Hi there. Oh meme-you look so good!!Great time yesterday but I am so sore from all the physical stuff I've been doing. Going to soak in the tub. My daughter is coming over this afternoon to visit. She gets lonesome with no boyfriend. I'm sorry you couldn't go to your gd's school. Anagram but ther will be another time I'm sure. Hope hubby is ok. This is going to seem a bit rough but children need to learn how to handle disappointment-not that we want to cause it intentionally-I'm using the voice of 34 years experience teaching-My students will always remember me for respondind to their "it isn't fair" with life isn't fair. It felt mean but as soon as I learned it for myself, got much happier. Why am I going on about this? Anyways, hope hubby is better. It's really yucky out today-wish I was at the beach with Meme. Hello and goodbye everyone. Mima

Anagram...sorry you are having such a bad time right now but..."this, too, shall pass". That has been one of my favorite quotes for years! My prayers are with you and your family!

Mima...I wish you were here, too. I wish you all could have been here...we would have had a blast. Don't know how hubby would've handled it, though!

Here's a 'picture page'.

http://www.design-max.net/GulfShores.html

My last day...headed for the beach and a walk.

Well, I think today I've done one of the wildest things I've done in years. Woke up at 5:15 and got dressed, drank a Slimfast and headed out for daughters to go to Grandparents. It was still dark, it was raining, I have cataracts. Traffic going into D.C. is terrible in her area. When I called her I was halfway there and she told me to turn around and go back home. Actually, she said "are you crazy" and that she had tried to call me back last night and tell me gdg was ok with it. so I drove 2 1/2 hours or so going down and almost two coming home almost all in rain, some light, some heavy. But I got to Grandparents Day. I told them not to count on it happening again. And then there was another shooting this a.m. but about an hour and a half south of them but dd got worried about them throwing up roadblocks and was figuring out other ways to get me home, etc. Had long talk with dgd about things happening sometimes even when you say you'll do something you can't always when the time comes. She was ok with my not staying long etc. Of course, the look on her face when she saw me was worth the effort. But after the week I've had, I still think I'm crazy.

A quick message saying I have a message here, but when I get here I cannot find it. It also takes my computer a long time to get here after I click whatever is given in my e-mail. Will be busy next weeks going to Heart Specialist Monday where I am to have some kind of nuclear tread mill test without a treadmill (I think they use an IV) and also having another Cat Scan on Wednesday.

More fun!!!!

Freddie

Great pics Meme.............how peaceful the beach and ocean look

Thanks for the tip on the mail..I will have to go sign up for that but wheneour server is down, which it is alot I can't even get my internet connection

Yappy..if you can only have 2 cups of salad and 1 cup of veggies what the heck do ya eat! When I tired this I got really constipated! I eat tons of fruit and veggies ....too help this problem. Hope this clears up your yeast...do you eat yogurt?

Gotta headache and my vertigo is back...got some fall yard work done today though

Hi Candice:

Got here pretty quick this morning. Wrote to you in the Night Owl thread. Same old thing. I have 2 weeks to lose enough weight so that I can still be a KOPS - a fat KOPS - since I was given a high goal weight. I will have to cut down on meat this week because I always gain when I eat too much meat. I will have to cut down on things that contain salt because my feet swell even after I am good about salt. I have several containers of yogurt in fridge, lots of lettuce, tomatoes, celery, peppers, carrots, lemons, limes, as well as lactose-free milk (no-fat kind). My pantry is full of can goods but most things even though some say low-sodium has lots of sodium. Bottles are full of olives and dill pickles and I should stay away from them but once they are opened I am a goner. I purchased cans of strawberries but they are full of sugar but I mix it with my no-fat yogurt. I have some boat looking plastic dishes that came with my large size George Foreman Grill. I sometimes make a banana split in them without the chocolate sauce but with the yogurt and strawberries as a sauce. It really tastes good but it has 6 points. If I add nuts, it has more points. I should only eat 18 points a day. I will have to decide what to do with the huge meat loaf I made yesterday with whole eggs and oatmeal and canned tomatoes and catsup and cut up onions, green pepper, celery, and carrots. It tastes real good and I eat too much. No room in the freezer.

Freddie

I have done nutty things too Anagram-scary being so close to Washington-I hope they find those snipers soon!!!It must be awful to be afraid to go out of the house. It is pouring here-lousy weekend. I don't care-when you are retired holidays don't matter,every day is one. I'm going to finish cutting out the quilt. Meme-great pictures!!!Where are you exactly. Daughter came over-she slept for a long while, then we went to Walmart and then she went home in the wrong direction-one hour wasted!!!But it was nice to see her. She almost lives in Conn. and I almost live in NH. Be good everyone. Mima

Hi Mima:

I finally got here - after several tries. My niece who lives outside Washington phoned me to tell me she made goal at Weight Watchers this week. I told her she had to come down here until they catch that sniper. She said her daughter goes to kindergarten, which is required. I told her to home school her down here - not that it's so safe in this part of Virginia either. I don't think she feels her child will gain the sociability if she is home-schooled. In my neighborhood, I don't think there are any children that young. In her mother's neighborhood, the same is true.

Oh well, she is going to Busch Garden today since her membership for the year is just about over. They phoned Williamsburg yesterday and was told they were open. She went there and they had closed because of the rain. I think the weather is better today.

Love,
Freddie

Anagram....You are saint. But, I would have done the same thing. Can't disappoint a kid.
Meme......Wish I was sitting next to you on that beach....
Gotta clean my house.....having people over for football tomorrow.
Ate a huge Fish Fry last nite. Also had sugar this week. I will pay for all this by tomorrow nite....

Meme - What a beautiful place that is. Wish I was sitting on the beach with you. That would be great. Too bad it has to end!

Anagram - I just knew you were going to that. You are a wondeful grandma and maybe your grandaughter learned something as well. She must have been very surprised and oh so happy. That was a wonderful thing for you to do, but I hope not at a high cost to you. I hope your hubby is feeling better. What a worry.

Freddie - Hope the Dr. visit is a good one. I guess it is great they have all these tests for you - although a bit of a bother. The weight, well it could be meds, water - who knows! You'll get it off. You are probably having a bit of anxiety with the anticipation of next week.

Mima - Have a nice day.

Candice - On the Atkins diet, for the first 2 weeks, no sugar is allowed and only 25 carbs. The veggies take care of that! So, no to yougurt right now. After next Thursday, I can add 5 carbs a week until I start to gain. We will see how it goes. I have trouble eating all that meat!! However, it is a small price to pay to get rid of the yeast, and the fatigue. Even my pain levels have fallen, so that is a good thing - along with NEVER having to be hungry.

Ally - Hi. Have fun tomorrow.

Hi Serenity . I hope you are feeling better. Did the snow hit you as well. Heard on the weather station that it was supposed to get to Winnipeg. It is cold here today. Was -9 when I got up(about 14 above I guess).

Hi Joanne - Hope your trip was nice. It will be good to have you back with us.

This weekend is Thanksgiving in Canada, so I am having my family home. My son is coming today and my daughter and her family tomorrow. We will have Thanksgiving dinner on Monday.

Today, I have to go to a funeral. A very good friend of ours passed away from cancer. So not a real happy day here. Take care, and have a nice weekend.

Home again, home again, jig-a-dee-jig-jig!

It was a long drive and I'm soooo tired!

Anne...I'm starting Atkins on Monday. Going to go get some 'protein' and salad stuff tomorrow after church. Hope I get some energy out of it, too!!! Wouldn't that be a nice bonus to losing weight?

Mima (I think it was you who asked? I'm in a Fibro fog!) We were on Orange Beach at Gulf Shores, AL. It is a really beautiful place to stay. I could've stayed another week... We were packing up the car this morning and I looked over at the ocean and there were 4 dolphins playing up really close to the beach. I said...oh...I want to stay right here! But it is good to be home, too. I'd like it better if I had my dog back! I can't pick her up until Monday.

Anagram...glad you got to go to GPD with your granddaughter... there's nothing like them, is there. I went last month to the park for GPD with my youngest...she's 3. We had a ball. They never forget things like that! We're having all 4 of ours over to spend the night next Friday night...oh joy! I called my daughter when I got home and Ross (6) answered. He said, Meme...are you home now. When I said yes he said...Oh good, can we come spend the night tonight. I said Meme's way too tired for that!!!!!!!

Well...gotta go do some more unpacking and then get in the bed...got a killer of a headache and hubby made a huge mess in the kitchen cooking fish I've got to clean up! He tries, bless his heart!

Thanks All for your notes about my heart tests tomorrow. Friday my GP had his nurse call me and scheduled another cat scan for Wednesday. I suppose he finally got to reading the results of the last cat scan. I told her I had made an appointment with a heart specialist but she said to have the cat scan Wednesday anyway. I will ask the Heart Specialist tomorrow what he thinks.

Freddie

Good luck and prayers too, Freddie.

I knew the Grammies would understand. I was SOOO tired yesterday. But when I saw another little one crying because she had no grandparent there, I really was glad I had made the effort. Her Mom was volunteering but wasn't in the room right at that moment and the tears were just welling out of her eyes. I asked if I could help her but my gdg said "it's because she has no one here, Mimi". Some of the grandparents went in and out but I just stayed (they may have had more than one at the school).

Ross probably had the longest week of his life with you away. Anna calls (long distance) now without parental knowledge and left a long sad message last week about being "all alone" since her Daddy was away and her mom was putting the baby to bed. She was wondering if we were home yet because she thought she'd talk to me since she was so lonely. Now she's concerned about her Deda and offered to come up to see us this weekend. Bet Mom/Dad would love that as he just got home Friday night after being away for eight days. I hope they will come up next weekend if this sniper isn't caught. I think they need to get away from that for a while.

Hope y'all have a nice relaxing Sunday!