Good evening!!
I got home this evening, and was VERY excited to see that my sweetie had recorded Oprah’s last episode!! So, I have spent the last 45 minutes watching and crying, and watching some more!!
I just LOVE Oprah, as I am sure a lot of you have too!! Oprah has been a constant in my life since I was 10 years old! Always bringing words of wisdom, comfort, laughter, and inspiration! A friend when I needed a friend, a momma when I needed a momma, and an auntie when I needed an auntie!! I have dreamed about being a guest on her show, and have dreamed about being in the audience during one of her greatest things episodes!!
What I think I love the most about her final episode is that it is just her, all alone, speaking to us. Speaking to me. I love that she speaks about God, capital “G”, and how important he is in our lives! It is so GREAT to see someone of such high visibility talking about “God”, and not calling him something safe, or PC. Calling him by name is so powerful, and I am not sure why I needed to hear that, but I find that I really did! Thank you, Oprah!!
Also, her message about it being our responsibility to know what kind of energy we are bringing to any situation, really hit home for me!!! This made me question, “What kind of energy do I carry around with me every day?” I know that I am going to be thinking about that all day tomorrow, and for the rest of the week! I want it to keep me conscious of what energy I am bringing into the room at work, at home, at dance class, with friends, family, or complete strangers!!
Oprah has made me want to somehow change the world, even if that is only through helping my small circle of friends and family! I want to leave an indelible mark on this world. I am not sure what that is going to look like, but I know that it is greater than I that would be accomplishing this!
I know that this is not the last we will hear of Miss Oprah, rather this will be the beginning of a new adventure in her life. I can sit here with confidence and know that no matter where she is or what she is doing, I can know that she has made me a better me for having listened to her, and observing her actions! I thank her dearly, even though I have never even met her. I pray for her in all of her future endeavors, and I KNOW in my soul, that someday the two of us will meet, and I will be able to express my gratitude to her in person!!
Until that day, Oprah, WE WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU!!!! 😉
Have a FABULOUS evening!!
Hello Chunky Dunkers!! How is everyone’s week going???
My week has been pretty hectic, and I am sure my weight is on the up, up, up because I can’t seem to stop snacking, AND I am too dang sore to get my fat booty out there to get moving!! SAD! SAD! SAD!!
I will get it together, folks – I WILL!!
~C 😉
Even though you don’t wanna move, you still got to get out there and shake your booty. I go out and do walking everyday after work even though I am sore and tired and I don’t want to do it.
I agree with Jennifer! No one is saying go power walking… just get out and walk with your honey and the girls and enjoy nature. Listen to the winds and the birds. Now I know yesterday was raining…so rainy days…just go to the pool and play. Don’t have to do laps…just play…that is still moving! And then a soak in the hot tub will be the perfect night cap to send you off to lala land. LOL
Yeah well, we both are having a rough time of it. I seem to have lost my apatite and Have either not finished my meals or not eaten seconds. That may seem like a good thing but its strange for me. Hopefully its not a health problem. Cus you KNOW Pappa needs to lose some weight. And not eating as much is a good start.
For me, I have just been eating too much. I need to cut back on what I eat and when I eat it. Jennifer has been trying to get me to stop eating after 8, and sometimes I do that, but not all the time.
Yes, not eating after 8 really seems to work for me too! I am not sure why I don’t seem to remember that!!!
I try to not eat after seven if I can help it. Usually it works for me, but some days I work until after eight and I will try to eat something lite.
Well Jay maybe your body is starting to adjust to the changes you are making. And that can be a good thing. How about leaving the seconds alone from now on. Eat slowly, chew your food good..take drinks of ice water in between bites and enjoy your wife’s company. You will realize that you are getting full and your plate should still have some food on it. And don’t mount it on there either. It takes 20 minutes for the food you are eating to hit the bottom of your tummy and to realize that you have filled up your belly.
Yes, I know! and I will, I just have to MAKE MYSELF do it!! 😉
Yes, you are right love, you have been eating MUCH differently than you normally do! 😉
Hey Jen, I miss you. When are you gonna move here to be with this side of your Family.
WOW! It is not EVERY DAY that JASON asks you that, Jennifer!! 😉
LMAO!! That is funny but they do love you intensely Jennifer and Trina and they want their girls living close to them. Can you blame them?
Jennifer, How has your week gone??
I haven’t been doing that well this week. I have been eating more fruits than before and I have gone on a few of the walks with Jennifer, but I am not really into it right now. I need to get on the bandwagon.
Don’t worry, Trina! I am right there with you!! Except, eating more fruits and and walking with Jennifer is still GREAT!! don’t knock yourself too hard, Lil’ sistah!! 😉
I am not moving to Salem
My week is same ol’ same ol’….no real change in anything. Not lost anymore than the week before. I have kind of plateau on my weight.
Well, keep on keeping on, Jennifer, even if you stay the same weight, your cardiovascular system LOVES all the working out right now!!! 😉
I agree with Chrissie. Still continue doing what you are… sometimes you can go a couple of weeks with no results then one morning you get on the scale and realize that you actually lost some weight. Our bodies can be very mysterious!
Also bodies do get acclimated to our routines and they stop being effective. Like when our bodies become used to an antibiotic…then you realize it doesn’t work on you anymore. That is why the professionals say to change up your routine.
So maybe this weekend…go for a hike in nature or walk on the beach. Those sands are a bear to walk through and it works you out!
Don’t worry Trina, your doing great. In fact you both are.
Thanks, but, the truth is, if it wasn’t for Jennifer, I wouldn’t be doing anything. She is the one making sure that I do something and I wouldn’t have lost the 8 lbs I have without her help. Thanks Jenn. ^_^
Sometimes you need someone believing in you a little more than you believe in yourself!! and THAT is what sisters are for!!! 😉
Tol’ you…. Jen boot camp…LOL!!!!
LOL!!! Too funny!! It sounds like I might not be the “bossy” sister anymore – I will have to come up with a new label for myself! HAHAHA!! 😉
LMAO!!! You know it is wonderful what a support team will do for you, but you are the one who lost the weight…off your own body. So do give yourself some credit.
Also…take a look at us ol’ ladies…tee hee…. we have a lot of knowledge and wisdom in our years and know what we are talking about. We are just now having to apply them to ourselves as well. I could write a health fitness book on the info I have stored in my head…just have to practice what I preach…LOL!
My mom used to tell me when I was your age, that it was so much easier to lose the weight when you are younger than when you are older. GD!!!!! She was right! URG!
Thanks Jay
You both should come down and do Jennifer boot camp for one week. lol
LOL!! What would that entail, Jennifer???
I would push you just as hard as Trina.
Yes, but you can’t kick me out when I tell you no!!! 😉
And are you gonna Provide room and board?
I’d like a bigger room please?? Room Service???
You have to pay for this boot camp. This isnt a 5 star joint.
I’d like to see your credentials, Mam!! 😉
LOLLLLL!!! I am so laughing over here in my cubicle.. My desk mates are asking what’s so funny.
A view would be nice, and I don’t want to sleep next to the elevator or the ice machine!!!
There is not elevator that works and you can sleep next to the fridge if you want, it is your choice.
There is not an elevator that works and you can sleep next to the fridge if you want, it is your choice.
If you want the noise of the ice machine I can always get a bag of ice and chew on it really hard near your head.
Uh Thanks, but no thanks!! Besides you will fall asleep drooling melted ice onto my head – uhmm, no thanks!!
You will be on an air mattress. You will float just fine.
uhmmm…I am not sure how to respond to that, Jen!! Thanks??
I walk an hour four days a week, then a half hour of shaking everything on my body to music….(I call it dancing to music) I try to do that at least everyday.
I am glad you clarified about the shaking everything on your body = dancing, I was worried there for a moment!!! 😉
Now THAT I would pay to see lol.
Well, come on down. You are the next customer in my new stripper establishment called, CHUBBS
Yes, but the catch is, all of the patrons are blind folded!!
OH EM GEE!! Your killing my sides here in downtown Phoenix. I missed out on so much last night! BAH HUMBUG!
Uhm…NO you won’t young man!!! LOL! 😉
I am soooo excited for the four day weekend this week – do you guys get the four days off??
Nope…work everyday of it
I get three days off, I am happy about that. I get to sleep in on Saturday. ^_^
and you want to watch the kids so paul and i can have a date night
Sweet, Trina!! When was the last time you could say that???
I told you, I need compensation of some sort before I will do it. I almost killed Taylynn on Tues. so there might not be a difference on Sat.
Subtle, Alice!!! LOL!
Dang!! That stinks!! I have a NICE LOOOOOONG honey do list for Jason that I am hoping to knock out at least a few items off of this weekend!!! 😉
Alice is getting ready to hop on! 🙂
tag jen i saw you on the side of the road tonight.
you didnt honk?
i was in the left lane and you where talking to somone. ok so i got some yard work done tonight and the bugs are eatting my fruit and veggies it sucks
You didn’t pick her up did you? That might not be safe. I have heard that she is dangerous. lol
Wait! What I am doing talking to all of you strangers??? isn’t THAT supposed to be dangerous!?!?!?
If we are strangers, then no Santas this year for you. I don’t give presents to strangers. ^_^
Oh, Trina, I KNEW I recognized you!!! LOL!! 😉
Hey Alice…what kind of bugs are eating your plants? You many need to go to the store and pick up some natural pesticides. I know ashes keep slugs away and soapy water keeps aphids away… talk to your brother-in-law…he can tell you.
shhhhh!!!!
on the Side of the Road, was ya wurkin hun
Usually I am, but tonight I got no takers.
You guys are soooo silly!! Alice, if you saw her on the side of the road, why didn’t you stop and pick her up?? Jen, were you walking??
Yes. The bike path goes alongside I-5
Oh, weird! Is that safe??
yeah there is a fence between the two.
Usually people honk at us.
Why, are you flashing them??
for the advertisement
LOL>>>>>>GOOD ONE CHRISSIE!
huh??
she is saying she is easy.
I flash them for the advertisement. We have no real idea on why they honk. They just do so we wave.
YOU WAVE???? You are too funny!!
One time, the person who honked was in a Walmart truck and Jennifer and her two friends were still in their Walmart uniforms. It was kinda funny.
That was actually very funny. The girls say they honk because of my nice butt.
Well, sometimes you have to take the complements from WHEREVER they come!!! 😉
so i just brought some roses in and i can’t have them in the house they are making me want to pull my eyes out…..but they are so preaty mom.
OH, that is too bad! I love fresh cut flowers!!
yeah me to but my alergies are realy bad this year any flower i have had near me sets me off
ok so it looks like i might have to restart my garden. is someone trying to tell me i have a green thumb? i wanted health sttuff
green thumb is a good thing when working on a garden
hey Jen you should go camping with us and we can walk on the beach togther.
Yes, you should – there would be room at our campsite!!
and mine
I would like to go, but I have to work quite a bit at work this summer. I can get time off only at the beginning of the summer I think. Bummer.
Yes, that is a bummer, but maybe we can plan another time together! That would be fun!!
Won’t you have Stephanie and Taelynn with you?
no i am supose to bring tae to salem sometime next month when it is convenient for her i said i would but if i had nothing going on
oh, ok! That is too bad! I think Steph would have had fun!! 😉
We will only have two people at our campsite!! Trina you should try to go too!
What do you mean you have to restart your garden?? Do you not have healthy stuff?
All the bugs are eatting my fruits and veggies. no home grown healthy food
Oh, you will have to learn some organic ways to take care of those little critters!! So you can still eat your healthy food!!
there are natural remedies to deal with that problem Alice
Yes, that is what I just said!
i think i have a brown thumb but i am going to try agian aarons corn is coming along just fine what is my problem. more yard work no fun strawberrys are not looking good either.
oh jen what about camping
Strawberries are really hard, especially if you have little people trying to pick every single berry as soon as it starts looking like a berry! I used to do that when I was little!! GUILTY AS CHARGED!!! 😉
I wont be able to get the last week of June off. Its already posted and there are two cashiers off that week.
oh that sucks i think it would be fun dad can’t even go either i asked
Dang!! Well, we will have to plan something else then!! No worries!!
Yeah, one lady is going to be gone at the end of June because her daughter is going to have a baby and she is going to be with her, Lisa will be gone a lot at Camp Baker, and the other lady I work with is in and out of the hospital so I don’t know what my schedule is like.
hey trina if i can get somone else to watch the house do you wanna come
Well, I hate to flee, but it is well past my bedtime, and I can always tell I am tired by how much farther I slouch on this couch, and right now – it is a pretty dramatic and sad slouch, so I am going to take my tired self up to bed!!!
Thanks for joining me tonight!! Jason and I were a little lonely last week when only he and I were chatting!! It is sad when I am upstairs and he is down, and we are both the only two talking via computer, when we are the only two in our tiny condo!! SAD!!!
I love you lots!!! I can’t wait to hear about everyone’s progress next week!!
Toodles!!
~C 😉
~Chrissy
oh i am sorry chrissy love ya
No worries!! I am just glad you guys were here tonight!!
I love you!!
K, night, Love you.
Have a good night.
You too, Jennifer!! Keep up the GREAT job!!
thanks
I love you guys MORE!
no I love you guys more.
Sorry everyone. I only slept 3 hrs the night before and when I got home I crashed!
I have lost another couple of pounds…YAHOO!!!!! Happy Dance!
Victoria and I are moving me to a new house that is closer to her school and Ant’s house. It has a gated pool in the back yard so she is ALLL EXCITED! My water baby!
Okay…now I have to read everyone’s posts and comment. Love to you all this week and keep it up!