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Good Sunday Morning, Vi's~~ Snuggled on the couch w/the laptop, w/my fav tv show, "Sunday Morning," just beginning. Oh lovely. It's their annual Money episode. Bleh. I am so sick of hearing & talking about money. Other than this, it'll be a horse show @ the barn, dd&ds come home, & regular stuff like cleaning & laundry & getting ready for the upcoming week. & I've got the artichoke chick dish on my grocery list as well -- and corned beef & cabbage for Tuesday as well!! Don't forget that! Make it a great day, my beauties!!

I can not resist baklavah! :thumbup:

Hey girlies... Am checking in from the barn... free wi-fi @ a barn... who'd a thunk it? Have had a laid-back morning... Target, Bed, Bath & Beyond, a little cafe & hanging out @ Borders, then lunch @ chickfila... now waiting for dd's riding lesson... Nothing else to report... hope everyone is having a good day!

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Ok, I know I said I wasn't going to do it, but I did... I just joined Twitter... I'm mdrai on there, too, if any of you want to add me... I'm giving it a whirl!

Hello girlies... lunch time check-in... just enjoyed a boca burger sans bun & some fresh pineapple... mmm... After a morning of errands & coffee, this aft I SHOULD work but visions of a nap keep taunting me... which will win?... work or nap?... really, it doesn't take a nuclear physicist to figure out this one! lol!! I predict that the minute dh & ds hit the road (2pm), I'll hit the couch! :thumbup: Enjoy your afternoons! PAM -- we need tat pics!!

Oh! One more thing! I had a dream about us right before I woke up. When I woke up it was so clear... now it's fading fast... we were all together and Judy brought her whole family w/her & they were all staying in an apartment in the basement of the house and the rest of us were upstairs and drinking & having fun and Judy kept trying to take a shower so she could get ready to come out w/us but she had to keep doing things for the family so I don't think she ever got ready and then a photographer came and was doing a photo shoot of us and THEN we went to a market and someone (don't know who) kept saying we needed a real coconut for the pina coladas so we were searching & searching... & there was some liquor in a violet bottle that said "w/Splenda" on it so we bought that... i don't remember much more... it was funny & scattered... sort of like it really was in TX... a couple of us would be ready at a time but it was like herding cats to get us all ready at the same time! :thumbup:

Good Friday Morn, My Vi's~~ A regular day today, but w/a coffee break w/my friend in the middle for a nice way to end the week! Then dh & ds leave for Richmond, Va, for the weekend (soccer tournament, 'natch) so it'll be just me & the girls. I think we'll be seeing the Jo Bros movie tonight + dinner out afterward... then just regular activities (the barn & horses mostly) all weekend. I never heard back from that flouro-scheduler gal, & even after I spoke w/her and she said that she had some spots left for today and that I shouldn't worry if she didn't call me on Weds, that she had my file on her desk & would call me... then she never did call. Ack. It sounds like they only do these on Fridays, so there's at least another week to wait... Off to shower & get going! I have to wrap XMAS GIFTS to send down to dh's bro & family (that's where dh & ds are staying), as we never did exchange them during the "traditional" timeframe! lol! Enjoy your day!

I can NOT fall asleep w/o TV. I set it for 30 min, and MAKE MYSELF listen to the TV. My mind will start to wander, but I lay there, close my eyes, and focus on what the TV is saying...lol! This is me EXACTLY!! It drives dh crazy, he doesn't understand at all, but I have to be able to listen to something else so I can drown out the sound of my own thoughts bouncing around in my head! Last night I woke up @ 2:30am and it took ages to get back to sleep... between the high winds (& worry of more trees falling), dh snoring, Mo sleeping on my head, etc., I was a mess. Bleh. For me, it usually goes in cycles or when I especially stressed about something...

Good Thurs Morn, Vi's~~ Nothing much to report... will be a regular work day here today... I hope that the flouro-fill scheduler calls today w/a time for TOMORROW... I need it & I need it BAD! Seriously, being able to eat only a few bites or sip some soup sounds like heaven to me... Make it a good one, girlies! Pam... what did your final diss date end up being?

Yeah, yeah... it's just that I'm so tiny & mild-mannered that it's easy to overlook me... yeah, that's it! Um, XL? Thank you in advance! I don't Twitter, Facebook or Myspace... seriously, I'm too busy living my life to document it moment by moment online... this thread right here is as close as I come to that! Lucky you guys! :mad2: Off to begin my evening chauffeur services...

Ummm... you forgot me... :mad2:

Ugh. Now I remember why I prefer to clean the house a little bit each day... this doing it all in one day is a CHORE! Phew! Have almost finished the downstairs & then it's upstairs... My neighbor's dryer broke in mid-dry so I've got her stuff taking a tumble here. Back to it! --

Just spoke w/the flouro-fill scheduler and she may be able to squeek me in on Friday!! :thumbup: Keep those fingers crossed!!

Hi TracyKS! Glad you could join us!! So.. here I am.. Is this all the enthusiasm you can muster? :tt1: Things sound crazy for you but that's what we're here for, remember!! We can *ALL* relate to crazy! :thumbup: I think you'll be a great motivation to other LBers (look what you started HERE!) & I hope it'll get you kick-started into action again as well. Smooches!

Good Weds Morn, Dearies~~ I completed a big editing job yesterday, so now today is Clean the House Day, as I've let things slide a bit while working so hard. So much for balance! Also, my friend (the one who's dd is in the treatment program in Utah) & her hubby are going out to see their dd, so their other dd is staying with us today - Monday... so I need to freshen up her room, super clean the kids' bathroom, etc. DS was funny... I told him I was changing the shower curtain liner cuz' she was coming and he said, "What -- the gross old one is ok for us?" Yep, guess so! lol! Isn't it funny what we do "extra" when "company" is coming? Make it a great day!

I am going through some kind of fix myself/destroy myself tug-o-war in my brain. You're in the right club for that, TracyK!! :biggrin:

Well so far so good! I've already received an e-mail back from the "Bariatric Patient Liaison" that she forwarded my e-mail to the PA and the flouro-fill scheduler. Could it be that this will be easier than I thought?? Laura... I feel for all your pain, I really do. I've been having right hip and left sciatic nerve/back pain for about the past month or more... intermittantly... but at night it can be horrible and I sometimes wake up crying out in extreme pain after moving in my sleep... ow ow ow! So I feel ya, sista! But I don't have the "reason" of being pg. My kids have started calling it my "old lady hip" when it acts up during the day & I limp... see what loving kindness you have to look forward to when Carson is older?? LOL!! :biggrin: But my "self-diagnosis" is that it's the weight I've put back on & that it'll go away once I get back on track AND STAY THERE. Seriously, visiting the track for a day or two just does not count! Ugh. I'm in a "I suck" mood today. Bleh. Add to that that I get to go to Middle School Orientation for dd tonight... waaa waaa. How is it that she's going into MS already??? My baby!!!

Ok, just bit the bullet (after biting, chewing, and swallowing everything else around here!) and called AND e-mailed my surgeon's office about getting another order for a flouro fill. I've been putting off doing that because I know it's going to be a whole big thing... telephone tag... back & forth... blah dee blah... but I NEED IT so I did it. The first attempt. Cross your fingers that it's not going to be as complicated as I think it is going to be.

Thanks for the FaceBook info, Judy, for those of us still living in the old days who don't "do" that -- ME! But she couldn't have copied it, & then pasted it here?? :biggrin: TracyKS... come out come out wherever you are!!

That's what I need. A fill. I feel like the White Rabbit... running all around... Make it a great day, everyone!

"What happens in Fla stays in Fla", TracyKS??? :confused: Pam, I read it but didn't "edit" it... what struck me was that I loved how you wove in the past, present & future... that it was both touching & funny, reflecting YOU perfectly... the journey to get to this point, your supporters along the way, your perseverence... your heart! But if you want an "edit"... MORE snow, Judy? ACK!! How many days 'til you're cruisin' in Ha-vai-i?? Suzie... I sometimes have those thoughts, but they are fleeting because then I remember all the other physical problems & I love my band all the more. I think you're doing GREAT w/the Reboot class... it sounds really tough & you should be very proud of yourself for doing it!! Hope you are snoozing, TracyK... I did that yesterday... went back to bed for a couple hours after getting kids to activities! shhhhh!! don't tell on me!! Laura... ooooohhhh mini Cadbury eggs are my FAV!!! I'd forgotten about them! Yikes!! I just can't buy any, that's all there is to it. I can never resist them!! Ack! Hi Terry, Janie, Jen, Kat, & Haydee (thinking of her @ that resort!!)~~ Make it a good day, girls!!

Good eve, Vi's~~ Wow am I tired. DD & I did our part to help the economy today!! She made out like a bandit. Everything she tried on fit, which usually doesn't happen... so I bought it all! She kept calling it a "spree" & I guess it was!! She's set for spring & summer -- even purchased a bathing suit!! I am so tired... I think it's that getting up so early this a.m. That + I'm hemmoraghing like crazy today!! Lovely. Sorry. TMI. But there you go. Am trying to stay awake 'til dh gets home... but we'll see!!

Good Sunday Morn, Vi's~~ Ack! I'm up & dressed @ 5:40am, which yesterday morn would've been 4:40am !! Why? Oh, I'm sure you'll be surprised when I say: To take ds to a soccer event! HA! Of course it's a kid thing... I'd never get up like this for myself!! Happily, I don't have to actually GO to the soccer thing... am simply driving 30 mins each way to take ds to the Park 'N Ride to meet up w/other parents who ARE going & one of them will take him to the all-day training session @ a University 2 hrs away. He'll be back around 7pm tonight. But I still had to get up this early. The joke around here (& it's actually not a joke but the truth!) is that the only thing I wake up this early for is to go to Disney!! The rest of the day will be regular... cleaning, laundry and going to the Mall w/dd for some Spring clothes. DH returns late tonight. I hope each of you is still asleep!!! Make it a good one, Vi's!!