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I got that email from Dr Marc about this site going offline Monday.  Now I haven’t been here for a while trying to get myself straighted out, but the very thought that BS wouldn’t be here when I was ready to come back is extremely sad!

First thing, Thank You Dr Marc for this site.  I have made some truly amazing friends while here and learned so much more then I could ever have imagined!!  Thank you!!

Secondly, to all my friends, my ‘buddies’ and the Wildcats..  an even bigger THANK YOU!!!!!  There are just no words really for all that you have done for me!!  The support, the love, the tough love, the laughter, the tears and the knowledge that has been shared….  Wow!! 

So I guess this is my final ever BuddySlim blog.  I think I may just cry now.  I love you all and once again…

THANK YOU!!!!

Well I have a very excellent friend named Lori, she is really more like a big sister to me in many ways, and I have my Nancy and Jenn who between the 4 of us keep each other sane and accountable.  Lori emailed me last night and said how I’ve been inspiring to her with my eating and workouts….  well….  I wish I could say I was proud of me too..

Last time I blogged I wanted to lose 6-10 pounds before Mikayla’s 2nd birthday.  I am 1 week away from that goalline, and quite frankly, I haven’t lost anything.  I’ve worked out all my planned days, had some days with extra walking, and during the week, my eating as been on the mark.  My problem is the damn weekends.  My last blog I had gained 4 something pounds that weekend.  I managed to lose it all for a maintain that week… then that weekend I gained 3 something pounds, only lost 2 of them so had an official gain of 1 pound.  This week is still undetermined BUT I did manage to actually lose 0.9 pounds (accourding to the Wii) over this last weekend, so fingers are crossed I may actually have a loss this week!!  I’ll find out tomorrow!!

Really looking forward to Mikayla’s party next week, I always love it when family gets together….. I just wish I could have my girls there… they are most definitely my lifeline!  I don’t have internet at the moment (doing this at work before I clock in) and I can peek in on my emails from my phone, so they really have been there for me so much!  

THANKS GALS!!!  LOVE YA LOTS!!!

Thanks to everyone else as well for standing by me, even though I haven’t been around as much!!

So I looked at the calendar last night and realized I have 4 calendar weeks until Mikayla’s 2nd birthday!  We are having a big party for her at my cousin Mary’s house (same cousin that is her Godparents)!  It will be her first actual birthday party since we didn’t get to have one for her last year on account of our moving across the country.. I am really looking forward to it!!
So back to the 4 weeks…  I told Chris we both need to really re-commit to this, we both really need to stop with the crap, stop making excuses to not workout  and jsut do it!!  It would be so great if we could walk into my cousin’s house in 4 weeks and be 6-10 pounds lighter than we are now!  According to the Wii, I gained 4.2 pounds this weekend from all the food at Mary’s saturday, then yesterday at dads… so this has just got to end! 

Chris with his heart, really really needs to lose weight!!  All that weight he lost back in November/December is  back with friends!  Not good!!! When he sits in a chair from the front of his tummy to his back measures about 2 feet!!  That is just crazy!!  I have no idea for me, could be just as bad I suppose.. :(

So hear I am posting.. 4 weeks.. 4 weeks to lose as much as possible!!  Time to amp up the workouts and really do it!!  No more excuses!

This morning I started with 1 hour of jogging!!  Supposedly I burned 489 calories, but I don’t believe it to be 100% accurate.  At least I burned calories!!  Tomorrow = strength!!

Well I had my minor surgery yesterday.  I had a d&c done to remove a load of excess lining in my uterus and while she was there, she inserted an IUD.  This is all in order to help lessen the amount of bleeding and cramps I’ve been having.  Ever since I had Mikayla, my periods have been super heavy, and since I’ve always had an issue with cramps as well, the IUD should help with that. 
My dad was my chaperone for the day, which was really nice.  I got some alone time with him, which is extremely rare.  He mentioned how he really wants us to find a place where the 4 of us can live together since his health is declining, plus with Chris’ health and the baby…  so we are looking into options for that.

I am enjoying a wonderful 5 days away from work, which is FABULOUS!!!  Just a short blog, but just thought I’d check in!!

Friday butt dance!!!   (_/_) (_\_) (_!_) (_/_) (_\_) (_!_) (_/_) (_\_) (_!_) (_/_) (_\_)(_/_) (_\_) (_!_) (_/_) (_\_) (_!_) (_/_) (_\_) (_!_) (_/_) (_\_)(_/_) (_\_) (_!_) (_/_) (_\_) (_!_) (_/_) (_\_) (_!_) (_/_) (_\_)(_/_) (_\_) (_!_) (_/_) (_\_) (_!_) (_/_) (_\_) (_!_) (_/_) (_\_)

I have tomorrow off from work and Chris, Mikayla and I are taking the train down into Boston and we are going to follow the Freedom Trail!!! I think Mikayla might enjoy riding on the train, and with parking in Boston, it just makes more sense!!  I have been looking forward to this for a few weeks now!!  But of course only 1 thing could make it not the best, which is TOM being here.. and of course he arrived yesterday!  GRRRRRRRRRRR  He should have been here Sunday, dang it all!!  Oh well, ain’t gonna let it stop me from my day of fun!!!

Been good with my workouts this month, eating is so so due to the food situation, but I’m doing the best I can. 
Just a short one today!  Hope everyone has a great day!!!

I just want to give a friendly reminder to all of us - this family that we are - on BuddySlim.  We are a very close community on here, and some of us venture to other sites such as FB and Sparkpeople… among a few.. well, I just want to remind us all that we all have feelings!  Remember, what is said on one website, may trickle back here. 

If you say something negative on another site, the person it was said about may still find out.. even if they weren’t included in the email, or the thread or whatever..  so please.. be kind people. 
Even in other team forums here.  We compete, but it’s supposed to be a friendly competition!  There is no need to get nasty, vindictive, or just plain mean and rude. 

I’m sure all you’re momma’s taught you that if you don’t have something nice to say, then just don’t say anything.  Most of the time, even implied wording does get implied, sometimes incorrectly, sometimes correctly.. and the other person’s feelings do get hurt.
I love BuddySlim, and definitely would have given up long ago.. I have my own personal issues with a couple people here or there, but I don’t make it so public. I don’t bi$th about them in my team forums or on FB or Sparkpeople or whereever.  So, like I say, if we could all be nice to each other.. stop the back stabbing.. I would love it, and I’m sure we all would love it!! 

Bring back the happy place!!  No more!!  Be nice!!  K? 

Love you all!!!

I have been noticing, that in regards to your blog comments not showing up right away, it doesn’t always mean it’s in moderation..  it could just be taking its time to post.  I find that when I check back around 10 minutes later, my comment is there.

SOOOOOO   To those of you who are inpatient (Nancy hehe)  don’t repost the same commet 3 times, post it once, then check back and if it’s there,  you are golden!!

Thought I’d share that with you!!!  Hope it helps!!!

Today is the one year mark from when I  lost mom.  I just can’t believe it’s been a whole year.  I still want to pick up the phone and call her all the time, I think of her every single day and wish she could have had more time to get to enjoy Mikayla.

I have created a memorial scrapbook of my mom for Mikayla, with pictures and momentos from through all of mom’s life.  I’ve shown it to mt extended family, mom’s brother, my dad, my cousins, and everyone says that its done very well.  I’m glad for that.

Well not a long blog, but just wanted to share.  I am doing well, I think.  Haven’t needed to go to a counselor to deal with it, so I think that’s good.  (Couldn’t afford it anyway)  Chris and Mikayla are great at distracting me from the hard days.

I think we are going to the lake today, free parking, free swimming.  Free is good!!

So monday I started out having wicked bad cramps.. I mean menstrual cramps from HELL!!!  Problem other than annoyance??  Yeh..  TOM ain’t here yet.. probably over the weekend.  UG!!!

So dealing with these massive cramps Monday, Tuesday and finally Wednesday evening they start to taper off.  Yesterday.. nausea hits!  So bad I thought I was going to have to go home!  I forced myself to try and eat my lunch, Smart Ones Ravioli and an apple.  Surprisingly… that cleared it up!  Shocked the spit out of me!

I had made an appt with the Doc for this morning, so I went in.  She thinks it’s probably a bladder infection.. little blood in the urine.. so she gave me a script for some antibiotics.  I don’t take them that often, so I was cool with that. 
We had a chat about how my cycles have been since having Mikayla, she has a few procedures she’s recommending that will either help to lighten the amount of output, or if I’m really lucky, get rid of it!!  I told her to sign me right up for it!! HAHA

She is sending me for an ultrasound to double check on any probs, then I will have a very detailed chat with the doc.. I guess I should explain that she wasn’t an actual doc, she was the nurse practioner, which is just as good as a doc, right April?? 

So I am looking forward to hopefully NOT having TOM anymore!!   Can’t stand it!!

Now, if only I get get my boobs to wither away and decrease, I’d be a real happy camper!!  LMAO!!!

Maintain for me this week, but considering everything, I am totally cool with that!!

Hoope everyone has a fantastic weekend!!!!!

This isn’t weight loss, but I know so many of us are struggling with money, so thought I would pass on something I just found out…

When we moved here, we signed up for home phone service with Vonage.  They had a really great international plan, and for Chris’ family to call a landline, it’s loads cheaper then for them to call a cell phone.  Well, as I said, as most of us are, we are really struggling for money… having to get food from food banks, and such, so I talked to Chris and he said, yes, let’s go ahead and turn off the Vonage.  I looked online and it said there is a cancelation fee of $39.99.

Ok, that’s fine… that’s pretty much just the same as the monthly service fee.  You have to call them to cancel it though, so last night I called them up.. said I want to cancel, your service sucks (it’s internet based, and it was constantly kicking us off the internet and shutting the internet off, and customer service is just as bad!!) and we can’t afford the monthly cost right now.  She says, ok thats fine I can help you out with that…  then she proceeds to tell me that there is the $39.99 cancelation fee.. yep, yep that’s fine….  and.. she goes on to say that there is a $79.99 rebate recovery fee.  What?  Excuse me?!?!  A what?!?!  She tells me that when we signed up we got a refund or rebate for the switch box, and that because I am canceling before the 12 month “contract” is up, we have to pay that back.  I said, we were never told that we had received any refunds or rebates.. she says it’s in the terms and conditions.  So I’m looking through them online.. nope, nothing mentioned.  Then she says in section whatever it says if you cancel before the 12 months that it says you have to pay back this rebate thingy.. I go to that section and it says, “if” you received this rebate.. well if you don’t know you had it, how are you to know you have to pay it back, right??  And it never once tells you the price! 
So needless to say…. can’t afford to cancel the phone, so they put us on the cheapest plan of like $16/month including taxes..  oh yeh.. that $20 extra a month is really gonna help put food on the table! 

So, word to the wise.  DON’T EVER, EVER, EVER SIGN UP FOR VONAGE!!!  Not unless you don’t like being online, and know for sure you want to stay with them for at least a year!!

I hope this manages to help someone out sometime down the road.