A good day today, ...
 

I had a pretty good day today.

I thought these Mayo articles were good.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?id=NU00266&si=2105

http://www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?id=HQ01625&si=2105

It's awfully quiet here. Hope everyone is doing well. Have a good night!

Hi.....yes, we had some stormy weather here, also, today.

Willow...I believe it's the way you said about me using my pc...my husband, though, seems to think I'm obsessed by it! http://www.gifanimations.com/Image/A...overworked.gif

Actually...I do understand...we all can let it take over too much of our lives! There's a new virus out...goes into your email & takes over! Don't open anything with an attachment, unless you know that person!

Not feeling so well, today. My Remicade has worn off. They thought it would last 7 weeks with a large dose, but it came up a week short. I go next Tuesday. They went from 8 wks, to 7 wks...probably make it 6 wks next time...we'll see. I know I don't have strength, hardly, to even be up. Manager (my friend) at the station tried to get me to come home today....I stayed...didn't get much done, though. Oh well....this is my life, I guess!http://www.emotipad.com/emoticons/Dunno.gif

I'll check in later....take care... http://www.cartooncottage.com/images/bearhoney.gif

I'm sorry, ....
 

Darn it anyway, Charlotte, I was hoping the Remicade would last for the whole 7 weeks. So sorry you're getting sick again. I hope they have you go back in 6 weeks next time. Gosh, it has been that long already since you were there last time! How time flies when I'm getting older! :D

It is unbelieveably hot here. It was still 95 degrees at 7 PM tonight. They say we're suppose to get some strong or severe storms tonight, but I don't believe them. Then they said it's suppose to be cooler tomorrow and for the next 5 or 6 days. A few minutes later I watched the weather report for tomorrow and it said it's suppose to get up to 93 tomorrow. WOW!!! A whole 2 degrees cooler! :dizzy:

I did my 3-mile WATP tape this morning and again this afternoon. I hadn't planned on doing it this afternoon, but I didn't have anything to do and I didn't want to go to Curves because they don't have airconditioning, just a few fans, and it's too hot for that. So, I did my tape again.

I have all those other tapes sitting there, and I always end up using that same one.

Wherever Sheila and Sue are, I hope they are having good weather.

Puss, how ya doin'? My thoughts are with you.

I hope everyone has a good night.

Hello, all!

We had wonderful weather! One night it rained a bit while we were sleeping, but every day was sunny, sometimes with fog rolling in a bit later, then followed by more sun. On the way back home, we stopped at a long-time friend's house and then my DH and I went our separate ways from the rest of our family who went back to Idaho. It was so hard to see them go, and they felt the same way. I miss my smiley little granddaughter so much.

Sounds like everyone had a pretty eventful week with computer viruses, visits to the stern doctor, melting jelly bellies, and your poor kitty, Fatpuss. I'm a major animal lover (think I mentioned I worked for an animal shelter at one time and started my own animal rescue organization) and it's so hard to let our beloved furry friends go. The worst part about animals is that they don't live as long as we do, so we're always faced with losing them too soon.

I also had a kitty with renal failure and had to give him subQ fluids. One thing I learned from the whole ordeal was that cats need to have bloodwork done annually when they turn 7 years old. I guess 7 is the magic number with cats. Unfortunately, my vet didn't tell me until it was too late so I had no idea of that until my 16 year old cat started drinking too much and losing weight. If you start having the bloodwork done at age 7, then the vets can catch renal problems early--same with dogs. My dogs now have bloodwork done semi-annually and I've managed to stave off kidney disease in one, and liver disease in the other just by changing food.

Speaking of cats, my pet/dad sitter was assigned the task of feeding my cats once a day. They are all on a special diet food. Well, my daughter who stayed at our house, thought she was supposed to feed them, too. Then it turns out my dad was also feeding them. My cats look like sausages on legs and they were eating diet food the whole time! Just goes to show you can overeat on anything and gain weight, dang it! My cats aren't happy to see us because they know they have to go back to the 1/3 cup twice a day routine.

My son took some great photos. I will have to create a page and post a link so you all can get jealous. Unless you don't like beautiful weather, wonderful scenary, perfect temperatures, etc., etc. :) I did awful with my eating. Started out with great intentions that quickly went down the drain. Oh, well. Today is another day. I do need to learn how to handle vacations, though.

We left the house only halfway painted. Turned out to be a lot harder job than we anticipated so we're going to get back to it today.

Have a good day everyone!

Welcome back!!
 

Hi Sheila!
I'm happy that you had a nice vacation. I bet it did hurt to see that little one go home. I always miss them as they are driving away!

That's how old my cat was too. 7 1/2 years old!

Oh Gosh! I laughed so hard about everybody feeding your cats!! I bet those cats were saying, " Well, ALRIGHT!!!"

I'm looking forward to seeing the photos. And, yes, I probably will be jealous of all the good weather.
Actually, it's pretty decent here today. Mid-eighties and a nice strong breeze and the humidity isn't so high.

It's beginning to look like I'll have to do my basement ceiling myself. I'm starting to get pi$$ed off now, and my patience is running thin. Well, I did it before in 3 rooms upstairs, and I'll do it again if I have to. Although that was like, .... 27 years ago. :eek:

I better get my stuff started for tomorrow.

Hello Sue, Charlotte and Puss. Any lurkers too!
Hope your day is going good.

Hi girls, today is the first calm one I am about to have since last Friday so I needed to get back to you friends. Well, both Alfie and I have had a very eventful week. While he was still in hospital on Sunday morning the bridgework in my mouth fell out! It was due to be replaced Wednesday but the dentist booked me in for a hour saying it would take much drilling to remove. Ha! Part of the original tooth on one had snapped off and I thought the dentist woudn't be able to do anything and the bridge would be out of the question. Little wizard of a dentist managed to sort it but had to do TWO root canals on the teeth supporting the bridge as I had TWO absesses! I had felt the discomfort and swelling for days. The only good thing (kind of) about the bridge being out was I couldn't eat properly but did find that soft cake and cups of tea was perfect! So, initially I lost a couple of pounds.....I have a temporary bridge in now until the proper one is made and back to bad eating habits.
I tried giving Alfie injections of water under his scruff but to be honest I was waking in the middle of the night with nightmares over them and DH was useless, said he couldn't bear to do them either. The GOOD news is I took him back to the vet yesterday, saw a different one in the group because the lovely girl I saw Friday and Monday had a friend die suddenly (put my troubles into perspective) and this one said we dont need to do the injections because he is well hydrated at the moment but the BEST news is that bloods yesterday show that although urea levels are up again, the important one, the Keeratinine? levels are down even on the levels after he was on a drip all weekend. Thank you for your prayers for him. Willow, he has only ever eaten science diet (Hills) and Iams all his life, plus fish. Such a fussy eater he would never eat wet food. I have to go ...I can hear my mother getting up , she goes home this morning and to be honest, it can't come quick enough for DH. I will post more this afternoon. Thanks so much for all your kind wishes, xx

Finally, ...... Friday!!
 

I'm down another 2 pounds this morning. Hadn't intended to weigh until Monday, but, was feeling "thinner" so thought I'd check. 3 more to go to get back where I had been before my spree. :rolleyes: I wanted to weigh on Mondays, and I still will, but maybe this will keep me honest over the weekend, my worst time.

The weather is going to be beautiful this weekend, if you can believe that weather man. Hopefully I can get outdoors and do something.
I need to cut the long canes off of a climbing 7-sister rose and dig it up and transfer it to a different spot. I know I'm going to look like I was in a fight with a mean cat, .... and lost, ... but it HAS to be done.

Puss, I'm happy to hear that your kitty is doing better! I always say, ...." the power of prayer is the strongest thing ever, ...."
....... Do you suppose you're hubby has been saying a prayer that your mother goes home? ..... :lol:

Oh My!! TWO abcesses! I am such a coward when it comes to dentists, and if I knew I had TWO abcesses I'd have to be sedated. You're a brave woman in my estimation.


I'm off to work! Everybody have a nice day!

Omigosh, Fatpuss, two abcesses and two root canals?? Yuck! That's not the way I'd choose to lose weight! Did your mom get off okay? Hopefully she will be okay at home with no more visits to the hospital or back to you for a while. Maybe things can get back to normal at your house.

Willow, as the weekend starts, how are you doing? If you need a shot of willpower, be sure and post before you take that first bite.

Charlotte, I'm so sorry the medication wore off so quickly. I hope you can get some relief soon after your next appointment.

My DH left for Norway yesterday at 7:00 pm, arriving in Norway on Saturday at 3:30 pm their time. He always tries to stay up and then go to bed at the normal hour for them. The host has a boat and was going to take the group on a tour of the fjords. I'm looking forward to the photos, although the weather report says 65 degrees as a high and rainy. My DH took a rainsuit with him--smart thinking!

So I'm left to work on painting. At the rate we're going, it'll be next year before the house is finished. The channel siding is a bear to paint--give me lap siding any day.

Supposed to be fairly cool (71 degrees) and partly sunny today. So far I don't see a cloud in the sky so we'll see if the weather people are wrong. Guess I better go get that paintbrush out. . .

Sorry I didn't get back yesterday ladies, DH was so thrilled to have the house back to just us I was kept prisoner on the settee with him ha ha. He was getting right narked at my mother selecting the tv programmes (including Hyacynthe Bouquet as detective Hetty Wainthrop! He can't stand her as I think she reminds him of...guess who?). Anyway all quiet on the western front but it's early days yet. I started a course of antibiotics today for the absesses. Gum came to a painful crescendo the other night and infection burst from what looked like an injection site from Wednesday. Much better now. Puss cat can't understand why I follow him everywhere with bits of fish and water bowl but is more resigned to having the tablets X twice daily. Sheila I think you were so brave doing the injections yourself - I honestly had nightmares over them they made me cringe so much yet I have donated over 40 pints of blood over the years myself. I am glad you had a good break with your little grandaughter, she sounds lovely. Had to laugh about the double feeding of your animals! I didn't realise you started an animal rescue, you must have had some very sad times as well as rewarding ones. We don't do bloods every 7 years on pets here as far as I know but it's a brilliant idea.
Willow -- what can I say lady?? :cb: fantastic on the 2lb loss!! I think you must have Fedex'd the fat over to me though...I was sorry to hear about your little Mouse, so sad and young too. Hope if you decide to do your ceiling you take good care and don't overdo things, last thing you need is a broken leg.
Angel, I am really sorry you are getting less and less time from your Remicade. How are you feeling now? Do you get good support and treatment from your specialists? I nearly cried my eyes out reading about your poor dog. God, that must have nearly killed you cradling your poor darling to the end.
It's a holiday weekend in the Uk, last one of the year so DH and I plan to do chilling out things like bits of gardening, reading and siestas etc. Like your husband, Sheila, my DH travels too. Norway is not too bad right now but I wouldn't like it in the winter, brrr. My DH is off to Holland for a few days next week so (hopefully) it will be just puss cat and me taking it easy. My son is having a long weekend in Dublin, Ireland with a group of friends at the moment and I purposely haven't told him about the cat. I will wait until he's back just in case puss takes a sudden turn for the worse (I was told that when they stop eating and drinking it's about 48 hours afterr that). I know son will be gutted, he adores Alfie and when he was in Mexico a few years back, found a kitten in the middle of nowhere which had been in a road accident and cradled it for 2 miles to the nearest vet and paid for emergency treatment out of his student allowance. Such a lovely softie.
Thanks again for all your prayers and well wishes, and hopefully after the holiday I will get back on track with this weight losing malarky on Tuesday. Angel, I really hope you are not feeling too ill.

I finally got that tank out!!
 

I am sooo happy to get that blasted thing out of there. Now I can go forward with my plans.

I woke up at 2:11 AM and couldn't get back to sleep for about 3 hours. Then when I DID get to sleep, I woke up at 6:50 and had to start in right away.
I had 2 waffles and a cup of coffee for breakfast, then went and rented the pump and compressor to pump the fuel oil out of the tank before they took it out. I had stopped and bought 2 fifty-foot hoses last night to hook up to the pump so we could just pump the oil out of the tank, up the steps and into containers on the back of the guys truck.

Then they took the tank out and after they left I took the pump and compressor back, then came home and started in.
I swept the whole basement again because they left a trail of dirt from that old tank. I then carried a couple of things upstairs and outside to be thrown away. Then I scrubbed the floor in the basement. I used a whole bottle of Mr. Clean Orange Ultimate Cleaner. At least it smells good now.
Eventually the end where the tank was is going to need to be soaked and then scrubbed with a brush. I have an old carpet shampooer that I've had for about 30 years, and I use it to clean the cement floor in the basement. It has 2 rotating brushes and it works as slick as can be on that cement. So, while the floor down there is drying, I decided that as long as I'm in the cleaning mood, I might as well do my kitchen and dining room floors too, so I did.

Then my niece showed up with some leftovers from a party she had last night. Lasagna and lemon cake!! I LOVE lemon cake, and it has to be either with lemon frosting or NO frosting. Well, she brought NO FROSTING. I had a piece, and the rest is going in the freezer as soon as I can get back downstairs.

Yesterday was my one little granddaughters Birthday, and her party is today, but I'm not going. I didn't get an invitation, for the first time, but even if I had, I wouldn't have gone. For one thing, it's 3 hours away. I don't go to any of the parties anymore. I get too nervous around all those kids and people in general, so I don't really enjoy going. Maybe that sounds awful for a grandmother to say, but, it's true, and I guess there's nothing wrong with claiming your feelings. Although I'm sure some of the parents love to have an excuse to mean mouth me.
Anyway, I sent her a card with a check in it on Wednesday, so she should have gotten it by now.
Her mothers birthday is tomorrow and I sent her card Thursday, so, hopefully they will both get them on time.

I sent e-mails to 9 of my grandkids last night. The other three don't have internet service, so I'll have to send a note by snail mail.

I'm really tired right now, and I was going to go take a nap, but I just looked at the clock and realized that it's almost 4 in the afternoon already. No wonder I'm tired! But, I don't dare take a nap now because I'd never sleep tonight if I did.

Seeing as how I had a big lunch, guess I'll just have a low calorie sandwich and veggies with dip for supper.

Sheila, I guess in a way I already kind of overdid the foods, but maybe it won't have that bad of an impact because I did a lot of work today.
But, you got a deal. If it starts to get to me, I'll be on here pounding the keys! :D

I am getting eager to get started downstairs now that the tank is out. Then, I'll probably forget about food until it's done. And that may take me a while. I already have a picture in my mind of how it's going to look, .... even the bathroom I'm going to have put in down there.

I know what lap siding is, but what is channel siding? Anyway, be careful that you don't fall.
Hope your hubby has good weather and a nice trip with lots of photos for you.

Puss, I'm glad that abcess broke. That must have been some teriffic pressure and pain just before it broke though.
I hope the dentist can get it fixed without causing you any more pain.

Poor kitty! Do you think he is in pain? Maybe he is getting better.

The weather is beautiful here today. I think I'll take my supper outside and sit in the swing to eat. It's the first the weather has been good enough to do that in a long time.


Time to get busy again! See ya later! :wave:

Hi everybody... just had to come in a minute & wish all a good weekend.

Wow..Willow...you've really started the weightloss, now ! :cb: :dance: I'm proud OF you & proud FOR you!

Fatpuss...congratulations on your loss too! :bravo: :cp: Glad your cat is feeling a little better. Also, glad there's a little peace at home, for awhile, maybe.

Sheila, my daughter has been in the process of painting her house, also. I know it's a big job...but I'll be glad when ours is ready for painting.:dizzy:

Something has gone wrong with my graphics...I'll work with them when I'm feeling better. Thanks, all, for caring....I'll be ok by the middle of next week. Right now, though, don't even feel strong enough to be up. The pain & stiffness bothers me...but the fatigue is almost more than I can handle. I'll be back, when I feel a little better. Take care, & have a good weekend. :)

The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is
fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply
felt good.

Ruth Benedict
(1887-1948, American Anthropologist)

I'M BAAAAACCCCCCCKKKKKKKKK!! Feeling rested, relaxed, fished out and glad to be alive. Back to work tomorrow, but I am ready. My computer shut down with the Northeast Blackout, and didn't come back on before we left for vacation. When I called the 800 number for AOL, I was told it might be the middle of the week before it was up and running again. It took me almost an hour to read all the posts between laundry, the telephone, and IM's. Glad to hear everyone is doing OK. Puss, I really know how you are feeling. Hope Alfie is on the mend. Years ago, I remember pulling off the side of the road after I had to have my Min-Pin (miniature Doberman Pinscher) put to sleep. She had a brain tumor and we took her to Cornell Univ, but to no avail. I was crying so hard I couldn't see. It tears a little piece of your heart out everytime. I did the same thing when I lost FatCat. Now I just have fun with OPP's - Other People's Pets :dizzy:
Willow, sounds like you are back on track. Way to Go! :strong:
When I got home, my stretchy bands were waiting for me at the Post Office. I had ordered them on line. Can't wait to try them out in the morning. Or maybe this afternoon when I get the house back in order. I have a real "one that got away" story for you. I hooked on to something that I could not reel in. Started swimming away from the boat, then went under the boat and snapped off my 8-lb test line like it was thread. Sure wish I could have seen what it was. General consensus was that it was a big Lake Trout. Possibly a Northern Pike, but the line broke - a pike would have bitten it off right at the hook. We did catch a lot of bass and many, many large perch. They are delicious.
Angel, hope you are feeling better soon.
Sheila, hope you didn't do too much "damage" on your vacation. I managed to keep it at only a half pound gain. Probably the big ice cream cone, or the can of cashews. Oh well, manageable, and only once a year. Back to the program!! Still have some catch-up work to do with company coming on Thursday. I'll be back later or tomorrow. I missed you all. Sue

I liked this, .....
 

I bookmarked this to use for reference at "those" times.

http://my.webmd.com/content/article/72/81680.htm

Just a quickie - off for a siesta after gardening with DH. Welcome back Sue, both you and Sheila were missed during your holidays. Just wanted to say how much I like you ladies and our group (though new members always welcome) and I wished we lived in the same town and could meet for lunch once a week!

Welcome Back Sue!
 

Hello Ladies! I'm glad everyone is back and feeling refreshed and relaxed.

I have to go to Mayo again tomorrow and on the 4th of Sept. for tests and exams etc. pertaining to a malignancy from June of 2000. So far, ... so good. We'll see what the MRI's and CT scans etc. say this time. It's always a kind of a nervous couple of days before I have to go. Only this time it's going to take longer. Usually I have all the tests on the first day, then see the Drs to find out the results the next day, but, this time one of the Drs will be out of town so I won't see them until the 4th of Sept. to find out the results.
Anyway, today I'm just sitting around and surfing the net. Found a couple of good articles too.
I had never looked into the South Beach Diet because I just figured it was another restrictive plan that had a person giving up a whole part of their foods. But, after reading this I've changed my mind about what kind of plan it is.

http://weightloss.about.com/

Then scroll down a bit to the article on SBD and Exercise.

Sue, isn't that just driving you crazy wondering just WHAT that was? I have had large mouth Bass do that to me too, ... take it into roots and snap the line. It sure is fun though, isn't it? I'm so jealous!

Wow! If you only were up a half pound after a weeks vacation, you did fantastic! Good job Lady!

Puss, I agree. How nice it would be to all meet in person. What a gab fest that would be!
I too truly like our group. It's so nice to have understanding people and supportive friends.
There are so many other aspects of our lives that effect our weight gains and losses, and it's nice to be able to talk about those things too.
I'm also jealous of your siesta's. I'd never sleep at night though. I need to find something that will allow me to sleep all night through instead of waking after a couple of hours and not be able to get back to sleep. It saps my energy.
I've wondered if I might have a bit (or a lot!) of depression, but, I'm afraid of the drugs they give people. I've heard that some of them make people worse and they end up committing suicide after going ON the medications. You never know if you're going to get a Doctor who knows what they're doing when it comes to prescribing those drugs either. Sometimes I think I'd rather go sleepless, but, that takes it's toll after a while too.
And sometimes they want to get your family involved too, and there's no way in **** that I'd let my family in on my personal gut feelings. They're all adults now, and it's none of their business.

I still think this all has something to do with the thyroid thing because I was ok until they radiated that, and then I started gaining weight and not wanting to go anywhere, etc. But, that all happened at the time of menopause too. But, my gut instincts tell me that menopause has nothing to do with this.

Anyway, I hope you're feeling ok Charlotte. Just rest until it's time for the Dr. visit. Prayers for your quick recovery. I know you get wiped out for a day or so after the meds, but, we understand. Just post when you feel up to it, but know that we're thinking of you and hoping for the best for you.

See everyone later! Have a great day!!

Ashamed to say I am ready again for my bed. Had an hour and twenty mins siesta then DH and I were out in the garden again until 1930 then I soaked in the bath whilst a casserole ( "one I prepared earlier"as they say on all the cookery shows) heated then we watched some tv. I do read for over an hour in bed at night though so that probably makes me sleep well too. You may be right about a touch of depression, Willow, I think sleep patterns are affected such as waking before dawn when a person never used to. I know my mother used to have siestas before her depression but says she can't now. It's a shame you don't see your doctors until the 4th for results of your tests, you would be less than human not to have it on your mind but I will say a prayer that all goes well for you. Sue, my son would quiz you to death on that fish of yours! His last two girlfriends have been chosen carefully, I think, graded on their willingness to sit quietly at his side while he fishes all day! I remember when he was a school boy and was fishing on the canal at the back of our house and he caught a pike and a man came from his garden and traded him some home produced honey for it - said he was going to eat the pike! I know exactly how you must have felt with your little dog having to be put to sleep. It's a sorrowful business and I have done it before with my childhood cat years ago.
I had salad for lunch (good) but with mushroom/garlic pate and french bread too (bad) and cake (very bad) and this evening had pork fillet casserole/new potatoes/broccoli/home made onion gravy (not too bad) then I am ashamed to say....TWO whopping pieces of chocolate coated swiss roll and a chocolate covered caramel wafer (very, very bad). I use the excuse that it's that time of the month but it's being at home. I really will get back on track when I go back to work on Tuesday.

Just a quick hello....VERY weak....hope they move the treatments up to 6 wks. I go tomorrow.

Be back in a couple of days...Take care.:)

Angel, I am so sorry you are feeling so unwell. Good luck today - hope you get something to make you feel better.
Weight is up by 3lbs today from the 146lb so must get back on track starting today, I have been gorging since my mother's visit. Hope everyone is ok, xx

Good Morning Everyone!
Angel, hope all goes well for you today. We're all here for you and pray that you will be up and about soon.
Puss, you should have packed those 3 pounds in your mother's suitcase. :lol: Sounds like stress eating. I do a lot of that. I like the idea of a siesta. While we were at camp, we took naps in the afternoon. One day we lay on the bed for a quick nap (not to be confused with a quickie) and woke up 3 hours later. Guess once in a while the batteries need to be recharged. I wonder if my boss would let me take a nap from two to three in the afternoon. NAH, I doubt it. I liked the comment about your son. I think if I was ever single again (Heaven forbid!) I would put an ad in the personal columns - not with a picture of me, but with a picture of my boat. :lol: The first pike I ever caught, a friend of mine, an older Italian lady, cleaned it, stuffed it, and baked it. It was delicious. I did catch a 21" trout last year and gave it to my mother who thoroughly enjoyed it.
Hello Willow. I tried those stretchy bands. I will have to find a way to make a "handle" of some sort. The arthritis in my hands does not enable me to hold them tightly enough. Maybe if I wrapped the ends around a bit of broomstick or something. I do like the concept though and my thighs know I used them!!
Sheila - Hello to you too. I have a guess as to channel siding, but am awaiting the reply with baited breath :lol: I think I fish too much.
Have a great day all.
Sue

Sue, you crack me up! Just so you'll go brush your teeth and get rid of the baited breath, I'll tell you that channel siding is a board and batten kind of thing (although it's all one piece of siding) you see on ranch houses sometimes--the siding is vertifical rather than horizontal like lap siding, and there is a wider board, then about an inch channel that's recessed, then the wide board, then the channel. I didn't know what it was called until the remodelers had to find some. It's a bear to paint because if you spray, it sticks on the bigger boards, but doesn't go into the channels. Then if you spray the channels, you get too much on the bigger boards and it drips like crazy. So we rollered the bigger boards, and I'm hand painting the channels.

Glad you had a great time fishing. Sounds very relaxing! I haven't fished in ages. I like catching the fish, but I don't like cleaning them, and sometimes I feel bad about killing them, although I'm not a vegetarian so I know I shouldn't feel bad. But it's easier to buy a filet at the store than look at them wiggling at the bottom of the boat. Luckily, my son loves to fish and doesn't mind cleaning them. He smokes fish, too. Yum!

Charlotte, I hope everything goes well today and that you are feeling well enough to post soon.

Puss, that does sound like stress eating--or maybe eating because you've been tense and now you're relaxing. I think the hardest thing we face is learning new behaviors around eating. I still eat to comfort myself when I'm not feeling well. Sometimes I eat when I'm bored, but that one is a lot more under control. I had great intentions when I went on vacation, but I didn't stick with them. Oh, well. Like you, I'm back on track, and working towards getting rid of the Final Fifty!

Oh, darn, I'm late for an appointment! See you all later!

How does the saying go? "The road to **** is paved with good intentions". So much for getting back on track. By 11.00 I had eaten my packed lunch - a sandwich and a banana - and felt like I had lost my appetite and found a horse's. I had a pear and a nectarine at 12.00 then nipped to the supermarket and bought a salmon and cucumber sandwich at 1330. Not too bad, I hear you say.. Then a male colleague FORCED his persuasive charms upon me bearing gifts of cut-price, slightly out of date bargain-of-the-year handmade white chocolate truffles filled with Bailey's Irish Cream ...and three truffles later I was calling this young man the divil himself with a shaven head. See what you have to put up with in a Government department! It was downhill all the way then, spaghetti bolognaise (home made not too bad) then so out of character, I had a frozen yoghurt in a wafer cone and I don't even like them that much! Briskly followed by a small packet of low fat cheese and onion crisps which I never normally eat. I just don't know what's going on with me, Puss Cat is still eating and drinking and acting ok so far, my abscess' are much better, Mother is keeping her calls to 15 minutes (because I sneakily call her during her favourite programmes) so I can't understand it. Sheila, I hope you are right and this is just reaction time. I really will try to be good tomorrow, DH flys to Holland so have only myself to cater for. Sue, you made me laugh about your nap/quickie faux pas! I used to use that expression to DH if I fancied a siesta and it led to sorrowful misunderstanding many a time, ha ha. This afternoon about 1430 I could have just put my head on my desk and snoozed for England. Sheila, I am with you over gutting fish. I did it once when the kids were small and caught some mackerel but it made my innards heave. How is your garden doing with all the iris' planted? At the weekend I discovered a rhododendron and an azalea I had planted 5 years ago at the very back, dark recess of the garden. They looked dead and had never bloomed so DH re-planted them in sun spots and within hours of soaking them the leaves plumped out all glossy so I have high hopes for them next year. Willow and Angel I hope you are both ok now after your tests. Angel, I hope you are soon feeling a little better, we miss your posts and lovely icons. Willow, hope your tests went ok and they were able to give you a little reassurance before getting your results through.

Hi Girls!
 

Well, I guess this makes it unanimous, ... I've been a bottomless pit too. Maybe it's the time of year, or, .... the internet, ... or, .... Awww shucks, who knows??

Charlotte, I hope you're ok. I know you had to go for your treatment today. I hope everything went well.
A friend of my sons was diagnosed with rhumatoid arthritis when he was in his early 30's, and his sister had lupus. Anyway, he was told to change his diet drastically, with no red meats, and very little other meats either, and also some vegetables too, and I'm thinking that tomatoes was one of them. At any rate, he was so very, very ill that he did what his Drs told him to do, and slowly he started feeling better. He was here in our state a few years ago to visit my son and they went hunting like old times. He could at least walk around which he hadn't been able to do at one point.
Have your Drs ever said anything about eliminating dairy or anything like that from your diet?

Puss, I don't even know what some of those foods are that you've been having, but they sound delicious just the way you describe them! :D

Sue, maybe if you cut a piece of broom stick about 4 inches long, then sand the edges smooth, then drill a hole through each end about 3/4 inch from the end then thread the end of the band through the holes and tie the end back onto itself(the band).
OR,..... just drill one hole in the center of the piece of wood, then put the band through it and tie it back on itself, kind of like the handle on a lawn mower starter, then do that at each end. But, you'd have to sand the edges good so they don't cut into the band.
OR, how about just tying a loop in each end to slide over your hands so you don't have to hang on to the ends so tightly?

A 3-hour afternoon nap!! Ooohhh, that sounds so heavenly! Makes me think of my youth when I could do that.

Sheila, thanks for the explanation on channel siding. I never would have guessed. I was thinking horizontal all along. That's probably why I have so many kids. :o :D

I like catching fish, and it doesn't bother me to clean them, and I like to cook them.
When I was a kid, I used to go fishing with my Dad all the time. We had setlines and would go out in the wee hours and fish till daybreak, then go check the setlines, rebait them, then spend the rest of the day fishing and go back in the evening to check the setlines again and rebait them for the next morning.
I used to go spearing carp with him too, then we'd soak them in a brine and then Dad would smoke them and we'd sell them. To this day I absolutely LOVE smoked carp with homemade bread.

As for reasons we eat when we really don't need to etc. I think that I developed a really bad habit when my kids were small and have never concentrated on stopping it. That is eating too fast. I can remember of doing that so I could hurry up and get dishes done so I could get laundry folded, or clothes ready for the next day, or even at work, with a 20-minute to a half hour break, by the time you washed up and walked to the break room, you only have a few minutes left, so you inhale your lunch so you could have a cigarette, which I did up until 4 1/2 years ago.
Well, now that I have all this free time on my hands at dinner time, I still eat too fast, but what's worse, I eat more because I don't give it a chance to register.
I'll concentrate on that I guess, and see if that doesn't help the icky stuffed feeling I sometimes get half an hour after I eat.

As for my trip to the Clinic yesterday, it wasn't all fun and games, but neither was it totally bad.

I guess you all know by now that I'm afraid of storms. Not the storms themselves, but I'm afraid of wind, and that's what I'm always fearful of happening during a storm. I'm OK as long as I'm home, but, anyplace else, and I get real nervous. At the same time, I can sleep like a baby when it rains and there's just a garden variety thunderstorm.
Well, it stormed all the way up there yesterday morning. I told my son that by the time I got there my fingers were frozen to the steering wheel with white knuckles and my eyes were like golf balls. :lol:
I had to be there at 7:15, for a CT scan, and usually I know what's going to happen and how long it takes. Well, they did one scan, and then they just let me lay there for a LOOOOONG time and didn't say anything through the speaker like they usually do. Then, finally they did another scan, waited the usual length of time and came and took me out of the machine. I've been having these done every few months for over 3 years, and that has never happened before. So, I kind of was wondering about that the rest of the day.
Then, the last test was an MRI at 2 in the afternoon. Well, when I first started these tests in 2000, they had me put my arm up above my head while lying on my stomach. Not up in the air, but stretched out in front of me on the mattress in the machine.
Then, after that first time, they have always had me lay with my arm beside me in the machine.
Yesterday, they said they wanted to do it the original way because they needed to get a good scan. Soooo, me being the pessimist that I am, I started thinking that maybe something was seen on the CT scan of my lungs and they wanted to get a good scan of the arm to see if there was anything there too.
Now watch, I'll be all worried till next Thursday, and there won't
be anything wrong.
One time they called me back in to get another shot of my right lung and I thought for sure they had found something, but, it turned out that it was just off-center on the first x-ray and they had to get all of the right lung in there. I know, .... I'm nuts! :dizzy:

Then it stormed on the way home too. :lol:
Nice day! I spent over two hours driving in storms!

I had to be fasting before the CT scan, so about 10 AM I was getting hungry and went to get breakfast at a cafeteria that's in the campus complex up there that has good food. Well, as my luck goes, they quit serving breakfast at 10 AM and don't start serving lunch until 11AM. All they had left was some oatmeal and a breakfast pizza and some bran muffins. I was so hungry, so I got a big piece of breakfast pizza and a muffin. That pizza was so darned good! It was a big round pizza crust with scrambled eggs and sausage, with crumbled bacon, peppers and mozzarella cheese. Very thick with these ingredients. I'm going to make it the next time my grandkids are here. I bet they'll love it. So, my foods weren't so good yesterday either.
Nor today. I did ok until after work. Then I had swedish meatballs and mashed potatoes. But I did pick up a broasted chicken to make sandwich of tomorrow and a chicken pasta salad tomorrow night.

I better get going and get ready for tomorrow and get ready for bed. Then I'm on vacation again for 6 days.
Everybody have a great day/night. See ya later! :wave:

Willow, you certainly had a scary time on that scanning machine but as you already said, we always think the worse of things at times like this. I had a lump in my breast about 3 or 4 years ago and swore my husband not to tell the kids if the result was bad. I drove myself and went by myself for the scan and biopsy because I knew that that way I would have to stay strong if the news was bad and I had to get myself home afterwards. Fortunately it was just a fatty lump (bit like the rest of me I suppose ha ha!) but you are wired so tightly over every procedure you end up imagining that they are doing something a little bit different to the way they do other people. Please God your result will be the same as mine. Food wise I was good until I got back from work and after dinner had too many jelly babies and a thick slice of hot toast spread with green peppercorn and garlic pate. Funny thing is, after the gorging yesterday, I lost a pound this morning. Doesn't make sense though I know I shouldn't weight every day but I think it was Sue said she does the same just in case she gains 10lb overnight! Hope everyone is ok, especially you, Angel, hope your appointment was good for you.

Hi, all--

Sounds like you had a very stressful day, Willow. Having medical tests is awful, but waiting for the results of a medical test is truly horrible. Your mind always imagines the worst. Driving in all those storms doesn't sound like a lot of fun either. Driving in snow always made me white knuckle it.

Fatpuss, jelly babies sound good, but green peppercorn and garlic pate, well, all I can say is--yuck! Then again, I love anchovies, which most people hate so I guess we all have our food quirks. Now, the jelly babies sound really good. Good for you for losing that pound, even though you felt you didn't deserve it. Our bodies are weird things, aren't they? Did I ever mention my friend who had a major heart attack, followed by a triple bypass, and was in the hospital for weeks, barely eating, and almost dying? She got on the scale after that ordeal and discovered she'd gained a couple of pounds. Almost caused another heart attack!

I finished painting my share (the lower half) of the addition to our house, so now have about 2/3 of the "main house" left to go. I was hoping to be done before my DH got home tomorrow, but I probably won't. He won't care, but it was my own goal.

He sent me an e-mail and he only has to go on one international trip next year--to Cannes! I want to go! It's not so much the money (hey, what is plastic for?), but traveling is painful for me. This is such a once-in-a-lifetime thing that I really want to just suck it up and go anyway. I've never been to Europe and his share would be paid for so we'd only have to pay for me--it would be wonderful!

It's really sunny and nice here--cool. Hopefully I can see Mars tonight.

http://members.shaw.ca/Sunburn_69/Bearmail_Hello.jpg Still feeling kinda "out of it"...but wanted to say hello.

My treatments were moved up to 6 wks apart....maybe this will be better. My medicare ain't gonna like that!!http://www.addis-welt.de/smilie/smilie/lachen/13.gif The cost is between $2300-$3000 a treatment! Thanks for all the well wishes. I'm gonna have all the kids & grands here for the holiday weekend. Maybe I'll be stronger by then! It's a rare occasion to have them with us all at once. Just wish I had a house for those out of town to stay at......maybe some day.

Willow...try not to worry...I know, I do the same thing. The last MRI I got (& I've had a lot) was suppose to take 30 minutes. I lay on that table in the machine for 2 hrs! That folder I took to my dr was almost too thick & heavy for me to carry! Talk about me worrying....I had myself dead & buried, by the time I got my results!:?: Not a thing, did they find! Hope that's how yours turns out.:)

Sheila & Fatpuss....hello....hope all is well. I'm not gonna stay online long tonight...will say more next time. Saw more weight's been lost! http://www.stopstart.freeserve.co.uk.../1syellow1.gif

Everyone have a good evening. http://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung...smiley-039.gif

Just a quickie, ...
 

I've been busy today. I had to fax some things to my Dr because work has decided that after 3+ years of going for these appts with no problems, I and my DR. are now required to fill out a FMLA form once a year.
When the cancer was first discovered, My DR wrote a letter to my employer telling them what was up and that I would need to be coming back there for years for treatment. I don't know why all of a sudden they are changing horses mid-stream, but I had to do all that crap.
I always have taken my appointment itinerary in for them to make a copy of it, so it's not like I'm lying about it.

Then my grandson rode his bike up here to visit me. We went out looking at ceiling tiles and grid work for the ceiling downstairs, and looked at whirlpool tubs and pedestal sinks.
I'm going to put the ceiling in myself.
Lots of money by the time I'll be done with what I want to do.

He also wanted a Dairy Queen slurpee or whatever they're called, so we stopped there and of course I had to get a Reeses blizzard.

A woman I work with asked me to join Weight Watchers with her tomorrow. I'm thinking on it. I want to make sure it's what I want to do before I jump into it.

I'm off work for 6 days now. Yippee!! I need to get some house work done in the morning, then I have a dental appt. in the afternoon for a cleaning.

It's suppose to be in the 70's here tomorrow. Hopefully the forecast will be wrong and it won't rain till after dark so I can go for a bike ride.

I'll check in again in the morning.
Have a good night all.

Oh my gosh! I just saw that Charlotte posted while I was posting!
Good to hear from you! I'm happy your treatments have been brought closer together. To heck with medicare. They pay for drug addicts and people who don't want to work, so they can darn well pay for a necessary treatment!

I bet your family will have you feeling happy as can be by the end of the weekend. Just don't overdo it. Let them help you.

Sheila, is there any medicine you can take short-term that would help the pain but not knock you out so you could enjoy a trip to Europe?

You're sure going to town on the painting! So, does your hubby get to do the top half of the house?
Actually, I like doing stuff like that.

Puss, well, ... what can I say? ... I'm glad your lump was fatty tissue??? Just doesn't sound right to be saying. :D But, isn't it a bummer what we women have to go through? Breasts, uterus, ovaries, ....... plus the darned hot flashes, etc.

Well, this time I'm really going. see ya all later! NIGHT!!

I can relax now, ....
 

I'm all done with appointments for a week. Yippee!!
I changed dentists because my old one was getting to be a real puke! Just an arrogant *******!
This new one seems to be a very nice person, and one of the handsomest men I've ever had the pleasure of laying eyes on. Mmmm , Mmmm , Mmm! And I liked the hygienist too. :D
Don't have to go back till March.

I also went with Rita and joined Weight Watchers. I bought 4 of the journal books. Enough to last for a year. Being an optimist here! :p
It isn't all that different, really. Instead of getting a range of points, like from 21 to 26, you get a target number of points, like halfway between what the range used to be, and then you are given 35 points a week to use for those "special occasions" or however you want to use them. I don't think it's all that different from banking points.
But, ... they now have exercise pamphlets that you get on weeks 5 and 9, and .... each week there is something new handed out and that part of it seems to be really interesting. I think better than what they had before.

It was so icky here today. The weather reports yesterday said it was going to be in the mid 70's and much less humid today and tomorrow. Well, it was already 85 at noon and as humid as can be, and it just rained, POURED for about 20 minutes after I left WW and now you can hardly breathe outside. I'm glad I'm on vacation till next wed. I would hate to be out and about in this yuk every day.

Other than that, I had an uneventful day. ........ I lead such a boring life!

Have a good evening all!

Hey, Willow--we're fellow WW now! Or make that sister WW! I haven't been for a couple of weeks because of vacation so I'm getting the new stuff tomorrow. It will be interesting to see what it's all about. People on other forums have mentioned they like the "new" plan. Meetings and a great leader have really helped me. I make it a point to talk at each meeting, and being a shy person, it can be difficult, but I find it's another thing that has helped me in my quest to drop 100 lbs.

Charlotte, how are you doing? Hopefully feeling better.

Puss, how is your kitty doing now? And that's pretty smart of you to call your mom when her favorite programs are on. I wonder if that's why my kids always seem to call me during ER??

My DH got back from Norway today. He went to the Oslo Sweater Shop and bought sweaters for Christmas for me, my DIL, my daughter, my stepdaughter, and the cutest sweater for my little granddaughter. He said he spent 1500 kroner, which sounded like a lot, but turned out to be $350, then he got $85 in taxes back after filling out a form. I say that's a great price for five Norwegian sweaters! It turns out that there will be meetings in Venice, Edinburgh and some other place in addition to Cannes. He probably will only get to go to two, and my body can probably only go to one. I'd kind of like to go to Scotland because then I could go to Ireland, which is on my "things to do" list, and England, too. But it all depends on where the company wants to send him.

Well, we're letting my son come and live with us. He tried to get into school, but that got all screwed up, and he was living out of his car. So he's going to live in the room my daughter vacated on July 1. Like my daughter, he needs to get away from some bad friends in Boise, and make a fresh start. On the plus side, he can stay with my dad and pets so my DH and I can get away occasionally. I always need to think positively about these things or I'd start to cry! :) We laid down some groundrules that evolved from all the things my daughter was doing while she lived with us that bugged the heck out of me. She and I have a much better relationship when we aren't living together.

Tomorrow's Friday, which is weigh-in day for me, followed by my non-fat decaf no whip mocha. I allow myself one a week. They are talking about putting a 10 cent tax on espresso drinks where I live (the coffee capital of the U.S.), which has created a furor. The tax will go for stuff for children. Since I only drink one espresso drink a week, I don't have a problem with it, but the people who drink a lot of espressos sure do. I was watching a financial show where one woman who made $100,000 never had any money. She was spending $500 a month on espresso drinks at Starbucks. Wow!

Hope everyone has a wonderful Friday!

Hi ladies...early morning here. Having kids & grands for the weekend....so thought I better get online now!:lol:

Willow...you've been a great encouragement to me, as well as the others. Thank you so much. I'm doing much better....meds kicking in!!

Somehow, I missed you'd had cancer. I really hope everything is ok with all those tests. You are so active & watch your diet so closely...I'm optimistic! Hope you are too. Your little cheerleader just brain-washes me, I guess. I get to thinking that's you! http://www.addis-welt.de/smilie/smilie/lachen/13.gif

Sheila...Hope all goes well with your son moving back home. These decisions are tough sometimes. Hopefully, it will all work out. Like you said, maybe he'll be a big help to you!http://www.emotipad.com/emoticons/Idea.gif Maybe he can help with the painting!;)

Hello to Sue & Fatpuss! http://www.agifs.hpg.ig.com.br/cute_gifs/cute73.gif

Sorry no post yesterday - I did a huge one before I went to work and even though I knew i was running late doing it, I wanted to. Then,...when I pressed the submit reply button my computer had timed out and the whole lot was lost. I was so mad...I will try to recap what I put; Sheila, anchovies?? Triple yuk with knobs on! Well done for losing another 1lb and for all the painting. Angel, so glad the treatment is six weekly now, hopefully you will get more respite from the pain. I hope you have a wonderful time with the family and I am sure they don't care that you can't accommodate them, they come to see you. Willow, you are a mad woman - you be careful putting ceilings in. Does nothing put you off a project, lady?? Do let us know if WW works for you. I have never been but their points system cookbook does my head in trying to work it out but it seems to have done the trick for Sheila. I did SLimming World a few years ago but all our group did was a weigh in and a five minute talk by the leader telling me what I already knew. I know it's the group therapy bit but I felt like I was paying someone for me to do the work. I've done far better being picked up on this site by Willow that SUnday morning and support from the rest of you. Sheila, your hubby certainly got bargains in Norway, I always thought it was the dearest place on earth to buy anything (apart from Austria). Maybe if you can get your DH to liaise with my DH we can all meet in Venice cos he has to go there again too. I hope it works out having your son home - when all's said and done we love them but it can be so painful too. I am lucky with my two but I have run-ins with the lad who is more like me, I suppose. Things I could say to my daughter I have to wrap in cotton wool to my son or the chin juts out and the old testosterone comes to the fore ha ha. Maybe it's because he's a bloke. He is coming home tonight for the weekend and to get his laundry done ha ha. I always tell him to bring it because his standards of washing and ironing leave much to be desired and I like ironing. I haven't told him about the cat yet but he will see for himself that his front paws still haven't grown back all the fur from the drip and blood taking. He is so soft with the cat - it was him who spotted him on the bridge in Singapore and wanted to bring him home - he will be gutted, I know. Sheila, if we didn't know his diagnosis we wouldn't be any the wiser because he is still eating fish but forgets to drink enough. Whether it's these tablets designed originally for dogs with heart failure or just his relative young age and fitness or whether it was detected early I don't know but two weeks on and he seems a long way from the deathly diagnosis we were given. He still 'ambushes' me from behind the settee to make me laugh so he can't be feeling too ill and still does 'kiss kiss' through the bannisters of the stairs in the morning. I have just bought two cookbooks from the Australian Women's Weekly series. They do a massive range but these two "Saucery" (range of sweet and savoury sauces, butters, creams, relishes, gravies, custards etc) and The Great Chicken Cookbook seem so good that two colleagues in work nipped out and bought them too after going through the ones i got. I will pass on any lowish fat ones to you all. Sue, hope you are ok, you haven't got yourself all tangled up in those bands, I hope. Have a lovely weekend everyone. xx

Hello to all. I have about 5 minutes to myself before anyone else get home. Our daughter is here to visit for three weeks, and it is hard to find time to sit at the computer. This will be quick and short. I did manage to lose 3/4 of a pound even while on vacation. Hope I didn't cancel it out with the cheesecake last night. Not too bad, because DD and I split one piece. ;) Its funny when you have company, all we seem to do is eat and eat and eat some more. Garage door opener just turned on, so my solitude was not as long as I thought. I will try and post often, even if it is just to say Hello. Sue
P.S. Took a picture of Mars last night with digital camera. I have a black square, with one bright spot on it. Kind of neat.

Hi All!!
 

Looks like we all are still around!

Sheila, I think you're going to like the new Flex points program. Actually, so far I don't think it's much different than before, but, it looks like there are some interesting things coming up. They also give you and anyone you can get to join a folding picture frame with room for 6 photos. Rita and I each got one because she said she talked me into joining with her. I'm going to use mine for photos every 6 months along my journey.

The leader last night informed us that due to scheduling conflicts, (she's a teacher at school also) she had to quit as a leader. When she told us who would be there in her place, the members all seemed pretty disappointed. I heard a lot of them saying that they were going to change the day and/or time they were going to attend meetings. Sooo, I might change too eventually if this person is as boring as they said last night. The leader at last nights meeting was really upbeat. I liked her.

Lucky you with the sweater deal. Sounds awesome! I hope you get to go with him when he goes. Wouldn't that be fantastic if you and Puss could meet in person???

Your son will probably be so happy to have a roof over his head that he'll really watch his p's and q's.

Charlotte, I bet you're just looking forward to those grand babies sooo much! I know that mine never come here but what they don't leave good memories behind.
I sent birthday cards last week to my DIL and their little 8-yr old. Their birthdays are only 2 days apart. Anyway, I got an e-mail from my DIL saying that my granddaughter had to show her card and check to the neiborhood kids. The card played the Happy Birthday tune when you opened it, and my granddaughter said, "Oh, I just love that song!" I suppose it reminds her that she's going to be getting gifts. :D Little Turkey!

I'm so glad that you're feeling better. You're much more stoic than I, I'm afraid. I hope it helps prevent you getting sick by bringing the treatments to 6 weeks apart.

Puss, isn't that a bummer when you've worked so hard and so long to type up a message only to lose it? Gads! That is sooo frustrating!

I won't be doing the whole ceiling at once. I'm going to start buying the gridwork first, a little each week, and put it up as I get it. Actually, I enjoy doing that kind of stuff. I put suspended ceiling in 3 rooms years ago, and I did it all by myself too. I also closed in a big double doorway and made it a single door. My Dad was living then, and laughed when I told him what I was going to do. He came down to my house the next afternoon and I already had it framed up and was installing a pre-hung door. He just shook his head and laughed and said, "Well I'll be a s-o-b!"
But, .... I think this is going to be harder to do because there is duct work to contend with downstairs, so it will be more difficult centering the gridwork.
I'll also have to put furring strips up on 3 of the walls in the outer part of the basement, and I've never done that before. Don't know which would be harder to do, the gun or cement screws.

I'm glad to hear that your kitty is still doing well. Maybe the vet was mistaken. Or, maybe kitty will be ok as long as you keep on him with the water.
I've always said that I wanted to get another dog when I retire, but, when I hear things like what's going on with your poor kitty, I wonder if I want to put myself through that. If only they would outlive us!

Hey Sue! How cool is that??? You go on vacation and lose weight! Great job! I'm proud of ya!
Our family is the same way when we get together. There seems to be food being eaten or cooked at all times. I guess it's something handed down from generation to generation. We would rather be caught dead than to not have enough food made up to offer.

Would you believe, I haven't seen Mars yet?? I keep forgetting about it!

Everybody have a wonderful evening! See ya later!

Good morning, all!

I'm not staying on long, but just wanted to bring this thread back to the first page! We will NOT be hidden on the second page.

My holiday weekend involved. . .da da--painting!

Also a trip to the Farmer's Market. I just can't find any good tomatoes in the store.

Howdy!
 

Hi all, I thought I better check in for a few minutes.
Had a pretty uneventful day.
I went out to check my mail this afternoon and a small piece of paper fluttered from the door down to the floor of the porch. It was a note from my Brother and Sister-in-law from Oregon! They're here in town! I live in the midwest. They said they'll see me tomorrow. I didn't even know they were coming to town.
They must have been here when I was in the shower.

Some College students who live across the street from me are having a party again tonight and I hope they stay in their own yard. Their "guests" come over here and urinate in my yard and throw plastic cups and all kinds of trash in my yard.
Last year I made them come and pick up beer bottles and 12-pack cartons etc from the boulevard in front of my house.
If they get too rowdy I'll call the police and they'll get charged with having a loud party, then their landlord will have a mark against him.
I wouldn't do that though unless it got really bad.

Sheila, I'm finding it harder and harder to find good strawberries. There is one store in town that seems to have really nice ones, YEAR ROUND! and I don't know where they get then from, but they have really good flavor.
Mmmmm, tomatoes! I love 'em! Red or green, I love 'em both. I like them fresh, grilled, fried, ... however!

Did you get your painting all done yet? I hope the weather cooperates with you.

Sue, Puss, Charlotte, hope you're all having a safe and happy holiday. Take care and see ya later!

Thought this was cute, ....



The following are different answers given by school-age children to the
given question:


Why did God make mothers?
1.-She's the only one who knows where the scotch tape is.
2.-Think about it, it was the best way to get more people.
3.-Mostly to clean the house.
4.-To help us out of there when we were getting born.


How did God make mothers?
1.- He used dirt, just like for the rest of us.
2.- Magic plus super powers and a lot of stirring.
3.- God made my mom just the same like he made me. He just used bigger
parts.

Why did God give you your mother and not some other mom?
1.- We're related.
2.- God knew she likes me a lot more than other people's moms like me


What ingredients are mothers made of?
1- God makes mothers out of clouds and angel hair and everything nice
in the world and one dab of mean.
2.-They had to get their start from men's bones. Then they mostly use
string. I think.


What kind of little girl was your mom?
1.- My mom has always been my mom and none of that other stuff.
2.- I don't know because I wasn't there, but my guess would be pretty
bossy.
3.- They say she used to be nice.


How did your mom meet your dad?
1.- Mom was working in a store and dad was shoplifting.


What did mom need to know about dad before she married him?
1.- His last name.
2.- She had to know his background. Like is he a crook? Does he get
drunk on beer? Does he make at least $800 a year? Did he say NO to drugsdrunk on beer? Does he make at least $800 a year? Did he say NO to drugs
and YES to chores.


Why did your mom marry your dad?
1.- My dad makes the best spaghetti in the world. And my mom eats a
lot.
2.- She got too old to do anything else with him.
3.- My grandma says that mom didn't have her thinking cap on.


What makes a real woman?
1.- It means you have to be really bossy without looking bossy.


Who's the boss at your house?
1.- Mom doesn't want to be boss, but she has to because dads such a
goofball.
2.- Mom. You can tell by room inspection. She sees the stuff under the
bed.
3.- I guess Mom is, but only because she has a lot more to do than dad.


What's the difference between moms and dads?
1.- Moms work at work and work at home, and dads just got to work at
work.
2.- Moms know how to talk to teachers without scaring them.
3.- Dads are taller and stronger, but moms have all the real power
'cause
that's who you gotta ask if you want to sleep over at your friend's.


What does your mom do in her spare time?
1.- Mothers don't do spare time.
2.-To hear her tell it, she pays bills all day long.


What's the difference between moms and grandmas?
1.- About 30 years.
2.- You can always count on grandmothers for candy. Sometimes moms
don't even have bread on them!


Describe the world's greatest mom?
1.- She would make broccoli taste like ice cream!
2.- The greatest mom in the world wouldn't make me kiss my fat aunts!
3.- She'd always be smiling and keep her opinions to herself.

Is anything about your mom perfect?
1.- Her teeth are perfect, but she bought them from the dentist.
2.- Her casserole recipes. But we hate them.
3.- Just her children


What would it take to make your mom perfect?
1.- On the inside she's already perfect. Outside, I think some kind of
plastic surgery.
2.- Diet. You know, her hair. I'd dye-it, maybe blue.


If you could change one thing about your mom, what would it be?
1.- She has this weird thing about me keeping my room clean. I'd get
rid of that.



And now you know all about Moms!! Have a good one!

Good morning all, ...
 

Anybody want to know how to calculate your Body Mass Index?
It's a much more reliable indication of how much body weight is fat and how much is made up of bone, muscle, etc. A scale can't tell you that.

First, take your height in inches and square it.
For instance, I'm 63 inches tall. So, 63 squared, or, times itself, 63 times 63, is 3969.

Second step is to divide your weight in pounds BY the answer in the first step.
For me, that would be 242 divided by 3969. Answer is 0.0609725

The third step is to use that last figure, 0.060, and multiply it by 703. Mine is 42.86 or, rounded off, it is 43. AWFUL!!

A normal BMI lies between 19 and 25.

So, I have another adult person, in the form of fat, that I'm
carrying around all day, every day.

Is it any wonder that my hip, knees and feet hurt so much????

No wonder I'm tired all the time and have no energy!!!

No wonder I can't rest at night! I'm trying to get two people
situated into a comfortable position in a space for one person. I wake up aching from the weight pressing on my lungs and back when I lie on my back.

I'm trying to breathe in enough oxygen for a mass the size of two people with only the lungs of one person!
All this fat is taking the oxygen away from my brain too, and that's probably why I'm so forgetful sometimes!


Now, ....... does anybody know how I could write up something, then put it on my desk top beside the icons? Like this BMI thing, for instance. Or any inspirational thing?
I don't even know if it's possible, but, I'd like to do it many times with different things I think of or things I find on the 'net.
Let me know if you know how it could be done. I mean, so the writing would be there when I open my screen, not as an icon to click on.


My Daughter-in law called me at 7:15 this morning to tell me that a friend of ours passed away at 7 o'clock this morning.
She and my DIL went through school together, then all 3 of us worked at the same place for almost 20 years. This woman was only 39 years old, would have been 40 on the 25th of September.

She was bothered with back aches for the last 5 years, and the Drs told her it was from tension. She was also very overweight. And, she didn't go for her yearly pap tests etc. like she should have. But, as it turns out, she would have needed to have an ultra sound done to detect the uterine cancer.
The backaches got unbeareable a couple of months ago and then they ran tests and within one day, she was told she didn't have long to live. The cancer was already in her bones. She lived 9 weeks, and it wasn't a good 9 weeks either.

So, once again, I say, if you have any discomfort, or lump as I did on my arm, insist on more and more tests until you are satisfied that you don't have cancer or something disastrous. I was told for 4 years, by 4 different Drs that I had a cyst in my arm, when it actually was a cancer. I should have insisted on having it removed when it first developed, but took the DRs word that it could be left alone. Finally, the 5th Dr did something about it.

Such a bummer of a post for an early Sunday morning, but, I need to get this out somehow, and seeing as I'm here alone, I guess the next best thing is to type it out.

I think I need to go pedal my bike as hard as I can for a while. It's only 70 degrees out right now. getting overcast though.
See you all later.

Everybody have a good day.

Good Morning All! Hope everyone is enjoying the Labor Day Weekend. I will be glad when the three days are over so I can stop eating. YIKES. Why do we do this? Actually, it has not been too bad. Just seems continuous. I think today's dinner will be a salad.

Yes, Willow, I have figured out my body mass index too. I think I had mentioned before that I had never thought of myself as obese, but there it was in black and white.

DH and I plan on going shopping this morning while DD goes visiting old friends. Today is the last day of "tax free" on clothes and shoes. I have a wedding to go to in a few weeks and need new shoes. Don't we all? :dizzy:

We went to the horse races on Saturday and had a great time. I picked an Exacta and won $82. Not bad for a first timer. We came home with more than we left with. That's always good. I couldn't do it every day, but once in a while is fun.

Hello Puss, Sheila and Angel, hop you are all doing well. Catch you later! Sue

Happy Labor Day! My DH and I are laboring all right--working on painting the house. It's a never ending job! He's worried it will start to rain soon so we need to get as much of the stuff that's not undercover done soon.

BMI--I hate it. Until I hit 194, I'm in the obese category, then after that's it's overweight until 169 when it becomes in the "normal range." I remember reading about a woman who was was shorter than me, and weighed 168 lbs. and was all muscle. I imagine the BMI would say she's overweight, but she looked so good. Her body fat percentage was very low.

So, Sue, why the last day of "tax free"? Did you not have sales tax previously and it goes into effect tomorrow or did the state just declare a tax free weekend? Congrats on winning the Exacta! I like horse racing, but I've only bet in my mind.

Willow, I'm sorry about your friend. She was so young. You give some sound advice. Sometimes doctors just don't take women seriously, and we really have to fight to get good healthcare. So how did the party go across the street--cops or no cops?

My son, the boomerang child, comes in tonight from Idaho. He has to start looking for a job tomorrow, which will be hard since Washington has the second highest unemployment rate in the U.S., I believe. Cross your fingers for him!

Hope everyone is having a great day, especially those of us who have it off. I'm going to fire up the barbecue in a couple of hours and try a new steak marinade recipe.

Hi everybody....seems like I'm always in a hurry lately. Sorry, maybe things will slow down soon.

Had a great weekend with family. A lot of building got done on the house! We grilled & played with the grands. Made a lot of memories. I sat in the room we call "kitchen" at the moment, & monitored the food...with little ones around....red mud...etc...LOL! Anyway...each of the grands came in through the day & talked with me. I knew they were smart....but I really didn't realize...until I had a deep conversation with a couple of 4 yr olds. Two 6yr olds, etc. They were very interested in how the housefire started. When I explained that a new stove (computerized) started the fire....they all, individually, told me that the people that made the stove should have to pay to rebuild the house! They already figured out what our lawyer is trying to convince Maytag of!!

They want to help paint the house...want to put flowers & such on it! So, I came up with an idea. We're going to have a walk-in closet from the master bath. I said that would be the "grand" room...they would each paint what they wanted & we would paint around (not over) their painting! What excitement...they all went to jumping up & down & running out to tell their parents! :lol:

Today, though, my daughter got an email from her husband, Chris. He's in Irag. The truck he was in Saturday was blown up & he & another soldier were thrown several feet. Not hurt bad....scratched & bruised...had 2 buddies killed. Please help us pray for Chris & all the soldiers! Gina & Chris have a little boy & a little girl.

I'll have to catch up more, later, as usual. Sorry...I stay behind all the time, now. Take care. :)

Glad the holiday is over, ...
 

Well, I guess I nearly ate myself into oblivion these past 3 days. It's not gonna look good on that scales when Thursday rolls around and I go to WW.
I have no excuses either. I was just plain lazy.

I got stir crazy yesterday and went shopping at a book store.
I haven't done that in a long time.
I got the hard cover copy of the Curves book, a hard cover of SIMPLE ABUNDANCE,(HIGHLY recommend it!) no woman should be without it, and the latest book by Jean M. Auel, the author of the CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR series. I got the hard cover copy for $8.00 because it has a little ding or "hurt" as they call it, on the bottom edge of the cover. THE SHELTERS OF STONE.

I put a couple of things on my desktop, just for a little reminder each day.
The BMI thing, and a list of 10 'toxic weight' prevention tips, also an exercise routine for each day of the week so I keep it varied and hopefully avoid burn-out.

Visitation for Dawn is tonight and the funeral is tomorrow. Not looking forward to that.

I slept in this morning, so I'm behind schedule and I better get a move on.

Sue, congratulations on your win at the track! I went gambling a few months ago and had fun all day, winning then losing, but I pretty much broke even by the end of the day. It's fun once in a while, but I work with some people who go several times a week. I don't think I could get into it that much. They always tell that they won, but never tell how much they spend to win that much. :D

Sheila, did you get your painting done? I should have forced myself out into the yard and done some work out there this weekend, but, I was just sooo lazy. No gumption at all. That rose bush is still calling my name, and I dread getting started on it.

The party was just a normal, loud, college students party. No harm done. And after I go to bed, the sounds kind of get muffled by the hum of my CPAP machine. If they wake me up though, then I get on the phone to the cops. I remember what it was like to be young, and I sure did my share of partying, but they need to respect other peoples right to rest too.

I'm hoping for good luck to your son on finding a job.

How did the steaks turn out?
I was on a sugar binge all day yesterday.

Isn't it funny how when we've been out of control for a few days, we are actually glad to get back to healthy eating? I always have said that it feels like I've been poisoning myself.

Charlotte, I'm glad you had such a good time with the little ones. Aren't they just the greatest though?

And cool that you got a lot of work done on the house! Maybe you'll be "liveable" before winter after all. :D I sure hope so.

Oh gosh! That's so scarey about your son-in-law! I pray he and every one of our men and women over there and around the world come home safely. This is so awful, as all wars are. But, it's a new kind of war, and not easy to fight.

Well I need to get moving here.

Puss, I hope all is well with you.

Take care all! Later!