Shrinking Violets Part 4

[janiebug 0]

still waiting....................

[kity 2]

Back from unfill! gotta run...bbl

[TracyK 3]

still waiting....................

Are you still waiting?

[Teachlady 3]

Good evening, Violets.

It feels sooooooooooo good to be home finally!! We picked up the grandkids and brought them here today. Kris and Nathan took them to their house for the evening. They'll be back here for the day tomorrow and then a cook out in the evening. My pool is a mess. The furnace was leaking Water and the water level in the pool is way down. The heat exchanger was supposed to have been fixed, but it isn't and the pump hasn't been on in a week. Bob is going to the pool place first thing in the morning. If they kids don't get to use the pool the next few days, I'm going to be really upset.

Tomorrow I'm taking "before" pics and will update them each month. I did that when I first got the band, but stopped after a year.

I read an article about Chaz Bono and it said she was going to have the lap band surgery. The article said that it was very risky surgery and that 88% of people had complications. WHAT??? Course that was a doctor the Nation Enquirer interviewed.

Jane.. hope you got your Cpap part.

Fred Travelena died?? I didn't know that... just heard about Karl Malden. Gale Storm is the lady from the 50's that died. So we have had 7 die in the last couple of weeks. YIKES!!

I'm going to get some laundry in and get ready for bed. It was a long day today.

Everyone sleep well! PamELA.. we'll miss you and can't wait for you to get back safe and sound and tell us all about your trip!!

[kity 2]

OK back again. The doctor said he never thought about flying and fills, but said it made sense...and then thought about another patient who traveled abroad alot...and who also has trouble when flying. He said the air pressure could effect the band. He thought it could be a great article in the Lapband World. Also, we talked about when I flew to Reno or Phoenix, I did not notice it. But flying longer distances did. Anywho...that is the story.

I already made an appointment for the 16th to get my fill back. And...the best part...I had lost 5 pounds since May 7th, when I had the fill! Pretty good for all the margies. I blame the workouts though.

Ok ladies...I LOVE YOU ALL AND WILL MISS YOU TERRIBLY.

Tracy, if you could send me emails blurbs about Big Brother. Just short blurbs about who we love, who we hate...etc. I hate that I am missing the first episodes.

Laura, tell Carson not to grow too much...I like his little body as is.

Everyone good luck on your -5 challenge.

I'll post the minute I walk in!

LOVELOVELOVE YOU VIOLETS!

xoxo

[TracyK 3]

Bye Pamela! I will send you e-mails about BB. Have a GREAT time and Happy B-Day!!

[Haydee 2]

bye pammy! we will miss you! Have so much fun and don't get too hot!

The pain I was having is almost gone now. Just a little sore when I breathe deep. But the restriction is still there. I'm super tight and only able to get down liquids. Last night I made a roast with gravy for Juan and when I tried a bite to taste it I was in so much pain. I know this isn't the way the band is supposed to work but I'm oh so happy with the restriction. I'm so happy that my band is not letting me eat, LOL. I'm gonna just have to make sure I'm getting my Protein in like when I first started. I'll have to buy those Protein Shots or something...

We're going venue shopping tomorrow! I've got three appointments at three different venues so that we can take a look at them. I'm in love love love with the one I had booked the first time around but it's so so expensive that I can't see myself spending that much money. I always swore I wouldn't be "one of those" brides that blows through everything for a party. But I'm really really liking it. :tongue2:

[Jennifur 0]

Pamela

have a fantastic time and birthday !

Morning gals

raining again today, i just mowed on Sunday and has to be done again already, i don't know how the pool is up to 82 with all this rain. Painted the bathroom around the tub yesterday so i can start tiling today. I'm going to finish painting on Monday, but the tiles are the most time consuming thing at this point. I got tanish tiles with a mossy green paint. My friend has a very bad back and has been painting and pushed herself, so i told her i would come help this afternoon, i won't be able to do much here until the tiles are set, so why not.

I went to my dr yesterday, my bp is high for me. 125/80 so she increased my Water pill, which i told her I could tell was not working, so we will see. I was kind of put off when I said that the lexapro just made me sleep and gain weight... she said it will make you gain weight... I thought WTF???? right... she knows what i've been through the last 2 years, why would you give me something to make me gain weight? So, now i'm on welburtun (SP), which i have to take in the morning and has been known to help people lose weight as a bonus... not guaranteed but will not gain from it, so that is all that matters.

Haydee - ok, where is it that I would fly into next May for your wedding? I'm going to plan a vacation around that and pump myself up. I did love TX so very much. I have to mentally prepare myself for a year and i'll be good to go!

I'm going to try to get onto Facebook and look at pics... Laura did you do a photobucket link?

[janiebug 0]

UPS finally came a little after six, and of course it was the WRONG PART!!!!!!!!!

[janiebug 0]

I don't know why that just posted?

PAMELA HAVE A GREAT TIME!!!!!!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY You will be gone when the actual one is.

Okay off to work, two days and then off for three. I hope all my clients are happy and nobody made them mad. Don't want to deal with upset people today!!

[Haydee 2]

Jenn - I'm in Houston! We are actually in a little suburb just north of Houston called The Woodlands, TX. But you fly into Houston... But the wedding and the church and everything is in the woodlands.

Jane - Ugh, I can't believe after all that waiting that it was the wrong friggin part. I would have been livid! I'm not patient at all all...

What's everyone up to this holiday weekend? I've got some appointments scheduled but other than that I'm gonna try to catch up on my housework and laundry, chill by the pool and we will BBQ and go see fireworks on saturday. We originally had requested hot dogs and hamburgers from my dad for Saturday but then he vetoed us and he is grilling fajitas and all the fixings... YUM, that'll work for me, LOL!

[Kat817 19]

Hey girls, been a crappy couple of days---mainly yesterday. Hoping today will be an improvement. I almost walked out on my job yesterday.

A man come in, told the office manager and I he was a new patient, and needed to be seen for an eye injury---which for malpractice reasons, even if you have 200 appointments has to be seen right then. So I built him a file, made a copy of his employee ID and approved his insurance, passed him on. Went in to assist with his appointment (which was part of MY job, where the other was not)and when we got in the exam room, he tells the Dr. he had seen him before. So I go look, and sure enough from 05 he was a patient. So I combined the files, went in, and we dealt with his eye. 3 hours later, after the office manager had looked over the combining of the files, and the billing clerk (NEW) had had the file, she comes to me and chews my ass for not getting the employee ID. I DID! She give me the silent treatment, acting like I was an idiot, and bitching non stop over how they cannot bill without the ID#. When I was filing another file, I found it between other files. Files that were there for billing, having not been anything I had dealt with, it happen on THEIR desk--------nothing was said. I almost walked. The ONLY thing that made me stay was word from Rick at noon that they are now talking about sending him to Wyoming.......so I spent the night back and forth between upset and pissed.

Not great company, even here!

Pamela, sorry I missed your send off, hope you are on your way to a wonderful vacation. Hugs!!!

Will do my best to catch up with y'all tonight. My brother come in in the middle of my rant, and now I am out of time........just another grrrrrrr to my grrrrrrr day!!! LOL

Hugs

[mdrai 3]

Took dd for her 6-mo teeth cleaning & they ended up extracting 2 of her baby teeth that weren't moving out for her permanent teeth that are trying to come in, so the left side of her mouth was a big mess, inflamed, infected, swollen... blech! Not the way we thought that the morning would go!! Poor baby.

But... yesterday I took her to get a permanent pink stripe in her hair, so it all balances out, I guess! She looks so cute & trendy. I'm such a cool mom (if I do say so myself!). I think she's liking this "only child" situation.

But... we go pick up DS from camp this afternoon. Then he'll go to jazz band camp from Sunday - next Friday, so DD will be an "only" again!

Make it a good day!

[Jennifur 0]

Thanks Haydee

I'll work on that and figure out how I can make it and play the mind game now so i'll be in a better place next may.... plus i have a credit to fly ... lol

after fighting with my faucet all morning, i'm finally going to tile the seat in the bathroom... ugh... waste of a morning screwing around with all that

Michelle... how come you are not in a lot of the pics? were you the photographer.

Looks like you all had a good time.....

[TracyK 3]

I wonder where Heather and TERRY are....