September 09 Check in Labor Day Weekend

Kathy36

Kathy36

Cathlete
Good morning ladies..

Getting us started today....We have a busy day! Chris has baseball practice, Lauren has choir starting at church and then we are headed to mass. I need to hit the grocery store to buy some snacks for our trip...I am going to squeeze Rhythmic Step in there too. I just felt the need to do that one. It is one of my favorites...

Talk to you later..
 
Hey Kathy! and all to follow today!!! and the weekend!!!!

It doesn't even strike me as a "Holiday Weekend" because it's all the same for me. Work, no sleep, more work, little sleep! The end! Oh, maybe add in some "worry and anxiety" to boot. Fun fun!

Plan for today is stretching. I do like that the pressure is off as far as working out today. It's hard for me with all the crap I have to do. But then , it's way too easy to SKIP the stretching part. I need to make myself do it! Even if it's just the stretch from STS.

Kathy: I know you'll be having fun with RS!!! Your day does sound busy crazy!! it's going to fly by....

Joanne: Read your post from last night! I'm glad your doc put you on antibiotics. "They" say that after 24 hours on them, you'll start to feel tremendously better. Hope you do!!! Take care of yourself! Rest and plenty of liquids!!! OMG, did you see the "sexy" pictures of Jesse on that website? ewwwww!!! LOL!.. Yes, Brandon's were icky too!! but you just HAVE to look! I just peeked at the nominations, today they do the POV , will be interesting to see how this all pans out. I do NOT know Natalies reasoning in her nominees, but whatever! I think it may work out for the best , in that Kevin may go home!!!

Onto my boring , icky , chores...

BBL!
 
Hey yous!! I can see why it wouldn't feel like a holiday weekend for you, Chris. Here in the bay area.... it's big time holiday. It's so crazy..... they had to shut down the bay bridge (crosses San Francisco to Oakland -- major bridge -- one of the places that collapsed in the '89 earthquake and probably the one you saw pictures of) from Thursday night at 8pm until Tuesday morning at 5am. Well, it seems like most of the bay area decided to make it a four day weekend even if they have nothing to do with the bay bridge. For days now they've been plugging it because they didn't want a traffic mess, of course.... so it just seems like one big stay at home party or something!

I had a great time on my "girl date" last night. We went to dinner at Opa! -- Chris, I guess it was the same place you went to, maybe? I recall you didn't like the food. We had excellent food! I cannot wait to go back sometime. Then saw Julie & Julia. I really liked the movie -- Meryl Streep was great as Julia Child. On the way home, almost home and on my mountain road I got pulled over by the sheriff. I did go by him fast (I was on a downhill, it's impossible not to speed at that section -- they always set up there and then I think they ticket you if they don't like you or something). Anyway, I gave him all my stuff (shaking like a leaf -- I hate to get "in trouble"!) and he went back to his car for a very long time. I often wonder what all they are looking up then -- are they googling me and reading my Cathe posts?! Finally came back and gave me a fix-it ticket for a tail light. Whew!

We finally have fog this morning! It's supposed to be cooler today -- maybe about 80. I'm thrilled. Anyway..... I slept in and still felt tired when I woke up. Too many long days this week. I just couldn't face running, so I did 4DS LIS -- so fun! While I was doing it I was thinking that maybe I could try the shoulder work and just go super light but in the end I realized it would be really stupid of me to push it and make it worse, so I tacked on some barre work instead. You guys are going to think I'm totally bat-shit crazy, and I probably am, but..... I was looking for fluidity dvds because I heard the advanced workout was really good, and I found the whole set, with barre, on craigslist. Never used, less than half price, so I talked them down a little more and bought it. Larry says it's getting to the point where I need my own gym. Sheesh, any day now the power tower is going to show up and that statement will be more true! We may go furniture, rug, and tv shopping today. We never set up our living room -- it's just got a couple of chairs and the piano, so we may turn that into the room where we actually watch movies and then the other room really can be just a play room and exercise room. I dunno.... it is getting a little crazy here.

Joanne, I haven't read the post from yesterday -- I'll go check it out, but it sounds like you are hopefully on the road to recovery! How are you feeling today?

Hottie, you'd better stop your lurking!! :D Waves to Vilma, if you're here!
 
Joanne, yes, my dr. in SF was amazing! Part of why she was able to be amazing, though, was that she made people pay for the full visit up front and then we had to do the work to get any reimbursement from the insurance company, which meant that she got way more in the pocket money -- she did not have to live up to the "don't spend more than five minutes (or whatever it is) per patient" rule, etc., and plus, then the patient had to eat the difference in her billing rate vs. what they paid. So, it was more expensive, for sure, but in my case, certainly worth it -- I could very well be dead by now if I hadn't discovered her. When we moved here, Larry ended up going to one of these premium sort of drs. where you pay extra each year and that theoretically allows the dr. to limit how many patients they take on and then they can give you more time, plus they are supposed to be better connected to specialists and can get you in quicker if you need it. To me, this seems like a big scam -- he is really not getting any better service than I get at my new dr.

My SF dr. wrote a "diet" book:

http://www.amazon.com/Jungle-Effect...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252165275&sr=8-1

I have not read it -- I saw it in B&N one day and was so surprised!

Ok, enough babble from me!!
 
Ok, wait... I'm not done babbling..... Joanne, definitely have someone check your skin. I think in May they have free skin checks at university hospitals and such.... you can probably do a search and figure out if there's one in your area (I would think so).

Chris, there was a line in the movie last night that made me feel like you were right there with me laughing..... "What is 'marshmallow fluff'?!" :D
 
I'm in a grumpy ass mood. Crap! Is it because it's Saturday? I just feel so tired and want to sleep, and then I get stressed and eat like an idiot. I have *issues* I tell ya!

And no, I didn't stretch. I feel like I have a load of other things to do and stretching is low on my list, which it SHOULDN'T be, I know!

Beth: Good to hear you had a nice girl's night out!!! It sounds wonderful. I'm not sure if the Opa Opa Steakhouse is the same here. They seem pretty local, but who knows? The brew their own beer, which was da bomb!! Glad your food was better than ours!! The movie sounds good, I wanted to see it. I read somewhere that it's one of the movies that can bust your "diet". You'll just want to lick the movie screen. Was it? The past few weekends PBS has been showing the old Julia Child Cooking Shows. OMG, that woman took like an HOUR just to PREP a damn chicken to put it in the oven! Who has time like that??? Oh , Plus she GOBBED it with BUTTER.. Who cooks like that anymore?? LOL!! ....... That's crazy about the bridge, huh?... Guess it's a good weekend to hunker down!.... Oh Marshmallow Fluff..that's one thing I haven't "hit" yet! :confused: ... Wasn't LIS just so fun? Your day sounds busy!!!

Hottie: Don't crawl out of the hole, I'm down here! LOL!... What workout ya gonna do? Let us know! Hope you enjoy your hair done, I'm getting mine next week, and I'm wondering if I might even put red highlights in for the Fall (i've never done that!)...

Okay, guess I'll pull out the stinkin vacuum!
 
Chris, sorry you are having a crappy day -- it's Monday, eh?! Do something -- just a little something (that doesn't involve chewing!) to make yourself feel better, ok?

You're right -- it's not the same restaurant. I was wondering -- didn't really feel like I was in a chain restaurant, but there are two in this general area, so I thought maybe it was the same.

YES! LIS was so much fun -- I was very happy I picked it, after all my talk about getting a lot of running in when I could. I forgot how much fun that one is -- I loved the blasts on the floor.

You know, I wasn't all that tempted by the food in the movie, but I am somewhat tempted to pick up her book (at the library) and make the beef bourgenon (I have no idea how to spell it!!!). What tempted me more than anything in that movie was their passion for doing something -- I guess I am that way about exercise, but it seems sort of silly. The movie did make me want to do something that matters a little more (hmmm, food matters more than exercise? what's wrong with this picture?! go see the movie and you'll see what I mean.....)

Hottie, I am going in for hair work in a couple of weeks and it certainly won't come too soon! I really need to get in there now! Oh well. And no offense, but I hate bowling... it's what they've done to the bowling places I can't stand -- all that music and lights -- too much stimulation!!!
 
I should plan something away from home on Saturdays. I was just outside cleaning the pool a little for the boys to go in, and I felt better. But now my head is in a fog from all the sugar/crap I ate. I am going for a short nap in about 30 minutes, as soon as Greg comes down. He bugged me today too. He slept on the couch, in the middle of EVERYTHING until 1pm. Why the heck would he do that? I felt like all I did was say, "Shhhh!!! Daddy's sleeping!"

I'll feel better once I get to work , I hope! It's just the Saturday of "nothingness" beforehand that gets to me.

That's interesting about the movie, Beth. Did it also make you want to watch her cooking shows? I remember my mom watching them years ago, that and Jack LaLane. Those are my kid TV memories. Oh, and Leave It To Beaver. I loved that show! LOL! ... Yes, I think it's better you are passionate about workouts than eating and food. Though i could easily be persuaded to go that way !!

And I love the music in LIS too...the way it goes with the step/blasts. It's neat!...

I should bowl. I used to. The kids have gone to parties for bowling and liked it. There's nothing really close to us though, I guess that's the reason mostly.
 
Ooooh, I know that whole "ssshhhh, Daddy is sleeping" routine -- no fun! By the way, I forgot to comment on Greg's job stuff -- that is a huge bummer. When I was reading your description of what's going on the thing that came to mind for me is that he's so good at what he does that they don't want to promote him, but if that's true then he ought to get raises! Has he ever asked them what it would take to get a promotion?

It did not make me want to watch her shows..... my memory of her shows are that she was sort of goofy in not a great way, but in the movie she is this very bubbly, loveable character and I'd just as soon keep her that way. Funny since the Julie in the movie had a version of Julia in her mind that she had to sort of keep that way, too.

Speaking of movies.... did you guys see that they are re-making Fame? I loved that movie! Can't wait to see the remake. I know Hottie was probably not even yet a gleam in her parents' eyes when that movie came out!
 
Good morning and happy Sunday. Chris, how was work? Are you in a better mood today? Let's hope! Kathy, how was your busy day yesterday?

Yesterday ended up being a stay at home day for us, but we all skated a couple of times.... one was at sunset and we skated until after dark and it was really nice. Watching Larry skate is a real joy.

Up early this morning workout is done.... P57. I hope that woman doesn't drive you nuts, Chris. Did you get your dvds yet?! I was adding on some extra stretches but got hungry, so I'm eating some yogurt and will go back and stretch some more. Last night we discovered lots of crunchies in my back on the side that I hurt, so Larry and I both tried massaging them out. I can't tell if it feels better or hurts more this morning. :confused: It's a strange thing.

We may go to the beach today.... we kept talking about it yesterday, but it finally got too late and I was going to put ribs on the grill (which take a while), so no beach. The ribs were great -- they were $3.99/pound at whole foods on Friday. Wish I'd bought more!

How's your hair, Hottie?

Have fun today -- back to stretching for me.....
 
Hey Joanne! Happy Birthday to Caitlyn! I hope you guys are having a nice family celebration..... did she ever get happy with multiple celebrations?
 
Oh, and another p.s...... Hottie, do you listen to Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me? They are having two shows in Pasadena sometime this fall.... tix go on sale Sept. 11th, I think.
 
So, Joe convinced me (not trying very hard though) to go to my go to get out of funk workout (IM2). Now, my hairstyle is gone for now but I'm glad I did it all. I was really having a hard time moving and I'm worried that my left foot orthotic is screwed up. I have a super long day. Shopping and helping my friend move and then many hours in lab but unforutanately in the later part of the day...I don't think i'm getting home before midnight tonight. So i'm off to stick Thai food in my mouth and shop and maybe come back for an attempt to style my hair. I hope your back feels better Beth!! No, I don't know how of that show - I'll look it up later today but first eating food i'll regret later...

(Happy bday Caitlyn!)
 
Quickie Sunday Check In!

I do feel better today, Beth, thanks! God, I get into big Saturday funks, and I don't know why! Because 9 out of 10 times, everything works out fine and 2 days fly by! Of course, I never even stretched yesterday. Hate that I didn't!!

I went into work last night and worked on another floor (floated). It wasn't my turn, but I did it for my 10 month (kidding, but she looks it) pregnant friend. Felt bad for her, she really can't move easy. My night was ok, but I really dislike working on other floors. I'm so discombobled. And the nurses are nice enough, but don't make me feel totally 'welcome'. Glad it's over!

Today is another "rest" day. Tomorrow, 4DS again. I'm toying with the idea of shaking it up a little with a weird rotation I found with 4DS. Or MAYBE even doing CTX. I don't think I've done that "as is" since I got it. ... Decisions , decisions!!

Gotta run and set the table for my Chinese Dumplings that are coming to dinner!!!
 
Oh! And I hadn't heard about the Fame re-make movie! Sounds cool! They actualy have a new series on TV starting this month called, Glee. It's similiar concept to Fame. A high school Glee club that they get popular kids to join up with geeky kids. I saw the Pilot for it in the spring and it looks good!

Speaking of remakes, I saw that Russell Brand , the english (odd) comedian, is doing a remake of the movie Arthur, remember? about the drunk English guy?

OH!!! One more thing (my dumplings are almost here!)...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Caitlyn!!!! Hope she likes her double birthday celebration as much as my boys do!!
 
Mmmm, dumplings, yum! Nice of you to float for your so pregnant friend. One of the guys who works for us has a wife who is due any day now and I have a feeling she is pretty miserable by now. Hope work goes well tonight!

I remember when the Glee pilot aired last year and though I didn't see it I heard an interview about it and it sounds like a great show! I do remember that movie Arthur -- a re-make could be good.

Let us know what you decide for workouts. I'm definitely going to do barre-type stuff all week (well, cardio, too, of course).

Hottie, I see you have a very busy day, but good for you for doing imax 2! Fun! Of course.....
 
HI ladies..

Quick checkin for me..I have been going all day. Woke up this morning and got the beds changed. We went to church last night. So, I got to do whatever this morning. Vic went golfing with his friends...After I changed the beds and ate breakfast, I got to my workout. I did Body Max 2 today..After the workout, I mopped the floors and during all this I was doing laundry, by the way..Then, I started making sauce from all the tomatoes we keep getting from the garden. I cut up all the peppers we keep getting from the garden and threw them in the freezer..Then I made muffins and Cinnabon cinnamon rolls. I got this recipe book from the library called Top Secret Recipes. There are tons of recipes from restaurants...Now, I am trying to get a little more energy up to fold another load of laundry and iron the clothes that are stacking up..

Can you guys guess we are going away this week?..I always go on a cleaning frenzie before we go away. I can't stand coming home to a house that needs cleaning!!

Anyway, enough with my rant..Off to find energy to iron and do laundry!!
 
Hi everyone. Don't know if anyone will see this...but I'm probably going to be rambling anyway!! ;)

What a crazy weekend. Jameson has had a cough for about a week -sounds just like me. No fever, though. Saturday he said he felt sick. He went and laid down and his fever went up to about 103. Called the doctor, she said to watch him, if he got worse to call back. Well, he was just miserable. Didn't want to get out of bed, eat, nothing, not even watch TV. About 10:30 he threw up and couldn't stop shaking. I just had a bad feeling about it, I've never seen any of my kids so sick. Took him to the emergency room. By the time we saw the doctor he was actually feeling better. Doctor said his throat, ears looked fine and his chest sounded clear. Probably just a virus. We get home, he goes to bed. Half hour later he throws up and temp is 104.5. He's been in bed all day, just miserable. Hasn't eaten a thing in two days. I called his doctor again today and asked her why they didn't test him for flu. She said it's a state mandate that they only test for swine flu for people who are hospitalized. If they would have given him a flu test, insurance wouldn't pay for it and we'd be billed for $800. How crazy is that? She said some kids have really bad side effects from the antiviral flu medication, so there really wasn't a reason to give the test since they wouldn't do anything different. How is the state tracking swine flu if they only test people who are sick enough to be hospitalized?

Today was Caitlyn's birthday. We were planning to have family over today, but cancelled it since Jameson was sick. I gave her the present from us and took her out for ice cream. She kept saying she wanted this Texas donut for her birthday. Well, I go to the donut place and they don't have any. Someone had come in that morning and bought about 10 of them. They gave me the address of their other place about a half hour away. I called and they had one, so I drove over there to get it. Craziness!! She did appreciate it though. I took a picture - I'll post it if I ever transfer my pics to the computer.

In the middle of all this craziness, DH decides this would be a good weekend to put a new roof on the garage. He had Jameson up there for awhile Saturday morning, but he finally convinced DH he was sick and went in. Ian was up there for eight hours. Today DH's sister and brother came over to help and they finished it. DH get extremely shall we say "crabby" when doing any type of projects. I was about to push him off that dam* roof! JK, of course. ;) We do not work well together.

I'm still coughing, but feel better. No workouts this weekend since I planned not to Saturday and didn't get any sleep last night. Back to Insanity tomorrow.

Sorry I'm all about me tonight, just needed to vent a bit I guess. I'm hoping no one else gets what Jameson has. Especially Caitlyn for her party next weekend.

Off to bed now...night everyone!

Joanne
 
Joanne I just wanted to laugh about the crabby husband comment and wanting to push him off the roof LMAO - I
hope the sickies leave your house soon...your poor son. Thats crazy that they only test for swine flu on folks admitted to hospital. Sheesh....
What we do to make our kids happy on their special day - glad you were able to find that donut ---- now please tell me what is a Texas donut?


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