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Ban everything, sez Green. :ranger: Fossil fuel use is bad for the environment.

Denise, it sounds to me like you are beating yourself up. I can understand your frustration, I know that everyone of us who is a member of this site can relate, but do try to remember that it has been less than a year since you were banded and you, grrl, have not only already lost a significant amount of weight, you are also keeping this weight off! A very good thing, doncha think? Remember, too, that lap band surgeons generally do consider that reaching goal is a 2 year process. Folks who achieve their goals earlier are the exceptions, not the norm. You might want to pay special attention to Jachut's posts on this issue; she is at goal but it took her a couple of years to get there and a serious commitment to physical work-outs, running, etc. Indeed, I would suggest that you do a read through of the slow losers' thread and that you might, perhaps, PM Jachut about your current frustrations. As for the fact that your name = your sign-in, well, so what? We are now in Virtual City and we have the right to choose our sign-in identities. My sign-in identity is my real name, too. It is my surname is all. Green is the name I use everywhere I go whether it be Reality or Virtual City. This is the name I use for my own blog. :ranger: I am most comfortable with Green. :car: I guess I really like the colour.

Yahoo! Welcome aboard, grrlfriend. And congratulations, eh. :car:

Congratulations on getting down to the half-way point! If I was you I would splurge on a really fine bottle of perfume, perhaps something by Chanel, and I would wear it everyday. This would remind me of just how far I have already come.

Santa started saying the ho-word first so I figure he has a right to keep on using it.

Yah, I am with you on this one. I only like my drinks unsweetened. When I drink English tea or coffee I want skim or 1% milk and as for Oriental teas, I drink them clear. I like my teeth and tongue to be involved when I am doing calories. Of course I will ignore this rule when it comes to scotch or wine. :eyebrows:

:help: We have been in need of a thread like this for quite a long time now. :faint:

Yup.:clap2::clap2::clap2::clap2::faint:

Why, I swear I could pass for a drag queen with these babies! :heh: The downside is that these suckers are all about false advertising. :phanvan

Ho ho hold the mayo.

Hah! Sounds like it is time for a gang meeting, eh. Bras and shoes on or off? And for sure the gang is going to have to meet south of the Canucki border. You folks have the better climate, and now you even have the better buck! (And Green has never, ever eaten true BBQ. *Please note that Green is 58 years old, eh, and isn't going to live forever.* lol)

I told my mate about the jewellery. We are gonna have a look at it together.:bounce:

Up here in Canada they call that plan "workfare."

And no transfats! Boy, was he lucky!

Man, I wanted to have my tubes tied but nobody would do it until I had had some children but the point was that I wanted it done in order to prevent this.

Be careful and keep us in the loop. :cool:

A 100+Gs!!!! Oy vey! It sounds like you have been seeing some rough times, grrl! :cool: from Green.

If you put that much time into fixing him up then you are best off keeping him. And it does sound like he had good reason to run noisy. :cool:

Ahh, this would be me, too. Some width but no depth. No junk in da trunk. And a rectangular shape when viewed directly from the rear. I've seen this arse on other people and they have all been Polish men! :heh: I am sure there is a Slav lurking in my Polish Jew genetic background..........

What a fab site! Thanks for posting it.

Naughty Daddy.

:faint::heh: Then my father is definitely in Heaven. :heh:

Ohhh, so you got the Blind Bunny kind. Mine are more like the two blind white mice.... What are yours like, Laurend? :heh::heh::heh::heh::heh:

Grrl, I wanna meet you. Do I have to wear a bra or can I let those gerbils run free?:nervous

And I will let you know if I buy the jewellery. There is a bracelet, 18K gold, a bangle which has two lizard's heads each of which are worked in a pave of rubies and diamonds. Some of the rubies are baguette. No really big stones but the workmanship is lovely and the bracelette as a whole is not petite. They will sell it to me for $6500 (plus I will have to pay 14% sales taxes) and the appraisal on it is close to $10 Gs. Furthermore, it would likely cost more to have it made now. The visual effect of the bracelet is quite opulent. Though the bracelet looks like a bangle it is hinged and the thing does fit loosely over my large and boney wrist. Of course I have tons of funky chunky silver bracelets and of course I live a casual, messy lifestyle. This means that the bracelet will be only be worn with jeans, linen pants, capris, and baggy shirts and sweaters, eh. My mum left me money when she died a couple of years back. It was this which has financed the lapband, the facelift and had decided me on opting for early retirement when my company offered me a retirement package. I can certainly afford this flash bit of jewellery. I guess I just find myself wondering if I am being sensible or a foolish greedy guts. Money is such a complicated issue, isn't it? I have seen people who deny themselves the sweet pleasures of life in order to hoard the stuff and I have also seen people who pi$$ the stuff away on junk. In fact, I have seen this inside my own family! It is because of this that I have worked really hard to achieve some sort of balance in my own life: and so the house, the investments, and also the interesting experiences, the exotic trips. Nevertheless, I remain kind of neurotic about money issues. Thanks for allowing me to rattle on about this subject.