Daisalana

Yeah you kept hobbling around talking about if you could just... (BARF) and then you'd say it again.. I was tryin to pretend it wasn't happening so you didn't feel bad lol.

Oh Jenn that sucks :whatchutalkingabout Reminds me when I was in excruciating pain in the ER and they thought it was appendicitis, but they never gave me anything for the pain and made me sit there hours on end bawling my eyes out (till I finally discharged myself and ran out cussing). Hospitals really suck sometimes, I really dread that part of childbirth too, I am kind of boycotting hospitals right now heh heh. I can't believe they are dragging you out so long, any way to get a quick 2nd opinion going? Judy and her sensible reason..pff. Waiting for Russell to get back from James Bond movie so I can order Steak out. I have the turkey carcas cooking like Judy said (smells so dang good), but then it dawned on me, the only turkey carcass we had is the deep fried one, which is fried in peanut oil, which Russell can't have. Not sure what to do with the stock now, I don't ever cook soup just for me.

Only if they try to tell you it's on weight watchers.

It has to have a URL on the internet.. with an http:// address and ends in .jpg or .gif... if you want to use a picture on your computer (not the internet), not really sure how to do it (I never done that). Also, make sure the 2nd img has a / before it. [ /img] (that 'closes' the code)

Oh and Kat, I been meaning to tell you, to make your pics smaller.. open them in your paint program (the one that comes on your computer), and on the top, select "Image-> Stretch & Skew" and then under the Stretch fields, try 50 (make sure both numbers are the same so it constrains proportionally) in both blanks. If it's still too big, try again.. you're basically saying what percentage of the size you see, that you want to keep. Most of my pics on my digital camera, I end up doing 40/40.

See if it lets me type the code.. When you go to post an image, type [ img] (But with no space in the beginning between [ and i) Then at the end of your url (make sure it touches the brackets on both ends, no spaces) [ /img] (same thing with the spacing, I just added a space so it doesn't think I'm trying to use actual code) So it will look like this.. [ img]http://www.somepictures.com/blah.jpg[ /img] (but take out the spaces in the brackets) And Haydee, since you didn't know that.. if you can stop eating sugars for a few days (takes me like a week tops) you break your body's addiction to the sugars, and you'll stop craving it.. will be more of a 'I want a donut' if you want sweets, instead of a "OMG I need something sweet" hehe. First week is hardest because your body is use to having sugar, and it thinks you're depriving it, so you'll be craving it.. but.. you can doooo it. If anything, to get through the first week get a bag of the sugar-free Russell Stover's chocolates (om nom nom nom) for when you feel like you gotta have something sweet, and it won't be encouraging your body's sugar addiction.

Woohoo Jane! Good luck with no sweets Haydee, I'm sure you know but if you cut out all sugars, it will make it easier to stop eating sweets (after a few days of course), you'll stop craving it. I think I mentioned the coffee table & end tables I bought yesterday? Maybe not.. I bought them from Overstock, I've been waiting for my mom's hand me downs and I give up waiting, I hate my glass tops (hate hate hate). So I found some on Overstock that I liked, and though I have been screwed by buying furniture online in the past (not from Overstock though, we've bought a bed & our current living room table set there with no complaints--except that I hate glass top). A lot of reviews and everyone says it looks great, it's heavy & sturdy, the only problem is the shelves don't have pre-drilled holes but everyone says it's no big deal to drill your own and we have a drill so.. I got em. I'm so giddy, I've been wanting new tables for 4 years now. They come Monday! Going to sell my old glass tops on Craigslist. Anyone know why my house would be so dang dusty? We thought it was from smoking, and we change filters regularly.. but when we stopped smoking I cleaned our vents and changed the filter, and we still have a ridiculous amount of dust *and I dust once a week!* I can't figure out why we have such bad dust.. could 2 cats create so much? We're not in a desert, which was always dusty from the sand when we lived in NM.. Our company's White Tiger Paws, first shipment came in and someone opened a box.. Om nom nom nom. I ate one and was able to stop at just one, because it was 10am and something so sweet.. didn't need 2! White chocolate turtles... and they are hand-made and very generous with the caramel. I helped design our custom box this year, turned out very very cute. Metallic silver-blue background with pale blue snowflakes on top of that and then a white tiger with a santa hat standing next to our logo.

That actually makes me think of when I wash zuccini or squash. The handy work that goes into it always makes me feel dirty cause the way I wash it is the same way I handle my husband.. and over turkey day when making my squash zuccini casserole, I wondered if anyone else in the kitchen thought what I was doing was dirty looking.

Ya'll are right. And yes, when Randy used the fake immunity idol I died laughing. Serves him right, he was a jerk.

I do, I watched it all the time... it's really sad, because it's real. The follow up episodes, they never stay clean!! I know my sister is just as at fault, believe me I already know she's an idiot, but the audacity his brother has to come bring drugs and offered it to both siblings (my brother likely bought some too, he's a big druggie, but I figure what really happened is my bro ended up selling him stuff) in any event.. His family doesn't come for xmas anyway, we go there.. it's just to hear my mom SAY don't invite them, just puts a crutch there in my mind because I know my mom is resentful right now. And not at his parents of course, but his stupid ass brothers. (Had to come back, Russ walked in my office) Was talking to my friend, who has a brother in jail most of his life for drugs so she can relate, we were talking about what idiots they all are.. so glad I have someone to vent to about this, I just get so mad. His brother was very obnoxious that day in other regards, I hate that he talked about drugs in front of my mom, it's a huge sore spot and completely inappropriate. But he brought a 12 pack of beers that morning when they got there at 10am and he drank several, then asked to bring it to the dinner. I said no, we don't drink alcohol (we never have, there's 2 alcoholics in our family and they know we don't drink at family gatherings, my granny is very anti-drinking).. then we get there, and we are getting drinks for everyone, my mom asked him what he wanted, he said "Any alcohol?" after I had the talk with him about no alcohol, she said No and he said "If there's no alcohol,then I don't want anything." This is why Russell feels bad, he feels his brothers are a reflection on him. I've always said, my bro & sis are NOT a reflection of me. You can't choose your family, and no one in my fam thinks less of Russell because his brothers are stupid. I'm afraid if I tell him, he'll end up apologizing to my mom, which will set my mom off on me for telling him.

Save meh from the drama :cursing: Talked to mom about my sister, guess where my sister got her drugs? From Russell's youngest brother when he came down for Thanksgiving. My brother told me his bro was bragging about have X, cocaine blah blah (this is his youngest bro, who is extremely obnoxious with shock talk), but even my sister was complaining about how he was talking about having drugs in front of our family. Anyway, so it ends up he sold her morphine, in syringes. She's never done morphine. So thanks to him, she has a new drug of choice. Mom begged me not to tell Russell, because she knows Russell always complains about his brothers coming to any of our family gatherings (he says they emberass him) and we say "no,our families are one", etc.. but now.. with this, mom doesn't want Russell to feel bad, yet me or Russ are going to have to call his bro and have a talk with him. That being said, mom said "Please don't invite his family to Christmas". heh. Not sure what to do, she really doesn't want me to tell Russell and I don't want to tell him because I know he'll feel horrible.. but if I don't tell him, I'm going to be the one who has to call his brother and tell him he has shit for brains. (Pardon me Judy & Michelle!)

Me too Pam, and although I'd love a girl simply because the nursery set I picked out is too cute (purple flowers!), I officially want a boy or girl equally now after thinking about pros & cons of their sex lol. So I am going to win either way!! Amazes me how dumb people are on the internet, with myspace/facebook. Anyone watch the judge shows and people incriminate themselves because of it, or people getting arrested now for commiting crimes and putting the videos up on their facebook, etc. My sister is stupid like that, she always blogs about when she does drugs, or cuts, etc. She finally learned how to do secret blogs where you can exclude some people from seeing it (like me and my mom), but today one of her friends commented on her myspace saying she's so stupid for getting back into drugs and if she met whoever introduced her to the needle she would kick their @$$ etc. So, there's that. I could turn this into a rant, but I won't. Just amazed at what people put online. I've seen some news articles where HR people admit they pull up myspace/facebook of applicants when deciding whether or not they want to hire.

If you've been on Rx pain meds and stopped taking them, that can be a cause for the headache.. it'll go away in a day or so, it's just withdrawals from Rx pain meds. Otherwise, tylenol is fine.. :cursing:

I've never been a big fan of Applebee's, but they came out with a new menu sometime this year, that has the shrimp & spinach salad.. it is phenomenal. I don't count stuff, so I don't care either way, but there was a time when I would count calories and (that's what Chili's got in trouble for) if they mislabeled calorie content, that's not right!! ARGH! :cursing:

This one time, at band camp... :cursing:

I think it's a boy. Due to my ravenous hunger, which the books say is twins or a boy.. and since it's not twins, that leaves a boy..

The most comfortable when my port scar was healing, was doggy style. Lot less bending of my abdomen and squishing it, or any weight put on it. I think I only waited a week..

My living room is a deep eggplant purple color. I am so tired, I have such a hard time getting up for work these days. Doesn't help that Russell won't let me turn the heat up past 68 and he keeps our ceiling fan on. I'm like a popsicle every morning. Still trying to defrost with personal heater at work.. brr.

Not only do you have 1 whole cc to go to 'fill' the band, but bands can be over-filled safely to a point and I've heard people on the forum say they had to do this. .1cc can make a world of difference, I've been 'too tight' by only .2cc before, and if I lost .3cc I would be too open.. I definitely think it's time for a new doctor, that is supportive and not argumentative. If you didn't need the band to work, you wouldn't have had the surgery and it sounds like you're making good choices, you just need the band to do its part.

I can eat rice & pasta, without doing anything special. Rice I've never had a problem with, and I'm not a fan of pasta so I rarely eat it.. but I've eaten long noodles too quick and had issue.. as long as I remember to chew them it's all good.

Terry if you can have that before 5pm (and the entire thing after 5pm), yes.. time for a fill!! Welcome back Pam! Our Xmas party use to be a pot luck, but this year is when we had that employee who had the filthy disgusting house and got arrested, etc., so.. due to this, we nixed pot lucks from here on out. We did some printing for this fancy place called Ketchup (funny huh?) and did a trade off, they're doing a buffet style and letting us have our party there. I've never been there, but apparently it's like a gourmet diner and they serve a bunch of different flavored ketchups lol. Dec. 15th.. busy week for me next week.. Dec. 11 find out what our baby violet is (I may have a tiny penis in me!?! Yeah do I sound 12 or what.), Dec 12 is the surprise party I'm throwing for my friend, Dec. 13th is Nutcracker (I hate this show, but a coworker is the lead dancer so we agreed to go see him). Dec. 15th is the company party.. whew. Oh and this Saturday all my girlfriends I been catching up with are coming over.. my turn to host the girl's night out!

Morning! We've had snow all morning! But it's 40 degrees out, so no chance it'd stick. I finished that book this weekend, the Brief & Wonderous life of Oscar Wao. Very.. interesting. Surprised it made best seller and stuff.. it was about a Fuku (curse) in the Dominican Republic that followed a family for generations, particularly their love lives and lives in general, a lot of flashing back & forth in time. I mean, it was an interesting read (that I was able to finish) but nothing that would make me insist someone else read it. In fact some of it was vulgar enough I'm not going to give it to my Granny to read--I normally give her every book I read. I just ordered a coffee table & end table from overstock. I've been holding out for years for my parent's hand me downs, and they almost got new ones this year, then mom backed out. Tired of waiting on their hand me downs and I hate my glass tops (I hate glass tops!!). It was $600 with the specials going on, and then I get a 15% rebate for paying with paypal. Wood tops with metal scrollwork bodies.. 1 coffee table & 2 end tables. I also got some books I ordered in today.. Snow Flower & The Secret Fan (recommended to me on Amazon based on other books I bought) it's another historical novel, new york times best seller and I believe it's about china.. Also got The Life Before Her Eyes, that movie I watched last week. Can't wait to read this book and find out more info. Any of you watch Lost? Or Fringe? They are by the same guy JJ Abrahms, and with all the goofy stuff going on in Lost.. well I've been watching Fringe and on the last Fringe it had 'fake airplane' tickets for some of the workers of this big corporation that is doing bad things, on an OCEANIC flight, that is suppose to cover up their murders. Hmmmm. My head is going to explode if they are trying to converge Fringe & Lost.

Morning V's! Starting to feel pregnant since Thanksgiving lol. Thought it was from eating too much, but my stomach is getting hard and I feel heavy and uncomfortable and it's lasted all these days. My belly aches a lot, I guess from growing, but it doesn't let up and it makes sleeping a real pain. Although, it hasn't kept me from sleeping, I Just wake up a lot rubbing my stomach. Friday I woke up early for his bro to come, then I fell asleep around noon and slept all day.. then yesterday I got home from the Iron bowl party (Alabama vs. Auburn.. I bet on Auburn wow.. they lost 0 to 28ish!!) around 5pm and fell asleep till midnight.. then went back to bed at 1am. Pam your dad sounded like a great guy!

I opened it, and it had 5 people, none of which I could decide was her dad.. so I wrote back asking which one.

Judy let me know that soup recipe, we have 3 carcasses at my moms house, going to tell her to save me one.. I wanna soup!! I only PB'd once, pre-meal.. I snacked on a deviled egg and my brain lapsed, I took 1/3 bite of the egg and didn't chew at all.. so I immediately ran to the bathroom and spit up 1/3 of the egg lol. But then it was like a miracle (a bad one!) I could eat everything on my plate. I ate SO much it was like I had no band. I got to the point I was so full, I was way too full and felt bad.. and then I got this severe pain in my left shoulder, which I had a few days ago at work.. must have to do with eating. So we went home early so I could lay down and baby my shoulder. Had indigestion ever since eating yesterday, burps and gas.. yuck. One of Russ' brothers didn't make it down, but he called last night (one that bailed on us last week moving furniture) and said he was coming here at 8am to finish moving furniture. So he calls us at 8am (which wakes me up) and says he's on his way. It's 10am and he just called and said he's not coming. ARGH. I don't know what his problem is. Don't come, but don't keep making me think someone is coming, where I get up, clean up, get ready for company--then bail. My granny made 2 turkeys, but she dropped one the other day so we only had 1.. She is the hostess with the mostess so when everyone kept asking for more turkey she acted like her dementia set in..she'd say OK! disappear and come back with.. nothing lol. She finally told me & my mom what happened. My mom did get 2 deep fried turkeys from her friend.. they are soooo good.. deep fried in peanut oil. But she only did breasts this year, and I don't eat white meat About to go heat up some left overs, and read a book. I bought the Brief & Wonderous Life of Omar Wao months ago when I hurt my back and was bed ridden and never got around to reading it. I keep seeing reviews on it and it's been a best seller or something on amazon. Yeah I don't shop today, and try not to leave the house all together. Good luck to those of you who are!