TracyinKS

LOL!!!!! OK... so all hell has broken loose over the issue with Cody's Boy Scout Camp........ apparently it's MAKING THE NEWS today! (thankfully CHARLES WILL NOT BE FEATURED) but other concerned parents are... Suzie: Watch for Channel 4 today.

Breathe Haydee!!!!!!! Tgif

and just HOW MANY BEADS Have your received Terry!!!! .... hmmmm I wonder HOW MANY.....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just sent you a VOICE NOTE from my phone singing HAPPY Birthday, and then I forgot to say it was me! BOY OH BOY.. did we have a night... First: I FEEL MUCH BETTER!!!!!!!!!!! (I think I took two of my thyroid pills yesterday) MUCH MUCH BETTER TODAY! We went under a tornado warning last night and it also passed right over CODY'S BOY SCOUT CAMP! (1 night after the tornado in IA killed 4 scouts at camp)................ OK... so Cody calls freaked out, who am I kidding EVERYONE called us... both cell phones and the house phone......... get this... the boys were in their TENTS.. not in a shelter because they didn't have room!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The scoutmaster and Charles ended up making a good cop bad cop trip down to the camp at 10p.m. to find out exactly WHAT THE HELL THEIR PROCEDURE WAS........ We don't have a basement so we had Robby in our interior hallway with pillows and blankets.... between him, charles, the phones, the dog.......... it was quite the night.... Luckily the cell passed us and the camp over....... whewwwwwwwwwwww TGIF!

I went home sick today......... dont' know what is going on.. just feel BLAH .. went to lunch and it didn't get anybetter so I went home and tried to sleep for about an hour............ felt a bit better and decided to start the JEAN try on ritual (all the various styles of size 10 levis) that I keep buying and then they don't fit.... 315, 515, 527, WELL GUESS WHAT all but 1 of them I could actually get on, button and zip! I'm sitting here right now in the pair of 515 Noveua Boot Cut's....... that makes my day, but I still feel BLAH....... Maybe my body is going through a loss right now and my hormones are wonky.. I kind of have a sinus headache, and I kind of feel nautious, and I'm somewhat weak......... weird. (AF is here too but winding down) oh well.........

MORNING!!!!!! Family night at scout camp last night........... Scale was UP this am.......grrrrrrrrrr TracyK: the bandvideo place called me yesterday about my availability.. but they only wanted a yes or no answer and told me that I hadn't been selected yet.... yes or no.. click. Vegas is coming up.. my sis booked us a tour on the double decker show bus as a gift to me for asking her to come along! OK.. gotta go

First, Congrats on your band! Second........ My guess is that you still haven't found adequate restriction. If you eat slow, chew chew chew, and are able to eat preband quanties of food you haven't acheived it yet. I have the "small" band that is marketed to hold 4cc's of Fluid.. I have 4 cc's in my band but have had as much as 4.3 cc's in it........ .3cc's was the difference between eating ONLY Soup and eating food..... my doc said that the bands can be over filled but he didn't have ANYONE with a small band with OVER 5cc's........... the bigger bands (which is what I'm guessing you have) can hold WAY more than what you have... and yes, the fact that you are a lower BMI bandster could mean that you have less residule fat around your stomach, or it could mean that that is where you carry it and you are still not seeing restriction because you are Losing that fat pad..... Just keeping working your band and plan... keep getting fills.. you will know when to much is too much..... each person varies... (I like mine a bit tighter than my friend) Focus on getting your protien in... and be patient... it will come.

Oh I loved the album Terry!!!!

Tracy I laughed out loud last night about your MJC ref!!! LOL oh and I had my brows waxed yesterday and I thought of you! :tongue2: TOM is rough this time..... the PAIN....... I'm currently drinking a big glass of milk for my breakfast... OH and NSV... a blouse that I bought last year in size L (it is one of those NON stretch gauzey types... well I was so disgusted when I got it home and it wouldn even fit over my shoulders...... but I kept it and have tried it on about 1 time per month since............. TODAY it FIT like it is supposed to... with a bit of room!!!!!!!!!!! Didn't go with my slacks today, but I will post a pic maybe tomorrow of me wearing it! This proves what I had thought... I am losing inches... or else all my fat is falling downward.. LOL Have a great day

Kat sweety I guess I missed something, but just know that it will all blow over........ I'm right there with you in keeping my mouth shut.. IT JUST AIN'T HAPPENING!!!!!!!!! LOL..... so from one big mouth venter to another........... TOUGH IT OUT AND IT WILL BE OVER SOON! Just spend time on here.... I'm not a silent treatment giver! (matter of fact the silent treatment drives me INSANE!) I did sooooooooooooo good on CTCD........ until about 5 minutes ago.... why oh why did I go into the kitchen... DH was making his signature Cornflake cookies to take to Cody's camp family night tomorrow.... NOTHING BETTER than warm peanutbutter cornflake cookies......... (and you guessed it....... Tracy could not resist and now I have warm cornflakes, peanutbutter and corn syrup stuck in my throat!!!!!!!!!!!!!) me trying to sneak a bite.. turned into me licking the peanut butter syrup laden pan........... and NOW I'M PAYING FOR IT! OK>. dh wants the puter.

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhg AF came for a visit! but I've been doing good on CTC day!

GREAT PIX Laura! This is ME Cutting the CRAP! Drinking watered down crystal light! Egg salad for breakfast... WC oatmeal for lunch 182 today... and I am determined to make it to the 170's before Vegas

Trying to be real quick... swamped at work..... swamped at home.... Boss is getting ready to walk in the door and he always wants to talk since his wife is down at their lake house for the summer..... anyway... I'm IN for CTCD! (I even brought fixings for egg salad) I am 182 and determined to see the 170's. I have so much to respond to.. but I need to say this.... My dad nearly collapsed in front of me Sunday while I was picking up Robby.......... he is a stubborn sort and hates dr.s... he looked horrible and he had been having dizzy spells.... (that was sunday) I called my mom and was talking about it.. (they are divorced)....... she kind of worried a bit but I didn't think to much about it.......... she called my sis, and guilted her into going to my dads side family reunion next weekend (we usually go)........... SO THEN apparently after Denise vented about my dad being stubborn and not going to the doc..... must of made my mom feel guilty because she fessed up to my step dad that she had felt a new lump on her breast.. (the SAME breast she previously had cancer in and was reconstructed)............. so they went to the doc yesterday... (she didn't want my sis or I to know so my step dad calls me on the sly to tell me and my sis) UUHHHH.. this scares the ever living crap out of me.... as she had just passed her 5 years cancer free mark...... Mamogram today, and results Friday. My dad has agreed to go see his cardiologist on Thursday..... (I'm trying to think good thoughts) and we are hoping moms new lump is just scar tissue from the radiation.... Robby started level two swim lessons yesterday, and tomorrow we have family night at camp where we need to take a dessert......... OK.. gotta go. Please say a prayer for my mom Linda today.

No Cast!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good morning! THE SCALE WAS FINALLY BACK DOWN THIS MORNING! whew........ Can't do a Labor Day thang as we already have standing plans.... I will post later when I get the news on Robby's foot. LaterGaters

When you actually look up from your desk and think HOLY CRAP its 4p.m. and I haven't ate ANYTHING today! (preband I would just slap someone with a piece of pizza if they uttered the same phrase, as I HONESTLY would never of believed it could happen)

When your "out" with friends who have no idea your banded you proudly say....... "I FEEL LIKE SOUP!"

Man that post was a rambling mess......... kinda like the way I feel right now! gnight my lovelies!

LOL!!!!!!!!! Glad I could help! Can't wait to see it... also l loved the jobsite pics.. I love the trees outside your window.. I can sooo see you there fitting right in. I NEED ANOTHER GRUENE WEEKEND! I was pretty good on food today.. well, except for the cheese nips and ice cream bar.. (but at least it wasn't a LARGE JAVA CHILLER! LOL I am uploading a VLog to myspace right now.. Takes forever..... I'm halfway freaking out about this "year two" of bandland... I don't know why.. I guess is because I wore a size 12 old navy slack yesterday and I can remember the days of just DREAMING about getting into my 14's again.....and those beloved size 12 Levis..... I know that I'm sabotaging myself by eating shit...... I think something must be shifting... (body wise) because in the last two days I've had people ask me if I've lost more weight.. (most at work have no clue I'm banded) Ohhhh Robby pulled a good one today... He apparently pulled his pee pee out and p'd all over the playground at daycare.. (he and another little boy) Tomorrow we go to get the xrays and hopefully NOT a cast... but I have a feeling they will cast it because although its not hurting or even bruised anymore.. he is favoring it by turning the foot in... and I'm going to tell the doc about it........... The purple queen is still living.. so I haven't killed it yet! I really need to get out in my yard and do some work, but I've been so dang tired lately... although I did take Robby to the pool last night and once again I wasn't the biggest one there...... I looked at some of the ladies and wondered if they had lost a bunch of weight because a couple had really hanging aprons......weird how I "see" people now...... oh and I even went down the water slide with Robby.... (he was pretty much thinking I was THE coolest mom around!) Jen: Yes I miss the quiet time reading a book on the back porch of our back porch! So I guess I'll sign off......... and tell each and everyone of you that I MISS YOU GUYS LIKE CRAZY.. OH and I'll be at the Wynn in Vegas the last weekend in June! I'm flying in early on Friday morning and leave Sunday afternoon!

Good Morning!

Ditto to what Terry said.. ( I also suck at Thank You's) I loved loved loved the letters... Tracy if you can swing it AND Frank is behind you then girl you go for it!!!!!!! I will never be in that position.....so i can live vicariously through you......... We did get Cody going with the straight up prepaid on T-Mobile..... we bought him $25.00 worth of minutes... 140.. we shall see how long they last.

Tracy: Uhhh ummmmm..why don't you tell your boss what you really think of him and get fired so you can collect the unemployment?????? Not that I would EVER do such a thing..............

LOL Pamela! HH: HELLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOO Well I'm really no help...... as I hit 199 January 5 and today was... 186.8...... my problem is junk food.... and icecream. For me I will always lose if I go back to a strick Low Carb plan... Water, and Tuna/Chicken salad type stuff........ honestly I'm having problems making myself stay on any kind of plan... Thanks peeps for the words of encouragement......... I went to Wally World and Kmart/Sears today at lunch and picked up all the brochures on the prepaid plans........... did you know that VirginMobile uses the Sprint PCS network????? The problem is that I COULD do the T-Mobile Kid connect plan for $20.00 a month and it is really what we want..... but it is a two year contract... and I WANT to be able to say.. Cody, you screwed up , your done..... (and throw the phone in the trash) I am the resident HARD ASS.. we actually had a big knock down over the weekend in relation to the Youngest step son....... I REALLY blew up.. it was super ugly.. I told Charles off in not such a nice way that he WOULD NOT SPEAK TO ME AS IF I WERE HIS CHILD, and that they continued to act like ass's because he never follows through on ANYTHING.. and that he needed to remember that HE was the adult, and they were the children....... I don't even want to type it out.... its over now..... but the entire situation is hard at times...... (are you listening Laura? LOL)

He is super immature and super spoiled and he has always gotten his way......... at first I was like there is no way in hell he is getting a phone for CAMP........ he needs to tough it out and not call home whining! (this was in my head) and since it would be a fight with both Charles and Cody..... I came up with the prepaid option to turn it into a priveledge and maturity builder......... I will look at that link.. thanks Terry!

GOOD MORNING! I am retaining water.. so the scale was up......... drat! VENT AHEAD......... Today Cody turns 13.......... he wants a phone........ I'm switching phones today and he wants my old one........ NOOOOOOOOOOO I don't think so..... He wants his step dads extra phone........ NOOOOO... to that one too. But being TRACY I came up with a plan that would hopefully build some responsibility....... Get him a prepaid phone, where Charles and I spend $15 a month on what ever minutes that would buy, and if he used them up or wanted more he would have to BUY THEM HIMSELF........ and if he didn't keep it up or do the dishes or keep his room clean..... then the phone would be gone (and we wouldn't be out anything)....... so he agreed.... he wasn't doing sommersauts or anything but he said OK........ SO........ I'm switching to T-mobile today (when my new phone is delivered) I looked at the T-mobile prepaid......... he could call any t-mobile customer for free.. which would be me, his mom, his step dad, a few of his cousins......) They offered 4 phone choices....... the FREE after mail in rebate one is the one we were looking at...... I had it up on the screen and I heard him behind me.. huffing.... I didn't think anything about it... I left the puter and took a shower......... when I got out..... Charles was PISSED OFF and said to just FORGET THE WHOLE PHONE THING........... Cody didn't want the free phone he wanted a RAZR......... and threw a honking fit about it....... said that regular phones were retarded. Honestly....... he threw about a 2 hour fit.......... I bit my lip while he snuck into my room to call his mom and cry to her saying he wanted a phone like hers............... His dad was so mad at his selfishness that when Cody was bawling and said forget it ...... Charles said "FINE". So after Cody hung up from his mom......he approached me... starting out "OK, I figured out how I could get a Razr" I LAUGHED IN HIS FACE..... and said CODY you are NOT getting a RAZR, unless you come up with the $70.00 it costs. I said I'm getting a new phone and the one I'm getting is the FREE option. He started sobbing, threw himself down on my bed and restarted the fit........ I said obviously you are not mature enough to even discuss this.... You are 13 tomorrow and you SHOULD be happy we are even THINKING about letting you have a phone.... (at which point Charles walked in) ending in him getting his game boy taken away............... CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS??????? The funny part is while all this was going on... (before the phone snobbery, Dustin the 11 year old..) wanted to know what was going on........ I told him the deal.. and he was like.. "That is a GREAT Idea for Cody.. make him DO SOMETHIng to BUY HIS OWN MINUTES!" So the 11 year old "gets" it. and the 13 year old throws a fit.........