Hey just checking in -- have a question though...

Anybody out there (besides me) need to take off a few pounds or just get in shape?

I'm not just being nosy -- I'm looking for a/some diet and exercise buddies.

*raises hand* I am basically okay with my weight but I really do need to get in better shape. I feel better when I exercise.

I do too.

Do you think it would be worthwile to start a thread -- kind of for accountability. Share goals and accomplishments -- keep each other on track.

I mean, we have a bar and a bus -- why can't we have a gym?

Hehe -- maybe we can name it after Dale the Whale or something to keep the Monk connection.

Dale the Whale would be enough incentive to get me to the gym...

What do you think of 'Dale the Whale Fitness Trail', or should it be 'Dale the Whale Fitness Jail'?

Or does something else strike any of you?

Just checking in for the evening...hope everyone had a great day!

Dale the Whale Fitness Trail! I like that! And I agree with history08 - that's incentive to start exercising, we don't want to be like Dale the Whale! LOL

hey guys..I'm calling it a night...eyes are getting tired and this is a 6 day work week...have a good one!

Seems like I'm the last one to check in, after every one is off to bed.

OK, I have to share my fabulous morning. My granddaughter is here from SC and she stopped in this morning before I had to go to work and she had 'Vaeh' with her. My little baby great granddaughter I haven't seen since November is now 13 months old and walking. She came in, squealed at the puppy, asked to be picked up and waved 'bye-bye' to her mom and pointed me to the rocking chair where we played snuggle the baby.

I mean, she was only 7 months old when they moved south and here she is walking and looking at me like she remembered who I was...and she doesn't wave bye-bye by clenching and opening her fist, she waves her little hand from left to right like a little doll.

I only got to spend about a hour with her but they are coming back Wed. when I don't have to work. What a great way to start my day...I was dancing around at work, singing along with the radio....and our Condo Association is having a big carnival in Aug and I get my 8-year old grandson for the week-end...and, and, and....OK, I'll shut up.

I got up before 5am. I am taking my friend to the Dr. again today. Anyway, good morning to everyone.

Good Morning Everyone! Have a Great day!!!

Kids are never given enough credit. They remember things you wouldn't think possible. Your grandbaby sounds adorable. I would have 10 kids if they stayed little forever. Unfortunately they grow up to be 6'2" giants like my 15-year old brother.

Yikes! Kids at 15, the year each of my kids turned 15 was the hardest year raising them. Something in their brain snaps.

I always said I wanted a even dozen, my mom told me after having the first one I'd change my mind, 17 hours of labor later I was beginning to think she was right but with #2 it was 8 hours and #3 was 4 hours...if I had continued I was afraid after #4 any further kids would just,,,,drop out where I stood!

It's California, but the "sunny" part is further South. This is the "foggy and cool during the summer and warm in the fall" California.

Look up the length of the state of California and the length of Finland. They are both really long.
Just checking in and I got to thinking about geography! Go figure.

All right I'll go look it up! Just call me a nerd.

California

Finland

At one time in the distance past we had a geography thread and we've also had a how our customs differ thread. I liked those threads but I guess we didn't have many history buffs playing on the board at the time.

I have to admit I don't know diddly about Finland...but, I can find it on a map.!!!!

Morning

I'll be in an out all day long...

hope you have a nice wednesday!!!!!

<<<<two days only! OOOOBBBBAAAA!!!! >>>>>>
Mi

Mornin' everyone. Is this day over with yet? No? *hangs head*

Good morning!

I have been here a while. Hello everyone and have a nice day!

Good Afternoon, Everbody!! I hope everyone has a GREAT day!!

Hi! I am just checking in.
I have been a busy day, not much time to type here.



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Then I had the wrong impression. California just sounds so sunny place, and the image of palms in the tv programms.





Not at all nerdy. I have a vague idea of the sizes and climates of the USA states. I should study a little. Finland is a long and narrow country. USA is so big country, that it is hard to make proper picture of it. I have just think that California is a southern state, but maybe it is not so much in south.




I haven´t ever been in USA. I have many kind of image from it, but it would be interesting to really visit there. And one state differs from another, I suppose.
But hey, I know where it is...

Fine, Kees Lady. There don´t live much people, only something 5 000 000. And in Helsinki there lives 500 000 or so people. So not so much.
But I have to finish now.

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Well, California is roughly the same size and shape, I guess, but if you put Helsinki on the border of Mexico (hot!), I live right about where Lapland starts (cold).

If takes nine hours for me to drive to either end of the state.

And I'm not sure the population, but it's the highest in all 50 states, and there are about 4 million people just in Los Angeles, not counting San Bernardino, Long Beach, Riverside, Compton, Downey, Industry, and the "Beach" cities... Or orange county, which is about as big again...

And there are probably 900,000 in San Francisco proper, plus suburbs all the way down to San Jose with about 2-3,000,000 total... Plus Oakland, Sacramento, Hayward, all the east-bay cities, all the north bay cities, San Diego, Bakersfield, El Centro...

In the South and inland, we have deserts; in the south on the coast we have the palm-trees that you see on TV, and as you go North towards San Francisco, it cools down. By the time you reach Eureka, at the north, by Oregon, it's rainy and there are forests of huge redwood trees. In the springtime, you can drive from mountains with snow for skiing to beaches with waves for surfing in a couple of hours. There are many different types of climate, all in one state. It is a wonderful place!

But way too many people... And we don't swim in frozen lakes!

Finland is a big country by it´s surface area in Europe, but it´s population is small. In south there has been mild winters recent years, there has been snow only a couple of weeks, probably because of this climate warming or how do you call it. I haven´t been in Lapland, either although it is in the same country as I. There is yet a plenty of snow winter times.

And I hate swimming in cold water, it is just a hobby for only a few people. I don´t like cold water, I prefer most a tropical lagoon, but there is none.

I know the redwood trees, they are just like living dinosauruses. It would be awesome to see them. I think in USA there are many fine nature places like red canyon (well, of course also popular tourist attractions).

I can quess, that where you live is not so cold as we have in Lapland, where people cannot see sun in many months during winter and in summer sun doesn´t set at all.


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Our last two states, Alaska and Hawaii...Alaska is most like Finland but Hawaii is tropical all year.

Og, with all those people, deserts, mountains and beaches where is there room for the French bulls to chase around the happy cows?

Here, in Wisconsin, the state Tony was born and raised in, if all our residents were gathered together and placed in my county everyone would live in a house on 1/4th acre of land.

Got my a-line bob from Seven Salon. Am I Victoria Beckham now?

Hello! I am back. I should be off and on for the rest of the night. I hope everyone had a GREAT Day!!

Sing "Girl Power" for us and we'll see.

Oh, you don't want me to sing. My brother once came running into my room and asked me if I was okay...and I was just singing along with my walkman. LOL.

There are huge areas in the central valley (valley valley) where there's nothing but nothing for miles and miles and miles.

Highway 99, up the central valley, is nothing but fields, farms, and long stretches of alfalfa fields. Sometimes "Tule Fog," a thick fog that you can't see through, blows up suddenly (which is when you read about 200-car pile-ups on the freeways). And there are national parks where you could lose Vermont. Or Ireland, even.

Up in the Sierra Nevada mountains, there are places no man has ever seen. Once, as a small boy, I went with my father and brothers on a camping trip. We drove far into the sierras, left our car at a ranger station, and hiked three days deep into the wilderness, to a huge lake with ice cold water clear as glass. It was amazing. I wish now that I had taken a camera and taken pictures.

It's a much different place from anything that you have ever imagined.

And remember, California is the third largest state in size, behind only Alaska and Texas.

The California portrayed on TV and in movies is the area around Los Angeles for the most part, but as Og says, its really very very diverse. Any way I couldn't get here all day until now and I was happy to see so much interesting information!

We don't use saunas like you do!

Hope everybody had a great day.

How do you use saunas in Kansas?

Oh, you meant, that Fins use saunas and we don't... Oh... Gotcha...

Hi, everyone. I'm just checking in.

Would the 4th largest be Montana? I remember that was a pretty big piece in my USA puzzle.

We're really gonna miss California when the 'Big One' hits. All that beautiful country under water...oops, I forget, CA is movieland, someone will turn it into an underwater tourist attraction.

LOL, its so true....

Good night, everybody!

I was so busy today, couldn't log in until now!
And you have no idea how bad this is, I was almost freaking out, dying to be here with you!


I missed you, guys!!!!!

Now I am here, and nobody can takle me away from you, anymore!!!!

(...Gee, now I consider myself officially addicted. Cannot leave without the Monk World!)

Bug hugs and enjoy your evening!!!!

Mi

hey guys...just poking around...see you around the corner!

Yes, the fourth largest state is Montana. Well, it is getting pretty late! I will see everyone tomorrow!! Have a GREAT night!! I am so excited about tomorrow night's premiere!!

Yo Yo Yo

See all you Tomorow!!!!!


KA23

Good Morning!

Monk premieres in just over 12 hours. Is it too early to camp on the couch and wait?

12 hours from now I will be gearing up. Okay actually I've been "gearing up" for months now. I shouldn't wish my life away but I really wish it was the end of the day and I wasn't at work!

Good Morning, Everyone!! Only a few more hours until the Premiere!! I am so Excited I can hardly wait!!

Hi, everybody!

Hope all had great Premiere day! I wish I was there with you... < sighs >



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Hello - just checking in. I would certainly be interested in being a diet and exercise buddy. I doing okay with my diet but could really do with more exercise...problem is...I am keep being drawn to my computer screen to chat with you guys....this is no excuse I know...anyhow my new found motivation is going to be Neven...I mean I really need to be fit and toned for this guy....

So its off for a long walk for me...I might take Gassius with me...he started to pork up a little!

Quinnie

Hi, Everyone! I'm still here.......they let me out of the round room in time for Season 7 to begin!

Good Morning to all!!

Tá Treasa anseo!!

Hi, checking in for the first time, just signed up (( again ))
Not too sure if ye all are awake, night time in Ireland, so not too sure!

good evening, guys!
welcome, treasa!

I'll be here for a while...

see ya around!!!
Mi