What's new Wednesday?

Morning one and all I have a little more time this a.m. since I don't have to be in until 10:00. The second night of 8+ hours of sleep has helped me be a little more with it, but I sure would have liked about another 4!! The trip to San Diego was wonderful. The first two days I wondered how we could have left such a place, but reality set in when I paid almost $4 for a carton of 18 eggs, saw an ad for a mobile home in a park selling for $195,000, and  freeways that have been expanded to 6 lanes in places. Of course,  our friends and family live way inland from the city where it was 20 degrees warmer and very, very dry.  Not a hint of green on the hills, the landscape tinder box dry. It made me miss my green lush Arkansas, but San Diego will always be my home. It was loads of fun having all of us in one house.  Everyone helped out, doing what they could to help feed and clean up after 9!  I took over breakfast and had lots of fun serving things that my SIL never has time to prepare. The DISHES though!!!  Some days the dishwasher ran two loads, and the sink was never completely empty. I did 9 heads of hair the day of the wedding, plus cuts and color on my SIL and niece the day before too.  Geeze, no wonder I'm still tired?? The wedding was lovely, but not without it's little mishaps. My nephew's tux pants were so short they couldn't be worn, so Grandparents to the rescue to buy him another pair.....on the 4th of July!!!  Fortunately, they found a pair and we got him to the wedding on time. The catering company was 45 minutes late, but at least they got there. Gary was the photographer and took over 500 photos, so when he's able to get through them, I promise I'll post some! We all worry about this marriage. Jerad is not who my SIL would have chosen for her daughter (but who would have been?). Not my cup of tea either. Katie is completely snowed by this guy. She's 19, he's 24 and LOVES to drink and gamble. Their honeymoon is a week in Vegas where she can do neither. He says it's ok, he'll bring booze to the room, she'll pass out by 10:00 p.m. and then he'll go spend the rest of the night gambling!!  So much for romance! Well, back to work and reality.  My challenge today?  To figure out how in the world I'm going to help our bariatric coordinator get the Walk From Obesity organized in just two short months!!  Support group tomorrow night will include LOTS of begging for help! Love you all, please take care of yourselves!

Susan, Our little group made the decision to wait and do the Walk From Obesity in 2009. We were so late starting so it didn't seem possible for this year. We only got the paperwork two days before the registration dead line. Smart move to wait I think.  There is a mountain of work involved in planning but we have an excellent team of volunteers already. I wrote special invitations to a select few in the group who I knew would be dependable. Then sent general invitaions to the other group members. The responses were very good. Good Luck! Kisses Annette

Oh Annette, I so wish I could do that!!!  The woman who I am co-chair with is the head nurse for the bariatric unit at the hospital where we have our support group. The group who has done the last two walks are at the "rival" hospital, which sounds petty, but  the competition between the two bariatric depts is fierce. Lauren, the nurse, is under a tremendous amount of stress to do this, and do it WELL.  She's been so overwhelmed that she hasn't even started it yet, but is praying I can pull a rabbit out of my hat and get it done.  It's one of those "failure is not an option" thing, and frankly, I don't know what to do about it.  I only found out a few days before leaving for my vacation that we were even registered!!! The packet of instructions is 36 pages!!!!  Dear God, I don't know what to do about this, but, I promised, so I guess I'm stuck! Hope you're doing well.  Hugs to ya!

Susan, That set of instructions is HUGE! Take it one step at a time.  Yikes - that's a whole lotta pressure. I hope there are more than three of you working on this project? You need a whole slew of Energizer Bunnies to get the work completed. God help you Sweety.

OH isn't setting up walks this year for leaders to man? they have in the past. They do all the work and we just man the booths and such......you might check with Cathy..... I did one in Fresno about 6 years ago....what a disaster.......we lost our  $500 entry fee , it was non refundable..... Good luck ladies with yours.

Thanks Darlene, No, the surgeon asked several people to be on the committee, with no OH involvement. All the folks are affiliated with our hospital and the bariatrics groups. This is the first one in our city. A few of the women have organized Toys For Tots and similar fund raisers, so they have a pretty good idea of what needs to happen to make it work.  I shall keep my fingers crossed.

Hey Susan,

I, too, miss San Diego, and while I only lived there a couple of years, I still yearn to go back.  The barreness of all of southern California gets to me.  I lived in California almost fifteen years and had forgotten how beautiful Arkansas really was until I brought my children here to visit.  My son was ten and had never seen a cow...well not up close.  Both Arkansas and California have their pluses and minuses but I would move back to California tomorrow if I could take all my friends and family too. 

Glad the wedding went off without too much of a hitch.

Morning Marti, Hoping you feel better soon. My challenge is just keeping on track with my planned food and not graze. I have a massage after work, then I plan to go to the thrift store for more clothing treasures. Now that I have a good wardrobe, I am much more picky and choosy and just buy things that are fabulous and wonderful and really cheap. Have a great day all.... Oh, yes, and I am sick of looking at my very too too thin hair and wishing it would come back and soon...trying to not cut it but think I may have to as it looks just horrible and makes me look much older than before. Ok, I'm done whining. Up to walk the treadmill, get ready for work and go! Cheryl

Hey Marti,

My biggest challange today is to get through some really boring academic articles.  I have to spend at least four hours preparing for my classes that I am teaching this fall, set up my student's into webct, and try to figure out how in the hell I'm gonna walk in this rain. 

My sciatica flares up and I have to go back to using the damn walker because my hip will just freaking go out on me.  Before I lost all this weight, it wasn't easy for me to hurt my already injured back, but since wls, I am runnning around like I am twenty and dancing and doing all those things that are really fun while doing but the next day or even an hour later, my hip will shoot those pains down my leg and I think, what the f am I doing.  LOL 

Recently, hubby and I moved into a house.  I've got a house in the valley that my daughter and grandkids live in and I go there often but we had always lived in a town house that was so small that I could not even get a good office out the extra bedroom.  So, we found this house that we are thinking we may buy but for now we are on a lease and it is huge with a huge yard and tall trees and lots of room.  So, my challange over the summer has been to bring some things from my river valley house up here and to make this house more of a home and less a temporary residence as my town house was.  But, every time I start to hang pictures or do the doemestic goddess thing, I have this anxiety about it.  Don't know, maybe the house is haunted.  Who knows. 

So today, I'm drinking water, drinking protein, and reading boring stuff. Wish me luck.

Good morning Marti and OFFers! Marti, hope you're better soon.  Today my challenge is to get as much done here at work so I can leave Friday with a clear conscience.  Nobody, and I mean nobody covers for me when I'm gone.  Nobody wants to work with my boss.  He'll be typing his own reports and faxing them.  The billing, returning of patient materials, and everything else will pile up until I return.  I have a very good start on my challenge as I can now see 3/4 of the top of my desk! I'm still feeling yucky, actually feel worse than yesterday, coughed all night, still have the sore throat.  Well, at least the other problem seems to be clearing up - finally! Civic association meeting last night was the longest one ever.  Usually they last about an hour, maybe an hour and 15 min.  Last night we were there a little over two hours 7 - 9:10, then had two errands to run, gas up George's vehicle, and pick up a script at Walgreens.  Got home after 9:30 and had to finish laundry.  Dang, just when you have the most to do, that's when everything will work against you! Have a great day, Debbie