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

Well ladies, I'm off to my meeting and then to Subway for dinner and class, ugh.  It's POURING rain here and cold, the kind of day you want to curl up in your pj's and stay in bed but my bed is SO far away in the space/time continuum!  I'm still undecided on my stance in the meeting but it's just not like me to NOT speak my opinions, especially if maybe they will even listen and absorbe one iota of what I say.  I'll be happy with any small victory I can get. 

Wish me luck not falling asleep!!

LUCK not sleeping.   ( : 

 

I too wish it could just go back to "BEFORE"  but it's been going on two years since I was "before" happy.....  

Well, I survived another year of probing :) Here's hoping the bloodwork and all comes back normal!

Abbs ~ hope the meeting went well and that class goes by fast! I know exactly what you mean about being warm and cozy on those horrible wet, cold days. I have to move in that crappy weather this weekend. Go figure. How about The Biggest Loser for a Tuesday show?? That's my Tuesday show!! LOL

Olivia ~ Just want you to know that I am thinking of you and sending positive thoughts your way. If you do decide to talk with him tonight, I hope it goes well. It is good that you can stay with your folks if need be, too, just to get space while he makes his move.  As for deeding the house back to the bank, I would speak with an attorney about that option. Have you talked to the bank to see if there is anything they can do to adjust your payments to accommodate your situation? (unless, of course, you really don't want to stay in your town now.)

Jess, Val and Peanut ~ hope you are all well!

Good morning everyone!!

Daizy~ glad that's over for another year!!  I'm sure everything will be fine.  I'm not a huge fan of TBL.  I always feel horrible after watching it because they can lose 25 lbs in a week and i can't lose one.  I know they're totally surrounded by weight loss for hours a day and their meals are proportioned for them etc, but still.  And I hate watching vote-off shows.  These people NEED to be there, not get voted off because they only lost 11lbs in 2 days instead of 25.  I say let them all stay and get the workouts/eating but only let the advancing teams compete for the money or whatever the "prize" is.  Just my opinions though, I know so many people who just love that show! 

Olivia~ Did you go to the bank last night or are you going today?  I hope everything works out for you and you're able to get out of it with minimal damage to credit/bank account.  At least J has noticed something's majorly wrong with you, has that helped at all?

Well ladies, I'm hella busy at work right now.  I should have had this document MONTHS ago but I just got it yesterday and now I have to change the one I've been working on for MONTHS to satisfy their document.  I'll probably be scarce today.

Ring ~ I know exactly what you mean about keeping them all there! I WISH that was how they did it. Especially this season, as they have two men who are desperately in need of assistance. This is the only vote-off show I will watch. I generally feel like you do. I also wish I had the capacity to lose 27 pounds in a week. If I did, I'd be done! LOL But because we don't have seven hours a day to work out, or people making our food, or so much weight/fat to lose that losing a giant number in a week would be reasonable. Sigh.  Hope that work goes by quickly for you today! Good luck with that report...

O ~ I haven't read journals yet, so you may have already answered this, but how did last night go?

Jess ~ Hope the meeting went well yesterday!! I was thinking about you :)

Val ~ Hope your week has been good! I know you are busy. Sounds like girl scouts will be fun!

Peanut, Hi if you swing by!

Wow you guys! I am so excited and exhausted right now, you have no idea how stressful this week has been...

But it was worth it, all the prep'ing, and stressing and I already had 2 of the 4 managers who were at the meeting come/call me to tell me that it went great and I did great!  This is amazing!!!  I am so glad my manager is the way she is and I have had this opportunities and hope to have more like this....

first, HURRAY FOR JELLY ---  I am so glad your presentation went well!!!!!! 

Made an appt for Monday with the bank -- might stop by tomorrow and just see if someone has time to see me early....     

His last minute, just noticed after years noticing is not enough.    so sad.... 

I miss you ladies a lot on the weekend, so send me good vibes.  ( :

I agree about too little too late.  I'll try to get on sometime this weekend and chat with you but after a week on a computer, I touch it as little as possible on the weekends, very strange I know!

Jess~ Congrats on such a great job!!  I'm so glad that you did well (like we all knew you would!) and that your bosses noticed and took the time to tell you.  That's awesome!!  Just keep up the great work and good things will be ahead of you!

Daizy~ I hope the rain stops for your move this weekend!!  But I'm sure you're ready to have your life out of a box and organized again!!

Ok ladies, I really gotta buckle down and get this done, I'm not even half way through and I only have 1.5 hours left!  Ugh!

Good luck with that Ring! I know that feeling....and it's Friday, so who wants overtime now??! LOL Fingers crossed you get it all done.

O ~ I'll try to get online this weekend too - the cable guy is coming on Saturday, so if all is hooked up ok, I should have service again that afternoon. I am thinking of you!

And yeah - I also agree about too little, too late :(

I love you, girls.   I hope to see you, even a little, this weekend.   ( : 

Hi!!!  I'm warming up my left over pot roast for dinner with crescent rolls.  I Wii fitted for over an hour today and we played for about an hour before.  D's doing his Fit now, too bad two people can't do it at once! 

Olivia~ so what's going on this weekend?  Have you talked to J?  I agree about finding a cheap bed, you can't get a goods night rest on the couch and after all this emotional upheaval, you're going to need a goods night rest. 

So our friend who was going to come over and Wii with us coudn't come because her Grandfather (who's 98) is in the hospital so of course she went to see him.  She felt so bad but we assured her we were fine!  Oh, and we had pizza for dinner last night, bad Abby!  But it was SO good!  Finished off the left overs for breakfast this morning and now left over pot roast for lunch. 

I wish there was more exciting stuff going on but there's not!  My house is partly clean since we thought we were getting company we cleaned the downstairs.  I started laundry since we're down to the last 10% of our clothes!  But I don't want to do laundry with all the bleach in the water and bleach the clothes!!  So I did whites today since the smell is finally starting to subside but I still don't dare do darks yet!!  I have about 5 loads waiting for me so hopefully tomorrow I can get started.

Oh, and I think we signed ourselves up to go to grandma's tomorrow again if the weather holds.  I should be working on work stuff right now but whatever!

Well I'm off to finish heating up dinner and I'll try and get back on a little later!

good morning, girls.

If we had not left the house to bowl, I do not think I would have seen J out of the WOW stronghold more than an hour total.   Not much wll change except how broke I will be in the "after" phase.....   How sad. 

I drank too much, didn;t eat too badly, got a lot of workout on Saturday  ((run 4, Bowflex, abs, arms, pushups, tricep dips, and bowling)) and then NADA yesterday -- not even mow like I planned.   The apathy is waving....   I didn;t even get up this morning and workout.   Just sore....  knees, chest/arms/shoulders, heart...... 

I hate Mondays.     Hope your weekends and Mondays are better than mine!!  

Hi Ladies!

Sorry I couldn't get online this weekend. The move went well, I am exhausted and just want to go home and back to bed (if I can ignore the boxes we have to unpack, that is) and sleep for a day.

The cable guy did something to my lap top when he was checking to ensure that the cable internet was up and working :( Windows will not launch, no matter what I try. Even in safe mode.....I am hoping I can get it fixed, if not, I don't know when I will be able to replace it. I can't really afford a new one right now. Ugh. We do have a desk top, but I cannot surf the net (e.g. be in here) and watch tv with J at the same time if I am on that. Please keep your fingers crossed that it can be fixed. Why does life have to be so expensive?

On that note, O, I feel your pain. We have a house we cannot sell in FL and it is killing us financially. I have not been this broke since college. In fact, I think in college I may have been better off!! Ugh. I'm sorry your weekend was a challenge. Do you think he knows something is up?

Ring ~ your weekend sounds like it was good. I like weekends like that! Did you end up going to clean at Grandma's house again? And I hope your water issue is back to normal so you can do darks :)

Jess, Val, Peanut....hope you are all well!

O~ That's crazy about J WoW-ing all weekend!  D would play video games for hours at a time if I'd let him but I simply walk in and demand that he turn them off for a little while, watch a movie with me, and then MAYBE he can go back to them unless we have stuff we need to do.  Sometimes i feel more like his mom but nothing would EVER get done if it didn't happen like that!  And I refuse to be the only responsible adult around the house, as should you.  And since he shows no signs of growing the f up, he does not need to be in your life/house anymore wasting your time.  I know, much easier said than done, just trying to show the rational side here. 

Daizy~ SO glad the move went well and that totally sucks about your laptop, you should really raise hell to Comcast about that!  Good luck getting unpacked and setteled!  Have you ever thought about moving back to FL to live in your house?  I think I asked you this before but I can't remember the answer, my guess would be jobs?

Well ladies, I have TONS of work to do so I better get going.  Have a lovely day!

Ring ~ you are absolutely right. I couldn't get a good job down there in the science world - I was waiting tables and that is a seasonal occupation in Southwest Fl. I had an offer to come back up North to work at a foundation and took it because we needed me to have a decent income. Our plan was to stay in Fl, though, as we both love the weather and my Mom, who is getting older, lives down there for most of the year. We bought the house because the market was getting so crazy expensive we thought we'd get priced out. Then I couldn't make it work work-wise, so we listed it and the market crashes about 6 weeks later. What sucks the most is that we waited SO LONG to buy a place and then it just didn't work out. Hindsight is always 20/20 right? But there is no sense looking backward. We couldn't have predicted it and we cannot change it, we can only move forward. I have thought about returning, but there really are not any good jobs down there. The people who do my current job make at least $20,000 less a year. I have student loans to pay off and cannot make so little money, you know what I mean? *Oh, and we moved down there because my job at UNH ended (I supervised a biochem research lab, but the prof died at 42 and my lab was dissolved. All my students were re-assigned - you can't keep a lab with just a master's degree.) and J was ready to find a new teaching job so we went. We've learned some hard lessons from it all, but we have good jobs and each other and we'll make it work out. It does suck though :(

Sorry for such a long post! Hope everyone else is having a good day today.

Daizy~ wow, that really sucks!  I know how the hindsight works, been there done that.  Can you rent the house out until you one day sell it?  I have no idea how that would work with repairs etc, I guess you'd have to hire a handyman and/or know someone down there who's willing to oversee that kind of stuff which is probably just more money etc.  It just sucks overall!

Jess~ now I want cake! :P

Well, we have a flight so I gotta run!

Good Morning lovely ladies!!  I'm bust at work just wanted to pop in and say hello!!  I'll be back later to write a real entry!

SO I have 10 boxes I am taking home tonight and putting in the garage, so that after the talk, he can take and go or whatever....  

) :    I just want this to over.   I cannpot believe he joked about breaking up with ME over NOT playing WOW.  give me a break.   lol

Yeah, that's the most rediculous thing I've EVER heard and I can't believe he'd even joke about it!!  Did you joke back that you would break up with HIM FOR playing Wow?  And then say "oh wait, that's what I've been planning all along", smile and walk away.  Mmmmm, sometimes I just get nasty when thinking about boys hurting people I care about!!  You can do this Olivia and you know you deserve better and there is better out there for you, it's just a shame it couldn't be with the person you wanted it to be with.  I wonder how his parents and friends will react.  Do you think they're tell him he's an idiot for letting you go?  I hope so! 

Ugh, I'm HELLA tired this morning!!  Last night I went upstairs at 10 but got sucked into a show and finally turned it off at 10:45 knowing I would be exhausted if I didn't go to sleep.  Well D came up at 11:15 JUST when I was starting to fall asleep and woke me up!  I did fall back asleep but now I feel like I didn't go to bed until 11:30 instead of 10:30.  MUST do better at this tonight!!  Luckily Tuesdays we don't watch any 9-10 shows (or any shows for that matter) and I can get in bed around 9:30 and be alseep by 10.  That's the plan, we'll see how it goes!

Grrr, Daizy I see a journal from you but I have to run to a meeting and don't have time to read it.  I'll be back later for more and to reply!

I can't believe he did that either! Do you think he senses something in the air, finally??

I will be happy for you to get over that hump of talking - at least at that point you can really face the future. I know it is going to be totally sucky, but know that all of your CC friends are behind you, O. *hugs*

Ring ~ We can't really rent it. The market tanked so badly down there that we cannot get what we need and our mortgage is written that we are supposed to be in residence there. And, the problem of having someone care take for us is huge.....at any rate, the only direction we can go is up at this point. It sucks, we'll be penalized for this for a while, but you can only do what you can do, right? Thanks for the notes, though :) I hope you get sleep tonight!