Daisalana

Yeah I do receiving blankets now, and I have rolled up shirts I wore the day before... I just wanted to start getting him use to an item since he's become more aware (fighting sleep, realizing where he is--and isn't at home). Just a peeve thing, I was ready to start getting this item ready, had it all mapped out.. now I don't!

I've been watching Glee, I didn't like last night's episode as much as I liked the other 2. I have a friend who is allergic to like literally everything except coconut and shrimp.. so she has to cook things in coconut oil, and she says you can't tell it's coconut. I ordered Carson a 'lovey', and I got delivery confirmation from USPS yesterday-- but I didn't get it, I got someone else's package. What a bummer, USPS is so hard to deal with, I may never see that $40 lovey. Was hoping to have it for this weekend, get my smell all over it to leave with him while I'm in Atlanta and Carson is with mom, see if it helps him any. I made a 3-bean salad last night, recipe from allrecipes. Never made it myself before, so I got to find a recipe that has 3 beans I wanted (kidney, green, and chick peas). The dressing, I tasted it last night it was wonderful (honey/garlic/vinegar/mustard), and it's been marinating over night. I can't wait to get home and try it!!!!!

I don't know about bringing Russ. If I do, I want to make a mini-vaca out of it (go to San Antonio Riverwalk!!) and maybe the river, have to plan it out. That's why I need more info on the trip! I know you're not gonna like this (or maybe you will, he would probably cause a scene at the wedding) but I don't plan on bringing Carson :/ Which is why I don't know about Russ yet. Depends on if mom can watch him, or if russ needs to stay home and watch him.

Glad you were able to login Michelle! Heard you were having problems. Fingers crossed for NO CHEMO! Fingers still crossed for TracyW and her new job prospect! HAYDEE... e-mail me info for your wedding, like.. when should we plan to fly in and fly out, where should we get a hotel, do I need to rent a car, etc. etc. Trying to get this all worked out on my end so it doesn't sneak up on me (yeah I know it's a ways away, but I am anal retentive sometimes).

I have been on a mini-frosted wheats kick for a while, I love those right now. Did you know they make teeny tiny ones? They included a sample in one of my boxes a couple weeks ago, they're like the size of a dime. We hired the froofroo photographer to do newborn, 6m and 1 year pics for Carson. We go Oct. 14 to do the 6m pictures. I love the artsy fartsy pictures, and they come up with 'sets' while we're there and sooo much stuff to put together in their boutique. I wish I was good at photography, their job seems SO fun. I can't wait to see what they do for each session. I hope I win one of these baby of the months, for a gift cert. to this photographer, she is so expensive. $50 for each sheet.

Just me & parents and whoever wrote the letter. Lot going on lately with 2 people's parents murdered, and one of the CSR's daughter had her twins yesterday (2 months premature). Lots to talk about at the watering hole! Judy, you're allowed to say Grady is the cutest baby ever :tt1: Overalls and hat sounds cute, we are doing the froo-froo pictures with the lady who did his newborn pics.. but I think I'm also going to go to Sears or JC Penney or whoever sends me these cheapola coupons to get just a normal pose in a normal outfit. I don't know what the froofroo pics will turn out to be, and my Granny has a wall of baby pics (everyone is 6m) from her kids on.

I have been reading, keep thinking about posting but not much to say. I don't know about baby of the month yet... I ended up making banana bread muffins for co-worker (found a recipe that only needed 2 bananas--which is what I had). Turned out awesome (I ate one of course to test!). I put them in foil and a little 3oz block of cream cheese. Then my friend here at work went all out, muffins, brownies, homemade bread.. everything cut up and individually wrapped in saran wrap in a basket. So smart, I don't know why I don't think of things like that. They leave for Indiana for the funeral, etc. tomorrow so that is going to be perfect. The anonymous letter, they know is a current employee by what they said; but no indication of who it is, even postmarked from a city 2 hours from here.. so who knows who it was. Ok Carson crying, gotta bail!

I'll get my hair done tonight! Oh no, wait.. I'll look into flights Fly into Spring, TX?

It's not signed, all typed, even the envelope is taped. It's a current employee.

LOL yeah they both fell asleep that way eventually. It was sweet.. So it never ends, my parents got a letter today in the mail from an employee.. a very angry employee that thinks they are lazy, greedy bastards.. and they hope they choke to death on their next meal (that's the shortened version). WTF!?

I missed this thread, so the date is now official??

LOL Kat, that is hilarious. I thought it was good, and I sent it on to my friend who I think needed to see.. if a relationship is a secret, it's not a good relationship.

Pam, go listen to "Say Hey" by michael somethin & somethin.. the one I posted about on FB. There's 2 songs in this world that make me move my ass.. Say Hey and Paralyzer (did I tell you guys that, is that why it reminds you of me? lol). Here we go.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoaTl7IcFs8 This is the only song (I don't even do this with paralyzer hah) I make a fool of myself in the car, dancing behind the wheel.

I recognize some of you from LBT...I have made my decision, when I go under the knife again, it will not be to fix my lap-band, it will be to swap to the gastric sleeve. I am self-pay, had a revision after 6 months to fix a flipped port. After that the LB worked beautifully, lost 100lbs in a year, life was great.. got pregnant, had my baby in April and sometime around January of this year my band felt like it disappeared. After costly fills & testing, they now think I have a leak, because everytime they did drawback the saline was gone. (And the weight I am gaining back quickly can attest to that.) So next week they want me to pay more money to test where the leak is, then do another surgery. I asked for a quote on the surgery and they are quoting me the cost of the original surgery - $15k. I can't do that. So I am in the midst of researching doctors-- but I know for certain, since I will have to have another surgery, it will not be to fix my band. I've had it 2 years and already facing 3 surgeries. That's not making me feel good about my long-term with it. That being said, I don't think the band is a bad thing. I hate the situation I'm in, and honestly if my insurance was paying for all this, I wouldn't even care really. But I can't afford to pay $15k for my band every year. Time for a change. I don't know when I can afford it, or which doctor to decide on (sounds like the most experienced would be to go to Mexico, which is a whole other issue I am dealing with, with my family.) So I have no timeframe for when it will happen. :blushing:

Yup, 2 is plenty. I am going to do all the old wives tales to have a girl (Judy swears by it, right Judy??). It will be a girl!! ....and even if not, 2 is plenty to fill my quiver. :thumbup:

Oh, band doc.. He brought 2 other docs with him, and I asked him about omnipaque, told him I heard it's good for minor leaks. He said omnipaque is what he uses to do the contrast study, so he'll just leave it in. Now, what bothered me.. he took several pics, pushed in and out, looked and looked.. and said it looks fine blah blah.. (I did watch this time, but I couldn't tell where the contrast was, they moved so fast). Other doc walked in, he points out the contrast is leaking out. So they looked at the other pics, sure enough VERY LITTLE was leaking out around the port. So they talked amongst themselves, couldn't figure out where the leak is. I thought maybe it was disconnected, maybe it was kinked (the tube looked kinked, they all 3 said no). I guess they'd say it was disconnected if it was, but that didn't come up. He talked about replacing the port, so I asked would this be a possible local anesthetic procedure so I don't have to be knocked out. He said since it's superficial and the leak is in the port, they could sedate me and do a local anesthetic. Makes me feel better. So he left the omnipaque and told me to call him Monday if I have problems. I don't know where we're going from here about possibly fixing it, he just said we could do it that way and he agrees that would be a safe route. I guess they're going to get back with Allergan, since he mentioned replacing the port (I thought they'd just fix it??). Still awaiting costs, but if they can just do that fairly cheap, I'll fix it, and do the conversion in MX after baby #2. If it's expensive, I'll just wait for MX.

Suck it up. Yup. My MIL wouldn't make comments like that; but HER mom does. She is such a prim and proper lady, she likes to pick at eeeverything. Luckily, we don't see her often since she is in Pennsylvania. But when we do get together, some reason (she has money) she always makes us pick up the tab; even when visiting her (always bothered me). And she criticizes everything we order. Cheeseplates are bad, catfish would be healthier if I got it baked, blah blah. I just chuckle and go "Yea...". Suck it suck it suck it up! That being said, when I was losing weight, she made a comment everytime about how good I was lookin and blah blah. She doesn't say it anymore, but I know why! She is always harping on Russ' weight (which I told ya'll went up when we got together, but I swear it wasn't me, his metabolism just died lol)...so I know she thinks it's my fault!!

My band doc just called, asking me the serial number of my band (up until I called allergan a couple weeks ago, I didn't even know I had one!!) So I said "Uhm, I don't know". She said it's on the box they sent home with me from the hospital. WTF? No one ever told me that, I didn't keep up with that crap. And apparently they don't bother to write it down either. Apparently Allergan called them from my report I put in with them and were trying to get more info. I can't believe they don't have the #, and then tell me it's on a box they sent home (but never told me THEN that it has some numbers I may need one day). Seriously, wtf. To top it off, this nurse was rude and irritated with me for not having this info.

Darn I meant to tivo Glee, but I forgot!! Haydee, so does that mean the 2nd girl is going to have her wedding somewhere else now? Puppies went smoothly, they were sedated first, so they were nice and calm and let us hold them quietly for a bit before they sent them on their way. Mom handled it well, she just keeps saying how weird it's going to be not to have dogs out there anymore (she vowed no more dogs ever in her life). We got to sit with them until the creamation place came to pick them up. It went a lot better than I ever imagined, I guess it always seems to traumatic in my mind, but it's really not. Since it was their time, and their quality of life was not a good one, this was the humane thing. I think back to Pandora, that still chokes me up. If there was anything I could have done, I would have done it, she was my favorite cat ever... ah.. I don't think I could have been there for that one, I'm glad I was with V's!!

Oh no Haydee!!!!!! You better call people right away so they can try to get their catering, dj, etc. relined up. I definitely wouldn't want to be you when you handle all that. Maybe hopefully one of the brides won't be too upset.. Pam, I have been in a funk and was going to get anti-depressants. In the past month my normally LOW BP, has been really high. So I was there for the AD, but he saw my BP and I told him it's been that way for a month. He was going to give me a diuretic for the BP, and I said I think it's probably related to my anxiety level these days.. so he's putting me on the meds for a month, and if it doesn't lower my BP he's ALSO going to put me on BP meds. But I really think they're related.

Yeah I have always called them puppies since they're little! They're old ladies really. I am surprised they lived this long, their breed is only to last like 9 years I think. That's one thing I hate about animals, in my lifetime, we've never had one die of natural causes. It takes so long for that, they suffer, so you always have to put them down which is such a horrible ordeal. They had a cat they got when they had me, so it was 22 years old and had cancer for years, but she wasn't giving up. They finally had to decide to put her down. Their quality of life is over at some point, but it's so hard to make the decision. Doc gave me Lexapro.. I think the one Jenn said don't get. He said he wants to go that route because it works pretty quick and he thinks that may be why I have high BP these days. So he said to come back in 3 weeks and see if the BP came down. Russ spazzed while I was at doc, can't handle a crying baby for a minute. THIS IS WHY I STRESS. He calls me with Carson screaming, Russ is freaking out and I'm trying to have a doc appt.. Got McD's on the way home. I normally get a kid's meal, but decided for a Big Mac today.. love the sauce. I take out 2 buns and just eat it on 1 bun. Today they gave me not 3, but FOUR buns. Jeebus.

Dr. Aceves nurse explained they have to remove the band, clear any scar tissue, then place the sleeve. It can be more complicated if you have an existing band problem (erosion or slip.. which I don't have luckily). He does it in 1 surgery. One doctor I had talked to, does do it in 2 surgeries, 5 months apart. I see the bonus either way, but since I'm no MD, I don't really understand why the stomach needs to heal if you didn't have a slip/erosion.

They're very old, it's time. One of them is blind, deaf, can't get off the porch anymore, has infections in her eyes.. other one can't breathe, they said they need to operate and remove her pallets and even then it may not help. They're about 15 years old (pugs). Just sad. In my nightmare no one could go through with it! Mom told me last night she wants us to both hold one on the couch (she has a doorstop vet that comes to your house). I didn't know I would be holding one, still deciding if I could do that.

Today I am sitting with mom whilst she puts her puppies to sleep. I had nightmares about it last night :thumbup: I also go to the doc soon to get some happy pills. My customers are like getting more and more stupid. They just can't be this stupid, I don't get it. I stare at my e-mails sometimes going "Really... REALLY??". Last week customer asks if there's anything we can do to reduce cost; I say as a matter of fact yes, in exchange for a LONG (I gave her days) turn time, we can do it at a discounted cost (promotion we offer). So she sends in the order as a RUSH job (quicker than NORMAL turn time) at this discount price. So we quickly let her know, you can't have it both ways. So today she emails me that she's frustrated and we need to honor the pricing for a rush job. What??? I want the drugs these people are on.

I keep forgetting what I've told ya'll. Did I tell ya Carson rolled over yesterday??? He's not slow necessarily, but most are rolling over at 4m, so I've been nervous (doc said don't be, but I'm a first time mommy, he needs to be by the book!!). Anyway my mom put him down on the floor on his belly yesterday and immediately he rolled over. Like it was no effort and he's been doing it forever. It shocked me! So I put him back over, then he struggled and then screamed and cried (didn't do it again). So this morning with Russ I laid Carson on his belly on our bed, and he flips over quickly. Tried it again, he slowly flipped over.. tried for 3 and he got upset. He's rolling!