Kat817

Locally we have the bank I use which is a Citizens Bank, we have a Wells Fargo, and Bank of America, as well as locals, Four Corners Community Bank, and Bank of the Southwest. I called out of curiosity this afternoon when I got back. IF it had been my checking account, through the checking account, ALL of them would have covered it. Since it is a debit backed by MasterCard, NONE of them would cover debit fraud when done this way---not a single one, and of the 4 I called, 2 are backed by MasterCard and 2 by Visa. So there is a difference when it is debit. Debit is guaranteed to the bank through the issuing cardholder in this case MC. So THEY make the rules involving it. None of our local banks offer a locally handled debit---they are all backed by one or the other MC or Visa. So........doesn't sound like I would have been treated any different anywhere else. First thing I noticed in your pic Laura was your white Tiger picture from Gruene! Then I saw where you wrote "degree"!! Maybe a LARGE wall hanging. I know I live in the SW, but lots of the big offices here have big Navajo Rugs on the walls. Maybe something along the line, for where you are, or the white tiger theme, it would cover space, and also absorb noise if it were fabric. Well, going to read my email, and veg til Rick gets here, all the girls left, and I am NOT.....repeat NOT an engineer----even my Lego bridge wanted to fall!!! Kat

Laura the cheese curds I have had were wonderful, even if the name makes them sound doubtful. They are made on the same idea as mozzerella cheese sticks but they are made from white cheddar, which ends up much creamier when hot than mozz. The A&W drive in we have here in town actually does a half way decent version of them--------come on twist my arm, I'll eat 'em!!!! LOL Susan, my debit is backed by MasterCard, which is not sounding like a great thing. The bank said it is about a 50/50 chance of them finding in my favor on the dispute. I did the police report and the formal dispute today---they were really nice, but not really hopeful. According to the way it looks they are claiming it is a signature transaction----so if I am agreeing to charges in my home town and at the same time there are charges being done in India----how am I 2 places at once??? I will go with an attorney if need be, I'd rather give him my damn money than just let the company think I am gonna let them off! Might be a good thing to have the legal flex through DH's work! BUT......so far October is better than September was!!! No one took any $$$$ today. Oh yeah, closed the card!!! Only MY card was accessed, not the checking account, and nothing with DH's card----just mine. Figures doesn't it!!! LOL Kat

Hi y'all, Got my end of the banking etc. taken care of, the police report etc. made, the dispute started----had a form to fill out for every single charge I disputed....Had to have my account #, the debit card #, my printed name, signature, date, home phone, and work phone. I filled that out almost 50 times! I needless to say now know all the numbers by heart! I knew my account # but not the debit card #....which is now closed so knowing it does me no good! She said there is about a 50/50 outcome of disputes, and there is no way to tell what they will decide about mine. It is ultimately a MasterCard decision, not a bank decision----and the sad thing is, they want the money----and since it is a given they will not likely get it out of the company in India, they will use every opportunity to decline the dispute. In that case I will likely hire an attorney, and file against them for the costs plus attorney fees and court costs. The amount the Indian Railway Catering company took from my account ended up being $1896.00---exactly even! The fact that tomorrow is payday---means there was not much left in that account anyway...so they actually hit me with insufficient funds on 2 transactions from yesterday. They are going to provisionally return the NSF fees to my account (whoopee) but if the dispute is decided against me they will pull it back out. Police Dept., well actually the officer was an ass! He told me there was no way he could investigate it....did I still want to make a report? Welllllll YEAH!!! I ask him, if someone stole almost $1900 bucks from you, wouldn't you want it back. He copied my paperwork, called for a case #, gave me that and his name and sent me on my way. Unreal! People at the bank were really nice, but did not send me away with much hope.... Tonight we have a game.....against the other company team. There were too many for one team so there ended up being 2, one good, and one not so good (us)--tonight we face off! Should be a riot---wish I could play. Had to laugh, because I have a crockpot full of pulled pork cooking as I type! I come in from town, shredded the pork---and we will have it for dinner, on our way to the game. The 7:30 games, do not allow us time to have a real dinner before he has to be there at 7, because he works til 6. Then the game goes on for an hour, and by the time we get out of the park it is 9....too late to eat! So I have to find things to make that we can eat on the go. Pulled pork was my answer today, he can have sandwiches, and I can have a dish.....I reccommend it too Haydee! My knee is bruised, and my side is sore, but I can eat without issue, and figure I just pulled muscles. BUT I do have an appointment with my PCP to be checked out, and they will cover the bill. That is tomorrow. Man I wish I had known to say rabbit, rabbit, rabbit. I woke up and just groaned!! LOL Normal for me! I have Manda's little sister here. Poor girl. Her Mothers boyfriend kicked her out, because she got a failing notice in geometry---and he refuses to have a failure in his home. He has been hunting for a reason to get rid of her. Her Dad (also Manda's dad) his girlfriend insists they do not have room for her---but finally they caved and allowed her to move in with them. So now she goes to school here in my little town. Well they got out early today---but her Dad's gf refuses to allow her into the house until they get home, which is 6 PM! So the plan is to have Courtney come here after school and Manda will pick her up with Kinsey then her Dad will get her when he leaves work, so that she can get into the house. This is a sweet kid, she loves Kinsey and is SO good with her! She is cheerful, and helpful, and the way they treat her breaks my heart. I spoke with the girl across the street who is a teacher, and she said if she needed help with geometry, she would be glad to help her....because I am sure it is beyond me to help! She is just gonna have to be part of our family because hers sucks! Plain and simple! Well I am off to build a bridge!!! Yep Lego's and the granddaughter are calling my name!! Courtney (Manda's sister) is doing homework---her first day in this school, and she has a bunch of homework! So I will check in later---or after the game. Hugs!!! Kat

Not sure how things will be handled until tomorrow morning, when I hit the bank and the police dept. Not something I am looking forward to that is a fact! I made a big dinner, just to occupy myself----chicken fried steak, fried potatoes with onions, cream gravy, green beans---all of Rick's favorites!!! I guess I was hoping it would improve his mood and he would not harp on this all night long, I mean I don't have any answers for all of his questions. He loved the dinner, but didn't say hardly anything, other than he hopes we get it settled without losing another shitload of money......he looked at his 401K today as well. I don't know why I always expect the worst from him, and he is not that way!!! I ate a pretty normal piece of chicken fried steak, and some green beans, but that was it----potatoes looked yummy, but was afraid they would fill me too full----and PB'ing is NOT an option for me at this point. Ate about what I would have prior to all this----on my little plate----feel so much better not being over full! Pamela---I am sorry you too are getting crap with your checks. I am with you---C'mon October be nice to us!!!! The base of my hand below my thumb, by my wrist is really sore, where I caught myself when I fell is the biggest owie I have.....my knee is skinned, but otherwise I am ok I think. Rick insists I should have made them call me an ambulance and be checked out. I could not do that! Not without being seriously unable to get up! Terry----worries me you having a crappy day too.....like I say, I am with Pamela, sure hope October is good to ALL of us!!! Gonna go hop in the shower so I can just get ready without all the blow drying & stuff in the morning. Will check in later or in the AM. Kat

Hey girls-- Healing is going along ok---fell today in a store in the mall, but think I survived it without issue---other than the cashier laughed so I had to tear into the manager----originally I was scared, and hurt, and embarassed until she laughed and then it all went away and I was pissed! Made him fill out an accident report so if I have any issues, it will be covered. They had left cellophane packaging material on the floor, and my foot hit it and went sideways and when I tried to catch myself they had 6 long shelves propped against the shelf I grabbed, and we ALL went down! My incisions and belly feel fine, my hand hurts where I caught myself. Then to add insult to injury, I come home to a message from the bank, and my debit card has been accessed by a company in New Delhi India, and my account is seriously overdrawn due to several hundred charges! So tomorrow I have to go down and itemize which charges are fraudulent, then go to the police station and file a police report, and then back to the bank to file papers to dispute the fraudulent charges. Meanwhile all the $$$ I had in there which was not millions by any means, but it is GONE! Until they get things straightened out, which will not happen overnight. Meanwhile Rick's check is due to deposit tomorrow, so I have to close the account, then wait for the check to be returned which will show overnight, then wait for them to cut a paper check and mail it out of Houston..... So I am on a serious money diet. I have probably $40.00 cash on me.....no checking account, no debit card, and no check for probably 7-10 days. This could get interesting. I have a few hundred bucks (very few!!!) in a credit union, I can use!!! LOL.....this is so not something to laugh about, but I just cannot wrap my head around it..... I have such a headache......wonder why????? She told me the biggest culprits for stealing debit info are wait staff in restaurants! She said using it in the store where you slide it and enter a PIN or using it online on a secure site, is not an issue, but to use it in a restaurant where it leaves your sight, that they can have your info in 15 seconds! She said the worst ones are the ones that have crayons for kids, that they lay the card down, cover it with a slip of paper, run the crayon over it, and have your name and card #, they flip it over write down the 3-4 digit security code, and it is worth up to $100.00 for the waitperson to sell it to the people who use them to commit fraud. She said nationwide Chilis restaurants had over 100,000 complaints of this last year alone! And yep I have used mine there frequently! Ay yi yi......... I too weigh in the morning, after peeing, and nekkid~~not every morning, but when I weigh that is my MO!! Will check in later---hugs to all Kat

Thanks everyone, I felt pretty good about it all! Today went to crap! Someone accessed my debit card, and has massively charged on my account, out of New Delhi India. I have to file a police report tomorrow---I have a feeling the headache has just begun. I have actually very few veggies I really like. And most of them I only like raw. I loved to eat the chips and crackers and cheese and all that junk.....that was my downfall. Then I needed brownies for dessert---of course! Which did not help! But without a doubt my biggest issue pre band was potatoes and pasta----all the starchy things I very seldom eat anymore, they fill me up so fast they are simply not worth the effort to eat them!!! SNT, your fruit comment to Plain had me spewing water all over my keyboard! Hey pre band it would have been Dr. Pepper!!! LOL Kat

She said the biggest culprits for debit theft are restaurants-well the staff. And the worst are restaurants that have crayons for kids. She said it is a quick lay down of the card, and swipe a crayon over the front, flip it over write down the 3-4 digit security code on the back, and it is worth anywhere from $50- $100.00 bucks a piece for a wait person to sell it. She said that to use a debit card when it is in your hand, as in a grocery store or Walmart, or to use it online on a secure site, it is the safest way to go without question, but it is not a safe option to EVER let the card out of your sight. Such as to pay a restaurant tab. She said in 20 seconds they can have all the info, and have it slid into an apron pocket just waiting for the sale. She said Chilis alone had over 100,000 complaints last year alone concerning this issue!!! Meanwhile, I am without funds! Rick gets paid on Thursday---but I cannot deposit it, in that account. Guess it is a good thing I did not get all huffy and close the credit union account. And the only reason I didn't was lack of time before the shop got built, and then I just kinda forgot about it....and now I am going to have to use that account. But in the meantime, all the money I had in that account, that was for bills etc. is GONE! Not sure for how long or anything. Plus anything I have outstanding, is going to come in on a closed account. I have such a headache........ Keep working on the dimes to quarters Tracy...... Kat

OMG you guys------my debit card has been accessed. They have charged over $2200.00 to a company called Indian Railway Catering out of New Delhi India. The bank caught it this afternoon and closed my debit card out. I used it in one store in the mall, and when I went to Sears it was declined she said. Which I thought she just was mistaken, because the card is cracked and sometimes will not read. So I used a check---but come to find out, at the same time I used it in our town, it was used in India as well, so she closed the card. I have to go in the morning to the bank and get a debit card, and checking history going back to the first charge which was for $11. something, on the 24th. Then the 25th there were 2 charges for like 12 and 30 bucks, well I have been home, so I had not logged on to the account, I had no reason. Well when those went through they went to town! There are hundreds of them! I have to acknowledge which ones are our real charges and which ones are not, then go to the police station and file a police report for fraudulent charges. Then back to the bank to use the police report to file a dispute of charges with them. Then it is likely to take up to 6 months to get any of my $$$ back if I EVER do! I am sick, Rick is LIVID! I so wish your attempts had had better results TracyK! This is horrible! Kat

That is exaclty what I meant, but stand by my original post---about why they come here to LBT to ask about a OH poster. That made no sense to me then, and still doesn't. I have no issue with Sue RN, who I do not know, have never spoke with, nor ever seen here at LBT. And honestly don't feel I jumped on anyone. To open your first posts in R&R, and to do so asking questions about someone from another WL forum......makes me wonder what it is all about --- simple as that. But I made that clear and went on.....which I am doing again!!! :thumbup: Kat

Last Spring in TX, Laura (FairyFacade) and I had agreed, if we found the chicken fried bacon, or the chocolate dipped bacon, we were SOOOOO trying it. But alas, we did not come across anywhere making it...... Well went to the ballpark last night, and sat down, let the busy bodies get settled in, and then I got up walked right past them into the dugout. I asl Bill if I could speak to he and Brett for a second, he looked kinda puzzled but they come to the door---which of course attracted attention EVERYWHERE from the dugout to the stands! I told them I wanted to touch base with them before speaking with their wives---that by now several people had informed me that they thought the bruises on my arms were needle tracks and that they had been conducive to my weight loss, when in reality I just got out of the hospital as I thought they knew from major surgery. They acknowledged that they knew. He even told me his wife and his sister were total gossips and could be real bitches! Before the conversation got much further, here come the wives, me talking to them is a big NO NO!! So I told them I was glad they were there I thought we had some things to clear up. I told them I had been told that they believed my weight loss to be credited to drugs, that they thought the marks on my arms were thanks to drugs. They denied it right off the bat! I just stared them down, and I went on to tell them I had just had surgery, and due to dehydration I had blown several IV's but that I do not now nor have I ever used drugs. That rumors such as this can really devastate a persons life, or even my husbands job, since this IS a work related ball team. They are still butting in to deny it. One of the guys told his wife she let her mouth overload her ass!!! Then I did something really mean, and I should not have....but did! One of the women Sam (antha) is overweight----probably not even to obese, if so barely----but heavier than she wants to be, it is obvious by the way she dresses etc. So I told her, actually I had lost my weight thanks to a lap band, that is was great, and if she was interested I could give her links to some great informational sites (gonna send her to OH!!), or answer any questions! She was so mad she was almost shaking! She did not blush, but her ears turned almost purple!! I thought when I said that my DH was going to fall off the bench he was sitting on!!! So today I got a balloon bouquet from the office staff ---one of which is DH's secretary and the procurement clerk, both of whom told me what was said. They sent balloons with a card that said I was their hero!! LOL It felt sooooo good not to just take their crap though! I know better than to hope it ends here, but their DH's were embarassed and mad! One of them went over and face to face apologized to my DH for the crap his wife started. Thought he probably had a rough night with a pissy wife!! LOL Just wanted to update ya!! Kat

Hey girls you have to hear the latest in the ball park saga!!! As I said earlier, I took my Mom to town to buy the stuff for my Dads birthday--which we did. Met Rick and a friend of his for lunch, and had a great time. Well except I fell! In the Dollar Store, they had a disaster in their store, and I stepped without seeing it on a piece of cellophane on the floor and my foot went out sideways, and when I tried to catch myself I hit shelves they had stacked against another shelf--and down I went! The cashier laughed at me! I was scared, physically hurting, and mortified ----and she laughed and they all went away, and I was MAD!!!!!!!!!!! I found the manager, told him his store was a hazzard, that I fell, and his cashier laughed! Anyway, he filled out an accident report so if I feel I need to see a Dr. I can at their expense. Anyway......on to the story! I come home and Connie my next door neighbor hollers that she has something for me. I go over -- leaving Kinsey sleeping in the van--- and she has this balloon bouquet. One balloon is pink mylar, another purple, a couple of florals, and one says You're #1. I thought "what in the heck?" I open the card, and it says "You're our hero!! Way to go!!!" it was signed from the Shop Office Staff. Rick's secretary, and the other girls in the office who were there sent them!!! And at lunch Rick said Brett actually come to the office and face to face apologized to him for the "crap" his wife started! Rick said he told him he appreciated it because his wife had had a really rough few weeks, and did not need that! Wierd way things turn out!!! I too laughed hard at Chuck you Farley----and know somehow, somewhere I too will fit that gem into conversation!!! LOL Well I need to unpack bags from the store.....will the fun never end??? Kat

Thanks ladies, it was something I could not just let slide. Rumors like that tend to grow....and while this might not stop the rumor or them flappin' their lips, there were lots of people around----and lots who know me anyway, but it felt good to handle it!! You should have seen Rick's eyebrows disappear into his hairline when I told her I would get her info on the band!! LOL TracyK, you figure out that dime/quarter thing, you let me know---K? My eating is going back to normal---I have regained the weight I lost---when I was in the hospital early that morning for X ray studies, they weighed me in at 147 pounds! When I left 36 hours later----I was 155 pounds, I was so full of fluid!! It has bounced up and down ever since----but I am now between the 157 and 160 and happy there, so will work on maintaining that. With no fill still, so we will see how it goes, and I will go for a fill if the weight begins adding up!!! The band is there (thank goodness!!) so I can utilize it when I need it! I am doing yet another birthday this weekend! This one is my Dads 75th! We are having cake following church---going to go with Mom today and get a few things, we are doing kind of a Fall theme, and then donating the decorations to the church to use for the Thanksgiving dinner, and for the season in the fellowship hall. This is the last parent with a birthday for awhile (til June). But we still have kids with birthdays all the way til Christmas! Our son starts it in Sept. Then DD's in Oct. & Nov. a SIL in Oct. and then Kinsey the first of December.....then it is Christmas! See TracyK------I REALLY need to know about your dime/quarter thing!! Terry, I know what you mean about the low carbing----I don't know how I kept it so low for so long!!! Lived on meat, eggs and cheese I guess!!! I can begin adding raw veggies (salads---yay) back to my diet after Thursday. It is amazing how much I miss them! I fixed us some chicken sandwiches to take and eat as we drove to the game, and I used Ranch on mine as opposed to mayo---all I wanted then was salad! When we have early games like that, we have to either eat there----which is hot dogs, chili pies, nachos.....OR eat on the go. So I made sandwiches!!! Well I better get dressed and ready to go---Mom will be calling any minute to find out what time I want to go---and I better get moving while Kinsey is still awake or it will be a couple hours! Will check in when I get back. TracyK---work HARD on that dime/quarter project!!! Hugs, Kat

I had friends who had decided if the baby was a boy it would be Jeffrey and a girl it was going to be Jessica----so the entire pregnancy they called the baby Jeffrica------poor Jessica was a year old before they could call her by the right name!!! Kat

Well home from the game, and we won (they won--I watched!). I went into the dugout and I ask Bill if I could speak to he and Brett for a second---he looked kinda funny at me and said sure, so they walked to the open door where I was. I calmly told them that I wanted to touch base with them before speaking to their wives, but I had been told by several people that they were remarking on my "tracks" and my weight loss. The guys looked horrified! Brett said and I quote "my wife and my sister live to gossip, and they can be real bitches". I told them, that rumors like that can be devastating, not just to me but to Rick's job, and that I planned to speak to them about it, and explain that I just had major surgery, and several IV's thus the "tracks" not drugs. They kept apologizing, and you could see Brett did NOT want me to speak to them! And sure enough before I ever could finish my conversation with them, here come the women-------they saw us in conversation and that is a big time NO NO! Before I could say a word, Bill told his wife (who is Brett's sister) something about her mouth overloading her ass---and that she owed me an apology. I told them I was just speaking to their husbands as teammates before coming out to talk to them, that I understood they thought the marks on my arms were conducive to my weight loss. Bretts wife is overweight, while not really big, I played on it---shame on me but I DID!!! I told them, the marks on my arms are from IV's, I just had major surgery---I do not do drugs. They kept denying saying it---I just stared them down and said it was amazing to me that 3 different people told me about it----but that I just wanted to assure them that I was not doing drugs. That I had had lap band surgery to lose my weight, and I would be glad to discuss it with her for her weight, and refer her to some websites to learn more about it!!! She was spitting and sputtering and I swear to you her ears turned purple!!! She did not blush like usual, it was only her ears! Funniest thing! They sat waaaaaaay down the bleachers from me, and the girls I always sit with. And we made special effort to really cheer for their husbands. That is the only down part about it, the guys surely caught all kinds of hell over it, but maybe they will get enough and tell them to simply shut up!!! I felt better for saying something, as opposed to ignoring it. Plus it felt good to get my digs in about her weight, she used to give me go to hell looks all the time, and refused to speak to me---now I am several sizes smaller than her----and I am not a druggie, just a bandie!!! LOL Well I am off to bed---just wanted to tell ya what happened! See ya in the mornin'!! Kat

Yeah in my drugged up state who knows what I might do!!! LOL Kat

The OP has not even been to this thread in half a year, yet she posts to other threads, so I take that to mean she has settled into being banded, and the mood swings have mellowed. Or it could just mean that DH and whoever else in the household just learned to keep the mitts off the frogs!! LOL The resurrection of threads to simply post something smart aleck or negative seems to be a new trend lately.....easiest to just ignore it!!! But in an overall Sue, I totally agree! Get the endorphins kicked in!!! Kat

Yeah g4e that would be kinda fun!!! My plan is to discuss it with their husbands--who I usually play ball with---where they can see me talking with the DH's they are so jealous, they will come a running!!!! When they do, I plan on being quite loud in discussing it with them! The term BIMBO fits them both so perfectly! Kat

TracyK----no "loose" teeth-----but a partial with a couple of molars on it!!! You made me curious, so I showed Kinsey our picture, and told her the same thing....These are Granny's friends. She too looked at it and finally she tells me "They are all girls, you don't like boys for friends?" Then she points at Haydee and says "She is my friend too she is really pretty!" So I tell her "what about the rest of us, what are we chopped liver?" She laughs and says we are all pretty and she wants a picture with us!! Kids!!!! Kat

I have this visual of Jane behind Haydee doing her hair with one arm snaked out and in a sink full of dishes, and a leg wrapped around the vaccuum handle.....whata multitasker she is!!!!!! Kat

Haydee I wish I could help----all I can do is bang my head with you cuz I am computer illiterate!!! Hope you get it fixed---I HATE crap like that!!! Off to lunch with Rick & Kinsey Kat

Something I forgot to tell you! Rick's secretary and her DH come by to see if we wanted to go riding, and she told me to avoid 2 women at the ball park. I guess they were talking about me at the 2nd game---we did not stay I was tired, so we come home. They saw my arms when I took off my coat, and were telling their DH's who I play ball with, that I had track marks----and they knew I had not lost all that weight on my own! These women---one works for the company, and has never spoke a word to me without me initiating the hellos-I was not worth her time---she is prissy, and I was fat! And the 2 shall never mix! I believe them to be related, that the other womans husband is the snooty ones brother---but they high hat all of us, and are super jealous women, they come and stand behind the dugout when we are batting, and keep their husbands out there with them, so they are not in the dugout where all of us usually are laughing and cutting up. And one of them actually said to her DH---we could not see which "do not go in there and sit next to Kristi!" Kristi is the secretary's DD who is in high school, and would not be interested in these guys, they are her parents friends! These women whine non stop about everything! So at the next game---which is tonight! I intend to go over and have a close intimate little conversation with the husbands! Which should shake up the wenches!!! THEN I will tell them! I am not a drug addict! Nor am I am unhappy gossipy wife! Had to tell you, I was so pissed off!!!! My bruises from the IV's are very slowly going away----but even that part of healing is taking forever! Kat

Hello my Purple Pals! Just got off the phone with my band Dr. feel a bit better. I was getting concerned, one of my little incisions is pretty swollen and sore, and I am just not bouncing back from this like I expected....I mean I have had like my TT which was a big surgery recently, and was feeling pretty good within a few days, this has really kicked my butt! He said I went into the other surgeries healthy, and this one was an emergency to save my life, I was far from healthy for it, so it will take much longer. I wasn't looking for the dramatic answer, but it made sense, so I will quit stressing! I feel ok, but I am swelling so badly, and by the end of the day I am exhausted, and when I look back, I have done nothing! Loading the dishwasher is a job! He is sending me for a blood draw to rule out infection---and to see if there is something I need to suppliment while I heal. Laura hope you get some relief and insight into what is happening today at your appointment!! Giving up the cigarettes is HARD, many of us know!! I quit when I found out Manda was on the way, and stayed quit til I began contemplating divorce and stupidly started again! Quit again years later when I became pregnant again.....and started again when life went to hell! Eventually quit for good on April 1st, 1991!! It was the best thing I did! But it was MUCH MUCH easier to quit when there was a baby for a reason! You can do it! And don't be like me and start again! What a dummy I can be! Denise, the boys are adorable, Dimitri looks like a little angel sleeping like that....one of those pics that just makes you go Awwwww. Judy, we didn't do a lot in the yard this year, knowing the shop was going in. Next spring the concrete gets done, and then I have to come up with some sort of landscaping plan for it, and figure out a way for it and my desire for a nice back yard to mesh!! Yours made me want to get started.....wrong season!! Actually I might make some preliminary plans and drop some bulbs in the ground.....hmmmmm Terry---glad you are feeling ready for a new start. The last several months to a year have really been hard for you---you knew what was coming, and there is just no way to be fully prepared. And add to it the stress you had going on with your sister, and it is a wonder you did not go back to old eat to cover it up times!! I am all for a new start!!! I am sitting here shelling peanuts and eating them for breakfast.....I might not be off to the best start!!! LOL Haydee--I cannot believe you are having to make up time! What a "nice" guy! It is horrible to say, but I hope he is one with damage! Cracks me up you forgetting you have power! TracyK--feel better! The new and improved TracyK diet plan...POP (Poop off Pounds)!!!! Hope it works for you then that you feel much better!!! Hugs! Michelle---not sure I would do well with a month being scale free---I would always think I had time to make up for my cheats!! Good Luck!! TracyKS--Will Charles maybe go to your appointment with you? Rick got lots of info and thought to ask different questions than I did. Maybe he would feel a part of it, rather than it being something else you do without him....just a thought! Pamela--glad Dad sounded better. Is he taking any treatment? That will give him good and bad days.....I forget if you said he was or wasn't. At least you don't have Manuel to deal with along with this! Heck I'd have to send you a family size of M&M's to crunch!!! LOL Jane--I didn't have any hurricane damage, but NM is kinda on the way to TX and I could use some cleaning--------and REALLY use some lotto winnings!!! There is actually a 200+ million dollar winner from NM somewhere that has yet to claim the prize. It is not me. Gotta play to win, and I didn't! Suzanne---you already at work?? Are they even looking to hire the position you keep having to cover? Jenn---are you stuck behind new cabinets and cannot get out? Or did you find a date for the wedding, and are not letting him out of the bedroom???? You know which one I am hoping it is!!! Come back girlie! Gina--I was going to pick up a doghouse with a friend yesterday and the people who make them raise german shepherds, and she had a litter that was about 3 weeks old, omg they were so cute!!! Made me think of you and your dog!!! Cute but HIGH dollar!!! Well I hope I did not miss anyone, and that I can get this posted without the internet demons making off with it!!! Kat

I HATE people who trash talk---and don't have the balls to say things to my face! I recently went through some pretty serious surgery---and had been going in for IV fluids for a week, and because of that and the dehydration that sent me there, my arms were a mass of black bruises from blown IV lines. Rick's secretary just told me she had to line out a couple of the women who's husbands play softball on the company team with us. I being unable to play was sitting in the stands, and took off my light jacket, and they made comments later at the late game (I was give out and went home) that they saw tracks on my arms--------and that was what they suspected, they knew I couldn't have lost that much weight otherwise! I have never hid my being banded, and have spoke to several who work there about it. But these were the snobby ones who would never acknowledge me even existing when I was at my biggest, and they hate their husbands laughing and having a good time with any of us on the team, when they are not in the field these women stand behind the dugout and are quite insistant their DH's stay with them. They whine non stop. But yep now I am a druggie!! AAarrggghhh!!! I personally cannot wait til the next game---could be tonight, but I am thinking tomorrow night. Gonna have me a little talk with their DH's! Because that will bug the crap out of them!!! THEN I will talk to them! Kat

Awwww Jane we needed a glass half full reminder!!! Thanks!! Pamela, give yourself time to process things, and you will be better able to enjoy the time you have left with your Dad. Be very thankful, that you have the means to go to him when he needs you. Many don't have the option. I love you and I will be praying with you as the days go by. I am off to watch my shows.....bbl Kat

Just checking in.....still healing here!!! Sore as heck and still swollen, but feeling great! Got my kitchen cleaned, the newspaper read, dinner in the crockpot, clothes on, looked in and ooohed and aahhhed over the new additions to Rick's shop......now think it is time to veg and do nothing!!!! Will check in with y'all afterwhile!! Kat