Good morning everyone. I got my Oxycise! done today.

I feel bad for my daughter. She had today off, but her boss just called and asked if she could come in....some folks didn't show up and he was short-handed. She was hoping to swim today since we didn't yesterday. Yeah, well.... at least she got to sleep in.

My son didn't have to do any work today, either. So, I guess when I finish doing my housework, I'll take him out to lunch.

Hope everyone had a good weekend and is off to a good start this week!

Good morning Kelly and all to follow.

Did L4 this a.m. and will do another after work.
Hope to see more postings later.

jeans

Hello, all...

Going to do L1 and my 2-miler when Nolan goes down for his nap.

Have a good day, all!

Donna

Got in L1&2 today!
Have a great day!

Hi all!

Just finished L1O!, feels great. Now I'm off to do our weekly summer homeschool with my almost-7 yr old. Gotta make a Trader Joe's run (natural food store) after lunch, then I must put away all my dried chamomile and lavender, as it's ready to go in, and I need the peg space to cut and dry my lemon balm and oregano. Mint will be ready to cut soon too! Busy, busy, busy...

Hope ya'll are having a great day and a lovely summer.

Peace,
Erin

Good morning girlfriends!
Well, I'm here to confess that I fell off the wagon last week. OUCH!! I did not get my minimum stars on the calendar -- I just got all messed up. So I'm trying to sort out where it went wrong, as I can see that its become a pattern with me. I get all motivated and set some new goals, then I do well for a week or two and all of a sudden I get side tracked by an illness, something stressful, a family event or my TOM, whatever...then I just get completely off track. I think if I look closely its pretty close to self sabatage, or maybe just plain laziness.

I need to work through this, and would appreciate prayers from those inclined to support in that way. My prayer is that God will help me work through this to find the root cause of my behavior. In the mean time, I am starting a new week and plan to have a star on my calendar by this afternoon. I'll check in this evening to account for my actions.

I hope you are all off to a good start and enjoy a sunny week!

God bless

P.S. Welcome Erin. I hope you keep coming back, as this is a wonderful group of people that have been a real inspiration and encouragement for me over the past months. BTW, I too love Trader Joe's! I shop in either the Wilsonville or Beaverton stores in Oregon whenever I get the chance.

Lucinda, I'm with ya girl. Keep a positive mind. We all have our ups and downs.

I promised myself that I would make up for last weekend, so today after work I did Abs&UB and walked a Muscle Mile with Leslie S. That puts three stars on my calendar for today. It's going to take a lot of stars to lose the weight i want/need to lose.

Good evening all. jeans

Hi O-buddies!

I just finished my O for today! Yay!! My first star for July! I'm sore, and it took me much longer than it should have...but I'll get back into it again soon.

My niece has been visiting us for a few days, and it was just so easy to not take the time to Oxy.

Lucinda, I fight laziness myself...so if that's what you're fighting against, I understand. It helps so much just to come in here and find encouragement though.

Wow, Jeans...three stars for one day is really impressive! Maybe I'll go for a walk, so I can put another star on my calendar!

Gotta go now. Here's to a great week for everyone! By the way, I hope some of the others will start posting again.

Susanna

It was the first really hot day here and I worked hard to get the antiquing on the amoire/dresser. Its almost done! But when I came in the house at the end of my work time I did not do anything much at all. The heat just drained me of all energy.

I will try again tomorrow.

Hello,
I am with you Lucinda. The heat is draining me the last three days have been in the 90's and we live in a chocolate brown home with lots of big windows and no ac. talk about heat. I did find a swamp cooler Sunday afternoon at a garage sale for $10 so I jumped on that one. It only keeps one room cool, and it is noisy, but it is so much better than melting. or being so hot you do not want to do anything.
I did get one O! in today but dh was off on Sun and fri and sat were so hot I did not get anything done. I did go swimming 2x last week so I am giving myself ladybug stickers for that as well, which means I got 6 stickers last week, not as good as the week before but not bad. Definately better than nothing.
I bought some shirts this weekend and they were a size smaller and the arms actually fit! I knew the rest of me would fit in this size but I was not sure if my arms would make it yet. I am proud to say that they did! So before I was a 30/32 and now I am a 26/28 yeah!