Daisalana

Russell called his mom this morning to find out if his dad's surgery was scheduled.. good news is, sounds like it will be after the holidays! It's a 6 hour long procedure, so they're trying to find a spot for it, but as we all know it's hard to fit such a long surgery in on short notice. Then she said this morning she went to wake up (Russell's youngest brother) and his middle brother's fiance (the 40 year old with 3 kids) was in bed with him. Isn't that just about as redneck as they come? His middle brother is out of town visiting their g'ma right now. Should be an interesting Christmas!! Terry those dishes are beautiful, I love the swirls on them! I forget the other personals, I know everyone posted some great pics I looked through this weekend (I read on the weekends, just don't post because nothing to say). I slept most of the weekend, shopped some yesterday with mom and she bought me a (soft) faux fur coat. She wanted to get me a blousy winter coat, and it's not my style so I just let her pick out whatever she wanted. Can't wear the stuff I normally like to right now anyway, may as well have a warm coat! Oh and sure enough it went from 70 degrees to 17 today! I don't even have a coat for this weather.. mom is giving me that fur coat for Christmas!

B'fast- Water Lunch- PB'd some noodles & honey chicken Snack- Chocolate milk & more water & 1/4 of a Nutrigrain bar.

Gosh it must be holidays or something, I hear us all making crappy food choices.. har.

Bands are fickle things! And what works for one, doesn't mean it will work for another. If you want to try pickles again, try it later in the day, and make sure you chew it into fine pieces, and no rubbery bits left in your mouth.

I can't wait to have a martini with my V's! :biggrin:

Decided on chinese food.. been PBing on it.. wee. Going to give up soon and get a chocolate milk (judy made me!).

That's crazy.. Judy is having 6-12" of snow and it's 70 degrees here.. doesn't sound right!! I bet we're going to get bad storms this week when the temp. drops again.. tornadoes for Christmas- ho ho ho! I officially can't suck my belly in anymore, I keep pulling at my shirt.. even at my biggest weight, I have sucked in my gut for my entire life.. out of habit. It actually kind of hurts not to suck it in!! Had a girls' night planned at my friends' tonight but she called me last night from the hospital, her g'ma was dying. I rescheduled with the rest of them to come to my house instead. She emailed this morning saying her g'ma passed, it was peaceful and everyone was there to see her in her last moments which is nice. Then she asked if anyone can babysit her dog this weekend while they go out of town for the funeral. I felt bad, but I know Russell would kill me if I volunteered to babysit someone's dog. Luckily, while I pondered what to do someone else said they could. Can't decide where to go for lunch today.. I want to leave early so we can run by Publix and get snacks for the girl's night.. so we should do somewhere quick, but I don't like fast food places.. wah.

Thanks for sharing the pics, I love aquariums!! I am too lazy to be a fish owner though.. Anytime I've attempted them, I let them grow over with god knows what and kill the fish (bad bad fish owner).

70 degrees today!! Wanted to say real quick before I go to work.. I don't wear lane bryant clothes anymore, but they are still my favorite bras.. only bras that have ever been comfy to me and that still remains.. anyway I have gone up in cup size (ugh) and so I decided I need to get some more, I bubble out,etc.. and I went to the website to order some and they have Buy 2 Get 2 Free, PLUS online codes, give you $50 off $150.. so I ended up getting 8 bras (normally $28-$40 each) for $120 total. Thought I'd pass on the sale in case anyone else needs bras.

My g'parents are very confused with the interwebs, so when I send them pictures of ultrasounds or youtube videos, etc.. they can't figure out how to open it, blah blah. It's become a headache so I found a (free) website where you can dummy it all down.. post info, pictures, etc.. no more having to open attachments--which seems to be beyond them. Also, they can keep it bookmarked for reference.. and of course, especially for us first time moms new baby stuff is always fun. :huh2: Create Your Free Baby Website at Baby Home Pages .net Here's mine.. Carson Barlow's first website!

Get back on track, it's unlikely you slipped your band, but the healing you do NOW prevents you from slipping LATER. It's very important to follow your doctor's diet, you absolutely need to go back on the diet immediately. Back to liquids. You can do it. Just remember, this is only a month of your life, you can tough it out for a month. This time next year, this will all be a distant memory and you'll have forgotten how rough it was.

The newest product of my boredom.. Baby Carson's first website! Carson Barlow's first website!

Same.. BCBS has a Baby Yourself program, so some nurse calls and checks up on me and talks to me every month. The first time she called, she asked if I used artificial sweeteners.. I told her I use Sweet-n-Low (Only one I like, and I like it a LOT!) and of course, she says that's the ONLY ONE that hasn't been tested (why??) and cleared, so told me to swap to Splenda, Equal, or Sugar. I tried Splenda & Equal and do not like either.. so I went to sugar for a little bit, but with the weight gain, I decided I didn't need more sugar than normal.. so I'm back to Sweet-n-Low. I don't have it every day, I have it when I get tea at restaurants, probably 4x a week. Oh well..

Terry- Russell would too, and I point that out all the time. If I wasn't there, he would live off of fast food & mt. dew, he'd never bathe, he'd never get out of his computer chair, and the whole house would be run over with filth.. and our poor animals would never get fed. Going to O'Charleys today and getting my cedar-planked Salmon! YAY! It's been a WHOLE WEEK since I had fish, I normally plan it out so I can eat as much as my doc allows. This is first time I went 7 days without. And instead of fish, I ate a bunch of crap. I was telling a coworker how I crave so much junk these days, I hate it. I could live off of sweets & desserts right now.. and she goes "Did you see the cake in the break room?" BAD FRIEND!! I went and looked, it's the cake I bought for my friend's 30th birthday lol. It was a big sheet cake and they only ate like 3 pieces out of it.. but it's a week old.. ew.

Well we both work the same hours, and I do all the cooking.. Russell has only cooked maybe 3 times in 7 years.. and it's eggs or steak. The only chores that are his alone are taking out the trash (but I have to pick up the trash).. and he does the laundry (but I have to fold & put it away).

I don't have 'good' food ideas, it's just making the choice of eating good vs. bad. I don't make the good choice much anymore. I also want mayo on everything.. and french fries. Do as I say, not as I do.. make good choices :ohmy:

I wasn't going to comment, wow Judy aren't you lucky!! Russ makes 80% off the messes, I clean up 98% of the messes. How fair is that? What I can't get over, is how I have to clean all the time--while he's sitting around on the computer or watching tv. But then when I ask him to do something, I have to be doing something too. I can't have him vacuum while I watch TV, or he heavy sighs every 2 seconds.. like woe is him, having to clean all by his lonesome.

Judy- That would be the awesomest thing evar! And, you would not be the only DD :ohmy: Radio said we're suppose to be up into the 70's this weekend. 70's! A week before Christmas? They kept saying we're going to have the coldest winter ever--with snow and everything. And it's going to be 70's. I am VERY disappointed. My friend posted pics from our company Christmas party, I didn't realize I made it into any of them (I tried to keep hidden, felt very frumpy that evening). But I sat between Russ & his boss.. oddly enough, this was 2 days in a row someone dropped their drink on me. So Russ wins a raffle drawing, he goes to get it and his boss drops a glass cup of tea on the table, shatters all over me and the table. I was like "WOW, you're that mad eh??" hehe. The day before at post-bowling my dad dropped a 64oz Mt Dew on me.. I was covered in sticky syrup, really sucked.

Yeah now that you said that, most of my snacks are dairy related these days. Well, sugary cereal & dairy! :shades_smile: Frosted shredded wheat was on my rotation too but I ran out! I don't like letting those get soggy in the bowl, I dip them in milk like cookies. I have yogurt smoothies for b'fast, which is something I started doing post-pregnancy, and I have wanted to eat packages of bleu cheese for months now (refraining due to that not being a cheese pregnant women are suppose to eat.. but I have had it a couple times).

I don't do low carb.. so pff on that. But if you were doing low-carb, you get to subtract fiber from the carb count. So if it's 20 carbs and 10g of fiber, it's only 10 carbs. I forgot we had brisket too, I was going to say it was pulled bbq pork.. but I vaguely remember there was brisket too?

Me too, my 'late night snack' is a bowl of cereal.. not a healthy cereal of course.. Cap'n Crunch most of the time, sometimes honey nut Cheerios. Cereal is like my dessert now heh.

I was also told my 1st ultrasound was more accurate (it was 4 days behind what I was going off of - LMP). But with this 2nd 21 week ultrasound, according to all the various measurements, some recorded almost 22 weeks, some recorded 20 weeks and 4 days, etc. I asked her about it, she said they give a 2 week window for error on each side, so there could be a 2 week discrepency on either end. I figure it'll happen when it's ready to happen, despite what we mark on the calendar :shades_smile:

Piehole report.. hot chocolate, organic yogurt smoothie, 20oz water, and 1 white chocolate turtle (mmmm.. I got 6lbs of these to get rid of). I think we're going to TGIF for lunch... haven't decided on what I want.

Haydee the pictures are great!! I agree, I wasn't sure why Sugar was out of the running, I liked her... but at the jury tribal she really didn't try, she just said oh well and shrugged kind of thing. I think if she tried, she could have at least gotten ONE vote. Corine is definitely psycho, I couldn't believe her comments. But Randy is psycho too!! I would have smacked him before the show was over. Maddy was nice but I didn't want him to win, can't really explain it, but his overly-whipped by his gf bothered me. Also shocked Suzie almost won, I can't believe she lasted so long, she reminded me of the lunch room lady of last year.. not a threat so she just kind of snuck in there.. but then to get 3 votes from the jury was really surprising.

Woohoo Pam!! Terry, Nursery "Crap"--didn't mean actual nursery stuff, the furniture that is still in there (guest bed, shelf, etc.) . It's guest room crap, but it's keeping me from setting up the nursery!!! Great pic of you guys! Off to bed