June 2007 Bandsters

[Suzzzie. 3]

great to hear from you Janine! Play with that granddaughter!! She'll grow all tooo quickly and you'll wonder where the years went!

As for me... I just got back from 'Christmas' at my dads. All was well. Got to play with my newest lil nephews! One lil brother and his wife have a 1 1/2 year old and a 4 month old, and my lil sis has a 3 month old. Oh, it was such a joy for this Auntie!! I tried to steal them home with me, but the mommas caught me by the door. Lol.

My older brother, his wife and their 3 kids were all at home with the flu. I'll still get to see them next Sunday at my moms, so it'll be OK... They get to open their gifts then. They are the ones that are getting so grown up now. Oldest neice is 11 1/2, nephew is 9 1/2, and the 'baby' girl is 8 now. So yeah...

Well, I work in the morning, so goodnight all!!

Merry Christmas!

[o2bthin 0]

Thanks for the compliments on the quilts. I don't make all of them, I just do the quilting on them for customers. I haven't updated the webshots in ages....too busy.

Java, nice to see you checking in.

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas!

[Suzzzie. 3]

[TexasFire 84]

[insubordination 0]

My mum gave me 8 (!) bars of chocolate for Christmas along with fruit pies and bags of nuts.

My brother (half) joked that she was a gastric banders worst nightmare.

[Suzzzie. 3]

OMG, Insub... why would she do that?? Does she know you're banded?? Seriously. Thats rude.

[insubordination 0]

Hahahaha

She knows I'm banded. Drove me to the hospital.

She's just like that. If I'm not on a diet, she'd never give me a choc but if I'm on one, she bombards me. Sick but she can't help it.

I guess my challenge is not that she gave them to me but what I'm going to do with them. I haven't thrown them out yet.

[wombat712 2]

O2B - do you do that by hand or with a long-arm machine? I love quilting by hand but I now have Rheumatoid Arthritis so it does get difficult. I can't work for as long of a period as I used to. I also LOVE doing applique Yours are beautiful!

Insub - How much chocolate? !?! Yikes It sounds like your mom and my grandma are related. You mention that you are dieting and she makes EVERYTHING under the sun that you love and tries to feed it to you - and THEN gets cranky when you won't eat it!!!!! Oh well - it's her way of showing love. I just tell her now that I can't or I'll throw up and she leaves me alone:heh::heh: :heh::heh:

[Suzzzie. 3]

Lol. well Wombat and Insub - at least niw we know why we're fat! Or families are FEEDERS!! ACK!

[Suzzzie. 3]

ko all - only 11 days late - I posted my pics on the Junies 6 month pic thread!!

[wombat712 2]

Suzzzie you are looking great!!! I can totally see a difference and 20# is awesome!!

[bigbaby 4]

suzzie--you look great!!

[captain danbo 0]

I spent xmas on the boat this year once again. I think this is number 8 in a row, but anyway. The cook on here baked so much stuff and I think I ate just about 2or3 of everything he made. I am having a hard time keeping my weight down because of my line of work. I am currently looking for another job but it's going to be hard because all I have done since high school has been on boats. Anyhow I guess that’s my problem but I also think it contributing to me eating too much. Eating too much because of stress from eating too much. That kind of sucks!

[o2bthin 0]

Wombat I do it by machine, with my longarm, and charge by the square inch. I have handquilted my own stuff, but if I did it for other people, I'd charge by the hour and nobody in their right mind would pay me what I'd charge. My own passion is applique though.

[insubordination 0]

CD it must be incredibly tough to have X-mas on a boat surrounded by great food. Sometimes weight loss means a life change too (I recently changed jobs and have booked a RTW trip for August). If you really are thinking of trying something new - do it! Didn't you say you had an 'off-season'? Try a new job then. There are plenty of things you can do.