WHATS HAPPENING SATURDAY

Got up early this morning and went to town to get the paint for the house. Man it is dark in there. I think we are going to have to get some more lights for the kitchen especially.

I love can lights they give so much light and in the kitchen I like lots , don’t you?

I got 4 gals of Paint , I have one gallon already but I am almost sure that isnt enough…may need lots more primer. Oh well will see. Once we start can judge it a little better.

 

Joe mowed while I was in town , when I got back we went to the house and took all sorts of boards and stuff down off the walls.drove in nails, put spackle in the bigger holes, fix the place in the floor where the water pipes were at , put the foaming insulation stuff around the pipe that come up out of the floor. (drain for the kitchen.

 

Put some more insulation in wall between the kitchen and bathroom. We are still toying with the idea of putting up sheetrock. Right now the inside is all paneling and that is ok because you can paint over that and gives a sort of cottage look to the house. But the sheetrock would be another insulation barrier between the inside and outside. I think a lot of that will depend on the pocket book right now lol

 

I don’t think I have drank enough water today, nope I haven’t only 2,16 oz bottles sitting on the cabinet. Better get busy and drink some more. At least two more before bed time.

And I haven’t taken my calcium today either. Man I cant be forgetting all of this stuff , time to slow down lol .

 

Heard from our friends that live in St. Louis they will be coming down for a visit July 3,4,5, we always have lots of fun with them.

 

Saturday, today im going to take a load of clothes, and some furniture to the shop here that sells things and the money goes to our fire dept.

 

Does anyone have poppies? Not puppies but Poppies.? Lol If you do and they are the kind that come up every year I would like to have some of either the plants or the seed this fall . would be appreciative of them for sure.

 

 

 

DEBBIE   M::::: sorry I missed you last night. Thought I had looked the last time before posting but who knows if I did or not, I was pretty tired and sleepy just like tonight. I think I have found the solution to a good nights sleep, Just work so hard during the day that it is impossible to stay away any longer.

Whooo hooo great that you are getting closer and closer to getting to goal.

 

So when is the happy event , you keeping something from us? Lol

 

Glad that Jason and Wendy are doing well with this pregnancy. Hope the baby is healthly

That is the main thing.

Yes have been watching So you think you can dance. Love that show. Will be watching next Wednesday and Thursday.

 

 

 

TRACI:::::!!!!! GLAD  to have you back again. I hope you are feeling better. That has to be really aggravating to do everything right and still get like that. I can sort of relate since I always have a tendcy to be low on Iron. Doesn’t matter what I eat or drink it never comes up.

You have to watch where you are walking girl. LOL im a good one to talk , I tripped over something the other day and stumbled backwards and landed in a big wash tub lol

Didn’t hurt anything except bruises. Have a great big one on my left elbow where I hit the wall with that elbow on me.

And a couple of others

 

 

ANGIE::::LOL I WOULD Have lost more than a little hair and nerves .

How old are they?

You usually start growing back hair around the same time as you when you notice that the rain and wind will help get it here faster.

Told them they didn’t need to do that.cleaning it is ok just might need it before then.

 

Wiish I could come to your clothing exchange .

 

 

ANDREW::::::you bet that is another reason that I thought and wanted you all as our renters and hope you will stay and stay all the time.

Yep the work involved wasn’t bad at all gathering things up. If we had a trailer of our own, I told Joe we could haul off everyone elses stuff and they wouldn’t have to take them to the dump. Lol

 

It sure will be great that you and Susan will be coming to work. We seem to be spinning wheels  sometimes. Will have plenty of painting to do. We are pushing to getting all of the bathroom and all of the kitchen done before you all move in and maybe one of the bedrooms except for the flooring that will be the last thing we do.

Seems like all we keep getting done is demolition. And repair. But have to do all of that before we can do anything else.

But you all will have a nice new kitchen when we are done, sink, faucets, cabinets walls ceilings and flooring. Wow. Not bad for a rental. Ive lived in some long time ago that wow.

 

 

 

JANET::::: I was wondering where you were yesterday. Lol missed you for sure.

I know how it is about turning off the mind when you try to go to bed. Sometimes it don’t want to turn off for sure.

I think if I was faced with the situation you are in right now I would sign over custody of her to her dad. Let him put up with her . Let him have people wanting money because of her etc. lol

That Doctor is horrible about the medicnine for Kenny. Im glad that you are helping him out . that has to be hard when a doctor wont listen

 

Wow that is really something about your tests. That is riducleous. Don’t know if Medicare will pay for that one  cause I bet they turned it into them, but if they don’t have the results then you can inform medicare that they should only be paid once.

 

Will keep Jon in my prayers that he will eventually understand all of this that has gone on.

Keep hugging and loving and telling him he isnt going anywhere or anyone else for that matter.

I think you are handling everything just right.

 

I sure hope that next year you will be able to go with us ….Bec is such a wonderful hostess and a wonderful cook. I am hoping that she and Paul can come to the Reunion this year. Oh yeah I am sending you an email about some things.

Hey you could probably qualify for the hair school thru medicare now if you really wanted to do it.

I know you will be so glad when you get the extra apron off. I don’t think the fat used to bother us too much for some reason. Who knows

Yes I have Sheilas number. I called and she wasn’t home, will put that number in with the email I send you.

Thanks for the vote of confidence with the leadership of the COF group, you sound a lot more confident than I feel lol

 

Well I sat here in the chair writing this and fell asleep for about 40 minutes so I guess I am ready to finish this up .

 

GOD BLESS ALL

Good Middle of the night Jan and OH Peeps (LOL).

Yep, you see, I cant sleep again. its 3 am and I am wide awake. I did fall asleep on the couch while dinner was cooking, for about 10 minutes and once I woke up-that was it!

I had a very busy afternoon and something bad happened today. I was shopping and hubby calls and asks me if I can run and pay a bill for him. I said yes, just had to stop at the bank first. While in the drive thru, I used my OLD debit card by mistake, and the machine didnt discharge the card-and I didnt want to put the new one in-this has never happened to me before. My mom had the boys and Megan and Aaron had been at the store with me, but had left about an hour before me. Anyway-I went to drive around and go in the lobby and when I opened the door of the Suburban, the end of my sandal got caught where the door meets and I FELL OUT of the Suburban, backwards, cracking my upper back and head against the running board, and then my lower back and legs. My arm is hurting from trying to grasp the seat, then the door frame as I was falling. 2 men came to help me up....they didnt move me until I was ready to be moved-and I was so humiliated, that had I not been so hurt and crying anyway, I think I would have cried from the embaressment. Man, every one was staring and the bank sits right on a major busy street in Joplin. Crap. I didnt have time for this, because it was 5 pm, and I had to get into the bank, get my card issue straightened out, still withdraw money AND get across town and pay that bill. I wanted to take a pain pill ASAP-but wouldnt you know it that when I was at the store trying on clothes-that I left my water bottle in the dressing room! So, I have dry mouth now-want something to drink and need to use the restroom to wipe my face down and collect myself. They let me use the employee bathroom-hows that for service? Plus they gave me a bottle of their water....God Bless them. Anyhow-I got it all straightened out and went to pay the bill and when I went to get in AND out of the Suburban, every little movement was just literally making me moan out in pain and tears were streaming down my face-instantly....I Have not been this hurt, I dont think, in my whole life. Not sure, Maybe I have-but not in my adult life memories. Huge area swollen in the middle and lower back. Tummy hurting and underarm. Im a mess. Okay now, Im done whining about it too. I just have so much to get done this weekend that I dont have time to sit and nurse myself-I will IF I have to-but I really would rather keep my weekend plans. Will see what happens.

I am excited. I got 2 of the cutest shirts today, a couple of pair of capris, 2 bras and 2 sexy type nighties (cover my apron tho) and everything only came to $26. YAY....I even bought things that fit AND if it was too loose or baggy, I promptly put it back on the rack to be returned. I kept things I was comfortable in, but that showed that I DO have a figure under the baggy clothes.

Today, the boys and I are suppose to work in the garden, because as soon as we went to do it earlier this morning-the sky opened up and it rained like nuts! So, the garden is flooded again, because we have had rain and severe weather for 2 nights and then a couple of hours of rain this afternoon and we had more severe weather this evening. Another 2 tornados on the ground-One in Baxter Springs KS and one in Columbus KS and Baxter is just a stones throw away. We just had one Tues evening I believe-or maybe it was Weds-that was on the ground by Oronogo-which is also just around the corner. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH ALREADY!!!!! I HATE severe weather and it makes me ecspically edgy-afraid to sleep or lay down because afraid I wont be able to get to the kids if I need to-if I am sleeping or laying down. Just how I am. IF we had sirens out here, it wouldnt bother me as bad-but we dont.

They are also having Boomtown days in Joplin and a $5 button gets you in ALL weekend, and gets you on all the rides, concerts etc-they have lots of food, face painting, spray tattoos and even those charactures. (sp?) We want to have one of them done and put in the house of Mike, the boys and I.....Mike has a big race with the RC cars tomorrow, and I am going to help with serving food for a bit and then the boys and I are going to Boomtown days with my mom and maybe Megan and Aaron. Megan works most of the day though. They are having fireworks at 9:10 tomorrow night and I know the boys will really enjoy that. I cant wait. I just hope that between ice and heat that my back stops hurting, I can handle that achey feeling-but the feeling that there is an exposed nerve sticking out stinks and I fear will keep me from going anywhere~~~!!!

I am glad I am not the only one who feels the way I do about my body. I guess when I ask myself how thin do I have to get to FEEL thin, I cant answer that. I have NEVER been this close to a totally normal BMI and yet-It still is over, so I AM still overweight. Not obese anymore, just the normal over weight. I am okay with that, truly I am....When I really stop and think about it, I dont think I will, if ever, feel like I am normal, or thin enough. I guess when I saw Jan, Lana and Sugars posts (I am using them as example because I just saw them less than 2 weeks ago) anyway-when I saw all you ladies at group-you ALL look small to me. Funny huh? You are ALL tiny to me-and you guys dont see yourself like I saw you-so maybe others see me totally different than me. I just know that Mike doesnt treat me ANY different than he did when I was so huge-although we spend a lot more time together doing all sorts of stuff I couldnt do before, so we are much closer-but he has always been so supportive and loving, that I really dont pay much attention to him when he says I look good or whatever, because he said it when I was a freaking cow!

One of the things that bugs me the most is when I was bigger, was people saying "You have such a pretty face....IF....you would just lose some weight"-NOW they are saying "you look so good, but your face is too thin" Come on now-I just had the situation when I went to pay Mikes bill, where the lady looked at me and said, every time I see you, your smaller and smaller and your gonna blow away in the winds we are having now!! I said, thats funny, I am heavier right now than when I saw you last month! HAHA! YES I AM....She just kept swearing I was smaller. My scale doesnt lie........

Well, I am going to close for now and finish up tomorrow. As always, your in my thoughts and prayers...Love, Janet

Howdy Guys ~n~ Gals.... Today was a sad day for a lot of us here in Campbell....Today was the funeral for the 19 year old boy that got electicuted....I think just about every teenager in the Campbell area showed up....I took my son to get a long stem yellow rose to put on the casket but they were out of yellow so we decided on white....The lady at the flower shop fixed it up really nice for him.......But as we were getting out of the van my son handed me the rose and told me he didn't think he could handle going up to see Martine. So I took it in for him and spoke to his mom and let her know who it was from....She had me lay it where it look like Martine was holding it.......He looked so very handsom....The funeral home done a wonderful job on him..........Bubba did stay for the funeral but stayed in the back....... Finally got ahold of the pastor of my moms church today and he is letting us do the benifit car wash at the church.....We will be having it next Saturday......I sure hope it doesn't rain.....I think we will have quite a few helping out with it.....One young fellow called right then and there at the funeral home and requested off work that day to help it and the ones standing there talking to us said they would spread the word....Now I have to get around and get some posters made up to put out this week so everyone will know about it....... And one of the young men talking to us said that he had worked out a deal with someone to make him up t-shirts with Martines picture air brushed on them.....He is doing them for $8 and the boy is selling them for $12 and giving the profit to Martines mom and sisters.....So far he had over 50 sold, so hopefully he will sell even more...... Here it is 3:30am and I'm still up lol lol....And I have a family reunion tomrrow.....We actually have two....This year Joes and mine fell on the same day....So he is going to his and I am going to mine.....I just got done making his banana pudding to take.....Snuck me a lick of the bowl too lol lol lol..... I can't stay on much longer or I wont get up like I'm suppose to in the morning....But....I'd like to ask you all to pray for a situation for me.... My son has been talking about going into the service....I kinda let it go and didn't think much of it because he hadn't really done much about it.. But yesterday he came in the living room and informed me I needed to get dressed because an Army recruter was coming to talk to me and him.....My heart dropped plum to my feet.... I have such mixed emotions about this....I love our country and know we need people to stand strong for us....but they use our people for others issues and so many have died over things other than their own country.....AND HE IS MY BABY.....AND MY ONLY SON!!!  I know it would give him a chance to better himself...He is all excited talking about getting to go to college and etc..... The man didn't get to make it today cause he hit a dog half way here and it knocked a hole in his radiator and he had to be towed in....So he was suppose to come today but something came up at one of the offices and he didn't make it again......I kept telling Bubba that that might be a sign...But he thinks I'm nuts...... I don't want to discorage him from doing somthing that could benifit him or that he feels he really wants to do.....But how in the world do you survive the possibilities of what can happen with them joining the service??????? I'm not sure my nerves can take this......I want to support him with it but at the same time I want to chain him in his room and keep him right here with me!!!!! Please pray for us!!!! I firmly believe in God's will be done.....But if it's his will that Bubba go thru with this and make it into the army or which ever branch he ends up choosing....Please pray that he makes it back home to me!!!!! And pray my nerves hold up if he does have to go over and fight...... Well now I'm crying to much to even see what I am typing so I am going to go for now...... I hope you all have a wonderful Saturday... God Bless each of you.... Luv & Hugs...Tammy~ammy

Jan, The other day I asked you about the WLS convention in Branson, but did not hear back from you.  Do you have any info, I would like to get involved. Thanks, Carol

That sounds interesting...I would be curious to know about it too!

Dear Carol, Hi there, when Jan answers us-its in the next days whats happening......I saw her answer to you (LOL)  Anyway, the reason I am answering you is because she wont post to you until tomorrow.  Its the OH MO Board Reunion your speaking of.  This will be the 2nd year.  It will be in September, in West Branson at a resort and a lot of us stayed for the whole weekend or longer.  I will be posting about it soon-BUT....We are not going to start calling the resort and such for a couple of months due to an agreement we have with the lady that runs it, so we dont overwhelm her in her busy time. We get off peak rates, and they keep the pool and such open for us. Its awesome fun.  Anyway-I will be sending a post out about it-its been probably 2 months since I sent one out asking if there would be interest again this year. Keep your eyes open for it.....Thanks, Janet

Morn'in ya'll,

Had some bad storms all around us yesterday but where I'm at we didnt get anything,  I could see the dark clouds and it was so windy but it all stayed away, thank goodness.  Had a pretty productive day of sorting through things, now to get to some serious packing, time seems to be going faster then I realized, next week we drive up to Jans to get the  FIL settled and spend some time helping on the rental house, after that just a couple weeks and we'll be moving, yikes lol. Things are really starting to come together. 

Jan sounds like you had a busy day no wonder you cant seem to stay awake past 8pm and then ya fall asleep making your posts lol  I know there's still alot to do on the house but I know once its all done it'll look great.  Susan is already getting idea's to decorate and stuff,  she cant wait to go to lil shops and garage sales and stuff, ya be surprised the things ya can find and fix up like new for near nothing, she is so excited.

The word has spread at church that we are leaving, I can already see the tears are gonna flow  lol  that church has been our second family for the last 5 years and its gonna be hard to leave but we know without a doubt that God has something great for us when we move.  

Well I better end this and get some things done,  I need to go check on getting tires for the front of the car, one is bad and I dont want to travel on the ones we have. Have a blessed day everyone.

Andrew

Good Evening Everyone The Clothing Exchange was great we had 6 people come and had a very nice chat and some great food.  We had alot of clothes but no one to fit my old clothes which are 5 and 6x---that's not exactly a bad thing lol.  Karen thanks for your help today it was a really good turn out I'm glad you're a part of the Beautiful Butterflies!!!  We had two ladies from the Eldon area who had weight loss area in 03 I believe--they found out about us through the flyers Karen made and put up.  Our next support group meeting is the 11th @ 10 am at the Osage Beach Library.  Jan my nephews are 13, 11, 10 and 8 and my niece is 4.  They are a huge handful but I love them to pieces.  Looks like they will be staying another week because their mom and step dad are moving--so I told her I'd keep them so they could move without the kids. Well they are hungry and it's past dinner---we went to the Lake to swim after the meeting today so I put a roast in the crock pot this morning so I need to get dinner on the table.  Have a great evening everyone!! ~Angie!

Thanks Angie  I am glad you are a part I am so glad we met  and became friends this is so great meeting all these new people , didn't we have a good time it just all fall right in place don't it .   I met another lady tonight that said her daughterinlaw had wls and she wore the size clothes that i had left so i give them to her and she said she will tell her about suport grcoup meeting and she is sure she will want to come. I enjoy them so much I know they help me . Karen THANK YOU ANGIE For being there.