Bobbi!!!!!

Rosey!!!!!

Mary, the mocha sample would be a killer (soy is a personal killer for me). I'm not into mocha mixes. Actually there aren't many things I make pre-mixed.

Marie

Hi everyone,
I've been pretty busy since my first post. Thanks for all the welcomes. I have tried every diet in the book. My final diet. (I hope) Of course, how many times have I said that.
I know a young man who has a practice as a hypnotherapist. He only does behavioral change type stuff. Tonight is my second session with him. Last week we did a session on breathing, and how to be calm and relaxed. I stepped on the scale and recorded my weight of 225 lbs. I'm 5'2 1/2 " (My poor knees suffer) He said to put the scale away. Not supposed to weigh for 6 weeks.
He told me not to worry about calorie counting, except to make sure I never eat less than 500 calories at a meal, and never go more than 5 hours between meals. It's very important to eat brkfst, lunch and dnr at brkfst, lunch and dnr times. If I do need to go a little longer I'm supposed to have a 260 cal. snack. He explained the body doesn't know that next meal is coming, so after 5 hours it starts to store fat to compensate. As long as the body gets fuel at reg. times, it has nothing to store and the fat leaves. It makes sense, I guess. Anyway, here I go again. I'm hopeful. He guarantees the weight loss or I get my money back. I've known him for about 5 years and I'm pretty sure I can trust him, as long as I don't start clucking and doing the chicken dance. Haha!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY - BOBBI AND ROSIE!!!!!!!!!!!

We've had nothing but rain here all week. I like the rain, probably why I've been in Oregon all of my life. I think I may have webbed feet. Anyway, it's supposed to be partly sunny over Memorial Day weekend. I really look forward to that. I bought a couple of tomato plants, green beans and a clematis I would like to get in the ground.
I'll be back later. I think I need to get back to work.
Bobbi: Have a great time at dinner. Salmon and halibut are always my favorites. Of course, surf & turf if good too!! Oh heck, I just like to eat!!

Thankyou for all the birthday wishes. ive had a good day with my grdd. her and i did some cleaning and goofing off. she likes my"when i was a kid" storys. and mr cranky brought me flowers and planted my planter hes good to go for awhile lol. ttfn rosey

Oh, Bobbi, Happy Birthday!!! Hope you have a marvelous dinner tomorrow.

DH and I did more gardening this morning. I now have less flowers and more dirt. I also have to thin out my irises and my poor day lilies have vanished into the jungle. I'll have to plant more bulbs as I really like them.

I guess this is a long Memorial Day weekend in the US. I hope you gals don't eat as much as I did on the Canadian Victoria Day weekend.

Have a good one, everyone.

Good evening GG's,

Love the planters Rosey. You said Steve is good for a while.......good in that his cranky phase is over for the time being, or that he is good for a while and safe from a whack on the noggin with the rolling pin

Welcome Taxigirl, Amarantha and Cajunlady. Hello all ~ will have to catch up with everyone tomorrow.

Hope you all rest well.

Take care

I have heard others complain about the huge pop-up ads that appear when they log into 3FC. I have been getting them the past few days. What a pain!

Bobbi - I LOL about DH taking you out for prime rib! My mother used to say that my dad always got her a cake because he wanted cake. LOL I think I would choose fish. I love fish, expecially the way they prepare it at top rate restaurants.

Isabella - My daylillies need to be dug up and split as they are huge. I wish I could send the extra plants to you and Marie.


Taxi - I hope the hypnotist works for you. There is one here in the PGH area who is supposed to be really good. It's the same as most diets, you have to really want to do it, and it sounds like you are ready. Good Luck!

Maryea - The way I interpret the SS issue, if your spouse dies, you will get whatever amount of his SS that will bring you up to what he was getting. If you are already getting more than he did, then yours will stay the same. You won't get both, just whichever one is higher. It just isn't clear the way they worded it. I think the best thing would be to call SS and get a rep on the phone, but did you every try calling them? LOL You need to have several days open while you wait on "hold". I think the woman who is getting hers plus 1/2 of her husbands was getting a really low check and he was getting a really high one.

Cajun - That is my main goal....to be able to walk past tempting food and "Just Say No". I am doing fairly well at it, but there's room for improvement. Good for you!!! LOL about the flying cake!

Time to get ready for the daily nurse visit. Be Back Later!

Good morning goldies!!

Taxi- my mom done hypnosis when I was a young girl and I remember her losing alot of weight. Good luck.
Bobbi I hope you had a wonderful b day and enjoyed you dinner out.
Rosie I hope your b day was good also.
Carol sue. The flying cake was real funny. Any other time I would have been upset because it was all over my floor.

Today is last day of work and then I will have 3 days off. I will be packing for our camping trip. I have done really well on my food plan this week. I can feel the weight loss on my body. It's funny how you can feel it without even getting on the scale. Let's just hope that I'm able to make some good food choices this weekend.

Have a happy memorial day weekend goldies.

Cajun

Carol Sue, I wish I had your day-lily problem. Mine is that bambi ate them and the bulbs just seemed to have died without any leaves year after year. Goog fo your Just Say No campaign.

Cajun, enjoy your camping trip. Great job on the weight loss. The cake story was quite humorous.

Bobbi, your DH cleans the house from top to bottom every day??? Holy smokes, that's AWESOME!!!!! My dad was DX with leukemia the week after my surgery and before they can treat that, they have to clear a fungal sinus infection that the CT scan showed had been there for years and years. So they did surgery for that and the ER trips were one week post surgical for hemorraging. We will be visiting at the end of July and we moved far away as MN is not a place I ever wanted to live long-term. I love mountains and oceans. Although, that said, MN is beautiful occasionally.

Donna, BelovedKai is doing well. No seizures for a couple weeks. She's a little trouble maker. Her dad took the week off of work so she's being spoiled with a house daddy. BTW, as DH made breakfast (pancakes today) for the 5th day in a row this week, he said "This is what it will be like when I retire and you go to work". I decided I liked being sent off to work with a yummy breakfast. Sasha's eye had problems earlier this week but last night looked better. I'm bringing her to the vet tomorrow. Blizzie and Kody are wonderful. My DD's kitty passed earlier this wee in a freak accident and it is very sad. I thought of SamCat. Keep him from poking his head out the door to look around.


So this morning I woke up to winter. Thought I'd share the joy.... Anyone want to take a dip in my pool???



Marie

Got this in an e-mail from my dad's cousin yesterday ~ thought with you all working outside these fine days ~ hopefully not a hint you will need, but just in case ~ thought I would share it.

Tick Removal...........


A nurse discovered a safe, easy way to remove ticks where they automatically withdraw themselves when you follow her simple instructions.
Read this one as it could save you from some major problems.

Tick Removal:
Spring is here and the ticks will soon be showing their heads. Here is a good way to get them off you, your children or your pets. Give
it a try.

Please forward to anyone with children, hunters or dogs or anyone who even steps outside in summer!


A School Nurse has written the info below--good enough to share--and it really works!

"I had a pediatrician tell me what she believes is the best way to remove a tick. This is great because it works in those places where
it's sometimes difficult to get to with tweezers: between toes, in the middle of a head full of dark hair, etc.


"Apply a glob of liquid soap to a cotton ball. Cover the tick with the soap-soaked cotton ball and swab it for a few seconds (15-20); the
tick will come out on its own and be stuck to the cotton ball when you lift it away. This technique has worked every time I've used it
(and that was frequently), and it's much less traumatic for the patient and easier for me.


"Unless someone is allergic to soap, I can't see that this would be damaging in any way. I even had my doctor's wife call me for advice
because she had one stuck to her back and she couldn't reach it with tweezers. She used this method and immediately called me back to
say, "It worked!"

Please pass on. Everyone needs this helpful hint.


I have always been afraid I would get one, panic and in trying to remove it with tweezers, mess it up and end up with half the thing still stuck in me. So this sounded good. Nice to know, but still hope I never have to use it.

Hello Girls.

Gayle, thanks for the tick removal information. We haven't had ticks in Newfoundland until the last couple of years. I'm really afraid I'll get one stuck in my leg or somewhere worse. I don't know if they are in our area but I'll certainly keep that little hint tucked away just in case....

Oh, Marie, I just shivered looking at those pictures. That could happen here any time in May and it's so discouraging after a great warm day to wake up to a snow covered yard. Thank goodness it doesn't stay at this time of the year.

Carol Sue, I'd gladly accept Day Lilies from your yard if I could. I think I found a couple of stunted lilies this morning so I'm hoping with the sun able to get at them and a little fertilizer they may come back again. I think they were the pink lilies but not sure.

All this camping talk has me longing to get out in the woods for a few days. Ha, ha, some of you would think I live in the woods if you could see where I live. People come here from larger towns or cities for the summer and we go down the bay to our cabins and those down the bay take their boats to an island...Ha, ha. I wonder if we still have our tent. Can't remember if we got rid of it. DH and I could spend an idyllic few days camping in a nearby provincial park....

The inside of my house looks like a hurricane went through. I have the front door window open and on the opposite side on the back I have the patio door open and it's like a wind tunnel in here. Papers, napkins, cards and newspapers are strewn all over the floor where the wind is blowing inside the house, lol. I guess I'll have to close one of those doors and clean up the mess. I didn't notice it until a napkin came flying past me as I was typing.

Have a lovely weekend wherever you pitch your tent.