Hi there. Just wanted to see if I could build a new home with some new (and hopefully old) friends. I do not wanna be 'homeless' anymore so here I am! This is gonna be a place for friends to meet (hopefully) and talk about anything & everything.

My name is Tracy and I live in Deer Park, Texas. I have been married for 6 years. I was banded in April '07. Got 4 pounds away from goal, quit smoking and gained 46-50 pounds back so I am on my journey again. This time as a non-smoker :w00t:

This is a life change and with it comes lifelong friends...wanna come along for the ride? :blushing:

Rick is working overnight, the job had problems, they are waiting for more chemicals, and will pump the job when they get the product. Will likely be tomorrow evening before I see him.

So I have my bestest friend ever spending the night with me. We are going to be bestest friends forever -- just ask her! We had some caramel apple --- more apple less caramel sauce, but she did not complain! I really thought about just going to bed, and sleeping the evening, and night away, but when Kinsey ask to stay, that sounded like a better plan. So I am off to do something.....play with Play Doh I think.......we are going to have a Play Doh restaurant she says........wish me luck, finally food I might be able to resist!!!

Hi!

Did y'all see that?! Plain's gonna come up here and slap me! Do it! It made me laugh! And I heard that burp after all that beer too, buddy! Remember blind women slap back! LOL!

Not much happening here this weekend. I went shopping today, groceries. Came home, had lunch, and helped my roommate straighten out the garage. We had termite inspection and you have to move crap so they can spend thirty seconds telling you there aren't any, or they're in places where stuff didn't have to be moved. Grrrr!!

I went on the treadmill, and read a little.

Tomorrow I'm going to play at the hospital.

Everybody take care of yourselves!

Debbie

Rick is working overnight, the job had problems, they are waiting for more chemicals, and will pump the job when they get the product. Will likely be tomorrow evening before I see him. Wow, I totally understand how hard that is now, for everyone!

So I have my bestest friend ever spending the night with me. We are going to be bestest friends forever -- just ask her! We had some caramel apple --- more apple less caramel sauce, but she did not complain! I really thought about just going to bed, and sleeping the evening, and night away, but when Kinsey ask to stay, that sounded like a better plan. So I am off to do something.....play with Play Doh I think.......we are going to have a Play Doh restaurant she says........wish me luck, finally food I might be able to resist!!! That sounds like you girls had a great night

Hi!

Did y'all see that?! Plain's gonna come up here and slap me! Do it! It made me laugh! And I heard that burp after all that beer too, buddy! Remember blind women slap back! LOL! Now that is funny

Not much happening here this weekend. I went shopping today, groceries. Came home, had lunch, and helped my roommate straighten out the garage. We had termite inspection and you have to move crap so they can spend thirty seconds telling you there aren't any, or they're in places where stuff didn't have to be moved. Grrrr!!

I went on the treadmill, and read a little. Good for you- I flopped on the couch most of yesterday

Tomorrow I'm going to play at the hospital.

Everybody take care of yourselves!

Debbie

Good morning ya'll

I think its time to go back to the dr, I've had horrible pain in my lower stomach since my accident and it goes and comes right back, I can't sleep and the pressure is horrible, right about where my seatbelt was.

I can't wait for my fill too, I need to stop eating - no excuse but I know I'm eating for comfort. Kev just doesn't get what he did to me for 19 long hard years and I just want to be happy - and because of him I am afraid to trust anyone, and the one good, real thing I found is gone - I'm more confused than ever.

Well I'm off to have another cup of coffee

Tracy - hope you are having a good weekend

Hello everyone! I'm baaaaaaack! :thumbup:

We got home yesterday but i was too tired to do anything.

Our trip was exciting because we spent ZERO money (thank God). We had coupons for free play on their slot machines. The deal with that is you play their money on the slots until it is gone, then whatever you win above that you can cash out and keep or keep playing. Well, I had 90 dollars of slot play and frank had 40, when we were done we had 160.00 that we won and we took the real money and left. :wink2: THEN we went to coushatta because we had free play there as well. Anyway, long story short, we came home with 80 dollars, ate free, slept there free AND was able to get free gas. sweet....

Angela, did you make those pancakes? congrats on doing well with your eating...its difficult to get back into the swing of it.

Jennifer-well....i woke up and you still aren't here. Where are you? (can you tell I am excited for you to come here?)

Cindy-the dirt cake sounds like something i need to stay away from. I do not have 100% of my self control back yet. lol

Kat-did you eat the play-doh? Sounds like you and your BFF had fun

Michelle-I like your weekly update We have missed ya!

Debbie-I heard what plain said about slapping you. Your response is right on. It made me laugh. Have fun playing at the hospital today. Wish I were there to listen. I love piano music.

Plain-you rent friends? Too bad, you prob can't afford me. LOL

Terri-how is the weight loss going? I am excited for you!

Suzanne-what you up to? My team plays your team today? Sweet :bolt:

Shar-hope you aren't working too hard. How have you been since your aha moment?

I have been doing good with eating. I ate a piece of bread and a piece of candy over the weekend, BUT i still have not had ice cream and that is huge for me. I haven't had any carbonation or rice or pasta. So far so good. When i was losing before, i was working and i had a routine and now i am trying to find a new groove that works for me.

Well today is walmart shopping day. I also need to go ahead and find macy a halloween costume.

Have a great day everyone. Gotta go make macy some breakfast. Make healthy choices...and drink plenty of water. :eek:

Good Morn' everyone. I've had a kinda lazy weekend, just did housework and hung out with Larry (hubby). We are going to hog roast later this afternoon.

Tracy, all is good. I have been keeping a food diary and it really helps. Diary helps me to be aware of what I am eating and proportions. Feels good to just have some down time. Sounds like you had fun on your trip. Spare of the moments trips are the best.

Shar

Morning girls.

Tracy, so glad you had a great time. Sometimes I wish hubby and I did things like that. Bt we are just not gamblers, I guess I have no patience. But to just get away is good in it's self.

Debbie, a slap-fest??? Make sure the camcorder is going. That sucks about having to move all the stuff in the garage, but you got lucky. we had them years ago and I had to move my Mom out while they treated the house. They said with her age and health problems that it would just be best to take her some where. So my cousin and I took her down south to go visit and Aunt and Uncle.

Jenn, Jenn, Jenn, I hate that Kev has done that to you. I hope and pray that someday you will find yourself able to trust again but most of all that you will love and respect yourself. You are a lovely person and a great mom. You deserve to treat yourself better.

Last night we went to a trivia party and had such a wonderful time. Our table had only had a 4 day notice that we were a table. We didn't have months like the other teams. Well, they elected me as captain and I sent out e-mails stating that we didn't have a lot of time to do a lot of shopping so here goes. We can either do a halloween theme or Chiefs. So we did the Chiefs. Good choice because we ended up winning first place for table decorations. There were 8 tables and at the end, we ended up in 4th. place. We moved up 2 places after I rocked at music trivia, I got 9 out of 10 right. And then again in general trivia we got 8 out 10 right, so those moved us up. But the last category we sucked at and oly got 2 answers right. That's ok, we had a blast anyway. The food was great and they supplied all the beer and drinks we wanted.

Today is our prayer walk and what a beautiful day for it. It should be right around 73 degrees when we start. There is a nature refuge about 3 miles from here and you can pick any trail to walk. They give you some papers that the people from our church had wrote out their prayers on and you walk the trails praying for them. So my sister and I will head over to do that.

Then we are off to Richmond for a small family reunion. I'm taking a pot of chili with us. It will be good to see a lot of these people. I haven't seen alot of them since my FIL passed away.

But the biggest thing going on today is a good hearted friendly rivalry between me and "T". Her Texans are playing my Chiefs today. Don't make me come down there an whuup some A$$.

Hope everyone has a great day.

PS. Tracy, did you get the envelope I sent?

Hello everyone! I'm baaaaaaack! :smile2:

We got home yesterday but i was too tired to do anything.

Our trip was exciting because we spent ZERO money (thank God). We had coupons for free play on their slot machines. The deal with that is you play their money on the slots until it is gone, then whatever you win above that you can cash out and keep or keep playing. Well, I had 90 dollars of slot play and frank had 40, when we were done we had 160.00 that we won and we took the real money and left. :bolt: THEN we went to coushatta because we had free play there as well. Anyway, long story short, we came home with 80 dollars, ate free, slept there free AND was able to get free gas. sweet....Now that is the kind of trip I like to have

Angela, did you make those pancakes? congrats on doing well with your eating...its difficult to get back into the swing of it.

Jennifer-well....i woke up and you still aren't here. Where are you? (can you tell I am excited for you to come here?) I know, I need to plan a long weekend when mom gets back into town - leave thurs night back sunday night maybe? I'm going to have to go before we need to layoff a safety person, after that I'll be in charge and won't get much time off

Cindy-the dirt cake sounds like something i need to stay away from. I do not have 100% of my self control back yet. lol and it goes down so easy ... yummy

Kat-did you eat the play-doh? Sounds like you and your BFF had fun :wink2:

Michelle-I like your weekly update :eek: We have missed ya!

Debbie-I heard what plain said about slapping you. Your response is right on. It made me laugh. Have fun playing at the hospital today. Wish I were there to listen. I love piano music.

Plain-you rent friends? Too bad, you prob can't afford me. LOL

Terri-how is the weight loss going? I am excited for you!

Suzanne-what you up to? My team plays your team today? Sweet

Shar-hope you aren't working too hard. How have you been since your aha moment?

I have been doing good with eating. I ate a piece of bread and a piece of candy over the weekend, BUT i still have not had ice cream and that is huge for me. I haven't had any carbonation or rice or pasta. So far so good. When i was losing before, i was working and i had a routine and now i am trying to find a new groove that works for me. I need a fill, and liquids for a month

Well today is walmart shopping day. I also need to go ahead and find macy a halloween costume.

Have a great day everyone. Gotta go make macy some breakfast. Make healthy choices...and drink plenty of water. :thumbup: Dylan is going to be a Toy Story Alien, we ordered online and saved $10 even with shipping - I get to do stuff at FD this year, might keep me out of trouble

Good Morn' everyone. I've had a kinda lazy weekend, just did housework and hung out with Larry (hubby). We are going to hog roast later this afternoon. Sounds like fun!

Tracy, all is good. I have been keeping a food diary and it really helps. Diary helps me to be aware of what I am eating and proportions. Feels good to just have some down time. Sounds like you had fun on your trip. Spare of the moments trips are the best.

Shar

Morning girls.

Tracy, so glad you had a great time. Sometimes I wish hubby and I did things like that. Bt we are just not gamblers, I guess I have no patience. But to just get away is good in it's self.

Debbie, a slap-fest??? Make sure the camcorder is going. That sucks about having to move all the stuff in the garage, but you got lucky. we had them years ago and I had to move my Mom out while they treated the house. They said with her age and health problems that it would just be best to take her some where. So my cousin and I took her down south to go visit and Aunt and Uncle.

Jenn, Jenn, Jenn, I hate that Kev has done that to you. I hope and pray that someday you will find yourself able to trust again but most of all that you will love and respect yourself. You are a lovely person and a great mom. You deserve to treat yourself better. I've come a long way in 3 years, but he is just stupid if he thinks all will be ok, at least I'm not letting him talk me into taking him back. You know what is insane, he is talking like we are back together and I'm not involved with anyone - don't get me wrong, George is gone, but if we are still traveling from time to time to see each other, then we are still together until we say other wise. I'm very deovted to who I'm with. Don't get me wrong we have an understanding at this point that if we meet other people we are ok and just to let the other know - we didn't sign up for long distance thing. But I am not going to sign up for kev to treat me like a bag of crap either. I gave him all i had... someday... someday I'll give that to someone else - just don't think it will be here, people suck here

Last night we went to a trivia party and had such a wonderful time. Our table had only had a 4 day notice that we were a table. We didn't have months like the other teams. Well, they elected me as captain and I sent out e-mails stating that we didn't have a lot of time to do a lot of shopping so here goes. We can either do a halloween theme or Chiefs. So we did the Chiefs. Good choice because we ended up winning first place for table decorations. There were 8 tables and at the end, we ended up in 4th. place. We moved up 2 places after I rocked at music trivia, I got 9 out of 10 right. And then again in general trivia we got 8 out 10 right, so those moved us up. But the last category we sucked at and oly got 2 answers right. That's ok, we had a blast anyway. The food was great and they supplied all the beer and drinks we wanted.

Today is our prayer walk and what a beautiful day for it. It should be right around 73 degrees when we start. There is a nature refuge about 3 miles from here and you can pick any trail to walk. They give you some papers that the people from our church had wrote out their prayers on and you walk the trails praying for them. So my sister and I will head over to do that.

Then we are off to Richmond for a small family reunion. I'm taking a pot of chili with us. It will be good to see a lot of these people. I haven't seen alot of them since my FIL passed away.

But the biggest thing going on today is a good hearted friendly rivalry between me and "T". Her Texans are playing my Chiefs today. Don't make me come down there an whuup some A$$.

Hope everyone has a great day.

PS. Tracy, did you get the envelope I sent?

Well, I'm off to get ready to go, have to pick up dd, and bday present for my neice and get up to water park, which is over hr away. I am not sure if I'm actually going to play in the park or study - or do a little work. my BIL is going to be there and I have some issues with stuff old boss is saying, and I'm concerned the company is going to be in deep shit

Well have a wonderful day all

HI! :thumbup:

Hi everyone!

Still have not seen my husband since he left for work yesterday morning at 4 AM. Talked to him a bit ago, they are still on location.....but should be done in a couple of hours, but he has work to do in the shop when he gets back, so who knows when I will see him!

So I hear all the radios and crap, keeps interupting him when he calls. But I was in Safeway a little while ago, and run into a "friend" of Ricks--a guy he used to work with, one of the ones who was layed off. His 'girlfriend' (she is 70---15 years older than he) said to me, that I must be trusting, he was probably spending the night with his girlfriend! I laughed and said nope I trust him, to which his so called friend tells his gf, not to forget he is old too so he couldn't keep up with 2 women. I told him, "ya know just like the song says, he may not be as good as he once was, but he's as good 3 or 4 times as he ever was!" He just looked all surprised I would say that!!! Put my husband down, and accuse him of cheating, and then present yourselves as his friends! HAH! Idiots! I think he deserves his OLD LADY!

Kinsey had a blast last night. I did not dine on Play Doh....tyvm!

She and Izzy, were hilarious. Kinsey took her blanket and threw it over the dog, and it was on, they rolled over and over and over around the living room floor inside this blanket, with the dogs goal to be able to lick Kinsey's ears, she was almost frantic with wanting to lick them, and Kinsey was just as adamant about her not and that child giggled non stop for an hour. It was so funny. I managed to tape a bit of it. I laughed right along with them because they were so funny. The dog outweighs her a little but they are close in size, and they literally rolled over and over one another!!! Then she got the dog to chasing the laser light. It was a fun night. I missed Rick, wished he had been here to see it, although I know my husband well enough to know he would have wanted in the middle of things, where I sat back and let them play! Now when Kinsey goes outside and swings, the dog sits in the kiddie 2 sided lawn swing on the swing set----she things she is human. Now Kinsey is gone and the dog is sleeping soundly.

Just got home from my parents, my Dad called and my Mom fell, she lost her balance getting out of her chair, and when she tried to grab it, it spun away--- damn swivel rocker! So I went and helped him get her up. She is having so much pain in her hips, she could not lift up without help.

Come home to find the church youth group unloading wood at my house. My woodshed is completely full, that is the easiest way to get wood ever....call them, they back into my drive, and unload it, I do not have to touch anything!!!

I have stuff simmering to make a chicken pot pie. Will mix up the biscuit dough when Rick heads in, so it will be hot. I sent him with a days worth of lunch for yesterday-----and he has been out almost 36 hours now. The company usually caters food to them for those jobs, but they are way out in the middle of nowhere, so I have no idea if they did or not.

Everyone take care, I am going to get some work done, and read awhile!!!

Good Morn' everyone. I've had a kinda lazy weekend, just did housework and hung out with Larry (hubby). We are going to hog roast later this afternoon. Awwww, I am jealous!!

Tracy, all is good. I have been keeping a food diary and it really helps. Diary helps me to be aware of what I am eating and proportions. Maybe i should start doing that again too. Feels good to just have some down time. Sounds like you had fun on your trip. Yes ma'am we had a ball!Spare of the moments trips are the best. :thumbup:

Shar

Morning girls.

Tracy, so glad you had a great time. Sometimes I wish hubby and I did things like that. Bt we are just not gamblers, I guess I have no patience. But to just get away is good in it's self. We did have fun. Fast trip but it was worth it. Kept my mind off all the hum drum stuff.

But the biggest thing going on today is a good hearted friendly rivalry between me and "T". Her Texans are playing my Chiefs today. Don't make me come down there an whuup some A$$. Speaking of which...How bout them Texans? :tt2: Great game!! :tt2:

Hope everyone has a great day.

PS. Tracy, did you get the envelope I sent? Yes we did and we went to the store today and she got it. We have listened to that thing all evening. She is so excited. She is going to send you a thank you e-mail. I will let her write it herself.

HI! Hi right back at ya! :smile:

Kat-hope your mom is OK!

Well everyone, I am a brunette now with hints of red. I love it!

OK, gotta go root on the phillies.

WOOOHOOO YAY TEXANS :wub:

Apparently the defense forgot to get on the plane to Texas. They looked like 3rd stringers. Oh well.

We drove up to the in-laws and had a great time. The weather is just fabulous around here and we were able to sit outside most of the time we were there. Got to see a lot of people we hadn't seen in years. Lots of good food.

My nephew was ther that had his band done a couple of months ago. He's doing great and looks wonderful. We ahd a good talk about what to expect. His wife is going thru the 6 month diet right now. I think she is going to have her surgery in April. I'm so proud of both of them.

I have a big week this week, lots of training to do for my 5K.

My Mom has fibromyalgia, and it is exacerbated by stress, among other things. She began an acupuncture program recently and it has only gotten worse, seriously worse since. She is stressing over my Dads biopsy, but no idea why it has flared so badly. Especially one hip, she stood up from her chair, and that hip did not want to move like to walk, and she kind of staggered, then hit the chair which swivelled right out from under her, leaving her on the floor, it was a slow slide, so she did not hurt herself, but her hip would not allow her to put any weight on it to get up. Nor could she crawl for the same reason, so she just sat there til Dad come in from church.....

I have no idea how to help. I have no idea how things are going to go in the morning, she has been coming and staying with Kinsey for the 15 minute crossover time that I have to leave for work before Kinsey gets on the bus. My Dad is coming in the morning. We have until the 28th or 29th...so 2 more weeks of this to figure out......ugh!

Tracy your mini vacay sounds so much fun!!! Glad you won!

Suzie, the fall days outside are so wonderful, glad you saw your family!!

Michelle, soon you will be covering Teagan in the leaves, we always have fun doing that. I have pictures of only the kids faces peeking out---you cannot tell the difference between Manda and Kinsey only in the age of the picture!!

Well I am off to watch Desperate Housewives, and pay real attention!!!

See you tomorrow!!!

Hey everybody!

I enjoyed reading all your posts.

Jenn, I don't know the whole story, but I'm truly sorry anyone could treat you badly; based on what I know so far, you're a terrific woman, and don't deserve that. I hope you will find someone who will give you all the joy you deserve.

Suzie, the prayer walk sounds great. I love reading about all of you who have changing seasons, and beautiful trails to walk on.

Kat, I think just the fact that you went to help your dad says a lot. You say you don't know how to help, but you are. (Just my opinion.) :smile:

Michelle, we love you too!

Tracy, keep up the good work! Sounds like you're on the right track!

Plain, I know you're watching. Come out, come out, where ever you are!

It was a nice cool day here with a little rain, and we're supposed to get more.

I went to play at the hospital today, and my friend Ariane went with me. We take public transportation, basically it's curb to curb, from our door to our destination. When she was going down the stairs outside our complex, Ariane fell, so we spent the first hour in the emergency room. She's OK, just a sprained ankle. But that means I'll have to go on the treadmill this week because she's my walking partner. I don't like to go up on the track alone; it's on the roof of the place where I work and kind of creepy--you know, like Plain! :thumbup: That's probably why it is like that; he's watching me, aren't you? Fess up!

But it's supposed to rain all week anyway, so we probably wouldn't be able to go even if she was all right.

Gotta go. Time to get ready for work tomorrow.

Talk to y'all later!

Debbie

PS. Hi, Angela, Shar, and Terri!

Hi ya'll!

Tracy... I am so glad you guys won! I love the free gas and I am grateful you guys told us how that works. I meant to tell you last time we talked that we comp'ed our gas too. Did you go to L'aburge Du Lac (or however you spell it, lol)? I haven't heard a lot of good things about it, so I (we) have been hesitant to go.

I did make those pancakes. I had to add a bunch more spices than what it called for. To me (and I only had a couple of bites...tiny ones at that-yay me!!) they tasted very bland. A little vanilla and some more pumpkin pie spice saved them. I don't think it is a recipe I will try again.

Debbie, I wish I lived close enough to come and hear you play!!

Suzie, a prayer walk? I like the sound of that. Maybe I need to turn off the music and try prayer as well. It sounds soothing...

Love your "bestie" Kat! How cute is that?? Sorry to hear about your mom. Thank God she has you!

We spent the day at the bayhouse hanging motion sensor lights and laying patio bricks. I was a wow'ed by the lack of outdoor lighting this house had back when we bought it. It was dark as heck down there! Nothing over the driveway, walkway or stairs (we have had a running bet on who was going to "eat it" first by falling down the stairs. You guys just don't know, lol. My son and I are both ridiculously clumsy!!). Also, there was no stepping stones, sidewalk or any form of brick between the driveway and the stairs (the entire length of the house). It gets real muddy when it rains so we have been tossing around ideas about how to fix it. Pour a concrete sidewalk...patio bricks?

Mike picked out (and subsequently "picked up") a style of brick that he really liked a few weeks back on a trip to Home Depot without me. I am not liking the pattern at all but if he loves it, I will learn to like it :thumbup:. It's the small things, right?? LOL.

Hi everybody I missed!!

I have an early start tomorrow. Have a good one!

Angela

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Good morning all~

For everyone that is working the band and not giving into Satan, i applaud us. Not easy, but we are doing it. I wish my hip did not hurt this bad, I would love to go on a 5K like Suzanne.

When we went on our trip, we ran into Franks dad and his step mom. We have not seen them in 4 years. To make a long story short, they seriously disrespected both Frank and myself and Frank decided that he was done being the whipping post. Now since I was the new woman in town (and frank had NEVER

stood his ground before,) they thought I was the mean one that brainwashed their son. Anyway...I knew all this time and told Frank that they thought it was all my fault. So, we saw them in the parking garage and his step mom cried and apologized to me for hurting my feelings and I told her that it has been Franks decision all along not to go to family functions and she said "well I will make sure to let everyone know that it wasn't you". Anyway, the end result is everything is all good and we are going to their house for Christmas this year. Now hopefully when we get there we will be treated like family instead of outsiders like we used to. I am glad Macy will get to know that side of the family. She does not even remember them. I am glad this happened. I have tried to convince my husband that he needs to see his dad....now he will be part of his life again. Makes my heart smile. I would give anything to talk to my dad again.

I hope you all have a great day!