Whew .... Finally Recovering!

WOW .... I had a nasty cold!! I haven't been sick like that in 12 years .... It didn't actually take me DOWN down .... but it sure lingered. I still have a little cough left ... but plan to go back to full workouts tomorrow. Yay!! I have really missed it! It is just so hard to swim when you have to cough all the time!

I am also going to add some StairMaster to my workouts .... starting very slowly. They have 4 machines at the gym. I just notice that I find stairs get my heart racing .... we climbed a lot of stairs during the UNT tour with Robbie and I got out of breath way too easily. They say swimming is supposed to be a great Cardio work-out ... but I am not feeling it! I guess I need to really seriously use my heart-rate monitor and push myself more than I am. Play faster music and swim with the beat!!

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Tom and I had a nice evening with La and Allen last night. Champagne and beers and cheese and crackers and fruits and dark chocolate .... yummy! Hot Tub and conversation and laughter. La is such a sweet person and Allen has really begun to open up around us ... he is so shy! I am looking forward to him getting the boat out again and going out on the lake. La's life has kind of opened up now that her tailbone doesn't hurt her as much. I think she actually is looking younger, too! Pain is so wearing and so debilitating. I know she had to feel like a new person without the constant pain!

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Spending time online with The Accountables is going well. Some very nice people on the boards. There are still issues there .... but I think the truth is beginning to emerge. I went into FP to drop a note to Sweeney on her B-Day .... and also posted a note to Catmadam about her inch loss and her weightloss .... so in response, Accountables got a "visit" from WF and Catmadam. I once again posted a nice note to Cat .... no response. ((Edit: Catmadam DID respond by starting a new thread in FP which basically took my post to her as an insult. So ... for you Catmadam fans ... Cat absolutely did NOT forbid me to talk to her. Admin_John suggested I not talk to her. However ... I hoped that giving her a sincere compliment would be okay ... I guess I shouldn't have prefaced it as I did. I apologize profusely to Catmadam and her fans. I sincerely only meant to compliment.)) Sweeney didn't even stop by on her B-Day ... but still, I thought of her!

I do have a couple of new people reading .... one from Carol Stream, Illinois ... and one from Washington DC ..... I know who they are .... but wonder why they care. Q-Ball is still reading but now shows up as being from Holt, Michigan. I have absolutely ZERO idea why SHE cares .... I am pretty sure she hates me ... although I have no idea why.

Ms Owings Mills, Maryland ... whom I believe to be MsWillow ... has learned how to hide her path from the SiteMeter .... and someone else has learned how to hide behind AOL. Why am I so important to these people?

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Tom and I are half-on-half-off SBD .... but we are both doing great with going to the gym and maintaining weightloss .... I think exercise and the routine of going and doing is probably the overall best thing we are doing!! I am FEELING so much better ... it may be the Iron Pills? Fish Oil? Vitamins?? Exercise?? All of the above?? Whatever it is ... it works for me.