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Good Saturday Morn, Vi's~~ Sending all good wedding day purple power vibes to Tracy today!! Life IS a highway!! DS & I are off in 30 mins to drive 3.5 hrs down to Williamsburg, VA, for a fun-filled soccer weekend (well, fun-filled for 1 of us!). We'll spend the night & come home tomorrow after more soccer! I'm taking magazines & knitting & good bandster food w/me... I'm just going to kick back & relax... no "to do" lists for me this weekend! (Of course, you realize that this means that I'll just have to cram all the weekend chores into next week... it's not like they'll magically get done while I'm gone... but wouldn't that be nice if they could??) Make it a great one... will check back upon my return!

LUCK! ...altho you know you don't need it! How about: ENJOY YOUR DAY!

Yay! I get to poke someone with a stick! :blushing: And for clarification... it was 1/2 a tub of icing, not a full one! And today is a new day dawning! Make it a great one, Vi's!

I KNOW! I KNOW! :smile2: I threw the rest away... & then took the trash bag & threw it outside... UGH! :huh2: Needless to say, I'm not eating anything else today... & am drinking lots of water... :tongue2:

Me! Me! I want to come! 'Ritas & candles... LOVE THEM! How about a 'rita scented candle? mmmmm! :smile2: Pam... Let me know if I can help w/editing or whatever w/your thesis! You should be proud of yourself for finishing!! Ok... for some unknown reason... I consumed about 1/2 tub of triple chocolate mini-chip frosting this afternoon. WTF?? I wanted something sweet and... I'm hoping it gives me the runs & thus creates a negative impact on my bod. Why do I do this to myself?? Am I afraid of success?? Or just stupid? UGH!

Good Wednesday Morn, Vi's!~~ Still holding w/weight... <shrug>... but so many folks have been commenting & flipping out lately, so that's encouraging. There's a new teacher @ school who I met on Monday and she wants to meet me next Monday for lunch to talk about the band in more detail... that's cool, my first "serious" band conversion opportunity! She's considering bypass right now... of course I gave her the address for here... I'm going to copy some of my doc's materials for her, too... Other than that, just busy busy busy! Now through next Friday will be loco... We set up Book Fair tomorrow, Preview it to classes on Friday, then I take ds to Williamsburg, Va, Fri night - Sunday for soccer, then Book Fair is Mon - Thurs... phew! But I'm getting ahead of myself... I need to take it one task at a time... so gotta go write up all the Book Fair posters & then go hang them... Make it a great day, everyone!

Wow Suzie... how scary! She's lucky she had you there to help her! What a kind soul you are... but we already knew that! ((hugs))

Tracy... Yep... BREATHE! Take it all one crisis @ a time and then RELAX & ENJOY after it's all over!! Kewl Kars! Love 'em!

That is gorgeous, Terri!! Wow! Wear it with PRIDE! I love it too... hearts are my "thing"... my "icon" I guess you could say... you are so talented!

Read it already, Laura! I like Albom's stuff. It's not depressing... interesting... different... quirky... definitely not what you'd expect! Have you read "Eat, Pray, Love"? It's a bio... love it! What else... ummm... "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time" & the "The Time Traveller's Wife" both pop to mind... I get books from the library... then if I LOVE it, I'll go buy it. The last one I read then bought was "Eat, Pray, Love".

Back from the doc... they're happy w/my loss... the PA called me the "Lap Band Queen"... hee hee! If she only knew... But my next appointment, on April 1 (April Fool's Day, lol!) I'm actually going to see my surgeon again, so that's a big motivation to really kick-butt this month & do well. Then I stopped by Borders, picked up a book (Like Water for Elephants -- great book!) & a get well card, and visited a neighbor who's in the hospital. Two weeks ago on Monday her doc "discovered" (no warning) that she had kidney cancer + a tumor encapsulating her kidney. That Friday she had a 5-hr surgery to remove the 17" tumor + the kidney. She was in ICU for a week, and is now in the "regular" part, and will be for about another week. Her son & my dd are in the same class at school and her hubby is very active in PTA w/me. I keep inviting the guys to dinner or asking if they need a meal made or grocery shopping done or light cleaning... he said "We'll be eating these frozen casseroles 'til summer!" But she says he just doesn't know what to do/how to organize... so once she's home I hope I'll be able to help a bit. That just sux... you're cruising along in your life thinking everything's just fine and then BAM... you've got cancer! Puts my piddly problems in perspective, I must say. Kat... I agree... do both: cry to the actual doc AND look for another one.

Good Tuesday Morn, Vi's~~ Had a good bandster day yesterday; plan on another today. Have a band doc app't today... could be a fill but I don't think I need one... other than that, just the regular stuff that keeps me hopping: kids, house, hubby, & volunteer stuff... the fabric of my life! (wasn't that a commercial eons ago??) Make it a great one, everyone!

Sure, rub it in Laura. See, I could be bitter... ooorrrrrr... I could follow your "liquid diet plan"!! That sounds like more fun to me!! Maybe you could lead a "hands on" demo for us in May??

Pam, maybe it's broken? Seriously...

Oh, one more quick thing... Was at the ES today doing Book Fair prep, and I guess I haven't been over there in awhile because EVERYone was "ooh'ing" and "ahh'ing" about my wt loss & how great I looked! LOVE IT! I kept giving my "lap band poster child" speech to everyone... one gal who's new there is approved for bypass in June but I think I might have made her consider LB... anyhoo, it felt great! Even tho I can't see it, it's good to know that others can!!

Laura, I second what Tracy said... the only things our weekends have in common is that my house is messy, too!! Tee Hee!!

Make it a great day at WORK, Jen!! :biggrin2:

Oh, I see how it is, Laura! Ok, it's on! :thumbdown: Look at these! The first one is from Nov. '06, the second from this month... Doesn't Piglet look slimmer? LOL! ME! Look @ ME! Wowza. 'Nuff playing w/pictures... off to bed!

Hey Gals... Just spent some time looking at B&As... I haven't been there in awhile... most of those folks AMAZE me!! Wow! And then it makes me wonder if the difference is so obvious in ME or not... cuz' while I DO see a diff, it doesn't make my jaw drop or anything. I've never posted pics there... maybe @ -100 I will... just 20 to go! I'm still trying to get my head around being @ (almost) -80... that's a LOT of poundage! & some of you all have lost MORE! Think about it, girls... we've ALL lost some SERIOUS weight! Wowza!

Thanks for the nanners & congrats! It feels good... and I didn't mess it up today! Usually I feel so good I go off plan... but managed to stay on the straight & narrow today! Janie... my dh saw Avenue Q in NYC on a biz trip a couple years ago and LOVED it! He said it's *not* a kids show, altho it's puppets. Very irreverent & not politically correct. Pam (well, really Suzanne!) & Judy~~ Yesterday morning I was on about page 95 in Duma Key... it'd taken me about 2 weeks to get just that little bit read & it's due back to the library on Weds... so w/the "no school" day I snuggled into the big chair & read pretty much ALL DAY 'til 2am and finished that sucker! As an editor, I think that it could've been about 200 pages tighter/shorter... the character development went on forever, esp at first (+ too many ding-danged characters, if you ask me)... but then he got in the scary Stephen King mode and it picked up... not as gory as some of his stuff... much more metaphysical but still scary... it's stuck w/me today... I keep thinking about it... Can't wait to read what ya'll thought! Because I was up 'til 2am & then up @ 8a, I'm going to bed now! I'll drift off to the gentle story of "Forrest Gump", which is on tv tonight... Sweet dreams!

How heartbreaking, Judy! You are right... as much as we b1tch & moan about it, at least we HAVE it... gratitude is where it is AT! Have so much fun on the cruise!! Eat a shrimp for me!! LAURA!!~~ I'm so excited to type this... I saw 238 on the scale today, too!! The 30s!! Absolutely stupendo amazing!! That makes -79 for me! I cannot believe it! Pinch me!! Off to the mall w/DD & her friend to just "hang out"... ahhh, pre-teens! Everyone make it a great day!!

That's kinda the way I feel, Janie... I don't want to feel complacent at this weight... I want to KEEP GOING!! So that's why I'm "pretending" that I'm just beginning the whole process and re-committing to the bandster eating rules + water + exercise just like I did last year when I was so excited and nothing was going to stop me! Remember how inconceivable it was that we'd be able to do it when we went from full-out overeating to the liquid diet phase (for those of us who had to do it)?? We NEVER thought we could do it -- but we did because we were COMMITTED and were willing to do whatever it took. THAT'S where I need to be mentally right now!! At the beginning... not at the middle or... dare I say it... the END! :tt2: So here's to a new beginning!!

OMG Tracy! 1 week 'til the wedding???!!! :tt2:

Good Morning, Girlies~~ Yep, we're getting (or supposed to be, anyway) a big snow/ice "weather event"... so school is closed (which means kids are home & bored)... but technically nothing is falling from the sky.... yet... so much for weather "fore"casting... they make it such a big hoopla in the "Storm Center" and then nada... then tomorrow they'll babble about what happened today... but in my book, that's weather REPORTING... a completely different thing... oh well... that's my weather rant for today... Am back down to my January lowest weight... so now it's on to NEW lows!... It's amazing how quickly 8 or so lbs can go on... and then it takes at least twice that long to get it off again... maybe THIS time I've learned the lesson and so will stop the gaining!... do you think??... maybe??... I dunnoo....... A fun-filled day of cleaning, laundry, and feeding kids ahead... woo hoo. Make it a great one, Vi's!

Haydee-- You're the cutest "dork" I've ever seen!! Laura-- Ugh... in-law stuff. $60k in a month & she can't/won't tell on what?? Oooh la la... something's going on! Sorry you're in the middle of it!! Snowed yesterday a little... sunny today... calling for snow & ice & YUCK tomorrow... I'm predicting school will be cancelled, so gotta go get "supplies": bread, milk, TP & SNAX to feed all the sledders! Judy--I'm reading Duma Key also... only about 75 pages in... nothing scary has happened... YET! Now that's a BIG book to lug on vaca w/you!!