ycswid

@ycswid (279)

Canada • Age 65

Joined myLot 18 years ago

"I've been there before and I'm locking the door and I'm not going back again" - Melissa Etheridge (I'm The Only One)

www.sparkpeople.com/mypage.asp?id=YCSWID

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ycswid's Responses

Weight Loss Competition - Friday, June 15th (My 23rd Birthday) :)

racheld @racheld (840) • United States 15 Jun 07

Hello everyone! Today is my birthday and I am excited to say that I lost .5 pounds. I know it isn't a lot, BUT with everything that has been going on right now with my dad and all, I really haven't been eating right or exercising...

motivation

pounds

weight loss

weight loss competition

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ycswid Happy Birthday!!! Congrats on your loss, perhaps not much but a LOSS just the same. WAY TO GO! I've lost 1 lb this week and as this is my first week that's my total. I'm happy with one pound as I did go over my calories a couple of days but with the...

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Weight Loss Competition - Thursday, June 14th

racheld @racheld (840) • United States 14 Jun 07

Good morning everyone! How did everyone do yesterday. In my neck of the woods the sun was shining all day long and there was a wonderful breeze throughout the afternoon. I ate fast food for breafast, lunch and dinner but I didn't...

losing weight

motivation

weight loss

weight loss competition

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ycswid Good morning all, Yesterday was a good day for me. I had homemade yogurt with banana, raspberries and blueberries for breakfast. I add a tsp of each of the following - wheat germ , flax meal and psyllium husks to my yogurt. For the mid day meal we had pork...

14 Jun 07

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Weight Loss Competition - Wednesday, June 13

racheld @racheld (840) • United States 13 Jun 07

Well unfortunately, my family found out yesterday that my dad does have Cancer. We will treat this as a minor bump in the road and definitely be there for him whenever he needs us. I know my family will get through this and I ask...

motivation

weigh loss

weight loss competition

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ycswid My thoughts are with you and your family during this difficult time. Yesterday was not a good day for me. I gave into the "eat when I'm feeling stressed" monster putting me over my usually daily intake by about 500 calories, but that was yesterday and today...

13 Jun 07

When do you make your bed?

saigonwarrior @saigonwarrior (1331) • United States 17 May 07

When do you make your bed? Some people make their bed as soon as they arise, others wait for awhile. Some folks make their beds before getting into it and some never make theirs. I make my bed an hour or two after waking. I need...

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ycswid In our home the person who is last out of bed makes it. Sometimes that is hubby (if he's off work and sleeping late) and sometimes it's me. I've found that by only having a comforter on the bed it makes it so very easy to just pull it up and straighten up the...

12 Jun 07

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Weight Loss Competition - Tuesday, June 12

racheld @racheld (840) • United States 12 Jun 07

Hello everyone. I hope everyone is doing good with their weigh loss program. I, unfortunately have not been. I must share with you that, I recently found out that my dad might have cancer. He went to the doctor for some...

motivation

weight loss competition

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ycswid I'm very sorry to hear about your dad. You and your family will be in my thoughts. Life can give us some detours as we journey to a healthier version of ourselves. Do the best that you can while keeping your family as your priority. As a new member of the...

12 Jun 07

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Do you go to concerts?

lillake @lillake (1630) • United States 9 Jun 07

Summer time usually means concert season around here. Lots of bands are playing and touring all over. We used to go to concerts all the time, then we had kids. LOL I was planning on getting tickets for my boyfriend for father's...

concerts

music

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ycswid There is only one person that I have gone to see in concert over the last 5 years and that is Melissa Etheridge and only if I can get into the first 10 rows. She is amazing to watch live and I'll continue to make the effort to get to her concerts. When I...

11 Jun 07

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Weight Loss Competition - Monday, June 11th

racheld @racheld (840) • United States 11 Jun 07

Hello everyone. Sorry I didn't post a discussion for the weekend but as I mentioned on my last post, I was out of town. I was disappointed to see so very few results posted, but I am happy to announce that the winner as of right...

motivation

weight

weight loss competition

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ycswid I'd love to partake in your competition. I've been using Sparkpeople.com since mid October and have lost over 30 lbs with still 20 to go and I can use all the extra motivation that I can get. I'm not on a diet more of a life style change and as such as...

11 Jun 07

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F1 or Nascar?

ralevi @ralevi (1885) • United States 27 May 07

Which of these races is better. I thing that F1 is better because all world is watching it.

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ycswid Although I started watching racing with open wheel races I now find that I enjoy NASCAR so much more. More passing, more bumping and with that comes more wrecks. What's nice is that a wreck doesn't necessarily take a car out of the race like it does in open...

11 Jun 07

Kyle XY new season... did i miss it?

LRB1111 @LRB1111 (356) • United States 6 Jun 07

Hi everyone. I started watching Kyle XY last year and I really got into the show. I have been so busy i forgot all about it for awhile. When does the new season start? (if there is going to be one..) OR has it already started...

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ycswid I just found out from my daughter that the new season premier will air this Friday on ABC. Since I'm in Canada I don't get ABC Family but it certainly would have been nice to re-watch last season prior to Friday. I really don't remember a lot of what happened....

11 Jun 07

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Not getting full pay?

lillake @lillake (1630) • United States 10 Jun 07

I make a point of responding to at least 50 discussions every day, and then going on to write my own discussions. But I never get paid for all of them. 36 cents, 27 cents, and so on. Never the full amount. Yesterday I uploaded...

money

mylot

paid to post

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ycswid Although I don't upload pictures lately I know that I only average .01/post. I have been told that your star rating is part of the equation for payment and since I had my rating plummet once I crossed the 100 post mark (I have no idea of the why of this) I...

11 Jun 07

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Tag this discussion

lillake @lillake (1630) • United States 10 Jun 07

How often do you add tags when you reply to a discussion? Do you do so every time, or only when the are tags you think could be added that are not already listed? Or do you just skip that part?

discussion

mylot

tags

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ycswid I always tag my contribution. I don't look at the tags prior to making a comment so I don't know if I'm duplicating tags or not. I make my tags relevant to what I said so I'm not too concerned about the duplication. I'll take it at face value that the point of...

11 Jun 07

Not the perfect parent

lillake @lillake (1630) • United States 10 Jun 07

No one is the perfect parent, not even the so-called experts. Not even the ones with million dollar book deals and high profile TV shows. LOL we all mess up, most of us mess up daily. But if you can admit to yourself and to your...

children

parenting

parents

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ycswid I have grown children and always thought I expected too much from them as they were growing up. As a single parent they were given a lot of responsibility but they handled it well. Now they have told me how grateful they are that I expected the things I did,...

11 Jun 07

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profitting from credit card use

saigonwarrior @saigonwarrior (1331) • United States 23 May 07

I was wondering if anyone else used this practice? I used to pay my bills by check or cash. Groceries, gasoline, etc. I now pay everything with my credit card that offers 1% back on all purchases. It doesn't seem like a lot, but...

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ycswid This is something that I have been doing for a few years now. The card that I use gives $ for a particular store and I save it and have painted the house, put in my gardens, purchased Christmas gifts and printer cartridges without budgeting for extra cash. I...

10 Jun 07

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Sunblock vs Suntan

saigonwarrior @saigonwarrior (1331) • United States 2 Jun 07

Given all the horror stories about skin cancer from too much exposure to the sun rays, do you now wear sunblock to protect your skin while working outdoors? When I was growing up we thought nothing of going to the pool and getting...

skin cancer

sunblock

suntan

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ycswid I don't wear sunblock as often as I should. I have been getting better about it as I have been spending more time outdoors. As the summer proceeds I'll become more accustom to putting it on. I do still get a tan especially on my hands as a 15 sunblock only...

10 Jun 07

Uninvited Vistors

saigonwarrior @saigonwarrior (1331) • United States 21 May 07

I was just wondering what practices you used for uninvited visitors that come to your home unexpectedly? After dinner when everything is finished, we like to shower, put on relaxing/night clothes, maybe pop some popcorn and...

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ycswid This has become a pet peeve in our home lately as we have just had hubby's 18 year old son come live with us. We have made it clear that we want to know when someone is coming to the house. We had made that clear when he was not living here as in call before...

10 Jun 07

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Bills, Bills, Bills...

saigonwarrior @saigonwarrior (1331) • United States 6 Jun 07

How do you pay your bills? (credit card, utilities, car payment) Do you use the old fashioned way (like I do) by writing a check, inserting it into an envelope with the bill, addressing then using a stamp to mail it off? Or do you...

bills

electronic payments

methods

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ycswid I can't remember the last time I wrote a cheque. I pay for my utilities and credit card online. I find that most other bills allow for either online banking or online credit card payments. I have my insurance paid via credit card to accumulate rewards. I also...

10 Jun 07

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Do you cook on the weekend, too ????

apakabar2007 @apakabar2007 (1693) • Netherlands 7 Apr 07

No cooking on the weekend. I cook the whole week, so cooking on the weekend would be the last thing that I wanna do, except for a special occassion. Most of the time, I have prepared the food one day before weekend. So I can just...

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ycswid I do most of the cooking whether weekday or weekends. Hubby is a shift worker so the weekends don't mean as much. If it's his day off he will usually help me if I need it. If there is BBQ'g to be done that is his domain regardless of the day of the week. I...

10 Jun 07

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should Kurt Bush Be suspended??

sissie44 @sissie44 (217) • United States 7 Jun 07

I was just at nascar.com and could not believe the poll I just saw there! it says: Should Nascar Suspend Kurt Bush for his actions at Dover, and for how long? your choices are: one race two race five races rest of the...

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ycswid I just watched the pre-race with the TNT guys and it was very interesting that they (Kyle Petty, Larry McReynolds, Wally Dallenbach) all believe that the penalty given to Kurt was not enough. The drivers know that the $ is meaningless, the points while...

10 Jun 07

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Learn what should be reported and rated negatively !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

nrnotrare @nrnotrare (631) • United States 27 Mar 07

Hello Everyone....... Do you know how to recognise a garbage discussion ?? Do you know how to do your part to improve mylot ?? In the do's and don'ts list mylot explains what is allowed and what is not allowed. They need...

rating negative and reporting discussions

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ycswid It's nice to see that I am not alone in the feeling that there is so much abuse of this system here at mylot. I too have reported plagiarism at least once each time I log into mylot. That is a pet peeve with me. As you may know I had told a "friend" that I...

28 Mar 07

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You Make The Call

mfpsassy @mfpsassy (2827) • United States 25 Mar 07

As we already know NASCAR chages the rules as they deem fit. In the Bucsh race today they did it again. They threw a caution and radioed down that the pits were open. Well the pit light didn't change so some cars pitted and some...

nascar

racing

rules

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ycswid It was an interesting twist that quick rule change. I thought it was very unfair that cars came back in and had extra long pit stops since they were guaranteed a certain place in line. I think the proper thing would have been for them to line them up as they...

28 Mar 07

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