skinnychris

Thats my motto for this weekend.  I plan on playing and refusing to grow up!  Its the first official weekend of the summer and I plan on enjoying it to the fullest!!!

With that being said, I still dont plan on going crazy.  In fact tonight I plan on eating before we go to the cookout.  I bought stuff to make myself healthy chili dogs!  So I still feel like I am eating summertime, bad food while staying on track.  I also plan on skipping the drinking tonight due to the fact I have to get up early in the morning.  And to play tricks with myself I have agreed that if I am good tonight I will allow some cheating tomorrow.  But then hopefully it will be coming a downpour by afternoon and that cookout will be cancelled! LOL!!!

Let me tell you about my weigh in and measure at Curves today.  It was AWESOME!!!  Just what I needed with this weekend coming up.  First, since April 24th I have lost 6.75 pounds.  That means I have lost 1.10% of my body fat (or 4 pounds of pure’d FAT!)!  Now I am considered to be in the healthy body fat range!!!!!!!  *jumping up and down*!!  Is that not awesome or what?  Also, that puts my BMI at 26.1 which is only 1.1 point from no longer being considered overweight!!!!

In total I lost 7.5 inches off my body!  Now THAT was thrilling to hear!  But of course the most inches off one spot (1.75 inches) came off my boobs!!!  I am rapidly being promoted to chairperson of the itty bitty titty committee!!  I knew my brand new bras were fitting loose but still. How about sucking more off my belly?  I did lose 1/2 inch off my waist and 1 1/2 inches off my abdomen though.

So I have to say the 30 days was definitely worth it.  I’m gonna think about it over the weekend and talk to Tom but I will probably join up.  I really dont want to go backwards now and let all that muscle turn back to flab.

I also did a modified workout today so I could still sweat some without hurting the knee any.  Thanks for all the comments and well wishes, it is feeling better today.  Still feeling twisted if that makes sense but I think alot of that has to do with the swelling.  I plan on taking it easy this weekend plus I cant bike right now anyway, my bike has a flat!  I have no idea what I ran over, Tom is gonna have to look at it for me.

So I guess thats my Friday in a nutshell!  I worse a tangerine orange sleeveless Old Navy dress today, the ones that look like a long Polo shirt.  People just had a fit over it.  And I felt really good in it too.  I caught a glimpse of myself a few times today and really couldnt believe it was me.  Where did that thin person come from?  Where are the bulges and bumps?!?!?!  Yeah, today is a MUCH better today.  Getting that report from Curves was exactly what I needed right now.

Ok, I am off!  I need to get changed into an old pair of cut-offs, an ugly tee and a pair of flip flops!  Let summer begin!!  Everyone have a wonderful holiday weekend but PLEASE be careful out there!  Even if you arent drinking and driving the person you meet on the road may be so stay alert.   Lets see each other all back here Tuesday, fully rested from a long, fun filled weekend!!  And dont forget what this weekend is truly about.  Remember our service people, the ones we have lost along the way throughout the years and the ones still fighting for our freedom. Say a little prayer for them.  Bye buddies!!!

Because I did.  Seriously, I think it had to do with changing scales.  Our digital scales are a POS so we decided to retire them.  We dragged the doctor scales back out and thats what it showed.  Last week I weighed 177.6, today 177.5.  So in other words, I maintained!!  Not complaining one bit since I know what I put in my body over the weekend.  So WOOT for me!

But now to the complaining.  I hurt my knee today at the gym.  And now I am in a very foul mood.  Let me do some ’splaining.  Years ago, 2002 I think it was, I was moving.  Another move during my divorce so it wasnt a good time to start off with.  I was pitching and pulling clothes out of my closet deciding what to keep and what to throw away.  It just so happens a suede skirt landed at the top of my staircase.  Yup, I did it.  Without thinking I started down the stairs, stepped on the skirt in sock feet.  It slid underneath me and caused me to start slidding. Down the stairs I went.  And when I finally landed my right leg was twisted behind me in a very bad position.  I didnt go to the ER as I had no insurance but I did get in to see my PCP the next morning.  But again, with no insurance I couldnt afford x-rays and the MRI he wanted to do.  So instead I landed on crutches for a few weeks, a huge knee and alot of bruising. 

But because of that alone I have had to be very careful with my knee.  I have never been able to fully extend it out like I used to be able to do. The pain would stop me dead in my tracks if I did.  But for some reason today, probably because I was talking to the trainer and not paying attention I over extended on the leg press machine and instantly knew I had capital letter F’d up!  The pain hit, ran all the way down my leg and settled in my ankle. 

I was able to walk out, semi grin on my face and limp to my car.  Now I am just hurting.  Ice and a hot soak in the bath and still hurting.  More ice coming up.  But that is NOT how I wanted to end my 30 days with Curves.  

And of course because I overthink and rethink (remember ruminating?) everything in my life I am totally stressing over this weekend.  I wont be able to make my Fathers Day goal.  I’m ok with that, really I am.  But of course it sets the stage of “why not go ahead and have fun this weekend” instead of thinking “I need to keep it in check this weekend”.  Something tells me no matter how much I ruminate over it I’m gonna end up eating.  And drinking. But ya know what?  Thats ok too.  I am human right?  And just because I do eat and drink this weekend it doesnt mean I am a failure or blowing it, right?  Then would you PLEASE tell my brain that because I am already beating myself up and I havent done anything yet!!!  >:-[

I think my biggest problem today is my knee.  I know for alot of folks this will make no sense. But to have this pop up now…well it takes me back mentally to my divorce and what I went thru.  How my ex cancelled my health insurance to be an ass and hurt me.  And it did.  And still years later it is still hurting me because I have an injury that could have been taken care of back then.  I know my divorced buddies can understand where I am coming from.  Debbi, Nancy?  You know what I mean.  The physical hurt may go away but it only takes one thing to undo us mentally.  One reminder and it knocks the wind right out of your sails.  And then I even get more mad for letting this all come rushing back to me.   

*sigh*.  I gotta stop this now before I blame my ex for the state of the country and the gas prices going back up. 

Oh my GOSH!! My appetite is out of control this afternoon.  I’m not a little bit hungry, I am friggin starving!  My belly is chewing on a rib! 

I am trying to calm it down, I fixed myself a Diet Coke and I’m munching on a Fiber 1 bar.  Maybe all that fiber will do the trick.  But I think its being caused by all the Memorial Day food bombardment.  It seems like no matter where I turn, look or listen I am hearing something about food.  Its all over tv, hell Ellen is doing some ice cream thing right now!  On the radio today while at work, its all I heard about.  We have a festival here Memorial Day weekend called Riverfest.  Its a huge to-do on the bank of the Arkansas River and its nothing but a junk food/cold beer fest.  Ok, they do have live music but mainly you go for the deep fried food and the gallons of beer or fruity little drinks.  We dont go but its all they are talking about on the radio and tv.  Deep fried twinkies, snickers, turkey legs, corn dogs, fried potatoes….ARGGGHHH!! No wonder my belly is screaming FEED ME NOW!!  I wish the new prez would take charge and make it illegal to celebrate our country’s holidays with food!  ENOUGH ALREADY!

My one saving grace to all the cookouts this weekend?  Well its suppose to rain now.  All that mess from Florida is about to move west.  Yeah, west not east.  Its called an Eastern Wave.  Cute huh?  Anyway, our rain chances have gone thru the roof so if its coming a flood there wont be any cookouts.  Of course that also means no tree trimming, no pool opening, no pumpkin planting.  But thats ok if it means it will save me from ruining my weekend with sides of beef and gallons of beer!!

My Curves 30 day membership ends this Friday.  So that means I get to weigh in there and also get my measurements taken again.  I am pretty excited about that.  The weigh in is gonna suck but I think I’ll be pretty happy with the inches lost.  I can really see a difference in certain parts of my body.  My legs especially.  I have nice little dents (not puckers!!) where my muscles have really toned.  My arms are looking awesome, good bye bat wings!  Even my sides and back are looking alot leaner.  Unless I’m dreaming it and its really still there!  But I also have to decide if I’m gonna continue my membership with them.  I do want to, I just hate signing long term contracts. That is a real con for me.  Not that I plan on stopping but you just dont know what is gonna happen a few months down the road.  I’m still thinking it over.

Weigh in is tomorrow, the scales are still up but looking better.  I might actually luck out with only a gain of a few ounces or maybe a maintain.  And hopefully we will have some news on whether this meeting will remain open or not.  I have decided for sure that if it closes I am done with attending meetings.  I will either do it online or attempt it myself.  While I’m not crazy about either of those ideas I just wont have time to drive out to the center for a meeting.  Its just too far from my office.

So anyway, thats about it.  The diet coke and fiber bar seems to have helped.  I’m not about to eat my Hungry stuffed man anymore!  His googly eyes crack me up.  I forgot to tell ya they sale a bigger one online (to the WW’s online members) and my sis bought me one.  So I have him sitting right under my monitor staring at me making sure I dont forget and go to shoving deep fried snickers in my mouth! 

Gotta get off here, we have to go mow my grandmothers yard this afternoon before the rain moves back in.  Well Tom has to mow, I get to visit with her.

Becky, the pup is doing good!  Growing like crazy and has developed somewhat of a pot belly on him!  He is still staying with us full time and no signs of dude coming to look for him either.

Later buddies!!

Wow, I remember now why I dont like taking long weekends off.  I can barely go the next day back at work.  Plus it doesnt help me at all that I sit in a cold, dark room for 8 hours a day with no sunlight.  I mean none at all.  If I want to see sun I have to go downstairs.  I do get out when I go to the gym but then I come back and eat lunch and get extremely tired after that.  And today I am feeling it.  I have yet to make it out on my bike ride and something is telling me I wont.  I think instead I’ll get on the elliptical tonight.  I just dont feel like loading up my bike, driving to the river, unloading and then dealing with the traffic down there.  I know, it sounds like a bunch of excuses and I’m not denying it.  They are, but I am just too tired to do it today. 

Ok guys, so what do you have planned for this weekend?  I really didnt think to much about it yesterday.  So we get an extra day off work.  Great!  If it doesnt rain I can get all sorts of stuff done this weekend.  If the garden dries enough I am gonna plant my Big Max pumpkins, some squash, broccoli and sunflowers.  About the only things I can do this late in the season.  And I really, really want to get the pool open.  But its yet to feel Memorial Day/Summertime around here for me.  It was 45 here this morning!  Last year it was hotter than hell at this time!  Crazy weather!

Anyway, back to this weekend. Guess what I found out?  We have cookouts to attend, starting Friday night.  I *might* be able to get around that one.  We wouldnt go over until later and I will be too hungry to wait to eat.  So I can eat at home and take a huge diet Coke with me to drink. I will be too tired from working so the party scene wont be happening that night for me.  But then we have not only Saturday and Sunday to get thru but they have to go and give us Monday too!  More food, to die for grilling and BBQ and lets not forget BEER!  What is Memorial Day without a cold one!?  ARRRGGHHH!!

And to make matters worse I will be going in this week to my meeting with a gain (up two pounds it seems).  Totally expected due to my fiesta Sunday but I didnt count that in when I figured Fathers Day to be my goal date.  So that probably wont happen afterall.  I’ll see what really does happen Thursday and if the goal cant be met as I thought, I’m not gonna be super disciplined this weekend.  Not that I plan on eating the entire pig or cow or whatever is on the grill but you know what I mean.  I wont be packing my own meal or turning down a cold one.  We will just have to see.  But let me state this is NOT a cop out or break from my diet.  Instead I will just enjoy the weekend for what it is.  I found out earlier this year if I put to much pressure on myself to be perfect or to be at a certain weight by a certain time (thats not reasonable) I will crack and binge.  None of that this time.  I am finally losing again and getting too close to goal to OCD myself to death with an unreasonable goal.  So anyway, right now I’m just waiting on Thursday and will take it from there!

I know its still a few months (and many scorching days) away but I am already looking forward to Fall!  I think its the pumpkin talk doing it to me.  Its my favorite season and this year I know I will be at my goal weight when we take pictures at Thanksgiving.  Summer will be long and hot but there is always a reward at the end. 

Ok, I am doing it again…talking thru my fingers about mindless stuff!  I’m gonna get off here and go cook supper.  Believe it or not blogging about being tired has made me feel better.  Maybe I just needed some sun and a little bit to rest.  I think I feel a itch coming on and it needs to be scratched by some sweating! LOL!! Come on and join me!! 

Yup, that is the attitude I woke up with this morning.  If I want to be successful I must fight.  Fight the good fight, turn away the bad and march ahead to my goal weight.  Yes, thats right my buddies…I am going off to war to lose the last few pounds keeping me from my goal.

I’m not obsessing or changing anything up, I’m just keeping my head in the game and looking down the road.  As I blogged yesterday, I have picked Fathers Day weekend as my goal date and I am ready!  Already been to the gym today and about to go grab my bike.  Yup, the park is back open and I am ready to feel the wind in my hair and the sun on my face!  The scales are going to remain my friend the next 5 weeks because they are constantly gonna be going down, down, down! 

Now, with all the pumped up talk out of the way….let me tell ya something buddies.  I am WORN OUT!!  LOL!!  I think I way over did it over the weekend.  I am so glad I took today off afterall.  I didnt get out of bed until after 9 today and then sat and stared into space until after 10 when I finally forced myself to fix breakfast.  I did feel better after that so I changed and headed off to the gym.  Had a great workout, I so love that Curves south of me.  She has 3 other machines that my gym doesnt have, one is a lateral lift and it really works your sides.  I can feel it in my belly, the tightness and soreness.  Now I love that feeling.  But anyway, since I was so close to Tom’s office I went by and grabbed him and we went to Subway for lunch.  But afterward I got so sleepy I thought I was gonna have to lay down on the floor and take a nap! But I made it back home and now I am trying to decide if I want to go on to the park and go ride or if I want to clean some.  I have so much laundry to do, the kitchen floor is trashed, the dishes are backed up. But thats really the only mess I have. For the most part the house is still clean even though we ran steady all weekend long.

The weather is suppose to stay gorgeous here for the extended so I should have plenty of time to spend outside, especially this weekend.  There is a chance I might actually get the pool opened!!  Maybe it will be warmed up by the 4th of July!! LOL!!  I love looking outside and seeing the sun pour down.  Something we have not seen in a long time around these parts!  But its suppose to be super cold here over the next few nights. They are saying record breaking lows…YUCK!  I need heat damnit!  I am sick of being cold.  Plus I have all these new cute SUMMER clothes to wear Mother Nature!!

Thanks to all of you who supported me last night thru my mini meltdown concerning the pooch.  He stayed here all night long right up until I left to go to the gym today.  I’m not sure where he is right now but I doubt he is far.  I bet he has found himself a cool shade tree to lay under for a nice afternoon nap.  I hope thats all the drama we have for awhile.  And atleast dude knows we are gonna take care of him regardless.

Ok, I have droned on enough.  I need to get my ass up and get on that bike.  Goal isnt gonna come knocking on my door, I gotta get out there and work for it.  Time to burn some rubber, burn some miles.  Ok, so I wont be burning rubber on my mountain bike but it sure sounded good didnt it?

Later days buddies!  Keep strong and look down the road at your goal!  Imagine how happy you are gonna be.  Because nothing tastes as good as skinny feels!!!!

For my buddies that have been following the puppy saga at my house…we came home tonight to find him chained up at his old owners house.  He is over there right now crying at the top of his lungs.

His owner brought in a pitbull this afternoon and chained him up to a tree in his backyard.  Totally pissed me off as I had to hear the poor pup yelp all afternoon. But I was so glad big B was here with me.  We left to run over to a friends house and came home to an empty backporch.  We called and found a pityful cry.  Tom snuck thru the woods and found my worst fear confirmed.  He now has him too chained to a tree.  I am crying my eyes out. Not my big ol baby.  Tom is heading over now to beg him, let us keep him.  Dont do this. 

Hello again buddies!  We just got in from town and getting Tom his new boots and jeans. But it wasnt a total wash for me, I got a new pair of Ariat mules that I adore!  Funny they have them out now when they are really a fall/winter type shoe.  Oh well, they can sit in the box until September.

Lets see, where to begin??  My family got in Thursday afternoon and wow, you can tell the weight loss on sis and bil!!  In fact as my bil was walking up the front porch steps he started losing his jogging pants.  His hands were full and he couldnt do anything about it.  I started laughing and told him that he didnt have to panty moon me just because he was getting all fit and trim and trying to show off!  Of course making him laugh made his pants fall down even more.  By the time he got inside they were down around his ankles!!  Yup, he has lost ALOT!

Sis was really looking good too.  She like myself, shows it in her face.  Thats where I could really see it on her.  I had pulled out alot of my larger clothes and put them in their bedroom for her to take home with her.  So she tried on a pair of 18 shorts I had and said no way would they fit.  Well…they did!!  She was over the moon!!  She kept a big ol smile on her face the rest of the night.  Friday we went by our town’s pharmacy to get her a candle.  She went to the counter to check out and I was still looking.  So I got ready to catch up with her, looked at the lady at the counter checking out and then kept looking for my sis.  But the lady at the counter WAS my sis!  From the back I didnt know her.  I could really see it in her backside!  Of course she wasnt laughing because she has no ass anyway and now she says she just has a back with a crack!!!   She is shrinking in front of my eyes!

Thursday night we grilled out center cut pork chops and veggies and had a wonderful dinner.  Friday we got up before the sun and went yard sale-ing in our hometown with our grandmother.  As luck would have it I found me a pair of RocketDog clogs!!  I have been looking for some, didnt really want to pay retail.  These were brand new, still had the tags on them and I got them for a dollar!  I found my bargain of the day first thing!  Before even 7 am in the morning! LOL!!!  But anyway, the yard sales were awesome this weekend, you would not believe the clothes I found.  I dont understand folks selling brand new or almost new clothing so cheap.  My sis got a brand new, tags still on it (so why not return it instead?) Ralph Lauren corduroy skirt.  The price on it was 79.99 and the chick let it go for 5 bucks!!!  A pair of Lucky Brand jeans, retail on the tag said 65, sis got them for 3.

I think in all I ended up with around 6 pairs of capris, a pair of khaki dress pants, probably 12 or more tops, 4 or 5 tees, I think 5 sweat/fleece shirts and 4 sweaters.  Uhm, 4 purses and a pair of dressy red flip flops.  A nearly new Columbia all weather lined jacket (very nice, only paid 3 bucks for it…didnt need it but I had to get it!  It was 3 friggin bucks! Those jackets are 60+ in sporting goods stores).  A rooster cookie jar, a hanging rooster mold, a rooster soap dispenser (I collect roosters and my kitchen is done in them), a couple of grilling pans for my veggies, 5 books…and a partridge in a pear tree! LOL!! 

Did I forget anything?!?!?!?!  

Friday night we hooked up with our little sis and went out for supper at Applebees.  I love their WW’s garlic chick but sis and bil thought it was too garlicky.  Not for me, I cant get enough!  But yes, Saturday we went out for Chinese.  Of course yesterday morning the scales were showing almost a pound lost!  I started not to go and eat it but I did.  But I kept it very light.  Only a spoon full of the things I like and only 1 crab rangoon.  I did have a little strawberry ice cream though! Hehehehehe!  But I managed to stay full and only had some broccoli and a corn on the cob for supper last night.  We were all so worn out from running for two days we came in, snacked a bit and vegged in front of the tv.  Sadly they left this morning but they should be able to come back home again around July or maybe the first of August.

I do have to admit I woke up strong this morning (and btw, the Chinese…well my belly didnt take to kindly to it if you know what I mean) and loving the scales.  Probably had something to do with my upset belly.  So I thought to myself its the start of a new week, I ate a little yesterday but now I’m on track.  Until Tom and I went to make our last stop at Wally World today.  We passed by our favorite Mexican place.  And I kept driving.  But as I got ready to park at Wally he tells me he really wants to eat there.  I didnt but I cant force him to miss things because of me.  So we went.  And I ate.  There, I said it.  First Chinese then Mexican.  I was very cultural this weekend!!  But no regrets, it was good and we havent eaten there since my birtday in January.  I’ll make up for it, I swear!!  And I wont be all down if my weigh in isnt good this week.  I’ll just keep at it because I know I’m headed to goal.

Speaking of, our float trip is scheduled for Father’ Day weekend this year.  If I counted right that is 5 weeks away.  So there is my goal date.  The Thursday before Father’s Day.  It it totally doable and guess what?  I’m gonna do it!!  I told Tom at lunch (yeah, the Mexican) that if we are going on the float that lunch today would be it until the trip.  Not even next weekend will be an excuse.  He agreed and said he may even try to drop a few pounds by then.  So eating the Mexican and Chinese may have a been a good thing.  Got it all out of my system and ready to look ahead.  The scales this morning said 177.2 (again, may not be accurate since I have the green apple trots) so that would put me 8.2 pounds away from goal.  Its crunch time baby!!! Time to hit it hard, take charge and look hot as I am floating down stream in a canoe! 

Ok…I know this is looooong and drawn out but I had a few days to catch up on.  Plus I did want to throw that in about my goal date.  The sun is shining and hopefully the park will re-open this week.  Back to the gym and my date with my bike. But right now I gotta go help clean up our nasty ass yard.  Do you know what 12 inches of rain does to a yard when you cant mow it for 3 weeks?? 

Love to you guys!!  Have a great rest of your Sunday!!!

My sissy is gone!!!!  whhhhaaaaaaaa

But we had a really great visit and I’ll be back later to update on what all we did and how much fun we had!  Both she and my bro in law are looking great!  But for now I need to go run thru the shower and get ready, we’ve got to go into town and do some shopping today for Tom.  But its perfect weather for it, the sun is out and no more rain is expected for days!!  We might actually dry out!! 

Enjoy your day!

Sis is almost here!  But I wanted to check in and say I did have a loss this week.  A whopping .8 of a pound!! WOOOHOOOOO!!!

NOT!

What a joke.  All my hard work for that?  Well I said I would be happy with a maintain so I cant go back on my own word.  Any loss is better than a gain, right?

Got one obstacle this weekend.  My grandmother is hell bent and bound on taking us to eat Chinese Saturday.  I just dont get it.  Why all the sudden is she trying to sabatoge?  Not only my diet but now my sister who really doesnt need a buffet of tempting Chinese food!!  I am gonna talk to my sis tonight and see if she can talk some sense into our grandmother.  Its gonna piss her off if I go to Subway while they go to the buffet but I know me and Chinese food and its a disaster waiting to happen.  You guys can tell me all day long to only eat a little bit of certain things and I will say ok.  And I’ll say ok.  Until I walk in the door.  Then all bets are off.  Its a total red flag food, no control whatsoever.  So its either not go or splurge.

More rain moving in but it looks like we will get in one good day of yard sale-ing tomorrow.  And I will be taking my lunch tomorrow, no trips by the Sonic or Mazzio’s!

Ok…I need to jet.  My pound puppy decided to dump his food bowl ALL OVER the backporch today.  I have no clue what that is about.  First he couldnt get enough to eat, now he would rather dump out the food and chew on his bowl!  Just like a kid, he has all those toys out there now and he still is chewing on everything else!  LOL!  But he is happy and that makes me happy.  You were so right in your comment last night Becky. 

Guys have a great weekend!  Talk to ya soon!  {{hugs}}

Hey buddies!  Let me start off by saying I was really upset with Biggest Loser last night.  All that hype and such a let down at the end.  I’m not going into any detail because a fellow buddy asked to warn her before we talked about it (I dont think she is watching it until tomorrow) so I’m not gonna mention names here just in case she stumbles on my blog.  But anyway…enough of that.

I am still up a pound.  Weigh in is tomorrow and I really thought by now the bloat would be gone.  At this rate by next week I am gonna be 10 pounds up.  I even weighed at the gym this morning to make sure my scales are right and they are.  I guess I’m gonna have to go ahead and start TOM next week.  I am so not happy about this at all.  Why am I bothering to try to stop my period with hormones when my body is gonna do what it wants to anyway?!?!?!  Two more years, if I can make it two more years and then GOODBYE uterus!!!

I came in tonight and decided to clean my car since my nephew will probably need to use it this weekend.  Of course my new fur buddy was out there with me.  All the sudden I hear a whistle and someone calling his name.  He did too.  He looked at me, looked at the woods and then looked at me again.  As much as I didnt want to I told him to go on.  So he did.  And was back in less than a minute.  I had to laugh.  A few minutes later, the same thing.  This time he was gone maybe two minutes but was right back and laying in front of my car like he was saying “yeah, I like you better”.  Tongue hanging out looking all goofy with his block head!  This time I was really laughing so he came over to join me.  I was squatted behind my car waiting for dude to walk up and snatch him away but he didnt.  So there.  He knows where his dog is but isnt too concerned I guess.  I went this afternoon and got him a bunch of things to chew on since he seems to be really liking my turtle family out back.  Not killing them but I bet the turtles think he is! 

Sis comes in tomorrow so I might be gone for a few days.  This is gonna be a super short trip for them this time so we have alot to accomplish in about 72 hours.  So I’m gonna send out HAPPY WEEKEND wishes to you now and see ya (probably) Sunday!!