Hi, NS Friends,
After all the talk last week about going to Cracker Barrel
to give my GD her keyboard,
the trip got postponed to an undetermined date in
the future. She is so busy being in the
color guard at school, getting started
in a new school year and having a mother too busy
right now to accommodate me
by meeting halfway, the keyboard will have to wait. I may
yet take it up there,
but her whole family is so busy, I’d probably just be in the way, so
I’ll wait
until they settle into the new school routine before I do.
I went to Cracker Barrel anyway, only about a week later. We
have friends who wanted
to meet us there for supper last evening (Friday), so I
went straight from work. The food
was good, but I wasn’t. I ate a fried egg
sandwich with a couple slices of tomato – no
mayo – and one pancake with real
syrup – no butter. I jumped on my bike when I got
home and pedaled like crazy
for 30 minutes, but it didn’t work. 
Although
I had been pretty good all week, I
still didn’t lose, but stayed the same when I weighed
in this morning. 
Fingers were
crossed on this one. One thing about it, if I had
gained, it would not have been NS’s fault. It’s still the
best program going 
and has much better food than Jenny Craig. Believe me, I
tried them a number of years
ago. Never again. Personal opinion, of course.
Wow, my days were hopping this week! On my job, 
I introduced
a new
web-based case management system, and the phones and emails were hot for
days!
Everyone was happy with the system, but there were a few glitches I had
to get the
software developers to fix, plus I had to walk quite a number of
paralegals and
lawyers through the steps necessary to use it. All in all, it
was really fun. I love
computers and love putting something like this into
place and helping others
understand the process. I had to deal with some
other non-related issues too
having to do with a list serve and a forum I moderate. No
biggies, just time-
consuming and not quite as positive as the other major task
of the week.
I wish everyone the best this weekend and the coming week
with your eating and
exercising programs. Stay with NS faithfully and you’ll
lose. (Do as I say, not as
I did last night. 
TTYL ~~~Joan