Wow!!!!! Stayed up til midnight to watch the game and it was worth it. We fans have waited so long. Every year we say next year!!!! Derek Lowe lives in Fort Myers-course that's the Red Sox winter home also. They sure deserve it-they show such camraderie. And they are always thanking God for their hits. And Curt Schilling prays before he pitches. What a great team they have put together. I am supposed to go meet Auntie and cousin and baby for breakfast. Then we are going to a memorial service at 2. And a financial person is coming at 4. Hope everyone is good. Boy, can you play Meme!!! Going to go and lay on the couch. Mima

Well ... thanks to all of you for the compliments ... what in the world would you do if you could REALLY hear me play? That was just an electric piano I recorded for the internet ... kind of tame. If you heard me turn loose on a REAL piano you'd go nuts!!! :lol:

UGH! Yeast infections ... Just thinking about it makes me itch. I hate those things!!! And worse still is the medicine you have to use!

Just how short IS your hair, Candice? I thought your hair is really long? Did you get it cut short? I can't imagine you with short hair!!!

The swelling is going down in my foot - FINALLY! At least I'm walking a little better. Now I have this seasonal drainage junk in my throat. The doc called me in a Z pack yesterday. I'm thinking about calling Nashville and seeing if I can get a Prednisone dose pack for next week. We're supposed to go to Pigeon Forge either next weekend or the next one with friends. I want to feel good for that and frankly, right now, I don't think I could make it. Back to Dixie Stampede (for the fourth time). Our 4 friends haven't been and they want to see the Christmas pageant. We've already seen it twice but dinner is included and it is really neat ... so, I guess We'll go again! Also, the Christmas lights are supposed to be up at Dollywood and I haven't seen those yet.

It's thundering ... supposed to rain the rest of the week! The hay ride was cancelled last Sat. - postponed to this Sat. but predicting rain again. We're supposed to take ALL FOUR of the rugrats ... Rain might not be a bad thing! :p

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Cute!!!!!!!! The Red Sox are all we hear about-nice to take a break from the election. We went to a Memorial service yesterday for someone whose son committed suicide, Very sad-and then we had a meeting with a senior financial advisor- good info. Then we went to Friendly's. Yummy. I never made it to Worcester in teh am. was too tired to drive. Anxiety definitely takes over when I am tired, that's good for me to recognize. Had a good night's sleep last night. Grocery shopping today. Hi to all. Mima

I am so tired of the election stuff too. We had 3 phone calls yesterday about the different candidates. That was just while we were home! Who knows how many other calls came during the day or night!!

Mima, I agree about the anxiety. I try to get as much rest as I can, but sometimes other things just have to be done.

I slept in this morning, and it felt great!

Meme..hair is just barely touching my shoulders, hasn't been that short in years!

Did some yard work in the wind and rain the other day and boy did I hurt!

Good morning and Happy halloween. Tammy-did your second graders celebrate? It's exhausting. Went to Brad's 45th reunion last night. The food was awful but they had a wonderful dj and it was fun. Course Brad was the only one I knew. He had fun. I may be blind but we looked younger than most of them. Evan is going to be a Pumpkin today. Hope I get a picture. Mima

Mima, at our school we have a Harvest Party instead of Halloween. We had so many not participating because of religious reasons, that we decided to change it. They had a lot of fun.

LOL about only knowing Brad at the reunion. I lucked out at Bob's reunion a few years back. One of my cousins graduated with him, so I knew her and her husband.
I also know we looked younger than the others. Could be because I'm 8 years younger than he is! I'm sure Evan was adorable as a pumpkin. Tim dressed as an Arby's worker. Of course, he was on his way to work at Arby's. lol

The weekend has been a bit warmer, so I've been in alot less pain. I'm still so tired though. Hope everyone is doing well.

Good morning-leftover lollipops going to the place where I tutor-had 2 of them yesterday-tootsie pops-going to start on our transition to leave for 4 months-cancellations etc. I'm not in a lot of pain but IBS not good-think it's from osteoporosis med I take every season. Need to get something different, haven't seen Evan or Alison's picture yet. Bye for now Mima

I'll be glad when the election is over, too. But I'm afraid we may have to listen to "It wasn't fair," again this time!!! It's going to be tooooo close!

I thought I was done losing weight. I have stayed the same for a month now. But ... I lost another 1/2 pound last weekend - and I thought I ate quite a bit, too. I wasn't really hungry Saturday, but I made up for it yesterday. (Fried chicken and pie)

A lot of people don't like to celebrate Halloween ... I always let my kids go trick or treating - I always felt like there is sense and nonsense in all things. Our church had a hay ride this year. I was going to stay around the bonfire with the old and infirm ... ;) But ... I was standing by the wagon (huge wagon full of hay) after my daughter had gotten my four grandchildren aboard and climbed on herself, and hubby came along, picked me up and plopped me right up there. Everybody laughed and said, well, guess you're going, too. (The advantage of having a hubby 6' 4") It was fun. It was a perfect night. Full moon and very warm. The farm was humongous ... there was even a cemetery. They took the wagon by that and some of the 'good' church people had on masks and jumped out to scare the kids. But the kids just laughed at them! :lol: (We probably had over 40 altogether) I'm telling you what ... first pair of jeans I've had on in YEARS!!! I bought them at Wal Mart on Friday. Size 14 Lees - and they're a little big in the waist. Felt sooooo good to be able to wear jeans to something like that! I don't know what's causing me to lose ... but I'm happy!!! :D All my life I've had to FIGHT to lose weight ... this has never happened to me before ... just eat when I'm hungry and stop when I'm full and don't worry about it between. So simple. Last night we went out after church ... what I WANTED was strawberry pie and french fries ... so that's what I got. Instead of getting a meal and eating that and then getting pie, I cut to the chase and got dessert and fries and just had what I was craving. I was full ... and happy. And I eliminated a lot of calories, too!

Candice, I'd like to see you with shorter hair. Make a picture and post it!

We're going to Pigeon Forge Friday-Sunday with 4 friends. Have a cabin with 3 bedrooms rented. Should be fun. Don't know if I can stand it with them for that long. They're all as crazy as I am. :p

I have leftover candy that I'll be taking with me this weekend when I'm on a team for an Emmaus Walk. It's a church retreat type thing. We go to a church on Thursday night and don't leave until Sunday. Thought the candy would come in handy.

Meme, good for you on losing! I've been at a standstill since school started. Very frustrating!

You will have a great time with your friends! Behave yourself!!!

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Like everybody else,I too when the people bashing is over and done... I hope the margins are so wide there will be no doubt who the winner is..
Have a great time Meme..
I still have candy here. I tied it up in two bags.My daughter says bring it up at Thanksgiving so she can give it to her students. I hope it gets there..
Not much to say Bye and hello all...Joanne

I hurt so bad but walked onthe treadmill anyway....cold and rainy here as well.

Meme..I thought you started losing weight when you began a new med awhile back?????????????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????? Won't have a pic of me for awhile, the site I use is going through a change and I do not yet have a digital camera :( I can't decide what is the easy one to use and my computer is the pits so hate to store a bunch of pics on here on here) What kind of computer did you get this time? :?:

Hope I can get out to vote tomorrow....I hate all the controversey too..do not people putting down others at all :eek:

Candice-I got a Dell for $500 and I really like it. We may buy another one if we buy a mobile home in FL-which we most likely are. Son is going to go look at one today that I saw in the paper but I'm sure we should wait. Mobile home that is. My stomache has been painful-had to stop taking my osteoporosis med. I think I will go to the nasal spray-anyone use that. I don't get anything done lately-just little things. I guess I need a push. 4 weeks to go. I will be glad when this is over but Brad says it will take a month-it's so close. Mima

Candice ... not really. I did start taking Topamax but that was a year and a half ago. I lost 8 pounds from about March to May of 2003 then gained 2 of those back in the summer and stayed about the same until last Feb. My doc gave me some Amoxicillin for my sinuses - with something else in it ... some Calvulanate Potassium (or something like that). It made me really sick and I lost 8 pounds in 3 days ... threw up and all that. I thought I caught a virus that Ross had. Then I got over it and 2 weeks later started taking the medicine again and started that all over and lost another 5 pounds. I think that changed my metabolism somehow. I don't know how but I think that's what started me losing weight. I started losing about a pound a week for a long time ... lost 35 1/2 pounds in all. I'm not losing as much now, though. Only about a pound a month.

I got a Dell, too. I got a 17" monitor, a CD writer and DVD burner and a bunch of other goodies that I don't know anything about! :p A friend got mine off the net for me ... it was $750 for everything but I had the monitor + shipping. My son said I got a really good deal. I'm not crazy about Windows XP!

I've got a Kodak DX3500 digital camara ... it's a couple of years old and I'm sure there are newer models but I love my camara. It's easy to use. Just stick it in the port and turn it on and it loads the pictures on your computer. You can size them, brighten, take out red eye, etc. Send them to Wal Mart and have them developed and sent to your home or go to the store and pick them up, either way. 21 cents for a 4X6 and no film to buy. It holds 50 pictures of excellent quality on one picture card. I have a cord for my notebook computer so when we go on vacation I can just download the card to the notebook and it's empty for the next day. No rolls of film to keep up with and worry about taking to develop. Just delete the ones I don't want and send the rest to Wal Mart when I get home. That would make a good Christmas present ...