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Actually, Jack, I think you are. I think that you were supposed to be south lower British Columbia. (I'd give you a wink but I opted for the quick reply, eh.)

Hi Argon. I've been really enjoying the Argon chronicles. Where did you study animation? Was it in SK or was it in T.O.? Living two doors up from me is one of the directors for Nelvana. He is a weird and unfriendly guy, though. And yeah, you are right. We are doing a lot of interesting things.

I was thinking that our relatively low numbers (as compared to the U.S.) makes for a cosy chatroom, and yet we have all the resources of the boys and grrls in the big sand box next door. It's kinda like real life, eh?

I am supposed to eat low fat cottage cheese and yoghurt for one week prior to the op. This is gonna work out okay because I just ate the last of the President's Choice icecream, and the high-fat cheese last night. (I am a dairy freak by the way.) They didn't give me any other instructions. Tonight, I plan to eat 2 filet mignons. I am defrosting them right now. I will also eat diced new potatoes, with their tender little skins left on, sauteed in olive oil with fresh rosemary, hot peppers, and onions. And I might have a beefsteak tomato as well. Yup, I know, I know, all of you hate me right now but the reason that I am racking up the ole food memories is because I will be living on liquids for 3 weeks, mushies following that, and after that will be a whole new way of eating solids. This is Green's good-bye tour around the food court. It's strange, you know, but along with the rebirth that the band will give me, and I know that it will, I am feeling that a little part of me is dying.:think It is for this reason, I guess, that I find that I am being super attentive to what's on my plate.:hungry: But there will be the new slender Green, and I am so anxious to say good bye to quite a few pounds of the old Green, so everything is gonna be coool. (I just hope I don't ever get the slimies.:phanvan Yuck!)

Hi Woodys. Wow! Those are big moves. Do you drive now? I took lessons when I was in my late 30s through Young Drivers of Canada (I think that is the name). Anyhow, I think I left it too late. I aced all the written theory but was lousy at actually driving. I took the gov't exam twice and flunked, then I stopped. I figured I had spent too many years as a passenger, and was used to looking at what pedestrians were wearing and for SALE signs in the windows of stores. LOL. Looking at what other cars are doing is too boring! Even though my husband has a truck (he's from Scarborough, eh), we never drive in the city. It's always public transit or by foot for us except for grocery shopping at the local No Frills and Price Chopper. How did you find the move from the Beaches to Mississaugua? And the move to Fenelon Falls? I have my band installed at 11 ay em on the same Thursday that you will be there. Ooooh!

Yep, I build airplanes. I work for Bombardier at the deHavilland plant. It's a fairly interesting job, and it pays well because it is unionized - CAW. I always worked with women before so it was a definite culture shock for me. None of those guys bring home baked muffins to share or hold showers when one of their colleagues has a pregnant wife.:faint: And they routinely use far more colourful language than most women do. Working in a union job was different, too. The men don't like to see you get too co-operative with management. This was very different from the mindset of my previous job. I was the first woman working in the sheet metal shop - I wrote on my coat chic metal - and some of the guys gave me a hard time. They didn't like having a woman in the shop. I would go home at night and cry, and remind myself that I had a mortgage. Other guys were good to me, though, and I soon got used to defending myself and became respected.

Yep, born, raised, and still living in the heart of T.O. I've never learned how to drive because of the transit system!

I guess by this point I better tell you all who I am. You already know my age because I decided to not stay in the closet about it.:clap2: Since I was 35 I've been earning my living building aircraft. I work with mostly with men, there are very few women on the floor, and this is where I met my husband. Actually, we are common-law but we've been together for twenty years. Before I started my life as a blue collar grrl, l lived in France for a few years, and before that I worked in university administration. The last 3 years I have been off work for depression, though. This is something that runs, gallops actually, in my family. As for my family, some of us are fat, and some are not. I am one of the unlucky ones, I guess.

I have my operation this coming Thursday. Right now I am doing a lot of eating for the memories. It is kinda like I am on vacation and will start work next week. I want to get all the good stuff in that I can.

Does everyone slime?

I've got another question. I was just on the general site, and it was suggested that newbies should introduce themselves there. Is it a good idea or not? What do you think, my fellow Canuckis?

Wow, that's amazing! I am going to have my band done at TLBC next Thursday. Your pics are making me feel hot to trot.

Thanx, Irish. Here is something that may sound kinda strange. I don't actually know my weight. I stopped weighing myself when I was 24 or 25, and when other people (like doctors) weigh me I tell them that I don't want to know. I figure that I am fat because I shop in the fat grrl's stores. The regular sizes don't fit me.

That cure always used to work for me back in the days when I still had cramps.

Oh, and I am getting banded next Thursday.

Hi Yoda, I read your stuff and was really amused. You had the X-ray fill, right? That sounded like the best way of having it done. I am getting banded by The Toronto Lap Band Centre down on Prince Arthur. Although I am looking forward to this - I am getting fatter and fatter since I hit post-menopausal land - most people I know are very negative about this choice. It seems that no one is happy to see me take this step except for my husband who loves me the way I am but is always supportive of me. As for me, I am fed up with the lard. There have been nights when I have been up at three o'clock in the morning, and I've thought to myself that if there were emergency liposuction clinics, I would phone a cab and be there.

I've been hanging about the site for about a week now because I am about to be banded, and I want to learn as much as I can from people who are walking the walk and talking the talk. The site is supportive, interesting, and lots of fun. I've learned a lot about this business of being banded, the fills, and what to expect post-op. This is why I decided to join. I am less frightened about the operation now, but more freaked out about the fills; the procedure sounds a little gross.