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I did it---not for as long as Pamela! But I did 11 minutes before my legs turned to spaghetti noodles!!! I avoided the ice cream craving. Ice cream woulda been more fun!!! But I would have been feeling guilty, so I guess this was for the best! I think I actually managed Suzie's CTCD. Under protest, and only due to lack of time, but I did it!!! LOL I am off to the shower and then to bed. Work is kickin' my butt. Rumor at Rick's work is that they are to become a sattelite office, which would do away with almost all of their local management. Good move in my opinion, they keep weeding out the workers, and the office cats just sit there doing nothing more than licking their paws looking superior. Time to eliminate some of that, and let the workers, work. Will hopefully work out for Rick, remains to be seen. If they whittle them down, he has a few months seniority, but the other guy has the native status in his favor. Here they CAN and DO hire with Native American preference. Told Rick that is when we find an attorney! Age and race discrimination! See y'all tomorrow. Taking a cake out to my DIL tomorrow for her birthday, so I may not make it in, but will try, and all is well. Hugs!

Oh Terry, I am so sorry. I know when we turned our son away---it was without a doubt one of the hardest things we had ever done--but we knew he was using, and that was not an option in our home. That was many years ago, and I support the decision, I feel like us taking that stance helped in his recovery. Love to you!! I talked to Jane tonight, was so good to talk to her!!! I am off---Pamela made me feel guilty---I have an elliptical in the extra room posing as a clothes rack. I am going to go clean it off, and get on it. Right now, before I dive into a carton of ice cream..... BBL

I have suffered setbacks medically with mine. I had thyroid surgery, then a twisted intestine, caught a TT in the middle of the 2 of them. Then had some really hard times---------my DD was diagnosed (MIS diagnosed in the end Thank You God) with a deadly disease----and I was so stressed, I broke out head to toe in hives! My throat included! I ended up on steroids for 5 months, and gained almost 40 pounds back! I had zero fill, following my surgery for the twisted intestine, but was maintaining fine, until the steroids. It was a FAST gain let me tell you!!! I have been off the steroids, and have a slight fill again, and it is slowly going again---but it really sucks to have to lose it twice!!! It is not uncommon for travel, especially air travel to mess with your band. If you swell and try to eat, it tends to set up an evil cycle. I hope they find your issues soon, and you can get back in the losing game. Til then, try to eat healthy, not just for the weight loss, but for overall health as you figure out what is going on with yours. I am a cancer survivor, and have used my band to help me learn to eat healthier in general. There are lots of us who are RE-losing weight we gained for one reason or another. It can be done!! First find out what is up with your health, then you can deal with it! Good Luck, and don't give up!!!

g4e, sorry you are going through so much with your BIL, I know how hard that can be. Pulmonary embolism, is a blood clot in the lung---not a good thing, as you know. The aspiration is fluid, being breathed into his lungs as opposed to either being swallowed or spit out. Some bandsters who have serious issues with reflux have gotten pnuemonia from aspirating the acids into their lungs. The sepsis, is an infection in his blood stream---or that is how they explained mine when I dealt with it. Mine was from a stupid bug bite on my toe that got infected. You never expect a bug bite on your toe to land you in the hospital but this did. I will keep him in my prayers. Had he ever fully recovered from his battle before, or has his health been compromised ever since? Cooked food to take over for my son and DIL to have when they come in from the hospital today. They seemed to be settling in pretty well when we left them. DH went with DS to get DIL's meds from the pharmacy, and I sat and held the little guy while Mommy caught a nap. Being Sunday, there was not much of a choice around here for filling the Rx, they ended up at Walmart, and had over an hour wait. Only other pharmacy open was Walgreens and they don't accept DS's insurance. Older grandson, woke in the middle of the night, upset, he wanted his Mom, he wanted his Dad, he wanted HIS home, and he wanted his bike! He was on edge until they got here and picked him up. He was happy to see them, went home, looked around and decided he was ready to go back to Papa's now!!! KC--great pic of you and your Mom. My DD and I go to a candlelight vigil each year, that they hold here. They sell (I guess is the proper word???) luminarias, white for in memory of cancer victims, and standard brown in honor of cancer survivors. They will put the names on, or you can, and decorate the bags if you wish. They line the river walk with them, and hold a walk a thon. She has put my name on for years, and was with me for years before that putting my Grandma's name on first a survivors, then in memory of..... Luminarias for those who don't have them are small lunch bag size paper bags, filled with 4-5" of sand, and small votive candles nestled into the sand and lit. They glow. If the paper bag happens to catch fire, they just burn down, the sand keeps the candle and flame from spreading. They are really popular here at Christmas. In fact our local community college does a luminaria display with over 50,000 of them lining the campus, for people to drive through---very pretty. It means a lot for my DD to recognize the specialness of doing that with me each year. Gotta go for a walk, or I am going to skip it.....and I know I shouldn't do that!!!

Count me in that, we will have to make it a class action!!! I make or eat mexican food many times a week, most of our meals have minmally green chile in them if not a full on mexican dish! We have even drank green chile beer!!! I kid you not! Connor has reached his breaking point. We had tears in the night, he wants his Mommy and Daddy. He wants his home, and he wants his bike. We wore him out last night thinking he might make it through the night being so tired, and then they would be home today, but he woke up about 3 wanting his life back! We went to the BBQ cook off (and I know I could teach some of them a thing or 2!!) ate, then hit the carnival, where I spent the next 2 1/2 hours riding kiddie carnival rides! But I fit, and not a single seat belt was too tight, or even tight for that matter, I had carnies tighten them on me!!! Which Rick thought was hilarious---he would! We had fun. Rick does not do things that go around and around, without getting sick, so Granny had to do the riding, because we went on EVERYTHING they would let him---including the big spinning things, and his favorite words as we were spinning were "faster Granny!" Got him his cotton candy we had promised and headed home. He talked to Mommy and Daddy, and was kinda subdued, but middle of the night he must have woke up, and was just soooooo sad! We talked to them a few minutes ago, and he was walking down with the woman who was going to check the installation of the car seat was correct. He said they may have to stop a couple of times on the way home, that Garrick has decided overnight that all he wants to do is nurse!!! But they should be on their way now. Papa just went to buy donuts for breakfast with the boy. Try to end his time on a high note! LOL Tracy, I was doing really good on my -5.....then you know what I ate at the fair!!! Chocolate dipped cheesecake!! Yeppers! So avoided the scale today. NOT eating a donut when they come back-my worst PB ever was a donut, so they do not haunt me too badly. I need to gulp down the chocolate dipped cheesecake and see if I can make myself sick on it so I can learn to avoid it!!! Boys are home, going to go set Connor up in the kitchen where sticky is ok!! See ya laters!

Taking a moment to be serious here (even though just typing that makes me snicker) I have a great nephew who is 5, and he is being raised by morons, and yes the mother is my niece. He is constantly telling my other great nephews he is going to kill them. He spends hour upon hour in front of the TV playing violent video games with his Dad. Who is a little bitty guy, and has an attitude 10X his size. He takes all the karate and Judo classes, and is apparantly quite good, tho will never be as good as he claims to be. Has my nephew in them already as well. IMHO these are the kids who are growing up shooting one another. The lives they lived growing up have no nurturing, whether it be gang related, or simple neglect while parents play violent games, and they get it in their heads they can drive and crash and just hit restart in their lives, and shooting someone is so ingrained and natural to them, it is no longer a big deal. Most of us growing up when you played army or cops and robbers, even if you used toy guns had to yell "You're Dead" and argue for 15 minutes over whether the other one had to die or not. The games these days have real looking people, and real reactions to the abuses delivered....hearts pump blood and brains ooze out....and they learn to have no problem pulling a trigger pointed at someone. I know it is not all video games, but my great nephew has not ever figured out the real/not real things---there is not a line to him. My grandkids watch SpongeBob, and see him get fried on the grill, and at 3 & 4 know it is not REAL. #1 they do not see sponges walking around, and #2 it is done in cartoon form. My great nephew is allowed to play the games where the characters look like people on TV---he has no concept of reality like that. My SIL has been to SS for him, all kinds of things, but he is well, and clean, and fed, so they let it be. On a kind of funny note in regards to him.... He told my BIL, that he got in trouble at school and could not say the B word anymore. He repeatedly mentioned he got in trouble over the B word. Finally after several mentions my BIL asks him "what is the B word--- Brandon???" Joking about his name being a B word----and Brandon tells him in a stage whisper "M****r F****r is the B word, don't you know that???"

Good morning girls~~ Guess what? I am off to the hospital!!! I am taking my folks up to meet the baby. I was actually going to give them a little time this morning, in case everyone showed up. But got a call that DIL is a little emotional this morning, and wants to see Connor. She said she thought he looked kind of lost and confused when we all left, and she is worried about him. I imagine he was! It was a big day for all involved! So we are ready, and waiting for my folks, and off we go back to Colorado. My Mom is being slow this morning.....she is not late, as we did not set a time....but she is not ready yet either!! Guess I will feed Connor, he has finally decided it is time! Earlier he just shook his head no at every suggestion, now he tells me he wants peanut butter toast! Was not even one of my offerings---so I am guessing he really does want it!! Luckily I can cover that request!! This afternoon, we are going to a BBQ cook off. You buy a plate and utensils and then you can sample any company you wants BBQ and sides. It is usually a big success. Not sure how the economy will affect this. Most of these companies have laid off lots of workers. Ricks company is looking at a HUGE layoff. They have had all of BP's frac work, and BP is laying down their rigs.....so there went an easy 80% of Rick's companies work! Could be a tough time. My DD works for BP--but she is in a different area, not in the drilling side, in the pipeline side, but she said there is a high chance it will affect her too. Which could be disasterous for her, her lazy good for nuthin' ex is not paying any CS. He paid half of her day care, and almost got her spot taken, as his check bounced, not once but twice! So Manda is living totally on her own, not getting any help with her child, and if she gets laid off it would be bad. Her place she lives is affordable, even with unemployment----but she is going to have to be super careful. And with Rick's future hanging again, I am going to keep working, and just deal with things the way they are!!! Toast is finished, think I better clean him up so we are ready when my Mom finally is!! See y'all later!!

Hey y'all! He is here!!! He actually arrived this morning at 7:54. He is PERFECT!!! He weighed in at 6 pounds even, and is 18 1/4 inches long. Brown hair, and as content as can be! I spent hours holding him today, and amazing at how little and perfect he is. He is named Garrick Raymond. Her Dads name is Gary, my DH is Rick---so with the 2 Grandpas combined, he is Garrick. Raymond is after his other great grandpa's middle name. The older grandson shares middle names with the other great grandpa and his Daddy. I just love him so much already!! This grandbaby business is wonderful!!! g4e, I understand the worry about the finances etc. involved with another baby----this baby was not planned, and sent them into a massive marital issue----but they worked through it, come out better for it, and are thrilled now with their newest son. I posted his pic on Facebook, but I have issues with sizing the pics for LBT. TY for all the good wishes---he is a sweetheart! As sad as it sounds, he is adorable at rest, but when he does pucker up and cry, I swear to you it is the absolute cutest thing!!!! We have the older grandson with us.....while they are in the hospital, and he is hungry again......3 year olds are ALWAYS hungry at Granny's house, he knows we stocked up goodies for him!!! LOL See y'all later!

Just sent out an email about the baby--since posting pics here is not my strong suit!!! I am going to put a few up on my facebook album too. He is precious!!! I got to hold him a long, long time. Since her parents took Connor, we went up and were there when they took her back to the OR, and we were there with Manda when Lenny carried him out. All went wonderfully smooth, and baby and Mom are both doing great. He weighed in at an even 6 pounds, and was 18 1/4 inches long. He has brown hair, and is content. He latched on and nursed without issue. Rick went back with Lenny for a few minutes, then I went back, and then Manda, and she helped Lenny bathe him. Then Rick took Lenny to get something to eat, while we waited for Mom to get back to her room, so the nurse let me dress him, and sit with him. She offered to let me hold him, and I SOOOOOOO badly wanted to. BUT----I wanted his Mommy to be the first, so I just sat with him and let him lie under the warm lights awhile longer, and rubbed his little leg. Then the guys come back the cafeteria was closed, so we all got back to the room, us and DIL about the same time. We passed him around and oohed and ahhhed for awhile, then the guys again went to try to get food. The C section was a challenge for my weak stomached son!!! They give my DIL some benedryl, as the betadine they used was causing a reaction and she was itching, so she went to sleep, the guys were gone and Garrick and I just sat and rocked!! And it did! Rock I mean!!! Her family finally showed up with Connor about 3 this afternoon----seriously! We brought him home with us. Going to take him up in the morning, then to an oilfield BBQ cook off at the county fair tomorrow. Should be fun. That was all my day consisted of. Family. I love our new baby!!! Her Dads name is Gary, His Dads name is Rick.....which is how we have a Garrick. Connor has Rick's Dads middle name (so does our son) and so this baby has the other great Grandpa's middle name, is where the Raymond come in. I can't wait to go up tomorrow and get my hands on him again!!! I am taking a bunch of things up tomorrow, that I have bought for him. FUN FUN FUN!!! Will check in later, off to get my exercise, Connor wants to kick the soccer ball----hope I don't break anything. Not like windows.....like bones!

Somehow ya gotta work a hooker (whether she is legal in Nevada, or illegal elsewhere) into this....... LOL Well tomorrow is the day! In less than 12 hours I will have a brand new grandson to snuggle up with! g4e----I cannot believe you sit the fence on brownies!!! I would tear the fence down!!!! Brownies are my all time favorite....mmmmmmmm Off to the shower so I can get to bed, so I can get up early and go see the bebe!! Prayers for your family Beth, and keeping you and your loving companion in my prayers too Lu.... Oh and I just ask my handyman, and he said yep I could take him to bed! So hey go ask yours!!!

Tomorrow is THE day!!! It is a big TGIF for us!!! A new little grandson to snuggle up with, I am so excited!! We went to dinner with the kids. Wanted to spend some time with them while we could. Manda's boyfriend could not make it, he was working, every one else made it. DIL's parents are in for the birth, so they come along too. Chaos ------ 3 grandkids, 2 who played and giggled all through the meal, Kinsey and Connor. And a 6 month old, who was just not real happy, he wanted to grab everything, and no one would let him! And his Dad was there, so there was no sneaking him tastes of things!!! Jane, I hope your day flies by tomorrow, and your TGIS gets here quickly for you. Office manager gave me a dollar an hour raise today. Think she knows I was contemplating leaving! Not that a buck would stop me if I get a better offer. DH is trying to convince me to go to PAC (Conoco Phillips) we have friends working there--they pay well. But....it is not a field I am very well versed in......but I might talk to them anyway. Couldn't hurt! It is 6 bucks an hour more than I am making! DIL's parents being here, is messing things up with me keeping my grandson. He does not even know them, it upsets me, but not much I can do about it. Her Mom wants him to go back and forth with them. They will handle him. Handle him???? How about love him a bunch extra, his little life is gonna change in a major way tomorrow! Well I gotta go download some pictures and clear a memory card so I can snap lots of pics tomorrow!!! Will check in and give ya the stats tomorrow!!

Beth, why or who told you it might be worse? I ask because I have a mass on the right side that is a tumor. It has been there non changing for 8 years. I have another in my leg. Both discovered at the same time, by accident, looking at something else. I was having knee surgery, and the Xray picked up the tumor in my leg, which sent me to a bone scan, and it picked up the tumor in my head, which led to scans of all sorts, as well as biopsies of the one in my leg, and bi annual scans and CA 125 tests. Mine did not change with chemo----I am scheduled to have the leg biopsied again this winter. To be exact the one in my head, is actually in the mastoid, not the brain. It is in a bony--honeycomb like structure, and that is why it shows so well in a bone scan---and they do those every 6 months. I know red flags went up quick when it was found, and I am lucky it is no more---but just pointing out, they prepared me for much worse, and in the end, it is ok----and hoping and praying your Dads is too. My BIL was diagnosed with a glioblastoma brain cancer, at stage 4. It was located so closely to the medula oblongata that surgery was not an option. So I know how scary they can be. I have one patient who just had her brain tumor removed, and was in for a new eye RX last week. Moving slow, but well!!! Another who was just DX'd, and hers is on the pituitary gland, and the plan is to remove it through her nose!!!! Amazing what they can do----keep your hopes up, and I know they told you, because they need your support---glad they have you. Hoping for good things. Thanks for the good words about my work. I had a thought this morning. I think part of my issue, is jealousy. I WANT to be as INTO something as they are this practice. This is not IT for me, but I want something to be! Wondering what it IS for me.........

So Heather, had the little sweetie grown a lot?? I know at one point when my DS and DIL were moving here from CO, and they were going to be changing pediatricians, they gave my poor little DGS 5 shots at one time. I am sorry, but to me that is child abuse! To hold down an innocent baby who has no idea WHY they keep poking them with needles over and over is horrid beyond words! Kinseys ped. has given her 2 at a time, one in each thigh, and they do it at one time. The Dr. and a nurse on the count of 3. They had her laid on the exam table, with her legs stretched over the side, pinned by the nurses tummy, they counted 3 poked her, and handed her off to mommy immediately. To keep poking a baby over and over is soooooo sad! Poor little Ayla. Tomorrow is the day! The kids have to report to the hospital at 5:30 AM! Then they are due in surgery at 7:00 AM, for the c section! So a few minutes after 7 my new grandson should be here! I am soooooo excited! Work is MAJOR pissed that I am taking off but TDB. I gave them plenty of warning, and I have prepped things well, and if they follow the schedule they will be fine. It is the office managers constantly accepting walk ins that throws schedules off. I have problems seeing it as anything but greed. When we have a no show she calculates how much loss that is. The Dr. is not hurting, and personally my wages are not affected at all, nor do I believe hers to be. She just sees it as a challenge, and while I understand that type of challenge mentallity----I don't happen to share this one, so it is not something I get worked up over! She is a total workaholic, and seems to love it---I think maybe part of my problem is jealousy....? I WISH I could get that INTO something. But I am not. Haydee the pics are both nice....I too see advantages in both, and would have a hard time choosing. The woman who did the pics at my friend Becky's sons wedding, did an awesome job. She actually charged by the hour!! She charges $75.00 an hour, and she shot non stop. She said if she could bring her DH she would have him shooting as well. So they both took pics non stop. They have some great pictures. The ones like Judy spoke of with just the bubbles colored. One I really like, that totally captured her son (Mr athlete through and through) was of them kind of blurred into the background, with them doing a fist bump and their rings in perfect focus---it was SO him. With 2 of them shooting pics, there was both angles from groom side as well as bride side during the ceremony. The kicker-----they were all put onto discs----6 discs full of pics. Some were the same, just sepia toned or B&W----and that is what they bought. The photographer did not print a single picture. They got the discs for the fee they paid, and all rights to the pics. They and their families now develop what they want. She does family groups---we plan on her doing a big family shoot for us after the baby is born. We figure in 2-3 hours we can get all we need, in family groups and kids, and all the combos imaginable---and in the end it will not cost us as much as getting them done in a studio, and getting the proper amount of each size. Tonight we go to dinner with the youngest DD, who could not make it for Rick's birthday. Not sure if the SOL will join us or not.....hoping not!! LOL I am off to the shower.....feeling depressed as heck this morning. My scale is kinda hanging too. Of course I am doing nothing to help it along...... BBL

I too have cleaned out a few pockets (especially of Rick's friends!!) playing poker! Everyone expects me to be stupid!! I took about 2 hands to figure them out! It isn't the standard bluff---of hiding a good hand, it is faking them out, letting them think you have a bad one they can beat easily, let them battle it out between the boys, and then slam 'em!!! LOVE it!!! We do not play high stakes, tho----so while it goes in our fun fund, it is not vacation worthy amounts!!! No new grandson yet, looks like about 7 AM Friday morning. We really needed another August birthday!!! I was just counting to myself, and there 8 in our immediate family and now this little guy!! And the only 2 the same are my niece and mine! Work sucked today. My office manager, has been taking lessons from Ebony's boss. Being bitchy as hell. She is hot under the collar about me taking Friday off, as it is a swamped schedule. I warned them over a month ago. I have files ready. Everyone is pre authorized, and all that needs added to the file is dates. If she would cut back on the greed, and quit bumping the schedule with walk ins she would be fine Friday. She had us so over booked this afternoon doing that, I thought we would never get out of there. Then she went on this cleaning kick---sorry I did not hire on to be a maid nor a janitor for them----not gonna do it. Period. If I had hired for that position then fine, I do not consider myself above it, but they have shifted my position enough already, not doing any other jobs for them....screw that! Well it is off to bed for me.....late in tomorrow, so will check in in the morning.

We sliced the left over grilled steak from dinner last night, paper thin ---ok well as thin as we could---and peppers and onions, and made fajitas tonight. I ate mine in a little bowl, no tortilla. Rick ate 3 HUGE fajitas--they looked like burritos! Have to say they really were good. Work was ok----the woman I work for, the office manager, is difficult to deal with. I think she is unhappy at home, and lives for work. She works 6 days a week, and is ALWAYS there when I go in, and there when I leave. I see my authorizations that she does, and they have times from the computer, and she is there all hours. To me it is a J O B. Nothing more. It is not my life, nor do I want it to be any more of my life than it currently is. She and the Dr. live, eat and breath that place. Well they may benefit financially from doing so, I do not so much!!! She cannot make up her mind how she wants me to do things....when so and so calls don't ask who is calling, it irritates him. Well I have a dozen things going on, the TV in the lobby and often people talking, I cannot recognize his voice all the time, so I put a call through to her thinking it was him, and it was a sales rep----so be sure to ALWAYS screen her calls....of course except when it is the one guy! Grrrrr I am NOT happy about being the receptionist as is, and that crap makes it worse!!! I could go on, lists of little crap that is making me nutso! Oh well----think paycheck!!! Tracy----I appreciate the kick in the pants!!! LOL I have to make some effort here, it is not going to just fall off (dammit). We CAN and WILL do it! Friday is coming sooooooo slowly!! Connor is spending the night with us Thursday. DIL and DS have to be in Durango at the hospital at 5:30 AM, and she goes to surgery at 7 AM. We will do our best to be there, but if Connor will not wake up, we will get there as soon as we can! A new grandson to snuggle!!! So excited!!! Well I am off to snuggle with his Papa for awhile, he keeps patting the sofa.....sounds inviting!!

Off to work. Had a great evening with Rick. We had his favorite things for dinner---he is a simple meat and taters kind of guy!! Grilled a nice rib eye, loaded baked potatoes, fresh squash out of the garden cooked his favorite way, homemade yeast rolls (fresh from the grocery freezer and cooked!!!!). Chocolate cake and cookies & cream ice cream. I put a bit of each dinner item on my small plate, and still failed to finish it all. Had a couple bites of ice cream, no cake. Now I look at that huge cake and know it is time to send it to the grandkids!!! LOL Meant to say that my final loss for July was a whopping 2.5 pounds!!! I had been lower, but creeped back up. So far I am down a pound and a half from that for August, but I am going to have to get serious again. Tracy where are you with my kick in the pants, we were going good!!! You pushed me in June and we did it! I need a push! Time to go to work......y'all be good!

Part of me agrees g4e, but one of the mistresses says she knew he was married, and had seen his wife before, so in my opinion she MADE her decision, I have no idea if the other mistress knew he was married or not. The part of me that was the wife who was cheated on years and years ago in my first marriage, laughed over it! But it also made me feel like they gave him way too much power, to allow his actions to lower them to that. Just give him the mental boost he did not need apparantly! Another long day at work today.....I swear if they do not hire someone else, I am looking into changing jobs. I am not doing now what I was hired to do, they have me running the front end of the office, when I hired on to run the lab. Oh yeah, I still do that, but they continue to send out the labs they were at that time wanting to do in house. It was not going to be full time, just as needed, and some assisting with the Dr. in procedures, when I was there. That is what I want it to be again. I do not want to fit and dispense glasses, I do not want to schedule appointments and build files....but I am. When they interviewed I got all excited, but they hired a coder/biller, giving the office manager yet more free time, but she is still right there re-doing everything everyone does, and changing her mind from one day to the next. She is having issues letting go of the control. Things are not going to be problem free and issue free, and none of us are willing to work 6 days a week sun up to sun down, as she is. Enough. I like my job well enough, I just really liked it when I was doing what I was supposed to be doing. Hope your fall is not affecting you too much today Beth! Personally I have not fallen....of course you have to do something or be ON something to fall off of, and I have been behaving like a slug!!! Better get it in gear----have a good one!

Jane, I would love to read the book! If you can drop it in the box with my lotion, I can cover the shipping all at once! Dinner is ready--BBL

Well it ended up being a nice dinner. The DD with the wierdo for a DH was our only one not to show up. He dislikes us all, so it is not a surprise. She wants to get together with her Dad later in the week to celebrate his birthday. Not sure if it will be "later in the week" when her DH is working or "later in the week" when he only has to put up with DH and I and not the whole family. He really sucks!!! Other than that we had a great time. Missed my little granddaughter being there, she was with her Daddy for the weekend, and he refused to let her come home an hour and a half early. Another winner there!! Yep took my handyman to Home Depot and spent more $$$ but the addition is coming along nicely, and should be finished before too long. And to top it off here in a minute I am taking my handyman to bed!!! LOL No alcohol for me, work tomorrow, and I seriously do not want to go. I am not usually this anti anything, but I am really bummed about working and DH being off and all alone for his birthday. And in 2 weeks he will be off again while I am working and it will be MY birthday---which will suck seriously too!!! We are both taking off Friday for the birth of our newest grandson. Providing she does not go into labor before then, they have her scheduled for c section at 7AM on Friday!!! YAY!!! My little Garrick will be here! Time to hit the shower.....see y'all after work tomorrow!

I look at new washers and dryers, but everyone I talk to has mixed feelings about what they have!! Some love their front loaders, and those with steam clean options, others despise them.....too many decisions!! Especially since it seems my old Maytag set I have is going to last forever!! They are minimally 10 years old, and going strong, nothing wrong, no reason to replace....except they have newer prettier ones out there now!!! Meanwhile----the ones I have worked and laundry is done, well last load is in the dryer. I thought of y'all with every damn shirt I folded!!! My 3 year old grandson decided we are going to go to Fuddruckers for dinner! He just learned to say it and not make the great Grandma's gasp in horror! It is a 50's style hamburger place. Lots of memorabilia both local and 50's all over the place. The best thing about going there, is that you order, and then they have bars for all the fixin's so you can have it your way. No the BEST thing about it is, that if the extended family insists on bringing extra people we do not know, every kid they have brings a friend etc. THEY get to pay for them! It is a pay as you come in kind of place, so each family unit covers their own. Amazingly they often don't show up when they are expected to buy their own!!! Doesn't hurt my feelings!!! Addition to the shop is going up nicely.....AND they guy doing it, I find him amazingly attractive, and furthermore-----I can have my way with him any time I want!!! In fact.....took him a cold beer and shared a kiss just a few minutes ago. He may not make Cosmo......but he trips my trigger!!!! LOL Cupcakes are yummy! I did just the opposite, and bought the mini cupcake/muffin tins. Easier to limit myself, and easier for my young grandkids to handle. And in my DH's opinion the ratio of icing to cake is better!!! Well better get myself cleaned up and ready to go party! See ya!

Trying to get the house work done, not sure what the evening is going to bring. Tomorrow is DH's birthday, and the family wants ME to DO something. Which would be fine, but DH is not so much wanting me to DO anything! He is building an addition onto the shop to house the air compressor and some other things, so that the noise will be outside the shop, well he planned to do that, have a few beers, and kick back. His parents think the world will come to an end if anyone sips a drop of alcohol. We let them live and do our own thing, but out of respect for them, keep it away from them or family gatherings they are at, At 80+ they are not changing their minds we know! So now here I am, I either curtail DH's plans, and satisfy the family that by me cooking a cleaning all day THEY did something for his birthday......or I am the uncaring wife/DIL who let his birthday go by without celebrating. I have to work tomorrow, he is off, but I am not going to have him prepare the yard and house for a cookout for HIS birthday! My Mom offered to host a cookout for it, and then last night the man who delivers their firewood, dumped 3 cords of wood in the parking area, that now my Dad has to get stacked & ready for winter. So her house is out. My MIL has not offered to do anything.....for a long, long time. Then again when I am over 80 I hope to not have to either!!! LOL All 3 kids work tomorrow. DIL is due any second, she does not feel like doing it, and is the only one not working! I am going to suggest we all meet for dinner at someplace simple---a burger joint or something. Any suggestions??? As for hanging shirts, all mine hang, and all of DH's EXCEPT his work shirts, they go in a dresser---and are kept separate. Nothing washed with them, nothing stored with them, as there is an odor to them! They smell like diesel to me. No one else agrees.......but I smell it! They get dumped into a hamper in the laundry room, not in our bath like the regular clothes! He does not deal directly with the diesel anymore, but when he goes through the shop, he puts on coveralls, that are work issued, and work cleaned, so the guys who marinate in the diesel under the trucks, coveralls get washed right with his, and they make his clothes smell. No detergent or additive gets rid of it....so his work stuff folds into a dresser. With properly folded shirts!!! LOL No rain here, at least not enough to be worthwhile.....trade ya some heat for some rain Tap...... My kids and grandkids ALL got their own cakes to tear into for their 1st birthday, and we have progressive pics of each of them, they are some of my favorites! My youngest grandson probably will be the first not to get one, his Dad would not allow it---the mess etc. He is a germaphobe, and very OCD---it would make him crazy. He cannot even stand for him to have drool on his shirts! He is such an annoyance!!! Well I am being called to inspect the building process, and my laundry is ready to change out. I do not BTW have new W & D and am NOT enjoying doing laundry!!! LOL

Looooong day, got nothing done that I had hoped to. I am going to HAVE to do laundry tomorrow or go commando to work! LOL DIL saw the Dr. again, and there has been no change, the baby is still in proper position, but there has been no thinning of the cervix or no dilation at all--he think she will go until the scheduled Friday delivery. I hope he is wrong and that the baby is born on Monday, on his Papa's birthday!! Both Rick's and my Dads and Abbey are all born on the same day. She loves it! Says it makes her special to her Grandpa's! Pamela I see you logged on, hope the healing continues well. I tried eating leftover spaghetti---what in the hell was I thinking?????? I seldom slime.....tonight is beginning to feel like a seldom night.....see ya tomorrow!

Sea Foam is kind of like the center to a malted milk ball. You know the difference between a malt and a milkshake is the malt flavor---------well the center to sea foam is like the center of a malted milk ball (Whoppers) without the malt flavor. And then it is covered in chocolate. It is YUMMY!!!! And it always looks like you get more than with other candy!! Rick's birthday is Monday---cannot come up with anything original to do......HAH we have done it all!!! lol Thanks Jane!!!! Big giant hugs!! Tracy--so thankful Macy is doing good, what a relief. Rick is ready to go----like I really want to do more shopping???? Ah well, WTH see ya in awhile....

Slim, personally, I fold the shirt in half--like the bottom half up to the neck opening half, lay it flat, top side down, fold the arms to the center, and then when it is folded lengthwise that way fold it in half again the same direction as the first time......wow that sounds so much more complicated than it really is!!!!! When I was not working, I did all the cooking and laundry. Now that I am working again we have compromised! Because I am picky about some of my clothes being hung as opposed to dried, I do the laundry---he puts his own away tho. And he does all the yard work. I occasionally ride a lap or 2 on the mower is about it----or use the walk behind out front---I did once this year!! But the cooking we are trying to do together, and the cleaning. The rule is we do it our way. And if the other person does not like it, they can do it alone and do it themselves! He is doing good, he works one week early so he is home before me, and he cooks that week--not real imaginative in the kitchen yet, but he is getting better! Then the next week he works late so I am home first and I do the cooking. We always clean up together---and THAT is where the doing it our way come in, I was trying to order how he loaded the DW!! He now does it his way, and I shut up and let him!!! Brother is here, see y'all later!

Off to the funeral, stopping in for news on Macy and our newest beauty queen Pamela!!! Sounds like all is well in both worlds yaya!!! After the funeral, I am meeting my Mom and taking her shopping.....on a Saturday just before school starts and she wants to go to the office supply to buy a shredder......oy. BBL have a great Saturday !!!