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I'm going to get my band at the end of the summer, because I'll be in TX during the summer for grad school. I've done everything else, except the counseling for emotional eating, which I start next week. My doctor seems to have a really strict protocol.

Anyway, I'm a 38-yr old married Southern girl with 3 kids. My oldest girl is 4 yrs, and I have twin six month old babies - a boy and a girl. My primary occupation is grad student, and I teach part-time at the local university.

I live in Raleigh, August - May, and in Austin, TX, in June and July.

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good luck longhorn!!!!!!

Wow! you're going for counseling for emotional eating!! great! Do tell us how you are getting along, it would be nice to get that kind of help!

take care!

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Hey Longhorn! Glad to see you made it here! Wow, you must be smart!! lol What a busy life! Will you go alone to Austin? Or will you take the family? What are you studying in grad school? I saw that you are going to the Durham get-together...that's cool, I wish I could make it. I hope you have a good time. welcome to LBT!

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Hey there Kathy from Charlotte,

I'm a social worker. I lived in Charlotte from '90-'94, but I'm from Raleigh, so I came back when I got married. I lived in the cutest condo called Selwyn Village, near Park Road Shopping Center. Do you know it?

Susie

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Hey Susie, I know the Park Road/Selwyn/Queens area fairly well. I can drive all over through there and get to where I need to go, but don't ask for directions! I couldn't tell you for a nickle. It's grown up alot in there, so I'm not familiar with Selwyn Village but that's a really NICE area, lots of old trees, shady, something new in the middle of the "Matthews" of the 1940's. Park Road Shopping Center has been around longer than me, that's for sure! I moved to the Charlotte area in 1975, I was 10. Grew up in SE Charlotte.

I used to be in Social Work, in a sense. I don't have an MSW, or even an SW! (mine's a BS) but I worked for a private non-profit that contracted group home sevices with Meck County. I was a Program Mgr. Did you work for the County?

Sorry for the walk down memory lane everyone! lol

Hey, Vinesqueen is a full time student, too. She has a full scholarship (woohooo) so she's purdy smart. (And she took out her birthday but I'm pretty sure she's 41) so she's got you beat in the oldest student in the class syndrome. hehe!

And I'm with pink, we'd all love some perspective on counseling for emotional eating. Let us know how that goes! Very interesting!

You'll be a nice addition to LBT!

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Hi Kathy,

I worked for the county for part of the time, at the health dept on Beatties Ford Rd. I did case mgmt with HIV+ homeless people. I loved it there. My husband and I would have liked to stay in Charlotte, but he had a great job in Raleigh, so it was just a matter of economics.

Hey Vinesqueen, what are you studying?

Susie

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Hi Longhorn! Welcome to LBT!

Hope you come and visit often.

Good luck on getting the band... its an exciting journey! :)

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