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Jane - come on down!!! I hate to vacuum. Will you do dishes too? He he he... I think for this one time I'm going to splurge on a cleaning crew to come do my house... So far this morning I've had one cup of coffee with creamer and one teaspoon of sugar... For lunch I've brought a vietnamese slaw and noodle salad with grilled pork on top. For dinner I think I might make fish. I haven't had fish in awhile. Terry/Tracy - have ya'll seen fish at the supermarket? My meeting is postponed until later... The nine a.m. meeting hasn't finished yet... I'm gonna pop over to the online news site and see what's going on with the world...

Morning girls... Hope everyones weekend was great... I had to work all day Saturday, yuck. Can you believe my boss is making us make up time that we missed for the hurricane? Ghetto... So I'm stuck working for a few saturdays in the next couple of weeks... Sunday was hectic too. My cousin had a baby shower and I still hadn't had time to get her a present... So we went to breakfast, then mass then shopping. There was hardly anything left on the register so I was running around picking up tons of little odds and ends... Ugh, I'm doing so bad on my eating too. I am going back for a fill this coming saturday and see what she sees... Hopefully I haven't stretched my pouch out. It's going to be a beautiful week here in Houston this week. I love love love this time of year. I've got weddings scheduled in the month of October. Business has really picked up. Both on the Bed and Breakfast side and on the wedding side. I'm hoping to get to a point where I can do that full time. Even in a state of recession the wedding business never misses a beat. Girls still want to get married and will still come up with whatever amount of money it takes to get it done to their satisfaction... My house is still in shambles from when we were without power. I still haven't gotten around to doing any major housework. I need to hurry up and get it done tonight so I won't feel guilty while I'm out enjoying this weather the rest of the week. Laura - hope things go well at your appointment today! If she doesn't bring relief I would still ask about acupuncture... Judy - your garden's look so beautiful! Wish I had a green thumb. I kill everything I touch. My front yard I've worked on but my back yard is still bare, just grass. Have no clue what I want to do back there... Pammy - (((((hugs))))) to you... I love you but have to tell you this. You are wasting the time that you do have with him now on being sad about what's gonna happen in the future. Live in the now always. He's still with you! Call him as much as you can and when his time does come you will be happy that you were able to enjoy him to the fullest... Terry - I'm sorry your son had to miss his grandma's service... It sounded like it was a beautiful tribute to her life... Hugs to you today too... TracyK - I am glad the lights are back on but seriously sometimes forget. I'll be in the bathroom at dusk and juan will come in there and flip the switch and i'm like, oh yeah! we have lights now... AND I haven't had a chance to watch TV. All that moaning and groaning I did about missing it... I gotta cut this short... I've got a meeting scheduled at 10am and I need to get ready for it... I'll be back later girls...

YAY tracy!!! that's gonna happen more and more around here in the next year or so... So glad we're all taking care of ourselves... Can't wait to live vicariously through you!

morning ladies! hope everyone is having a great day so far... Denise - how are your daughters doing? and the babies?? growing quick? Did ya'll get your kitchen fixed up after the damage was done? TracyKS - yay for your sister!! I'm sure you're so happy for her! Have fun today... Tracyk - what school district do the other kids go to? Terry - sometimes work run-ins are worse than fighting with family members. you have to see your co-workers every day, all day long. Yuck! everything patched up? Laura - sucks you're still feeling bad... please try the acupuncture. it really can't hurt... gonna go grab some coffeeeeeeeeeeee i slept with my tv on last night...... he he he

GUESS WHAT??? Just got my power back! Hallellujah!!!! Just wanted to check in real quick and let ya'll know I'll be sleeping in A/C tonight! Sleep well ladies, I know I will! Thank you for all your prayers...

Judy - wish I could watch it at work! I love ellen! TracyK - yep been super busy. Trying to play catch up. Been in meeting after meeting after meeting. With insurance people, with our owners, with bankers... We had alot of damage done to some of our locations and right now we still have 6 locations without power that have not been generating revenue. I know that washing their cars is the last thing on people's lives right now but unfortunately it's what pays the bills. And right now ain't nobody getting paid... Pamela - we haven't heard from you today? You ok? I haven't had a chance to grab a bite to eat all day. My stomach is growling. I just got back from the chiropractors office with my princess. She got an adjustment and she feels so much better now! She'll have to keep going back every few months but it's better than surgery... Off I go to find something to munch on... Nothing good will come of this search, I guarantee it...

TracyK - that's great news about your niece! So glad everything went okay. Sorry you felt like crap yesterday. Sometimes when it's one thing on top of another you get overwhelmed. Happens to me quite often unfortunately. And crying doesn't help but it does make me feel better! Hugs today.... TracyKS - the drama has actually brought us closer together... it kinda brought out the worst in me though. During the best of times it's a struggle for me to keep my temper under control, to keep my patience, to keep my head on straight. So right now it's doubly hard for me. I lose my temper over the slightest thing because my nerves are just worn raw. But Juan has just showed remarkable patience with me. One of us has to keep his head on straight! He'll let me throw a tamtrum over whatever and then he'll just say it's not really about X thing that you're mad about it's just the situation that has you stressed. We'd be going it at it like cats and dogs if he wasn't being like that... How are things with Charles? Since you came back have things gotten better? Jane - I want to see what you bought!! I would invite you to come see me but you don't like Houston, remember? ;p he he he... You would actually love it if you saw it through my eyes! Judy - turkey always gives me trouble. Even on my widest open days. I'm so glad you saw results so quickly! Those are the times that I get motivated. When I do something and I get almost instant gratification! Off to get my hot coffee now... Ohhhh guess what! Last night I went to the grocery store and got LETTUCE! and BANANAS. I've never been so happy to purchase a head of lettuce in my life!

Okay girls... Leaving now. Back to the 1800's for me... I'll be back tomorrow morning... BYE!!

TracyK - i'm so lucky i can't eat much pasta. Just a few bites do me in. Laura - get your booty home lady.... Why did you work a full day??

Oh and then guess what... We went to go check out our house Sunday morning after all the storm had passed and noticed that someone had tried to pick our lock on our front door. Looked like they picked at it with a screwdriver or something like that. Can you just believe it? Ugh, then we had to move back home ASAP because I wasn't leaving my house unprotected. My neighborhood is pitch black once the sun goes down. You can't see your hand in front of you. Last week when we didn't have a generator we would just sit in the house in the dark with a flashlight. It sucks that it had to come to that. And we supposedly live in the "nice" part of town. I wonder how safe the people feel in the less desirable parts of town with no electricity yet...

Hi Terry! Did you finish your book? I also got all into it when I read it. I think I finished it in one weekend. I've been spending alot of time reading as you can imagine! I do love reading but I miss my shows! Hi Judy! missed ya! How's your daughter doing? How are you doing with this last fill? TracyK - how many kids are staying at your house?? The first two days of the storm we were staying with my mom. There was 7 dogs and 4 cats in the house! It was chaos! I have four dogs, my sister has 1 dog, my cousin has 1 dog and 2 cats and then my aunt has 1 dog and two cats. I went to the vet Friday morning before the storm and picked up some doggy valium to keep them all calm or else them would have driven us nuts.

the only good thing to come out of all of this is that I've been off of ice cream during this whole time! They had some in the grocery store but since we turn off our generator during the day I opted not to get any since it would just get soft in my freezer right now. AND my sonic and my dairy queen have been closed. They barely opened up this week and they're not serving ice cream yet. AND my Cold Stone that is down the street has not opened up yet and I was talking to someone and they were saying that they weren't going to open it back up at all. So I guess the universe is trying to tell me something?

Pamela - it's more like YEEEEHAAAWWWW.... i'm in texas, remember? LOL. Missed you too! I saw your pics today of the ceremony. It looked beautiful. You looked beautiful too... Suzanne looked so happy! Sorry your kids gave you shit yesterday.... Margaritas always help! Suzie/Jane/TracyKS - So lucky that ya'll got to meet up! I need a dose of violet chatter right now... Can't wait till our trip!

Kat - so glad to hear you're healing well! I was so thankful that Judy text me and let me know what was going on... I was praying for you... Laura - Try the acupuncture, like Terry said. My best friends father had suffered for years with debilitating back pain and ever since he started doing that he's felt 1000% better...

She's doing great now. Her vet was so pissed at her collegue for putting her on codeine. It was too much for her. She would get all stiff, her eyes would roll back into her head and she would be all loopy. She wouldn't even be able to raise her head. And when we would take her outside to go potty she would stand there for a moment then just fall over on her side. It was so frustrating. So right now she's taking a steroid pill and an anti-inflamatory pill. Well 1/8 of each, LOL. Right now since we are controlling the pain she is able to run and walk and eat and poop just fine. I was scheduled to take her to a doggy chiropractor last week but then the hurricane hit and they barely opened back up this week. So I will take her in on Wednesday for her first of many adjustments.... We're calling her the $2500 dog. That was the charge for the emergency room fiasco in which they didn't even diagnose her correctly. They took advantage of the fact that I wasn't there and did a million tests on her that I would have never agreed to. And my sisters were just so scared and they agreed to let them do everything. Ugh. I am so frustrated about that.

whew... okay, i'm here. i missed ya'll so much!!! i have to go back and read everything i missed. But first, is Kat ok? Thank you TracyK for posting my plea for a rib recipe. The stores around here aren't yet fully stocked so you'll find a little bit of this and a little bit of that. When I went all I found where baby back ribs and some pot roast meat. What are people with no electricity going to do with that? So glad we were able to borrow a generator. I've got my fridge hooked up, my little counter toaster oven, my crock pot and my fan. These past few weeks have been so trying on me. I hate hate hate to feel like this because in reality we were very blessed not to have suffered any damages but I've just been in such a funk lately. I am starting to feel depressed and just.... like... everything is futile (sp?). Like what's the point? Like I said, I hate feeling like this, I feel guilty for it but I needed to get it off my chest. I talk to Juan about it but he doesn't understand. Okay, now for my novel... sorry for the long post... skip ahead if you don't want to be bored to tears... So, my drama... the day before I was supposed to leave for mexico my little baby (doggy) princess started feeling bad. She was being lethargic and she just looked sad. I thought maybe it was because she saw my suitcase out and she knew I was leaving. Well the day I was leaving she came down with fever and she wouldn't eat and she wouldn't drink anything. This was the Saturday before Labor Day. Her vet was closed so I couldn't take her. I didn't want to leave her but my family convinced me to go and that they would take care of her. So I said fine. I told Juan that if by Tuesday she wasn't feeling better that he should take her in. So we leave Houston at 8pm that saturday night and embark on this 18 hr bus ride. about 3am I get a call from my sister saying that they are taking my princess into the emergency animal hospital. her fever is not going down and she won't stop crying. So i'm feeling sooooo guilty for leaving her. so, long story short, she gets admitted, spends two days in the hospital and gets misdiagnosed like 3 times. they don't have a clue what's wrong with her. By Tuesday I had them pull her out of there and take her to her regular vet. Her regular vet was on vacation and she sees another vet that she's never seen before. They take X-rays and they determine that she's got a slipped disc on her spine. That vet gives her codeine for the pain. So. The week goes on with my 4lb baby on codeine. The whole time i'm over there i'm just worried sick about her and I'm on the phone the whole time with my mom and my sisters asking how she's doing. I finally came home Sunday, Sept 7th and when I see her I just start bawlin'. Normally she is very spunky and feisty and this little bitty thing was just curled up into a ball and she didn't want anyone to touch her. She was just stiff and her eyes were rolled into the back of her head. So Monday morning I was finally able to get her to her regular vet and she was just astonished at how she looked. She immediately gave her a steroid shot and an anti inflamatory shot and she said she would start feeling better by that afternoon. Sure enough by 1pm that afternoon Princess was running around and playing. She suffered for 9 whole days just needlessly. So like I said, by Monday night she was feeling better. I went and left her at my mom's again because I was about to leave to Dallas for a work thing. I was in Dallas Tuesday, Wednesday and then I was able to catch a flight home Thursday evening because of the hurricane. The hurricane didn't do much damage to any of my immediate family's properties. Lots of fallen trees, my fence in my backyard fell, my parents fence fell. The property that we rent out for weddings had no significant damage. She has three beautiful historial oaks on the property and they weathered the storm well. She had tons of tree limbs and debris strewn all over the property and it took us three whole days with about 6 people to clean everything up. We're back to as normal as we can be with no power... I've been back to work since Monday. We were running our lights and some of our computers here on generators but we had no internet access. Okay, that was the extent of my drama... I'm going to go back and read everything I missed...

I'm BACK!!!!!!! Just got power and internet restored here at work!!! Still crossing my fingers everyday so that my power comes on at home.... I'm fixin to write a long ass post but first wanted to let ya'll know that i'm here... hold on...

Hi girls! Missed you all. Just got back in late last night... Terry - I'm so sorry for your loss. I'm really not good at being able to express my feelings verbally, I do much better with hugs. I'm sorry for you and for your family's loss but at the same time can't help but feel joy that your mother has finally been freed from the broken body she's been in for the past few months. Maybe if you look at it from that angle it will help ease the pain of not having her here with you anymore... Girls - I can't wait to catch up with all the rest of the posts and to fill ya'll in on my wonderful trip. I'm trying to play catch up here at work and also with our wedding business... I'll be back later... missed ya'll so much!

HI girls!! How's everyone?? Lazy morning for me... I gotta get my ass moving... I've got loads of laundry to do and I have to pack for my trip. My Godmother came into town today too so i'm gonna go over to my mom's to see her. Congratulations Denise!!! Kat - keeping you in my prayers. I so hope that there is nothing wrong and you get good news on Tuesday. Michelle - busy busy as always! Hope you have a wonderful weekend! Tracy - Stay safe! Judy - have fun at the art fair. I lloooovveee going to art fairs... Pammy - have fun at your party! How can you just eat half a hot dog? Sacriledge...LOL Laura - go back to bed... you need all the rest you can get now... Jane - sorry you don't get a holiday weekend!! that's usually the case with the self employed. My mom didn't take an extra day off either because she'll lose the business! Suzie - swimming this weekend?? TracyKS - love you! smooches! Terry - it doesn't even look like it might rain! Not a cloud in the sky over here... Have fun with your jewelry today! I really really hope I didn't miss anyone. I love you all and I'll talk to ya'll when I come back into town next Monday!

hi hi hi!!!! I had a wonderful time last night Terry...ate like a piggy! Nothing new... I haven't checked on Gustav's progress...I'm gonna run over to the weather website and look it up... I hope it doesn't mess up our plans of leaving on Sunday.... Gotta get to work this morning... Gotta leave my desk clean before I leave... I'll be back!

and on that note..... leaving now... Terry - i'm gonna go run a quick errand then i'll see you at 6... Have a good night girlies. Me and Terry will drink a few Sangrias for ya'll...

juan's mom. everyone calls her that... i call her mama maggie... i know, i know...:tt2:

is that really a book I want to take on a 16hr bus ride with my mother in law by my side?? LOL!

These two I have already read. I have them on my bookshelf! They are both really good...

keep em coming girls! Love building my hold list at the library...