XTC2 (Ex-Thick-Chick Club)

Hello all....

This website changed my life. ( : Sounds overly dramatic, but it is true. I hope to look back a year or so from now and think, "I am forever grateful......"  Anywho, I think my favorite part of cc, aside from all the great educational information, is the overwhelming support and friendship I've found here. I guess most of my life I've only trusted and truly befriended a handful of unique women---I hold my friends in the highest regard and do not take camraderie lightly. The women I have met here are seriously my spiritual twins! I always felt very alone in my weight loss journey----no more!

That said, I think my cc girls, and you know who you are, are the best! ( :   My buddies, my pals, my soul sisters =P Chat away to motivate yourself and others! ( ;

~~Olivia

Hi ladies!!  First off let me preface by saying that I'm on half a Vicoden right now so I'm kinda floating and silly :P  The doc gave me that to crack my jaw and after he did it went right back to stuck closed so he put me on some mega muscle relaxers when the vic wears off to try and let it un=inflame itself and go back into place.  I had soup for lunch with D

Peanut~ when I first read your entry I was like "just get new make up, what does make up have to do with teaching?"  I imagined you drenched in make up teaching kids and it made me laugh!  Heck, string makes me laugh right now!  Anyway, seriously, you should do whatever you need to to get the ball rolling towards your teaching.  I think it takes a very special person to teach and you would be great! 

Daizy~ I just reminded myself to watch the video when I get home because I never think of it at home, only when I'm at work and can't view it.  So I'll see it tonight hopefully.

We have dancing tonight!  Oh and I'm not sure if I told you or not but when D met my dad in TN for NASCAR he got a speeding ticket along the way.  He was on his motorcycle and going pretty fast and the cop was on the other side of the highway, turned around in the median to chase him down.  He gave him a ticket for wreckless driving and basically said thanks for stopping because we all know cops can't catch moto's.  The cop told him he could go to court and the cop would recommend a fine and reduced points as a curtousy for pulling over.  So tomorrow is D's court date (in VA of course) and he's freaking out.  He started reading online how they can take him to mail for a year if the judge is mean and make him pay thousands of dollars.  I told him of course the websites are going to put the maximum worst-case scenerio on there to deterr and scare people but that won't happen.  On his record there is a minor speeding ticket from 2.5 or so years ago and another ticket for when he hydroplaned off the road in the rain and hit a stop sign.  That cop was a b*tch.  So he feels like the stack is already against him and he's so scared right now.  I don't know what to say to help i just told him it will all work out.  He called some lawyers today and they're saying he can get a continuance if he wants for after the wedding but he kinda just wants it over with so that would mean going tomorrow with no lawyer (not enough time).  I don't know what to do!

I can't seem to stop eating.  I feel like I'm gaining weight back but i'm too scared to get on the scale and see the number.  I ate hardly anything this weekend after being sick and I've skipped my P90X workouts for a long time now due to being sick and life getting busy.  I'm now down to 2.5 weeks and afraid my dress will be snug so I must get it under control!

You can do it! I know you can! It's nerves (anticipation-type, not changing your mind type) that are making you prioritize other things in life right now. It's so close to the wedding and you have so much to do that you need all your "free" (work-out) time to take care of business. Don't beat yourself up over it. Try to fit in something when you can. Remember how it's stress-relieving when you are done.

And think of all the wonderful Italian foods and wine you'll be consuming in three short weeks!! Woo HOO!! How long is your honeymoon again?

Any word from D yet? How did it go? I hope the fine isn't too steep :/

Peanut ~ where are you today??

No journal entry today - my day exploded the minute I walked in. Will fill you in later.

Oops, I don't know what I hit but I posted a blank post and don't know how to delete it :P

Where is everyone lately?  Busy with work?  Everyone feeling ok?

Peanut~ how's the running going?

Daizy~ did things slow down at work any?

Val~ how are the kids doing with school so far?  How's the new house?  I saw pics the other day (on FB maybe?) and it looked great!  You're getting setteled and unpacked really quickly!

Hey ladies!

Where is everyone? I know no one really plays on the weekends, but boy, it's getting sad in here! Don't worry, though, I'll keep it dusted ;)

Anyone hear anything from O yet? I saw that she's posted on FB, so that's good. Wish she'd come in here with an update for us though!

What did everyone do this weekend? I needed another day off to really get stuff done, but oh well.

I also saw that O posted, and was hoping that meant she'd come back here, but no luck. That makes me sad, I miss her.

Sorry I haven't been on- Friday I was watching my niece who is three months old, and between her and Parker, I don't really get time to come online much. Saturday I had a wedding (D's cousin). It was the biggest wedding I have ever been too. Over 400 people were there. Oh my. The food was amazing- italian food , family style. Multiple courses. Chocolate fountain with an expresso bar. Yeah I ate way too much, which is sad, because Sat. Morning I weighed in at 149.8, a new low. Which I haven't seen since then. Yesterday D let me sleep in, and I did. Till like 11:30 which is really late for me. Then I had to clean and grocery shop because D's best friend and his wife were coming over for dinner and to hang out. I ate a lot again, of course,  but mostly because I didn't eat anything before dinner time, so by the time dinner came around I was famished.

Abbs- how is the wedding planning? Aren't you getting excited ?!?! It is so close now!

Daizy, how are your legs doing? Mine are not so hot, I think I am going to have to break down and buy expensive shoes. Ugh.

Good morning!!  I e-mailed O the other day and got back very vague answers like "I'm good, we're good" type stuff but over all it sounds like she's loving domestic life with S. 

Daizy~ when is your half marathon again?  Where is it, through a park or through a town?  What is your goal time?  You don't have to share your goal time, I hate to because then if I don't meet it I'm the only one who knows that I didn't :P

Peanut~ Wow, 400 people at a wedding is crazy!!  We're looking at the bill for 150 and it's atrocious, 400?!!  I don't even think we have a venue that will seat 400 around here!!

Wedding plans are all pretty much done which kinda sucks because now I'm just waiting for 12 more days and I'm dying!!  I'm about to jump out of my skin excited!  All the girls have their dresses and mine is done just waiting for the final fitting next Thursday.  All of the favors are done, the place cards are being printed and the gifts are rolling in!  A lot of people are shipping them straight to us because they know we can only drive so many presents back to MD!  I think we'll have to leave some of them in PA and my parents can bring them down at Thanksgiving time.  We'll at least open them all on Sunday after the wedding though.  Oh I'm so excited to see my friends too!!  So many people I haven't see in so long, yay!!

I don't have much to say for a journal today so I might skip it unless I feel inspired soon!

OH boy! I remember those days of waiting! So exciting!!!

I also cannot imagine having 400 people at my wedding. I had about 140 and that was big enough! LOL

Glad you heard something from O, Ring, try to convince her to come in and update us in here!

My half is Nov 8. I'm not really setting a time goal anymore, since I seem to be slowing down the longer I run :( I just want to finish this first one. I'm getting nervous about it - not for the run itself, but for the time I'll take. But whatever, this is just for me, right? Oh, and the run is mostly along the ocean, which should be nice. The view, at least, will be good. Here's the cartoon of it.

I am running a 13K on Oct 24 and I'm excited for that one!! It's at Disney World and should be FUN! I'm more excited for that one than for the half, to be honest ;)

 

Daizy~ That's sounds like so much fun (the run in Disney) and the run along the coast looks beautiful but looooong!!  You have the right attitude, do it for yourself and focus on finishing in your own time and just enjoying the race!!

Oh, i meant to say in your journal that we already bought the flexipod tripod when we bought the camera which added to my frustration of why he wanted a different tripod but he just wanted more gadgets for the camera.  Oh well, camera for him = shoes for me I guess! 

I try and convince her to come in every time I talk to her, I hope someday she does!!

Hi Ring!

I'm glad you guys saw that tripod! J has one and he really seems to like it. I like your comparison of the camera = shoes, though ;)

I have been straight out in here this week at work! No time to journal today but I did get in to read at least. Geez! I am not sure I'm going to get a run in either. We're car shopping and there is just not enough time to get it all done.

Hope everyone else is well!

 

Hey Daizy!!  I hope your week slows down soon!  My day got crazy yesterday afternoon but I just ended up heading home early :P

Car shopping sucks.  It doesn't matter if you know exactly what you want either.  We knew what we wanted and still had a heck of a time deciding and finding what we wanted for a price we could afford.  Good luck with all of that!

I'm sitting at work counting down the hours, blah. 

We have fruit flies at my house, ew.  I don't know what caused them but they seem to be multipling.  I googled how to kill them and they said to put some basalmic vinagar and mix ina  few drops of dish detergent.  The smell of the basalmic (or apple cider vin) attracts them and then the dish detergent traps them when they land.  Sure enough we had lots of dead ones this morning but i still saw three or so flying around.  At least it helped.  I hear the life span is only like 10 days so they should be gone soon as long as we keep it clean. 

Hey Ring! Did you get rid of the fruit flies yet? Make sure you remove any potential food source for them, too.

Only a few days to go until you are a married woman! YAY! I so wish we could attend. I know you are  going to be a beautiful bride and I look forward to seeing your photos and hearing the stories later. And the photos of your sights in Italy! It's going to be so fun :)

It'll be quiet in here if I can't lure the other gals out to play much while you are gone though! PEANUT, VAL, JESS, O - where is everyone?? CC is quiet these days. I'll come in and post to keep us up and running anyway ;) I can always dust, right! LOL

OK, I have to go do an inspection. Have a good afternoon!

Hey Daizy!  Yeah, I think we finally got the last of the fruit flies.  They're so small and quick they're impossible to just kill, the vinager worked pretty well though! 

I'm bouncing off the walls excited and bored to tears and I have work to do and I don't wanna at all!!  I will post pics as soon as I can afterwards but I won't be back until October 24th-ish.  That's when our flight comes in but not sure when I'll be "in" in the head :P 

Yeah, where is everyone else lately? 

Peanut~ how are you feeling?  And P?  Feeling any better?

Val~ how is school going for the girls?  Is S in preschool yet?  Are you an empty nester yet?

Hi everyone!!  It's probably my last day posting here for a while so I thought i'd come in and say hi! 

Time is crawling!!  I should get back to work because that was at least making it go faster but I whatever, eventually. 

So anyone else watch The Office?  If not I highly recomment getting it on Netflix and watching it from the beginning.  the first few epis are a little dry but then they really get into their groove and have you rolling on the floor laughing!  I'm SO excited for this week's episode but I won't spoil it for those who don't watch the current season.

Daizy~ I read somewhere that James Franco (villan from Spiderman) is coming to GH in November for two months!  Hmmm, I could stare at him for a while!  I'm all caught up finally but now will be weeks behind.  When I get that far behind I go print off the daily recaps from soaps.com and read because I don't have time to watch epi after epi but i don't want to miss anything!  And of course they're going to bring back Luke and Helena right when i'm going on vacation!  Luke's not my favorite but I love a good Helena storyline (minus the Staveros' cryo-frozen awakening - we'll just pretend that never happened!).  And I just don't like Maxie and Spinelli.  Maxie would be good with Matt but now they're trying to get Lulu and Matt together.  I like Lulu with Dante/Dominic.  Ok, enough GH talk!

Oh my gosh is the day over yet??!!!!!  Someone come in here and chat with me and waste your day away with me!

Hey Ring!

I'm back from my inspection finally. It took FOREVER. Sorry you were all alone in here!! And on your last day, too!

I used to watch the office, but there is so much on tv I just couldn't keep up with it. this week's episode does look interesting though!

I forgot to ask you what you are doing for a rehearsal dinner...

I haven't caught up with GH in a while. I can't believe Maxie and Spinelli either! same with the Lulu picks...sigh. I need to catch up there, too.

 

OK ladies, where are you?? Are you going to leave me stranded in here by myself while Ring is away celebrating??!

Hope you're all having good days!!

hi there! so sorry it has been a terrbile few days- Parker got sick, then I got really really sick, then Parker got an ear infection, and on top of it all the computer was being really lame and wouldn't work. Ugh. I am still sick, and have had a headache for three days, ugh. Can I complain some more?!? Sorry just kidding. I have to admit that I haven't caught up on journals or anything cause my computer would absolutely not work. But I am going to catch up tonight! I miss you all!

Hi ladies!

Peanut ~ I hope you are both all better now! And your computer too :)

Had an awesome long weekend. I *almost* feel refreshed. I could use a whole week off though.

The weather folks had the nerve to mention the "s" word today. Apparently up North here in NH they are expecting a bit of that. Ugh! It's cold and rainy down here, I'll take it for now over the "s" word.

What's news with you all?

Work has been insanely busy, and that leaves me saying forums, what the hell are forums?!?!

I miss being on here.  I am gonna try.  I did catch up on this page, but I am not going back too many pages, otherwise I get overwhelmed and don't know what to respond to everyone!  lol

How is everyone's Thursday??