Well, I will be darned. So that is how you bold. Thanks, Maria. I have seen this stuff up here and just totally ignored it all.

I just had to tell you that Kyle thinks his dad is my slave. It isn't exactly like that. It is that he thinks he does everything more correctly so I just let him do everything that I don't want to. It works for us. You know the older I get he more "gold class" I guess I get.

We are having the three little ones tomorrow for the first OSU football game. But we are going tailgating first until the game. Do you guys know what that is who aren't in the US? It amounts to eating your weight in junk food and drinking anything you can get your hands on. But for that we are kind of party-poopers. Leon sometimes has to go get the married kids after the game because they are afraid to drive.

Ann, in my office we have just taken a moratorium on talking about the election because we all disagree. That works best for us. I am sort of in the wrong colored state for how we feel, so I know what a minority sort of feels like in that regard anyway.

Well, you all have a wonderful weekend. Stay healthy!

First time I have used smilies.
Glenda

G'day all,

You do what works for you Glenda
I am not familiar with the term tailgating, not too sure if I want to either

As far as politics, I think the best option is to agree to disagree, what will be, will be.

I had David and Peta's girls here since lunchtime yesterday, Peta's Mum has just picked them up and calm reigns again
Lexie has asked me to put a little website together of Saskia's second birthday so I will do that this afternoon.

I am susrprised Ann that a different page opens up for you when you post, cannot quite work that one out unless I see it.

Have a great weekend all,

Cheers
Maria

(bTrying an experiment, thanks to Norma/)

I agree (bGlenda/) about politics. We all just have to agree to disagree.

I have started to work on my first quilt block and it is looking good. One question maybe you all might have an answer to. My red material is not color fast. I washed a small sample until the water came clear. But I have a large peice of material I have to wash. I have heard the white vinegar in the rinse water will set the color. Do any of you have knowledge of that, or of something else that will work better?

Have any of you been experiencing advertisements inbetween some of our posts? I did today for the first time.

(bMaria/) How can we make it possible for you to see what my page looks like. At the top it says 3 Fat Chicks on a Diet Weight Loss Community-Reply to Topic-Windows Internet Explorer. Then the rest of the top is the same as it is anytime I go to Explorer. I have to click on a special place at the bottome of the page to see any of the new icons to put in my post. Hence, I don't use them too much.

Hope you are all having a good weekend. We are carefully monitoring our weather to see just where hurricane Ike is going to go. Sure hope it isn't Florida, but I don't really wish it on anyone else either.

No other interesting news from this part of the world.

Ann

Sorry Norma, the (b-/b) didn't work. Now what? Ann

Ann I e-mailed you.

Ann At the bottom the page where you have just read all the posts it states "Quick Reply" with a box for a, what else, a quick reply. Across the top are some symbols ie B IU etc. When you click on the B for example you will get [B] [B] then you just put your word between them. It will be bolded when you post the quick reply. The same should be on the top of the regular post reply box but since this is on the same page as the postings it is easier for you to test your bolding. Good luck. Gloria
PS: The rain from Hanna is over and it is a sunny and cooler day today. I am grateful that all the rain fell during the night and didn't spoil today. G

Maria- Gloria-Trudy Is it possible this dummy has it now. I hope so. Ann

By George, I think I've got it. Thanks again ladies.
The hard part is that on my message page no where is there a B for bold. I do have it when I use my Microsoft works or word, so I do know about how to use it, but it does not appear on my post page. Wonder why?
Also for me to get the similes I have to go to a separate page to see what is available. A long time ago, I made a copy of the similies, but now there are a lot more available
Oh well, I am jus glad to be able to use the bold thanks to your instructions. Ann

G'day all,

WELL DONE ANN!!!!

Computers can be sooooo frustrating, just when you think you 'got it' something else throws you!

I have been very frustrated the past few months, it really is because I am just not settled, first Alan in Malaysia and me going over for 2 weeks, then he comes home and is home 2 weeks and we are off in our camper, then we have the horrendous trip, come home for 2 weeks and then off to Melbourne for 10 days ENOUGH
I just need to get back to my normal routine and I am sure all will be well.

It is a beautiful spring day here which makes one feel so much better anyway.

We have quite a hectic week coming up and looking after the girls for 2 1/2 days.
We have a few things planned to make it easier for us and more enjoyable for the girls and with the spring weather we should have a nice few days.
HAve a great day all,

Cheers
Maria

Well isn't this cool!!!!I know how to use smilies and bold.

Maria,you have probably created a monster now. Every other word will be bolded or some such thing. I say to you not to be so frustrated with yourself or things but give yourself a break. You have just been too busy and I bet a lot of your frustration is just that you are so darned tired! Just take a big breath and relax. Maybe you need to just stare at the walls for a few minutes a day.

Ann, I hope you get an answer about your material because you don't really want your nice red color to look all faded before you even start on the quilt. One day I am going to do a project like this. For now, I will just look at yours when you are finished.

We thoroughly enjoyed the weekend. Everyone stayed all night Saturday night so next week I will get the blow-up bed out for the little boys so their daddy can sleep in a bed. I woke up Saturday morning and big old Kyle was lying with a pillow on the floor. His neck hurt. His back hurt, but he let his littlest boy kick him out of bed. But I think by the time he lay down he was feeling no pain??But he felt it when he woke up.

It is raining here and has been off and on for three days. It looks like all this week will be wet too. Supposed to be flooding too. My friend who was flooded last year is getting nervous. I hope Ike just leaves us all alone, especially all you coastal Floridians.

I can't wait to see if my smilies worked and if the bolding really bolded.
Glenda

Hi all sorry I have been MIA for a while. Just haven't felt myself. Am coming out of it now I hope.

I am back to leading both groups of exercise in our park. So every day I do some sort Of aerobics. Plus I walk every day too. With the hurricane in the golf we have had some nice winds. So much nicer to be outside when it is so hot . Poor Sprout is panting so when we come in he drinks a bowl of water.

Sally I know what you mean about dog hair matting up around the ears and neck. My groomer always cut Sprout nice and close so we don't have to deal with it much. I was using No More Tears spray that you can buy for little girls hair and massaging it in to a matte and it worked pretty good.

Congrats to our big losers on the board. I think I have dadd (diet attention deficit disorder) I wonder if I can get a pill for that? I am so easily distracted. Just show me a cookie and it is in my mouth. I am back to within the 2 pounds of my goal weight so am not paying any more to go to meetings. And I really need those meeting . Even after being a leader for many years I still need to be reminded what works and what doesn't.

Well just wanted to stop by and I do plan to be here more often. So don't write me off OK.
Karen

G'day all,

Nice to 'see' you Karen. Sorry to hear you have not been your usual self for some time.
You might be putting us all to shame doing so much excercise, good for you and to be only 2 lbs of goal weight.....I wish

The weather in America has certainly been ferocious, hope nobody in our little group was effected by Hurricane Ike.

I am starting to calm a little and getting back to some normality.
We had the grand girls for almost every day or at least part of every day last week and were quite exhausted. We had a spring clean on Saturday and now everything is back to normal.

Have a great day all,

Cheers
Maria

Florida didn't get but some clouds and a little rain out of IKE. I do have a friend who lives in Texas City Texas just out side of Houston and not to far from Galveston. Was very worried when Ike set it's sites on Galveston. No way to contact her except through other people in her email ring. I found out she and her husband had moved into Houston for the storm into a hotel. Well watching the news It looked as if Houston got hit pretty good was was still worried. I had been watching a TV station out of Houston that was broadcasting over DIRECTV satellite. So I went to their web site and posted a message asking if the hotel and gave the address was OK. About 4 hours later some one answered that it was fine. I had called their cell but it was going straight to voicemail.Long story short She called me just a little while ago to tell me they were able to go home. They have no power but do have water. Their house came through the storm with no damage. They did have trees down in the yard. But nothing hit the house. Also no flooding . It was a weekend of lots of praying let me tell you.

Maria For me exercise is key to losing and maintaining my weight. Other wise I'd be a blimp because I love to eat. Living in Florida does away with the excuse that it's to cold to exercise. Sometimes it's to hot to walk but then it's to the pool.

Went shopping on Saturday. Bought three new pants. 2 pair of Capri's and one pair of shorts. Great deals. 50% off and then another 40% on top of that. The only way to shop. But even then you know the store made money. Next time I go though I need to buy things I can wear to church.

Other than that it was a quiet weekend just watching the storm on news.

I'll check in again.
Karen

Karen, you are my hero. 2 pounds from goal! And you love to eat! I am so glad that Florida got a break during Ike. Just wish Texas was as lucky. We were in Galveston last year and we were all wondering if the area where we stayed, which was beautiful, survived intact. It was right at the coastline.

I get a bit perturbed by people who ride out the storm and then are seen on rooftops, hoping someone will risk their lives to rescue them. I know, I would hate to leave my home too, but not if my life were threatened. Oh well, just one of my peeves. Believe me, if I were told a tornado was coming, I would leave.

I went to a chiropractor today with my dreaded DBS (dead butt syndrome). We had a busy weekend with just Makenzie and I woke up Sunday, hurting all over, but mainly in the afore-mentioned area. Just achy. So, anyway, went and got an ultrasound and have never been so embarrassed in my life! It is different for a neck or a back, but this????!!!

We are having unseasonably cool weather, but we pretty much missed all of the rainfall from Ike. It looks like Missouri is just covered with flood warnings. What a weird weather year!

Does it seem that we have lost Suze and some of the others?
Glenda