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Well, Beth needs to get her butt over here! Thanks. And ain't that the truth! And WHY??? Awwww, that's so wonderful! Must have been hard with him gone so long! I have an end date this time b/c DH has vacation starting the 30th. They have to have him HOME by then! :drool: Hoping it'll be sooner tho! Let us know how it goes with the shorts! I'm wanting to shop but also not wanting to spend the money on clothes I'm not going to be able to wear come next year! Whoo Hoo! Party time!!! Slim, let go of her leg and get off of the floor. Really, hon, it's okay. You can let go now. She gets it. And it's just not ladylike, please! ( Couldn't resist!) LOL! I wouldn't know. I got married when I was barely 19 and we're headed to our 22nd anniversary! LOL!!! It's too funny but I am really happy for you! I agree! And I like her stories! Doesn't matter as long as they're moving! :thumbup: They live very far away or are already dead?! Is that bad? I actually LIKE my ILs. They're good folk. I'm blessed. *Fanny, that sounds like SO MUCH FUN! And that dress is AWESOME!!!!! PJTP: DD and I had a great day in Yosemite. Just what we needed. She wants to do it again! She had fun at dance class and is now currently eating... again! She is barely 3 and way taller than the other girls, who are also 3 (older 3s), in her class! :eek: I think this is why people keep asking me if she's 5 or starting Kindergarten!! Okay, need to eat something then it's bedtime for DD. Later!

Good Morning! Tho I guess for most of you it's afternoon now. Diito! I miss Tap too. :eek: UGH! So sorry! I swear I didn't send it to you! Are there pressure changes up there? That's another trigger for me. Have fun getting you hair done! Maybe relaxing and enjoying a little down time will help the migraine go away! I agree with you about Tap and in case she see this. I've had some but not too bad. Gets my panties in a wad til I realize that the people who are being hateful or not reading what I said in the way that I meant it, really mean LESS THAN NOTHING to me! Now, if that happened with any of you - that would break my heart! And my sarcastic, some times caustic, sense of humor has gotten me in to trouble too b/c it just doesn't sound the same on paper, so to speak! I MISS BETH TOO!! WHERE THE HELL IS SHE? HER PARENTS HAVE INTERNET, DON'T THEY? PJTP: If DD ever gets her cute little butt moving, we're heading in to Yosemite today for a couple of hours. Going to go to Pioneer Village and walk around and have some fun exploring. Figured we needed some cheap, get us out of the house, fun today. We have a yearly pass to the park so we can come and go as we please. It's nice, $40 for a yearly pass vs. $20 single entrance fee. This evening she has dance class. She's missing papa and I'm trying to keep her busy. Not to forget that she misses him but just to keep her from dwelling on the fact that she hasn't seen him all week. She gets it this year that when he's gone, he's gone. Last year she still didn't have a sense of time. This year, much more so. And she knows his days on when he's at work. She can tell you! Sunday mornings she'll wake up and ask if Papa is home yet! When I tell her he's not home yet OR not coming home at all, she demands to know why! Wants me to call him and tell him to come home now! It's kinda funny but in a sad way too. Well, I'd better go see if I can move her a little faster. Talk to y'all tonight! TTFN!

Oh. My. Gosh! Are you flippin' kidding me?!?!?!?!?! That is SO WRONG!!!!!!!!! I sure hope it gets worked out soon. That is ridiculous! And of course it's going to be up to YOU to jump thru the hoops to get it taken care of or to get her back in for re-do's! :smile: Sheesh! Your day is making me tired! Oh wait. Maybe it's b/c I've had only about 400 calories for the entire day and it's after dinner time! I AM feeling better but he took out ALL of what he put in yesterday! Dammit! AND he refuses to see me til he gets back from vacation. So first part of October. I'll make the appt when I get back into town late Sept. I am Slim, thank you. Ooooooo! Sounds like fun! Also sounds like something for the June meet up. THAT WE NEED TO PICK A DATE FOR!!!! I agree. I'm so there! PJTP: Feels so much better to be able to drink water and not get STUCK!!! :smile: Only problem is that I hit Target again afterwards and spent a lot more money today. Mama got a little carried away! :smile: Bought yet another purse that I hope will work this time! Found some CUTE ugg-type boots for DD for the winter. Bought her a ballerina barbie doll with brown hair. (WHAT am I getting myself in to!) Found a CUTE nightie for DD too. Bought her some more dance stuff for classes. She needed the whole outfit thingy. Bought me some new fuzzy-lined slippers w/hard soles b/c I'm always wearing my slippers outside! My old, nasty, falling-apart ones hit the garbage can when I got home. Found a CUTE dress for me in a size... wait for it... XL!!!!!! Tried it on when I got home and it is PERFECT!!! So excited!!! Anyway, got some of the stuff on sale too so that's always a bonus! DH called and they're holding them til the weekend. Saturday or Sunday. UGH! Okay, I've got to make some soup. I'm on liquids for the next couple of days. Oh, forgot. Lost 3lbs between yesterday and today's doc visits! :biggrin: BBL!

There was no capitol "P" so I was not speaking of YOU this time!! :biggrin: LOL! Have fun hunting for a new job! Best wishes if you decide to do it. Morning! How fun! Oh yea, forgot about the screaming thing! Yikes! :w00t: Of course the laundry doubled. It's worse than bunny rabbits! It is Wed. I've got work to do but it's not going to happen til later tonight. ~Slim, I'm glad you're feeling better today! PJTP: Well, I'm headed back to the city this afternoon for an unfill. I'm so tight hot tea doesn't even want to go thru! I was afraid of that. I should have just said to do the .25 instead of the .5. My sitter is available so DD will stay home today. I'll go down, get unfilled and come back home! UGH! Off to get dressed and ready to go. Maybe I can get some work stuff done this AM before I have to leave. We'll see. BBL

Oh Tina, I'm so sorry about Denali! (((hugs)))

*Thanks y'all for the good wishes! I'm hoping they'll release them to come home tomorrow but who knows. They aren't DOING anything right now except sitting at some station in Petaluma. He's mad b/c they're hoarding the strike teams instead of releasing them to send them home or to another fire. Our own unit is stripped and we have our own HUGE fire danger so this is kinda stinky business that this other unit is pulling. *Glouc, you seriously do NOT want Peacocks! And the pretty ones are the males and the nastier of the pairs! The hens are plain, just like pretty much any other bird pairs. HeeHee re: the firemen! LOL! I don't even know what to say. That is just so sad! LOL! My laundry "fairy" is out of the county on overtime right now! DH does most of it. I'm going to have to suck it up and throw a load in soon. Are you feeling better now? I sure hope so! They're just jealous! They don't have the motivation that you do! Are you overhead? Sounds like you're in an office? Bet the boss was not happy about getting busted! LOLl! DH is a station captain. Oh and just wait, we still have September and October to get thru! That's usually when all the "real" fires start! LOL! Fight is all we can do sometimes. And I've heard others say that when they got back to basics things changed for them, for the good. It's easy to fall back in to bad habits. I certainly know that one! UGH! How'd your date with Billy go? :frown: Maybe talk to Mac. She's got a public blog. I'm not real savy and I don't mind sharing but I try to also keep it on the down-low too. I think Beth has one too. And I love jewelry! I have no money but I'd love to look at your stuff! Personally, gas-x did nothing for me. It was outer abdominal gas that I had the most problems with, not the internal gas that some people get as well. I walked on the treadmill or around my house when it got bad. I only had a couple of days of it. I really don't remember being horribly uncomfortable tho I was on pain meds for a few days and I'm sure that had something to do with not remembering or not being too uncomfortable! I took a huge bag full of stuff and only used the ipod that AM while waiting to go in to surgery. I didn't worry about a bra but I'm small enough to not have to be too worried about it. I wore slip on shoes and a over-the-head slip on dress about a size too big so I was comfy and didn't have to try to hard to get dressed. I also didn't have to spend the night so that would probably be different. Tho all I did when I got home was sleep anyway, so maybe not in my case. Sounds really good! Too bad you have to wait a whole week before you hear anything! Your soon to be old office, needs to flippin' grow up!!! G'night! I agree. The other thing I'm having to learn is to stop the snacking! I did not realize how much of that I actually do! No wonder I was/am fat! Don't apologize. It was a horrible story, but I was fine. I am having a hard time imaging the maggots tho. That can't just start after only a few days. I think she was there longer than they're saying she was. They probably figured they'd better do something before she actually died b/c they'd be investigated and there'd be hell to pay! I still think they should be investigated for elder abuse! Glad you had fun at the tourney! I hope you sleep well when you finally allow yourself to do so! LOL! I know what you mean! I do have a soft spot in my heart for the freaky guy! :w00t: PJTP: Went to the city today for a fill appt. I was thinking he'd just give me a little tweak. Maybe .25. He gave me .50!! Kinda scares me! We'll see what happens. If I get stuck and I'm getting stuck too often, I'll get back in before we take off for Labor Day weekend b/c after that I won't have time and then I'll be out of STATE! Had to take DD with me today. The last time I took her, she was AWFUL!!!! My doc had to get in her face! I was mortified!! So I was totally dreading what might happen today. And it's hard b/c we usually have to wait awhile and it just plain takes a long time! We were there today for over an hour. She did GREAT!!! I was SO relieved!! Made sure to tell her she did great too. Afterwards we had to go to Target to get dog food and I bought her a little backpack for preschool! She's so cute! She wore it thru the whole store! Cracked me up! Okay, it's off to bed. It's late. 'Night!

Oh my gosh! The nerve!! I want to ditto what Ebony said! Take care and lots of hugs!

Thanks for all the good wishes and prayers for DH. He's still up at Shasta b/c they're still trying to de-mobilize. One of the engines needed a radiator and another had some other issue. The strike team, five engines if it's an engine team, have to stay together, so when one has a problem, they all have the problem. Looks like they might be sent to another unit to cover stations for them. Sonoma/Napa area. Must be nice! Too bad they won't be able to do any site seeing or wine tasting! LOL! Another flippin' migraine tonight! Had one last night too. And a couple last week. Looks like I'm going to have to go back to my doc and see what's up. I'm going thru 9 tablets in less than a month. They should be lasting me a lot longer than that. They'll do it but they don't like to re-fill any more than every 30 days. When I get a re-fill to early, I always get a warning sticker on it about taking too many too often. *Kat, sounds like you had a good day! *Ebony, sounds like everything went really well. Best wishes for the one tomorrow! Sorry about the suit but you're right. Unless you just order a 12! :hurray: *TPG, my 1 yr bandiversary is the 25th! Congrats on your surgery date! I'm so excited for you!! *Kristen, enjoy getting your hair done! When does school start? They started today here. I've got to remember to PM you my e-mail and cell #!!! My trip is coming up fast! Okay, can't focus well and typing sucks. I'll talk to you all later! Have a fab Tuesday!

OH AND LU, IT'S NEARLY NOON, MY TIME, SO DRINK AWAY! LOL!!! Sorry, my all caps button was on and I'm not re-typing it!

Hey y'all! *Lu, I am so sorry about your dog. Okay, DH's dog but still... I'm really sorry. I know what it's like and it sucks big donkey dick! What ever you do, DO NOT take the Peacocks!!! They are noisy and messy and noisy and messy. Trust me, you will end up shooting them in the end out of self-defense!!!! I'M SERIOUS!!! Stick with dogs and horses. *Ebony, I'm praying hard for you girlfriend! Best wishes for today and tomorrow. Ignore DH. Congrats on your skirt falling off! LOL! I put on a skirt that I love, for church yesterday, the ONLY reason it didn't fall of is b/c of my hips. I love this skirt so I'm going to have to see if it can be re-worked with more elastic or something so I can wear for while longer. *Susan, Tap decided she needed a break. We miss her!!! *HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KAT!!! PJTP: Kinda had a sucky weekend. So just stayed away. Doing better today. DH is out of county right now. Had to drive up to the Shasta fire (6hrs away) yesterday to relieve someone for vacation. Looks like they're getting de-mob'd off the fire but we got several more that they're worried about so I imagine he'll get sent to another one today. HE'S got vacation Labor Day weekend so he'll be home on the 30th at the latest. Tonight at the earliest. That time of year again! Off to the grocery store this afternoon and the office to get my work for the week. BBL

G4E, Thanks for the update on DBIL! I'm sorry your internet is off now. :biggrin: Take care of yourself and I pray all goes well with your biopsy on Monday! You'll be missed!

Congratulations, Gary! Happy Bandiversary! Happy Birthday! Happy Anniversary! I want to be sure to catch all of that! We've all hit some major and monor milestones this year. And the support we get from each other is invaluable. Take good care and best wishes towards your 2nd Baniversary!!!

Congrats, Lizzy! Not only on the weight loss but also the physical stuff too! I'm amazed it's a year already!

I can't believe it's been a year either! Isn't it just amazing?!

Ro, I'm just now seeing this. Congrats on your fill! Really hope it helps ya. Thanks for the tip on the food/liquid thing. I'm stressed out and got stuck on greek yogurt this AM so I'm doing liquids right now. Hot tea is even going down a little slow. You take good care of yourself! Keep checking back. You and Lellow have been missed! Hugs!!

Sounds like everyone is doing wonderful! Even if we're not losing like we wanted too (me) we are all doing so much BETTER! Jack, a regular on the forum said something the other day that just really resonated with me. I've heard it before but it just really got me the other night. He said: "Even my worst day with the band, is better than ANY day I had pre-op." I'm paraphrasing here a little but you get the idea. I so agree with him! tutornmom, I'm glad you're feeling better. Don't let all of that go too long tho. We worry! Okay, well, I worry! LOL! Those of you who aren't checking in very often, stop it!! Please check in more often and let us know how you're doing. We want to hear the wonderful as well as the ugly. I gained a lb this week. Back to 176.8. My anniversary date is in a week and a half. I would like to just get back down to 175 by then. I will not be hitting 170 like I had hoped. Maybe by the end of September I can hit that. I'll still keep plugging along b/c even when I SAY eff-it. I honestly CAN'T do that anymore! Take care and have a wonderful week!

*Glouc, sorry about the move, glad you still have a job tho! Safe travels this weekend and have fun at the party! *Beth, safe travels for you too. Have a nice visit with your folks! Sorry about the nightmares! Kinda funny tho, you have to admit. *KC, how were the mojitos? Have a good weekend. *I miss Tap and Lu!!!! :biggrin: *Hi to everyone passing thru! I thought about naming names but don't want to get in trouble for missing someone and I KNOW I would! LOL! *Beth, don't know if you saw my question to you the other day about school but when does it end? Is is by the end of June? Could we do the meet-up the last weekend? Or if She was still going to be in the States, another weekend the first part of July? I don't remember what Lu said about She's availability or schedule. *Nothing on the agenda today. We're sitting outside right now. Hasn't gotten too warm yet. DD is playing in her sandbox and on the porch and I'm sitting at the table with my laptop. We've got fires up and down the State and DH isn't coming home tomorrow. May not be home all week. We'll see what happens Monday. If he makes it home then, then he'll be home til he goes back in on Thursday. Otherwise, I'm figuring he won't be home at all this week. We'll see. Have a good day all. I'll check back later! Don't forget to post your exciting weekends here so Slim and I have something fun to read and can live vicariously thru you! LOL! (Slim, I know you'll get the joke!) BBL!

I hope you have a good weekend too, Slim!

Congratulations!! I've heard about C-5K program but have never looked in to it. Running doesn't really interest me right now but I'm still figuring out the walking bit! Maybe someday I can see myself doing it. You're an inspiration!! The trip would have been fun. Too bad it didn't work out! The sale of the church must be a sad thing too. I can't imagine it. But what a Blessing to the new congregation! Praises! Have fun while you're so busy. Sounds like you love, if not every minute of it, a good portion of it! You have a wonderful weekend too, Ebony!

Yeah, between the angst here and what happened on the other site, I'm in an uproar. I actually got stuck and PB'd my greek yogurt this AM. GREEK YOGURT!!! Who'd a thunk! And that was after being up for an hour and having taken my supplements already! I'm drinking hot tea with honey in it right now. I'm going in for a fill on Tuesday, if I keep getting stuck on soft foods, I'm going to have to cancel the appt. It's all stress right now so I just need to settle down. I've thought about PM'ing all of you my home e-mail addy but then if YOU guys drop off, I have no way of finding you! I don't do FB. There is a general secretaries site that some of the girls are on but no one likes it so I haven't even gone there. Once we get the new site up, those on my list will be able to touch back in with us. I just have to be patient and work my way thru my feelings about our site shutting down. It's like losing an old friend. I know it's just a website but it was a lot more personal than that. Well, y'all know. We feel the same about this thread. That's why we're trying to meet up next summer! I can't even imagine what your DH's friend has gone thru with his ex and the kids. How do you live with the fear of your kids disappearing on you? Yikes! Gives me chills just thinking about it! Kat, I hope you had just a fantastic time holding that new baby last night! What a Blessing!

Thanks, TPG. I'm a little better this AM. And you made me smile! A lot of it is sadness b/c I've made a lot of friends on that site and have gotten good advice, prayers, well wishes, sympathy... you get the idea. I have a list of about 65 people who want to be notified when we get the new site up and running but it all happened kind of fast and I'm a little panicked that we didn't get everyone! I went to bed last night and nearly hyperventilated thinking of stuff! Oh did I do that, did I get that off-loaded, did this person get my PM or e-mail, etc. I've never gone thru anything like this either so that doesn't help. Listen, I did see your post in amongst the madness that was my yesterday and I wanted to say a couple of things. First, I think the others gave you great advice. Second, I think you'll do great b/c you have done your research and you know what you're getting yourself into. Third, you have to be SURE that this is what you want. Fourth, be prepared for the "head stuff" that is going to pop up. I'm not sure I've talked to ONE person who didn't have to deal with any head issues. They may have been minor but there is usually always something to deal with that we didn't expect. Me especially!! :biggrin: Besides you have us! :wink: LOL!

Drive by post: I'm so PISSED right now I could just spit!!!! I can't even hardly type I'm so mad! I've been on another site for YEARS. Talking near 10 or so. The powers that be decided we're not worth their time anymore and began plans to shut the site down. Several of the regulars have been working their butts off to build another site that we can all transfer too. Completely separate from this company. Since I'm not working full-time and have more time than the others, I offered to take PMs with personal info of the regulars who wanted to be notified of the new site. Trying to keep as many of us together as possible. For the last 2 weeks, I've been collecting and making this list. Constantly logging on (oh and that's a whole nuther bitch too!) and checking PMs and transferring data and making my list. This week I did a test e-mail to the list to make sure I transferred everything right and have been filling my inbox on my personal e-mail with all the tests coming back as replys. Anyway, the site said they were shutting us down at midnight tonight. 12:01, August 15th, to be exact. I figured they meant Eastern time so considered that I had til 9 my time. I was still getting PMs this evening before dinner so I was going to be checking the site til the last possible moment to make sure I had everything I needed. After dinner, DD and I took off to visit DH at work. We get home at it's about 8. Set her up with her snack and go sit down at my computer to check the site again. It was 8:15. The rat bastards had already SHUT US DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :thumbup::cursing::cursing::wub::cursing: :):cursing::thumbup::cursing::sneaky::cursing::drool: :wink2::cursing::laugh::cursing::cursing: :w00t::cursing: And this is supposed to be a CHRISTIAN company! They were supposed to honor their word!! It used to be that you had to log in twice to even get on the site. You had to have a user id and password to access the site, then you had to have a user name and password again to even post or really do anything else. You could only get on the site if you subscribed and set this whole thing up. About 2 months ago, they dropped the first log in and made the site public! Could be issues when you have professionals talking to others regarding the issues they're having or whatever. ANYBODY could have read ANYTHING at that point and it could have caused a lot of problems for someone if they weren't careful. Anyway, just needed to spew! I'm getting myself all wound up again. This all happened only an hour ago and I'm still pissed! I'm going to go find some wine! 'Night!!!

I told Lu the other day that it was bullshit! Apparently we now have fatties discriminating against other fatties b/c they aren't FAT enough!!!!! WTH is THAT all about?! We are ALL in the same boat, doesn't matter how much we have to lose. It's just crazy!

Hi Sim! Slow day today! PJTP: DD was driving me batty this AM. She had to sit time out AND lost TV for the entire day! Now, she's crackin' me up! Came over with her little pen and a card to "take my order." So I order and she asks if that's all, I said yes and she says, "Thank you" and walks away! Too funny! Ummm, can you tell we go out a lot?! Yikes! Off to finish the laundry. TTFN!

~G4E, Quote - "I'm not for sure. I think he said if it is cancerous that he won't remove it but give me radiation again. (I am a cancer survivor) Wouldn't make sense to leave it in either way. I have trouble breathing and it is getting worse." Okay, well that makes sense. I forgot about rad and chemo. Kinda freaked me out there for a minute. I know it’s been bothering you physically too so I couldn’t imagine them leaving it in. Quote - "I like to cook also. but I don't do fancy. I do plain ol southern cooking." Well, heck! What other secrets you got?! You can do most of the cooking then! LOL! Oh and I don’t do fancy either. I like good, simple, easy to fix stuff. I don’t know how to do some of the harder stuff or it seems too overwhelming. I’ve thought about taking cooking classes but there aren’t any near me. I'm mostly self/TV/magazine taught. Mom cooked all the time but we ate a lot of the same stuff b/c dad liked his "meat and potatoes." Mom always over cooked the veggies and a lot of it we ate with mayo (ie: broccoli, asparagus, etc). It was fine at the time, didn't know any better! The veggie boxes we get from the farm have done wonders for my cooking skills too. Cooking things I've never tried or cooked before. Finding different recipes for stuff. Making things up as I go b/c it sounds good so it might taste good too. It's been fun. ~Plain, I agree. DH, mom, ILs all know my wishes. No extreme measures and donate everything they can when it's all done. And if they need whatever is left for research, that goes too. If there's anything left after that, it's to be cremated. I won't need it anymore! PJTP: Dinner was good. Tho I get so flippin' tired of CHEWING! DH bought a steak at the store today. Sounded so good and it was but man I have to chew that stuff for a long time. Yuck! Pork is the same way. I don't get stuck, as long as I chew but I have to chew forever! Anyone else have this problem? Even the A-1 doesn't help for more that a chew or 2. :drool: Oh well. Okay, off to bed. Tired. Night all!