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| Sat, 06-05-2004 - 8:10am |
I am not usually the first one to the board so something must be 'amis' everywhere else in the world.
| Sat, 06-05-2004 - 8:10am |
I am not usually the first one to the board so something must be 'amis' everywhere else in the world.
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Hope everyone has good day!
Miss P
It's a dreary and going to be rainy day here. Definitely hope I don't have a week like last week. I've been out of sorts mind body and soul all week with the little frustrations of life definitely getting the best of me. I have had absoultely no desire to eat well or exercise and of course that doesn't help with trying to get things in perspective. So in spite of the kind of icky weather this morning I, like Patty, needed to get outside. I did manage to beat out the rain and got a walk in. I wanted to travel further this morning but I could feel the hip and knees telling me that they had had enough. This is just so frustrating to me. A year ago I was walking well over 4 miles and keeping a great pace. Now I can't even get to 3 miles and barely a 17 minute mile and I'm still limping around here. I know several of you suggested a track. Our high school track is a mess and not sure about the neighboring school district allows "trespassers". People can be a little territorial around here. Fitting right in with my mood I apparently have been retaining water. I don't know why but I definitely had puffy ankles, had to remove my wedding ring and all my clothes have been terribly uncomfortable all week. Tension at work has been growing-particulary between the new girl and Miss Sunshine. I try not to stir the pot considering the size of the office but the new girl is quite vocal and I'm just waiting for the explosion to occur. I guess you add that to at times feeling way overworked and underappreciated it's just added up to some tough days this week. The ability to sit and relax and enjoy things seem to be a distant memory. The week is work, work and more work and the weekends just seem to be an endless list of "to do", "must do", "should do". It seems at times that I've lost the ability to stop and smell the roses. DD brought home a test that they had been given at school to measure their stress levels-needless to say we probably should both be in counseling and of course me being 2x her age went over the edge. That's my tale of woe-thanks for listening-I guess I needed to get that out and I know that you'll all be here to listen! Hopefully, I'll get myself back on some sort of better track and things will get back into perspective.
Nancy-have a great time on that trip! Patty-I hope the sun comes out soon for both of us!
Susan
The sun is out (at least for a while), the yard is finished, and I'm ready to hit the beach! Rob is going with his friend to their beach condo at a beach further south, while Tim and I go to our usual place of late. We're supposed to have some afternoon thunderstorms.
Have fun at the wedding, Nancy! Hope the weather clears up for you guys where it's drizzly.
Happy Saturday!
Rhonda
Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time disapproving of others.
~~Rhonda~~
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I've been a bit MIA. We ended up staying an extra night at MIL's house Monday night, and Al & I headed out early Tuesday morning to get home in time for her first swim lesson of the season. She's the only one in her class, so she's getting private lessons without the private lesson price tag (hey, I love a bargain!). We hit our own pool after that. The Cus got home a bit later, driving MIL's van with our new-to-us dining room furniture that had been in the furnished rental condo which she's selling. Wednesday, story time at the library resumed, and after that I went to a friend's house to hang out. She's got a pool and our kids swam for a long time, then played inside. Thursday was just catching up on stuff (including the two boards that I lead), grocery shopping menu planning, etc. Yesterday, I hosted playgroup with my old friends again - we'd not been together regularly since last August, and only occasionally with a few birthdays. This time it was my turn to have one of my friends hang out with me, and it felt good to be able to do so. Some of my friends and I have talked about it before, that even though we get out with our kids, sometimes we just feel isolated as SAHMs. When we finally reconnect with other SAHMs, we realize just how much we need each other. Interacting with bank tellers and store clerks just isn't the same as gabbing over a cup of coffee.
Boy, that was long-winded! Suffice it to say that Monday was the last day I'd exercised, plus the overeating has continued through this week - bad Cussette! (JazzerDeb, you had a weekend like that recently, didn't ya?!) So, I'm resuming running this morning. It's a bit cooler than it has been in the past few days at this hour (around 72-degrees), though still humid. Threat of rain today, and I hope we get some - everything is parched. Anyway, hope to get 3.5 miles in today. Need to get some abs work in too. All the eating I've done has not helped my muscle tone!
Cussette
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Sorry to hear that New Girl and Miss Sunshine are probably going to come to loggerheads. I'm gonna pull for New Girl ;^). Who knows - it might be exactly what Miss Sunshine needs to put her back in her place for a while. Keep a low profile when it happens. Like under your desk!
Cussette
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