July 09 Checkin ****Friday 3rd****

[Kathy36]

Good morning ladies..

Ok, everything is back to normal at my house. My sisters left yesterday and then I spent the afternoon getting my house back in order; vacuuming, changing sheets, laundry, bathroom cleaning!! We had a great visit though. Chris played in his league's allstar game last night too. They split the kids up and his team lost. But, they had a great time and got trophies for being all stars...

Today I will start my workouts again. YEAH!!! I am so glad I need to workout BAD!! I am going to follow Cathe's July rotation. So, I think today is Butts & gutts. That one always leave me sore the next day..

Be back later..

 

[Boingo1]

The sun is out today, and I'm a happy girl!!

Kathy: It is super nice to get to visit and have fun, but also nice to get back to our "routine", esp the workouts! I bet you missed them! You go on Butts & Guts today!

Joanne: Hope Jameson is back to normal today! ... I decided I don't want to take the boys to the fireworks tonight. Just not feeling it. I also hate crowds/traffic.

Hottie: Oh I feel for you for finding that things aren't exactly the way they're supposed to be with your house! It must be so aggravating. It sounds like you're being very thorough in finding solutions though. of course you have a hard time at work concentrating. You have SO much going on! You'll get it back!! I LOL at you "watching paint dry" yesterday. How can you NOT be distracted!?!/

Beth: Glad you enjoyed the movie yesterday!! ... yes, we promised Zach a laptop. I really didn't think he'd pull it off, but he's holding me to it . It's going to be 'a while', though, since vacation bills will be piling in. I need to find a good cheap quality laptop!!! STAT! Hope you have fun with Zumba/Bootcamp today! .... Let us know how it goes.

We all enjoyed Night at the Museum 2 yesterday too. It was very cool! Did you guys see it? .. My eating, though. ...sucked. I actually counted calories on what I ate and came out ok in the end, but the foods I ate were REALLY crap and unhealthy calories. I ate 1 and 1/2 boxes of DOTS and a few plain M&M's. I then decided that I wouldn't eat supper, because I'd eaten 900+ calories in candy. And then at 8p, I started getting really sweaty and shaky, like my blood sugar dropped or something. It was gross! I ate my greek yogurt and strawberries, and felt slightly better afterwards. What an icky feeling and I need to STOP eating like that!!! (did something similiar on Wednesday).

I'm planning on doing Supersets in a bit here, after feeding my starving kitties.....

 

[bitmover]

Good morning!! I'm off in a bit for the boot camp thing and then we'll come home for lunch (and a shower for me!) and then back off again to our friends for some afternoon swimming, although Travis is complaining about that because he thought a friend was coming here. I guess that's in the air a bit.

Chris, let me ask Larry if he knows what laptop you should get -- he always knows good, cheap hardware. Will Greg take the boys to fireworks tomorrow night when you're at work?

Have fun, ladies!

Oh -- does everyone know about the sale at totalfitnessdvds.com? I ordered some stuff, though not all of it part of the sale, though still cheap!

-Beth

 

[bitmover]

Chris, Larry told me what I figured he would..... go to overstock.com for that laptop. The "refurbished" ones are often ones that have never been used -- some big company put a big order in and then for some reason returned the whole lot unused -- you can sort of dig into it and try to figure out if it's really used or not. We buy them that way for our non-techie people at work and you can get a pretty good deal that way. I got a new one a couple of months ago that way, though it took longer than we were expecting -- said it was in stock and then it wasn't, or something.

-Beth

 

[Kathy36]

HI ladies..

Checking back with Butts & Gutts done...Now I am waiting for hubby to get back from golfing. I need to run some errands like the grocery store.

Chris: Yes, we do miss everyone..Glad to be back into our routine. We are dogsitting this week for a friend and next Saturday and the following Saturday we are having out of town visitors..The kids want to see that movie. We LOVED the first one..I was eating lots of twizlers the other night. My sisters and I were playing 500 rummy...

Beth: Hope you enjoy the bootcamp and the swimming..I have ordered from that website too. They are priced nicely. I think I got a couple of Amy Bento from there..

 

[ShyWolf]

Hi all

no workout for me today been dealing with a very nasty migraine since last night and I tried to get a workout in but just couldn't as I felt very nauseous and my head feels like I've been hit by a boulder.

just figured i come by and wish you all a safe and happy holiday weekend...

 

[Boingo1]

Hey again!

Supersets was a good one! Haven't done that in forEVEr and the ball involvement was cool. I always forget about that. Some of it my muscles REALLY burned (the concentration curls!, the one legged squats with rear leg on the step).

beth: thanks for the heads up on Overstock. How exactly do you figure out that they're not actually refurbished? I'm still cringing about spending that amount of money . Loose lips sink ships, apparently!

. Hope you have a good time w/ your exercise group today!! Swimming is always a good way to spend in the summer. We have a 3 ft Easy Set Pool we haven't put up yet, because the weather is so freakin crazy here! Today actually FEELS like summer, and I wish we had it up!

Kathy:

on Butts & Guts!! I'm off to the grocery store too AND the bank...soon... after my sloooower than molasses boys finish lunch...

Vilma: Crap on having that awful headache! I actually had one of my sinus headaches last week on vacation. I was popping Sudafed Headache pills for 2 days! But I had to keep going. It sucked. Hope your headache is short-lived!

I guess I'm also buying lemonade supplies for the boys for a stand today. ... They want to earn enough money to buy a drum set...

 

[bitmover]

Vilma, sorry to hear about that migraine! Bummer -- hope you feel better soon!

It was all zumba this morning -- no boot camp. I don't know exactly how long we danced, but it was somewhere between 60 and 90 minutes. My hips are sore! So fun!

I think if you find a computer on overstock that you like, you can click on it and try to figure out what it's history was somehow. I haven't looked at it that closely in quite a while.

Good luck with that lemonade stand! Hottie is painting I guess -- good luck with that!

-Beth

 

[Boingo1]

You are a Zumba Fool, Beth!!! I bet my hips would be so sore too, not being used to that kind of movement..

The boys did the Lemonade Stand and made $12! But split it 4 ways. (My 13 yr old, Zach, was able to convince them to give him a share, even though he didn't get there until the last 30 minutes and they had already made $8. ... Little POOP!).

Of course, they also graffiti'd our mailbox and broke a little wooden chair outside. *sigh*.

And yes, I'm being the mean mommy and NOT taking them to the park for the fireworks. Just can't do that to myself ...

 

[bitmover]

Hmmmm, are you collecting the $12 to go for repairs?!

I think my friend convinced me not to feel guilty about fireworks and to just forget about it. Maybe we'll watch a movie altogether or something.

Wow, we had the best time this afternoon -- we went back to the place where that really fun pool party was. There weren't nearly as many people this time, and none of my boys real friends were there, but they played with the kids and had a good time and I had a fantastic time just chatting with the moms. Nice!!! I don't think my house has that nice, relaxed comfortable feel (not because I'm uptight or magazine clean, of course, but because it's not set up right).

Happy Friday evening!

-Beth