BethFromVA

Did Jesus return???

Whip the possum. Hmmm, sounds like some sort of kinky game that HH or plain would be at the center of.

Very true. I just mentioned that elsewhere that it IS August and some are where I was nine months ago. The hardest part for me was not chewing anything for a month. THAT was the worst, somehow...

Well, they are newly banded. Makes 'em cranky.

Okay, is that some sort of sexual reference? :biggrin: Cuz we don't tolerate that here unless I'm involved in some way.

LOL, obviously not if you're an August bandster.

Some things are just too good to pass up. And I wasn't the one who started picking at this thread (no pun intended) again. I said my piece, the OP stated hers, and some who got their feelings hurt choose to keep this going.

Start drinking heavily. It'll not only begin to get funny, it'll make sense too.

Thank you. I mean, REALLY?? pureed LASAGNA? I seriously thought somebody was kidding. It was once I realized it wasn't a joke that I replied WHY it's wrong to do. The OP seems to understand where I was coming from, which is what matters.

You are absolutely right, not every response works for every person. Which also means not every response of, "Aww, it's okay," works for every person either. Tough love DOES work for me, and it works for others as well. There was nothing wrong in what I said or how I said it. Maybe the way you took it was at issue. As for having been "fat all my life," that is not the case. I haven't even been fat half my life.

That's fantastic, Cherish! Congrats on your surgery, btw. As for weightloss at THIS point -- if it stalls, do NOT freak. Any weight lost during the healing phase is a bonus. It is not the focus. Just keep that in the back of your mind if you don't see the scale moving early on as much as you'd like. I knew before surgery that it would behoove a person like me to also utilize therapy -- specifically eating-disorder focused -- but I didn't locate a therapist until just recently, nearly nine months after my surgery. I started seeing some old habits happening in me and I didn't like it. I have some type of "thing" that would always happen about 6-7 months out when dieting where I would slacken or fall off the wagon altogether -- eating badly, eating out more, not exercising -- and I KNOW this about myself. It started to happen, and instead of letting it swallow me up, I found somebody and decided to get back onto the couch. Good luck with your journey. We all must remember that that's what this is -- a journey, not a race. Losing the "diet mentality" can be hard to shake.

Not you, employers. lol

Ebony, congrats on the second second interview! As for not getting back with us -- yeah, wth is that all about?

I will pray that things go smoothly for you, hon. And my voices... well... sometimes they tell me to put HeadHunter's dirty drawers on my head and dance the Macarena while playing a ukelele. It's very bad indeed.

August 2009 Bandsters, heading is 3 days out.

Yellow snow...

Or that...

I'd shoot for that extra-strength jock spray. Have you SEEN her head?

Oh, absolutely! See? You're learning? And they said you were simple.

The stalker got away (Monkey, I WILL get you!). Welcome, new playpen person!

BJean, instead of continually being an infantile bitch, can you explain how we're going to PAY FOR THIS on top of all the other debt we have and continue to incur? You wonder why no dialogue can occur, but look how you act! I put out some legitimate concerns, some sincere thoughts, and you act like a fucking kindergartener. I guess that's the left's answer to everything. You can't answer the hard questions, so you act like a child. Way to go. And you're OLDER than me? Good lord, woman, you are mentally regressed. Very sad.

The system is financially unsustainable. Resources will be scarce. When that happens, they will HAVE to ration healthcare. There is no other way around it. When that happens, the ill, the elderly, and the very young will be deemed not worthy of care because the return on the investment won't be worthwhile. I don't think Obama wants to kill grandma -- I just believe that once they've taken over and the unsustainability of it becomes obvious, they will HAVE to make decisions such as this. It is simply history repeating itself. How is it that we will do it any differently than Nazi Germany did 60-some years ago? It began with the devaluing of the marc back then (just like the devaluing of the dollar) by an increase in printing more money (just like what is going on now). The other factor we have working against us now is all these bailouts, owning car manufacturers, banks, and mortgages. WHERE IS THE MONEY GOING TO COME FROM?? Medicaid was expected to cost $9 billion by 1990, but unstead it cost $66 billion. Given the trend that the government has CONSISTENTLY SHOWN of underbudgeting and overspending, what will this $1.3 trillion really amount to?? I say it will absolutely amount to a number we can't cover if ever single taxpayer dollar goes into the system. That said, something's gotta give. What's it going to be? HOW are we going to pay for this, especially on top of all the OTHER debt this and prior administrations have racked up? Can ANYBODY answer that? It tells me the one way they can cut costs is by cutting those who are deemed not valuable enough to receive care. We already devalue life in this country. It's not a far stretch to devalue it to the point of believing that certain people need to give of themselves for the greater good of the whole. Those people will be the very young, the very old, and the very old/infirm/handicapped.

They warned me not to tell you. And they also told me to tell you that you need Teflon, not aluminum foil.

I only hear voices. And they tell me to do things.

Chiner? Wow, you wus REEL hungee, wuzn't you?