Wow, all of you had some posting going on here! I had a lot of reading to do to catch up......the funny thing is, I don't know where I went

Myra....CONGRATULATIONS!!! 25 pounds is so great,you worked very hard for it.

Janie, good going on another loss. Hope your husband gets you something you want!

Terri, your son must be thrilled with the team's success. That is so good luck to them on their way to the top!!!!

Kolika, hi and welcome You're at the right place to meet great women and receive lots of support. I'm from the Chicago area, am 48, 2 grown kids and 2 grandsons. While I've never reached the status of lifetime, I've been on WW for what seems a lifetime! (well, off and on, anyway). good luck.

I've been totally immersed in the class I'm taking for the past few days; between completing a comprehensive project and a take home exam, the days have flown by!

Es, you're not alone in struggling with the attachments. I've played with them a bit, but have to give it more effort. That's why I love the smilies on this site, they're so easy!

Hope everyone has a great weekend. Tomorrow Jess and I will have a nice quiet evening (well, except for Matthew, if a 15 month old can be quiet! lol) as the guys are going to the Chicago Wolves' home opener. I'm looking forward to some one-on-one with her, it seems that we never get that anymore.

Hi to Joyce, where are you? Hi to Dianne and Patti....hope I didn't miss anyone.

~Jen

Jen,
That one on one time is soooo important. I love to hear that. I love when Bruce takes the kids so I can be alone with my mom.
Enjoy!!! Good luck with your class.
Terri

A reply to Terri's post about the prison guard eating all those Big Macs...... LOL Can you believe it says a TRIM prison guard? I can't even remember when the last time I had a Big Mac was.......

I'm all for setting up a chat time for all of us. We've got to keep that time difference in mind when we chose a time! What about later Saturday evening?

later!
~Jen

Jen, we love keeping in touch with eachother. When you miss a day, I miss you The smileys are very easy, that's why I use them alot I'll leave it up to the group when to chat. As long as it's not a weekday any time is fine with me. Have a nice time with Jess & Matthew.

Terri, I use to love the Pointer Sisters. That song was so popular back in the day. Way to go Madison Patriots! You mean we know a celebrity?! Pee Wee Super Bowl - how cute. I love The Lady attachment!!!

Zoe, I'm going to give it one more shot. I hate giving up.

Well, let me go check out ClipArt website {{{errrrrrr}}}}} I better get it this time.

Love,
Es

Thanks Es. I hope the site didn't frustrate you too much. I went through some of the threads and stole some.
I looove the Pointer Sisters. They had such UP songs. FIRE was my favorite.

Hi Everybody!

Terri

Here are some other Gif sites:

http://www.animfactory.com
www.gif.com
http://www.clipart.co.uk/html/anim.shtml
http://www.wsdaents.com/
http://www.geocities.com/colosseum/M...432/first.html

There are more sites.

That last one is the best one yet. None are confusing. It is cool. I went on MSN search and typed in GIF and they gave me tons of sites.
Good night.

Terri

Terri, you gave me a good laugh 1st thing this morning. The last attachment is soooooooo FUNNY!!! I'm coming back later to check out the sites. I'm not going back to ClipArt. I just keep going back to where I started from. I weighed myself this morning & I'm at 175 I've been exercising 1 hr. 5 days a week but I eat my snacks before I go to bed & probably that's what's making me stay the same. I want to be at 165 by Thanksgiving. I'm setting small goals for myself. I'll set another one from Thanksgiving till Xmas. I'll have to try that for awhile to motivate myself. I must say, without this thread I probably would have given up by now.

I will be back later. It is so windy today!!! Maybe if I was skinny I could fly away.

Have a great day

Hi Jen, Dianne, Myra, JanieD, Kolika & Patti

Hugs, Es

Hello ladies Another weekend is here, thank goodness! I am just so glad that last week is behind me and I am praying to get over my anger and resentment. I think I finally am........

Hubby is playing golf this morning, AGAIN. So I am having my coffee, reading the paper, catching up on my posting and then, going to do laundry.

Terri ~ You've really become an expert on those images. I'm so impressed and now, need to expand my own abilities. I "took" the one of the lady with the 'big pants'. That's a great one.....I just wonder if I'll ever be able to use that one.

Es ~ I was confused for a long time on those sites. I'm like you, I don't like to admit defeat or give up so I know you'll get it. Saving them isn't the problem, it's because so many stupid pop ups appear and get in my way. Good luck!

Hi Jen, Dianne, Janie, Kolika and Myra ~ have a great Saturday!! I'm off to the laundry pile.....I wish I could do this during the week and not take up my weekends for it.....

Happy Saturday morning

Es - we wouldn't want you to fly away, Mary Poppins! The family is fine, thank God. Alana is still adjusting to Binghamton, she's been home 3 times already in one month, lol. Justin has finally gotten a room at Columbia University. They overbooked this year and he had to alternate between staying with friends in the city during the week and coming home to us on the weekends. Travel from here in Queens to Columbia is a good
1 1/2 hrs. and his classes start at like 7:00 a.m. so that would be too rough for him. Don't know if I mentioned it but my oldest son, Steven and his wife, Monica are expecting another child in December. A Christmas baby, I think.

Zoe/Patti: I got your e-mail and Terri's but like I said I've got to get back to it and practice. But I really like your idea of just right clicking what we want and saving it. As a matter of fact, I just stole all of yours and Terri's animations I could find

Terri - I will try and go to those other sites you posted to see if that helps me, I'm sooooooooo computer challenged Congrats to Brandon, that's great. He must be feeling good, especially about the candy

Jen -- Enjoy your time with Jess. I know that when Alana gets married (after she finishes college and travels all over the world of course she and I will remain close and have those mother/daughter times together. At least I hope so - she better not marry someone who takes her to another state or country, or I'll have to kick some butt

Hey Myra - Tell me again about that htp pill/vitamin. Is it a appetite suppresor? Does it give you energy, I need some energy desperately. It seems to be working really well for you. Of course, you're exercising and eating right too helps

Hi to Joyce, Janie, Kolika, Momof4. Hope to speak to you all soon.

Hugs,
Dianne

Dianne,
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! That is wonderful Grandma.
So sweet!
That is great about Justin. I am glad things are working out.
Brandon was sooo excited. It was funny. The football stuff isn't real yet. The candy is.

Essie and Dianne,
Those sites that I posted (Whole lot more out there) are not confusing at all. There are some really cute ones out there.
I hope we can all fly away in the wind some day.
Good luck Essie. You can make that goal. We all can!!!

Patti,
We will all have those big pants soon. Thanks for getting me into these gifs. They are fun. I loved the laundry basket. Hope you get done with it fast.

Well it was weigh-in again.
I lost 1/2#
Brandon lost 1/2#
Bruce lost 1.5#
Brittany stayed the same
Bradley is still bored with the whole Sat. morning scene.
On Saturday mornings our scale is worn out.
Have a great day!

Terri

Dianne ~ taking those gifs from here is the easiest way. I do it too.....I lurk in other threads and "steal" them! Ha! I can send you a bunch through email too so you will have more.

Terri ~ laundry is done.....well, not 100% but maybe about 98......

I hope you're all having a great Saturday...........I shouldn't be sitting here at this computer all day. I have other things to do.....

Terri - congrats on you and your family's losses. Terrific! You must be pretty near to goal right?

Zoe/Patti - Send me whatever you want, I'll take it, lol. I need some help though, I went to some of the sites and right clicked and saved some animation, but, I don't know how to put them on here!!! How to I transfer them over? I copied put couldn't seem to paste. HELP! Thanks, lol.

Spent this morning re-installing AOL 6. There was some problem with my MAIN.IND file, like I know what the heck that is Anyway, I couldn't open aol 6 so I had to send an e-mail, then I actually got to talk on line with a computer techie and he said no problem I'll send you instructions on how to delete you MAIN.IND file and re-install AOL6. Well, of course, I thought "yeah right". But lo and behold he sent me the instructions which were pretty easy to follow and after about 1,000 steps, there I was -- all fixed I was pretty proud of myself, I must say I panicked when I thought I could'nt get back on AOL, I mean how would I keep in touch with you guys on the weekends??? So, glad to say, all is well with Ms. Computer-Challenged here

Well, I hope everyone is having a good evening, its a bit chilly here today, but it feels good.

Hi, Jen, Es, Myra, Janie, Joyce, and Kolika. talk to yous soon

Hugs,
Dianne

Dianne, you are just like me when it comes to computer knowledge. You crack me up Girl. I just know the basics. I tried copying & pasting & couldn't get it. Terri & Zoe are our computer instructors. Let's see what they have to say.

It has been very chilly. My kind of weather. I might have to skip church today. Been doing alot of that lately. I have to shop for my brother's twins. They'll be 4 yrs. old this week. My sis-in-law said they need clothes. Lots of Columbus Day sales going on.

Terri, you guys are always losing. Congrats to all of you. I'm with Bradley - bored with it. I got to keep going no matter what. I know I can, I know I can. I'll say that 50 times everytime I feel like snacking.

Hi to Myra our Super Star, Jen, Zoe & Kolika

Good Sunday morning, everyone!

We are enjoying the most beautiful weather here.....the frost is on the pumpkin ... first frost last night. Yesterday and today in the 50's..and bright sunshine. The fall colors here are spectacular. Joe and I are going to take a ride in the country today to find the pumpkins, Indian corn, and cornstalks. I love to decorate for fall and halloween. Joe plants gourd seeds every year on the garden fence...it's so neat to have bowls/baskets of all those funny shaped and colored gourds as decorations.

Had a great time w/Jess and Matthew yesterday. I am in love with that little guy; went shopping and had to buy him stuff

Everyone is having so much fun playing with the animations. Zoe, you started it! Thanks for the sites, Terri. When I get some time this week I'm going to experiment. I did save the "flasher", loved it!

Once again, congrats to the losing family! Terri you have inspired your gang, and they're doing great. give them a high-five for me!

Dianne, good job on the 'puter! I'm very lucky to have Joey here to help.....when we got ours aol was on version 3, I think. He showed me how to install each upgrade, so I got a great sense of accomplishment.

I'm going to run, didn't even have coffee yet

to everyone

Have a wonderful day!
love,
~Jen

Well girls, I feel like I have to live up to these expectations. Ha!First of all, I am so stupid when it comes to computer stuff but my son is a prgrammer and webdesigner ~ unfortunately, at the young age of 21, I have to drag the info out of him but do a good job of that. When I first started, I would do that little right click thingy and save but never knew where the heck I saved it to. The first thing to do is to make a folder on your computer called "animations" or whatever you want to call them. You do this by going to the icon called "My Computer", then to "Local C Drive". When all your C Drive folders are showing, you right click in the white area and it will bring up a box.....somewhere down the list in that box will be "new".....go down to highlight that word "new" and it should bring up another list where you'll see the word "folder". Just highlight and do that. That will bring up a new folder icon in your C Drive box. Name it what you want for these pic's and that's that. You now have a folder for your wonderful animations. Once that's done, you can take anything on any where you want .

To Save Picture or Animation
When you find one you like, even taking them from us here or anywhere else, just right click on it and click "save picture as"......when the folders appears, you go to your C Drive and just select the folder you made to save it to and hit save.

To use Picture or Animation

On 3FC at the end of your posts:
Click browse at the bottom of your post, your box of folders will pop up. Go to the folder you put your pics in, highlight the one you want to use and click on "save". This will put that url in that little box to the left of "browse" on your post. Finish up by submitting.

To use in your personal emails:

Where ever in your email you want to insert a pic, just put the curser there and go to the top of your email and click on "insert". When the box opens, go to "picture". On mine, it brings up a box where I click on 'browse' and it will bring up all my animations. I highlight one and click 'open'. then I click on 'ok and I get taken back to my email WITH that picture on the page.

I think this is a good start for you's. I didn't get it after this much info so if you do, you're doing GREAT! Good luck! Oh, and if you take one from a website and try to use it here and it says it's too big, I'm lost on that one. I still haven't figured out how to 'shrink' them......Terri, any insight for us on that?????

Have a good moring ladies. I'm off to relax............