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Restlessmonkey, that was the best thing I have heard all day...all week...all month LOL

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Restless Monkey,

That was a great visual! I knew there was a reason I didn't like yoga - no giggling.

TPG

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It was a typo and I just left it

ha ha ha Love it!!!!

Mine is boring and simple... name and age (at the time I signed up)

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About 10 years (and another 50 pounds less)

The lights BLARED on. She GLARED at me. She said (imagine the accent please...it took the sting out)

Your mind is like a RESTLESS MONKEY....Leaping from limb to limb. You need to be still!!! Oh no way. I laughed until I almost wet myself.

Loved your story Restless... My first yoga experience was funny too. I think all yoga instructors have an accent.... She pin pointed my sis n law out because we were the "big" girls in the class. Sis is a lot like you laughs at everything and together we are TROUBLE. Needless to say our little cute instructor got after us too. Must be their nature. lol

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Mine comes from the dance done in the small Japanese town where I lived. It means devil sword dance. Considering it's done only in this one small area of Japan, it's pretty unlikely that anybody from the English world has heard of it or has already used it. I usually have a Japanese devil mask avitar to go with it but it's rather off-putting so I went with Domo-kun as he's not quite so scary.

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I have 3 grandchildren and they call me MeMaw. Since I am over weight, I decided on Chubbymemaw.

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plain = unadorned, no frills, regular, uninteresting, common.

Hehe - trying to disguise your nature with that handle, eh?

Mine was a character name in an online adventure game that I used to play (Ultima Online). I was sitting in front of the computer, trying desperately to come up with a new name (I'm really bad at thinking of names!) and remarked to a friend "Damn, I can think of sweet FA!", (meaning "f**k all"). He instantly recommended that I name my character Fanny Adams, which is polite slang here in Aus for "f**k all". The name rang a bell and I looked up the meaning - apparently the original Fanny Adams was a little girl who was murdered in the woods in the late 1800's. This fit in beautifully with the story line of the game, so Fanny Adams was born.

I've had that user name in every online forum for the last 7 years now, and I answer to "Fanny" in real life, as easily as I do to my actual name (Sue).

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ParrotheadCathy .... well, I'm a Jimmy Buffett fan. But, of course, I've taken it to a higher level. I am a member of the Atlanta Parrot Head Club (Atlanta PHC is the very first ever official parrot head club, founded in 1989), a past board member, and I am a Regional Coordinator for the SE Region of Parrot Heads in Paradise, which is the "parent organization". Yes, we do know how to party ... but we also "party with a purpose" .... For example, last year (2008) Parrot Head Clubs raised over $3.1 Million and volunteered 175,000 Volunteer Hours. Obviously, I am proud of our efforts!

Cathy, well, that part's easy ... my name is Catherine but absolutely NOBODY calls me that. My Dad never even called me "Cathy" but always called me "Katy".

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User names - just wondering how you came up with yours. Some are fairly obvious but then others are really intriguing.If you are happy to share I would love to know how you chose yours.

Mine is really boring. elcee = my first 2 initials L C for Lynn Christine.

First 2 letters of first name and First 2 letters of last name

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Love this thread, ;)

mine is simple, My name is Beverly and I'm from California, BeefromCalie

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First name, middle initial, birth year. Exotic, right?

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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