TruBlueSue

LOL to all the UM/OSU smack...as a UM alum, I will happily join in!!

ebay has body buggs - check and see if you can get a deal...

as long as your battery doesn't run out it'll store 14 days worth of info - take extra batteries and when it buzzes a lot change it

Jacqui I am with you on that one LMAO - a 4 year old and been married 9 years and would rather read and have everybody out of the house...<grin>

Hi All! Just want to say hello, and hoping that all my Sep 06 buddies are doing well...

MINE TOO!! BUT i WANT TO WAIT until I am at goal to buy more lol

<p>Hi OH Juli, and everyone else...am joining in from Houston, but am from Ann Arbor MI and am hating the lack of seasons here...</p> <p> </p> <p>A terry bike is my dream...I bought a different brand hybrid women's bike to get up to speed; figure once I can do 20-40 miles at a stretch then I'll trade up...lol...</p> AND I LOVE MY BODYBUGG!! 5 months and counting...Juli I am jealous - I didn't get that much activity in yesterday...I have an almost 4 year old daughter who has pneumonia, so I spent most of yesterday being a mommy pillow and watching barbie/cinderella princess movies (Blech!!)

<p>I like AchievOne coffee/latte style drinks - four flavors, 9.5 ounces, 20g Protein and NOT THICK!!! You can buy them at bariatriceating dot com. They have totally enabled me to get in my 80-100 g of protein a day with only 120 calories...I am so tight in the morning that a couple of these in the morning with my usual coffee keeps me satisfied until about 1300 when I can usually eat...</p> you can also get a taster/sampler pack too so you can decide which you like best

<p>I've flown, gone everywhere with the bugg and have had no problems....</p> all you have to do is take it off, put it in the little bin and walk through, then put it back on...

Has anybody checked out Terry Bicycles? Bikes made for women...I bought a no smack hybrid touring bike, and I can't wait to get on it. Hubby is into kayaking, and I do't mind going, but the $$ he spends on his kayaks justified me buying a good bike for ME!! Just noticed that the N key is sticking on my brand new laptop dammit frustrating...

<p>There Are Quite A Few On Ebay !!</p> they're there right now 1815 2 nov 07

I am gonna do some checking, too - has anyone looked on ebay to see if there are some avail? I have had my bb for 5 months and can't recommend it enough...

That is me - total coffee freak! My almost 4 yo daughter knows not to talk to mommy in the morning before coffee - I'm "cranky" she says!

So glad to help. I like the Mocha Java and cappuccino is my favorite; the vanilla nut and the hazelnut are ok, but not my total fave. Whichever which one you get, though, is better than that wallpaper paste stuff...I buy the stuff by the case b/c I am pretty tight in the morning; two of those, the gym, and a Apex fruit fuel bar are pretty much my whole food intake til about one or so....

Have you tried AchievOne? They are coffee, latte style drinks with 120 cals, 20 grams protein and are 9.5 oz...I heat mine up in the micro, add to my am coffee, and never had a problem...they are smooth, palatable, and NOT thick, pasty or weird in texture or taste. 4 flavors; can be bought online at bariatriceating dot com

Amen, Kago!! I was an MP in GW I, and I so agree with you about Powell, Clinton, et.al. Hooah!!

Hmmm. Here's what I know for sure. As a translator and a BA/MA in Middle East studies; as a member of the US Army who was part of the invasion in 2003, I spent 14 months translating documents, interrogating scientists, and combing potential WMD sites - those that were identified by WMD task force and given to MG Marks and my fellow soldiers to investigate. I KNOW that none of the sites I ever went to (200+) had any detectable WMD nor the components to make anything that might be considered WMD. The most scientifically "advanced" thing that I and the members of MY team (again, I can only speak to my specific experience) saw were matress coils hooked up to 12V car batteries in torture chambers. Whatever your take on the war, its hard to argue about potentially hidden scientific labs when the scientists themselves, under interrogation, admitted they didn't exist. The best theory I can come up with (and again, this is MY opinion) is that Saddam's government and, indeed, the political/social fabric of Baathist Iraq was SO riddled by corruption; that SO many people were making money off the illusion of WMD that no one was willing to counter the official party line. (e.g., the Ptoemkin village of the Soviet era) Plus, if you look at the bigger political picture in the area, Saddam was spouting all his crap for local consumption - not necessarily even his own domestic political audience - but that of Syria, Iran, the Saudis, Jordan, Egypt, et. al. Saddam and the Baathists weren't so worried about the US' position or even that of the UN - they were more worried about their own local neighborhood. So, yeah - you could say that Saddam miscalculated, but by the same token, so did the current US administration. Where does that leave us? It leaves us with 160,000 soldiers in positions they were never trained to be in, fighting an insurgency AND sitting in the middle of a 1400 year old religious conflict. Not a great place to be. The alternative? Well, for starters, I'd make KBR, Halliburton, and all the rest of those infrastructure contractors who are making BILLIONS to rebuild Iraq's infrastructure WAY more accountable than they are now. Where's the $$ going? What have you accomplished in the last 5 years?? And don't give me the bullshit line about security, because, if you believe the current administration, the security situation is only 'difficult' in Baghdad and Mosul. Two provinces out of 18. Why is there no 24/7 power in the other 16 provinces? Why no clean Water? Come on. This wouldn't be acceptable here in the US - why is it acceptable in Iraq? Its all about making money and there is no oversight. As an aside, those who think that Saddam squirreled his WMD to Syria, well, Bashir A-assad was NO friend of Saddam - in fact they were political rivals! Not only that, but if you know anything about Syria, you'd instantly get the fact that as a totalitarian regime, THEY have TIGHT controls on THEIR borders. Just ask the million Iraqi refugees in Jordan who would much rather have gone to Syria... former SSG, US Army 1987-1991; CPT, 1996-2005

I'm an Iraq vet...and I agree. Saddam was in a box, and regime change would've happened. It may have not been on the US' timetable, and the government that followed may have not been one we would totally agree with, but it would have been an Iraqi solution to an Iraqi issue. Now we've 'bought' the issue...does anyone realise that saddam's government was a secular one, and that we've opened the door to an Islamist government such as iran????

LOL Nina - I was being sardonic - and I know that I was a teenager in every sense of the word - I think my parents were totally relieved when I finally "got a life" and pulled it together, so to speak...

I'd ask you the same question - when does science and the law supercede someone's particular brand of religiosity? I ask because it seems to me that there is a segment of the population these days, associated with the current US administration, that are trying to encode their particular brand of religiosity on the country as a whole via the creation of laws and the sqashing of debate. I'm sure there are those out there that would argue that a child isn't a "life" until they have a means to support themselves without their parents' intervention...

Well, I wrote it that way because I was quoting it from another source. I wanted to make sure I put it down correctly as that was that particular authority I was remembering when I wrote my post/.

Well, guess that depends on your point of view...in my religious tradition, the life of the mother is more important than "the potential life of an unborn child." Before you ask, yes, life is at birth...

disabilities...let's see, I am nearsighted, have a food addiction (LOL) and had petite mal seizures until I was 6 or so....but no real lasting issues. (I lived in an incubator and was oxygenated until I my lungs were mature enough to perform on their own.) The point I was making was that if I hadn't been born where I was, at that time, I wouldn't be here today. That said, I DON'T think that extraordinary measures beyond incubation and food/oxygen support should be mandated by law. Legality is not meant to represent morality.

That's kinda funny -my dad always said he hoped someone would have the nuts to pull the plug on him if he was disabled and no longer anything but a depository for machines, iv lines, etc. Kind of like knowing when your aged, beloved pet's quality of life is so bad that it's time...

<p>green is my hero. and...I was born in 1967 at 26 weeks and 3 days and weighed 2lbs5 ounces....medical technology has come a long, long way, but at what price to the child/family/society?</p>