TracyinKS

Quickly looking at air fares I will most likely be flying in on Thursday, so I can make sure I get all day Friday. I am not liking all that I can eat since this unfill! SCAREY! and to boot I REALLY REALLY want some of Michelles Icecream cake!

I will not want to leave either!!!!! I will have to find lodging for Robby during my time away, but I will work it out. Oh and Michelle is right.............. Laura, babies don't poop, they leave 'suprises' for new mommies to find, and they come in a glorious array of colors and fragrances..... and their skills... oh they have skills... :smile2:

plus you will be ready for some down time where you DON'T have to be the one to always get up!!!!!! Oh and terry let me know how much... because I AM IN.. final decision. I don't care who I piss off.

Laura you are staying there.... if the baby cries she/he will have all us aunties to soothe her. NOT A PROBLEM!!!!!!!!!!! You do not need to drive back and forth! Pack and Play's ARE YOUR FRIEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It will be fine!!! I promise!!! (so sayeth the mom who has stood in a bath tub holding a sick puking child) you will become one with the puke and poop! (don't make me post that pic again!!!) Koochie Koo little Violet! :smile2: Oreos and Cheesecake.. BRING IT ON! Kat: WHOOOOHHOOOOOOOOOO 169!!!!!!!!!!

Woot woot!!!!!

JUDY: I swear..................YOU CRACK ME UP!!!!!!!!!!!!! now I'm picturing you pickling yourself!!!!!! LOL Sweet innocent Judy! OHHHHHHHHHHHH and I do have some news..... My mom's boob update......... not cancer, not an infection, and last night her doc called and said it looked like Rhuematoid Arthritus! (Mom had it when she was 31 years old and it has been in remission for 30 years) She gets a blood test confirming it today..... amazing. I asked her if she would have to dip her boob in a crock pot of hot wax? (as a kid I remember we had a brown crock pot of wax and mineral oil that she had to dip her hands in) She's like TRACY! Leave it to YOU to come up with THAT! LOL

that would be so cool!

I am still cracking up with that pic!!!!!! Oh now my tummy hurts from laughing like an idiot in my office!!!!!!

i crack myself up!!!!!!

Koochie Koo little v!!!!

HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT (sorry Judy!!!!) I just got the text message and replied to whomever sent it!!! WHOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! Did I say HOLY SHIT!!!!! you just made my whole week!!!!!!! no matter what you name her SHE IS going to be OUR Little VIOLET!!!!!!!! I have goosebumps on my arm for you Laura.. seriously whomever sent the txt just made my whole week better...... OK.... BABY WELCOMING PARTY wherever the hell you guys want.. I AM IN!!!!!! and I don't give a flying YOU KNOW WHAT if dh doesn't like it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OHHHHYAAAAAAAA!!!!!! OK..... get your ass to your doc TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and take it easy for your first trimester.........DIRECT VIOLET ORDER!!!!!! I'm so excited........... Baby Violet or Baby Vinnie....... whoohoooo

Hello all!!!! I've had a heck of a day.......... Started with a mild blow up this morning, and followed by a crappy meeting at work, only to be dreading being home tonight for a most likely continuation of this morning.......... blech.. thanks Kat!

Just give me the notice and I will make it happen!!!! Surely we can get Suzie to meet up with us too!

Afternoon v's! I am HUNGRY!!!!!!!! it's taking all my willpower not to run through the dairy queen drive through on the way home!!!! I really need to some soul searching....... I can not believe I'm even contemplating ending this NEW marriage!!! disgusts me. True, we've been married a year, and together for 3.5 years...... hmmmmmm OK.. ENOUGH Terry: Are you ok? I'm sorry to hear about the meltdown. Jenn: As always I'm worried about you. Michelle: GO PTA mom!!!!!!! I could really use some of your famous baking right now... (BAD BAD BAD ) TracyK: Meet me at DQ??? (BAD BAD BAD) Haydee: I'm so glad things are working out for you and I'm really excited to hear your progress with MJ Kat: as always girlfriend I really take heart your advice Janie and Suzie: I will for sure try to meet up with you two next time. Pam: Happy Back to School! Laura: Where are you at today? How's Russell doing on the LC plan? Judy: Whooohooo on the heater for the pool! Pie Hole Report: Coffee w/creamer (not sf) 1 sbd protein bar 1 taco salad mix without lettuce or chips (meat, cheese, salsa, tomato) Water: ZERO

My unfill has really showed its ugly head....... I've eating like a pig and it hasn't come back up at all! Yesterday DH was feeding me peanut butter crackers, kept fixing them and I kept eating them.... grrrrrr.. I've got to start saying no.. cause the scale was back up to 181 today. (hell maybe he's trying to fatten me back up) but I am in control of my hair.. I mean mouth! freudian slip right there..... I'm calling my company EAP today and setting up an appointment.... he refuses counseling in any form and I know he is waiting for me to blow my cover and for us to have another fight. I have not said anything about his lack of shaving... and he has said NOTHING about my hair. Last night he had a wild and curly gray hair coming out of the side of his mouth and I laughed because the way the light hit it..... he asked what I was laughing about and I told him the wild and wooly grey hair.. he smoothed it back in and very petulantly said.. "I'm sure it is and there's A LOT MORE WHERE THAT CAME FROM!" I just agreed and said, "yes I'm sure there will be, especially coming out your nose and your ears" and then I just let it go..... this was bait for a fight, and I refused to take it. Ohhh ok I'm going to quit venting about the situation.. I know its depressing everyone......... sorry v's BUT ON A GOOD NOTE!!!!!! My mom told me that I looked smaller than my sister!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL! I guess I missed a lot, I didn't see that Jane and Suzie were meeting today. Pam and me pie eyed in the pool.......... hmmmm Tracy and me pie eyed in the pool.........hmmmmm Jenn and me pie eyed in the pool...... hmmmmmmm I see a pattern here! LOL I loved Gruene, I loved the river, I loved the porch and and the morning coffee.... at this point I will not be able to attend but the closer it gets the more I might be able to get there... but for the record a river front house with River access would be AWESOME! Charles just put down the edict today of no more trips for us until we get some of the bills caught up.. he is even talking selling his bike.. (which means I would probably sell mine too) I dont know I really don't think he will go that far.... But I love the Gruene area.. it was beautiful.

I generally stick to my monthly thread but thought I'd put this up for everyone. I will say that my band has been my best and worst friend over the last year and a half, but earlier this week I was able to wear my sister and my 17 year old neices JEANS! This is a major NSV... and it almost brought me to tears. My neice can't even fit into the jeans I wore, and so she GAVE them to me.......... they are 11/12 Aerostatle (sp?) My NOW pic was taken yesterday on my sons first day of Kindergarten... looking at the pic.. HE IS WHY I'M DOING THIS! To be the active, hip, and normal sized mom! The before pic was taken April 1, 2007 and I weighed in at 272 lbs, yesterday I was 177.....

Oh and office funny......... I turned my boss on to Facebook! ROFLMAO!!!! he is in there right now pounding away at his keyboard searching for "friends" he found his nephew and daughter on there and I had some pics of him on my puter so I posted them for him. He said... ahh Trace this could be dangerous for me! LOL

OHHHHHHHHH and I'm hungry! My unfill really has loosened me up...... Last night I actually ate (and kept down) grilled chicken!!!!!!

Terry I'll take one pleaz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GOOD MORNING! Haydee: WOW! How cool! I love MJ on the show, but the part they show is her being more mushy and not so straightforward. I think she said all those things for the shock value, much like the shocking taste of Vinegar... GOOD sugestion.. I may well try it too! FUNNY that Laura our picky eater LIKES vinegar.. ROFLAO! I am considering going into a degree completion program.... scares me to death, but I know that I need it, so that more doors will be open to me. I am not really good at the online stuff because I get more stimulation from class interaction but one of those ONE DAY, ONE NIGHT, Saturday Alright, might be the ticket.. a blended approach.... I LOVE and I mean LOVE my hair! Gotta go for now... KISSES to EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Funny I just saw this! Yeppers... we all started out at the people who were to be banded April of 2007... some came in to offer support and others were from various months but we all ended up sticking around and posting daily. My siggy pic is when we all cut the cyber cord and jumped on a plane to meet in person... last May.

and Tracy.. NO I did not cry...... he was such a big boy, he even asked me why others WERE crying and then when he started clinging to me because I think he THOUGHT he was supposed to cry.. I hugged him and told him how VERY PROUD I was of him and that he would have so much fun meeting all kinds of new friends and that it would be SOOO cool because he would LEARN SOMETHING NEW EVERY SINGLE DAY! and then he could come home and tell me what he learned. He liked this a lot.

Michelle.. that sounds really good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL I am of no help! I thought of you last night at the back to school night.. the PTA was dishing up icecream, and they had an open call for parents to join the "Friends of Brewer" group.. aka PTA! I "might" go to a meeting or two. :tongue_smilie: I was back down to 177 today.. WHEW! after seeing 186 after vacation I was watching over my shoulder for TracyK to be there to kick my ass!!!

thanks Laura and Judy! I did the curls today because that is my hair naturally and I TRIED to get it straight, but I don't have all the gunk she put in it or a flat iron.. so I guess I need to get those things and practice. Judy: what is that you always say??? "Patience, Trust, WWJD?" Also, I wanted to give out a big heartfelt THANK YOU to all my violets who sent personal emails to me this week... including JENN. All marriages have struggles and I think that 2nd marriages are much harder than 1st's due to the baggage factor, the blending factor, and the older and wiser and not putting up with crap factor.... Neither of us wants a divorce so we will work on it, but I am well beyond being manipulated and belittled.. I have done it on my own before and I know that I can do it again. I don't want to because I do love him and the boys even if they are in dire need of training. Get this he even accused me of cheating on him with a band person????? Did he read my Haydee the hottie comment?? LOL anyway.. again.. than you ALL for supporting me.. this whole group has grown from a group of April 07'rs (and others) to friends.. I'm in awe.