BOOZE BUSTERS Week of 8/11 (A)bsolutely (F)abulous (H)angover (F)ree 30 Day Challenge

[A Work in Progress]

Good morning all... those olives sound damn good... I have a friend coming over this evening, maybe I'll do that! I watched a bit of women's swimming last night after the movie with friends, the relay with that MAGNIFICENT woman from USA what is her name??? The one who is in her 40's and has the BODY???
Anyway she finished the relay nearly making up the distance and winning gold for her team, showed a lot of class I thought. They all did. Amazing athletes!

Everyone have a good day...

wip

[Marshy]

Wip, I missed that. But OMG, in her 40s? There's hope for me yet! London 2012 here I come!

[Doggygirl]

Hi Marshy and wip!

He he - I like my gymnastics and this channel is showing the event finals live - and showing every gymnast v. the US broadcast which will air tape delay tonight, and probably only a fraction of the competition. I discovered this service as I am also an avid figure skating fan (the Wedgies! The Hair!! The Sequins!! The Drama!! And that's just the Men's division!!). Many of the big competitions aren't shown at all in the US - or are tape delayed for weeks. In Europe (east primarily) and Japan, they tend to broadcast a lot of stuff live, and there are usually internet feeds you can find. This Russian one has a VERY good picture and is very reliable, but you have to subscribe to get it. But you can do that by the month and at the current exchange rate it's about $23. So to get my sports live and ALL competitors - it's worth it to pay for just in the months where events of interest are on.

WOW I've got the action from yesterday Tivo'd. I'll have to go back and watch the women's swimming from last night. (or I imagine there is good video on the NBC Oly web site??) Wip I didn't see it obviously, but I saw a fluff piece on the woman you are talking about and MAN is she fit and buff!! She can stand next to any of the young athletes and hold her head high in the fitness department. (gets me wondering if I have even a fraction of those muscles hiding somewhere under the flab!!) Cool that she was such a factor in the race!!

Oops - I love Cheng Fei's floor routine and I'm sure she was a gold contender - but she just landed on her ass. Other Chinese girl rocked the house though.

Yak later ladies!!!

DG

[louise]

I'm not a big sports person so have not watched any but have read about Dana Torres, the 41 yr old swimmer who won silver with amazement. She retired after the 2000 olympics, then decided to compete again when her daughter was 2!!! My husband and I were laughing that perhaps she found all that training easier than staying home with a 2 year old. (If we got any decent channels we probably would watch some but since we hardly ever watch tv we refuse to pay $35 a month for basic cable and get 3 fuzzy channels without it.)

Morning all! Hope you do get to do some of the vegging out on the sofa you planned DG. I will be trying to do laundry, etc. today and much less vegging. Lately all my vegging time has been spent on here and I did waayyyyyyyyyy too much of that yesterday. I think I learned my lesson. It was so insane in newbie and general that I ended up somewhat paranoid and not trusting anyone outside of regular abs posters and those who have been members at least 6 months. Fortunately I seem to be back to normal but I have promised myself that abs section and subs are it for me today!

It is cooler here today, very nice so hope to get out. Hope you all have a great day!

[Doggygirl]

Well louise, no vegging yet but I'm finally headed in that direction. It has been a good "me" day though - lots of good soul searching about my long term abstinence goals. I'm realizing that I've reached another "starting point" if you will - for what feels like a next phase in re-claiming my life. There is so much more I can do with it. I'm not sure what exactly that will be yet, but I need to search.

My days now are LIGHT YEARS better than they were just a few months ago. And even those daily drinking days more recently were better than the totally hopeless ones the year before that. But now it's time to really look forward, and decide what I want to be when I grow up. Who will the sober Doggygirl become?? I don't know but I'm excited about it.

louise it sounds like you had a relaxing weekend - hopefully you enjoyed some of that cooler weather today!! I hope your batteries are re-charged a little bit.

I'm going to start a new thread for next week tonight in case I don't get a chance to come on here before I leave tomorrow AM - it's going to be a really early one. Congratulations to all who KICKED BOOZE BEAST ASS this week!!

DG
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