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Hi

Sorry I don't look for messages as often as I should. Wonder if theres a way to be notified by email when I receive one???

I am doing OK. Had a huge upset a few weeks ago, unexpectedly lost my job due to budget cuts (I don't believe it for a minute). Its more politics than anything else. Because of that I have had to put my house for sale and will take a killing on that if it even sells. I am moving south of Jefferson City because I was able to get a transfer to an office in the same company there. Still hate the company and this just gives me time to look for something else in a larger community. Moving in with BF; we had talked about doing that anyway and hes been soooo supportive thru all this. We have been spending some long weekends renovating a trailer thats on his property so we can both live there. We spent a few days replacing all the pipes that were broken from freezing. Tore out all the carpet and have been cleaning, cleaning, cleaning!!! It had been vacant for a while. We have lots of flooring to put down this weekend and I have started moving some of my stuff in. I have Waaaaaay to much stuff! lol So life has been chaotic here. I haven't been real good with dieting. We have had to eat out every meal until we got water in the place so my calories just soared! But working my bones off helped me maintain at least. Having another fill this thursday so that will probably be enough to get me to my sweet spot. On the plus side, I will be living near enough to where my doc is, I will be able to go to all the support meetings. They have an annual picnic coming up in 2 weeks that sounds like fun.

We have had to put plans to buy bikes on the back burner but I still really want one. We will probably save up after the house is all repaired and buy them in the spring.

Hope you are doing well. Keep losing!!

Hey! Doing ok here. I have been on the boards but i guess i am doing more reading than posting. Hope all is coming along well for you. Well, as you know I went in Monday, got banded, came home tuesday. Wed there was a meeting at work I couldn't get out of so I went in for that and worked 3 hrs. That was grueling! But I thought I could handle a half day Thursday. Friday was a whole day and i was exhausted. Came home to sleep 2 hrs because I wanted to participate in Relay for Life that evening, and woke up at midnite! Then rolled over and slept another 12 hrs! Yesterday I was tired all day and snoozed off and on. Tired today to but its getting boring lol. My tummy has gone from purple and red to brown and green and yellow. My own personal rainbow lol No pain, no restriction, no throwing up and I am trying to stay on the soupy type foods here for the next few weeks. I am having trouble cooking for one tho. It sure doesn't take long for one serving of something to burn up on the stove! I have done that a few times now. BF is turning out to be a jerk. He stayed with me in the hosp til I was out of surg, then he left because "I was only going to be sleeping anyway." He came back for about an hour til I got discharged and hes called exactly once since then. I think I have had it with him but on the off chance that I am operating on a food deprived brain (probably lol) I am holding off making any rash decisions for now. So tell me how your surgery went. Are you doing the right things? exercising? I have tried a bit but mainly too tired to do more than a few minutes. I am sure next week will bring more energy with it. Let me know how you are. Mary