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Kathy, I am glad your sister was sooo supportive of your surgery! She should be, you are moving your health into a positive direction! Hey, I am officially off of my blood pressure meds! I have been like 100/50 for the past few days and so light headed and dizzy! So don't need them anymore either!!!! This just keeps getting better and better! Plus, I dropped nearly 4 pounds as of today! Total of 18!!! WooHoo!!!!!

Hey, you gals are getting me soooo motivated to cook! This sounds great too! Now what is the difference in Tomato Bisque and Regular old Tomato Soup???? See, my lack of culture is shining through!!!!

So sorry that your sister can't watch your kids! I wish I were closer, I would love to watch them!!! I love kids! I guess that is why I teach the 4 year olds!!! LOL!!! Nothing like children to brighten your day! They do wear you out, but in a good way!!! The emotions are probably due to the anesthesia, the pressures that have been put back on you so quickly, and your mind and body adjusting to all the changes! I have been that way many times! LOL Ask my hubby, he will vouche for me!!! Actually, lately I am more either really up or really not happy! Go figure and doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason for it!!! I feel awful that I am like that, but it is, what it is! Hey, I made that soup and had to do a taste test! Didn't get out to get the seasoning due to time restraints today, but it is fabulous!!! I love it! I will keep looking for that seasoning ... next time I won't have to doctor it up with what I have on hand! It is sooo nice, because I would have never attempted making this without your advice! Not something I would typically make!!! Thanks again, Dear!!! I hope your day is going well! I am going to Bible Study in about an hour, so everyone will be taste testing, lol! I am taking the soup and "my version" of the Squash Casserole! My mom said it was delicious and she wouldn't change a thing, lol! So this time, I did use black beans and melted some cheese over them as well! I figured if I am doing my own thing, may as well, go all the way, lol!!!

Lynette, Congratulations on your fill!!! I hear you on the doc and all!!! Woo, what a hottie!!! Major stud!!! I love the idea of a hottie calling us with those ankle bracelets!!! Would that be inspiration or what???? Actually, might work in the opposite direction, lol, we may eat too much, just to get him to call, lol!!!!! Could be a detriment to our cause, lol!!!! Glad your computer is working!!! I am still waiting to get a call that my parts are in for my newer one!!!! I hate computer problems!!!!

Gonna spend a little time with my Man! Check back later!

I know what you are saying, I haven't lost anything since my first few post op days! I have been at a standstill ever since! Depressing! Sure hope all of a sudden, it just disappears!!! LOL

Got it and Thanks!!!

Marcy, the blueberries sound wonderful! You have quite the busy life!!!! Kathy, You are soooo what I imagine having a sister would be like!!!! Don't know what it is, but feels that way! I never had a sister, just 3 brothers, so it is certainly just my "vision!" But rather nice!!!

Yeah, good thing! Must have been a hit! I am going to take it to a Bible Study tomorrow, with my aunt, a cousin, and my mom! Thought I'd try something different! Sounds wonderful! Hope I can find the seasoning or something similar! Didn't realize you used so much of it, so it really would make a difference.

1/3 cup McCormick Roasted Garlic & Bell Pepper Seasoning Blend Never heard of this seasoning, but I will certainly look for it! I sooooo wish you lived closer! I really enjoy chatting with you!

Jackie, that sooooo sounds like something I would do!!! Hey, how do we know ... we were asleep, lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:notagree

Kathy, It sounds wonderful! Am I correct in assuming it would be a potato soup consistency???

I just jumped to the recipe thread to see if anything else was posted and Sunny commented that when I made the Squash Casserole, she didn't think I was to use the beans!!! Can you believe I misread that???? LOL, but I have to tell you, I made the casserole, when it was done, poured Northern Beans over it and baked it another 10 minutes and it was delicious!!! LOL, Oh by golly, don't think I will tell my family my little secret, lol!!!! They thought it was wonderful, they haven't a clue that it was a fluke!!!!! LOL .... ONLY ME!!

Yeah, I am sure you are a little weak and you are just new from surgery! Maybe too much, too fast! Plus, sounds like you are trying to keep up your old pace and that is tough, especially after what your body has been through! I'm going to make your butternut squash recipe tomorrow! That might work for you on the fluids! Is it runny? Sounds like it would be the right consistency to go through a straw! Would be lots of vitamins and protein! Should be a good choice! Do I peel the squash? Or use it all?

Sunny, I just looked at that recipe again and I can't believe it! You know when I was preparing it, I didn't even read that part til I was all done, so I thought, ahh, must be supposed to put them over the top!!! I'm telling you, it was delicious!!! Right or wrong, lol!!!!

LOL, YOU'RE KIDDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO, I put the northern beans on after the dish was all done and cooked it another 10 minutes!!! It was delicious!! I figured it was to get in a load of Protein, lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh my, I am laughing sooooooo hard right now, lol! I can barely type!!!!!!!! ONLY ME!!!!!!! Who else would do such a thing??????? LOL:D

Kathy, I bought the ingredients to make the butternut squash soup you posted. Do I peel the squash or let the skin on? Wasn't sure about that! Making it tomorrow!

Kathy, Now that is just beautiful!!! What a loving and thoughtful thing to do!!!

Christy, sorry you couldn't get an "early" fill! Not fun! But the docs do seem to be sticklers on that! I guess we need to heal fully first! Oh well, when it comes, it will be good!!!! Right now, I am fighting the "I can eat anything whoas!!!" Tough, because I can and it won't cause me problems right now, but I know I shouldn't, so I don't, but man, this better happen real soon, lol!!!!! Those tornadoes, YIKES, I wouldn't enjoy them! I lived in a mobile home when we first got married, not much to protect you there!!!! We had tie down straps and all, but wouldn't have done much good, would have blowed the walls off and all that would have been there may have been the frame, lol!!! I would hide too!!! I had one follow me home from a soccer game one day a few years back! We don't get many, but every now and again! That was just scary! My kids were little and I wasn't sure what to do, so I booked it and apparently avoided the track, but it did touch down in an area 30 miles from where I was!!! Just scary!!! You have no way of avoiding it, it is just there! That one summer, they were popping up left and right! Haven't had a summer like that in a very long time, thank goodness!

Click on somebody else's! It will take you to the site. Create it, then copy the URL it gives you when you are all done. Go to UserCP and edit signature, then paste the URL on that page, should do it!!!

Kathy, How you feeling? You are back at work, huh? Is that going okay? Sure hope you are doing well! Chim, Sounds like you are doing great! Adjusting and getting right back into it all! Good for you!!! Those of you going back so early just amaze me!!! I am very proud of all of you!!!

Sunny, with you on the food thing! Lately, I feel like I could eat anything and as much as I want! Not a good feeling! Goes against everything I did this for, YIKES!!!:help:

Congratulations!!! You are with us now!!!! Sounds like you are doing pretty well! Kind of out of it, but that gets better rather quickly!:faint:

Post any recipes you try, that you enjoy!!! I have had great luck with those recommended so far, lol!

You can look at that like you are the rainbow at the end of all of those tragedies!!! Don't give yourself the boot for being on that day, use it as a brightener for the WORLD, lol!!! Cazulay, So you understand how quickly this summer is wrapping up and how unready (if that is a word, lol), I am to go back, lol!