Good morning!

It is another rainy day here in the Triangle of NC... hope it clears up soon.

I did Level 1 again this morning! I feel fantastic. Tonight I'm going to make it Level 3.

I'm so excited... according to the UPS tracking system, my new videos from amazon.com should be here today!! I have had problems with UPS coming to my door... they used to leave my packages at the door (which I liked) -- UPS usually arrives when I'm not there, since I most often get home around 5PM. However, they have NOT been leaving packages for me lately -- they make several attempts to deliver, then we have to go chase the packages down at the UPS place in the boonies before they are sent back!! GRRRR!

Anyway, hope you have a great day. Keep up the great work, all!

Tammy

"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way." - Babe Ruth

Good morning Tammy and all to follow. It's another sunny and beautiful, crisp morning in northern Michigan. I do love fall. We don't have much in the way of color yet but they say that we lacked so much rain this year that it may suffer a bit.

Our family is gearing up for Pork Day. For those of you who don't know what Pork Day is, it's a day designed to celebrate the pig. My family decided we needed something else to celebrate so, they made the darned thing up. We all get together and play crazy pig games. We dress in pink and all the girls where pig tails. Silverware is forbidden and we must eat with our hands. There is prizes, laughing and tons of fun to be had. We even drink swill or at least our version of swill. We will be celebrating this on Saturday so, if you can find us, you are all invited. We are a close family and one that loves to do crazy things together. Maybe some of you will want to celebrate Pork Day with your families. We make it up as we go so, there are no rules (except the ones you make like wearing pink and pig tails).

I am getting lots of routines in lately. It seems to be giving me much needed energy right now. My friend just came in my office this morning and told me that she has started doing O! in the morning and can really feel muscle definition in her arms. She said she has all those arms of steel videos and none of them gave her the results she is getting from O! I felt good because I recommended O! to her.

Well, I hope you all have a great day. Do that breathing and DYW!

Merritt

Good morning Merritt and Tammy (and all to follow).

Tammy inspired me to pull out L1 again, so that's what I did today. I had to laugh when you mentioned tracking down your packages at the UPS place in the boonies. We live right down the road from our UPS place and some folks think it's in the boonies, too! My only complaint is that they have strange office hours, so it's not always easy to get there at the right time.

I hope Pork Day will be extra fun this year, Merritt. Y'all need the fun and relaxation!!! I'll be anxious to hear how it turns out.

My daughter and I did a 2 mile walk video last night, so we're on track for the week (4 miles so far). This is craft day at the church so I need to hurry up here. Still need to pack my lunch and I want to read the rest of the posts before I leave.

Oh...it's good to see Kathie posting again. I guess she finally got caught up from her fun vacation. We're still waiting to hear all about it Kathie!!

Hope everyone has a great day!

Kelly

Kelly, how nice of you to remember me! Now did you see my new signature (you can tell I'm still beaming from my weigh-in this morning!).

Yes, I'm back but soooo much work to do at the office that I didn't even read half of all your great posts. Hope to get around to it soon, though.

Oh and Karen, Rose and Kathy: don't give up. You will get results! For me the true inspiration has always been Kelly - she hasn't seen scales or tape measure move in either direction in so many months and she does tons of workouts. That's when I came up with those lying scales and tape measures - what counts is on the inside, right? And if we do our routines continuously, drink our water and manage to watch our eating just a little bit (yeah, that's me saying that: finished *only* half the cookies on Monday and saved the other half for Tuesday night, great, huh? ;o), those lying scales and tape measures will be taught right one day. I just know they will! Come on, we can all do it!

So, have to run now but missed you all terribly. Hope to be posting more soon...

KOBAS, my dear O!Pals

152|9off161|13-2-go|139@x-mas2002, Kathie

Got my Oing done yesterday and today. I will be doing a lot of individual reps throughout the day. One rep takes about 30 seconds, you wouldn't think it would be so hard to take the time to stop and do one every half hour or so. I am trying that in hopes it will speed up the improvement in the oxygenation levels. I am still on oxygen at night and on bad pain days. Though I am finding that I don't feel as tired in the evenings.

Make it a happy day!

Linda Lou

Hope you all got your O in today. I did Level 1 tape and Jorge Cruise day 3 and 4.

Gail