Woo hoo! I got the first round of approvals on my Master's Thesis Proposal. Now it goes in front of the University's Curriculum Committee next week. Wish me luck.....

If it gets approved then somehow I need to finished the research and write a minimum of 150 pages by the end of the year.

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Allison
Mother to Jessica, Joshua, Hannah and Nickolas

Hey girlies,

Good job Allison. Good luck. I just wanted to log on really quick to let you all know I sat down for the past hour and figured out my week as far as eating goes. I'm done with Mon-Wed and will probably just repeat the plan I have written out. I have decided that in order to kick start my weight loss in to high gear (again) I am going to stick to my 21 points instead of adding in the flex points to use day by day. I have myself eating all day long but staying in my points. I went through and put 0,1, and 2 point snacks in zip loc baggies that are easy for me to just grab throughout the day and require no preparation. It is so much easier to do this now it seems...the preparation. The kids were outside with dad so I took advantage of the quiet and just got to work. Tonight I have to put my exercise plans on my dry erase board after kids are in bed. It's all coming together and tomorrow morning I'll eat breakfast and hop on treadmill BY 6am. I'm very proud of myself for all the progess I made today...I'm making steps forward stars. Now off to make the kids their supper...they just got in from outside. Talk to you all tomorrow.

Kara

Allison~ Congratulations!! Though I'm not even close, I helped a friend when he was writing his thesis (helped with the typing...he wrote it out on hand and then edited it on the computer once it was typed...I think his was 300 pages but it was for his doctorate.). I remember him saying that you literally have to jump through hoops to get the approval on your original Proposal! We're proud of you!!!

Dulcie~I almost wish DH was a flirt, because I am. Ironically, even though I get along better with men, some make me nervous (maybe it's the pheromones)...so, I never know what to say, and I find that it's easier to just flirt as that's natural. Instead, I tend to either keep very quiet or tell odd jokes which DH puts down and teases me for... As for the neighbors, we're not friends with any of them so DH doesn't care about "disturbing" them. He is often the one that has his radio full blast listening to heavy metal music and it probably can be heard all the way down the road. But we're not the only one's...at least DH's is during the day. The house behind me has "late night" parties in the summer with live bands in her yard (I can distinctly remember at least 6 last summer). Quiet time is 10...but I've heard them playing until 11:30! Of course, as much as we don't get along with the neighbors, I've never complained "officially" about noise or dogs running lose and using my yard as a giant bathroom. It makes me laugh that some of them get along and have actually called the dog officer on each other on several occasions.

Kara~Sounds like you're well on your way. Preparation is key to great success!!

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Maria

We arent friends friends with the neighbors, but we will invite them lol. I dont really see us getting complaints...though I did get a complaint from one of the neighbors (grouchy one) because I was vacuuming at 8am with the windows open. So I can only imagine what a bbq is going to do!

For a long time I would just sit behind dh and say or do nothing. I was so unsure of myself. Now that Im looking better and feeling better, well.. its showing

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