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Oooh, I love cats!

The OH forum sounds very, very boring. Life is more interesting when there is a variety of view points.

Good luck, grrl! I'll be waiting to read all about it!

Good to hear from ya, Cloe. How are the lambs? And that cute husband of yours?

I think that you should get your husband on board concerning this project. You should then visit the bank which holds your mortgage to find out the cheapest way to borrow money for the surgery. Then shop around at a few other banks to see if they can do any better. If your mortgage is near the time of renewal you can offer that as an inducement to get a cheaper loan while you are shopping at other banks. You will also need your husband's help while you are in your recovery period. Good luck with this and I hope that you will be able to be a bandster. The band has really helped so many of us.

I bought The 15-Minute Cook at a local discount book store this afternoon while out for a walk with hubby. It has lots of photographs and each recipe states the ETA of the food at the table. I need the pics - for inspiration, you know - and appreciate that nothing takes very long. I'm hoping that this will inspire me to branch out from my very limited menu.:tired And thanks, Wheetsin, for the info on anorexia. My GF certainly does suffer from this but absolutely refuses to talk about her health. She is now on Effexor.

There is a plastic surgeon up here in Toronto who has built himself quite a reputation on his genital expertise. He says that he can make 'em longer and he can also rebuild a woman's equipment, too, including giving her back the physical aspect of viginity.:heh: It seems that he has a large clientele for this from those cultures where virginity is important.

Quite some time ago I came across a Christian sex toys site. Their mission was to sell sex aids to Christian married couples. The site was, if I remember correctly, located in British Columbia, Canada.... They promised to ship their loot anonymously.

Wow! I never knew that before.... This is interesting. Will you tell me more? This poor woman was my best friend in university and she was my only bridesmaid. She was both brilliant and very, very beautiful. Now her health is ruined and she looks like a street person. At one point she lost all her hair and at another point she went blind with cataracts. She has been rushed to hospital because she was vomitting blood and she now has advanced osteoporosis and walks with canes - when she does walk at all! For a little while she was on welfare. She now takes handicapped transit to work. This woman is eleven months younger than I am. She always used to be a party girl even though she performed well in university and has held some pretty interesting jobs. She has the worst taste in men though! Underperforming and uneducated alcoholics with anger management issues. I have kind of drifted away from her over the years as a result of her men and her drinking. I guess this is too much information considering that my inquiry had to do with understanding anorexia, eh?:phanvan

I never watch any of the cooking shows but a friend of mine who is a card-carrying anorexic and a serious alcoholic has them running on her TV all the time. I find this very odd when she exists on beer, cigarettes and the occasional half sandwich.

Though PaulaDeen's website does seem sort of corny I was still inclined to lick my monitor. I guess this means that I am interested, eh.:hungry: LOL:rolleyes:

Keep us in the loop, girl.

We don't have Paula Deen up here in the socialist wilderness. Who or what is she?

Well, our household operates without a hairdryer, an electric blanket, a water pump, a clock radio, and a dishwasher since ours went on the fritz last fall. We have a vaccuum but don't vaccuum as often as we should! We only use one TV but our tenant also one, too, and between the 3 of us there are 3 active computers in the house. She also has an aquarium which is the size of a coffin. As for fossil fuel consumption, we only use my husband's truck - which has an in-line 6 engine - for him to get to work or us to go to his parents' cottage. I should mention that we also use a lot of fluorescent and halogen light bulbs. All of this sounds okay but for the past four months our energy consumption has risen by between 100 and 150 kw per month as compared to our consumption at the same time a year ago. I am both baffled and dismayed by this.

Well, this is a real drag, grrl!:cry You seem to be doing all the right things. Maybe you have hit your plateau really early in the game. Have you talked to your surgeon's office about this? They might have some ideas.

Sounds like the BBQ tour is gonna take me right to Carlene's house :hungry: and it sounds like I'm gonna bring Jack of the Pacific along with me! :biggrin1: Neither of us will eat you out of house and home because we are lapbanders.

What used to creep me out about it was the emotion that would be automatically attached to it. I never did get it and always found myself faking it. It really was a very creepy experience for me now that I look back. Ugh! Kumbaya! Up there with clowns.:cry Who would have figured, eh.:faint:

That sounds divine. I have to tell you that I am a bacon freak and one of the things that my mum used to do as a weekend treat is to cut bread into cubes and fry it in bacon fat as part of our weekend breakfast. She also used to wrap her Christmas and Thanksgiving turkeys in bacon. It cut down on the work of basting the bird and the bacon was a treat for those of us who were loitering in the kitchen while the bird was being cut. Even now, post band, my husband will occasionally fry up a bunch of bacon. I like to use some of this when I make myself a small salad using avocado, onion, a tomato, and a homemade vinaigette. I also use it when I am microwaving an egg and tomato scrambled-thingy. As for my husband, he likes bacon in his potato salad - no longer an option for me, alas.:think

Laurend, if your apology pivots entirely upon the blood sports in which we routinely engage on Rants & Raves, then I certainly should offer my own apologies for my quick temper and my tendency to rely on my potty mouth.

Your avatar is pretty good.

LOL The thing is that I remember warbling the Kumbaya song when I was just a teenager, too, and although I was kinda swept up in the moment in the way teenagers are I never, ever really got it. I didn't know where this song came from and I had no understanding of its significance other than it appeared to be favoured by hippies, nuns and other anti-warriors. I just knew that although the lyrics were insanely repetitive and didn't really seem to make a point it was one of the good songs. I actually didn't like it all that much at the time. (And ohmigawd I can't believe that I am wandering down this path!!! I think that I am having an acidless flashback right now!):faint: Ugh! I vividly remember those Kumbaya circles, some bearded guy strumming on an acoustic guitar, and the rest of us, bearded guys and long-haired grrls, soulfully whining the words to Kumbaya.:phanvan Those were the days when I had to mask my natural cynicism. Urgh!:cry

Spend time with your mum. Talk to her. You will discover that there is much that you will want to know about your family history and about how her life was when she was young. My mum died two years ago. I miss being able to ask her questions about her life. Maybe you and your kids/grandkids can figure out some way to video some of these sessions. Don't spend this time mourning her death for you will have ample time later. Enjoy this window of time which is available to you. All best from me.

Well, you have got me to thinking and drooling and I do have a passport! The husband does have holidays in the near future and my bro lives in Virginia. This could be a bunch o fun. The great white north blonde ambition b-b-Q tour!

You don't have to buy two gifts from the registry. If this individual plans on going to both events, something which Green personally believes to be an act of insanity (but then she hates weddings and bridal showers), she can bring a bottle of good or goodish champagne to the shower as a gift and scan the registry for her choice of wedding gift. Afterall, sez Green, we have to ask ourselves what weddings are all about. Are weddings held in order to round up family and friends in order that they may all watch and assist in celebrating the new couple's marriage or are they held in order to garner cash and other material objects? Wedding registries were established in order to assist puzzled attendees who rightfully desire to honour the new couple with gifts. Treat them as that and if you can't afford the list of stuff available, give 'em high quality booze, a pair of special glasses to drink it from, and tell the couple that you wanted to be original and give 'em a special, romantic gift. (You can toss in some flavoured condoms if you like.)

This is truly dreadful news for this family. Cancer is a particularly brutal disease, and it is especially painful to hear of a young child going through this torment. It is painful for you to receive this information about your co-worker's small nephew and this pain which you are suffering is much worse again for the family of this child. My thoughts and sympathies are now with you, this family, and this child.