What's New Tuesday?

Hi Annette and all, I always stop at OH first thing every morning with coffee and 2 thin slices of flax seed toast. I don't always post, sometimes not enough time and lots of times nothing to say much. I do have to check in to see you all though! Work is going well, never finished, never caught up, but I think that is the nature of this beast. I know that we get so many new patients and more discharges which makes getting my work "finished" really impossible. I now feel though that I have it all figured out and am doing a pretty good job. Aime good for you! I hate when those kind of people just keep getting away with being dopes and no one says anything. I bet there are others that are very glad you said something. Annette, good job with your client. I have much admiration for you and your peers who do the job you do...it is a tough one. Kathi, I just love when paperwork, or processes change, especially when you have just gone through and completed something one way and they change it on you and you have to do it all over with different forms or whatever. Pat, your necklace sounds really gorgeous. And to get offered a job! Sounds like a good day. Candy, hope you get the job you want. I work with closely with nurses and I enjoy it! Love our nurses! Well, lots of you sound like you are having the weather we've been having all "Spring" Our little tulips, lilacs and other buds are so confused. We have had the coldest spring on record in our weather history. Oh Yay! Has been very depressing. I am losing very very slowly and do have some foods I  should not eat, but just can't say good bye to (toast). I found out I am not a dumper and so I have to daily struggle not to eat that first donut. I just can't or I may never stop. I haven't had one in almost 7 months and I think I better not. I haven't been exercising  either. I have been pretty good with meals but need to be more vigilant about vitamins and water. Well, time to go to work, get ready for anyway. I get Friday off for a scrapbook weekend with my sister. Am looking forward to that. Take Care, Cheryl

Hi Annette and my OFF Sistas and Brothers! I have not been posting too much lately and it's not that I have fallen off the face of the earth, just plain old living the life that I have and not spending as much time in front of the computer screen, also feeling like my life is rather mundane, so while I do try to check in daily to see what's going on with all of you, if I'm absent from posting too much, don't go thinking I've gone anywhere! Seems like there is a chill in the air again and a little more than halfway to work this morning, it started to rain and I was like, ok, enough of this rain, but looking at the weather for the rest of this week, doesn't seem Mother Nature agrees with my ideas for warmer sunnier days!  As for what I've been up to, the usual commuter paradise of travel between Maple Shade, NJ and NYC (2 hours each way) to the place that makes paying my bills possible, the gym Mon and Wed evenings, Fri and Sat a.m., AA meetings Tues., Thr., Fri, Sat and Sun, social gatherings at a friends house most Sunday's for dinner, whereby my friends and I just about laugh ourselves into tears.  Throw in the occasional christening, confirmation and a possible graduation or tow and life is being very, very good to me and I am enjoying it!  So far, my summer is shaping up to be busy, a weekend getaway on May 30, a PA OH Board thing, the following Fri, June 6, I leave for Germany, returning on Friday the 13th, and Friday, June 20th, Tony and I are planning a weekend getaway to either Ocean City or Rehoboth Beach, the rest of the summer looms before me with as many days as possible being spent by my friend Diane's pool, which will be the gathering place for many of my friends, so I'm guessing the rest of this year will go by in a frenzy, as May is almost upon us and time seems to fly by, once you get past the winter. As for my weight loss, it seems to be stuck in neutral these days, I'm still dedicated to doing all the right things and I'm feeling good physically and I'm now beginning to fit into regular size 16s, so whatever is happening here is what it is and I'm doing my best not to give into the fear that I won't get to goal one day. I am sending out positive thoughts to all and prayers and whether I'm posting or not, I'm reading and you are all in my prayers and thoughts daily! Hugs, Laureen

Good morning Annette and OFFers! Not much new or exciting.  My boss called a little while ago to say he forgot to tell me he has a dentist appt this morning!  Yeah, he'll be extra late!  Also, he has a funeral this afternoon.  Well, sorry about that, but it does keep him from breathing down my back.  George and I rode in together this morning - Hornets game tonight!  Hopefully they'll win this game and move on to the next round of playoffs!   Back to work - just 'cause the cat's not here doesn't mean this mouse can play all day! Debbie

Good morning All-
I plan to do 4-5 miles on my treadmill and spend the rest of the day knitting a shrug I saw in a magazine. It has elaborate lace at each wrist. I'm trying to only make things from cottom these days...I figure I won't be needing so many winter sweaters when we move to Phoenix next year. Between my mother knitting them for me and my own creations, I've got tons! If anyone wants a handmade sweater I may be able to accomodate you in your size...they go from 24 to 8. I got smaller on the bottom but not so much on top. Now I wear a 32DD, very difficult to find. Oh well, another topic. It is 3 weeks today since Mother died and my younger siblings have all been calling for support and to verbalize their grief. Not only am I the oldest in the pack, I seem to have taken over Mom's job as their sounding board and receiver of news about daily woes and triumphs. I love each and every one of them but find it hard to deal with my own grief when I am bolstering them up. I also am having a love/hate thing going on inside me; I've gained 15 pounds! All that Kansas farm food and sitting around without my usual exercise! And, after 4 years, I no longer have that automatic weight loss mechanism. It'll take some extra concentration to get it back off.

Well I guess I shouldn't grip, it is 62drgrees in my office today instead of 52, but it is COLD. I am glad I tan, I went after work yesterday, it is the only time I feel warm. Tanning warms me to the bone, ahhh Wish Ihad time to go today but I have too much going on. I am a "project" person, I love to have something to work on. This friday is Liz's wedding shower and I have been working on "The story of Liz" A pictoral story of her with music in the back ground and I will be speaking  as it goes on. lots of funny stuff. It took a while to go through 30 years of pictures. Today I take all the pictures and crop and put them on disc. I have such mixed emotions about this wedding. I am so excited and happy for my daughter. But Chuck said once the wedding is over he wants a date when we will get married, I have decided that date its." When hell freezes over" I just won't live with the controlling. 80% of the time with him is wonderful and enjoyable, but the other is misery. I would love to have a more casual relationship but he will not buy that and I feel bad for him he has never been married and he has quite the fantasy  in his head, but I think he is in the fantasy too much he doesn't even really know me, just "how it should be, or will be" When I actually do gather the nerve to speak up I get yelled at or bullied. No thank-you. Last week he had a screaming fit about me going to an American Legion Auxiliary county meeting( my job as District President) how he was going to call headquarters and tell those *itches that I couldn't do this or do that.  So I had another meeting last night, which I had told him about 4 times... but I didn't mention it Sunday. I called him last night as I was on my way and he accused me of not telling him .. Oh he "might" have wanted to go with me,, bla bla bla.. Oh he bullied me into taking the position,, but he doesn't want me to put in the time.. He is Commander and he gets everyone else to do his job, I can't work like that. No doubt he will pout this friday when I am busy with the shower.. sigh. Wow sorry about dumping all this. make it a good day. I am

tell chuck to go jump.....

Jean, I think many of us "settled" the first time around; not feeling that we were worthy of more. I'm so glad that at this stage of your time on this earth, you realize that you are indeed worthy of only someone who is worthy of YOU! Do not settle for anything less. Hugs, Karen C

I am wearing an  outfit that I haven't been able to wear in quite a while, and it isn't tight! One of my co-workers told me this morning that I'm looking like I'm losing, and that I look younger!  Amazing, simply amazing.     I love my rny.

Hi Annette and everybody: Not much going on here. It's cold but sunny. My furnace hasn't kicked on, but then I keep the thermostat down to 62 and put the little electric fireplace on in the morning to warm up the house (it does a great job).  Woke up briefly about 7 a.m. and decided I was too tired and achy to get up, so I turned off the alarm and skipped ceramics. I really needed to save my gas to get up and back to work anyway, and needed to save the money to ship off my secret pal gift (small though it is).  Called Joyce this morning, cried on the phone to her, then got a phone call from the mortgage company that called me last year begging me to let them refi my condo and buy me out of bankruptcy. Couldn't do it last year, but thought maybe this year, with less owed, it might be possible. Well, with the mortgage mess, they're no longer offering those programs for those of us who have bad history (then why do their ads still say they do?) Anyway, that's not an option, so I guess I just suffer in bankruptcy hell for another year.  Was in really a lot of pain this morning from my lower back; used a ice pack on it and that seemed to help. Either that or the vicodin, whatever. Then I did some exercising on my little bike and some of my stretches; not as much as I wanted to do before I took a shower and used the shower massager to hit the sore spots on my neck and back.  Talked to the auto insurance folks and the cable people and made payment arrangements, so I should still have insurance and cable this week; now I have to work things out with the phone company; if only my SSN number ended in lower numbers ... Well, no reviews tonight, so I should have an early night. Have a good day.

Good Evening Annette and everyone.... It has been a long hard day and that is about all I have to say about that. Just checking in and reading everyone elses posts. Don't feel like writing anything.....just saying "HI". Hugs, connie d