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[janiebug 0]

Good morning everyone!! Work week almost over for most folks!!

Maybe since this is our "Band Month" we are all more reflective? It is easy to look at what we do wrong, but we do things right too!!!

We are WONDERFUL VIOLETS, and no one can take that away from us!!

[kity 2]

Good Morning Girlies~

The concert rocked..and I am so glad I went last night! We had a great night, dinner then the concert! She was billed as "Live and Alone" and it was just her, and many guitars, and a piano! Susanne cried through half of the songs, and I cried through a few. She is an amazing story teller and it was beautiful. You know someone is talented when they entertain you (an entire venue) with ONLY her voice. No fan fare...no fire works...just her, and I could not take my eyes off of her. I am actually a better person for having gone...changed forever! She will be back on April 1, 2010 if anyone wants to come out!

Well, although I had a great night...I was feeling pretty bad. It is my allergies...and my neck and nose and head and omg...the pressure. I am off today!!! I will be getting back in bed and taking a nappy!

It was 85 on Mond and today is going to be 73 and very windy...spring in the desert = allergies:cursing:

Have a great day...

[TracyK 3]

Pamela-sounds like an awesome concert.

I had to change mine & Haydees lunch plans. Mom called saying she was coming to spend the day then pick macy up and whisk her away. We are gonna do it next week....so Terry, tell us what day (other than Monday) would be good for you too, ok?

Jenn-so sorry you are having a tough time (((hugs)))

[HeatherO 7]

Pamela, you are so lucky. Melissa Etheridge is wonderful and she would be on the top of my list of people to see in person. She is soo charismatic and really doesn't need more than her voice to keep you enthralled.

The babies name is still probably Ayla but we are keeping our options open and evaluating other names as they come along. If she was born today, that is what it would be. I am kind of partial to Erin too for some reason.

I know some of us are really struggling with weight woes right now, and I am one of them as well. For me, I can never seem to maintain a middle road. When I am on plan, I am ON PLAN . . . almost no deviations and really hitting it hard every day without stop. Then, like now, when I am off plan, I make poor decisions most of the time. Once the baby is here, I am really going to need support getting back to basics. It is so much easier in the beginning, I definitely agree.

I think the best thing about posting here is that we all have each others backs and all understand the struggles in a very personal way.

Laura, you look very, very pregnant and adorable. I am starting the dress thing too because it is so easy and comfortable to wear dresses. :0)

Michelle, I havent seen you on the tube yet, but I will look today when I get home. I am excited to see one of our own on the big screen.

I don't know how you can do PTA for so long. I have found some of the mothers in PTA to be every bit as politically motivated, power hungry, gossip mongering as you would find in corporate politics. Most mothers are only there to support their children and education, but the few bad apples really spoil the experience for me. I will always be involved but I keep it at arms length . . . work and school is enough drama for me, lol.

Have a great day everyone.

[Daisalana 33]

So happy for those of you having to sip sip sip on some coffee. Very jealous :confused:

I just checked my BCBS claims online (once in a blue moon I do out of boredom), and now I found out how I met my yearly deductible (my chiro said I did, and I thought it was an error). The allergist, isn't just a covered doctor?! How can that be?? And of course they are ridiculously expensive, more so than any other doc I've been to in the past year. $500 for them. I haven't paid it yet, but now I know I'll be getting a bill for $350 any day now.. sure could use the state refund that is coming in 'due course'.

[Haydee 2]

good morning!

michelle, you looked divine, but that was crappy that they didn't even answer your question.

tracyks - i'm going to get a fill tomorrow. I can't wait! I hope I finally get some restriction.

We are going to take advantage of driving out to get my fill and gonna get away for the weekend. I know, we've only been home from vacation for two weeks and we leave again...

Jane - I feel your pain. I'm struggling too. Everyday. I feel like a failure sometimes.

BUT, at the same time, I know what needs to be done. I need to write down what I eat so that I can see what I am shoving in my mouth. I need to do some type of physical activity every single day. Do I do that? No, not at all. Why? That's the big question for me.... Why do I say I want it so bad but then I don't take the necessary steps to get what I want?

[Haydee 2]

and yes, Michelle I purchased this morning....

Michelle and I decided to be a little wild and are gonna come see Pam! Only for a few days but should be lots of fun!

Anyone else wanna join us??

[TracyK 3]

My heart will be there!

[Suziecat 379]

I need a "Judy" fix.

[kity 2]

and yes, Michelle I purchased this morning....

Michelle and I decided to be a little wild and are gonna come see Pam! Only for a few days but should be lots of fun!

Anyone else wanna join us??

:scared2::biggrin::thumbup::biggrin::biggrin::cool2::biggrin::tt2::biggrin::biggrin:

My heart will be there!

As will you and all the violets be in our hearts!:wub::wub::wub::wub:

[TerriDoodle 6]

Oh kind of a crappy pic (cell phone), but I took pics of the belly this morning. Decided to wear a dress since I can't keep any pants up anymore.. Looks normal from the front.. then BAM, big belly on the side lol.

I can't view pics at work, so I'm just seeing this today! Awww!!! You finally look pregnant!! You look great for being so far along. You're lucky...I looked like that from 6 mos > !! I was ginormous by the time my son was born. HA... and I was HORRIFIED that I weighed 202# when I checked in to deliver. :scared2: Har har har. How naive I was then!

[Haydee 2]

I meant to comment on your cute dress! I love it! Where did you get it? I don't care that it's a maternity dress, LOL. I've bought maternity tops before. On someone who is my shape you can't tell what is fat and what is bebe

[Daisalana 33]

It's actually NOT a maternity dress LOL.

I was just going through dresses in my closet to see what would fit me right now.

It's a sundress I bought on sale over the winter, from www.torrid.com. It has spaghetti noodle ties so I wore a sweater top over it that I got from Cato.

Beer & Ice Cream Diet :scared2:

As we all know, it takes 1 calorie to heat 1 gram of Water 1 degree centigrade. Translated into meaningful terms, this means that if you eat a very cold dessert (generally consisting of water in large part), the natural processes which raise the consumed dessert to body temperature during the digestive cycle literally sucks the calories out of the only available source, your body fat.

For example, a dessert served and eaten at near 0 degrees C (32.2 deg. F) will in a short time be raised to the normal body temperature of 37 degrees C (98.6 deg. F). For each gram of dessert eaten, that process takes approximately 37 calories as stated above. The average dessert portion is 6 oz, or 168 grams. Therefore, by operation of thermodynamic law, 6,216 calories (1 cal./gm/deg. x 37 deg. x 168 gms) are extracted from body fat as the dessert's temperature is normalized. Allowing for the 1,200 latent calories in the dessert, the net calorie loss is approximately 5,000 calories.

Obviously, the more cold dessert you eat,the better off you are and the faster you will lose weight, if that is your goal. This process works equally well when drinking very cold beer in frosted glasses. Each ounce of beer contains 16 latent calories, but extracts 1,036 calories (6,216 cal. per 6 oz. portion) in the temperature normalizing process. Thus the net calorie loss per ounce of beer is 1,020 calories. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to calculate that 12,240 calories (12 oz. x 1,020 cal./oz.) are extracted from the body in the process of drinking a can of beer.

Frozen Desserts, e.g., ice cream, are even more beneficial, since it takes 83 cal./gm to melt them (i.e., raise them to 0 deg. C) and an additional 37 cal./gm to further raise them to body temperature. The results here are really remarkable, and it beats running hands down. Unfortunately, for those who eat pizza as an excuse to drink beer, pizza (loaded with latent calories and served above body temperature) induces an opposite effect. But, thankfully, as the astute reader should have already reasoned, the obvious solution is to drink a lot of beer with pizza and follow up immediately with large bowls of ice cream.We could all be thin if we were to adhere religiously to a pizza, beer, and ice cream diet.

[Daisalana 33]

Have a kind of sucky/funny story. We got home from work, and a fed-ex box is ripped open in our flower bed--so someone was going to steal our fed-ex delivery...really sucks, I hate that the trash of our neighborhood (which is really nice) lives around us.

They left the product though.. because it was nipple shields for nursing.. LOL.

Now I'm going to have to send all packages to me at work, since apparently some asshole goes through people's packages :scared2:

I would have been really pissed if they stole them too, I paid $20 to have these delivered overnight..

[TerriDoodle 6]

.... I paid $20 to have these delivered overnight..

Hmmm....or you could have just cut a mini-pad in half and stuck them to your bra! Man, those must be some extra-special nipple shields!!

I always wondered why you don't hear more about people stealing fed ex boxes from front porches... or why fedex doesn't make more of an effort to "hide" them at least a little bit. :scared2: All those years I bought stuff on ebay....probably over 500 deliveries...never had anything missing from my front porch...but apparently that was just dumb luck!

So nice of your thieves to leave the package for you. They could have just taken it and opened it once they got home!