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Money for xmas is a foreign concept to me. I always had presents. As I got older, bday presents became bday shopping trips where I could pick what I wanted, but still no money (to this day, I can't think of a single occasion for which my parents gave me money over a gift, they're just the type that subscribe to the idea that "money is impersonal, a gift shows you at least thought enough to pick something out.") Anyway - for those of you who got money as children, and believed in Santa, how was the absence of a gift explained? Or did you get money and maybe A gift from Santa?

To me, that's hypocritical. They're shunning the girl for prosecuting the brothers (or because whomever did it), which is its own form of punishment. They're basically punishing her for punishing them. I don't know much about Amish life, but I'm assuming their belief is that the intrinsic punishment is punishment enough. That's basically advocating for lawless rule. We all know what that's called. :faint:

NSAIDS (risk of ulceration) and enteric coated meds will probably be your biggest obstacles. Most other things can be crushed or have liquid alternatives. Post-op I was given Lortab elixir and something else that I'm drawing a total blank on... worked just as well as the pills ever did. Discuss your concern with your surgeon when you get to the point of consultation.

I gave up red meat after surgery. My surgery was in March, and late April was DH's bday. He wanted Fuddrucker's. I ordered a small cheeseburger, and that was the first time I realized what a horrible texture ground beef has. Yuck! Plus, no matter how well I chewed, I couldn't gooify it. The closest I could come was tiny beads of what felt like gristle. That whole experience really turned me off to red meat. A few weeks later I tried a piece of steak. Man, pre-op I used to love me a nice piece of aged sirloin, rare enough that it was bloody and jiggly in the middle. I tried a bite post-op, and I it just took one bite to decide that the amount of chewing & texture wasn't worth it. Now I'm content to order chicken and smell DH's amazingly good looking steak.

Do your children believe in Santa Claus? If they do, that might complicate things a bit. Children associate bad behavior with limited gifts. That's one of the main, non-physical weapons in curtailing bad behavior, right? So will using christmas as a time to teach them about money really accomplish that, or will it leave them thinking they were bad? I dunno, don't have kids. But if it were me, and I wanted to teach them the lesson, I would wait until a more neutral time. Maybe through allowance, or heck - even bday money. I will be as you are with the holidays - my kid will get whatever they want. :tape2:

I did look. Have been looking. I looked back through 7/01 and have no reported posts from you or any of the other names associated with you. Unless you did this in June or earlier, I have no record of it. Look - who started what, who's who, who is more at fault.... who cares? What it boils down to is that all sides of this have dropped to surprisingly immature levels. You are all adults, and you all know how to best resolve situations like this. Bickering isn't it. Someone take the higher road and turn the other cheek.

If you would like to report a post, report it. We will look into it. When you (your aunt, whomever) just start following people around trying to push buttons and conducting yourselves like children, that doesn't say "I feel victimized" to us. Both sides of this wtf it is need to look closely at how they're acting. Anyone who feels victimized or attacked needs to escalate appropriately.

I was addressing Lizrbit - I think. I'm sorry, but when someone isn't addressing someone else, and then has a comment like Id like to have a paintball match with wasabubblebutt sometime. As a matter of fact, id like that very very much. maybe for my birthday? maybe if i make goal? made about them, that's provocation. It is not defending onesself when "self" hasn't even been addressed in the thread. Neither of the people you're griping about had so much as brought up either of your names here. Their names were brought into it. That is not provocation. Be the bigger person and walk the higher road.

If you want someone to leave you alone, posting them messages in response to their posts, which you claim you can't even see, is not the way to accomplish your goal. If you really want to be left alone, then make the assumption that whatever they're posting is NOT actually all about you, and ignore them. Not board function ignore them, but big girl ignore them. I've never once actually seen it work where someone says "leave me alone," continues to "talk" to those same people, and is actually left alone. I think we can all figure that one out.

Ah, forgive the misspells. I would go back and edit but there are way too many paragraph breaks to weed through.

It's important to keep in mind the types of personalities that help-based messageboards might attract. You also need to keep in mind that the dynamics of doing anything are completely different from doing it IRL. Messageboards are like petri dishes for immaturity, codependence and passive aggression. People can be very viscous online. If you think about it, these people probably aren't like this IRL. They'd get smacked down way too fast. Maybe they're looking for an "out" - a way to give them something their RL can't. I'm reminded of a boss I had once. She was a rabid bulldog at work, took no prisoners. People were scared to be in meetings with her. We'd have people ask us to proof their emails to her, to make sure they wouldn't rub her the wrong way. I saw her at home once and she was the most submissive woman I had ever seen. Her husband completely ruled the roost, and he did it with an Iron fist, and she was there at his beckoning call. When I saw that picture of her home life, it was easy to understand why she was the way she was at work. But, using these guesses to make cuts about someone's personal life, what they get out of being here, etc. is NOT the (IMO) most appropriate way to react. When people do that online, and I read it, I don't think -- YEAH, YOU'RE RIGHT, S/HE SUCKS! I think - really? Is that the level of maturity we're dealing with here? You say you're how old? That's kind of sad. I also think for too many people, maturity drops about 70% as soon as they create a handle. I see "people" claiming to be upwards of 30 years older than me doing and saying things that I would have considered immature when I was 12. (And I'm most certainly not the most mature person around... so that DOES say something). If someone on a messageboard managed to incite enough anger in me and hurt my pride enough that I really felt I needed to confront THEM (as opposed to their stance), I would do it in as close of a manner to IRL as possible: direct, person-to-person. But the me here is pretty much the IRL me, and that's not the case for lots of ppl out there. Online people tend to engage "smear tactics" such as starting threads to bash the person, whether the person is named, or the whole ordeal is disguised as some unnamed, unspecified event. I guess this is the IRL equivalent to telling your story to mutual acquiantances and seeking out the supporters. The anonymity of the internet also empowers people in a different way. This is related to my anecdote of a former boss. On this board - and most boards I can think of - people have a tendency to push buttons incessantly. "Jabs"... it's easy when you can walk into a room, slap someone across the face, and then log off. Or ignore, or block, or claim "I'm leaving this thread" or any other virtual means of not having to own your actions. You can't walk into a room and slap me, and then just disappear, or make me & anything I do as a reaction be unseen/unheard... no, you have to face the consequences of your actions. You DON'T have to do that online, so people do a hell of a lot more provoking and prodding than they would ever think of doing IRL. Not so brave people are suddenly very brave when they have a handle to hide behind. But really - if you're going to pee in your bed, you'd better be willing to change the sheets, or you're just gonna be soppy and stinky in the morning. All just IMO of course.

3 in a 4 is too much for me. I'm at 2.75 and this is as close to a sweet spot as I'm going to get. So yeah - 3.25 could most definitely be enough for restriction. I thought my surgeon was agressive with his 0.5 - 1.0 cc fills. WOW. 1.75 at a time, in a 4cc band? Do be careful when you resume eating. Having THAT much fill at once can easily push you into "overfilled."

This is just a guess, but "pain and soreness" combined with "burping" to me = stuck. Whensomething is stuck, your body produces thicker saliva, similar to what's produced just before you're about to vomit. And copious amounts of it, too. Adding this on top of whatever is stuck will just make things worse. What are you eating? How are you eating? How big of bites? How long between bites? If you've not eaten for 10 hours, do you still hurt, or is it only when you've eaten/are burping?

I have gone up a cup size. I attribute it to the same changes that make men think weightloss increases their penis size. My boobs have stayed the same, but as I've lost weight my abdomen is farther and farther away, so they appear to stick out more, and more "boob" is there to fill the bra cup.

I'm not great at forgiving. On one end, it takes sooo much to get to "need forgiveness" status, that few would be likely to get there. On the other end, outside of my husband and immediate family, people just aren't that important to me, so if someone did get to that status, it would be nothing for me to be completely done with them and never look back. I don't think forgive is a separate action. I think forgiving is reaching a decision that something the person or situation has to offer is greater than your resentment or hurt or <insert emotion of choice> at having to endure it. And really, I'm not sure people forget. I've seen people hurt by things, who live just fine 20 years, and *bam* along comes that trigger and everything is right there again, just like it happened yesterday.

One of the best movie quotes - The last time I had a pap smear, the guy needed leather gloves and an oyster shucker. So wrong on so many levels.

sweethazel, what's your opinion of the topic?

It looks liek this and is sold in as-is (not boxed up):

The only place I've found it is Wal-Mart. I've checked drug stores, Target, grocery stores, even gas stations because I don't go to wal-Mart unless I really have to. The name of it is "Rapid Blast" and it's usually stocked in the same area as regular Tylenol. Opaquish bottle, strong red color. There is also a PM version that comes in Warm vanilla flavor and is kind of honey-colored, but definitely not honey (or vanilla) tasting.

Yeah, so you know those edible underwear? Phooey. They're just like tissue thin fruit rollups cut into loincloth shapes with tie straps on the sides. You put them on, and your body heat will melt them to you before anything else can happen. They're not so much fun when you have to shower them off. Before DH was DH I brought a pair (and some other goodies) on one of my visits to see him. Of course, I'm the one customs chose to pull aside for the random luggage inspection. That was fun!

Could very well be PBs. The "different spit" sounds like you're sliming - the thick saliva in excessive quantities. If food is coming up, chances are you're PBing. PBs hurt me before, but not after. As soon as I yak up whatever's stuck, I feel fine (tho sometimes if it has been a particularly hard PB I will feel exhausted). PBs hurt most people, but I have spoken with people whom they didn't hurt. Ok, technically not the actual PB, but the inner workings before the PB happens. My PBs aren't violent, they're just like wretches. They're not like when you have a stomach virus and vomit uncontrollably at all. Except for the pain, they're pretty much like baby spitups.

Pickles and mayo together are good!! But when you have ketchup, mayo and pickles, isn't that pretty much 1,000 Island dressing, a.k.a. "secret sauce"?

Check out this thread I started a while ago, it's dedicated to bandsters with a starting BMI of 50 or higher. My starting BMI was around 56... I don't remember exactly. I'm now under 33. I love my band.

Flying should not effect your awareness of the band uotside of increased restriction. In other words, if you can't feel your band sitting there reading the screen, you shouldn't feel it sitting there waiting for the fasten seatbelt light to ding off. :confused:

My father eats ketchup on his eggs, and mac & cheese. My aunt puts it on her pancakes. Umm... eww. The only things I eat ketchup on are potatoes. I used to like ketchup crust on meatloaf, but I don't eat red meat, and the ketchup doesn't juve the same with turkeyloaf. But I prefer A1 to dip my potatoes in. Ok FFS, to be completely honest I prefer full fat mayo, it's the BEST potato dipper... or even mayo mixed with mustard... but I don't do that anymore.