Good morning ladies and a Happy New Year to all of you! Time to start a new thread and I imagine for all of you except myself, you should be able to reach goal by the end of the year. Let's try hard to accomplish that goal and post the total number of points lost for the whole group this time next year. I hope it is hundreds!
Gail: You posted the same as my new year's wish so I wasn't ignoring what you said. I am thrilled your mom is doing so much better and I hope she just continues to improve.
Susan: We have Joe's Crab Shack around here but it is a chain restaurant. We went there only once and didn't care for it. The wait staff continually drives you nuts and not in a good way. That is a veggie I just do not care for, but I am a strawberry lover. In fact, I have red berries Special K for my cereal right now. It is very good and the berries provide just the right amount of sweetness to the cereal. have a left handed mug but most everything else, I have had to adapt to a right hand world. I have to cut with scissors upside down, when I wash up dishes it is left to right, etc. Of course I knit left handed. I saw an old Herbie the Love Bug movie with Helen Hayes a few knits ago and she was knitting "left handed, but it didn't look right. I realized she was continental knitting! lol
Well, I goofed a big one trying to fix my mistake and ended up tearing out the whole left side on my sweater so I back to where I was with it. That's ok, it teaches me patience!
Lavonda: Just a note to you about out thread, we old ladies don't like the thread to get very long so we only go to about 18-20 posts and start a new one. I had to chuckle as you missed #55 competely! lol Hope you can get in here and post a lot, we have a good time. If the news on your weigh is isn't great don't let it throw you, just keep plugging away.
Have a great day everyone. I am going to sit and start back on my sweater and try not to goof it up this time.
Faye
Well Will won't be having broccoli but he can have corn or some other veggie. He absolutely positively will not eat broccoli and I love the stuff. 
He gets enough veggies and lets me have my broccoli. 
Since he does the shopping he doesn't mind picking out a great looking bunch for me. Dear I do hope your thumb gets better soon especially since now you have gotten that fingerless glove pattern. Now lest I forget ~ let me congratulte 
you on that .8 you lost. Yep a tad over 3 cubes of butter as was so aptly stated by you when I had that exact loss.
after the other Magnoias have reached their goal.
I like your idea to post our yearly loss at the end of this year. But rest assured I am not in a race with you because we lose at such different rates. You lose in chunks and I lose in ounce.s
The sun is trying to shine and it's still cold and windy outside, so I don't think any snow will melt today. We went to see Marley and Me last night. They gave HUGE glasses of pop free with popcorn; some guy climbed over me to get out and dumped our glass (on the floor, thank goodness) in the process. We have cup holders, but the glasses must be quart size as it takes two hands to hold on to one. Luckily most of the pop was gone since Bob and I shared. I intended to stay awake until midnight but fell asleep in front of the TV as usual. I did sleep all night which surprised me. This morning I've been sorting through papers for tax purposes and plan to take down the Christmas tree this evening while Bob watches football.
I'm sorry about you having to start over on you sweater again. At least you didn't have to start completely over. 
I haven't bought much since the kids have been gone and we seem to get different salesmen quite often. They are out and about here fairly late at night; I've seen them around 9 or so. I suppose with so many women working they can't find many home during the day. I have a debit card but hesitate to use it out of town. One of our teachers went shopping in Kansas City and the store did a double debit on her account. It took her months to get it straightened out and it turned out to be quite a hassle. Our card can also be put through as a charge, which the bank treats as a debit if the store doesn't happen to have a debit machine. I still use Sears, Penneys, and Younkers cards because I can get an extra 15 - 20% off either regular or sale prices by using their store cards. 
Amanda is left handed and I found a t-shirt in a catalog that said, "I may be left handed, but I am always right!" It was too late to order it for Christmas but I'm thinking she might get it for her birthday. Happy Belly sounds like my kind of restaurant . . . better than the Crab Schack! 
When you talk about a quilt block, is that including all of the different little pieces that make up the pattern? As you can tell I have no clue. 
Good luck!
from Iowa!
I'm trying to get myself motivated this morning; so far I've had my coffee, oj, toast, and read the newspaper. I need to call my friend who is taking chemo treatments, and see if she is up for a casserole for the weekend. If not, I'll make it for us. We have several from school who have been out with various medical issues, but no one has bothered to set up a "take food to them" plan. 
I have found that I am further ahead to work it into my plan rather than not have it at all. I'd rather have it from time to time and count the points than to overdose when I haven't had any for a long time. My husband used to have a gal in his office that wouldn't touch chocolate in any way, shape, or form. She had lost a lot of weight and chocolate was her downfall. I admired her willpower.
Today is the day or else! I want my house vacuumed and dusted before I head back to school! 
from Iowa!