Daisalana

I love a lot of stuff. I love poker.. I play WSOP and WPT events when they come to Tunica. I have not done any good (I did win my first tournament in Vegas right after I turned 21, but it's gone down hill since.. now it's just fun). I like reading.. my favorite are biographies. I also like forensic murder stories, real ones.. kind of biographies too I guess. I loooove music.. my favorite bands are Incubus, Third Eye Blind, and Sick Puppies. I'm married.. have 3 ragdoll cats, and 1 boxer dog. I guess that's it for me for now!

Hello fellow 20's I'm about to be 24.. I was banded 4/16/07 last year.. replaced my port in sept.. lost a good bit of weight.. all this is in my signature, but lack of anything else to say about me. I LOVE MY BAND! I wish I had done this when I was 18, but at least we're all doing it NOW!

Funny you said that! I never had lamb until I did foreign exchange in Australia. I had a lamb rib. OMG. It was SO wonderful, I craved it when I got home. Only places I find it now, are expensive high dining restaurants. They only give you a teeny tiny bit, and I have always loved it. I never saw lamb in stores before, so I was getting the rib, which is all I ever had (In australia and at restaurants). I have to say the leg of lamb turned out WONDERFUL!!! I loved it. I will definitely be making it again. I did try the crab though, and it was DISGUSTING. It was so fishy, it made me gag. What a bummer, I'm going to give it to my Granny who has such a love for seafood she won't notice how fishy it is.

I guess the sad part is, it's not an addiction yet. But it will be. She's at the beginning stage, and we've caught it early but she's still not listening. Same thing happened when she first started popping pills. Now it's a regular occurance and the girl spends thousands a week (parent's money). Just keep her in your prayers, that's all I can ask for. All the talking falls on deaf ears. So young and stupid, but we saw first hand what drug addiction does, so I just don't get it. If what we went through wasn't enough, I don't know what is. My bro got cleaned up because he was facing 4 years in prison. But like I said, he's still not entirely clean, but at least off of meth which was miserable for the rest of us. No more bad thoughts, trying to just let all this stress go, so tired of worrying about their lives when I have enough poo in my own. We installed the sex swing tonight. I had him bounce on it for a while, while I examined the damage to the ceiling hah hah. It made the ceiling bounce, but he says that's normal. There was no cracking noises or anything. I bounced on it for a while and even stood on it and jumped on the cords, just to test. Looks like it's all good. I bought a hammock chair to put up when we don't have the swing up. It's next to the bed, so now I'll have a nice chair to sit in when I'm in there watching tv. Also, we gave our laptop to DH's parents (I don't know why honestly, he gives them a lot of our stuff without asking me)... and they are giving it back because they're buying a new one. YAY! I'll be able to post and play pogo in the bedroom now. DH is making good steps towards fixing the issues we've been having.. I didn't know he was, but I overheard it when he was talking to a friend, and I'm really proud of him. That swing may go to good use tonight I think it's neat you guys teach. I actually always had dreams of being a high school english teacher. I had 1 good english teacher, with such love and passion for literature.. she made me enjoy books I didn't even like. Just because you get inspired by her passion. Anyway, I wanted to be like her, inspire a love of literature in those who didn't have it. And I was always good at spelling & grammar (even if I type lazy, you'd be amazed all the technical info I know in english hah). That fell to the wayside, in all honesty, because of money. I have extravagent tastes, and an english teacher doesn't get paid all that much. I had to be realistic. Maybe one day when we're older, if DH is making more, I'll look into it again. Ok going to bed, night v's, thanks for being you!

Made my first lamb at home. I gotta say, it was fantastic. Leg of lamb, I marinated it overnight (and most of today) in lemon juice, thyme, marjoram, garlic, sliced onions, and olive oil. Cooked it in the oven by some directions I found online. It had a pop-up thermometer in it (came that way) and I never got the bugger to pop up. But I found out they can sometimes not pop up. We like rare meat anyway, so I wasn't too worried. Most of it was medium done. I made a red wine gravy from some of the drippings.. and we had it with asparagus. It was wwwwooonndderrrfullll. When I went to put it into myplate, it wasn't as high calorie as I figured it would be. Lamb is goot! But I didn't eat anything else today, so I didn't care at the time. Now I'm enjoying my 1/2 ginger ale.

Just so ya know, landlord can't legally kick you out without 30 day notice, even if it is for non-payment. So if they try to kick you out the next morning, call the cops. And sorry you're going through all this :eek:

I wouldn't say the burps & hiccups go away, I have them just as bad as day 1 hehehe. I think that opening plays around a lot when you take in air. But, the pain definitely goes away. It's sore and adjusting to having the band, so the pain will lessen, and you may be like me and find yourself ripping burps in public without even thinking about it..

Congratulations!

And I figured out why DH has become an immature kid lately. He said it's because he knows we're going to start having kids soon, and wants to enjoy all the things in life that are fun while he can. Lovely, eh? It's like the last meal syndrome, so that's why he's driving me nuts.

Hey guys, I got a prayer request. I'm just at a loss. Short story, my bro was a bad crystal meth addict, and I grew up with the reprecussions.. the abuse, anger, destruction, yadda yadda. Because of his addiction, I never got into the drug scene. I knew what it did, it scared me, it brought back trauma when I thought about doin drugs heh. Then there's my little sister, who is too stupid to learn from anyone else's mistakes. She's 18. She dropped out of HS, and my parents pay for everything in her life, she doesn't have to work or do anything. She manipulates them. I have known for a while she's been doing all kinds of pills.. oxycoton, xanax, etc. Me and DH have tried talking to her as an adult, not lecture, but the affects and yadda yadda. She said she doesn't do it anymore. Her GF told me otherwise. We talked again, she really played us, made us think she's cleaning up.. Well me and my bro talked today.. sad.. my bro still pops pills and smokes weed regularly, but he's not a meth head, so I'm content with him doing the 'lesser evils'. But he said my sister has been getting crazy into HEROIN. I'm just at a loss. She's not listening to anyone. He even tried talking to her about why she shouldn't do that stuff. She isn't listening. So just pray for her. He said he knows she's doing deadly combinations of drugs, and there's no sign of stopping. I don't get it.

Can I throw out some ideas? Maybe I'm the only one, but I love casinos.. and all the comps, spas, etc.. ho hum. Tunica is great, and I can get a lot of rooms comped, full spas comped, blah blah. hehe.

I guess I look at it different. Although they are heavy and a nuisance sometimes.. there is undeniable proof that they have as much power as everyone jokes about. I couldn't tell you how many times the fact I had big boobies popping out of my shirt, helped in situations in my career, or getting things done (mechanic, handyman, etc.). Just saying.

Wait, you're getting rid of the ladies? :eek:

My best advice is to throw out the scale. I did that for the first 5 months, because it was discouraging. I finally bought another one because curiosity was killing me, but when you're at a plateau, or maybe you're losing inches instead of lbs, etc.. it can frazzle your motivation. You need to ignore the weight if you're plateauing and focus on continuing to do good things. I also 'mix it up' to confuse my body. I eat under 1,000 calories normally, but twice a week I will spike it to 1,500ish calories.. for fun.. hehe. It seemed to be working for me.

Gum makes me nauseated from not eating...and I don't like mint. So I've never been a gum chewer! If you can keep from swallowing it, and it's that important to you, I'd keep chewing it.. carefully. Maybe install a grate in your throat that won't let gum slip through hehehehehe.

Well I'm in the same boat, my flights don't coordinate with what Michelle originally posted. Maybe we'll just have to have a vi's party in the airport while we wait for everyone to get in :eek:

My doctor had a discount price for self-pay. Due to having to go for surgery #2 to fix the port, I did negotiate fills. Right now I have free fills/unfills indefinitely. We didn't set a time line on it, but to make up for the extra $2.5k out of pocket, I said, how bout you throw in free fills for a while, and he agreed.

Ok, for me.. the best deal & only 1 stop to BWI arrives at 3pm in BWI. And looking through the higher priced ones, this is still the earliest. If everyone else can coordinate to get there in the morning (flights I mean), then I'll look into flying in the night before. But people who are flying, see the times available to you and post, so we can compare. I also found a return flight on 19th at 5pm.

Edit, stupid post.

I was just going with your invitation post.. the 16-19, and noon for 16th, evening for 19th. I guess I'll wait. But the farther out we get the tickets, the cheaper they are.. :eek:

Thank you Kat! Your words of wisdom are always appreciated :eek: It's not abusive in any way, I get verbally abusive because I get mad at how his immaturity makes me feel overtime, and I always regret it. If he ever even tried to hit me, I got a lot of redneck uncles that have guns and are prepared hah hah. I am going to go buy my plane ticket for the trip, is it 100% locked in on dates & times?

I can't find the thread where losingjusme posted the king crab. But I went to Kroger last night and found what I *think* was the same thing. It's a carton no bigger than an 8oz sour cream carton of King crab meat. GAH!! It was $15.00. They also had crab claws, same size container for $7.00. Crab claws are the best, but looking at them through the carton it looked like icky meat.. not the yummy crab claws I'm use to.. so I got the $15.00 carton. Now I'm too afraid to eat it since it's so expensive hah hah. I also got a leg of lamb, never had leg before. They had the lamb rib, which I love.. but it was $20 for 2lbs. Or the leg of lamb (6lb) which was a lot more meat and no bones for I think $12.

I have potatoes every once in a while.. I'm not low-carbing. I have found red potatoes are lower in calorie though and IMO taste better. That rarely happens! It's good if you boil or nuke it, and add butter, garlic salt, and sour cream.. MmMM

Haydee- Exactly. I hate feeling like a parent in my relationship.. something to do with men take FOREVER to mature, right? Yay Pam on the scale!! That puts us even, right?? I've been at 251.2, 251.4, as high as 251.8 the other day. But 251 is the number of the week. I knew I'd jinx myself if I said something, but I've stopped moving since I mentioned it. I've been eating more than usual (TOM), so I did myplate to see the damage. 1,700 calories yesterday, 1,500 the day before that. I remember early in my band journey trying to stay at 1,600 was impossible. Now on bad days I hit that. Not bad! From 270 to 251, I have not noticed a body difference unfortunately. :rofl: I don't look skinnier. And I got my size 17 jeans last night (NO STRETCH eek). I can put them on, but the muffin above (which seems to just be skin yuck) sticks out a good 7 inches from the jeans. How gross is that? But I can suck it in and it lays flat with the jeans. My tummy skin is getting nasty. I'm noticing bad puckering of the skin under my belly button, creating a line down to the bottom of my belly. And if I wear any pants, I create dimples on either side of my belly button. Waaah.

Glad to see you back Haydee!! Lunasa hasn't responded to e-mails or PM's in over a month (Kat & I tried to contact her). I don't know where she went.