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Cute! Maybe I need to put one on my DH tool box too! :cool:

Lisa - I eat those no sugar added fudge bars once in a while. They are good and not that many calories. It makes me feel like I am eating something good! lol Put your ticker back up, I thought that looked great! Just don't put up a food one, they make me hungry! :cool:

Looks like it is fixed now!

Usually when you post a large picture or something it causes it to go out of wack that way!

Pat - it does the same thing to me only I want the pumkin pie! I thought I was the only one that it bothered that way! :cool:

Katie - My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. Hopefully things will get better. You are doing a great job with your weight. We all need a little sunshine in our lives, even at the darkest moments. You should be proud of your accomplishment. Please keep us posted on your cousin.

Great job Bobby!

THOSE WERE THE GOOD OLE DAYS > What Was My Mother Thinking? > > My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the same > cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't seem > to get food > poisoning. > > My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter AND I used to eat > it > raw sometimes too, our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper > in a brown > paper bag not in icepack coolers, but I can't remember getting e > coli? > > Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake > instead of a > pristine > pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then. > > The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, > and a pager > was the school PA system. > > We all took gym, not PE... and risked permanent injury with a pair > of high top > Ked's > (only worn in gym) instead of having cross-training athletic shoes > with air > cushion soles > and built in light reflectors. I can't recall any injuries but they > must have > happened because > they tell us how much safer we are now. > > Flunking gym was not an option... even for stupid kids! I guess PE > must be much > harder than gym. > > Every year, someone taught the whole school a lesson [and provided > comic relief] > by running in > the halls with leather soles on linoleum tile and hitting the wet > spot. How much > better off would we > be today if we only knew we could have sued the school system. > > Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the national > anthem and staying > in detention after > school caught all sorts of negative attention. We must have had > horribly damaged > psyches. > > I can't understand it. Schools didn't offer 14 year olds an > abortion or condoms > (we wouldn't have > known what either was anyway) but they did give us a couple of baby > aspirin and > cough syrup if > we started getting the sniffles. > > What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? > Ours wore a > hat and everything. > > I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was > allowed to be > proud of myself. > > I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play > Station, Nintendo, > X-box or 270 digital > TV cable stations. > > I must be repressing that memory as I try to rationalize through > the denial of > the dangers could have > befallen us as we trekked off each day about a mile down the road > to some guy's > vacant lot, built > forts out of branches and pieces of plywood, made trails, and > fought over who > got to be the Lone Ranger. > What was that property owner thinking, letting us play on that lot? > He should > have been locked up > for not putting up a fence around the property, complete with a > self-closing > gate and an infrared intruder alarm. > > Oh yeah... and where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I > got that bee > sting? I could have been killed! > > We played king of the hill on piles of gravel left on vacant > construction sites > and when we got hurt, Mom > pulled out the 48 cent bottle of Mercurochrome (kids liked it > better because it > didn't sting like iodine did) > and then we got our butt spanked. Now it's a trip to the emergency > room, > followed by a 10-day dose of a > $49 bottle of antibiotics and then Mom calls the attorney to sue > the contractor > for leaving a horribly vicious > pile of gravel where it was such a threat. > > We didn't act up at the neighbor's house either because if we did, > we got our > butt spanked (physical abuse) > here too .. and then we got butt spanked again when we got home. > > Mom invited the door to door salesman inside for coffee, kids > choked down the > dust from the gravel driveway > while playing with Tonka trucks (Remember why Tonka trucks were > made tough ... > it wasn't so that they could > take the rough Berber in the family room), and Dad drove a car with > leaded gas. > > Our music had to be left inside when we went out to play and I am > sure that I > nearly exhausted my imagination > a couple of times when we went on two week vacations. I should > probably sue the > folks now for the danger they > put us in when we all slept in campgrounds in the family tent. > > Summers were spent behind the push lawn mower and I didn't even > know that mowers > came with motors until > I was 13 and we got one without an automatic blade-stop or an > auto-drive. > > How sick were my parents? Of course my parents weren't the only > psychos. I > recall Donny Reynolds from next > door coming over and doing his tricks on the front stoop just > before he fell > off. Little did his Mom know that she > could have owned our house. Instead she picked him up and swatted > him for being > such a goof. It was a > neighborhood run amuck. > > To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that > they were from > a dysfunctional family. How could > we possibly have known that? We needed to get into group therapy > and anger > management classes? > > We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn't > even notice > that the entire country wasn't > taking Prozac! How did we survive? > > Wonder why the dramatic change in our society in such a few short > years? Wonder > who profits > from these new "regulations"? >

Our Constitution > > > They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq. Why don't > we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, > it's worked for over 200 years and what the hell, we're not using it > anymore." > > > > > <> Ten Commandments > > The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments in a > Courthouse! > You cannot post "Thou Shalt Not Steal," "Thou Shalt Not Commit > Adultery" and "Thou Shall Not Lie" in a building full of lawyers, > judges and politicians! It creates a hostile work environment. > > > Zero Gravity > > When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly > discovered that ball-point pens would not work in zero gravity. To > combat this problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion > developing a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside-down, on almost > any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below > freezing to over 300 C. The Russians used a pencil. Your taxes are due > again--enjoy paying them. >

Good Luck with your appointment! My thoughts and prayers are with you. We alwasy seem to think the worst, try to relax and wait for the tests.

Welcome to Bandland! :cool: You'll start feeling better before you know it! Like everyone else said, drink you water, walk, and follow your doctors orders!

Great article!

Michelle - I know how much pain he is in, and believe me it hurts. I was down for 7 months with a herniated disc, I couldn't walk, sit or go to the restroom by myself or anything. It was the most miserable time of my life. It's extra bad because you have to depend on everyone to do everything for you, and when you can't do anything you start really feeling depressed. They have a lot of new treatments now out for that problem. In fact here in Dallas they have a place that advertises they can stop the pain without surgery. I don't know exactly what they do, but any kind of relief you can get is great! It might be worth checking into. My thoughts and prayers are with both of you, I know it is hard on you too. Anytime a person is sick, it affects the whole family.

Drive carefully! I hope everything is uphill for you now!

I've seen them on several times, but their not listed in the members list.

Wow! She is brave to do that I guess! Maybe she will get lucky and somebody will finance it for her. They alwasy say you can find anything on ebay, I guess it is true.

Lisa - Yeah, I think just a little bit of time for those stitches to heal up at least would help. I know you want to make up for lost time, but just be careful!

A "Big" Welcome from Texas Kathy! It's good to see you researching before jumping into this. There are lots of older threads that you can do research on too, with lots of valuable information. Good luck with your journey and keep us posted.

Lauren - Good luck with your surgery today! Please post and let us know how you are when you feel up to it! Welcome to bandland!

Bobby - You might want to pm Donali, she has experience with erosion. Good Luck!

Whooo Hoooo Michele! That is awsome! I am doing the happy dance for you! :banana :banana

Whooooo Hoooooo! You made it to the 170's! :banana I am so happy for you!

Great job Michelle! You will be hitting that 80 pound mark before you know it! No gain, no loss for me this week. I'll take it with a smile though, we went to a party Saturday and I certainly pushed my luck!

Ha-Ha Marie, that is a good one!

Nancy - Sorry I missed you, I didn't realize you hit that spot too! :banana Congrats to you too! :Bunny :Bunny