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WTG PHYL !!! YOU ROCK!!! You have done such a fantastic job in the last 2 yrs - Now with that knee fixed - watch out gang - she's our energizer bunny !!!! Meredith - Hugs on the house like you said - it wasn't ment to be - My DS bought a short sale house - They had a 30 day escrow - no problems. On the Andrew issue what Apples said - they all can be buttheads at one time or another. I hear you on the eating out - I still am more comfortable in my kitchen - I have a very very hard time making good choices while out.. But the way I look at it - it's a treat for me since I don't eat out often - WTG on your weight loss you are doing fantastic too... Well Gang I have to clean out my closet - I was straightening it up cuz DS & Family will be here tomorrow and I am always after GD#1 to clean her room closet etc (you know how messy teenage girls can be) well I have to set a good example so I did a load of my blacks pants (that didn't get done this past weekend) - heck I don't have enough hanger - I gotta put my capris away and summer dresses - Won't be able to do it this weekend but maybe next or on my furlough friday (well that is if I don't go crusing parking lots w/Phyl ) Apples - I'm with you I on only keeping clothes that fit - I have given away all the clothes that to big and I WILL NOT BUY A BIGGER SIZE... That being said 99% of my pants are 4's with like 2 2's but with Levi's I'm a 6 and if I buy junior pants I can be a 5 or 7... :0) Well it's 8 I have had call from DS - talked to both grand daughters - did a little food shopping - answered an email from a newbie and got dinner cooked and dogs fed - need to go veg before bed - so talk to you in the morning..

Julie - Isn't it funny now when we think we are being bad it's not as bad as we imagine it to be.. I think that it's cuz we are now aware of what we are putting in our mouths - Yes we may still over indulge in some of our fav foods -but it's not anywhere close to the amounts that we use to consume - If I so have something - I think - oh I have had enough calories - and stop- don't keep pigging out ot it... I agree - why can't we just have one time - it would be easier all the way around.. I agree the spring ahead - is the hardest.. It's hard to go to bed at 9:30 when it's really 8:30 - where as when we fall back - it 8:30 but our bodies think it's 9:30 so it's easy to go to bed :0) Ya I here you on the $$ part - yes you need a job that pays enough to float your shopping :0)... Macy's is hiring for the season - I though oh wouldn't it be nice to work there or target and get the discounts :0)... But then when could I exercise and rest- I am a person who needs my down time - once when I was taking over the books for the agency I worked at - I had to come in on Saturdays and work to learn the system - On Monday my boss would ask why I looked so tired - I was working 6 days a week... And I was only like 26 at the time :0) Ya I think I would hit the stores before a storm to - and bet you are right - now that you are prepared - it won't hit :0) Welcome Coconut latte - umhum that sounds good.. :cursing: Tell us a bit about yourself...

Great - I agree with the long post love them and the whole paragraph or just the breakups of the sentences - that's why I always but dashes - and do paragraphes even when not grammercial correct - Well nothing about my post are grammercially correct period :cursing: But who cares - this isn't work ;0) and you guys understand what I am trying to say even when I type hear instead of here - or the instead of they :0) Why would you want to go back to work for the airlines - you already have the benefits of working for them in the past and won't you be going back to your hospital & center jobs once your knee heals?? I guess cuz I have to work - I wish I didn't - and if I didn't I would wish I did :0) Ya after talking about clothes - I really need to thin mine out on the stuff I didn't wear all summer - but again waiting for it to really cool off so I can arrange my winter wabrdore .. Ya I found one - it's not the one I was looking for but it will do ;0) - I am in a mood to create something - A gf gave me a bunch of lite yellow yarn (really a pastel yellow) - right now I am going to try and make a scarf - I brought it to work to do at lunch :0) AZ and us are on the same time right now I think - it's when we fall back the time is diff - I think?? Lori - for us in the desert it would be best if we got dark earlier in the summer time imho - But it's not convenience for just us in the lower of So Cali to have a diff time zone than the rest of the world. I like the fall back - cuz it seems to give me a longer evening - cuz I don't go out after dark :0) - to me if it's dark it's time to be home :0) I know that right now when I look out the window and it's 6:30 and dark I will say to myself - oh my it's only 6:30 - I have tons of time before bed it seems later cuz it's dark - and it's so easy to get up for work when we fall back - heck I will be getting up at 4 instead of 5 - maybe I will hit the gym with the extra hr in the morning - Yes all that exercise prior to surgery would help... Glad you are taking a rest day :0) Back to work :0&

Steph - Hugs on the no gf either - I know you really don't talk about any - I understand what you mean - we are all family here - but we are cyber family - who gets together a couple time a year with each other when we can - and maybe talk on the phone every now and then - We don't live near each other - we can't just drop by each others house or meet for lunch coffee - shopping etc. Here's an observation Steph - Karla - Karri - Linda - don't have close GF - not sure about Kari - I know Densie does and so does Candicw - Phyl well I think she does have outside freindship What's that all about... I don't care if you have dh's or not - a girl needs another girl to talk to - to hang with.. You girls w/o gf need to go make some... I know we don't like to be a burden on others - but you gotta have someone in your life to call on sometimes - Say I was sick - all I have to do is pick up the phone and have 5 pple I can think of off the top of my head who would come bring me something to eat - go to the store for me what ever - would I call them most likely not cuz I wouldn't want to put them out - but if I needed them I can call them. (Phyl you would be 6 if it happend when you were here) I am very blessed - I just realized that when typing the above well - didn't just realize it but I guess I take it for granted. I don't like to burden pple with my issues - but sometime you do need to reach out and touch someone - I gotta say just venting here is usually enough for me but like when my bro died - I appreciated my gf's comming to see me - they know me well enough not to smother me (that I can't stand) but they let me know they were there - and at that time I was also lucky to have Phyl & Earl too..

Good Morning Gang... Well I usually get off the computer by 8 Cali time and thats what 2 or 3 hrs behind the rest of you :0) (well except Eva she and I are on the same time zone - well is AZ an hr behind up and we catch up this saturday ;0) I stayed up till 11 last night - I started crocheting - I have never been good at following a patter - I usually just make stuff up - anyway - been in the mood to crochet - I think an audio book would be a great thing to do while crocheting as you really can't watch tv that requires looking - like dancing with the stars last night - I thought oh I could listen to a book Julie - hugs on the pain issues - do they have any pain manangement centers around you - their are tons of pple who have constant pain and I know they go to those places to get some relief and learn to live with it without going crazy from it - a lady here at work wears a tinns (sp) unit - it give her electrical shock and helps w/her pain. Well just a drive by post - need to get my butt in gear cbl :cursing:

Good Morning... Karla - I hear you on calling in sick - I use to do it all the time - now I don't.. I forget what grade do you teach... Hell let them frigging cheat - I think it's a win - win sitiuation - they pass - you don't have parents calling you - and you don't have to police your class room... Ok before everyone yells at me - I am jking (not really) at this point I couldn't deal with it and you are there to teach if they don't want to learn that's their problem - I wouldn't waste my time - I would concentrate on the kids who do - Hell I really sound like a burned out teacher don't I - well I might not teach - but am burnt out - I am not about wasting time. Ok GF you gotta move.. I wish the encomny was better would tell you to move this way - but I don't know if we have any teaching jobs in our school district. I have my gf at work and personal and they intermingle - like Friday we are all going over another girls house for Octoberfest - just a slect few of us :0) - the in crowd :0) and then I have my gf debbie since I have known since hs and Ann since 8th grade and Candy for 30 yrs we are like sisters.. I guess that's the advantage of still living where I was born. I don't socialize a whole lot but do go out every couple of months - like this last weekend - I went shopping on my own - I do that alot - but again it goes to me being an introvert - I can be around pple for a while but then need my down time. A reverse TT is what Steph explained - Karri carried alot of her weight in the top of her tummy (under the boops) if you looked at her before pics she had 2 tummies - the top then and indention like if you have too tight pants on then the bottom - Well she had the bottom fixed July 08 now they are going to do the top - they will pull the skin up on the upper have and make it tight - like pulling up your spanks - and she is getting breast reduction at the same time... She was able to swing it as her doc gave her a payment plan for the TT that insurance didn't cover . Steph - I think it's good that they are moving Michael - you want him to show his true colors while he is there.. Hope your session goes well - and get some airborne - theraflue - tea - ck soup and take care on being sick.. Jackie hope you are feeling better this a.m. - I get you on the tattoo - for arm for the world to see - I sorta try to think ok ya I want another one (3 hearts inter-mingled to represent my 3 grandkids) put where to put it - and at 80 what's it going to look like.. Phyl - Glad you are back to your water arobics - I know how much you enjoy it - I have a gf (ann) who teaches it - I think I may heat the pool for brooke this week - Candice - How are you doing?? Hugs Denise - where are you girl - I see you on FB ;0) Kari - Have you totally just fallen of the freaking wagon??? Well it's 8 gotta get to work ;0) CBL :cursing:

Apples - I had a magic bullett too - but didnt really like it that much and only used it after surgery too - the Ninja is both a chopper and blender and larger - don't know how much use I will get - not good idea to make salsa - cuz then I want chips ;0)... I here you on a house that size for the 2 of you - I have 3 bedrooms - but now that DS & family moved away - and they now come an visit - I really could use an extra room - DS & Brooke (5yr old) sleep in the guess room (ds & dil) really don't fit in the double bed they are both large - DIL & Kaitlin (14 yr) sleep on the couches in the living room - a bit of a pain for me cuz I am up early and I have open floor plan so taking the dogs out and making coffee I have to be real quite and then I have to go watch tv in my room... I don't mind for a few days - but it would be nice to have another room for them.. I have a tandem gararge (3 cars - 1 pulled all the way in then one behind it and the next on the side of the second (L shaped)- that in the model was an exercise room - son wanted me to convert to that - I said I didn't need the additional cost and why would I need that room - more to clean and a/c - they lived in town then. I really don't have cothes that don't fit and I could give some tops to 1 gf - but she's an 10 and most of my other gf are 12 to plus sizes. I buy alot of suff from Target (tops) and I really do need to go thru and clean some stuff out - I have tops I never wore all summer.. Right now I am really into winter (if it ever gets here) but it was 90 today.. I have always been a clothes hog/horse what ever they are called - I am trying to buy stuff that i really want - this is why I am loving Marshalls - Ross - Target - I am not paying tons of $$ for my Clothes - I do love INC at Macy's but won't pay super big $$$ for my clothes - I shop too much :0) I do like quality and if I love it then I will buy it. Yes I work in an Insurance Office but I don't have dress like in suits for work everyday - I dress nice - Business Casual for the most part - and in the summer we are very casual - it's to dang hot to wear clothes - My supervisor - is 53 thinks she's 25 in the way she dresses and she's a solid 14 but buys 12's Right now I love buying stuff that I couldn't before - I love my size - I got a white velour jogging outfit for $20 (2 pieces)at Marshall's yesterday - Yes WHITE cuz when you are size 4 you can (it's a small) Most of my tops are medium - sometime large or xlarge if I am in junior section.. I can't wait to wear my skinny jeans tucked into my black suede boots !!! Yep Karri was telling me yesterday that she got denied xtra life insurance cuz of the band - history of obesity.. (karri is another #7 for you who don't know her) Eva - your Fruit cakes sound good - I am hungry- it's 8 and I need to go eat :0) Hugs on you Pain - I wish it would go away - I don't know how you do it.. Hugs Great - I too am mostly classic - but do have a few trendy things - like my skinny jeans and boots ;0) Laura - Glad you are home w/your boys - Hugs you have been in my prayers - Love the pic - your Dad's a handsome man :0)... It's not losing the weight that's the real problem - but it's keeping it off - the band is only a tool - to provide restriction - permanent - so that you can't go back to eating 16 oz steak after you lost the weight and say - oh now I lost the weight - I can go back to eating normal - well our normal is what got us fat in the 1st place Most of that 7 lbs was water weight - if you went an ate a "normal meal" or 2 those 7 lbs would come right back on We all have lost the weight before - the diff is now we have the tool to help ups permanently not be able to over eat. But then we get in to the whole issue of eating around the band - Our bands don't make our food choices we do - and that's what it boils down to - making this a lifetime lifestyle change in our eating (healthy opposes to our "normal) and exercise... Good Luck Meredith !! Apples Becareful with the vertigo & stairs !!!! Cheri - I find it hard still to make the best choices on food when I'm not at home - you will get to your goal by your Bday Laura - Glad you had a great time.. #1 Rule to this thread - you can post a 3 pagers for all I care - I don't know why pple are always apoligizing for long post - hell you got something to say = say it - don't anyone one here every think their post is too long - I think we all enjoy reading about each others lives and what we have done - ya this is about our jouney to get healthy but that includes our day to day lives - like washing clothes - taking care of others - dealing with our individual issues - I know I enjoy reading about what everyone has done for the day - what they were struggling with - what they succeed in - what they want to vent about - well all have simliar issues and this is our place.. Well I gotta go - it's 8:24 and I need to eat :0) I just never got a chance to post this morning so I want'ed to get this done before I signed off for the night I will cb in the morning - sweet dreams and hugs & prayer for all our family...

Hugs Karla - Like I say - your job is for the birds imho - under paid - over worked - kids and parents.. My little Angel will do that every now and then - the other day bear marked the living room - I guess I wasn't paying enough attention to him.. You post at 4:30 a.m. cuz you love us and gotta say good morning to your peeps.. Do you have any gf where you live?? You never talk about going out with any gf on the weekends.. You need to get out and have some fun.. Phyl California Burn Units & Rehab Centers - Burn Survivor Resource Center - Burn Care here's a link to burn centers in California.. Ya the Kids will be here Wed when I get off work - leaving Sunday.. Well - It's 7:14 I need to cook - I haven't posted on my other thread - answered and email from lbt girl in Austrial - then my x-sil (brad's wife) called asking an insurance question Had a good work out legs I am going to be sore by Wed - Next Monday will be the 1st day at the new gym - they have moved out some of the equip and replaced with older equipment - I guess the gym in Palm Springs is getting our equipment Well CBL - dinner fish - veggie rice - boring I know but good..

Phyl IMHO leave him alone about the cigs - did he nag you about the weight - it's an addiction too - it doesn't sound like he's smokeing 3 packs a day - if it makes him happy a couple cigs a day - then hell let him enjoy.. Yes I have heard that - about the free plastic surgery if you donated the skin - There is a burn center in San Bernardino I think - I don't think it's a Shriners - Shriners in Los Angeles - Andrew went for his club foot - Can't say I am happy with them but - IMHO it is what it is and it's our cross to bare - sometimes shit happens.. well it's time to get off work - I have gym tonite - don't know how much longer will keep trainer - I saw a moving van at my gym yesterday when I was leaving target - we haven't even been told official that we are merging with the other gym - so I guess I will see whats up when I go to nite - there weren't any signs up on Saturday when I went cbl

I talked to Karri yesterday - she is teaching 4 diff sceince classes - plus labs and her school is open 6 days a week and she has to be available 24/7 (in her contract) This new school was suppose to be easier - but that was on paper - it's a lot harder - it's still new and she is teaching 4 diff science classes - she is streached right now - she is finding ways to have some down time - but work is taking up all her energy and then she still has to exercise and find time for DH.. So I don't think she will posting much here - she does post a little on FB - She goes in Dec for breast reduction and reverse tt..

Good Morning Gang Jackie - Karla has become the 1st poster of the day Monday thru Friday :0) - I normally post once I get to work - every now and then I may post from home early if I have gotten up early.. I am usually the Weekend early poster still.. But remember you are what 3 or 2 hrs ahead of me.. :wink2: - It's 7:44 here.. Phyl - Next weekend isn't good for me on COD the kids are here. Maybe the next one.. Ya the walk from the clubhouse /restaurant even to your RV is a good long walk for you.. Candice Hugs I know the heart ach you are feeling - and you aren't wasting time greving you need to and yes once Peter comes home you will start all over again - but then you will start the healing process too.. If pple don't have pets/babies - they just don't get it.. Karla - I wouldn't be a teacher if my life depended on it - too much work... Andrew got a tattoo on his neck - All Eyes On Me - something to do with tupac I guess- he was only 17 and I don't know who did it- I was pissed I didn't talk to him for a week - what else could I do the damage was done - are you going to tell my Dad - hell no you are.. All of us were pissed - not so much about the tattoo but where he go it - Hell I have a tattoo but it's on my ankle not my neck- Well anyway - his stepdad said when you want it off - I'll pay to have it taken off - they do a laser on it (burn it) I think they paid for 6 treatments and it's done once a month - he was sick and missed one - and on a couple of the treatments they didn't have the laser high enough so it didn't really burn - so they are suppose to be giving him and extra one for free - the one on Sat turned red - they shoot you up with novicane then laser it - I think 1 or 2 more treatments - I think the cost was $800 - Andrew is a teenager and very implusive - doesnt' always think things thru - I don't know I asked him what made him want to have it taken off - Oh I'm tired of it - I don't think so - I think he realized that it wasn't the place to put one.. Linda - HAPPY BIRTHDAY GF - HOPE YOU HAVE A GREAT DAY Well yesterday - went and got nails done - then went to Ross's - Not your daughter jeans on sale for $39 (reg $98) got a pair and a top - then went to Marshalls and got a white velor jogging outfit $20 both pieces - then as I was leaving Karri called - sat in the car for and hour talking with her. She is overwhelmed with all the work she has - she's like teaching 4 classes w/labs (she's the only science teacher) I gotta say that it's not her ocd - but just too much work not enough hour and this whole new approach to schooling that her school is doing - again - I would never be a teacher... She is doing ok - she will make it thru - as you all know who are on FB she's getting breast reduction and reverse tt in Dec Ok a girl who use to work here - who's 48ish - had an anurisum (sp) thrus nite - doesn't look good - we just had a pray meeting in the lunch room... it's 8:42 and I gotta get my butt in gear.. Hugs & love to you all....

Ok confesstion time - I am terrible about changing my sheets !! I hate changing the bed - I love clean sheets - but have to make sure I shower and shave the legs before I get in love that feeling love my sheets "Beech" from bed bath & beyond - they are so soft - thin and soft - love them.. But am still terrible about washing and changing them - I can't tell you how long I have gone - would be embarssed to tell if I did know - but most likely a couple of months - But for you ocd girls I did wash them this morning ;0) Cleaned the kitchen - wiped down the cupboards cabenits (another thing I don't do often) and re-arranged my decorations in the kitchen - have the doors and windows open and angel is barking her damn head off.. Need to vaccum - and mop - Andrew normally does that stuff but he doesn't dust or look at the walls or base boards... He's my surface cleaner and I am the deep cleaner - I ususally do deep cleaning when on vacation or when the mood stricks (which isn't often) I don't do window either - I rinse the out side and every now and then when I am deep cleaning will wash the inside - when dusting blinds - another thing I hate to do.. I have never been ocd on a daily basis cleaning - but when I clean I clean.. When Joseph was a toddler I would give him sweet tarts to eat - cuz chocolate made him dirty ;0).. He drooled (still does in his sleep) he always had a wet chest - I would put a bib under his shirt I won't let you borrow a book before I read it - unless you beg and make you promise to give it back - Once I have read a book and given it to you - I don't want it back.. You can read my magazine before I do - cuz I get them in the mail and don't read them for months then get in a mood for quick reading - put them in date order and read them all at once - My dil melissa & gd kaitlin are always reading my magazine before I do.. No one opens my mail or qvc boxes (great part of being single - but even when I wasn't I don't remember Ralph ever opening my stuff) - I have open Andrew's mail and he has a shit fit - so I don't do it anymore.. I am glad I don't have daughters who want to wear my clothes or use my makeup.. I will loan you something for a special occaision . - Pple don't seem to borrow clothes like they use to - Well I am smaller than most of my friends - a couple might be smaller - but not many - I have let Debbie wear my tops.. But one time she wanted to borrow my white visor - I said no cuz I was wearing it the next day and didn't want it to get dirty - felt bad after I said it.. The only thing I will get pissed about is if you smoked my last cigarette - my gf candy use to do that. Phyl when did Earl start sneaking cigs again - I remember last time you were here (I think) I remember him saying he didn't any more and you agreed.. That was a long walk from Starbucks to wallmart.. Well I gotta get moving - this is why I don't get on the computer sometime - I don't get crap done - gotta put in another load and maybe shut the doors and windows a/c just kick on .. Need to get dressed go to target - won't be buying candy til next weekend - cuz if it was here I would eat it... The 1st yr of banding I didn't but hell the honeymoon is over ;0) And I gotta get nails done - may go back to doing them myself.. Ya Karla - hell it's fun to shop even when you don't buy alot or anything - it's moving/exercise - and it gets you out of the house - if I stay in the house and am not cleaning - just watching tv I am hungry and want to eat - so I go out just so I don't ... Jackie - I look at stuff - but always read the calories before I buy it - and 99% of the time if it makes it into the cart - by the time I get to the checkout - it goes out.. Ok gang I really gotta get moving... CBL oh beofre I goe - Phyl no the bosses have taken a pay cut too but the thing is that when we were making $$$ they took it (bought new cars - redid their houses etc) and didn't plan for a rainy day - they don't think things thru.. I know one of the bosses was quite upset about doing this - I did get a good raise when we bought ourselves back from HRH - and am glad they didn't actually cut our pay and keep us working 5 days a week - cuz to get that $$$ per hr back would be impossible - this way when things do pick back up - I am still make the same dollar amount per hour.. Let's plan something for the 1st of Nov weekend or even for my 1st furlough day 11/13 ;0)... Ok I am going now -----:thumbup:

Good Morning Gang.. Yes it's 5:41 on a Sunday morning - the Cat woke me up fighting with another cat on the side of the house I went to bed around 9:30 so I have had my sleep - well if you count Andrew leaving and coming home - dogs barking -but went right back to sleep Eva - OMW you can see the diff in your b/4 and now pics - WTG keep up the good work.. Love the house picture - Ok I guess I will have to clean mine so I can post some too :0).. You did that tile work yourself - you are talented !!!! I don't have patience and most likely would get confused :0).. Once I layed that peal and stick tile - kept getting the patterns mixed up... You have beautiful views.. Liliana - Glad everything went well - I had bad gas pains in my shoulders too - gas x strips and walking !!!! Glad you have dh to help take care of you.. Apples - us West Coast pple just love the idea of basements - I know I do - what a great extra space - there are a couple old homes here (blt in the 20) that have them - but that's is - I guess it's due to EQ that we don't have them - I am guessing - I don't know why we don't build house w/them Great - My xdh use to hunt w/my bil - one year they killed a bambi (female against the law) and I couldn't eat it.. My sis stepbro is a butcher too - so they know how to cut that stuff up - I rather go to the store and buy my meat :0) Yesterday - Gym then Got hair cut, took Andrew for this tattoo removal - dropped him off went to the mall - got a pair of levi skinny jeans @ penny's and a pair of flat suede boots - regular 136 for 69 - at Macy's - now can't wait to wear them.. Weather needs to cool down Then went to Steinmart - tired on tons of tops - but just didn't love them - and tried on some cute straight leg 9 west jean - but didn't like the muffin top - hell I am wearing a 4 and still have muffin top - not bad but still have the skin and I guess some fat around the stomach - 4 fit perfect except for the little roll on the sides.. My levi's are 6's -- I don't know why in most pants (well except juniors) I am a 4 - but in levi's I am a 6. I didn't have on a tight spanks - and old one -from my fat days.. That may have been the problem - This last pay check is my last shopping ck ;0) - Well really my next paycheck will be normal - but 11/15 will be loosing about 175 - 200 per ck.. I guess I could be like all the kids & grown ups who let their bumps show - but I can't I just can't - when I am out and about - I look at pple any say to myself - did you look in the mirror before you left.. I know I am very very bad - I need to quit Oh ya got this cute little hoodie jacket (like sweat jacket) but very thin and oh so soft - Oh I got my Ninja mixer from QVC - and for once a product does like it shows on tv - they took ice and made snow cones (great for margarita) and the machine really does do it just like tv.. So on the way home from shopping (5 p.m - I left the house at 8:30) I was hungry (only had a lite mocha frap with 2 shots of espersso) got stuff to make salsa and tacos (thats what I was hungry for) Came home made the salsa - cut my pinkey on the blades - they are SHARP!! - and then made guacamole had 1 taco and then had 1 cup of meat Beans cheese salsa and guacamole. Then made a slushie with lite cranberry juice.. Oh ya I got some GREAT Jerky at the mall at one of those kiqoush (sp) it was expensive - but very very good - sweet and spicy 86 cal for 1 oz and it's filling - but I am hiding it in my room (really will take to work) cuz Andrew would eat it in 5 sec flat - $9 bucks for one little package - so it's my treat for when I get hungry at work.. Well it's now 6:16 - I guess I have written a book this morning but you guys are the only pple I talk to - Well did talk to Andrew for about 2 seconds last night when cooking dinner and showing him the Ninja.. You know teenagers they don't talk :0).. Well maybe I should go to the gym and work on my abs :thumbup:) Need to go get veggies today - some suede spray for my boots - the paper should be here by now.. CBL

Oh Karla forgot to tell you Jackie has OCD when it comes to cleaning - she deep cleans twice a day (JK) not that bad but the girl vacums every day- my house would drive her crazy.. Jackie - you know I am saying this with love :0)

Good Morning Gang.. Yes it's 5:41 on a Sunday morning - the Cat woke me up fighting with another cat on the side of the house I went to bed around 9:30 so I have had my sleep - well if you count Andrew leaving and coming home - dogs barking -but went right back to sleep Yesterday - Got hair cut, took Andrew for this tattoo removal - dropped him off went to the mall - got a pair of levi skinny jeans @ penny's and a pair of flat suede boots - regular 136 for 69 - at Macy's - now can't wait to wear them.. Weather needs to cool down Then went to Steinmart - tired on tons of tops - but just didn't love them - and tried on some cute straight leg 9 west jean - but didn't like the muffin top - hell I am wearing a 4 and still have muffin top - not bad but still have the skin and I guess some fat around the stomach - 4 fit perfect except for the little roll on the sides.. My levi's are 6's -- I don't know why in most pants (well except juniors) I am a 4 - but in levi's I am a 6. I didn't have on a tight spanks - and old one -from my fat days.. That may have been the problem - This last pay check is my last shopping ck ;0) - Well really my next paycheck will be normal - but 11/15 will be loosing about 175 - 200 per ck.. I guess I could be like all the kids & grown ups who let their bumps show - but I can't I just can't - when I am out and about - I look at pple any say to myself - did you look in the mirror before you left.. I know I am very very bad - I need to quit Oh ya got this cute little hoodie jacket (like sweat jacket) but very thin and oh so soft - Karla I hear ya girl on the excitement issue - going grocery shopping - hell we could go out - but I's with you - it takes a day or 2 to recoup - I guess I could learn how to drink but I still haven't - I get a buzz and then don't want to lose it and keep drinking - Plus I really don't want to be a bar fly at this stage in my life - I have to be in the mood to go honky tonkying - and that mood hits only once every 6 months or so.. Oh I got my Ninja mixer from QVC - and for once a product does like it shows on tv - they took ice and made snow cones (great for margarita) and the machine really does do it just like tv.. So on the way home from shopping (5 p.m - I left the house at 8:30) I was hungry (only had a lite mocha frap with 2 shots of espersso) got stuff to make salsa and tacos (thats what I was hungry for) Came home made the salsa - cut my pinkey on the blades - they are SHARP!! - and then made guacamole had 1 taco and then had 1 cup of meat Beans cheese salsa and guacamole. Then made a slushie with lite cranberry juice.. Karla back to our exciting life - I enjoy sitting watch tv and read magazines or a book - I love doing nothing - as you see I didn't even get on the computer - that's work ;0) sometime - I am in the mood to crochet - but can't find my hook - well haven't looked to hard - may just get another today.. Think I will crochet stuff for kaitlin and brooke.. Oh that's and idea - I will crochet some scarves - they are popular now a days.. Oh ya I got some GREAT Jerky at the mall at one of those kiqoush (sp) it was expensive - but very very good - sweet and spicy 86 cal for 1 oz and it's filling - but I am hiding it in my room (really will take to work) cuz Andrew would eat it in 5 sec flat - $9 bucks for one little package - so it's my treat for when I get hungry at work.. Phyl - Ya I can understand about the walking - you have been on a scooter for so long - it's going to take time to build up those muscles. What does pheasant taste like :0)... (she posted on fb that she had some sauages w/phesant) Jackie glad you are feeling better - I don't even know what the symptoms of swine flu are - I figured it was just a flu - yes a bad one - but for most of us just a bad flu. I wonder if I googled hong kong flu when it first came out how many pple died from it - I remember a lot of hullabaloo on that one back in the day - now the news likes to make up paranoid imho - even my dil who's a nurse - say its just a flu it just spreads really fast and you gotta take care of your self when you get it.. Candice - What did you do this weekend - well it's not over - but you know what i mean Karla - did you eat your stone cold Phyl have you tired the instant coffee - I am having some now ;0) Well it's now 6:16 - I guess I have written a book this morning but you guys are the only pple I talk to - Well did talk to Andrew for about 2 seconds last night when cooking dinner and showing him the Ninja.. You know teenagers they don't talk :0).. Well maybe I should go to the gym and work on my abs Need to go get veggies today - some suede spray for my boots - the paper should be here by now.. CBL

Karla - I figured you would be up soon ;0) We don't have a beach - well ya we could go to the Salton Sea - but it's sorta dead - too much salt - but it's pretty.. You were 20 yrs younger when you did all that - IMHO it's our age... I don't have the motivation to study now - if I did then I couldn't do fb - lbt - tv and sleep... Think about computers take up a lot of our time - that's why sometimes I don't get on it.. Hell it's 6:27 here - I have been on since 5 2 cups of coffee - played some lexulous and thats it - its time for me to get dressed for the gym in a minute.. Ya I get you on the weekend thing with our babies... For me it's Sunday cuz that is the one day I do usually try and sleep in.. Well you have your ice cream to look forward to ;0)

Good Morning Gang Up early - didn't turn the alarm off yesterday - but I needed to get up - I really gotta hit the gym this morning - going to need 2 cups of coffee to do it ;0) - Love the new Starbuck Italian roast instant - it's FANTASTIC.. Not much to report - dinner was snack pack popcorn 1st then 1.75 cup cauliflower - then my fish- I know backwards but it worked and it's the great part about being an adult - you can eat in what ever order you want ;0) (dessert 1st)... I skipped my rice ;0).. Laura should be flying home today - she will be so happy to see her guy ;0)... Well cking in - CBL

Oh hugs gf - I saw on FB you said something about the wound vac - how awful - I had my gall bladder out 34 yrs ago - that's when they still cut you open - have a nice long scar on my right side - but was lucky no infection - hell I was 30 then and I was off work 3 weeks - it's a hard surgery to recover from especially when they cut you open Hugs & prayers that it gets better soon...

Good Morning !!! No I haven't gotten my purse yet... But I was thinking last night that now I my furlough Fridays ;o) good time to go to Cabazon ;0) - see I know how to make lemonade :0) Next weekend is out - the Joseph is coming and we are going to see MJ movie on Saturday morning.. Maybe we can talk Candice & Peaches to coming this way - you know all our snow pple love the Desert in the Winter I see why they do - snow cold - come to the desert and it's their summer.. Sorry about dinner - you were most likely a little stressed in getting set up and all.. I ended up eating my fish and then went to bed - the stupid dogs were breathing hard - angle bugging - me thought she had to go pee (even though she already went) then Andrew left to go bowling -(more barking) so I just put them on the floor and said screw it - I want to go to sleep - woke up at one point ate 5 lite tato chips (olearstas (sp) then 1/4 of a sf fudgesicle and pd - who would have thunk - Well I didn't turn the alarm off yesterday - so up earlier than I want to be - but have to go to the gym... I am really pissed about it closing.. I have a friend who I worked with years ago and now I handle their insurance - there is another gym 4 doors down from my gym and her son works their and is a personal trainer - I have a week free card - so may switch there - but will give the new place a try (world gym the one that my gym is merging with - cuz I love Idrise - but I want the convince of a neighborhood gym.. So I gotta talk to vickie (my workout buddy) and see if she wants to try it out with me - I know she doesn't like the idea of the new gym either - we said we are giving it a month - if we don't like it we would join 24 fitness - but maybe we will join this other gym - give them both a test and see which one we like best.. I gotta do a hard workout today - feel I really need it.. so I guess today will be 2 cups of my Starbucks coffee - cuz I am dragging ass right now :0)

I'm the Lucky One - Phyl and I met 11/07 - We were the 1st lucky #7 to meet - I will go visit them - then the come to my house - they are so busy - that I only see her 3 maybe 4 times while they are here.. Last yr in March Linda came and I took a day off work and we went to the Tram.. Phyl when you guy go to the COD Street Fair call me - I will come and meet you - I always forget about it and Debbie isn't a morning person and she has GD every other weekend.. Karla can't help with what ever you were talking about - way above my head - I am not good at explaining stuff - I know it but regurgating it is difficult ;0) Well - so far this evening - Had 1 snack pack popcorn - the 1.75 cup cauliflower - and am full physically (not mentally) but - in a while I will eat my fish..

Melissa like Apples said you will have a better idea after doing the 5 day pouch test.. I do caffinee - but I use splenda - truiva or whatever fake sugar I have and I use sf creamer I couldn't give up my coffee - I love the new instant from Starbucks (italian) Good for you for focusing on you - you will feel so good about yourself after you get back on tract.. Like Apples said - we are here for you !!

Hey Gang Home from work... Went to Target got dog/cat food - came home unloaded dishwasher - loaded it - ate a ck leg (well 1/2) and now cking in.. Karla - Good Girl !!! Proud of you look at yourself and be proud of those changes you are making (banking those calories) Glad you got some sleep - Candice - Hope you took a slow walk.. Hugs.. Phyl - So you have arrived :0) - yep it's a little warm right now - look like 90 for the next 3 days then 80's - but nights 60s - How did the cat like the trip.. I bet your friends are surprised to see you walking !!! Well nothing exciting to write about - don't know what I am fixing for dinner - I think I will cook the cauliflower and I guess I should take out some fish - I am tired right now - may go take a power nap - my eyes hurt - too much computer work I guess..

Sounds like Pro advice to me - lol Come join us on "I'm here to help" there are 3 of us who are at goal and maintaning..

Great - Ya 8 hours may be too much - it nice that you want to be w/dh :0) - I bet it felt good to get out and drive QUOTE=Apples2;1349793]Julie...hoping the stretching exercises give you some relief. Quite a few years ago I was on crutches for nine months (tore all ligaments and tendon in ankle after a fall). Well, the crutches did a number on my upper arms and ended up with chronic tendonitis. Suffered with it and could not raise my arms. Finally went to PT...within a week of faithfully doing exercises I could tell a huge difference. Hope you get the same results. Yep, a sharp knife with cut the floor. Solution...don't drop a knife LOL. Actually, the floor is pretty durable. Will be down for 9 years in March. My guys do take their boots off in entry way and but do walk down there with their boots on and don't have any cuts from stones, etc. (which are thick when I clean down there. WE have gravel in the yard where they work). My laundryroom IS in the basement. Just wanted to show you how we did the steps with the vinyl. That's why I showed that room. Have fun with Mimi! Apple I hate filing- I am terrible at it.. I wonder if I had a smaller space would the mess be smaller ;0) - My parents had that one piece linolium when it 1st came out years ago (30+) the did had a problem some one dropped a hot pan on it and I think it melted... Your floors look lovely. Love your new washers & dryers - I almost bought that kind - but I didn't like the way my DIL took 30 minutes to do a small load - so I bought the old fashion top loaders with aggitator.. It has a quick wash (which for our clothes is what we usually wash on -they aren't really dirty) and it takes maybe 15 minutes I have those Chico t-shirts to the elbow in like 5 colors - I too will buy stuff that fit wells and i like in diff colors - I have 3 pairs of j crew pants - white - lime green - navy. Also I have a pair of jeans from limited I loved - well they don't make them anymore - I should have bought another pair .. Julie is your DD over-weight - (I am assuming that cuz of the sleep apnea test) You are sure a good grandma - I love my grandkids but every day - I was younger with Andrew so it was different - but to think of having Brooke my 5 yr old every day - no thanks :0)

Hugs on being so sick Jackie - That's awful - the only cough med I found that works for me is robotustin long acting (I think thats the name) it works better than cough w/codine for me anyway.. Stay in bed and rest - are you getting your fluids - have Court make you some ck soup...