Daisalana

I just shopped on Christmas Eve, how weird!! I've never done that before. Russell has wanted a sports coat for years, and when me and mom went to Burlington Coat Factory this weekend I saw they had well priced ones. I didn't have his measurements at the time, and I knew I wasn't getting back out in this traffic.. But it's down the street from work (we are near the mall, ugh it's been a nightmare getting home for 2 weeks now). So I thought maybe it won't be too bad in the morning, sure enough it wasn't horrendous. So I got Russell a sports coat! I'm not PBing, but like.. nausea throwing up food from last night.. gross!!

Merry Christmas eve ya'll!!! I doubt I'll be on at all tomorrow, bouncing between houses and going to TN. I tell Russell that Carson has a wee-wee tonight! He's been sitting here trying to guess all morning based off of random things I say.. we got these specialty art prints (that we printed) for Alabama/Auburn football today and I collect them every year; we don't care much about football but I told him one day our kids may like football and we'll have these expensive, limited prints to hang up in their room. He said "So it's a boy?" and I said "I said KIDS, they're going to be boys? Why can't a girl like football??" hehehe! No luck on the mouse front, hopefully when we get home today it'll be caught. I heard it on Russell's night stand last night (it woke me up) eating out of his pop tart wrapper. I told him about it this morning, he says I was dreaming. Nope. I'm a light sleeper, it woke me up and I was awake for a while listening to it--and it upset the dog (cats were sound asleep though!). Can't believe he left food out when he knows we're trying to trap a mouse. For Christmas morning every year my dad gets a couple gallons of gravy from Cracker Barrel. We've done this for 10 years now. He went last night to get it, and some new manager was saying we couldn't do that.. my dad said What do you mean, can't do that?? The guy said they don't have that much made.. lol.. so my dad said "so, make it" and the guy told him it would be an hour, which is fine. Dad came back and the guy tells him he's lucky because they told other customers "No" to this. Why?? What a stupid manager.

Bah can't get gmail to load!! I FOUND A MOUSE!!! I *hope* it's one mouse. I've never dealt with mice before, so I'm getting frustrated really quick. Me and my cat Apollo were laying in bed, heard a noise in MY night stand (why mine?!) so we both sit there looking at it, I jiggle the nightstand--still there (I thought a toy was going off LOL). So I move the nightstand and it stops. That was weird! Go back to TV, and I see a brown mouse go running across the floor board next to my bed. Never seen a mouse, and surprisingly it didn't scare me. It made me lose my appetite though (I ordered steak out and immediately didn't want food anymore). So Russ & I discuss our options, with cats I'm afraid to do traps, and poison is definitely out. I went to Publix, they had those traps that are inside a round thing, hopefully my cats can't get into them. Put 4 up in the bedroom, and put 2 glue pads down (closed bedroom door so no animals go in there). I go about making the chocolate lasagna and cleaning since we'll be going out of town from Christmas till next week. Go to the Christmas tree to bag up presents for tomorrow night-- and there the little booger is again! Dangit. He's been very brave, hasn't run from me (which kind of worries me). So I moved 2 of the enclosed traps to the Christmas tree, bedroom is still closed up, and I don't know what to do now. I am going to take up the traps in the morning till we get home from work again, but grrr.. how long do traps take? Is the mouse going to attack me in my sleep? I don't know what mice do..

It's not about being photogenic, heck she was moving so it was all blurred.. I got a kick out of what she was DOING!! :thumbup:

I had psoriasis on my ankles really bad, and it did go away after I lost about 80lbs (I contribute it to better circulation--but no doctor confirmed that). However, I have developed psoriasis on my hands in the past couple of months despite the weight loss :thumbup:

Morning V's! I'm all into the holiday spirit :thumbup: Hopefully no one is diabetic at work, or we're going to send them into a coma by proxy. 3 different people made cakes/cookies.. then there's a 5lb box of gourmet belgian chocolate cookies, several other candy tins (most of our customers send us cookies & candy for holidays), and 2 boxes of fresh donuts! I tried a donut, PB city..so being content with my water. I know one of the girls who made cookies, keeps waiting for me to eat one (she is always looking at me for approval) and over Halloween I told her she was evil for bringing in all the candy heh heh.. so now she always likes to make sure I try her food.. I didn't! Must refuse. Making chocolate lasagna tonight, I need to eat nothing today so I can alot for the calories of eating the leftover pieces mwhahaha. Just kidding!! I had a dream last night I ordered a chili frittata (which I don't even know what that is) at McDonalds and they gave me (Subways') teriyaki chicken inside of a tortilla. I woke up throughout the night going "What the heck is a frittata?!" I just googled it.. it's an omelet thing.. how did that term bounce into my dream vocabulary?? Hope you all have a good day..

I got 2 presents early today!! Well PAMela, I didn't know you didn't wrap them so I opened the box.. SO CUTE. I added it to my closet collection of baby stuff (I am going to take a pic one of these days, I seem like a crazy person hoarding all kinds of baby stuff in this big closet..you'd think I was going to kidnap a kid and it will live in there) and I love the fairy cards, those are the kind I normally buy for myself--but haven't in a long time! (((LOVE MY PAMMY))) Then, I had a package that (still) says out for delivery-today.. and UPS came.. brought Pam's package and a Pajama Gram. I thought, maybe my thing came in a Pajama Gram package, couldn't remember where I ordered it, so maybe an ebay seller sent in that.. anyway, it was a lovely pajama set with a note "Merry Christmas Baby" OOPS! I told Russell he should have sent it to himself, apparently I wasn't suppose to get that yet. It's nice fluffy furry pajamas, great for weather we're having right now! And it's cute that he picked them out, I don't think he's ever bought me clothes before so I've never seen him pick out something for me to wear. Anyway.. went to mom's and helped her wrap her last presents, she put $100 bills in random medicine boxes for all us kids.. tampon box, duculax box, immodium box, etc. (She's a funny lady sometimes). I said Russ has to get the tampon box, that way I'll end up with his money.. he's so funny he won't touch my tampons or pads, the boxes even..so he's going to open it and drop it on the floor lol. And I'm off to bed, I am exhausted. Jane I know you won't get this now, but I'm really praying for you that you don't have to spend Christmas in the hospital :smile:

You can have my favorite kind of martini's.. olive juice..slurrrrrp.

Looong boring day, this week is so dead.. most of our customers are closed till Monday already. Went to Chili's and had my Tilapia today.. mmmmm it's SO good. sleeping is even more uncomfortable, I hate it, feels like I'm pulling a muscle in my belly no matter how I lay. I can't wait to ice Cookies & play Santa for Carson! Not next Christmas, but Christmas '10.. woohoo. Someone at work got me a hot chocolate gift set, but they didn't leave a card or anything so I have no idea who gave it to me to thank them. Some reason I remember this happening last year too..

I was convinced it was a boy, I had dreams it was a boy..and sure enough! I did want a girl, but only for the cute nursery & clothes. Healthy is all that really matters! And boys never grow up to hate their mom. My baby wasn't being cooperative, he was sitting breech so the tech had to go back several times to try to get a good picture, and she couldn't get far down enough most the time. But he was kicking his legs a lot, so didn't have to worry about him covering up.. not modest! I know DH really wanted a girl, his mom had 3 boys trying to have girls and gave up.. they really wanted it to be a girl, so I think he wanted to be able to give them that lol. Oh well, maybe next time.

Russell called his mom this morning to find out if his dad's surgery was scheduled.. good news is, sounds like it will be after the holidays! It's a 6 hour long procedure, so they're trying to find a spot for it, but as we all know it's hard to fit such a long surgery in on short notice. Then she said this morning she went to wake up (Russell's youngest brother) and his middle brother's fiance (the 40 year old with 3 kids) was in bed with him. Isn't that just about as redneck as they come? His middle brother is out of town visiting their g'ma right now. Should be an interesting Christmas!! Terry those dishes are beautiful, I love the swirls on them! I forget the other personals, I know everyone posted some great pics I looked through this weekend (I read on the weekends, just don't post because nothing to say). I slept most of the weekend, shopped some yesterday with mom and she bought me a (soft) faux fur coat. She wanted to get me a blousy winter coat, and it's not my style so I just let her pick out whatever she wanted. Can't wear the stuff I normally like to right now anyway, may as well have a warm coat! Oh and sure enough it went from 70 degrees to 17 today! I don't even have a coat for this weather.. mom is giving me that fur coat for Christmas!

B'fast- Water Lunch- PB'd some noodles & honey chicken Snack- Chocolate milk & more water & 1/4 of a Nutrigrain bar.

Gosh it must be holidays or something, I hear us all making crappy food choices.. har.

My g'parents are very confused with the interwebs, so when I send them pictures of ultrasounds or youtube videos, etc.. they can't figure out how to open it, blah blah. It's become a headache so I found a (free) website where you can dummy it all down.. post info, pictures, etc.. no more having to open attachments--which seems to be beyond them. Also, they can keep it bookmarked for reference.. and of course, especially for us first time moms new baby stuff is always fun. :huh2: Create Your Free Baby Website at Baby Home Pages .net Here's mine.. Carson Barlow's first website!

Bands are fickle things! And what works for one, doesn't mean it will work for another. If you want to try pickles again, try it later in the day, and make sure you chew it into fine pieces, and no rubbery bits left in your mouth.

I can't wait to have a martini with my V's! :biggrin:

Decided on chinese food.. been PBing on it.. wee. Going to give up soon and get a chocolate milk (judy made me!).

That's crazy.. Judy is having 6-12" of snow and it's 70 degrees here.. doesn't sound right!! I bet we're going to get bad storms this week when the temp. drops again.. tornadoes for Christmas- ho ho ho! I officially can't suck my belly in anymore, I keep pulling at my shirt.. even at my biggest weight, I have sucked in my gut for my entire life.. out of habit. It actually kind of hurts not to suck it in!! Had a girls' night planned at my friends' tonight but she called me last night from the hospital, her g'ma was dying. I rescheduled with the rest of them to come to my house instead. She emailed this morning saying her g'ma passed, it was peaceful and everyone was there to see her in her last moments which is nice. Then she asked if anyone can babysit her dog this weekend while they go out of town for the funeral. I felt bad, but I know Russell would kill me if I volunteered to babysit someone's dog. Luckily, while I pondered what to do someone else said they could. Can't decide where to go for lunch today.. I want to leave early so we can run by Publix and get snacks for the girl's night.. so we should do somewhere quick, but I don't like fast food places.. wah.

Thanks for sharing the pics, I love aquariums!! I am too lazy to be a fish owner though.. Anytime I've attempted them, I let them grow over with god knows what and kill the fish (bad bad fish owner).

70 degrees today!! Wanted to say real quick before I go to work.. I don't wear lane bryant clothes anymore, but they are still my favorite bras.. only bras that have ever been comfy to me and that still remains.. anyway I have gone up in cup size (ugh) and so I decided I need to get some more, I bubble out,etc.. and I went to the website to order some and they have Buy 2 Get 2 Free, PLUS online codes, give you $50 off $150.. so I ended up getting 8 bras (normally $28-$40 each) for $120 total. Thought I'd pass on the sale in case anyone else needs bras.

Get back on track, it's unlikely you slipped your band, but the healing you do NOW prevents you from slipping LATER. It's very important to follow your doctor's diet, you absolutely need to go back on the diet immediately. Back to liquids. You can do it. Just remember, this is only a month of your life, you can tough it out for a month. This time next year, this will all be a distant memory and you'll have forgotten how rough it was.

The newest product of my boredom.. Baby Carson's first website! Carson Barlow's first website!

Same.. BCBS has a Baby Yourself program, so some nurse calls and checks up on me and talks to me every month. The first time she called, she asked if I used artificial sweeteners.. I told her I use Sweet-n-Low (Only one I like, and I like it a LOT!) and of course, she says that's the ONLY ONE that hasn't been tested (why??) and cleared, so told me to swap to Splenda, Equal, or Sugar. I tried Splenda & Equal and do not like either.. so I went to sugar for a little bit, but with the weight gain, I decided I didn't need more sugar than normal.. so I'm back to Sweet-n-Low. I don't have it every day, I have it when I get tea at restaurants, probably 4x a week. Oh well..

I'm glad Dr. Mailapur supports the lap-band now! I'm glad there's an alternative in Huntsville to Fuccundus(sp), whose office I thought was run horribly..

Terry- Russell would too, and I point that out all the time. If I wasn't there, he would live off of fast food & mt. dew, he'd never bathe, he'd never get out of his computer chair, and the whole house would be run over with filth.. and our poor animals would never get fed. Going to O'Charleys today and getting my cedar-planked Salmon! YAY! It's been a WHOLE WEEK since I had fish, I normally plan it out so I can eat as much as my doc allows. This is first time I went 7 days without. And instead of fish, I ate a bunch of crap. I was telling a coworker how I crave so much junk these days, I hate it. I could live off of sweets & desserts right now.. and she goes "Did you see the cake in the break room?" BAD FRIEND!! I went and looked, it's the cake I bought for my friend's 30th birthday lol. It was a big sheet cake and they only ate like 3 pieces out of it.. but it's a week old.. ew.