Gracey

OK so question, ladies.... How can I be on liquids and gain friggen weight? WTH? Thoughts?

ha - earworm! that's not an SNT original; it's even on wikipedia! how much weight did DH lose, lulu?

Is that a trick question? :cool2:

1. Come on, seriously? You honestly think that Americans are SO much brighter than the rest of the world? That statement, in and of itself, is ridiculous. The mere fact that our educational system continue to decrease against the other industrialized countries should tell us something. Having been outside of the U.S., I have realized how spoiled and isolated we truly are. Look at the level of debt many Americans are in. 2. How in God's name do you have any idea what terrorists want? Are you making this stuff up now? Terrorists want Obama b/c he doesn't want us to be in Iraq?

Of McCain? Don't you wonder wth he was doing? Yet another reason I could never run for President. I am very facially expressive and have bad cases of uhhhhhh, can't think of the word-itis.

Ha! I'm scared of her brain; not her gun!!!

I looked up the transcript and you are correct. Obama, "That's using a hatchet to cut the federal budget. I want to use a scalpel so that people who need help are getting help and those of us, like myself and Sen. McCain, who don't need help, aren't getting it." My bad.

Well Gov Palin - thank you for completely changing the topic! Gadget, seriously - you could kill me but it won't change the need for change in this country. You fear Obama and I fear McCain and Palin (esp). You can post a direct quote from whomever you like but I've voted already so you're beating a dead horse.

But you honestly believe that the Congress will allow for the kind of cutbacks you or McCain want when they're trying to stay in good with their constituents at home?

For the 7000th time, we are electing a President, not a Dictator. You have this notion that he's going to be standing on the streets throwing currency. During a debate, McCain said he wanted to take a hatchet to the federal budget and Obama said he wanted to take a scalpel. But yes, I would much rather we were spending money on Americans than to fight some ridiculous war in Iraq and spending money on Iraqis. The Republicans want to spend every dollar of tax revenue PLUS every Chinese yuan on defense. Screw the people! When we first went to war, I had to explain to numerous people why we were in Iraq. 9/11...Bin Laden...Afghanistan...BIG GRAY AREA...Iraqi War Am I glad that Sodamn Insane is dead? Sure. But why do we feel the need to be the World Police?

Oh hell no - don't you blame him on us!!! :hurray:

I'm SNT = short for Sick N Tired.

tad late to the comparison, shouldn't have cut all my hair SNT, hun??? I think your hair is cute! Plus you gave your hair away for a good reason! Mine's long and it's bugging me. I'm thinking about cutting it to my shoulders but can't decide what style I want. change of avtr time....you're going to change your avatar b/c people think you look like Posh? Ppl have said it before! You don't look like her in the face, thankfully! You can smile w/o looking scary!! HAHA VB hates food * exercise - i dig both. ha!! Posh needs to eat a hamburger or some fish + chips. Her implants look like grapefruit halves on a skeleton. i have EVERY political spectrum in my set of family / friends - be boring otherwise; not much can change my mind - but i enjoy my MIL trying. It cracks me up that you married a Texan but I think it's awesome. I had a crush on a Republican co-worker who turned out to be an ass. Hmm. :rolleyes2: Gadget - yeah let's not go there. You and I definitely wouldn't be friends in real life! Let's try to agree to disagree and leave it.

Luluc - at goal, on LBT, liberal. Gadget - you don't have any liberal friends? I'm shocked!! :rolleyes2: I actually have friends on both side of the aisle. A friend of mine tries her best to change my voting mind but it just hasn't happened.

Beth, Gadget can only come if I get to bring Lulu!!! No 2 to 1's; not fair!

Well Presidents have wanted plenty of things in the past that haven't happened. As we saw with the bailout, the Republicans completely abandoned their political party leader and the Fed Chairman and Treasury Secretary that their leader appointed. I still want someone to splain to me what Chris Cox has been doing during all this mess. With regard to the national debt, Dubya had a republican congress for 6 years. STOP SPENDING MONEY!

I believe my surgeon will do fills on those who have had surgery in America. His name is Dr. Steinberg and it at DeKalb Medical Center in Decatur. 404-501-7903 He and his staff are great!

I definitely take each issue and look at them separately. For example, the liberal side of me would like for all (legal) Americans to have some kind of health insurance but the businesswoman in me wonders how we could handle the management and possible fraud. You're welcome! Someone did the same for me so I'm just passing it along! Go to Forums/FAQs Ahh I remember those days! Right?!? My mother asked me if my surgeon had said anything about excess skin. I said, "let me lose the weight first!" Alas, we were doing so well. I think that is grossly oversimplified. What about the Bushes and Bin Ladens? Unfortunately we put that bastard in office for 2 terms. Clinton had a balanced budget and less than 8 years later, we are closing in on a $7T debt. Great job. McCain is just way too aligned with Bush for me to ever to vote for him. So I didn't!

It's Halloweenie! Since I'm still on liquids, I bought no candy for trick or treaters. I had one come up though my light wasn't on. Ignored. Then I had some middle schooler come up at 10:50pm. WTH! So anyway, I have one week left on liquids and it's REALLY getting old!!! I know my stomach is healing and all that but still - I wanna chew my damn shoe. It's funny b/c I'm craving a scrambled egg and I don't even eat eggs that often. Lulu told me that she has, for the most part, lost the desire for snacking. Please God, let that happen to me!!! Oh and I weighed yesterday and am down 16.5 pounds. :mad2:

It's Halloweenie! Since I'm still on liquids, I bought no candy for trick or treaters. I had one come up though my light wasn't on. Ignored. Then I had some middle schooler come up at 10:50pm. WTH! So anyway, I have one week left on liquids and it's REALLY getting old!!! I know my stomach is healing and all that but still - I wanna chew my damn shoe. It's funny b/c I'm craving a scrambled egg and I don't even eat eggs that often. Lulu told me that she has, for the most part, lost the desire for snacking. Please God, let that happen to me!!! Oh and I weighed yesterday and am down 16.5 pounds. :thumbup:

That would rock!! My short-term goal is for my gut not to stick out farther than my DD boobs....oh, and to have only 1 chin!!! Ewwwww - on "Big Medicine" they just cut off 12 pounds of excess skin off of a man that lost 200 pounds. :smile2:

We agree - eek! I do understand what you mean. I think God put things in our path for a reason in order to learn. PS - I'm watching "Big Medicine" right now.

You sure the psych will approve a Republican? Badabing! Corny, I know. I hear ya regarding the tying the shoes! Oh, one thing...bending over to pick up something off the ground was definitely tenuous but not horrid. I was banded 10/16 and just realized this week that I picked up the paper off the driveway and didn't cringe. Woohoo! My surgeon's office has been incredibly organized which has been great! Have you seen the threads by Alex about what to expect pre-op, you have a date, what to expect post-surgery, etc? They're really good. Oh and there was a "what to bring to the hospital" thread so if you haven't, you might want to check those out! My pre-op was money (of which I owed $0!) and then meeting with a nurse about all of my existing health questions (yet again!) and then meeting with the anesthesiologist. I told him that anesthesia can sometimes make me sick so he gave me an anti-nausea patch that went behind my ear the night before and that I took off 3 days later. If you have any questions, feel free to PM me. Also, there are 2 October threads if you want to read through them. Any October Bandsters!??!?! Øctober Ødyssey 2008

I'm very sorry that you needed one. Sounds like you got away safely, thankfully. I definitely agree with that too. Politicians definitely need term limits. They're too concerned about getting re-elected than leading the country out of the crappah.

No ads....I cannot wait! Our senate race is close to they're every damn other ad. I keep the remote handy so I can hit mute quickly. Pre-op at my hospital was good fun. It had to have taken 3-4 hours and why!?! Can't answer that question. Oh and the best part? I left my wallet at home - doh! So they wanted a copy of my DL and insurance card yet again. Luckily she could verify me through their computer system. I was very lucky with my surgery b/c I had very little pain (just soreness) and zero gas/air. I was SO thankful. I have one more week of liquids. I may start chewing a shoe soon...