Suziecat

Good Morning Girls. Ok, today is the start of the challenge. Hope everyone is up for it. I'm almost ready. This is a hard time of the y but I'm just going to have to learn to slap my hand when I go to reach for something. One thing I'm going to do is hold off on my baking. Usually by now I'm making Cookies. That's just going to have to wait. So good luck to you if you are doing this challenge. Hang in there. Angela, Poor Tuffi, Hope it's just that all the food was too rich for that little tummy. I will keep Tuffi in my prayers. Hi Michelle, you guys getting ready for your big trip? We had so much fun that day. I felt like I was a young girl again. It brought back so many memories of when I was younger and our dad would take us. Have a blast. Today is our day to work at the hospital and I'm really excited. We haven't worked since right before the surgery. So it's going to feel good to be back there. Have a great day and hope you have success today with the challenge.

Shar, have you been getting our emails. I hope you know that we have all moved.

Hey. Wanted to post a reminder that starting tomorrow we are starting our challenge. From Dec. 1st to the 30th. We will try to lose weight. You can set an amount if you want, the idea is to just get thru the holidays without gaining anything. So, Good luck. Bitterly cold here today and we had some snow flurries. The sun is supposed to come out in a few hours. But the tems will still stay down. Brrrrrr.

Hey Debbie, glad to see you finally got to post. I hope things are going well for you. Not much going on here, usual daily stuff. Ginna try to get my personnal taxes paid today, well maybe. Have a good one.

I'm not a violent person so I won''t be able to do that for you Tracy. You think Plain might be up to it. Or he may like it to much. lol.

Debbie, so glad you had a good T-day And that you also got to bring some leftovers home. That's the one bad thing about not having it at your place, no leftovers to snack on later in the day. My sister brought stuff home from the dinner they went to and it was really good. Just wish she wouldn't have brought the 2 pies home. LOL. Hopefully it won't take long for you to come over to the other site. Untill then we are having a challenge. Our challenge is to lose weight during the holidays. Starting Dec. 1st. thru the 30th. the goal is to lose weight. It doesn't matter how much, you can set your own goal like maybe 4 pounds. It's going to be tough to do with all the goodies of the holiday but I know it can be done. I did it the first year I was banded. We had a great football weekend in our house. All of our teams won. We are enjoying it while it last. Cold today and they are now calling for a major storm towards next weekend. Should be our first chance at a major snow fall. Have a great day.

Debbie, so glad to finally hear from you. I was really getting worried. That was such a nice compliment from the singer. Pat yourself on the back. Today I getting a few things done. Only a few more things to do but I'm taking a break right now and watching "Julie & Julia". What a really cute movie. Hubby just went in to take a nap so all quiet here. He'll be back to football soon enough. Michelle, I hope you guys have a great time at Disneyland. I know we did back in Sept. Take lots of pics. Back to my movie.

I'm here Cindy. I'll stay as long as it takes.

I went over to the other site and posted. I love the lay out. No adds on the side. Love it. What's on the agenda for tomorrow??? Michelle, your dd doing any better? I hope so.

I found it and posted. Added it to my favorites. Now I can float back and forth.

Kat, I pm'd you about 5 days ago and you have never answered. I'm taking it that you didn't get it. That's ok, nothing important. I was chatting about the conversation we had on FB. I may just call you tomorrow at home. I tried to figure out how to start a thread over there. I'll still work on it. Poor Debbie. That really pisses me off. Like she doesn't have enough of a hard time manuvering her way thru here. Tracy, tell her I miss her and hope we get to chat with her soon. Ashley, how about a bird's nest or something like that in the bare spot. Or get a small bush of poinsettia to stick in there. I bet the fluffing would really help with that though. I agree, I hate to fluff also.

Saw this on another thread. Alex posted it. Hope it helps anyone that needs it. http://www.lapbandtalk.com/index.php?app=core&module=help

Good Morning Girls, My two days of laziness are over with. Back to work this morning. It's only a 3 hour shift but I have to get up and move. And on top of it, it's really cold here this morning. Brrrrrrr. Jenn, you amaze me. You've gotten so involved with the FD. I've seen them all dressed up in their outfits and that seems like such a chore to just put all that stuff on, let alone have to move around in it. How do they kneel down and get back up??? Hope your dd gets to feeling better soon. Michelle, Did you guys just have a storm or getting ready to have one. Supposedly it is headed this way. Not sure how much precip we are supposed to get. They aren't sure if we will get rain or snow yet. The Weather people are saying our first measurable amount of snow will be Dec. 4th. Oh great, not only is that the day that hubby is being accepted into church but it is also our 28th wedding anniversary. So right now we are not making any plans for dinner yet. We will wait and see what goes on. I'm holding out hope that the bad weather will hold off for a day or two. Kat and Tracy. I haven't talked to Janie in a very long time. I've been thinking about her alot here lately. Think I will give her a call and see if she wants to meet up in Columbia. The last 2 years we have done that in November and did shopping while we were there. I feel like such a heal for not calling her to do it this year. Time has just gotten away from me. She is just one of the sweetest people I have met in a long time. Have a great day everyone and I will check in later today.

Well, I did it. I ate a piece of Pecan Pie. And it was wonderful. In the last week since my surgery I managed to lose 4 pounds, I hope I haven't put to much of a dent into that. But it was so good. Hubby's home town high school went to the State Finals for football this evening. They played in the Dome in St. Louis and with 16 seconds left in the game they scored a TD and won the game. We got to watch it on TV. It was a lot of fun to watch though. I kept looking at the crowd to see if I saw any of his cousins there. Cindy, glad to hear you are home and your mother also. I will still keep her in my prayers. That was so nice of your husband to fix a meal for you, how sweet. Tracy, I would start the thread but I don't know how to do it. Homie thread is fine with me.

Jenn, let me know where you are going on that site. That way I can stalk you, lol. We are in this together and I want to stay with you. I will also stay here if someone doesn't want to try the new site.

I just went over to band2gether.net to check to see if I was still registered there. I'm still on there as Suziecat. So that will make it easier for me. Just let me know if you guys want to move over there.

Years ago, my mom and I used to get up real early and go to the frenzy thing. We would go get what was on sale and then come home and go ack to bed. I really miss those times. We had fun and always ran into people we knew. I guess I'm just too old to put up with standing in line when it 15 degrees out. Matbe if I had a shopping partner it would be different. Hope all of you who went had a good time and got what you needed. Kat, I've been to that other web-site. I started there when I first got my band. I have no problems with switching if it would be helpful for everone else. Keep me posted if you guys move. It sure is a darn shame that Alex seems to have turned his back. Seems like maybe he needs to hire a PR person to handle all of the complaints instead of ignoring them. My sister came home with buckets full of food. A banana cream pie and a pecan pie. Looks like we will be having a feast tonight. I'm glad, I'm looking forward to some turkey.

Tracy, so glad to hear that you had a great day. I know you were stressed over your sister, now she has to live with what she did. Hubby and I had a real nice sit down dinner. It's was fun to see him eat so much. Made me feel good that he enjoyed my cooking. I did pretty good with my eating and all went down just fine. But tomorrow is a new day and I'm back to the losing side again. No shopping for me tomorrow but I do want hubby to get me out for a little bit. Wish I could get out for a long walk. But a nice little drive will have to do. Hope everyone had a great day. Sure wish the other girls would find us. I'm missing everyone posting. Does anyone have a way of getting a hold of Deb?

Good Morning and Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. Right now I'm missing the fact that we won't be having turkey and all the trimmings today. But that's ok, I'm thankful to be feeling a whole lot better. Not much going on today here. It's bitterly cold out so I'm re-thinking going to church at 9am. The rest of the day will be football and movies. I hope everyone has a safe travel today and a wonderful day. Tracy, take our love with you today and shine like crazy.

Oh Plain. I hate to see you leave. But I do understand. If it wasn't roke, why fix it. I didn't have a problem with the old version. I left work early tonight. Turned the lights out and locked the doors. In the 3 hours I had 3 customers, so at 5:30 I cleaned up and shut the computer down and left. I'll tell my Boss monday when I see her. She won't have a problem with it. No sense in paying someone to just sit there. Now it's home to a nice warm cozy house. Hubby ran the sweeper while I was gone. He knows the way to my heart. To late to start a fire so I wil just turn my blanket on and cuddle in front of the tv.

Michelle, the little envelope is not under my name either. But it is under all of your names. Also if this helps out any, I save this page as a "Favorite". That way I just pull up my favorites and link it from there. It takes me right back to the last place I clicked on favorites. So occasionally I readd it to my favorites.

Got the fudge made and cut up and put in a pretty tin. I'll be glad when it is out of the house later today. I'm a huge advocate about my band and have no qualms talking to anybody about it. When someone ask me a question, I take the time to explain it and how it works and how much I love it. Having said that, I don't go around wearing a neon sign on my head stating that I have a band. I come here because you all know how I feel about my band and what we go thru with it. I find comfort in sharing with you guys my trials and errors. But on Facebook it is a different story. More then half of the people on there don't know I have a band. If and when they find out, I will be more then willing to chat with them. But I would really appreciate it if someone would not link me to there from here. I think that is my decision and not some person that stops by and reads something and then tries to post it on FB. I do hope that they get that fixed so it is one less thing for me to worry about. The weather has changed her. Rain and grey skies. 45 degrees and the temps are falling. It's supposed to be in the low 20's in the morning. Kinda wish I was cooking a bird. Keep my house a little warmer. Glad that I will be having the fireplace going all day. Off to work, se you all this evening. Plain???????????? Did we lose him in all of this mess????

Morning. Not much going on today. I do have to work 3 hours later this afternoon. So it will be into the shower here soon. Going to make a batch of Fudge later today. I should do ok with it being here. I like fudge, just not a big eater of it. It's the Chex mix that I made that will be my downfall. So Tracy, have you decided what you will do? Are you going to your family's for Thanksgiving? Show your sister how mature you are. To any one that is traveling, please be careful and have a safe trip. Michelle. I had a huge bone spur removed from the bottom of my foot. They broke 3 blades trying to get it cut. But I was able to walk on it after a few days. No cast but it was wrapped up tighter then a mummy. Best thing I did for my foot. No problems since. Good luck and keep us posted.

Tracy, what a horrible letter to receive. Sounds like she has some issues and instead of dealing with them the right way, she chose to push it all onto you. Well, I have to tell you that you handled it in the utmost professional way. Don't let her drag you down into her little pity corrupt selfish world. Keep your head held high and show Macy how a true Child of Gods should turn the other cheek. I'm proud of you. But be aware that it doesn't look like this is overwith. Hang in there. Off to bed. Hope everyone had a great day.