WHATS HAPPENING WEDNESDAY
Oh boy I about worked myself into the ground today. The sun was shining , the sun was shining….YIPPPEEEEEEE!!! and it was warm too. Got up to 65 here today.
We had to run into town to get some stuff but didn’t stay long we hurried back home and just got home and put stuff away when Joes friend up the road called and wanted to know if we wanted to go Mushroom hunting , oh boy did I , since I found out about morel mushrooms I haven’t been able to go look for them myself because I could bare walk on level ground let alone in the woods. Anyway I had a blast and I found several good sized ones. I was ecstatic. Came home and run in and took a shower real quick to get any chigger and ticks off me. Yep they are out. Found 2 ticks and rinsed off with bleach to kill the chiggers. So I am bug free now lol.
We then burned all the limbs that were laying around in the yards and cleaned up over next door , the house we are fixing up. It has some flower beds that are just so overrun with honeysuckle you wouldn’t believe it. I about have most of it out of there and ran into about 10 patches of cactus. Can you believe that Cactus. And not pretty cactus either just that old field stuff so I went and got my rose gloves so I could handle it. That is a pair of gloves I use when working around my roses because they will tear your hands and arms up.
I sure didn’t want to come into the house tonight . I did have to put on a jacket and we sat out and listened to the frogs and waterfall for awhile .
Did you all watch American Idol? I really am pulling for our Mo. Boy. Hope he wins. But even if he doesn’t he will get a record contract im sure.
He has a lot of good competition .
SHEILA: so how is your head now? It may just be allergies, everyone is having trouble right now.
Regarding your back , yeah a lot of that does make sense and also know that you have lost your center of gravity as you knew it , so your body isnt standing the way it should most of the time. I work on my posture all the time and using the exercise ball seems to help my back more than anything. I think it is helping to build my core strength some. If I could just find time to do a lot more of it.
I don’t know about all of you but I seem to be weak in my shoulders and have trouble holding them up and back
Oh if it was stuff comeing back up from before it will probably be ok. I only covered a few things that had buds on them and the rest of my stuff seems to be fine. We didn’t get much frost, Even my tulips still look great.
Congradulations on losing 90 pounds that is really something.
I have a cell phone that takes pictures and also my digital camera. I will have both. Ok?
Thanks to everyone that prayed for my flowers. I guess im a silly ole woman but like Janet said my flowers are my babies and I put a lot of work and time in them .
I need to ask for prayer for my granddaughter , she called me while ago saying they were at the hospital cause she was having horrible pains in her stomach and she was about to pass out. Don’t know yet what it is . She said she would call back if they were going to keep her but I haven’t heard anything yet.
TAMMY::::: hey I like that name you came up with for your group. Have you still not heard from Cindy? She hasn’t been on the board.
Do you do taxes for people? I didn’t know that?
Oh I sure do hope that the peaches were spared from the freeze. I know what that is like waiting all year for something then it get frozen. Sure is a bummer.
So when you and Brenda and Cindy going to come up to see us in
JANET:::: well don’t know exactly what pills but do know that pain meds can cause those problems you talked about. I know it has to be awful feeling like that. But then again you have a lot of things going on in your life all the time. People seem to gravitate to you with problems. And a lot of them are not things you want to hear about im sure. Such as your ex-husband moving back close to the girls,and a gillion other things. We will place you on our prayer list for God to help you handle all of these things . I don’t know how you can handle all of it. But God gives you the burden for others,
Hopefully you can ask your doctor if those meds are what is causing this stuff.
I cant believe that they let that thing out of jail . What is he going to have to do to keep locked up???? I just hope nothing else happens again. This is getting really scary.
Like I told you before if Melissa needs a place to hide we are way down here in the boonies.
Please know that we are all praying for this situation and please be safe. Watch what is going on around you at all times ….
MELISSA:::: A lot of what I was talking to Janet about is about you too. I am really worried that this is going to get worse before it gets better. And like I told Janet you have a place that you can come to if things start getting really screwy and messed up …Pick those babies up and come down here. I grant you they couldn’t find you down here.
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So sorry to hear about your sweet mother but I can also understand her point of view. The treatments for cancer is so bad. That they have such horrible side effects . Just love her and support her in her choice to not do them anymore. That is hard to do , I know. Iwas there with my Daddy and that is horrible to have to back off and let them control their own life. You are in our prayers as well as your mother and the rest of your family
Hopefully on Thursday you can find out something to do for your back with your pain clinic doctor.
Sorry you aren’t getting that home study done this Wednesday. Hopefully it will be done soon.
Take care of yourself and your babies
Well I guess I will get off here since I want to get up early in the morning and enjoy every drop of sunshine I can get tomorrow.,Wednesday will be a busy day if I can get all done that I have planed out for me to do , I don’t think I can do it all but doesn’t hurt to try lol
LOVE EVERYONE
GOD BLESS.
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GOD BLESS YOU TODAY
JAN COOK
Helllooooo Mo!
not much going on around me...well if it is I am just to busy to notice.
working...its really all I think about at the time because everything I do is about work...getting ready for it or resting up from it. I put an updated photo in my album for 280 a weightloss of 180 pounds since last April. I sooo want to loose about 20 more before June 27th my one yr surgversery
its really exciting now when I loose pounds I can see it real quick and can now wear a size 24..ok I can get it on but havent worn them to work or anything.
Thursday I am getting one of those step counters...I just want to see how many steps I take in one day now and see if I cant up it.
Dean decided that I can get myself a tryke to ride and he will not be embarrased to ride with me...my balance is just not what it should be for a 2 wheeler...and next yr when I am more or less his size we are getting a tandem bike for us to ride together.
so sat I am going to try and find this WLS support group thats in Joplin and see how that goes.
10am is a little early for me on a sat as I usually wait up for the hubs on friday night because I miss seeing him during the week. Im up at 5am ...he is still asleep Im home at 4 and he leaves for work at 2. . he gets home at 11:30pm and I am long since asleep.
thank goodness for cell phones or we wouldnt talk for days
getting ready to start a deep purge of my house and ALL of my out buildings
we have lived here almost 18 yrs and every inch of space has something in it!
it has got to GOOOOO!
the more weight I loose the more I see around me that has been neglected or left for someone else to do it but no one ever does. wonder why that is???
oh well momma is back and I have plenty to keep my occupied for a LOONG time.
so what do yall do with the outgrown clothing??? I have 3 garbage bags full of clothing I will NEVER wear again.
I guess after the purge I will have a sale and maybe some of it can go there.
Im hoping to start on the spare room this weekeknd. need to have one area I can put stuff intoas I clean. of course if it is nice Ill probably start in the first shed! the recipiant of all JUNK!
its a scary prospect!
nice to see the board so active. keep up the good work!
nutti
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Thankfully I'm feeling better this morning.
It's supposed to be very windy today - according to my weatherbug, and my 'bug' wouldn't lie to me! 
If it's bringing in warmer weather, I'll take it!
I've got my usual busy week ahead and this Saturday is the support group here in Sullivan - I'm hoping we get a good turn out for that this month.
Well, gotta go get my kids up and ready for school. Have a great day everyone!! 
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im like you jan i did manage to get out a few times when head wasnt roaring as bad...tilled on garden again and made me a new flower bed by my deck...hoping i feel better today when i get off work at noon cos IF i do i will be in yard and garden till dark hahaha this is so much fun and a yr ago i couldnt do this without taking a break every 10 minutes...and all the huffing and puffing ...i did go get me some generic sudafed but hasnt did job yet maybe after today it will...
Jan......thats cool that u can take my pic for me...have some friends online who wanna see how i look and i need a new pic here..1 with out the double chin lol
Janet......i wasnt a bit shocked about the guy being out of jail, when i got broke into they promised they would call if he bailed out and they didnt call and i gave them 5 peoples nmbrs so 1 could reach me...i ran into at walmart and about had a heart attack on the spot.... the justice system just isnt as good as it needs to be now a days...and to top it off the same guy had a dwi,leaving sence of accident and property damage and another break in and they still gave him another low bond and he bonded out 
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Brenda....i guess i had it made when i had to go on my liquid diet cos i live alone and gave EVERYTHING to the kids and then when they came up during that time they brought their own food to cook...i did cheat 2 times with a baked potato and a soup but hey i thought that was GOOD for me....i still havent had any head hunger...when i came home from hospital i had to make my self drink or eat cos i wasnt hungry at all but like i said living alone prob helped a lot.....
time 4 me to go to work and i pray my head stops by noon...i wanna PLAY outside!!!!!! 
have a GREAT day my friends
love
Dear Jan and OH Peeps~
Before I start my post, I would like everyone to remember Deb M in prayer today as she is having surgery. Lets pray for a safe surgery and speedy recovery. Seems like someone was having WLS today as well-but I may just be thinking that-who knows?
Yesterday got a lot warmer than they said it was going to be-but we had a wind advisory and code red for burning due to the wind. Today is suppose to be in the 70`s and nice-but windy again. Feel sorry for Jon, because I make him wear something to cover his ears, so he doesnt get ear infections.....he always does when his ears werent covered all the time when he was outside-
My mom had a dr appt yesterday and her blood pressure was 200/88 (and she takes blood pressure meds-has for years!!). OMG!! I told my dad right to his face that IF he didnt start being nice and quit riding her butt and being an ass to her-and something happens to her because of it-I would NOT forgive him. Then I just walked away. My mom and I have become extremely close. I wished that I could have her move in with me, but Im afraid we would would have a repeat of last time she stayed for a couple of months-and we didnt do so good. My kids dont even like being around my dad anymore-because he is like a time bomb-and he explodes when you least expect it - and then he rants and raves for an hour, cussing and throwing things. I dont let the kids spend the night with them anymore-and when my mom watches Jon for me-she takes him to the library, the book store-things like that. When dad is in the office-mom will go to the apartment and he cant-cuz he has to stay in the office.
After her appt yesterday, she took Jon and they went and picked out some flowers to plant around the motel-and then they planted them. She let Jon pick all the flowers out. He got some yellow tulips and I dont know what the rest are called. LOL.... I know Jan, your ashamed of me, arent you? Today they are going to plant more flowers and go to the park and have a picnic. Im so glad that Jon is bonding with my mom-he just loves being around her so much. She had always been close to the girls, but now she has that with Jon too-it took a while, but now he just begs to be with grandma. She misses my brothers kids so much, so Im glad that my kids love being around her-and they can keep her busy!! LOL...
I had been texting Mel trying to see if they were okay and how her migraine was doing-and I never got a response, and I had sent a text out to my mom and Megan asking if they would look up the number for the Carthage Police Dept so I could have them go over and ck on Mel and Terry (I had even sent Terry a couple of messages trying to check on them, and didnt hear from him either-so I started to freak out)...Anyway-just as I got the number text'd to me-I got a text from Mel saying they were ok, she just was hurting so bad she didnt want to be on the phone.....I totally understand that one, but with everything going on-it scared me when I didnt hear anything for 5 hrs. Your imagination starts running wild-and because I know Marks full history-I know he doesnt give a crap about any pc of paper telling him to stay away. It just makes him want to do more-and have his croonies do stuff too. Its scary, thats for sure. What really scares me-is that I had these visions-Like 10 different times-same vision-and it was a red car-and a van, but didnt know the color of the van-just that it was older and big-anyway-they run Mel off the road when she has the kids with her-and then they take the kids out of the car while they make sure Mel cant get out of the front seat.....OK-so that red van was OLD and big-and the girl that I described to Mel and Terry and found out she was in court with them-was in a red car. I had finally told Mel of my vision (a week prior to Monday) so that she would get some pepper spray and the stun gun, for her protection so no one will do that to them.
I had so much to do yesterday. Since my parents lost one of their housekeepers, I volunteered to fill in for Donna (their main housekeeper) on her 2 days off-so I was there for 7 hrs-what a mess. I am praying that today doesnt come close to that. I just want it to be an easy day!! Plus-I had the most embaressing thing happen to me yesterday. I was cleaning a room and I ran right into the tv (mounted on the wall) and I must have hit it just right, because it literally knocked me out! I have no clue how long I was laying there, but when I came to-my freaking head hurt so bad~! I cant even touch it today without tears, and last night when I showered, it didnt seem that sensative to me. I figured I had a concussion because after that, about an hour or so-I started to vomit-and I hadnt eaten anything, just drinking water and I had eaten a granola bar like 5 hrs earlier for breakfast.
I wished I could say that I am doing better today. Pain wise I am doing really well-but still feel extremely edgy and I HATE that feeling. I didnt feel this bad when I weened myself off the oxy and vicodins 2 yrs ago. I sure enjoy not being in all of the pain I used to be in!! A day like yesterday, cleaning 8 rooms-I wouldnt have been able to walk by the end of the day-I was hurting a bit, but not anything like before, and I still came home, made dinner and showered. What a difference a yr and a half makes-AND having relief from pain! Now I just wish I could enjoy being pain free.....
I am going to get this finished, get Jon into the shower and then help him pack his picnic stuff so we can head to town. I am hoping that if I go in a little earlier that I can get done earlier since I have to come pick Steph up after school and take her to work. I wish she was driving on her own, thats for sure!
I got a phone call from my ex yesterday and he said that he got a bid on that house in Galena-and he wanted to know the exact amount of back support he owes-so I text him the amt and he texts me back and says that he will be here on the 24th to close on the house and pay his back child support. Im TRYING NOT to get excited or look forward to it since everything else always falls through-but PLEASE PRAY for that-it would help so much financially. It would be the biggest blessing I could have right now. We need it so bad!!! I feel bad asking for prayer for money, but-its not a greed thing, its just that it would give us such relief that I just dont know what I would do with myself if I could get all caught up~
**Jan-Im glad to hear your bug free-LOL...The last time Mike and I went target shooting, he had me sitting down (on our hunting chair cushion thing) and I got baby seed ticks all over me-I think I plopped down right in a next of them! EWWW...I HATE ticks-they are so creepy
Any news on your grand-daughter yet? Do you think it was her appendix? Maybe she had that bad flu where people are getting severe stomach pains. Ive heard that one is going around now!
We have a ton of mushrooms in our woods! Great big ones, but I dont eat them and I have never picked them. I can try and find some and bring them to the group so you can check them out and if they are the ones that you like to eat-you can have them. We have a ton of sassafras too-I love it-but dont have time to mess with it right now. Maybe when I get organized with my own hobby room, I will do that!!
Thanks for offering to house Mel and the babies! Mark would never find them out there or here either-and we are not in an area where there is traffic-so IF I was being followed, I would know it. Its very rare to even see a car out here or within a couple of miles of us really. Plus her mama is in West Plains- Maybe we will just take you up on that offer one day when all this crap is over with-and we will come out just to visit!! That would be so nice!
Did your plants and flowers do okay? Ive been wondering. I sure hope so. Tell Joe hi-and I know you will be outside today having fun!! Cant wait to see you in 2 weeks?
**Sheila-I was reading your post and I couldnt believe that you were writing about that scumbag-you know IF it were you or me that did that kind of stuff-they would make examples of us-but some can do all kinds of wicked and evil things and get away with it for years and years and years!! Mels b-i-l, he has had 13 DWI's, he has caused AT LEAST one death, several burglary charges, he has had between 15-20 different restraining orders/orders of protection against him-ALL DIFFERENT women! He is pure evil. Its almost like he is the devil- and HOW he keeps getting away with everything, I will never know. I will never understand WHY he is walking free-OR why he doesnt have a drivers license-and yet, he has been pulled over twice in the past couple of months, and they let him go. Holy Moley, if that were me, they would arrest me and impound my car! Im mad because the victim advocate should try and help Mel be safe! I just dont get it. I really dont. Okay-getting off that subject because I can feel my blood start to boil!
Well, I need to get off here and go to the Morton Building and get some ground chuck out of the deep freeze and finish up a couple of chores and then get out of here. Its beautiful out there today!! I hope I have an easy day so I can enjoy some outdoor time too!!! As always, your all my thoughts and prayers. Janet
