Daisalana

All groggy. Baby won't let me sleep in, no position is comfortable long enough :thumbup: I'm suppose to go shopping with my mom today.. not sure where, we have linens n things going out of business so I wanted to swing by and see if they had a body pillow. But they've been 'going out of business' for months now and I'm afraid the place will be picked over. At 3:30 we got the carpet cleaners coming (yay yayayayayayayaya). Really want to sleep right now.. guess it's judge show time. Hope ya'll all have fun, Tracy drink the kahlua for me!! Mix it with vodka & cream mmm.

Good luck.. and someone is wrong, you DO need fiber.. in fact fiber helps you stay fuller longer, and helps with constipation (which can be common when you reduce your food intake!). Don't reduce fiber.

My opinion is just based off of assumptions, because I don't really know what goes into infection of the band. But I always assumed there's just certain people whose body rejects artificial things.. Like some people's bodies reject silicone implants--and I assumed that meant they always will. Anyway, my point is, not knowing the truth in how that works, I would be leery to put another piece of silicon in, if your body rejected it the first go around. I thought it would be very,very rare for someone's body to reject it--but if it rejects it, it always would (kind of thing). I would definitely do some research on people whose bodies reject things (try looking at silicone implants for an idea, I'm sure there's more info on that than on people rejecting the band). What is your docs insight on it? I would probably look at something like the sleeve from here if I were you, but that's just my 2 cents!!

That is horrible, her poor family.. Reitterates that when in doubt, see a doctor.

Is there such thing as an honorary shrinkin' violet? WHAT A FUNNY QUESTION!!!! We have lots..

That's really bizarre that a tea they sell as 'maternity tea' would be harmful..

My chronic reflux went away when I lost about 80lbs from the band.. then it came back at about 16 weeks pregnant, and week 19 was horrible, the kind that made me wake up burping and burning every 30 minutes in my sleep. It's calmed down a little bit, I wish I could take Prilosec during pregnancy, it's the only med that ever worked for me.

I find out the gender Thursday, very excited.. and hoping to see 2 arms, 2 legs, etc.. and maybe just lots of padding on my end that is keeping me from feeling him/her! I actually haven't told my obgyn I got the fetal monitor, just because some websites I read it says certain doctors discourage the use of them at home.. and I don't want the doc saying 'don't use it' and my hubby will be there this visit and if he heard 'don't use it' then he'll tell me not to use it, etc.. so.. I have heard swishing, and when I listen to the heart, I can definitely tell it's on the move.. does not like my heart doppler wand.. I'll find the beat loud and steady, then some shuffling and it's gone.. then it's faint, then shuffling and it's loud again. Time is flying for other people pregnant, can't believe Wheet had her daughter already and you're only 10 weeks away!! I on the other hand, have FOREVER TO GO.

Love the new pic Terry!! Never noticed it before, but I can see the difference your surgery made!

It was 26 degrees this morning, the news as I was waking up was saying we had the black ice & some roads were closed.. by time I got up, they stopped talking about it so I guess that was pretty early. If we get ice/snow.. the city shuts down. We normally don't get it, so we don't have the trucks or any way to treat it.. and we certainly don't know how to drive in it! Just watched OJ's sentencing. 21 years, with elegibility of parol after 6.5.. and his request to be on bond till his appeal was denied, so he is going to prison. Hooray for the justice system. I scheduled a pro carpet cleaner to come out tomorrow, going to have them clean the foyer area where my cat had peed up a storm and stained our carpet. I've cleaned it with so much stuff, the residue has hardened it.. very happy to finally be done with all that. Wanting so bad to go to Chili's for their tilapia, but Russell hates Chili's argh! We have such different tastes, I hate that..and if I go to lunch with someone else he gets all mopey. I try to introduce him to people to make his own friends, but he says he doesn't need friends.. We have a date tonight, not sure what we're doing.. no movies out we both want to see (I want to see the boy in the striped pj's!!) but nothing else caught my attention. Guess I'll get back to work..

Wendy's has this new burger my husband likes, I make a face everytime he gets it.. "The Baconater" it's several meat patties & Cheese & lots of bacon. Enough to make the heart scream! I make better choices since banding, but I'm not a health nut.. so whatever, if people want to eat it.. But introducing ADMITTEDLY bad food to hungry villages is just pathetic. When has anyone said, thank goodness we came out with burgers, it's really been a blessing. It causes health problems and it lacks nutrition. Very immoral of the companies.

Diva, the paranoia isn't going away for me!! That's what I bought the heart doppler.. once I was into 2nd trimester, still scared, now I'm 2 days past 20 weeks and I should be feeling it but don't, so now I worry that it doesn't have legs or something (I know, I'm weird). The heart doppler says it's fine, but I have so many 'what ifs' in my brain. I went to lunch with my friend who has a 7 month old yesterday and we were talking about the paranoia. She says even though now he's a happy healthy baby, she's worried he might get autism.

Yeah you kept hobbling around talking about if you could just... (BARF) and then you'd say it again.. I was tryin to pretend it wasn't happening so you didn't feel bad lol.

Oh Jenn that sucks :whatchutalkingabout Reminds me when I was in excruciating pain in the ER and they thought it was appendicitis, but they never gave me anything for the pain and made me sit there hours on end bawling my eyes out (till I finally discharged myself and ran out cussing). Hospitals really suck sometimes, I really dread that part of childbirth too, I am kind of boycotting hospitals right now heh heh. I can't believe they are dragging you out so long, any way to get a quick 2nd opinion going? Judy and her sensible reason..pff. Waiting for Russell to get back from James Bond movie so I can order Steak out. I have the turkey carcas cooking like Judy said (smells so dang good), but then it dawned on me, the only turkey carcass we had is the deep fried one, which is fried in peanut oil, which Russell can't have. Not sure what to do with the stock now, I don't ever cook soup just for me.

Really sad, that we'd do this.. because what we need to introduce to these villages is a high fat, high calorie burger. Go us. :cursing: Burger King under fire for Whopper Virgins taste test challenge - Telegraph

Only if they try to tell you it's on weight watchers.

It has to have a URL on the internet.. with an http:// address and ends in .jpg or .gif... if you want to use a picture on your computer (not the internet), not really sure how to do it (I never done that). Also, make sure the 2nd img has a / before it. [ /img] (that 'closes' the code)

Oh and Kat, I been meaning to tell you, to make your pics smaller.. open them in your paint program (the one that comes on your computer), and on the top, select "Image-> Stretch & Skew" and then under the Stretch fields, try 50 (make sure both numbers are the same so it constrains proportionally) in both blanks. If it's still too big, try again.. you're basically saying what percentage of the size you see, that you want to keep. Most of my pics on my digital camera, I end up doing 40/40.

See if it lets me type the code.. When you go to post an image, type [ img] (But with no space in the beginning between [ and i) Then at the end of your url (make sure it touches the brackets on both ends, no spaces) [ /img] (same thing with the spacing, I just added a space so it doesn't think I'm trying to use actual code) So it will look like this.. [ img]http://www.somepictures.com/blah.jpg[ /img] (but take out the spaces in the brackets) And Haydee, since you didn't know that.. if you can stop eating sugars for a few days (takes me like a week tops) you break your body's addiction to the sugars, and you'll stop craving it.. will be more of a 'I want a donut' if you want sweets, instead of a "OMG I need something sweet" hehe. First week is hardest because your body is use to having sugar, and it thinks you're depriving it, so you'll be craving it.. but.. you can doooo it. If anything, to get through the first week get a bag of the sugar-free Russell Stover's chocolates (om nom nom nom) for when you feel like you gotta have something sweet, and it won't be encouraging your body's sugar addiction.

Woohoo Jane! Good luck with no sweets Haydee, I'm sure you know but if you cut out all sugars, it will make it easier to stop eating sweets (after a few days of course), you'll stop craving it. I think I mentioned the coffee table & end tables I bought yesterday? Maybe not.. I bought them from Overstock, I've been waiting for my mom's hand me downs and I give up waiting, I hate my glass tops (hate hate hate). So I found some on Overstock that I liked, and though I have been screwed by buying furniture online in the past (not from Overstock though, we've bought a bed & our current living room table set there with no complaints--except that I hate glass top). A lot of reviews and everyone says it looks great, it's heavy & sturdy, the only problem is the shelves don't have pre-drilled holes but everyone says it's no big deal to drill your own and we have a drill so.. I got em. I'm so giddy, I've been wanting new tables for 4 years now. They come Monday! Going to sell my old glass tops on Craigslist. Anyone know why my house would be so dang dusty? We thought it was from smoking, and we change filters regularly.. but when we stopped smoking I cleaned our vents and changed the filter, and we still have a ridiculous amount of dust *and I dust once a week!* I can't figure out why we have such bad dust.. could 2 cats create so much? We're not in a desert, which was always dusty from the sand when we lived in NM.. Our company's White Tiger Paws, first shipment came in and someone opened a box.. Om nom nom nom. I ate one and was able to stop at just one, because it was 10am and something so sweet.. didn't need 2! White chocolate turtles... and they are hand-made and very generous with the caramel. I helped design our custom box this year, turned out very very cute. Metallic silver-blue background with pale blue snowflakes on top of that and then a white tiger with a santa hat standing next to our logo.

That actually makes me think of when I wash zuccini or squash. The handy work that goes into it always makes me feel dirty cause the way I wash it is the same way I handle my husband.. and over turkey day when making my squash zuccini casserole, I wondered if anyone else in the kitchen thought what I was doing was dirty looking.

Ya'll are right. And yes, when Randy used the fake immunity idol I died laughing. Serves him right, he was a jerk.

I do, I watched it all the time... it's really sad, because it's real. The follow up episodes, they never stay clean!! I know my sister is just as at fault, believe me I already know she's an idiot, but the audacity his brother has to come bring drugs and offered it to both siblings (my brother likely bought some too, he's a big druggie, but I figure what really happened is my bro ended up selling him stuff) in any event.. His family doesn't come for xmas anyway, we go there.. it's just to hear my mom SAY don't invite them, just puts a crutch there in my mind because I know my mom is resentful right now. And not at his parents of course, but his stupid ass brothers. (Had to come back, Russ walked in my office) Was talking to my friend, who has a brother in jail most of his life for drugs so she can relate, we were talking about what idiots they all are.. so glad I have someone to vent to about this, I just get so mad. His brother was very obnoxious that day in other regards, I hate that he talked about drugs in front of my mom, it's a huge sore spot and completely inappropriate. But he brought a 12 pack of beers that morning when they got there at 10am and he drank several, then asked to bring it to the dinner. I said no, we don't drink alcohol (we never have, there's 2 alcoholics in our family and they know we don't drink at family gatherings, my granny is very anti-drinking).. then we get there, and we are getting drinks for everyone, my mom asked him what he wanted, he said "Any alcohol?" after I had the talk with him about no alcohol, she said No and he said "If there's no alcohol,then I don't want anything." This is why Russell feels bad, he feels his brothers are a reflection on him. I've always said, my bro & sis are NOT a reflection of me. You can't choose your family, and no one in my fam thinks less of Russell because his brothers are stupid. I'm afraid if I tell him, he'll end up apologizing to my mom, which will set my mom off on me for telling him.

Save meh from the drama :cursing: Talked to mom about my sister, guess where my sister got her drugs? From Russell's youngest brother when he came down for Thanksgiving. My brother told me his bro was bragging about have X, cocaine blah blah (this is his youngest bro, who is extremely obnoxious with shock talk), but even my sister was complaining about how he was talking about having drugs in front of our family. Anyway, so it ends up he sold her morphine, in syringes. She's never done morphine. So thanks to him, she has a new drug of choice. Mom begged me not to tell Russell, because she knows Russell always complains about his brothers coming to any of our family gatherings (he says they emberass him) and we say "no,our families are one", etc.. but now.. with this, mom doesn't want Russell to feel bad, yet me or Russ are going to have to call his bro and have a talk with him. That being said, mom said "Please don't invite his family to Christmas". heh. Not sure what to do, she really doesn't want me to tell Russell and I don't want to tell him because I know he'll feel horrible.. but if I don't tell him, I'm going to be the one who has to call his brother and tell him he has shit for brains. (Pardon me Judy & Michelle!)

Me too Pam, and although I'd love a girl simply because the nursery set I picked out is too cute (purple flowers!), I officially want a boy or girl equally now after thinking about pros & cons of their sex lol. So I am going to win either way!! Amazes me how dumb people are on the internet, with myspace/facebook. Anyone watch the judge shows and people incriminate themselves because of it, or people getting arrested now for commiting crimes and putting the videos up on their facebook, etc. My sister is stupid like that, she always blogs about when she does drugs, or cuts, etc. She finally learned how to do secret blogs where you can exclude some people from seeing it (like me and my mom), but today one of her friends commented on her myspace saying she's so stupid for getting back into drugs and if she met whoever introduced her to the needle she would kick their @$$ etc. So, there's that. I could turn this into a rant, but I won't. Just amazed at what people put online. I've seen some news articles where HR people admit they pull up myspace/facebook of applicants when deciding whether or not they want to hire.