WHATS HAPPENING MONDAY

Well im excited I got a phone call from Tammy that she and Brenda will be staying all night with me on Monday night. That is so neat that they are coming to the COF meeting and then coming to our house afterwards. I hope they wont be too incovienced with my meager home and place to stay.

 

Joes neice and her boyfriend and the two girls came down today. They were talking about getting married this spring. And that they are going to have a neat honeymoon too. I think they are going to go on a cruise . I told them that the cruises take care of the kids all day long and that you can hire someone to babysit them ni the evening if you want to go dancing or such. They didn’t know that. And  the kids have a blast too.

She has a little girl 7 and they have a baby that is 6 months old.

WE really enjoyed seeing them again. But like always lol glad to see them go home too. Gets a little too noisy for me sometimes. Lol So glad that God knew what he was doing when he made it the young people that were the ones that had kids lol

 

 

 

JANET: Sure sorry that you and mike both are in such pain. But really hope that you can feel well enough to come to the meeting Monday night, it has been way too long till we have seen you , What has it been 3 months? That is a long long time you know. I sure hope you get to start your medicare this next month . but I would call them again and again till I got an answer for sure you know.

Im glad that the girl that stayed the night appeared to be a nice girl. Maybe being with her will help more than anything. Have you heard anymore from this boy Cory? God I hope  you can find a way to stop him from coming around . Do you have anyone you know that is a sheriff or city police man that can go and put a scare in him or take him out of town and tell him that if he knows what is good for him he wont come back? Lol Really get about 6 big ole boys to take him for a ride.   You know that with Steph doing what you want without screaming and throwing a temper tantrum appears to be making headway . At least it appears to be so.

 

Oh my gosh I bet that about scared you to death about Jon. I would have been a basket case for sure. Little stinker.

 

Well did you get the my space deal worked out. if not call the local police and ask them to call lol.is this how she met this Cory?  Yeah if they don’t want to cooperate, call dateline and tell them too about Cory maybe that could or would make her wake up.

 

That was a good wow moment about the race place guy not knowing you.

Makes all the sacrifice ok doesn’t it.

 

Lol yeah it is ok to use the adult things as a raffle deal. If you want too I don’t care . lol sounds like we are going to raffle off some adult sex toys lol sorry folks not so.

 

Don’t worry about if you eat anything or not , I usually just get ice water or a small salad or a cup of soup …last time I did need some food so my and Sugar shared a meal.

 

I was going to ask you too , is anyone from the COF meeting coming to the reunion? If you could get the thing typed up that you have saved and bring it to the meeting so to make sure that all of them know about the reunion. Some may not have access to computers. Ok? Even if you aren’t coming could you send it by Nutti or Mel?

 

Hey don’t ever appoligize for putting your family first about anything. That is the way God intended for us to .

 

Well did Mike get the tick?

 

SHANNON C:  KEEP WATCHING JANET WILL REPOST ABOUT THE REUNION AGAIN IN THEN NEXT DAY OR SO OK? That would be awesome if you could come down and we could all meet you.

 

TAMMY:you sure have been busy this week haven’t you? Wow. Glad  your sister and you got to visit with your nephew. I hope everything goes ok for him and he can get a fair trial or sentencing. Don’t know what all happened but it doesn’t really matter , it always makes it hard on the familys when something like this happens. Probably just as hard as it is on the person serving the time.

 

That is fine that you only were able to tell me today about staying with me. I swear it is fine and hope that you all will be comfortable.

 

Will see a lot of you at the COF meeting tomorrow night , I will type a lot of the new post up tomorrow sometime and then when we get home I will go ahead and put the finishing touches on it.

 

LOVE AND JOY AND PEACE ABOUNDS

JAN

Howdy Yall... The Princess got me up early, so I thought I would go ahead and post to say howdy this morning! Jan...Thanks soo much for extending your invitation even after I waited so long to get back with you! Brenda & I are looking so forward to getting to see everyone at the COF meeting and getting to visit more with you afterwards! Hopefully several will get to go eat and visit after the meeting so we can chat even more.... Janet....Hope your feeling better today and feel up to making that trip to the meeting!! I hate to be that close to you and not get to see you...I hope that Brenda and I will be able to make plans to come see you all every few months or so...We talked about trying for another meeting down this way...maybe in Poplar Bluff...But..Not sure if we have enough down this way to make it worth the wild! We will probably talk about it more today and see what we come up with...But if not then I hope we can make it up that way every few months or so... Then hopefully with so many newbie****ting the board we will eventually get more in our area.... Susan...Was soo good to talk with you yesterday!! You have been such a great help with all the info! Hope we get to talk more and maybe since its so far for you to come to the meeting...we can all get together some time or another and have a girls day or night! Amber P...Im tickled to death you want me to be your angel...I wrote down all the info you sent me and I will get back with you with all mine as well...It will be a few days as I have been out of town and going to go out of town again to day to go to Springfield to go to the COF group meeting! I live in the boonies and don't have one close so I have to drive 3-4 hours to go to one and haven't been to one since around March or so....But as soon as I get back I will get with you! Drop a line anytime.... Well got to get off here and do the pills, the protein, pack a bag and get ready to get on the road.... I hope you all have a great Monday!!! God Bless each and every one of you!! Hugs & Luv...Tammy~ammy

Dear Jan and OH Peeps~ I am pretty bummed out this morning. I have been trying so hard to sit and relax so that my back will feel better-but its not. Yesterday I was crying on and off-and usually, no matter how bad it gets-I dont cry, just suck it up and move on....but this is crazy. I am so mad-for a couple of days it was bearable and I was thinking, hey-maybe its going to ease up a bit and not be so bad-but.....its not seeming to be the case. If I dont get to the group tonite-this will be the 3rd one I have missed, I really want to see all of my friends and family I have come to know and love-but if it doesnt ease up, there is no sense in trying, because I cant sit through group crying-what sense does that make and I sure dont want everyone looking at me like Im some sort of freak. Please say some prayers that I can get it to ease up-even just a bit to be able to make it tonite. Thanks, I appreciate it. Well, Maggie just called-her first day at MSSU! Im so excited for her. She wasnt too excited-she says there are too many kids-LOL told her thats because the college she has attended the past 2 yrs was a lot smaller. Told her to have a good day and embrace this time, because it is a special time in a young persons life. I couldnt be prouder than I feel today!! She may be taking additional classes now-and is looking into becoming a psychiatric nurse-which will add a couple of years-BUT-the income possibilities are incredible-and she would be so good at that. I hope she decides that the additional 2-3 yrs is worth it! Im going to have to get some more posts out about the reunion today. I guess will have to do it every couple of days now until its time. I did email my hubby about the info-but when I sent him the email at work-something happened to it-I dont know whats going on-that makes about 6-7 different emails that people havent gotten from me OR if they get them, they arent right when they try to open it. Not sure whats going on with that. I am sending another one today to see if it will go through and if not-I will have to just tell people about the reunion and hope and pray that even if they dont have access to a computer that they can go somewhere-a family or friends place, work or the library and get on line and check it out. IF I dont end up going, I dont think Mel and Nutti would want to travel an hour out of the way just to pick that up-so IF I dont go-perhaps I can send the email to one of them and they can print off a couple of copies of the email for the group tonite? Maybe. Will see. I also have some stuff for Tammy, a card for Brenda and a few things for Rianne. Nothing spectacular-but just a few things clothes wise.

Megan and her husband and my adopted daughter, Heather and her husband sent their deposit in for their cabin. They are staying just kiddy corner from us. I wished we could have gotten them across the street, but kiddy corner is good! Im getting more and more excited. I am just praying for things to settle down here-to find someone who can take care of our pets AND that my back will handle it. I know the turtles and fish will be okay-but may have to take the kitty and bunny somewhere and definitely will have to have someone water the dogs for a couple of days. Going to have to see about some timers on a couple of lights too-cause I sure dont want Stephs b-friend coming out here cause he knows we are gone-that wouldnt be good. Well, I know now that we have one of the best kittens! Last night, it sounded like she was digging at the carpet with her claws and I got up to see what she was doing-and she came around the corner with a cave cricket-they are those huge, nasty looking crickets-anyway-she plopped it down right at my feet, I went in the kitchen to get a paper towel to pick it up-and she was tossing it here and there, pawing at it (already dead) and bouncing from one chair to another. She was pretty bummed when I took it away from her and threw it away!! Mike was pretty excited though, so maybe she will be a good mouser too, because in the fall-they all want to come in the house to stay warm! I hate mice-they drive me crazy!!! Anyway, I told her what a good girl she was....just hope she doesnt do that if we get anymore scorpions in here, dont want her to get stung. The one we have in the glass on the tv, it finally died-only took 3 weeks! Stephanies friend wanted to hold it-but I didnt know if the stinger still hurt once they were dead or not-and sure didnt want to explain something like that to her mom. **Jan-yes, its been 3 months. The last time I saw you was at the May group. Believe me, I want to come. I am praying for a change so that I can physically make it. Mentally I know it would be good for me too-but the pain has been so intense since Thurs-that I can just be sitting there and burst into tears-and I dont want to go through that in the group-I would feel like a circus freak. So, will see how it goes. I told Mike that if I would have had my insurance, I would have gone to the ER over the weekend for some sort of relief. I really felt like I was going crazy over the pain. Nothing was working, no messaging, no ice, heat, bio freeze, icy hot-nothing. Sitting, laying, slouching, twisting to see if it would pop-none of it. I was just beside myself the past 2 days. I will be calling SS back today and I will just talk to whomever answers the phone. I just want an answer-and if I just ask as a general question, maybe someone will have an answer for me-and then I will tell them I havent received anything in the mail-I thought and believe that they give you a couple of weeks to review the different plans and such. Of course we heard from Cory. The little ******* called ALL weekend long-and made her feel bad IF she was having fun or what have you-I just wanted to take the phone away from her and hang up on the little jerk. We had an okay weekend with her, but then yesterday-she was in the kitchen (of course-Mike and the boys were not here-mind you) and she asked about having a snack and I was trying to tell her what we had and where the items were located-and she slammed the freezer and went to her room and called my mom-crying hysterically and telling my mom that "she has a plan" and my mom asked what it was-and Steph said- I cant tell you, cause you have a big mouth. So-mom calls me. Steph ended up having one of her famous episodes yesterday-and thank God Mike and the boys had come in from using the tractor etc-because I ended up having to go outside, it was either that or I was gonna knock her out. She told Mike that I called her a ***** My face hit the floor and I said WHEN? I have NEVER said that-NEVER-I swear on my life-I swear on a stack of Bibles I have never ever said that word about you OR in a sentence incinuating that. She said-well, Megan said it about me and since you and Megan are close-I know you said it too!! OMG....Then she said that she doesnt care what they tell her on Weds-she is NOT taking ANY medications they try to put her on, because WE are JUST TRYING to MAKE HER A ZOMBIE so that WE CAN CONTROL HER LIFE!! WTH? I LOST IT...I was like-Oh, Little Missy-YOU WILL take the medications OR I will have NO CHOICE but to put you somewhere where they will MAKE you take the medications, which is called medical power of attorney and I will sign off and let them deal with you until you get the help you need. Then I told her that IF she isnt willing to try and get better, that I would be making sure that Cory cant talk to her even on the phone, She wont be seeing him-nothing AND if he tries to do something to have contact-he will go to jail. That made her think twice-but then just made her madder. I went outside and let Mike talk to her. He stays way more level headed and explains thing to her differently than I do, which is good-but she is so abusive and so hateful-that I just have such a hard time dealing with it. Its like living with her dad all over again and no matter how much I TRY to be a good mom to her-she will throw it up in my face and say the worst things to me. When I first met Mike I was a lot tougher, I guess, than I am now-because I was used to the constant abuse I got from Eric and all those hurtful things-and now Im not. She twists everything around to be the way SHE wants it to be-and wants everyone to feel sorry for her. I dont know. Mentally, I am so very tired. I told Mike last night, IF she decides not to take the medication that they want to prescribe her-that we have no other choice but to have her move out. I dont want that. Im very afraid for her-but I also know her, and when SHE gets something in her head that she wants-she will keep it up until she gets her way-and all she wants is to live in Joplin and all of us have to pay the price when she isnt getting what she wants. Im not living like this until she can move out. The little smarty pants THINKS she can do whatever she wants when she is 17 and that we cant MAKE her do anything-will see how good life is when you dont have everything handed to you-and where are you gonna live? With Mr Wonderful in the homeless shelter he is currently living in? Come on here, get a clue. She also wants me to give Cory a 2nd chance and such-and she cant see what is sitting right in front of her face. I dont want to talk about this anymore-so....

The myspace-she said last night that she went in and started another myspace page. This is a never ending battle-so now she is deleting that page as well. No-she met that little jerk when a so-called "friend" of hers who went to Job Corp gave him Stephs phone number. Wonderful friend. With friends like that, who needs enemies? I used to know 3 police officers personally, and I know they would do that for me in a heart beat-but none of them are on the force in Joplin anymore. 2 moved out of town-far enough away that they cant come here to do that and one retired a couple of years ago, when his wife passed away from cancer. She was only 45, and he retired and moved away from here. Something will work out, I hope and pray. **Bev-Rianne used to do a daily post about what you ate the day before, so we could all be accountable for it, it wasnt anything her and I did with or for each other-she put the post out there and a lot of people posted to it-she is going to be getting her interent back (she moved) so I was just wondering if something like that would be helpful to you-to be held accountable for what your eating? Anything we can do to help you, please let us know. Its a hard process, thats for sure. Let us know what you think and good luck-we are behind you 100 percent.

**Sus-when you called me back last night, we were going through the famous Stephanie episode. There was no way I could get on the phone. Im sorry. Maybe one of these days things will get back to normal and I wont have to be on egg shells all the time. Cant wait to see you at the reunion. I will be sending you an email. Love you. **Tammy-Ammy-Im glad your sis made it in time to see her son and that they gave you guys extra time-thats pretty nice of them to do that. Im sorry you have been so busy-I know when its crazy like that, it makes it hard-and I remember Jon doing that a couple of times where he fell asleep and then got up thinking it was morning....I dont miss those days ONE BIT!!! Im glad you and Brenda are going to be able to go to group tonite. I really hope I will be able to see you there. I am praying for safe travels for you. Love you. **Brenda-Thanks so much for the email. It made me feel better. I appreciate you taking the time to send that to me. Im going to do my best to come and see you. I want a Brenda hug. Love you-and again, thanks!!! **Mel-glad your coming home today. Have missed ya-although, since we dont get to see each other very often anymore-I guess it doesnt make a difference if your in Carthage or with your folks in West Plains. I hope you got to see the babies while you were there and that you had a good time and are feeling better. Praying for safe travels. Love you. Well, I am going to get off here, get a post out about the reunion and get some things done. Have some calls to make. Love and prayers to all, Janet

Good morning OH family!  I have another busy day today.  I have to clean house to get ready for AT&T to come and install cable TV and Internet for us we are doing away with Time Warner we have Internet problems about every other day so hopefully with ATT we won't have as many problems?  I wanted to go to water aerobics today but mother nature decided to visit today so now I can't go which bites...  I'm hoping the dr.'s office calls today with results from my blood work that I had done Thurs.  I'm really tired wish I could just go back to bed not to mention I feel achy all over which is how I always feel at that time of the month.   I can't wait until next Mon. when it's time for the Lees Summit support group meeting.  I might be bringing the elderly lady that I live with just so she can get informed about my surgery she has this idea that if you just stop eating you will lose weight.  She doesn't think I should have the surgery even though I and her daughter has tried to explain to her how I can't lose weight the traditional way that surgical intervention is needed in order for me to lose weight and keep it off.   I did bad yesterday I went out to eat with my friend and I had a sweet treat and I shouldn't have but I didn't eat that much of it.  I had to write it down on my food diary that I'm keeping for my dietician.   Janet; I'm not sure if that post you were talking about would help me or not?  I already have to write everything that I eat down for my dietician which I find hard to do everyday but I will do it if that's what it takes.  I don't think I want to record what I eat twice.   Well, I guess I better go get my chores done.  Take care everyone and have a good day.

Hi Jan and all, Not much going on today. The fair is over so the weather has changed just like every year.   Janet maybe the change in the weather is what is causing all your pain. I have been in such pain for 3 or 4 days. Even my back is hurting. And my knees are so painful I can hardly put any weight on them. Just miserable. I had to call the doc to get my vicodin refilled, which I don't like to take but it does cut the pain some. After I take it for a few days all I want to do is sleep.  That would be so scary what happened with your little one. With all the idiots in the world today you can't be to careful.  I bet you were just a nervous wreck. Glad it turned out ok.. Aren't kids aggravating, your daughter probably knows just what buttons to push to drive you crazy. Hope the boy gets tired of all the aggravation and goes away.. My daughter and family have moved in with me. They needed a place to stay and I need some help. I really enjoy her being here. And she has been so helpful. She loves to organize and has rearranged my whole house. I am such a packrat. But I am just letting her do what she wants to do and my house is looking really good. I told her to just plan on staying as long as she wants to and saving their money  for a down payment so they can buy a house. No sense in paying for someone else's place. They might as well be paying on something that can be theirs.  Well guess I had better get off here. You all have a good time at your meeting tonight. I bet you all just have a ball...  

Hi Jan, Had another weekend of fighing. Went saturday nite about 8pm and stayed till sunday afternoon about 1pm. Boy were we tired. We brought home 22 bluecat and channels and 8 of the biggest crappie I have ever seen!!!!! Of course I am the only one who knows how to clean them right. As soon as I get home I clean them, do my nasty smelling laundry, mop the floor, wash my fishing equipment down and bleach everything I think has a fish smell then take a long hot shower!!!! But we always have so much fun fishing, even in the rain. It is myself, a neighbor who is 51(Linda) and my other neighbor who is 24(Phillip) who is an ol soul for only 24. Of course everyone becomes your friend after it is done and you talk about cooking them!!!! I told myfamily and friends we will have a fish fry Labor Day weekend. That should give us one more weekend to go fishing again. My son-in-law said he weill go with us next time and bring my daughter. Of course I had to call since I caught the most and biggest and had braggin rights. It rained most of the evening here so it is fairly nice today. I have my appoinment with Dr H. tommorrow. I hope I can have my B-12 more often than every other month. I also had to go back on my lasix and potassium because of swelling and shortness of breath. Then my O-2 machine wanted to quit last nite but after I called we were able to get it to work. I sleep so much better with it on than before, so I had to sleep in the recliner most of last nite. I am on the count down for Branson. I am really getting excited. I should have a few pairs of capris and maybe a few other things to bring for anyone who needs them. Hello to all and take care.Julia