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Nancy - right there you are exhibiting the exact same kind of stereotyping that others are about gays. I am a life-long southerner raised by parents that are more accepting than most IN THIS COUNTRY. You are no more accepting than I simply b/c of the area of the country you live in. I have an MBA and have worked for numerous Fortune 100 countries and I now work for a very respected organization. I'm sure your state has some old, ridiculous laws. Laura just happened to know of one in her state. Anyway - I'm only partially through this thread but am so annoyed. Those that act like marriage is "holy" seem to be ok with heteros in the U.S. having a 55%(?) divorce rate. Why don't you all jump on huge soapboxes about how easy it is to get a divorce or how immoral they are?!? WHY does anyone care what other consenting adults do? I'm straight and am VERY offended by the insertion of words like "7 yo girl" and "adult goats". Are you kidding me??? That's beyond apples/oranges; that's apples/toads. Two women or two men wanting to marry to have legal rights [Beth] that come with the word marriage is not remotely the same as being a pedophile. Why will no one speak to the question of how gays marrying affects their specific hetero marriage (but again I'm only partially through the thread)? Patty - JUDGE NOT LEST YOU BE JUDGED. Period.

Again....I was absolutely kidding. I'm snorting along; bleeeeee me.

Very cool!

That's awesome!

Catholic light - Exactly!!! All the fun, half the guilt! LMJ - she's going too; I just missed her quote!!!

So I went to the grocery store today and they had ONE cheesecake pudding mix - bitter!!!

I was raised Episcopalian so I believe that Christmas should begin on Dec 25 and last the 12 days of Cmas until Jan 5. But alas, no one else thinks that. My aunt takes down her tree Dec 26. Oy! Ohhhhhhmmmmmm, y'all are goin' ta hell!!! Kidding.

Have you also read about the possibility of Diet Coke actually making folks eat more? I'd been addicted to Diet Coke since 1989. Eek!!! Blame the DC and my anti-depressants certainly not my frequent hand to mouth activity!!!

Here's the ticker tutorial with pics: http://www.lapbandtalk.com/f5/ticker-tutorial-pictures-41782/

Hey, you said it, not me. :eek:

Keep dreaming, super geek.

Knowing what little I know about caffeine, doesn't it shrink the blood vessels? Would that affect healing?

Kiss my big butt, Plain! I can be a liberal centrist AND support our troops. So :eek: The liberals just want them home!

Thank you so much! They're trying to get over 1M signatures so post often! :eek:

So eww to peppers and squids. Cute to da doggy! Gotta vent - if you have ever thought about moving to Atlanta - DON'T!!! The traffic is horrid...do you hear me? HORRID!!! Tonight it took me 30 min to go 3 blocks. :thumbup::eek::eek::w00t: BITTER! As my siggy says, please go thank our military folks! ::begging::

Next time she tries to dump clothes on you say, "You know, you dress too old for me!!" Or "You know you'll gain the weight back, so just keep them!!!" :rolleyes2:

I do; I finally got it to load! Yeah, the problem was b/w the keyboard and the couch! (me) Bum power!!!!!!! I have been going through papers and magazines to either shred or recycle. Isn't it ironic that when you're trying to organize, it gets worse before it gets better? Or is that just me? :rolleyes2: The twins show was bittersweet b/c they're doing well at 2 years but to be separated they would have to have 2 real or artificial hearts to transplant. Then I watched a show on a primordial dwarf in NZ who is the only one in her entire country; very tough on the parents. They hooked up over the internet with some parents in the US so that they could exchange stories. As horrible as the internet an be, in that case and with the case of LBT, the internet is great!

I guess I was "lucky" having worked at a retail store in college where I was told you never ask a woman if she was expecting. She could've just given birth and still have the poochy tummy or in the case of the owner, she could've given birth to a stillborn. So I never ask someone unless I've heard it from a friend or the woman expecting! You can't stick your foot in your mouth if your mouth is shut! :rolleyes2:

I am a complete bum and slept until noon! My sleep schedule is still a little whacked from surgery but it's ok. I just need to make myself go to bed earlier! I'm watching a show about conjoined twins who share 1 heart. It's so amazing and so sad in one set of twins.

Glou - for your information, that doc is WRONG. My obese father has those little fat deposits. So why do I say doc is wrong? Because of his 2 beloved offspring, does the obese daughter have them? NOPE! His under-to-regular weight son does!!! He had a couple in his forearm that had begun to hurt and were even affecting his finger movement. So tell the doc to BUGGER OFF!!!

It had a very odd after taste!

Thanks. Luluc also likes muscle milk. A gf bought me a 24-pack of MM Lite drinks in choc from Costco. I've only managed to get 3 of them down and the damn pack was $30! I even bought those Davinci syrups and they don't help enough...for me. I prefer the chocolate Atkins shakes. They have 15g protein, 1g sugar, 160 cals, but a high 9g of total fat. I figured if I had to be on liquids only for so long, I should pick something palatable. I haven't done any of the powders at all.

Beth - Less than 2 weeks til surgery! Figure out now what protein shakes you can tolerate er stomach. Get it? har har. I didn't take into account just how much I would need for 3 weeks of liquids so I've gone shopping more than I had intended to. My two cents.

WTG LJM's hubby!!!!!! Woohoo!

Beth - Quayle spelled it "potatoe"; thus Steve's joke above! That was good, actually!!! My nuclear family's anti-gun. My parents used to joke about how people needed guns to watch out for the "killer quail" so it was esp applicable to me! (Everyone-Pls don't get into the 'right to bear arms' mess. I was just telling a personal story!)