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Cloe, you don't sound hick like at all. I am shy about entering shops in strange cities, too, and yet my husband isn't. He will go into a shop even when he doesn't speak a word of the language! The thing is that I have lived in the center of Toronto just about all of my life and so I know it really, really well. All my friends live down in the city and all my many medical appointments are down in the city, too. This means that I do a lot of walking and when I walk I do a bit of recreational shopping. If a store window has a sign that says "sale" then I've got to investigate! A sale to me is like catnip to a cat. LOL (The one thing that pi$$es me off is that it is hard to find great clothes for bigger women.) Toronto is actually quite an easy city to get around in and this is because it is built on a grid system. It makes it a little harder to get lost and if you do get lost or tired then there are always taxis to hail and they will get you back home. The next time you come to town you should give me a call and we can go out together.

Sounds like it's time fer you yourself to be banging a psycho cop, girl! In French, Canada's other official language, one would say, "Quelle horreur!" (In English this means I have an electrified butt plug with your name on it, sister!) Good luck from Green. It is never pleasant when the bullies win, is it? I am on your side as are we all.

Yep, it is and it is open in one of the most funky parts of Toronto. Kensington Market is this immigrant fruit&vegetable, cheese, meat, spices, and fish market quartier that is just off old Chinatown in downtown Toronto. It is south of College Street, west of Spadina Avenue, and north of Dundas. The actual address is 198 Baldwin but that whole area is a nice area to spend time in. There are a number of interesting Vietnamese restaurants on Spadina that are very cheap. My favourite is Miss Saigon. You can order an all in one noodle and bar-b-que meat dish there for under 8 bucks that is yummy and which will fill you up (even pre-band). There is also a couple of great cheese stores in the Market. It is kind of a grubby area but it is very cosy and fun once you relax. And of course there is Tom's Place but like I said in an earlier post, this shop can be frustrating for bigger women because he does tend to stock a lot of mini-sizes. Nevertheless, I have managed to buy some great coats for myself at his sales. I gotta confess that I have never bought anything else for myself except for a couple of linen shirts and those I bought in the men's wear and they were X-tra large. X-tra large, I'm saying.............

You could just openly tape her whenever she talks to you. This might encourage her to kick it down a notch or six.

I went shopping yesterday at a place that was having a big sale. There is a clothing store that sells upscale clothes at a discount called Tom's Place. Tom's store is in Kensington Market which is not a place where you would expect to find an upscale clothing store. Anyhow, Tom periodically has big sales at the Jewish WMCA. These sales are kind of frustrating for me because he stocks small sizes in women's clothes (which really pi$$es me off) but I sometimes get lucky when it comes to coats. Yesterday I bought a $400 (his price) black trench coat for a hundred bucks. The shell is microfibre so it has that floppy look that I like and it is a size 18! It has got a lining that can be removed. This is good for me because my last trench coat is about 15 years old and is starting to fall apart. It also has a lot of stains. It kinda looks like a pervert's coat in fact.:heh: I also tried on another coat that I really liked but I would have needed breast reduction surgery.:phanvan

Yep, I'm pretty sure that they are still alive. I think that they are toxic once they've died but are still raw. I only had a raw one once. Some creep in France forced me to try one while I was at a dinner party on New Year's Eve. I gagged and almost spewed the thing up. It tasted very, very fishy. I'm an inland, Toronto born and raised, kid and never acquired a liking for that taste. In fact I hate the taste and the smell of fish! This caused me a bunch o problems when I was living in France with the Frenchman. He was a great cook who happened to really love fish. He was certain that he could make a convert out of me. This didn't work out but then neither did the relationship.:faint: As for the effects of the bad oyster my husband ate, omigawd! He was so sick! We were there for my nephew's wedding and there were lots of festivities. The dude missed them all. He was running a fever and running from both ends much of the time. I was stuffing him with Immodium and Gravol. His GI tract remained a little wonky for a couple of weeks afterward.

I'll drink to that! :clap2:

Nope, those are oysters and you eat 'em while they are still alive. My husband got very, very sick after eating a bad one in Halifax this summer. Mussels are a shellfish too but you have to cook them first. I find that they taste a lot less "fishy" than oysters.

It's a fashion that belongs to the young and that is why they like it. If you really want to get them to stop it then we should all start doing it. Seeing their parents and their grandparents showing underwear and crack would stop them cold. LOL

But we will see our underwear and we will care. It's a girl thing.

I am due to go in for my second fill. I probably need it. I can eat anything although I am eating much less than I did before I was banded. But I really don't want to get the pbs or the slimes. Ever. What to do?

My advice was going to be the same as Lila's, almost word for word in fact. You say that she was yelling at you in front of other people; this means that you have witnesses. Maybe they will help you out. And not only that, a woman who behaves like this to you is behaving like this to others. There may be a number of people who would like to bring her down and will speak up about her behaviour if you all go together. This woman is definitely a bully and is out of control. I really feel for you.

Hooray for the hobbies, Cloe! Where do you find the time?

I think Carole's banana is kinda cute.

I used to be on the "see food" diet.

Jesus clearly states that the Old Covenant must be upheld, that it, too, "was instructed by God": see also Matthew 5:18-19 RSV. This does raise difficulties for Christians of course because the Old Testament is not particularly user-friendly for modern times. I imagine that Christian scholars may have figured out some kind of compromise between the two halves of the Sacred Text. I myself would be curious to learn how they have resolved this issue. I know that when I was at school the nuns merely told us to "be nice," follow the Ten Commandments, say the Lord's Prayer, go to church, and pray. It was much later in life that I began to realise that the Bible is a complicated and often somber text.

Perhaps it is time that you speak to your son about the situation.

We must remember that Jesus was a good Jew and respected the tradition and teachings of His tribe. There are a number of places in the New Testament where He states that the Covenant of the Old Testament must be upheld. "Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets." Matthew 5:17 NAB "...the scripture cannot be broken." John 10:35 See also Luke 16:17 ("...not an iota, not a dot....") This would indicate to me that the attentive Christian cannot cherrypick his or her way through the Bible. Much of the Old Testament is hard slogging, steeped in violence and revenge. The Commandments, which we have boiled down to ten, seem to me to be a fine set of laws, ones that are designed to keep the peace within a settlement of people. They would be particularly needed in those violent times.

Yep, you got that right. OHIP no longer pays for eye exams. My last one cost me 80 bucks.

Yah, congratulations on the job offer, Argon. Your line of work does sound totally cool. Any chance of seeing your work on TV? Sometimes I watch Comedy Shorts on the Comedy Channel. These are all short pieces and some of them are cartoons or done in claymation.

I kinda hate to admit this but I signed the consent forms without reading them. I was really anxious to have the surgery. Anyhow, TLBC didn't mention anything about my giant liver so I guess that when it is looked at up close and personal it looks healthy enough. Otherwise they would have said something, right??? If you were to meet me you would say that I am a very healthy looking woman and yet lately it seems that my health has become my hobby. Not only do I have this business of depression, and I have been assessed by a number of specialists over this as well as regularly seeing both a psychologist and a psychiatrist, I also have a torn rotator cuff. This hurts and I can't go to the gym. I go to physio twice a week for that. They say it is going to take a long time to fix it. I had two root canals done in a six month period. For awhile my eye doctor thought I might be a candidate for glaucoma. I had two false positives for kidney disease and had to have 'em unltrasounded and that was when they first saw my big liver. The kidneys were fine. One of my blood tests came back weird and so I had to see a specialist over that! It turned out that there was nothing wrong. That was a relief. And I go for my second fill this week on October 31st. All of the above translates into a lot of appointments and a lot of worry. It is a good thing that I have just opted to take early retirement, eh? LOL Too bad my hobby is such a boring one....

This is a very sad time for you and your husband. My heartfelt condolences.

Coloured bras will show through white or light blouses. White bras look nice when new but can look dirty when they get old even though they have just been freshly laundered. Black clothes look best with black bras. Nude bras never match your skin tone. Coloured bras are cute.

My eyes are so middle-aged bad that I have to have prescription glasses. I am blind otherwise. This is a real drag. *sob*

Last night my mate updated my computer. He spent hours working at this. Now everything looks different. Change is not cosy.