I bet I have walked twenty miles today. I have also eaten very little because of the rigorous reading schedule and the horrible food. My roommate is bipolar and she is manic, so every evening, when I get back to my room, there is nothing that I can do: no checking email, no working, no talking to DH....and I need to get some work done for my real job.  So today, I got in at 6:00 and said, gotta run and I am in the lobby in the corner by the stairs, working....so I thought I'd say hello and hope you are doing well.  This is day three of reading horrible essays and I have to tell you that my back isn't hurting nearly as bad this year as in previous years. 

I hope you guys are sticking to your plans and eating and moving and looking for your inner and outer good. Today, I looked in the mirror and I shrieked; I am so pale and I really need a good facial.  Tomorrow, I am going to the hotel salon and am getting my face massaged and cleansed and all that.  I am getting a good back rub too.....My husband's treat. 

Goodnight and sleep well.....

Just another  quick drop by. I bet I am walking five miles a day and I am not really minding it so much. Plus, while dinner here is good from the vegetarian menu, breakfast and lunch suck....Every single day breakfast is a boiled egg and lunch is a sale...Since, during the reading, we are sequestered, we have to eat in the huge convention center but we can leave for dinner. I just eat the food they fix for us and catch the buss back to the hotel...There's a little gym in the hotel and I have been doing some walking on the treadmill and have walked around outside the hotel.

Ladies, after the horrible news about the shooting in Orlando, I hope you all doing okay...to our friends in Florida, you are on my mind and probably all of the rest of us ladies too....Hate is an awful thing: it can divide and in these horrible instances, it can kill.....

Hope you are doing well. 

It is Sunday here for sure! 

The Tempdropped 20 degrees here overnight! Maybe this baby will drop out tomorrow without a hitch! I think he or she likes it in the womb! 

Today we are going to a memorial for a friend of ours that passed in three weeks ago. 

Tomorrow we r going to the zoo!

Carl and Ihave Vinnie all to ourselves!

All is well at home down in Florida. My cat and the two dogs survived my brother being gone for four days. 

So life is good!

C

Hey Carla

Its evening here in Atlanta.  I am just getting some time to check in.  Today was birthday party day.  Kinsley is turning 5.  It was chaotic around here all morning.  Then it was get everything to the clubhouse to set up for her birthday pool party.  The subdivision has a pool and club house residents can use so that's what we did.  It was a madhouse.  I am too old for all these sheenanigins !!! So once everyone left, it was after 6 o'clock, the elders brought everything home and the parents and kids that were left stuck around.  It is now 8:00pm so I have had an hour or so of quiet.  I think this is what is meant by the calm after the storm.  There was no calm before the storm.

Carla, I so hope you get to see your new baby soon.

OOOOOKAY

Yes this is not the usual topic of our post but it does not offend me.  I am an adult and open minded. I do however keep my personal life personal, whatever the topic.  If I was seriously ill or having marital problems I would not be able to discuss it beyond the surface.  I have always been the one people came to to unload.  I am happy to listen but I can't seem to do the confiding. That's just me. 

On the topic of sexuality....I have never had a problem with libido. Even when I was not comfortable with my body image that did not affect my libido.  My body image was distorted in high school.  I felt huge.  My classmates were of Cajun French descent and very tiny.  I am of German descent and well...German.  By comparison I towered over everyone and could only see the number on the scale.  When 98 is typical my 135 was huge.  I truly didn't realize that my 25 inch waist was enviable.  If I had grown up elsewhere I wonder what my mindset would have been.  As a child I was gangly, by high school that had changed.  In today's world I would have been considered a knockout. In My world Twiggy reigned.  My size did and to some extent still does determine what I do and where I go.  In college I experienced the freshman weight gain and never did get rid of it.  That 30 pounds seemed like such a hurdle.  WHAT WAS MY PROBLEM.  I let the concern for the 30 pounds snowball into concern for so much more.  I was 185 when I married my first husband.  He was not from the land of Lilliputians and my 185 on a 5'8" frame was ok by him.  Not by me and we stilled LIVED in the land of Lilliputians.  I continued to gain through the years.  When I left my marriage I was even heavier.  By the time I remarried I was 100 pounds heavier than I was on my first wedding day.  Personal relationships were difficult for me.  I am social if someone else starts the conversation.  I am by nature rather shy.  I hate ****tail parties.  I feel awkward.  that goes for tea parties as well.  It not the ****tails that make me feel awkward.  I could never be a flirt. My relationships have started out as very good friendships.  By the time they turned into romances I was comfortable in my own skin. 

As far as changes with menopause my situation may be different.  I had a hysterectomy at the age of 35.  I did not experience any side effects.  Finally at the of 55 I asked my doctor if there was any way to determine if I had gone through menopause because I had no symptoms. without periods I had no way of knowing.  Bottom line...I had been there done that.  I did not start to have menopausal symptoms until after WLS.  Then came the night sweats, and hot flashes.  I am still always hot.  My libido was still not affected. I don't know if that is a blessing or a curse but it is what it is.