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Comment by hurleyl8dyShip6Div943PIR9/10/10 on March 2, 2011 at 7:50pm

Hey all, wow so many pretty pictures. So good to see everyones sailors are well. AJ you son is out to sea and in pearl harbor wow.

All is well here. Justbattleing the norm stuff like colds and allergies. Seems to be going around down here. Marts new GF is very nice. They get along great.

We are getting ready for the many weddings we have. My youngest is getting married the last Friday of April. Then a bunch more family members marrying too. Seems my house is the house for parties like showers and all. Sorry I've been so busy doing this. It's all good though, love it all!

So my one son who got married during marts BC in the beach shot gun wedding is finally shipping out. He wil
Miss his brothers wedding but hey, he will be one of the last classes this year for BC for the coast Gaurd. Took him over a year to get in but I guess the wait paid off since they take under 2000 recruits a year. He signed for 6 years with2 inscribe. Very exciting for him and his wife.

Ok, Mary, the boobie thing, go get your boobies if you want them. Not that you need them cause you are a very beautiful women no matter what but if it makes you feel better then treat yourself!

I love my ice cream every night. Yummy. I sometimes get out of bed in the middle of the night and eat it... Not that I remember or. Anything, did I mention I take ambien to sleep? Hehe. Makes the guilt of eating when you don't know it easier!

Such beautiful snow pictures iris. Love the flower. I love to look at snow but get so cold in it. Nothing like a full moon and a new snow.

So now AJ you are stil
In costa rica? So cool.

Well I will try not to be a strNger! Love you guys!

Comment by nicole~a sailors girl(: on March 2, 2011 at 6:31pm

HAha. I loved your post below mine AJ.

I had a somewhat eating disorder when i was little. I was so picky I basically had to have vitamins or id have died.i ate less than 1 full mea la day. and pretty much went on fluids. i was skinny as could be, and also, flat as a board, no boobs, no butt. i was hopeless. i started actually eationg when i got into middle school, and eating good food at that, well, somewhat, still very picky, but not the whole "this cannot touch this" picky.now i have boobs, and a very very small butt..nothing wrong with gaining a little, if you tone it you'll have the whole hour glass thing i cant seem to get going on. i have a half hour glass, the upper half. LOL.

 

Comment by AJ on March 2, 2011 at 5:41pm

More cookies and ice cream please ............ I have more of those 'womanly curves' myself.  I am bellying up to the bar ..... I want cookies .... I want ice cream .... I want big boobs.

Comment by d o on March 2, 2011 at 5:37pm

I know there is a skinny thing inside me that wants me to exercise, but when she whines, I shut that B**** up with ice cream and cookies.

  Enough is enough, we're not 16 anymore, deal with it.  By the way, I like having big boobs for a change, when I was skinny I was flat as a board. Who wants to make love to a bag of bones anyway?!  It's time to enjoy those womanly curves-my came by the good stuff, not Twinkies.

Comment by AJ on March 2, 2011 at 2:12pm

Our shining Iris gives us another opportunity to see her strength and general 'amazingness'.  I had the pleasure of meeting you in person in September, so know what you look like .... beautiful ...... and don't let these 30 lbs you speak of beat you up ........ you have been whipping the a$$ off of everything lately .... and this will be no exception.  Just remember that your family does not define you, including any propensity for obesity, and you have 30 lbs you want to lose, not 300!  Please don't see them when you look in the mirror.  I have had some close friends who experienced the pain of anorexia and bulemia .... and have witnessed them coming through and leading normal lives with a fairly healthy relationship with food.  I can feel your distress though, wanting at least half the weight to be gone now.  Please remember that your body is still working to regain all of its strength, immunities, and health after the rigors of your treatments.  So I for one, wouldn't want to see you do a dramatic diet that would deny your body the nutrition that it still needs.  

Why are your feet numb?  Circulation?  Have you checked out pilates?  Did you do the other diet thing that had you cutting out all sugars?

I know it is hard to be patient ... and that you want an awesome body by the time you go to Hawaii in May ... be gentle with yourself .... love who you are today .......... we do.

And if this approach just won't cut it for you .... you could always do the Master Cleanse thing with the water, lemon juice, honey, cayenne pepper ..... I just worry about that being too intense for your body ..... 

 

Now Mary, you had be laughing out loud with the image of Aaron on the toilet yelling for TP ... and that is why he can't call.  Love you!

 

Love you both .... love you all.

Comment by iris - Wahiawa, Hawaii on March 2, 2011 at 12:46pm

Good Morning Ladies - The battle with the bulge still rages on with me. God I hate having extra weight on. 30 lbs. UGH!  Okay so I've lost 3 lbs. Whoopti Doo....  I want it all off now. A little mental background. My entire Mom's side of the family are obese, my Dad is 415+ lbs currently, my Mom is 350 ish and my oldest sister is 290 lbs. I grew up being very fit but having a warped sense of my body. In the latter years of HS I started being bulimic and anorexic. This continued through both my pregnancies (stopped when pregnant but used it to get the 80 lbs each I gained, off)  until I met my current husband at 28 yrs old. I finally figured out how to manage my weight without doing the purge or starve thing. So yeah, kind of a nut job here. I find myself feeling very desperate to get the weight off right now. I have amped my exercise up to 40+ minutes cardio M, W & F and 30 min weight training T & Th. That will go up as I'm able to do it. My numb feet are what's throwing a monkey wrench in it. Grrr....  Anyhow, I get just a wee bit obsessive over my weight. Alright, a lot. And no matter how encouraging or sweet my husband is, I still can't accept how I look right now. Crazy, huh!? This is my kryptonite. So any of you suffer(ed) from an eating disorder?  Anyone have a great diet? I'm going to try the Mango/Cleanse diet. I just need to get at least 1/2 of it off right away to help me cope.

 

Okay, that's my meltdown. Thanks for being sports and listening. What a whiner, I know. =(

 

AJ - I totally understand what you are going through. I would be devastated and wondering what I did that made my kid not want to talk to me. But it's nothing you did or didn't do. It's him being incredibly selfish. He's not thinking about you and he doesn't mean to be that way either. It's how his brain is working right now. As kids develop their brain does too and his is going through the "it's all about me" phase. If you need more scientific data, do a search on brain development. I've simplified it quite a bit. I don't know if you knowing that will help or not. I'm pretty sure, not. I know I'd still feel pretty bad if my kiddo just didn't want to share their life with me, even a little. So that has probably made you even more depressed. I'm so sorry. Until he understands that you are suffering a great deal over this, he probably won't change, at least for a while yet. Have you told him how you feel? If you have, then I have to say, what the hell! Does he have a friend that could set him straight about how you treat your mom. I think you need to really let him know how much this is affecting your life. Oh if only I had a few minutes with him, I know I could make him understand that you still need him in your life. Just a little. Your suffering leads me to think you were a very involved, loving, doting, Mom to him. You'd think he'd miss that? I don't know what else to say, except my heart aches for you. I don't know if I told you, but I adopted a soldier who is stationed in Afgahnistan right now and I'm writing to him and will be sending him a care package soon. You could always do that too. Adopt-a-platoon is where I got his name. It helps to be able to mom something. Hang in there my friend. Let me know if shutting up would help you more than my rambling on and on. I won't take offense. =)

 

Well, it's another gray ass day. I need a job. Something to do besides inside stuff. Wow, I'm just in a sour mood today. Sorry folks. I'll go have another cup of coffee, exercise my butt off and hope for a few more pounds gone before the day is done.That should brighten me up.

 

Hope everyone is having a good day. Rainbows, sunshine and lollipops....Bahhhh... Lol... no really, smiles all around.

 

Hugs.

Comment by AJ on March 2, 2011 at 11:28am

This goes waaaaaayyyyyy beyond FB envy now .... one Mom Skyped with her son for 3 hours last night and then another hour later when another son came home!  That is 4 hours!  FOUR FREAKIN' HOURS!  Aaron and I were always so close ............ everything changed in A school and definitely since arriving on the ship ............. and, yes, I still want him to have all that fun I just wrote about. But, oh man, beat down the envy!

Comment by AJ on March 2, 2011 at 11:11am

ok ...... so a different kind of drool ..... just made a fruit smoothie ..... from a whole mango fresh from the tree ....... a banana just purchased at the market ..... and juice from oranges that were just picked off the tree and juiced ........ amazingly wonderful ....... and I've gotta make the most of it, cause I'm back to snowy Colorado on Monday ......... 

 

Comment by AJ on March 2, 2011 at 10:46am

Good morning.  A group of kickboxers now, eh?  Sounds like fun.

Glad to hear Mrs. B that you have an MC and Chaplain who are helping you out, whether it is with how to cope better, or getting out.  I hope you find the best path to make you and your family more content and settled.

And that ice cream d o ...... sounds incredibly delicious ..... I have not had it prepared that way yet ..... will try to find some when I get back to the States.

Aaron's ship arrived in Pearl Harbor yesterday for a scheduled visit, to get supplies (and that much needed TP  (which is true - they did not have enough!). So requests are out for care packages to contain TP.  Funny.

I now know to be true what I've only heard about before (and thought how pathetic and sad is that!) ..... had heard about the phenomenon of Facebook envy and depression ..... that you read about what your 'friends' are doing and great places they are traveling ..... and all the pictures of friends, and amazing things .... and one starts to compare themselves and their lives to the lives of their friends.  I never felt that way, not at all ............ UNTIL .......... the Facebook Navy Moms site ............... and their Sailors texting the very second the ship could pick up wireless ....... e-mails .......... photos of Hawaii .... skype calls ........... Sailors going out on deck to be able to catch that first hint of wireless and the ability to contact home.  Lots and lots and lots of this ..... but, no, not my son.  No text, to e-mail, no phone call, no skype.  They pulled into Hawaii yesterday morning ..... and he didn't even turn his phone on until sometime later in the afternoon ..... and who did he call? ..... his brother.  So, I sit here with incredible Facebook envy ...... fighting off any sign of depressive thoughts ........................ and still I'm thrilled for him ....he's never been to Hawaii ...... he wanted to go do the USS Arizona museum and you have to scuba dive to be able to see it ....... he told his brother he was going to.  There were groups going cliff diving, cave exploring, to a luau last night.  How cool for him that there are so many awesome things to do!  I am happy for him, so very happy for him ............ and then there is this other mommy part of me ..... that says, geez, just one call in his excitement of arriving?!  .... just one!  

So, maybe today.  I'm sitting by the phone again like you would do in high school waiting for a boy to call ....... or like we were in boot camp with our phones tucked in our bras ............... lunacy I know.

And they are off again tomorrow, for 3 months without a port visit anywhere .... just open sea ........... so ladies, you know what that means ......

I feel like someone who needs a fix ....... and all I can do is drool over reading what other moms are getting.  So, I now am officially diagnosed with Facebook envy.  We need a private page .... oh the stuff I could tell you.

The mosquitos are eating me alive the past couple of days .... I've got to take myself back inside before I need a transfusion.

Later!

Comment by Mrs.B_Div 302_Ship9 on March 2, 2011 at 1:44am

my hubby talked to the chaplain on his ship. Not sure how others who are not stationed on a ship can get a hold of a chaplain. I'm sure if he asks his CO or MC they'll be able to direct him in the right direction!

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