Friday Roll Call

Good Morning October Board!!!! It is FRIDAY!!!!! Before a 3-day weekend!!!!!! I am, of course, at work. I will do my time today and go pick Riley (my 14 month old granddaughter) up to take home with me for the weekend. I just LOVE to have her out. She is SO much fun. We will stop by the house and pick up Olivia and try to make it out to David's football game in time to see him play. He is a freshman, so his game begins at 5:30 and it will take an additional 1-2 hour to get there from my house. Tomorrow, we will make sure that we have everything we need for the tie dye party on Sunday. We are also invited to a party tomorrow, so we may go there. Sunday, we will prepare for the party and have a blast with our neighbors and friends. Monday, we will rinse and wash our new creations for wearing back-to-school. Tuesday, I will be back here, slaving for the dime. What's up in your world? Dawn

Good morning all, I know I don't post much, but I do lurk and I'm here today! I am a court reporter and can you believe someone had the nerve to schedule a deposition at 1pm?? On the Friday of a 3-day weekend..oh lordy..that's my complaint of the day hehe It's my weigh in day on Fridays I'm happy to report that I am officially at a normal BMI for my height!! This weekend, will enjoy the nature of Central Park with my boyfriend and the awesome weather we are having here in NYC.

Welcome, welcome, welcome!!!!! and CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!! I DO hope the deposisiton does not take too terribly long and that you have a wonderful weekend celebrating! What an accomplishment!!!! Dawn

Thank you! I am excited and only 4 more pounds to go to my surgeon's goal.

CONGRATS on reaching a normal BMI weight. That is simply AWESOME!!! Have a wonderful weekend!! *huggles* Felicia =0)

Good morning. Last evening was much better than the night before. I was home from work in record time (no traffic). I was so tired. Typically I follow the Rachael Ray philosophy on cooking...get it done in 30min or less. However, it is pretty labor intensive for those 30 min. Your standing and chopping and dropping etc. Last night I took a whole chicken...dumped it in a covered baker. I chopped zukes, carrots and onions around it. Sprinkled it all with some chicken stock, salt, pepper, poultry seasoning and thyme. Added one finely diced potato to the mix. Covered and dropped it in the oven. I then did laundry, worked on pulling together everything we need for the weekend and started packing. Even sat and read part of a magazine until voila..dinner was ready. (sure it took almost 2 hours - but they were relaxing hours). I served it with fresh corn on the cob (my treat for the day). After dinner I cut the remaining corn off the cob, added it to the baker. I took out the breast (we each had only eaten one leg/thigh combo)...and the remaining legs (yes..I'm not kidding..I bought the chicken in pieces at the farmers market....I put together a 4 legged chicken) with those I took the meat off the bone, cut it into tiny pieces and tossed it back in. I gave it a good stir and let it cool so that the fat settled on the top. I removed most of that. Added a little additional stock and placed it in a freezer container and popped it in the freezer for chicken corn soup next week. I skinned and cut the breast meat up and tossed it in a bag in the freezer for at least one other meal as well. Today, I too am at work...and yes..still working on this dang project. The good news is..I'm leaving at noon today - I took a 1/2 day vacation. We are driving up to NY - the Finger Lakes region for the weekend. Today we'll be driving mostly. Tomorrow is a birthday party up there for my great aunt (she is turning 80). Sunday we are planning on doing a little exploring and geocaching and then driving home on Monday. Tuesday - I'll be back...probably still working on this never ending spreadsheet project.

Sounds like you have a super weekend plan!! SO MUCH FUN!!! Oh MY that corn sounds yummy. I cant remember when I last had corn. Will have to stop and pick some up. My favorite way to cook it is to poach it lightly and then pop it on the grill. THen I make up a roasted garlic butter to slather on it. YUMMOOOOOO lol *Huggles* Felicia =0)

Today is M Y day!! Burn The Point is tonight. This is my D-Day! I have been waiting 11 months for this day and here it is. I said from the very start for everyone to just give me space to find myself , to do things that don't make sense and not argue with me ( IE waiting to go out etc..) and lose some weight.. That if I can just make it to this one point in time, Burn The Point Date ... well its just hard to explain but today is MY DAY! I have lost all I can lose to date and what I so weigh is simply amazing as I never thought I would get back down here. I haven't seen most of these people in over 7 years. Last time they saw me I was over 300lbs. I don't know how many will even remember me but you would have to know my husband lol. EVERYONE knows my husband. So they will all be coming over to say hi to him and for once I will be standing next to him with my head up and not trying to hide in to the concrete from embarrassment. I just CAN NOT wait to go. Its like everything starts today. Even if no one remembers me HAHAHA or says anything I just don't care. I made it to THIS DATE and made it to a weight I NEVER thought I would be again. I am a huge success and I feel GREAT about myself. My days if feeling like I have to hide in the house are officially over. My days of being embarrassed are OVER. I weighed in at 219 again this morning. That is still down 208lbs pounds over all and 159 lbs down from my 2 week Pre Op diet. ( Basically the start of it all ). I am wearing a size that I never thought I would wear again. The last jeans I bought 15 years ago were a size 38. Here I am 15 years later and finally back down to that size. I feel amazing. Both mentally and physically. My life R O C K S!! I wouldn't change a thing. I have nothing else planned for the weekend lol. Just get the stuff packed for our FIRST vacation in 6 years ( We leave on Thursday). Oh I have to go pick up party stuff for Joshua's birthday that is next Saturday ( WAAAA where did the time go! He is 7 already). But probably will be pretty quite. Dale is off a noon today to get ready for the Burn The Point so it will be a 3.5 day weekend for us. Oh and I have to get my monthly pictures taken tonight so I can get them posted on my blog. I hope everyone has a SUPER wonderful weekend!! *huggles* Felicia =0)

YOU GO GIRL!!!!!!!!!!! You have come so far and done SO welll---------HECK YES, YOU ARE A HUGE SUCCESS!!!!! You DO ROCK!!!! Have a wonderful time!!! Some of that self-confidence is spilling over onto me! Great JOB!!!! Dawn Just one more thing.............WHAT is "Burn the Point?''

Thank you so much!! I am so excited.. I am walking around with a skip in my step and a stupid grin on my face. Joshua thinks I have lost my mind. "Mom, Your nuts" LMaoooooo and he is right. I know its silly I just had a lot of things set on for this date. Mental things. Anyways Burn The Point is a Parade and Car show for classic cars... http://www.burnthepoint.com/ We ( or I should say Dale ) usually only does the Friday Night Parade as the car show is usually a cluster fling but I don't know what he is doing this year about the car show. I love to look at them but ugg they are very boring to participate in. Will be more fun when I have my OWN car finished lol to show. This is our car http://www.djfsmith.com/f/wp-content/display/dale/_lrg-875-11.jpg We used to do tons of Rod Runs and Car Shows ( even used to drag race cars if you can believe it lol) but it slowly fell to the way side in the last 7 years or so. But NO MORE! Its my fault it faded away and next year we are back into it! *HUGGLES* Felicia =0)