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((KAT)) ((JENN)) I wish both of you speedy recoveries!! Trust me, if I can even ENTERTAIN the THOUGHT of getting a TATTOO, that's a major breakthrough! It's quite likely I could be easily convinced to do it, especially with a little liquid help! :shades_smile: I'm thinking a small violet or two somewhere "hidden"... maybe left breast area below where my bra hits? Guess we'll see... Time to hit the sack... another LONG day tomorrow! (I don't know how you full-time workers do it!! This being "on-the-job" at school all day every day is KILLING ME! + cooking & housework?? FORGET IT!!) G'night Vi's... sleep tight! (we've got tornado warnings 'til 3am!)

YOO HOO -- JUDY! Loved cruisin' vicariously through you & your fabu pics! My funny favs are the "hmmm, cute butt" (ha ha!) one + you w/all the cannon balls... my serious fav is the formal one... you & Bob look FANTASTIC! I second whoever suggested that NEXT year's Vi gathering is a cruise (Laura maybe?)!

Good Morning... I managed to sneak away from the Book Fair for an hour... got there @ 8am and will be there 'til 4pm today... then a "Friends of Music" MS meeting @ 7pm... I'm just trying to juggle everything this week + the kids' spring activities begin this week = busy. Last night I had my first full-blown PB since October! On chicken & veggies... ugh. I was cranky & tired anyway, so I ate 2 cups of choc/brownie ice cream... it felt smooth & tasted good but it's been a LONG time since I've resorted to that type of stress relief... and ultimately, I know that that's what it was... so will need to be more aware & on guard the rest of the week! Make it a great one, Vi's!

Welcome home Judy! Ugh. A looooong day... but just the first in a week of them, so I guess I'd better just suck it up & deal w/it, yeah? Bleh. My stomach hurts. Not nauseaus (sp?) but owwie. Odd. ugh. I am grumpy.

Hey Vi's~~ I'm home! A fun weekend w/ds. Sat outside in 40mph winds yesterday for 6 hrs... can you say chapped lips? Today it was not as windy but felt colder... I was all bundled up w/ just my nose showing soaking up the sun. DS & I talked & laughed & had fun together... that's what it's all about. On the way home, we stopped @ my mom's & took her out to dinner. A good weekend. PAM!~~ Oh my gosh! It's kizmet or something, because I had the EXACT SAME THOUGHT the other day about the tattoos! And trust me, I am NOT a tattoo-type girl... I abhor needles!! But it popped into my head somehow and I actually thought about it... a little violet somewhere that wouldn't show to the world, but where I could see it... I never understood getting a tattoo on your back where you couldn't see it!? Hmmmmmmm... Ok... time to go put dd to bed... + take a nice hot bath to try to warm up from the weekend... & then get to sleep... the hotel room last night was on the ground floor w/a spot light shining DIRECTLY into the room... and the "blackout" curtains were bolted in place to the ceiling so they didn't move! + we were right next to the elevators... + there were roving gangs of soccer players roaming the halls laughing, etc... so not much sleep for me last night! G'night!

Good Saturday Morn, Vi's~~ Sending all good wedding day purple power vibes to Tracy today!! Life IS a highway!! DS & I are off in 30 mins to drive 3.5 hrs down to Williamsburg, VA, for a fun-filled soccer weekend (well, fun-filled for 1 of us!). We'll spend the night & come home tomorrow after more soccer! I'm taking magazines & knitting & good bandster food w/me... I'm just going to kick back & relax... no "to do" lists for me this weekend! (Of course, you realize that this means that I'll just have to cram all the weekend chores into next week... it's not like they'll magically get done while I'm gone... but wouldn't that be nice if they could??) Make it a great one... will check back upon my return!

LUCK! ...altho you know you don't need it! How about: ENJOY YOUR DAY!

Yay! I get to poke someone with a stick! :blushing: And for clarification... it was 1/2 a tub of icing, not a full one! And today is a new day dawning! Make it a great one, Vi's!

I KNOW! I KNOW! :smile2: I threw the rest away... & then took the trash bag & threw it outside... UGH! :huh2: Needless to say, I'm not eating anything else today... & am drinking lots of water... :tongue2:

Me! Me! I want to come! 'Ritas & candles... LOVE THEM! How about a 'rita scented candle? mmmmm! :smile2: Pam... Let me know if I can help w/editing or whatever w/your thesis! You should be proud of yourself for finishing!! Ok... for some unknown reason... I consumed about 1/2 tub of triple chocolate mini-chip frosting this afternoon. WTF?? I wanted something sweet and... I'm hoping it gives me the runs & thus creates a negative impact on my bod. Why do I do this to myself?? Am I afraid of success?? Or just stupid? UGH!

Good Wednesday Morn, Vi's!~~ Still holding w/weight... <shrug>... but so many folks have been commenting & flipping out lately, so that's encouraging. There's a new teacher @ school who I met on Monday and she wants to meet me next Monday for lunch to talk about the band in more detail... that's cool, my first "serious" band conversion opportunity! She's considering bypass right now... of course I gave her the address for here... I'm going to copy some of my doc's materials for her, too... Other than that, just busy busy busy! Now through next Friday will be loco... We set up Book Fair tomorrow, Preview it to classes on Friday, then I take ds to Williamsburg, Va, Fri night - Sunday for soccer, then Book Fair is Mon - Thurs... phew! But I'm getting ahead of myself... I need to take it one task at a time... so gotta go write up all the Book Fair posters & then go hang them... Make it a great day, everyone!

Wow Suzie... how scary! She's lucky she had you there to help her! What a kind soul you are... but we already knew that! ((hugs))

Tracy... Yep... BREATHE! Take it all one crisis @ a time and then RELAX & ENJOY after it's all over!! Kewl Kars! Love 'em!

That is gorgeous, Terri!! Wow! Wear it with PRIDE! I love it too... hearts are my "thing"... my "icon" I guess you could say... you are so talented!

Read it already, Laura! I like Albom's stuff. It's not depressing... interesting... different... quirky... definitely not what you'd expect! Have you read "Eat, Pray, Love"? It's a bio... love it! What else... ummm... "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time" & the "The Time Traveller's Wife" both pop to mind... I get books from the library... then if I LOVE it, I'll go buy it. The last one I read then bought was "Eat, Pray, Love".

Back from the doc... they're happy w/my loss... the PA called me the "Lap Band Queen"... hee hee! If she only knew... But my next appointment, on April 1 (April Fool's Day, lol!) I'm actually going to see my surgeon again, so that's a big motivation to really kick-butt this month & do well. Then I stopped by Borders, picked up a book (Like Water for Elephants -- great book!) & a get well card, and visited a neighbor who's in the hospital. Two weeks ago on Monday her doc "discovered" (no warning) that she had kidney cancer + a tumor encapsulating her kidney. That Friday she had a 5-hr surgery to remove the 17" tumor + the kidney. She was in ICU for a week, and is now in the "regular" part, and will be for about another week. Her son & my dd are in the same class at school and her hubby is very active in PTA w/me. I keep inviting the guys to dinner or asking if they need a meal made or grocery shopping done or light cleaning... he said "We'll be eating these frozen casseroles 'til summer!" But she says he just doesn't know what to do/how to organize... so once she's home I hope I'll be able to help a bit. That just sux... you're cruising along in your life thinking everything's just fine and then BAM... you've got cancer! Puts my piddly problems in perspective, I must say. Kat... I agree... do both: cry to the actual doc AND look for another one.

Good Tuesday Morn, Vi's~~ Had a good bandster day yesterday; plan on another today. Have a band doc app't today... could be a fill but I don't think I need one... other than that, just the regular stuff that keeps me hopping: kids, house, hubby, & volunteer stuff... the fabric of my life! (wasn't that a commercial eons ago??) Make it a great one, everyone!

Sure, rub it in Laura. See, I could be bitter... ooorrrrrr... I could follow your "liquid diet plan"!! That sounds like more fun to me!! Maybe you could lead a "hands on" demo for us in May??

Pam, maybe it's broken? Seriously...

Oh, one more quick thing... Was at the ES today doing Book Fair prep, and I guess I haven't been over there in awhile because EVERYone was "ooh'ing" and "ahh'ing" about my wt loss & how great I looked! LOVE IT! I kept giving my "lap band poster child" speech to everyone... one gal who's new there is approved for bypass in June but I think I might have made her consider LB... anyhoo, it felt great! Even tho I can't see it, it's good to know that others can!!

Laura, I second what Tracy said... the only things our weekends have in common is that my house is messy, too!! Tee Hee!!

Make it a great day at WORK, Jen!! :biggrin2:

Oh, I see how it is, Laura! Ok, it's on! :thumbdown: Look at these! The first one is from Nov. '06, the second from this month... Doesn't Piglet look slimmer? LOL! ME! Look @ ME! Wowza. 'Nuff playing w/pictures... off to bed!

Hey Gals... Just spent some time looking at B&As... I haven't been there in awhile... most of those folks AMAZE me!! Wow! And then it makes me wonder if the difference is so obvious in ME or not... cuz' while I DO see a diff, it doesn't make my jaw drop or anything. I've never posted pics there... maybe @ -100 I will... just 20 to go! I'm still trying to get my head around being @ (almost) -80... that's a LOT of poundage! & some of you all have lost MORE! Think about it, girls... we've ALL lost some SERIOUS weight! Wowza!

Thanks for the nanners & congrats! It feels good... and I didn't mess it up today! Usually I feel so good I go off plan... but managed to stay on the straight & narrow today! Janie... my dh saw Avenue Q in NYC on a biz trip a couple years ago and LOVED it! He said it's *not* a kids show, altho it's puppets. Very irreverent & not politically correct. Pam (well, really Suzanne!) & Judy~~ Yesterday morning I was on about page 95 in Duma Key... it'd taken me about 2 weeks to get just that little bit read & it's due back to the library on Weds... so w/the "no school" day I snuggled into the big chair & read pretty much ALL DAY 'til 2am and finished that sucker! As an editor, I think that it could've been about 200 pages tighter/shorter... the character development went on forever, esp at first (+ too many ding-danged characters, if you ask me)... but then he got in the scary Stephen King mode and it picked up... not as gory as some of his stuff... much more metaphysical but still scary... it's stuck w/me today... I keep thinking about it... Can't wait to read what ya'll thought! Because I was up 'til 2am & then up @ 8a, I'm going to bed now! I'll drift off to the gentle story of "Forrest Gump", which is on tv tonight... Sweet dreams!