Meme, I don't think you are silly at all about not wanting all of those strangers in your home. I wouldn't either. The music at your church sounds nice, and I'm sure those kids stole the show!! I agree about needing to see your kids and their Christmas play. I believe that you are the busiest person that I know!! LOL to you being wired. I wish I was this morning so I'd be ready to go to school. It's 14 degrees here, and I'd rather just crawl back in bed.

Hi guys-I was here yesterday but I lost my post and I am on dial-up so everything is so slow, I gave up.I installed my macafee and that went gret and I uninstalled Google Earth so maybe I will be faster,
Our airconditioner is broken-not too bad because that's what Brad does but he forgot the gas at home so now he has to buy rhat.
Of course my stomache is bad from the trip.
Saw evan sat night-he wanted me to go home with him. Love that kid.
Still getting settled. Bye for now before I lose this. Hi everyone-tammy-we are below Tampa about 2 and a half hours. Mima

Meme, I don't blame you are all for not wanting to do business in your home. I certainly wouldn't want people in my house. I wish I could sing. I am deaf in one ear so I am tune deaf.

Today I will be going to my first WW meeting in years. I have done well with the program at home but I think I could do better with the meetings. I decided to do this last week. Since this week I didn't loss anything I really cemented the idea in stone. I think I need that extra push. I don't know how long I will attend meetings. Not sure that money will allow me to go for long.

Chris- I went to WW for a year several times. I joined TOPS about 4 years ago. It is much cheaper than WW. After you join it is only5 Dollars a month. I feel the support is better. My sister has been leader for 4 years. I am weight recorder now.. I am a Kop. (keep off pounds sensibly). If you have one near you go one meeting. The first meeting is free.
Tammy- Mima is in Sarasota area. We did get together once. The traffic here is terrible . My hubby is one of those guys who feels he has to be the one behind the wheel,although, I am a good driver. So we don't seem to get together. I don't like to ask her to come this far. It is a good 3 hour drive. I live in Tarpon Springs.With the traffic Tampa is over a hour. It used to be a 30 min. drive,no more.I too hope my kids will not be fueding at Christmas. Since my son has remarried things have been tense between the whole family. It breaks my heart and it is hard not to cry every time I think about it. He was never like this before. My daughter thinks his wife has something to do with it but I don't know for sure. I hope not..His change in some ways is good. He has gotten real religious and no longer drinks,Thank God!But he now seems to find many issues about his sister,who has never said or done anything to him. We suddenly were not important to his life. And it goes on and on. He seldom calls and has been here about 4 times in the las 2 years. He lives 10 miles away and passes within 2 miles of our house 2 times a day on his way to work and home. His dad is upset. He calls him now and then and he almost never answers the phone or calls back.
Enough Whinning...Joanne

Thanks Joanne. I did a search and see there are 3 meetings near me. I just paid for a month of WW while visiting their site this morning. I will have to consider it once this has run out.

Mima, I'll tell Bob to wave in your direction from his brother's house. Will you be looking?? lol

Chris, congratulations on making the decision to go to a WW meetings. I've been going for a couple months now. I do feel like the meetings and weigh ins help to keep me accountable. Good luck!! I bought the 10 week package , and I don't know what I'll do after the 10 weeks.

Joanne, I am so sorry about the tension in your family. Your son has to realize sooner or later how important a family is. I hope he realizes it before it is too late. Take care, and you and your family will be in our prayers.

I can't get warm. I've only been outside enough to let the dog out and back in. I don't want to go get the mail. Maybe I'll drive out there!

Tammy, I bought the new monthly pass. For $39.95, I get a month's worth of meetings and etools. I love the recipe builder. I have already put a couple of recipes into it and come up with the points value. Not to mention it takes the meeting price from $11 to $9.92 (I love every dollar I can save). It will renew every month unless I cancel it.

Chris- I don't know what it is on line but Tops is only 5 dollars a month. You don't pay per meeting.But WW is a good program. I still use the points system at Tops...
Tammy- I hope our son opens his eyes before his dad passes. He is 81 years old. His health is not the best.
Joanne

Chris, I thought about doing the monthly pass, but my husband is leary about having payments done that way. Bad experience in his past I believe. I don't think it would be a hastle. I think I'll probably stick with WW for a while, and hopefully lose most of what I need to do. At some point, I'll check into TOPS again. I know there is a meeting about 15 miles from here, so that wouldn't be too bad. The WW I go to is right here in town.

Joanne, I wish I could talk to your son and tell him what a mistake he is making.

I just got back from the Y. We have two woman who take turns teaching the class, and they were both sick tonight. We got to do our own thing. We've all been doing it for a while now, so what one person forgot, someone else remembered things.

I'm hating this cold weather. Going down into the teens again tonight. Had to get out in it today. Went to get an angel pattern. Having to make 4 costumes for the teenage 'angels' in our Cantata. I'm going to actually have them singing the "Angels We Have Heard On High" verse from that song. They can all 4 sing beautifully - just like angels! And they actually ARE beautiful girls, too.

Mima ... glad you made is safely. You & Joanne are in one of the only 2 warm spots in the Nation tonight. Lucky you!

I've tried WW several times. Lost weight every time but always quit and never kept it off. I'm just not the type to count everything I eat and continue to go to meetings the rest of my life & weigh in. Too much other stuff going on in my life I guess - plus, I don't really like being accountable to someone else for my problems. Guess I'm too independent. Cutting back and eating the foods I like ... just not as much of of them ... works best for me. If I can't have what I want, I tend to eat everything in the house trying to 'satisfy' my cravings. So, a little of what I want is better than a lot of low fat, no taste something that I don't want.

Still wired ... not getting a lot of sleep.

Only way I ever lost was to count points-now I am allergic to everything so that's how I keep the weight off!! Not fun!! Went to Mike's for dinner-one pork chop, applesauce, couple of carrots-little roasted potato-now heres the bad-one biscuit with honey and one whoopie pie-bad because I am wheat sensitive so don't feel bad for me!!!!
So sad about your family. Joanne. Keep praying. maybe at some point you can talk to him about it. Might just be an adjustment and it will smooth over. My gf has 6 kids-she wasn't even invited to gd's wedding-and she is so nice but one daughter tells lies about her and the son believes it. Believe me, they are lies. Very sad. She has made some peace with it but its hard at the holidays.And she is alone!!! But many friends.
Got to go to shop today,
Air conditioner is coming in today.
Meme-i had a dream about you. We met at a dock and went on some crazy boat trip. We were shopping but we could only buy certain items because the others were illegal.
I have to get something besides dial-up. It's not too bad until Macafee decides to download an update that takes a half hour and then you have to restart!! Everything takes 10 times as long. I am not exagerating!
Bye for now. Mima

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