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WELCOME !!!!!

But Kat, Thin & 2Cute inspired me.

My brother is the youngest in the family. We grew up on a farm (the one I live on now). His "cross to bear" as a child (and he says even now) is he didn't have anyone to play with when he was a kid, therefore he was left to his imagination whenever he was bored.

One day a car came in the driveway so my 2 sisters and I walk outside to see who had come to visit. The company was getting out of their car when we looked over to our yard there all over the yard are tampons !!! My brother looks at us and says, "look at the neat rockets I found in the bathroom"!!!!!

My one sister ran to start picking them up while the other one and I ushered the people into the house. Thankfully they were adults, we were still kids so no one ever said a word about what they saw on the lawn. At least not to us!!!!

Just peeking in before leaving for mil's house. Getting ready to make that scrumptious sounding Apple Salad, with a few insteads..... what you say are insteads well, they are as follows. I don't have any mini marshmellows, but have big ones, so I will cut them up.... I don't have a fugi or a gala apple so I will use a red delisious and a granny and like I said before no peanuts. Will let you know how it turns out. I think with the peanuts gone the point value will only be 1 versus 2? What do you all think?

Loved the tampon stories.... thought I would die laughing.

Still op as you can see, not giving up for anyone. I decided to take that apple salad to mils along with a tossed salad to share and I bought a turkey patty burger today and a fat free bun and thats what I will have, and thinking I will have a few french fries, but have mine baked not deep fried.

Hugs to all, and will pop in later.

Boy, we are FLYING through these threads!

What is it with kids and tampons? My grandson loved to play with them too.

Sandy: one suggestion regarding any salad made with apples. If you are not eating it right away, toss the apples in a tiny bit of lemon juice to keep them from turning brown especially delicious apples which seem to brown fast. I thought that recipe sounded particularly tasty too. Is there much different in fat etc in say pecans or walnuts instead of peanuts I wonder?

Well, Jack worked on the computer. One of the biggest problems is this one is loaded with windows ME and it is awful. Needless to say, they found out really quick the thing works lousy and dumped the program. Jack needs to put either 98 or 2000 on, but is having trouble finding the drivers for it I guess. Who knows?

Since we have been gabbing about movies, Jack and I want to go see Gods and Generals when it comes out in 2 weeks. We saw the trailer when we went to see Catch me if you Can and it looks pretty good. I will probably bawl through the whole thing as I do pretty much all civil war pics etc. I bought the dvd of The Patriot and I still cry through that one. Maybe because it really happened you know? Like the WW1 and 2 pictures like Saving Private Ryan which I have yet to watch because I don't have the guts yet. I boo hooed so much watching Titanic at the theater I had to get up and go out because I was disturbing the old coots next to me.

I am half way through the King of Torts by J Grisham. Pretty good book.

I got both exercise sessions in today but they were rough. It was cold, windy, and I was cramping pretty good so I am not feeling so hot this afternoon. Poor dh is worried sick and all I can tell him is you can't do anything to help me.

Well, I am going to go lay down for awhile and see if I feel a little better.

Donna

WHEEEEE! The sun's been out since it rose this morning! I'd almost forgotten what a sunny day was like. Sunny and cold. Burrrr! I was in the pool at 7:30 this morning for a water aerobics class, came home and bathed and groomed the cocker spaniel (while the pointer curled herself up in the recliner and pretended she was invisible ). Then went off to the store and to a friend's house to return some stuff I'd borrowed. Got home again at 3:30 in time to watch the turkeys running back and forth like crazed birds in the woods behind he house. I've pretty much stuck to WW this week so I'm feeling pretty good about myself.

DONNA: Don't remember if I ever got around to saying welcome to you ... "HI" . I haven't been to a movie since last year. I always make plans to go then don't get there.
Hope you're feeling better. Keep warm and rest.


SANDY: Good luck at the party. Your plans sound "perfecto"

LUCKY: OMG The tampon story was great!

Thin, Tina, Kat, 2Cute and everyone I've missed: You gals are THE BEST!

I'm going to throw in some laundry and, maybe, watch the "tube" for a bit.

Too late!

She was here too AND left her clone.



j-ann

I can't chat at the usual time tonight...we're leaving for the movies at 7:30...but I'm skulking around the chat room now, just in case some early birds pop in!

Hey chick--ee's, I got up and went to put kids to bed, and say bye to sil and the her kids and came back and I was all alone in chat....LOL, just wanted to say see ya to all......Loved the conversation.

Hugs to you all.....

ps) Tina~~ sorry about Tony and the race.

Hi everybody! Chat was great. It was a nice escape from the race, but we didn't escape much, did we girls?

We talked a little about Matthew Macconnahey (sp?) tonight and he's on Saturday Night Live tonight along with the Dixie Chicks.

Donna: That's why the recipe says "Place apple pieces in a large mixing bowl and pour crushed pineapple with its juice over the top and mix well. (The pineapple juice stops the apples from turning brown)" The pineapple juice does the same thing as the lemon juice would.

Sandy: Sooooo, how did the salad turn out????

Baylee: She came here a long, long time ago and I hate to break it to ya, she doesn't leave once she comes. She becomes a permanent resident. * BTW, where the heck did you go??? You were there, and then you weren't. And you didn't even say good-bye.

Lucky: That's a great story.

Katrina: Sorry you didn't make it. Let's here the movie review.

J-ann: Good to see ya, sweetie.

Ok, I'm off again. See ya later.

Baylee... you think she is "old", You should see her mother she left here with me.

I have a question to ask your opinions. I am embarrassed to admit to my thoughtlessness... but here it goes.
DO you remember me telling you about my DIL family member dieing last week? I had to babysit for the funeral.
Well... when this family member died I kept "intending" to send a sympathy to the DIL mother. (other grandma) I did call her and tell her how sorry I was for the death of her family member and I told her that I would be at the funeral for her if I weren't babysitting the grandkids during the funeral. BUT... I never mailed that sympathy card I intended to. (just plain procrastination)
Well... tonight she was talking about someone else being so thoughtless to not mail a card to her. They told her their excuses why they did not send one.... so apparantly this person did call.
I know her feelings were really hurt by the lack of a card.

Question.... do I send a card now and apologize in the card for not sending when I should have? Do I let it go and learn from my mistake.? What do I do now? I feel like such an *******. I am soooo ashamed of myself. To top it off.... I hurt her feelings a couple of times during the evening we spent together. (Granddaughters birthday party) It was NOT intentional... but it still hurt her feelings. I won't go into all the details of how I did this... but trust me... she was hurt and also probably offended.

Today has been ONE BIG CRAPPY DAY!!!
I hope I never have to live through a day like today again....
although, tomorrow doesn't look anymore promising.

The ONLY thing that went right today is.... I stayed on program.
They were planning a meal that did not fit into my food plan so I made myself my own "on program" version. I did NOT eat the HOT Fresh Bread, and I did not take a single bite of cake or ice cream. I took a small slice so no one would suspect I was dieting... and then cut it up into small pieces so it "looked" like I ate some. I gave a few bites to my grandbaby and tossed the rest.

I cried all the way home because the evening went so bad.
I was soooooo stressed from causing other grandma emotional pain from my inconsiderateness. And when I got home... I did not eat to stuff my feelings.
There are soooo many other factors into my depression right now. But the main thing I want help on for now is.... what do I do about the symphathy card??
I hope I have made sense. I feel like I am just rambling since I have not told the whole story of the entire day.

Mornin' Ladies,

2CUTE: Honey, you DID have a bad day yesterday! Just send the card. Don't say anything about it being late. I don't think there's a time limit on these sorts of things. Express you sympathy on their loss. You could gently say that you would have attended the service but you opted to watch the kids so your DIL could be with the family. Look at what you did yesterday!!!!! You stayed OP through all that stress. WOW! Hope you're feeling better today.

It's getting light out. Time to start a load of wash and get to the new day.

Hey, ladies!

I come to depend on you guys so much and we are having so many problems between the computer and internet supplier that yesterday even though I posted, I just felt awful.

Thin:You are right! I guess when I saw the recipe I guess I read it wrong that you drained the pineapple. Sorry!

Sandy: Hope everything went great with you party at mil.

Baylee: You have got to find a way to shove that nasty ole woman right out the door!

2cute: I agree with Baylee. Just send the card and include any persona sympathies in it you wish, but don't apologize. I too received cards for quite awhile after my mom died. Honey be proud of yourself that you not only stayed on program, but were able to circumvent everyone asking what was wrong with the food, were you sick, etc. We are all sending you a great big hug right now...

Queen: Tony didn't win? How crushing. Now don't do anything rash like eating a 1/2 gal of ice cream and a package or oreos.

j-ann: Thanks for the welcome. Don't you love water aerobics? I used to do it twice a week with my sisters. The problem was I was really really serious about it (too much so) and they thought it was funny because I really went to it so they would hatch something to do to me and then we would have a free for all in the pool (a fun one not angry one). Poor instructor hated to see us coming. I would love to go back to it. It is probably the best exercise someone that is obese can get because it doesn't stress any of the joints.

Kat: Hope you are doing fine this am

I will try again next time to chat. Jack was working on computer last night and the last two times I kept getting kicked off and we can't figure out why.

I need to get up and go walk. I am still not feeling well, but I have to go anyway.

I will talk with you ladies later.
Donna

Well I went to bed crying and I have woke up crying.
But I did wake up to the MOST BEAUTIFUL snowfall ever.
I went to bed about 2am and not even the thought of snow around.
I woke up at 7am and I think we have already had 5 inches !!!!!

I also woke up with a terrible stuffed head too.
I don't know if it is a cold or a reaction to the snow or what ??
I only know I can't breathe out of my nose.

Thank you for the suggestions. I made sooooo many mistakes yesterday concerning the other grandma I don't even know where to begin to tell you all of them. Plus I think I am and was gettting sick, so that amplifes everything. I owe her sooo many apologies.
I would try and tease her and to be funny and it would come out as insulting. Add my lousy attempts to be funny to her emotional state of losing a family member and you can imagine how BAD she must feel today.

Okay... no more downers from me. My husband just came in and asked me to go cook him a big old fashion Sunday morning breakfast.... Biscuit, gravey, bacon/sausage, eggs and even a pancake on the side. This is the same man who pats himself on the back for being "supportive" of my weight loss efforts. His idea of "supportive" and my idea are worlds apart.