't order a chicken sandwich. You even did better than I did and ordered the grilled chicken instead of the crispy. You made a GREAT choice. I'm sure you are under your cals and maybe there wasn't a TON of nutrients in the nuts but they are crammed full of Protein. What I didn't hear you say was that you drank a bunch of Water. Hopefully you just forgot to mention it. Turn it around today and feel better and make great choices. Focus on water and veggies today. Make it a balanced 2 days.

Gotta get to church. I will check in later. Can't wait to hear about Janet's escapades!!!

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Good evening ladies. It's been quiet around here without Karri and with Janet all busy getting girly to go to Stagecoach! I hope she is having a great time.

I fit in a medium!!!!!! Holy freaking unbelievable!

Congratulations!! THAT'S GREAT!!!

Okay...before. When I was getting ready for my shopping trip, I asked dh if he had mother's day figured out. He didn't really have much of an answer so I asked him if I could pick my own gift while I was in town. He said that it depended and I told him I wanted a wii. So he said that it was fine. Well Walmart didn't have them. I called and he said "oh darn, that's too bad." Like a real jerk. Well when I got home he had one sitting here for me. I guess they had them here in town. He said they had like 9 of them.

Well just played boxing and I suck. My eldest decided to humiliate me by laughing at me the entire time. I guess it wasn't such a great idea. Talk about ruining a great day. I guess I shouldn't be so thin skinned but who ever taught him to be so cruel? And he comes home crying because the kids are so mean to him. Well ..... never mind. I'll leave that thought.

I guess I'm off. I'll talk to you guys in the morning.

I think the boxing is the hardest!

I have a hard time controlling where my punches are hitting. Haven't quite figured it out yet. Practice when the kid is at school until you get really good at it and then beat his butt!!

Steph- After I drank my coffee this morning, I got dressed and we all went to Target. While we were walking around, my son says Mom somethings going on by that group of people. I think they have Wii's. Sure enough, they did! We got a Wii too. :) Everytime we go to Wal-Mart we ask, but they never have it.

My sons been playing with it. I only got to try to bowl for like 3 minutes. I'm sitting here reading the Sunday paper and Wal-Mart has the pre-order Wii fitness. It says to get it on their website. I might do it.

I think I'm going to order it there, too. I read an article on the web that says they're already projecting a shortage of it and it's not even released yet! Wal-Mart will give you a $10 gift card, too, if you pre-order from their site.

Hope you get a chance to "play" today!! I love the bowling, and I'm getting pretty good at golf, too.

PHYL-SORRY TO HEAR YOU WEREN'T FEELING WELL. GLAD YOU ARE ON THE MENDS. TAKE IT EASY AND DRINKKKKKKK

Trying to drink as much as I can... still not feeling great, but better than yesterday.

MANGO- HAVE FUN WITH YOUR WII. I AM GOING TO GET THE WII FITNESS AS WELL. THAT WILL BE MY GIFT TO MYSELF AND ANYONE ELSE IN THE FAMILY THAT WANTS TO PLAY. MY SON KEEPS TELLING ME HE WON'T PLAY BECAUSE HE SAYS IT IS JUST EXERCISING BUT I BET ONCE HE SEES ME DOING IT THE COMPETITOR IN HIM WITH COME OUT AND WE WILL BE 'PLAYING' TOGETHER HAVING A BALL. 7_5_142.gif 4_17_210.gif

I WAS NOT A VERY GOOD BANDSTER TODAY. I DONE GREAT UNTIL WE LEFT THIS AFTER NOON. I HAD SOME MIXED NUTS...NO BIG DEAL...BUT THEN AFTER THE CASINO WE HADN'T EATEN AND EVERYONE WAS HUNGRY. IT WAS ALMOST 10PM SO NO PLACE 'GOOD' OPEN SO I WAS JUST GOING TO WAIT UNTIL WE COME HOME (I KNOW IT WAS TO LATE TO EAT ALREADY BUT ALL I HAD HAD WAS A CUP OF Soup FOR 50 CALORIES AND APPROX A HALF A CUP OF MIXED NUTS) ANYWAY MY AUNT SAYS LETS JUST GO TO MCDONALDS AND MY UNCLE SAYS THAT SOUNDS GOOD AND SHE LOOKED AT ME. I DIDN'T WANT TO BE THE ONE TO COMPLAIN BECAUSE IT WAS LATE AND NOTHING ELSE REALLY OPEN AND IT WOULD BE RIGHT OFF THE INTERSTATE SO WE WENT. I HAD A GRILLED chicken WRAP WITH LITE RANCH AND A SMALL FRY (I SHARED THIS WITH MY AUNT AND UNCLE BOTH BECAUSE I USUALLY PB ON THEM BUT I DIDN'T TODAY. I CAN ONLY ASSUME IT IS BECAUSE IT WAS LATE AND MY BAND USUALLY OPENS UP AT NIGHT) I JUST FEEL TERRIBLE ABOUT IT BUT NOW I HAVE TO 'PULL UP MY BOOT STRAPS' AS JANET SAYS AND MOVE ON. IT IS OVER.

Grilled chicken wrap.... I think they're only about 250 calories. That was probably the best choice you could have made at McD's....and a few fries... don't beat yourself up! You did pretty good!

Funny... everyone is getting in to the Wii!! It's really fun. It keeps track of the minutes you use it each day. I like that. Took me a few days to figure that out.

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Hubby and son are bowling on the Wii. I don't get to play again. Hubby is swearing, "Man it wasn't this hard yesterday!"

Jackie - Girl, you made an excellent food choice. Everybody knows how well an ice cream from Mickey D's slides down, with MM's I might add.

My daughter was supposed to go to her old school an hour away today for a sorority sp? luncheon. She's still sleeping. She worked at the Hornet's game last night, which didn't end till like 12 then she went out. It's her 23rd BD today. She said she wouldn't be here all day, so I planned nothing. Now she's here, drats.

By the way, the HORNETS won!!!

Go HORNETS!!!!!! :):thumbup::)

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Did you girls notice the page number? :)

We must get off this page.

And it's Sunday too.

Oh, how lovely, now their playing tennis.

Guess I'll go do housework and figure out what to cook for them while they have fun.

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Did you girls notice the page number? :)

We must get off this page.

And it's Sunday too.

Oh, how lovely, now their playing tennis.

Guess I'll go do housework and figure out what to cook for them while they have fun.

Well, NOW I noticed the page number!!

Hey!! You need to demand your rights, woman!! Tell those turkeys it's YOUR TURN!!

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Holy Shmoly I hope this will push us past the page number we were on. :)

Well I just finished cleaning the house completely and thought I would check in. I dont have alot of time. I need to eat my Weight Watchers Soup for lunch and get showered and ready to go for benefit walk today. I am pretty pumped about it and it is sooooo nice right now with lots of sunshine!!!:)

You guys are right. I did make pretty good choices yesterday. Could have done without the fries but I didn't over do it. I shared a SMALL fry with 2 other people. Before I would have been griping at them to get their own as I was eating my big mac or quarter pounder. HAHA

Steph-I did forget to mention my Water intake yesterday. Sorry. Yes I got all of my water and then some. I usually do pretty good with this. Thank goodness for crystal lite!!

Phyl-thanks for the heads up about the $10 gift card. I will be pre ordering mine today.

Mango- sounds like you are having a great time with your wii as well. DS asked the other day if he could get another game and I told him I would think about it. I think we will stop on the way home tonight and buy him one. Boys are so different than girls. He never asks for anything and she is always shopping. LOL I try to make up a smidge with him by buying the extra games once in a while.

Janet hope you enjoyed your concerts last night. Bet you had a lot of fun.

Kari I am horse from all the shouting and cheering for you girl!!

I will check back in tonight and let you all know how the day has gone. I have 9 miles to walk (intentionally) before tonight so I suppose I will be pooped. Hope the darn scale moves with the extra effort.

Make good choices and enjoy your day!!

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Ok I have officially ordered the wii fit. I am really excited about it. It says anywhere from May 8-21 it will be shipped. Hope it doesn't end up like when I ordered the guitar hero (preordered) from Wal Mart. They never sent me notice until after I was waiting for it to arrive that i would not be getting it. I even preordered that one 3 months in advance for Christams last year but I was lucky enough that I found one in the stores.

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Ok I have officially ordered the wii fit. I am really excited about it. It says anywhere from May 8-21 it will be shipped. Hope it doesn't end up like when I ordered the guitar hero (preordered) from Wal Mart. They never sent me notice until after I was waiting for it to arrive that i would not be getting it. I even preordered that one 3 months in advance for Christams last year but I was lucky enough that I found one in the stores.

I don't want to do it until DH gives it his blessing and he's still dragging his heels. Thinks I'm spending too much money! I'm wondering how valid their estimated shipping date is, too, being that there seems to be quite demand and they're already projecting a "shortage"!! That's why I want to order it ASAP! DIL ordered hers a couple of days ago... for her birthday! DS is protesting... says she shouldn't know what her birthday present is a month ahead of time! But she says last year HE ordered the propeller for the airplane he is building (which finally got moved out of their garage yesterday) THREE MONTHS before HIS birthday! I told her... as the saying goes, "turn about is fair play"!! BTW, he's been building this airplane for almost 12 years I think, and it's going to be ready to fly within the next month or so.

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Jacki,

Do you think this will get us to the next page????

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alright ladies. I'm back. Going to take a weekend nap but wanted to say high. I had a very bad lunch, but don't know how bad yet. I haven't looked it up. I do know I'm going to have to walk and lift tonight as well as probably only have Protein and veggies for the next week. .... but after my outburst last night, I'm not feeling guilty about lunch. I have bigger issues.

Wasn't going to post until I read about which page we were on and we are still there....

But did you all notice how many posts we have on this thread?

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Well, from what I can see here, I'm the only one without a Wii. Probably won't either. We Got Nintendo way back when, after everyone else had it. The same with Sega. DH never played the things, and without the kids around, we'll probably never get it. Of course, if I could get him to do something, and go somewhere, maybe we'd end up somewhere where someone has it and he'd try it and like it. Yeah, right, in my dreams.

36_1_50.gifWell, managed to get two bottles of Water down today. At least two more to go. I'm starting to get tired of treading water.

Jackie, don't beat your self over a couple fries. I mean, a small order, shared with two others, What, that's maybe eight fries or something like that.

7_4_7.gifWell, I'm not really superstitious, but I do know that you don't mess with "THE EVIL ONE", So I hope we are off of it now. I'll so my part here.

Since everyone is talking about shopping, I was at Walmart yesterday and decided to try on some jeans. They went on. A little snug at the waist and a little loose in butt and thighs....But they fit. We won't go into size though. I think from all I've read here that I need to keep looking and trying on for a better fit. What kind ....or what store, do you guys seem to like? It's been years since I wore or bought any jeans and back then, guys and gals all bought the same jeans. By waist size.

OKAY, I WILL CHECK IN LATER TO SEE IF JANET OR KARRI ARE BACK. I KNOW THEY BOTH HAD A GREAT TIME. KEEP ON DRINKING LADIES. TTYL

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.... but after my outburst last night, I'm not feeling guilty about lunch. I have bigger issues.

But did you all notice how many posts we have on this thread?

You know what.... acknowledging that you HAVE issues is the first and most important step in dealing with them. If only our DD could get to that place, maybe we could begin to resolve some things!!

Yes, we have pretty high numbers here, don't we??!! I keep worrying that Alex is going to cut us off because we have too many pages and too many posts!!

Well, from what I can see here, I'm the only one without a Wii. Probably won't either. We Got Nintendo way back when, after everyone else had it. The same with Sega. DH never played the things, and without the kids around, we'll probably never get it. Of course, if I could get him to do something, and go somewhere, maybe we'd end up somewhere where someone has it and he'd try it and like it. Yeah, right, in my dreams.

Well, I'm not really superstitious, but I do know that you don't mess with "THE EVIL ONE", So I hope we are off of it now. I'll so my part here.

Since everyone is talking about shopping, I was at Walmart yesterday and decided to try on some jeans. They went on. A little snug at the waist and a little loose in butt and thighs....But they fit. We won't go into size though. I think from all I've read here that I need to keep looking and trying on for a better fit. What kind ....or what store, do you guys seem to like? It's been years since I wore or bought any jeans and back then, guys and gals all bought the same jeans. By waist size.

Hmmm... we've got to get you on this Wii bandwagon!! My sister just told me that she thinks tomorrow is the last day you can order the Wii Fit online. She is in Buffalo NY and unable to buy a Wii after looking for several weeks for one for herself, and my Mom wants one! She's 86!! So now she thinks she's going to try to buy one (or two) on eBay!

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Jeans... I am wearing jeans since January...

for the first time in many years.

I don't like to talk sizes either, especially since some of our dear ones here are getting in to 12-14 and smaller!! But, I was wearing 3X-4X when I started all this, and no chance of getting jeans on. Now I can wear a 1X or 2X in cotton knits, 26 in jeans. The jeans I'm wearing I think I got at Wal-Mart for $10!!! My problem is they are tight in the thighs and loose in the waist & butt. I think Janet ordered a pair on QVC that were custom made.. you take your measurements and they make them to fit. I'm not ready to invest much money in my clothes while my sizes are changing though.

Do you think this will get us past the 666????

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Janet,

Where are you??

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Karri????

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Are you home yet???

We're waiting for weekend reports from both of you!

I lunched on costco samples today.

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Everything was Mexican!

Now I'm going to cook some seafood stew!

Yeah!! I get to cook today!

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