Hey..Good Morning. Just come in to post my paper clips...2 days late but here they are. I missed my 6 pounds by a long shot.

I've been on this darn puter all morning. I'm going to start doing tuts in another group that uses PhotoImpact, the editing program I bought. It is going to be hard for me, but I want to learn. I come back to post a pic of my roses. How ever the roses cost as much as the camera. It's a really bad imatation of a camera.
[b]THIS DAMN THING, THIS MORNING I POSTED THE PAPER CLIPS AT 1KB AND NOW i HAD TO TAKE THIS ONE DOWN TO 25400 TO GET IT TO POST. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Hey Everyone

Well we didn't get a drop of rain anywhere close to our area. There were only a few showers way south of us. It smells smoky outside every day now but we are lucky so far not to have any fires real close. Let's pray that it stays that way.

Marlana~I was so glad to hear that you got a dozen roses for Mother's Day. That was a really nice surprise. I counted 13 paper clips. That is a great start. You will have a really long chain when you put them together. I am on my second day OP and feeling pretty good so far. Maybe I can add two more paper clips to my little chain by next Monday. I am sure trying.

Tobey~I hope you are doing all kinds of fun things while you are on vacation. Visiting that new baby is probably one of those kinds of things. My mom was in labor for 36 hours with my youngest brother. It sure is rough to go that long. I am surprised that doctors are still letting that happen. My brother is 35 now. It seems that most doctors are inducing labor nowadays to fit their or the mother's schedules. You better take lots of money and a big appetite Friday. That sounds like a really great place to spend the day. Lots of great food, too many shops to visit in one day and plenty to do. At least you can ride in the horse drawn trolley when you get tired. Have a wonderful day there.

Jen~Hope you are enjoying your vacation too. You seem to have started out at a very hard and fast pace. I hope that you save a day for nothing but fun after you get all that yard work done. We need to see pictures when everything is in bloom. I will gladly take all the rain that you can send this way. Seven # is really good. You don't have that much to lose and it is really hard when you are only a little bit over weight.

Y'all have a good evening.

Hello All

Yesterday was the first day of my vacation and the sun decided to come out and shine for the day! (However, it is supposed to rain today ) Dh had to work so I got a few hours to myself. I went for a 6-mile run and went downtown for the afternoon where I picked up dh’s anniversary gift. I also got a bit of housework done. I am hoping to see our friends’ new baby girl. Being on vacation just feels so good!

Jen: So you are still going a breakneck speed! Your yard sounds like it is going to be amazing! What kind of veggies are you growing? Nothing better than fresh veggies from your own garden. That is crazy that you won’t get your grades until after your graduation. It was so cold for rowing that only about half of the people showed up. Wimps! Although I can’t say that I blame them. It took me a few hours to defrost once I got home. A half-marathon is 13.1 miles (a full marathon is 26.2). I bet your 7-mile run will be fun. Just make sure you are ready for it – so you don’t hurt yourself.

Marlana: Your Mother’s Day actually sounds nice. I wanted to have a pity party myself yesterday. It never fails that as soon I take a day off, dh picks up extra work. But instead, I was like you and just decided to make the most of it. Your roses are beautiful by the way! Our weather has been crazy too. This is the May long weekend here and most people like to go camping. But you would have be crazy to camping in this weather. And CONGRATULATIONS on adding 2 more paperclips to your pile. It is starting to be quite a collection. YOU GO GIRL! We are all behind you cheering you on!

Skeeter: I keeping trying to send you our rain but it doesn’t work. Around where my mom is (the city I grew up in) they get really bad forest fires too. I remember there were a few summers where it looked like it was snowing outside but it was actually ash that the wind had carried in! I am having fun my vacation and am really looking forward to our stay away tomorrow. The inn that we are staying at is supposed to be one of the nicest. It only has 11 rooms and we have the master suite booked. Apparently there is a great view of the lake. If it is nice enough, we want to rent some bikes to go around the town on. Also just outside of the town is a huge farmer’s market that we want to hit on our way home.

Well that’s all for now. I’m not sure that I will make it tomorrow. It is our 5th anniversary and we are leaving first thing for weekend away. All the best! Rain for Skeeter and sunshine for the rest!

Tobey

Good morning. I thought that I had posted in here yesterday, but apparently I didn't, or it got lost in cyberspace. Oh well. Yesterday I got all of the areas of mulch touched up and all of my flowers planted in pots. I bought 2 flats, and almost ran out of pots. What's a girl to do? I still want to add a mulch ring around my 2 trees in the back yard, and I'd like to do an area along the side of the garage. But the temps are dropping into the 50's and rain now until Sunday. Can you tell I'm on vacation??? I guess it's back to inside the house spring cleaning. Not that I don't need to do anything in here!

Turns out one of my instructors was nice enought to post our grades on the class website. I got an "A". Now only 2 classes to worry about!

Tobey- Sounds like you are going to have fun on your vacation. I'm not sure I'm going to be in the 7 mile run. I have to check and see if I work that weekend. But the 3 mile race for the cure is coming up. I know I can handle that one. I planted 5 kinds of tomatoes, 3 kinds of peppers, zuchini, cucumbers, a few different herbs (including catnip), and of course my strawberries and rhubarb. It's not much, but gives me something to do. I wish I had a larger area, but my yard is kind of slopped, it would be alot of dirt work first.

Skeeter- Please, I'm begging you, TAKE THE RAIN! I'm not sure that I have time for a day of nothing, although this weekend will be slower. I have to go to the University Saturday for the ceremony, and then dear bf is taking me out to dinner. Sunday I have to go to my cousins high school graduation party. I don't have a digital camera for pics, but I'll find a way. Oh, I know, when I have the film developed I can have it put on a CD.

Marlana- I'm so glad for you that you got a dozen roses. They are beautiful. I am a little confused about the paper clips. Is it add or take away when you lose lbs? I guess it really doesn't matter, it's still a visual motivator. I can't believe I lost this week, it's that monthly deal. Hmm, can't wait to see next week! Your mothers day trip sounded nice. Are you still willing to post pics on the photo album for me? I still have your address!

I guess that is it for this morning. I have to go to the surgeon again today. I'm afraid one edge of my hernia that I had repaired in November is coming back. It's a gall bladder incision that herniated and has been repaired twice so far. I may just have to live with it! UGH!

Jen

Hey there.

I tried to post yesterday but I kept losing my connection. I finally gave up. Very aggrivating.

My arm is very sore today, plus my shoulder hurts to. I wasn't on the puter much at work today so I had a little rest but its not enough. The thing is, its not going to get any easier at work. In fact, the work load is going to increase and I'm really flustered over it. I think they think I am a machine or something. But I will try what they want me to do and if my other work suffers then so be it. I consider the other work my priority work so we'll see what happens with it.

Dh's job is going pretty good except I think its going to kill me. He gets in lots of overtime. Monday nite he didn't get home till 3:00 and I only got a couple hours sleep that night and last night he didn't get home till 3:30 but I did get some sleep. I just worry when I wake up at 2 a.m. thinking he is home and he's not.

Jen, congrats on the a's. Thats great. Bet your glad that is all overwith. I have a graduation this weekend. My niece is getting her associates in computer networking and is already working towards her bachlors degree. Looks like we are not going to get the heavy rains and storms they were calling for tonight and tomorrow morning. I'm so glad. Spfld isn't to bad with flooding but all around here, its really bad. How is it in your area?

Tobey, Happy Anniversary. Oh, I would love a weekend away from here. Our 25th anniversary is next month. Sometimes it feels like it hasn't been that long and other times it feels like forever and its hard to remember my life before marriage. Strange.

Skeeter, I sure hope you start getting some rain soon. I can't imagine worrying about fires all the time. We've definetly had more than our share of rain. They said on the news we've had 13 inches of rain since April 18th. One weekend we got almost 4 inches. It just seems to come down in buckets lately. The our esteemed governor has declared the entire state a disaster area because of the flooding.

Marlana, thats wonderful about the roses. I bet that felt good when you saw them. How is it your paper clips work again? I've got something in the works as far as a diet goes. I'll tell you more about it once I get going on it. I hope it works for me.

Well, I'm going to get off here and I think I'm going to get the heating pad out tonight. I'm really tired to, maybe I'll go to bed early. Ha!!! Not likely. Take care everyone.

Good Morning~~Making it in this morning. I've joined in a class to learn how to use my new editing program PI. Believe me it is taking about 2 hours a day to work on tutorials. I've got the first one filed, but I worked on tut 2 yesterday and I haven't got it yet. One of the problems is that the tutorials are wrote for PI 6.0 and not 7.0. I have to just hunt for everything. Of course the group is really nice to help, and I'm going to need it. I'm loving learning it though. My diet is so so, needs to be better. My fish babies are still all alive. I'm wondering what the heck I'm going to do with them when they get a little bigger.

Jo Jo~~Good to see you had been in. I wish you could get some help with your arm, sorry to hear it is still hurting you. As for as your job, in this day and time the more they can give you to do and you can do, there would be no end to it. Most of them don't give a damn if your arm is hurting or that you are over loaded. You will get used to dh hours, might take some time, but you will.

Jen~~This flower planting is expensive isn't it. I have bought 3 flats of plants. I don't have them out yet, it won't stop raining long enough. I have out part of them and they have took hold already. Question...I pay 11.00 a flat here, 36 plants, what do they cost where you are? It has warmed up some at night, but for about 3 nights it was down into the low 40's, what is going on. Plants can't grow unless the temp is 60 and above. Congrats on that A. I feel like I'm in school with my Puter class. An old bird like me can still learn.

Tobey~~Hope your vacation is going well. Because I don't have a job, does that mean I'm on vacation all the time. Believe me I'm not. Isn't it bad when your having pity party. Gees do we look silly. But somehow when I get one started I can't seem to stop it right away. My mother's day was good even with just the trip, but the roses and the card really capped it off well. You enjoy the rest of your vacation girlfriend, and watch out holding that baby girl, it will give you ideas, and believe me those babies are trouble sooner or later.

Skeeter~~Would you believe that it is raining cats and dogs here. I wouldn't be on this puter if I hadn't of got the backup battery for it. The lake is up 11 feet now. Unless it goes down some the catfishing will be messed up again this year. We can't win for losing in the fishing field this year. I thank hubby starts a vacation in about a week. I wish I could send this rain to you.

About my paperclips...I add one paper clip for every pound I lose. I got to runs girls, got homework to do.

Happy Anniversary Tobey.

Good evening gals. I decided I'd better get in here and post today. I may not be able to all weekend. Tomorrow is my graduation in Iowa City and Sunday I have to go to my cousins high school graduation and party. For that matter, Monday I have to work another 12 hr day shift, so it may be Tuesday. The weather here sucks this weekend. It's supposed to be down to 36 tonight. I hope it doesn't frost, or my garden is in big trouble. It's dreary and cold, more like March than May.

Marlana- Wow, a class to learn your program? That is probably way over my head. My diet could be better too, but considering I have a ton of free time this week that I'm not used to, I'm doing alright. The price of flowers is probably about the same here. I've spent about $100 so far, and I have alot more to get.

Jojo- Hmmm, what could I say about more work and less time to do it, hmmm. Story of my life. I'm glad the rain will slow down for the next few days, but ugh. There really isn't any flooding around here this year. It looks like alot of places in central IL look like my area did last spring.

Wow, I guess that is it already for today. I suppose I'd better get the rest of the house cleaned and then take it easy for awhile before bed. I think TV sucks tonight, so I'll end up reading a book (purely for pleasure, not learning!)

Jen

Hey Everyone

I have had another busy past few days. We went north yesterday to visit a friend and there was a rain shower while we were gone. It wasn't much but at least it was some moisture. I also had another 2# loss on my scale yesterday morning.

Marlana~I am glad that you are enjoying that new program. I don't think that I would have the patience to sit on this thing for as long as would be needed to learn that stuff. I have a hard time sitting here long enough to write on this board and answer my email. I am looking forward to some pretty new stationery though.

Tobey~I hope that you are having a wonderful weekend. That really sounds like a great place to spend a few days. We loved the water bottle and so did the boys. My friend thought it was the greatest thing that she had ever seen. Today was our last chance of any rain for a while and all we got was clouds. I hate having another summer of watching it snow with ashes and smelling so bad all the time. The worst is watching for smoke and worrying about fire getting close to us. I saw a news report about Colorado though and they haven't had any rain in a year. It is awful there. Made me feel lucky that my grass is still green and my well still has water.

Jen~Congratulations on the great grades. I'll bet you did very well in the other two classes also. I am working on a roll of film also that is going to be of my blooming flowers this year. My little digital just doesn't do well on the flowers. I was going to try the CD also when I got this roll developed. It's going to be a while though because my Lilly of the Nile hasn't opened yet. My scanner seems to blur the pictures so I am looking forward to a better way.

JoJo~Sure glad that you stayed connected long enough to let us know how you have been. You need to find something for that arm. It gets so tiresome to hurt all the time. I saw some of that flooding up your way on the news. I find it so weird that you guys are flooding, we need rain and Colorado is literally drying up.

Y'all have a good weekend.

Hi Everyone.

I hope you are all having a great weekend. We just got home. We went to see our niece get her associates degree today. She's doing great, got highest honors for having 4.0 average and is working on her bachelors. After that was over we went to eat an early supper at the Outback. I'm just so glad to be home. I'm getting really sleepy so I need to move around a little. Its way to early to go to bed now although it sounds really good to me.

Marlana, I hope you learn alot from your class. Some of these puter programs, you need a class to learn them. Most of the instructions may as well be in chinese. My arm is feeling a lot better. I was off yesterday and wasn't on the puter hardly at all. That really helps. This is the first time today I've been on and I'm getting off here soon as I finish this. I'm going to put my nightgown on and kick back and maybe even doze in the chair. You know the problem with dh's hours, I dont want to go to bed if he isn't home. I like to stay up late anyway but if he's here, I tend to get to bed earlier.

Jen, are you drying out up there? We didn't have any rain today. It was cold last night and its supposed to get in the 30's tonight to. I've got my heat turned back on. Congratulations on your graduation. I know your thrilled to have that done. I think if we could have a good week of no rain, things would start getting better around here. Its been a mess. People have to drive miles and miles out of their way just to get home. I'm really glad we don't have that problem here in town. Well, there are times it rains so hard it floods the city streets and we have to zig zag around town just to get to where we are going.

Well, I'm getting off here now. Take care everyone.

Morning girls~~I had to make some time to come in and write a word. I don't know if I'm going or coming. I thank I told you guys already but I'm in a editing group and trying to learn my new Pi. It is taxing my brain for sure. Now starting right now I'm taking a class from HP to learn web page making. I don't know how I will do with that. 27 of the girls signed up for it out of the PI group and some of them already know how to make web pages, in fact already have web sites. They only joined to help those of us who doesn't know how. I couldn't let that pass me by. So I won't even try to make it in here everyday. But I won't quit, I'll make it in every couple of days. To top it all off I'm painting on that bedroom again, I called the carpet layer and he wants to come one afternoon this week, don't know which one, he's just working me in. If he doesn't do it this week it will be a month. geeeees How will I cover all this.

Jen~~Your getting through with classes and I'm just starting. The problem is I have a few years on you and I've lost a lot of brain cells. These classes is taxing the cells I have left. Congrats on getting through your classes with flying colors.

Skeeter~~Don't look forward to any pretty stationery any time soon. It may take me a long time to get through the Tutorials I have to do. 50 of them no less. And right now I can't receive my mail for some reason. My puter has been giving me some problems lately. It looks like I'm on line but I'm not. Also I thank someone in the group has sent a file that is too big to download. I need the link to check my mail on line. I'll call you in few.

JO JO~~My life is the computer right now. I spend hours a day trying to work on my lessons. I'm having to give up some sleep in order to have time for it. I really don't know if I can cover all that I have to do. Glad your getting some relief from the pain in your arm. My back and hip is better, I just have to watch what I do.

Got to run girls. I've got to go to Muskogee and get the carpet just in case he decides to come today. You all have a great day. Food is so so. Someone state a new thread and just use the last logo. I don't have time to make a new one right now. Thanks

Good morning. I finally made it back! It's been a busy past couple of days. Saturday was my ceremony. It was so unorganized. Of course, it was never rehearsed, so what do you expect? Sunday was my cousins graduation from high school. I only went to the party afterwards. It was outside, and it was so cold. All the girls were wearing those tiny little crop tops and halter tops, and sandals. They must've froze. I wore a big bulky sweater. I must be getting old! Mom went to my brothers again. He called on Wednesday to say that there vacation plans changed and they needed a dog sitter, so she jumped, packed, and left Friday. She didn't even go to my graduation. Nice, huh? Oh well, at least she won't be back until next week.

Marlana- Wow, you are busy, classes, and still remodeling stuff at home. I would like to start a new thread with the logo, but I don't know how to carry it over. Don't try to tell me, I'll still never get it. My food wasn't too great over the weekend, but I was careful. It could have been worse, that's for sure.

Jojo- I think we are getting a little drier. But my furnace is running right now. And I sleep in my flannel jammies and electric blanket again. I sure hope we didn't get any frost last night, or I'll have to replant a few things. Usually after Mother's Day is pretty safe.

Skeeter- Wow. Congrats on your 2# loss. I'd like to get out and get a few pics of my yard. My dwarf lilac bush is blooming. It's right outside a window on the west side of the house so when the wind blows, the house smells good. But it's too cold to keep the windows open. What a strange year this has been.

I guess that's about it. I'm planning on another fruit and veggie only day for me. I like to throw one of those in every once in a while. It's kind of refreshing.

Jen

I'll start a new thread. See y'all there.