Daisalana

Work is kicking my butt this week, I don't know why but everything seems to be going wrong. We're producing BAD work and no one in production is catching it, then customers are demanding we get it to them overnight, which is impossible... lots of angry calls this week.. and I can only take so much!!!! I don't know what is going on in production, and why so many mistakes are being made lately. They are blatant BAD mistakes, which should never ever happen. We made this one CD traycard, that if you look through them, every single one of them is a different color. How the hell does that go through? (3 stations have to do things to it after it is printed) and no one noticed?!?!?!? Just, ARGH. Me & mom are talking about taking a ladies trip to Tunica this weekend after 4th of July. DH doesn't want to go, and my dad is going to Vegas for the WSOP. I hope we decide to go, she said she's going to invite my granny too.. who is a hoot in casinos!!! 1 year anniversary is Monday.. weeee. Week be over please!!!!!!! :thumbup:

i don't like 'diet' cokes, but diet/zero/normal post-banding I can only drink a few sips before I want water.. but as for Sprite Zero, it's always my drink of choice if I have to have a coke. It tastes just like Sprite to me, just make sure it's cold!! I think this is where personal preference comes in, or what you eat normally.. Diet cokes are horrid to me :/ As for nausea, I like to sip on Ginger Ale..

Awww.. I like her, and she does use food to pull her family together, she talks about it all the time. I don't see why they should be condemned for this, I know my family is the same way. Everyone encourages cooking with your kids, etc. She's such a happy go lucky person, she's someone I'd want to be friends with!

Hmmmmm.. till a baby pops out?

There was a storm coming, so me & my mom went and got in the van to have a cigarette, then the storm hit really bad... it was blowing the tents, so we were being funny about how our customers are holding onto the tent for dear life-- [ame=http://s247.photobucket.com/albums/gg156/lalaweightloss/?action=view&current=video.flv][/ame] Then it cleared up and in came the ambulances, 2 of the bigger tents were destroyed, and so far I have heard 1 death, 1 broken back, and multiple injuries. So weird, of course they cancelled the show and made us leave immediately.. never saw the Blue Angels. So glad we were ok, it was a scary few minutes!!!!! Broken tents.. Portopotties tipped over..

Uh oh.. you done got moved to R&R. Wasn't this under lounge?

You feeling bad or guilty isn't going to help them.. And like you said, you know how it is.. you can't help if they don't want it. I could give you a million examples of this, but you're an adult.. you've seen it everywhere! Really, just say you're full and let it go! I like to share recipes with people, so I don't mind when they tell me about some food they found. I love cooking now! And I know it drives people crazy but I am compelled to point out calories in mundane things.. only because it baffles my mind. Granted, everyone I know just about is a bean pole and don't care, so I'm not pointing it out to tell them they're getting fat (and they know that), I just am like a book of useless info and now that I am aware of calorie content, it's something I bring up!

Good luck Mackie!!! As for support groups, I think there is one in Decatur, and I know there is also one in Birmingham. Never been to either though..

The crab cake appetizer from Ruby Tuesday's was my first post-op solid meal when I was done with liquids & mushies. It was wonderful and I was able to eat about 1/2 before feeling stuffed. I was very excited hehe. I have had the crab shells that are stuffed since then and I have had no problems as long as I eat it slow.

Mix it with plain yogurt, S&P, and relish.. in place of the mayo.. Mix with mustard, S&P, and relish..and leave out the mayo.. Ranch dressing would probably be good too.

My favorite was the seasoning packets from Papa John's. DH loves pizza and always ordered it, so one day I was bored on liquids and poured a packet into my chicken broth. Makes it spicy and full of flavor, was great. It's little granules of flavor, so no chunks of anything. They don't give them to you just-so, you have to ask for them.. but they were free. So if someone in family orders pizza from there, have them get you some packets. Nom nom!

I drink skim & 2%. I had to keep both in the house to begin with, but DH won't drink skim.. they are the same taste to me.. so now I drink 2% at home (so I only have to buy one), or skim when I get it out of the vending machine at work.

I shop probably bi-weekly unless I forgot something or wanted to make something particular that I didn't have. Typically my list is the same things everytime.. milk, eggs, meats (beef, pork, chicken), frozen veggie sides, 100 calorie snacks, and onions. I go through onions like crazy, I seem to find a reason to put them into every dish! I also go to allrecipes.com and look up new recipes for beef dishes or chicken dishes before shopping and if something new and exciting catches my eye, I'll add ingredients to my list that I don't normally get. My list hasn't changed much from pre-band.. I was gung ho about fresh fruit & veggies right after banding, but they go bad way before I can finish them, so I stopped doing that. Frozen veggie sides & canned fruit is how I get them now.. except my onions!

Sorry you feel like that, this is where people leave me in disbelief. I don't get this crap from people. If I pass on a dessert or the snacks (jeez the snacks) people bring in every day in the break room.. no one hounds me or thinks because I'm fat I have to eat. I've had people say "Oh but I made this from scratch, it's sooo good you have to try it", I just say "I am soooo full", they don't know what or if I ate anything. Let it roll off, part of the non-fat girl mentality is not letting them make you feel bad. People can only hurt your feelings if you let them! As for the comic, I would have had a big laugh and then trashed it.

Sounds like a winner to me Tracy!!! Wynn is gorgeous, I am glad we picked there to get married. They did offer us a discount to stay the night there since we paid for a wedding package, but it was still ridiculous like $600 for one night!!!!! Rio and Paris offered us free rooms, so we passed on Wynn, but I would have loved to stay there. Terry that bracelet is gorgeous!! I am going to commission you for something in the next year if that's ok? :wink_smile:)

Hey V's! Sorry I'm a bit out of it after yesterday, very surreal to be where something like that happens :bored: It's been all over the news, I saw CNN did cover it. Major lawsuits, the tent we had there was a pole in the middle, which I was actually 'in charge of'. Before storms (because the day was bright and clear, this little storm appeared out of nowhere) the pole I was next to was not attached to the ground or the ceiling, it was just balanced. So people kept leaning on it, and knocking it over, moving our tent, so I was making people stay away from it. When I got up to go to the van with my mom, I even said "I reqlinquish my duty as pole holder!!". That apparently was the first thing to go in our tent, which made everyone rush to the edges to hold the rest of the poles. Ends up the people who put up the tents, did not secure them to the ground, did not put the posts into the poles that secure them to each other, etc. The one boy who died, a generator fell on him.. that was just sitting in the back of a truck. So the Airport is going to be in major hell pretty soon. Anyway, so I'm very melonchaly lately. I did have some BIZARRE dreams last night. Had a dream I was being cheap, so I bought pregnancy tests from the dollar store.. like 20 of em. But their accuracy was only 60% (I dunno where I came up with this). So I peed on all 20 sticks, and 3/5 said I was pregnant, 2/5 said I wasn't.. so I never could figure it out! Work is same ol' work, I have one customer I am about to fire. Never really wanted to do it, but this guy, he's not worth it. He literally wastes hours of our time, then after we bust our butt we never get an order, meanwhile he barks out more commands. I kept thinking, if he called today I was going to cuss him out and ask him why he insists on being such a prick.. so I avoided the phone!! But next time he contacts us for something, I am going to tell him we don't want him to be a customer.. in a nice way of course.. :wink_smile:

The 1 confirmed dead is a 5-year old boy. I can't even imagine, makes me feel so mortal. The tents that were destroyed were about 30ft from ours..We had about 8 kids in our tent.. could you even think of taking your kid to something like that to have them killed??

This just showed up on our local news website..

DH was one of the people holding our tent down, he said it was blowing him away and there were a lot of people holding the poles. He was soaking wet! They haven't even released details of it yet, but next to our tent was the local news channel's tent, they were covering it.. at 5 they are playing the details. Mom said when they were leaving (they were running us out first because of where we parked) she saw 3 bodies covered in tarps..

The broken tents, had a lot of poles in it, I guess they hit them.. or could have been lightening, not sure yet. I think it was the poles though, those were the big tents with a/c in them, they couldn't hold down their tent. All our people were having to hold the posts down.The tent next door was our local news channel, so they're running the details at 5.

There was a storm coming, so me & my mom went and got in the van to have a cigarette, then the storm hit really bad... it was blowing the tents, so we were being funny about how our customers are holding onto the tent for dear life-- [ame=http://s247.photobucket.com/albums/gg156/lalaweightloss/?action=view&current=video.flv][/ame] Then it cleared up and in came the ambulances, 2 of the bigger tents were destroyed, and so far I have heard 1 death, 1 broken back, and multiple injuries. So weird, of course they cancelled the show and made us leave immediately.. never saw the Blue Angels. So glad we were ok, it was a scary few minutes!!!!! Broken tents.. Portopotties tipped over..

Cod Sounds good, I love that stuff!

What happened Terry?? I never buy from anyone who doesn't have at least 200 feedback and 97% or better. If the negative is recent I also check out why they got negative.