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If you've been on Rx pain meds and stopped taking them, that can be a cause for the headache.. it'll go away in a day or so, it's just withdrawals from Rx pain meds. Otherwise, tylenol is fine.. :cursing:

I've never been a big fan of Applebee's, but they came out with a new menu sometime this year, that has the shrimp & spinach salad.. it is phenomenal. I don't count stuff, so I don't care either way, but there was a time when I would count calories and (that's what Chili's got in trouble for) if they mislabeled calorie content, that's not right!! ARGH! :cursing:

This one time, at band camp... :cursing:

I think it's a boy. Due to my ravenous hunger, which the books say is twins or a boy.. and since it's not twins, that leaves a boy..

The most comfortable when my port scar was healing, was doggy style. Lot less bending of my abdomen and squishing it, or any weight put on it. I think I only waited a week..

My living room is a deep eggplant purple color. I am so tired, I have such a hard time getting up for work these days. Doesn't help that Russell won't let me turn the heat up past 68 and he keeps our ceiling fan on. I'm like a popsicle every morning. Still trying to defrost with personal heater at work.. brr.

Not only do you have 1 whole cc to go to 'fill' the band, but bands can be over-filled safely to a point and I've heard people on the forum say they had to do this. .1cc can make a world of difference, I've been 'too tight' by only .2cc before, and if I lost .3cc I would be too open.. I definitely think it's time for a new doctor, that is supportive and not argumentative. If you didn't need the band to work, you wouldn't have had the surgery and it sounds like you're making good choices, you just need the band to do its part.

I can eat rice & pasta, without doing anything special. Rice I've never had a problem with, and I'm not a fan of pasta so I rarely eat it.. but I've eaten long noodles too quick and had issue.. as long as I remember to chew them it's all good.

Terry if you can have that before 5pm (and the entire thing after 5pm), yes.. time for a fill!! Welcome back Pam! Our Xmas party use to be a pot luck, but this year is when we had that employee who had the filthy disgusting house and got arrested, etc., so.. due to this, we nixed pot lucks from here on out. We did some printing for this fancy place called Ketchup (funny huh?) and did a trade off, they're doing a buffet style and letting us have our party there. I've never been there, but apparently it's like a gourmet diner and they serve a bunch of different flavored ketchups lol. Dec. 15th.. busy week for me next week.. Dec. 11 find out what our baby violet is (I may have a tiny penis in me!?! Yeah do I sound 12 or what.), Dec 12 is the surprise party I'm throwing for my friend, Dec. 13th is Nutcracker (I hate this show, but a coworker is the lead dancer so we agreed to go see him). Dec. 15th is the company party.. whew. Oh and this Saturday all my girlfriends I been catching up with are coming over.. my turn to host the girl's night out!

Morning! We've had snow all morning! But it's 40 degrees out, so no chance it'd stick. I finished that book this weekend, the Brief & Wonderous life of Oscar Wao. Very.. interesting. Surprised it made best seller and stuff.. it was about a Fuku (curse) in the Dominican Republic that followed a family for generations, particularly their love lives and lives in general, a lot of flashing back & forth in time. I mean, it was an interesting read (that I was able to finish) but nothing that would make me insist someone else read it. In fact some of it was vulgar enough I'm not going to give it to my Granny to read--I normally give her every book I read. I just ordered a coffee table & end table from overstock. I've been holding out for years for my parent's hand me downs, and they almost got new ones this year, then mom backed out. Tired of waiting on their hand me downs and I hate my glass tops (I hate glass tops!!). It was $600 with the specials going on, and then I get a 15% rebate for paying with paypal. Wood tops with metal scrollwork bodies.. 1 coffee table & 2 end tables. I also got some books I ordered in today.. Snow Flower & The Secret Fan (recommended to me on Amazon based on other books I bought) it's another historical novel, new york times best seller and I believe it's about china.. Also got The Life Before Her Eyes, that movie I watched last week. Can't wait to read this book and find out more info. Any of you watch Lost? Or Fringe? They are by the same guy JJ Abrahms, and with all the goofy stuff going on in Lost.. well I've been watching Fringe and on the last Fringe it had 'fake airplane' tickets for some of the workers of this big corporation that is doing bad things, on an OCEANIC flight, that is suppose to cover up their murders. Hmmmm. My head is going to explode if they are trying to converge Fringe & Lost.

Morning V's! Starting to feel pregnant since Thanksgiving lol. Thought it was from eating too much, but my stomach is getting hard and I feel heavy and uncomfortable and it's lasted all these days. My belly aches a lot, I guess from growing, but it doesn't let up and it makes sleeping a real pain. Although, it hasn't kept me from sleeping, I Just wake up a lot rubbing my stomach. Friday I woke up early for his bro to come, then I fell asleep around noon and slept all day.. then yesterday I got home from the Iron bowl party (Alabama vs. Auburn.. I bet on Auburn wow.. they lost 0 to 28ish!!) around 5pm and fell asleep till midnight.. then went back to bed at 1am. Pam your dad sounded like a great guy!

I opened it, and it had 5 people, none of which I could decide was her dad.. so I wrote back asking which one.

Judy let me know that soup recipe, we have 3 carcasses at my moms house, going to tell her to save me one.. I wanna soup!! I only PB'd once, pre-meal.. I snacked on a deviled egg and my brain lapsed, I took 1/3 bite of the egg and didn't chew at all.. so I immediately ran to the bathroom and spit up 1/3 of the egg lol. But then it was like a miracle (a bad one!) I could eat everything on my plate. I ate SO much it was like I had no band. I got to the point I was so full, I was way too full and felt bad.. and then I got this severe pain in my left shoulder, which I had a few days ago at work.. must have to do with eating. So we went home early so I could lay down and baby my shoulder. Had indigestion ever since eating yesterday, burps and gas.. yuck. One of Russ' brothers didn't make it down, but he called last night (one that bailed on us last week moving furniture) and said he was coming here at 8am to finish moving furniture. So he calls us at 8am (which wakes me up) and says he's on his way. It's 10am and he just called and said he's not coming. ARGH. I don't know what his problem is. Don't come, but don't keep making me think someone is coming, where I get up, clean up, get ready for company--then bail. My granny made 2 turkeys, but she dropped one the other day so we only had 1.. She is the hostess with the mostess so when everyone kept asking for more turkey she acted like her dementia set in..she'd say OK! disappear and come back with.. nothing lol. She finally told me & my mom what happened. My mom did get 2 deep fried turkeys from her friend.. they are soooo good.. deep fried in peanut oil. But she only did breasts this year, and I don't eat white meat About to go heat up some left overs, and read a book. I bought the Brief & Wonderous Life of Omar Wao months ago when I hurt my back and was bed ridden and never got around to reading it. I keep seeing reviews on it and it's been a best seller or something on amazon. Yeah I don't shop today, and try not to leave the house all together. Good luck to those of you who are!

Happy Thanksgiving all! May PB's not haunt any of us today :grouphug: I watched Wall-E last night, kind of a sad movie! Watched it while cooking at my mom's. Pregnancy stupid brain hit me pretty bad, I burned both my squash casseroles, the oven beeped and I was distracted and forgot to take them out for 30 more minutes.. dang. Then the chess pie I make just for Russell, I don't know what happened.. mom said I must not have followed the recipe, but I swear I did. I ended up with enough for 2 pies, even though it's a 1 pie recipe.. then it never set :grouphug: I used a new recipe, all I can think of was that it was a bad recipe I found. Oh well.. finishing cleaning our house, his family is suppose to be coming in an hour or so, then we go to my granny's. Of course the things I told Russ he needed to do last night.. vaccuum & take out trash.. NEVER HAPPENED!

WOOOHOOO Tracy!!! I just got back from lunch @ Chili's.. Tilapia & broccoli.. nom nom nom. It's funny, I love love love their food, but the service is SO BAD. Admittedly bad. I've complained to managers (who were sitting at tables hanging out) and they just moved us once. Anyway, it never fails. They forgot my soup, brought me sweet tea instead of unsweet, and Russell's order was wrong (they put blue cheese on his sandwhich and he hates blue cheese), and he was so livid (yet happy to be able to say SEE THIS PLACE SUCKS to me) that he didn't return it, he just threw his fork down and sulked while I ate. Tilapia is all worth it though. I know he hates the service, so I try not to make him go there.. but he threatens me when I can't make up my mind on where I want to go, but it's really that I know we disagree on everywhere so I'm trying to find somewhere we'd both enjoy.. so I was thinking and he goes "If you don't pick somewhere, we're..." and it probably would have ended with "going to Taco Bell" so I just said "OK.. Chilis" Neener neener.

Aww how sweet Tracy!! She looks so much like you!!!! I did Turkey day shopping with my mom tonight, have I mentioned lately how much I love Publix? No huge crowd, not even a single person in line in front of us.. aaahhh. Their selection is annoying sometimes, like these yogurt smoothies.. I thought I bought them there, I wanted to get more, and all they had were carb conscious/no sugar yogurt smoothies.. no thanks. Got an annoying email from a customer tonight at 8pm, so that's going to be my first-thing-in-the-morning fun tomorrow We bought our first CD's today, we got them from ING Direct...which is where Jane recommended! I did google for reviews (afterward) and people complained they check your credit score 2x a month indefinitely till your account is closed, which I hope isn't true..

I think it should be legal, I think any serious relationship is a loose form of prostitution. If someone wants to have sex for money/goods/etc., and someone wants to pay them to have sex, who cares?

Ya'll make it sound so good, I wish I liked CC. I have tried it every kind of way, and just can't get myself to eat it. The only way I like it, which I've yet to replicate.. my granny's lasagna uses cottage cheese instead of ricotta. I don't like lasagna, but I like pulling the noodles off and scraping the red sauce out.. and just eating the cottage cheese out of it. I know it's mixed with egg, so some sort of baked cottage cheese & egg, but it picks up the flavor from the red sauce I guess... but I don't want the red sauce

Welcome to the forum! I have never done WW, but I guess grin & bear it. This time next year you'll be flying high!

Welcome to the forum and congratulations on your decision. Getting it 1 week before Thanksgiving shows your level of commitment to the band, which will be important in your success.. good for you )

I've never done it, but I've seen it on tv and it looks fun.. but, also looks messy and I don't want to clean everytime I make a drink. The green juices really look appetizing to me some reason lol.

I think you made a good choice, only a few days post-op, while you may not be hurting anymore, your body is still healing and you'll be tired & weak.

My BMI was 29 at the lowest so far before I got pregnant, and I still had a big flabby belly that interfered with sex..

Hah hah, yes they're all my age. The 1 who isn't pregnant or nursing, was pregnant last year & lost it at 6 months (was so sad, something that haunts me in my pregnancy) and is still trying, so 4/4 of us are at the least trying to have kids! We are in Alabama though where getting married & having kids starts young, we're actually behind, most of our other friends have 3-5 y/o kids already! Pam, I think airline stuff is RIDICULOUS. My mom was telling me the other day about some trip she's going on, she'll just change the tickets if she needs to. I said I have never done that just because of the cost, she said she didn't think it cost that much--but some reason I had it in my head like you just said, they charge you for like 5 seats to change them.. makes me think the best idea would just be to book another ticket and don't check in for the first ones heh! Tracy- I am doing Christmas paintings, on canvas.. no cards. Every once in a while I get the urge to paint, so I started the base last night.. silver & blue and then red & gold. Not sure what I'm going to put on them yet.

Aw ya'll are sweet. The one in both pics with me is being spastic.. she kept trying to contort herself to hide her double chins.. so she ended up looking goofy. She's so beautiful, and it's weird to notice the things bigger people do that I use to do.. and even more interesting is I never had overweight friends before, but several old friends gained a lot of weight after high school. So it's like now they're living my old life of doing things like looking goofy trying to hide a double chin LOL! Judy that is SO pretty, especially with snow. Even my crappy set up last year would have looked ok if I had some snow I'm not uncomfortable at all heh, and I do have a baby bump now, but I have to hold up my pannis to see it, so obviously no one else sees it. I just look like my belly is getting fat again. JOYOUS. The Shack, a friend of mine insisted I read it too, so I bought it (she thought it was a true story--which it isn't).. told my granny as well, who bought it. We both read it, at some point you meet Jesus, God, and the Holy Spirit and their depiction of them turned me off, so I put the book down. My granny on ther other hand really enjoyed the depiction and what it stood for, and told me I had to read the last chapter if I wasn't going to finish it. So I read the last 2 chapters. Was a good book for the 6 or 7 chapters I read, but the middle wasn't my cup of tea. A movie worth watching.. Life Before Her Eyes.. It's got Rachel Evan Wood & Uma Thurman.. it's about a school shooting, but it's one of those movies with a slap-in-the-face ending where you have to watch the movie all over again.. I watched it twice and now I'm going to buy the book to get more info. Luckily I made my mom & dad watch it, so I had someone to talk about it with.. like what the ending meant, and I'm a blonde I guess cause I didn't put it together. It's a great movie, one of the best I've seen in a while. Cry-worthy too if you feel like crying. OH and I got my flying monkey ROFL. Cassy was dancing on her back legs (a VERY rare thing to see) trying to figure out what was screeching in my hands. Russell figured out the slingshot thing, I didn't even see that.. he flings it across the room and Cassy went running and tried to kill it with all the screeching!