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Yah, me too! And it is very disturbing.

Hah, Woodys, you little Skinny Minny Canadian girl! Congratulations on your shrinkage, eh. :biggrin1: Why don't you PM me the next time you are going to be in Toronto? We could connect.........?

You look like a beautiful person from this photo. No one, be she beautiful (which you are) or plain, should be made to feel that they must put up with ill treatment by someone else. It is true that we women have a tendency to hate ourselves, no matter how intelligent, how successful, or how beautiful we are. It seems to take us a long time to grow out of this and many of us never do. Of course this means that we place ourselves in the position where we are easily victimised. Green sez that you should kick the prick to the curb and get on with your life. Your photograph indicates that you are quite a knock out but I would be giving you the same advice even if you were not. Life is a short business and it can be awfully interesting. (Green knows, eh.) There is no reason for you to stay in this negative environment when there is so much of value waiting for you out there. Life can certainly be painful at times when one takes risks but it can be so exciting and so interesting. This is why I find myself speaking the way I have.

Hah! Sounds sublime, Carlene, and now I want to vacation at your house. :biggrin1: I know that I love coffee and I figure that I love you, too. :kiss2: Afterall, you do give great post! And remember, my husband is working in Mexico until the end of June, eh. This means that I am free to travel!

I love Mapquest. But I have to admit that I have never tried any of the other options listed.

Good to see you back, kid.

Naw, she dresses to the left...........

What does Shayna Punim mean? My father was Jewish but not my mother and I was raised as an atheist except for the period when I was put in a boarding school which was run by nuns. And they did that because I was a trouble-maker!

Your ex-husband sounds really messed in the head, and you did find someone better than him. A very good thing, too. :smellie:

Seems like all the interesting people are Hell-bound, that is if there is such a place.......:tired

Congratulations, Jetlag. :clap2: I was banded by Dr. Yau last Sept and I found the post op diet fairly easy to get through. The trick is to eat many mini-meals during that period when you are on fluids and on purees. This doesn't stress out your new stomach and yet you have the sense that you are constantly eating. I would have breakfast, a little snack, lunch, another petit snack, dinner, and then a final small snack. This meant I was taking in a lot of small, light, and low calorie meals. When it came to the time of full liquids I bought Gardenay soups. I figured I was worth it. Because I don't have much of a sweet tooth I substituted tzatziki for the fruit flavoured yogurts which TLBC recommends. During the clear fluid period I drank a lot of broth and apple juice. I had real problems with the protein drinks. This is because I actively dislike sweet drinks. I relied heavily on chewable vitamins. I still do. And I used a pill crusher for just about everything else, including the demerol. (This gadget is very useful and you might want to buy yourself one.)

I had another fill this morning at TLBC. Fills are very easy and only take a few seconds. You get pricked with a needle while you are lying down and then it is over. Doesn't hurt and takes no time at all. Afterwards you will be required to sit for awhile and slowly sip water. This is to ensure that you have not been over filled. The time of my first fill I was very nervous. I don't like having my stomach touched and I figured that the needle was going to really bother me. This is why I took one of the demerol that I had left over from the operation. Well, taking demerol turned out to be an idiotic move on my part! Getting a fill is so easy that it is a non event. And it is fun meeting the lapbanders who were done at the same time as you were, trading stories about your operations, etc. while you are sitting around sipping water.

I did end up getting a little fill this morning at TLBC because I was able to eat anything and everything. I now weigh 154 and my BMI is 24.9. Hot diggity damn! Eh!

Yah, it seems to me, too, that a lot of women prefer other forms of stimulation to intercourse.

Yes, I agree. And it would be nice to see the "fun" put into fundamentalist.

Cool and respectful of others.

Lots of women cannot have orgasms through vaginal sex. I have not only read this but I have had girlfriends which have told me that this is true for them. (Decades ago I used to belong to The Sunday Afternoon Ladies' Champagne Drinking Club - except none of us had the money to blow on the real stuff and so we drank champagne-style wine instead) and a lot of intimate details emerged while we were all guzzling and bonding. It seems that women tend to fall into a variety of categories when it comes to sex and the big O. Some only get it through the stimulation of their external organs and so they are crazy about oral sex and manual stimulation. Others need penetration and quite a few women never have orgasms or experience them rarely. This is what I have learned through reading about female sexuality and this is also what my soused friends have told me over the years. And, by the way, lots of women prefer to masturbate for any number of reasons. My own sex drive is seriously ruined because of the meds that I am on. But I used to be someone who needed penetration in order to have a good time. I was a complete failure at masturbation, as was my mum (we once had a masturbation talk lol), and while I quite liked oral sex this counted as foreplay, not the main course, and I would become quite frustrated if the guy began spending too much time down there. And grabbing them by the hair to make them stop only worked if they weren't bald......!

This comment assumes that there is a God, and that if there is a Divinity, He is the Christian one. Not everyone is on the same page on this question.

Hah! You know what, BJean? I think that you might be right! Although there is not much public pissing going on in Toronto. We are still informed by the Anglo-Saxon sensibility on that score. Green sez thank you for your observations. (This is a little off topic but the French are quite casual about pissing in public. This was part of my culture shock when I first started living there and all foreigners who came from over here or from the northern European countries were affected in much the same way. )

Sister Lizrbit, naked is so GOOD! And I am so glad that you are in the groove. Sometimes when I am up north I go swimming naked. This is wonderful. And ladies, I should tell you that one of my very best real friends is my ex-husband's wife. He introduced me to her a couple of decades ago and we clicked. Sadly, he died of cancer 3 years ago and she has had a bad time of it. Now she has had a sexual reawakening with a guy who is in his 40s and she has just turned 60. Although this is in the way of a fling she has been completely rejuvenated. She looks wonderful and she is full of energy and self-confidence. And other men are starting to sit up and take notice of her. She has a guy who is in his 30s who is now breathing down her neck. She is sending out waves of sexual energy. (Green remembers those turbulent days, but she has been settled down for over 20 years now. *sigh*) I remember those fabulous years. They sure were exciting and I am happy for my friend for she spent a few hard years grieving the lost of her mate. There is a little part of me which is not jealous but wistful; the greater part of me is thankful that I am where I am and that I have my very fine mate and which would be frightened to open the door to all of that. I love my peaceful life and I love my husband. Still, it is fascinating to watch that kind of crazy sexual energy. It brings back memories of certain periods of my own life and I find this fascinating. We old farts have a tendency to think that this only belongs to the young. Looks like it doesn't and that is cool, too.:biggrin1:

Now with respect the above statement, TommyO, I am inclined to disagree with you. While we would all like to think of ourselves as being unique we are human beings and we do share characteristics and we do tend to fit into certain profiles. This is what the soft sciences are all about - psychology, sociology, anthropology, and social anthropology - the study of our behaviour patterns, as a species, as a collection of cultures, and as individuals. These are the areas of research which seek to examine the communalities between us, the communalities and the differences. (As you know, we Canucks are very different from our American cousins in a number of significant areas.) Fuel Man has made some very interesting comments about the interplay of an array of dysfunctional behaviours and what he sees as the general sense of personal anxiety/vulnerability/alienation/fear prevalent in American society today. This he views as being due to a government which panders to the rich and yet maintains its voter base through instilling paranoia in the very citizens whom it is not serving. The working class and the middle class are floundering financially/psychologically in the new America. The new sense of survivalism on the mean streets and the concommitant paranoia creates a dysfunctional environment. People stress out and behave badly. At least that is my interpretation of Fuel Man's assessment of the situation. And I don't figure that he wants abortion to be criminalized. He is more concerned with the underlying causes of these unwanted pregnancies, something that he views as an indicator of the dysfunction of his society. The way I read it he figures that if women and girls had more self-love and self-respect they would be less likely to be engineered into situations where they found themselves pregnant in the first place. Girls who are not treated well by the men around them and who receive negative messages from society are not likely to feel any self-love or self-respect of course. They will feel less comfortable about taking control of their own lives. It can be argued that men, too, may find themselves so challenged by the demands of this society that they have little kindness or love left to give and so will treat women badly. As for the one size fits all business, it is true that when a society is healthy, well-educated, and productive the array of dysfunctional behaviours plummets. As you know from where you and I live, TommyO, (the Toronto-Oakville area) the rate of obesity, teenage pregnancies, street violence, and dysfunctional (as contrasted with controlled, recreational, eh ) drug use is very low compared to that of most American cities.

Great posts, Bjean!!

After the last election they kinda did: Jesusland map - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I was amused by the United States of Canada but you will also see Jesusland. The commentary is quite amusing. Mexico City is referred to as The People's Republic of Mexico City. Enjoy.

Hell, no! You don't even need a visa to come to Canada!! Welcome to/bienvenue au Canada, eh. All the cats which my husband and I have taken in over the years have been adults. Two of them have been strays and the rest of them have belonged to people who didn't want them any more. :help: If they are not already neutered we get them fixed up and because we live in the city we have had to institute a policy of keeping them inside after a few serious incidents. One animal was hit by a car and lived but it was a very serious business. Two others got into brawls with other animals, developed abcesses and almost died before we knew that they were sick. Fur covers teeth marks, eh.:tired My husband would love to have a dog or dogs but we do live in the city and cats are easier to look after and I have allergies. If we lived in the country we would certainly have at least one dog and this would be an rescued adult dog, not a cute puppy. Like yourself, we have strong feelings about giving a home to those animals which are generally considered to be less marketable. And we are always disgusted by those people who treat their fellow living creatures like designer shoes and chuck them when they are no longer fashionable, cute, or young, as is the case of that family who abandoned their mature dog in order to get themselves a new puppy. I think that that is a bluddy nasty way to treat a member of the family, a loyal and a loving member of the family. Keep on doing what you are doing and spread the word! You have Green's props.

Is yours a picky eater? Mine is like my cat. He will eat anything. (Thank Gawd!)