WHATS HAPPENING SATURDAY
Well Susan and Andrew and myself painted and painted and painted some more. Susan painted low, Andrew up high and I was on the step ladder doing all the cutting in. We got one bedroom , the hall and the kitchen , all three have the primer and two coats of paint. Now that isnt the ceilings. I will get those next week , Joe worked on the bathroom and got all the green board up on all the walls. He will get the tub surround in tomorrow. Then we can tape and mud and paint and put up the medicine cabinet and lights. The kitchen we will start putting up the cabinets hopefull Monday. We will have to find someone that will help Joe hold them up and help him get them level. I cant do that at all and I know it. I may call my brother and have him come and help him put them in. I know he would feel more comfortable having someone that is an expert helping him .
When we get the cabinets up on the walls then we will have the living room ready to do..
Like told them I sure hope we can have most of it done when they come back on the 29th. That give us 2 weeks to get done and this is the easier part , the prettying up part. It is that darn demolition that takes for ever.
Oh you all should see my back yard. I have about 200 different color lilys all in bloom the color of all of it just about blinds you lol
Did you all get much rain yesterday. We didn’t get any until about 4 or later , it rained hard when it started but we didn’t get it all day , Springfield looks like they were about washed away…It was dark here all day like it was going to rain but didn’t until later.
Wow some of you girls , Janet and Nutti the amount of weight you have lost would make a couple of overweight people wouldn’t it? I am so proud of you that you have lost like that. I know you have to be proud of yourself when you really think about it. Sorry Angie didn’t mean to leave you and Bev ,Tammy-Ammy too. I know there are others in that category please forgive me if I didn’t give you your recognition it is not intended.
SUGAR:::: did it rain there in Clever hard like they said it did in
It must sit low like a car that is weird. What kind is it?
ANGIE::::hope your day today will be better than yesterday was. So sorry to hear about your cousin. That is sad.
Im sure now that the kiddos have all gone home that you can let a big sigh now and do your normal stuff again. LOL.
Take it easy sure wish you could come down to our support meeting next Monday the 23rd you would love it. I know you all have a great meeting too or you will have eventurally , don’t worry . It will grow.
BECKY::::: GOOD MORNING SWEET PEA!!! Thought I would say it to you lol . You make everyone feel so special and loved thought I would retur n the favor.
Oh poor Tito. He is such a tiny little timid thing anyway. I can understand him being afraid of the noisy but now you tell me why our dog is the same way and he weights 100 or more , a big dog and he will get so upset that he just pants and walks and whines.
LOL yep that is me im always getting my wires crossed. Silly me , right, I knew that just forgot…
Lol I can just see you chomping at the bits to be able to put your furniture in there and waiting for the carpet guy to move out of your way.
I know what you mean about making all your trips in one day. And with us it takes most of the day for sure. We even usually wind up having lunch and it is planed.to me in there too. Same with me when I go to have hair done. Which I need to call and make an appointment again. it is really growing lately faster than usual.
JANET:::::how much rain did you all get ? you need to get you a good rain guage and keep track of it so you can see how much you really do get. Sounds like maybe a foot a month lol .
Yes I can feel your slight disappointment about the baby. I think there is something about the idea of the birth of a baby that just makes us smile and if we loved our own babies it makes it so much more fun to think about being a grandma.
But they have so much that hopefully Megan will get her education first. What is it she is studing to be ? It is so hard for them to finish after they have a baby to take care of too.
Im so glad that your meeting with Steph was good. And I hope and pray that you and she will be able to have a good relationship one day. So she is doing some of her summer classes? That sounded like a wonderful answer she gave Jon about the house being quieter with out her there. It is a lot calmer isnt it?
Sounds like that is what Spencer needs ,what your son in law wants to give him…maybe even run out of town ….
I like the taco fixings too , usually will take a half taco and use it like a scooper lol
I fixed shrimp and salad for Andrew and Susan tonight. It was really good. Shrimp I can eat lol
Hey I think you are very wise to want the TT before the back surgery. The excess skin would and could pull on your bad back , all of that might really make you feel better than you have for a long time.
Oh I know Mike will just love his pancakes and eggs. Lol that sounds so cute. ,pictures would be nice from you too.
Glad that you are feeling better , sometimes you have to scare people to get them to go to the doctor
Why are they thinking about
Hope each and everyone of you have a great Week end ,
Mine will be spent working on the rental im sure.
Talk to you all tomorrow.
Love one and all
GOD BLESS
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sounds like younes are really getting the house done ....lots of work.... ive been taking it easy last few days head has been going at it again but i finally got me a appt yest made for monday so they will do the texting to see if anything is wrong with the implant... tried to get into the prosecuting attorneys so i could ***** but didnt get too...but did find out the arrested the P.O.S. again for a hot check so IF lucky he wont get bonded out this time but the way my luck has been running im not gonna hold my breath.... we got LOTS of rain friday, and now my garden looks so beautiful everybody is impressed and how good ive done with it but its the 1st time ive felt this good in yrs and been able to work at it...a 106 lbs make a BIG difference in how u feel....
Now my dog does just the opposite he runs and hide under the bed or couch and wont come out for nothing lol
JAnet it was so GREAT to talk to you...so did she get the results from blood work yet? and im glad ur able to at least talk to Steph....me and my daughter was just like younes and she moved out to her dads when i grounded her at 15 and to this day we can have a civil conversation as long as its to HER liking...
i was wondering when we reach our goal and if we are still losing how do we get our body to stop losing???? i havent had any stalls ive kept losing at a slow pace so far the whole 7 1/2 months...was just wondering if anybody knew...
I too am gonna have to find me another car...when i had it worked on 2 weeks ago he charged me 150 for parts and a friend looked last nite and said it wasnt new parts 
. well he is supposed to fix my axle but i dont hink i will let him now...so if any 1 has a good used cheaper car or truck let me know...
time for another protein coffee drink....hmmmm love em
hope evry 1 has a GREAT weekend
love and hugs
Good Morning Jan and OH Peeps~
Well, it looks like it may be the start of a beautiful day out there today.... Sure hope so. We are painting the pool today! Pool paint is really expensive (to me anyway) its $26 a gallon and we need 2. We werent going to paint it, but there are so many areas that the paint has chipped and its divited (or dented, whatever you want to call it) just enough that when we put the vaccum in it, it doesnt always get into those areas and get them clean-so then we spend a ton of money on chemicals~ So, it will be a lot cheaper just doing it this way hopefully. We had 2 feet of water in the pool! 2 feet-so that rain was BAD....Mikes moms rain gauge said 4 inches.... This was the worst flooding I have seen out here-it was standing in the yard and all the way up on our porch! Its gotten bad out here-but never where it came up AND stayed up on the porch. I bet our bridge at Shoal Creek and the campgrounds are under water again. The campground owner isnt opening for the summer season this year-they had too much flooding and damage prior to this-
So yesterday since we couldnt be outside or go anywhere-I decided to go through both boys dressers and clean out anything that didnt fit-and then go through my stuff. Wow-I only have 1/3 of my stuff left. There is that small part of me that still hangs on to stuff thats too big cause I am used to "needing" them-anyway-when I got done with Jons clothes, I kept thinking I needed to hit some garage sales for some summer clothes that fit cause he was running real slim on shorts. When I got to Darrels clothes, he had a whole trash bag of the sz Jon is in now-and they fit!! Wooo hoooo....so glad I saved that stuff, and that I didnt "see" that bag hiding in the closet, or I may have sold them at my own sale....so-Jon is taken care of now-and really cute stuff too. Anyway, we went through the dressers-and then Darrel emptied his old dresser, cause its so old and it was breaking and I was so afraid one day it would just topple over on top of him-so I gave them the tall dresser to my bedroom suite-and then moved in my daughters make up set-the little table with the cute mirror. Megan had let Steph use it until they get moved and have room for it-so I moved it in my room for now... Looks nice in there. Anyway-I have a TON of stuff for my mom and Megan to look through and whatever wont fit them or they dont like-is getting marked for my sale and/or the flea market booth. I have a pile of stuff for Tammy-ammy. Real cute stuff and I know even if I dont see her next month, will send a small pkg in the mail for her.
Guess I shouldnt have said too soon that we didnt have any lizards right now-cause guess what was sitting in the bug netted container ON my computer desk when I came in here this morning? Yep-a baby lizard or a salamander. Not sure which it is-dont really care-its gross....Its small enough that I actually moved the container and put it up on top of the tower and when I talked to Mike he told me to look in there- I about crapped my pants because the side door slides side to side and it wasnt air tight-that THING may have gotten out if he hadnt asked me if I had seen it. He said it was down in the pool, so Im inclined to think its a salamander, but hard telling. Not sure what the heck we will feed this one.
Here in just a bit, the boys and I are going to go in town and do the Fathers Day shopping we didnt do yesterday and then I am going to help my parents out in the office today since they had to fire the assistant manager. What a dope. His wife came in last night and started harrasing the help and then my mom. My dad had to finally go down to his apartment and tell him that he would be immediately evicted IF him OR his visitors contacted/harassed any of the help or his wife. That stopped it. I swear, they just cant get good help-and when they do-they dont stay long...just long enough for you to get comfortable with! This time they are putting an ad in the paper and we are going to interview prospects all together. Gonna start the interview questionaire tonite and get ready.
**Jan-Megan is studying to be a psychiatric nurse. I think she has 2 years left? She started out to be a teacher and then changed her major. Teachers just seem to have more and more problems with kids-and unless you are at a po-dunk town, the instances are getting more and more-and she just didnt want to deal with it-she doesnt do well with smart alecy kids anyway. She was really thinking about being a bariatric nurse-its hard to keep up with how many times she has changed her mind-anyway, If she did/does end up being pregnant and they stay living around here, I would help out, in a heartbeat. I too, hope that she gets her education out of the way first-its hard to have kids and go to school-ecspically babies. Mine were older when I went back to college and it was still hard!
I wish I could eat any shrimp. I cant eat it boiled-but I can eat the coconut jumbo ones at Red Lobster. Just one, but its so good-but crunchy too. Maybe thats the difference, dont know. Have tried it 3-4 times since surgery and when just boiled, too chewy and I cant.
Sounds like your working, working, working!! What are you gonna do when the house is done? Joe will probably collapse and wont be able to move for a week-huh? When your done-do you 4 wanna come paint the inside of my house? It needs it bad-and is on my "to do" list in the next couple of weeks after I am done with all the spring cleaning and organizing.
Have a good weekend. Say hi to the gang for me.
**Bec-wow, what a loaded post this morning. Havent seen the movie yet. Anyway-Joy to me....is knowing the Lord and trying to live the way he would want me to live-joy are my children, their smiles, their accomplishments, and knowing that I was entrusted with 4 of the most beautiful human beings I have ever seen! Its the little wildflowers the kids pick and bring me just out of the blue-its the macaroni necklace they all make in preschool or k, its every day I wake up and thank the Lord for another day with my awesome, beautiful family. Its finding my soul-mate (when I was huge, no less) and wondering what I did in my life to deserve to ever be this happy-and knowing I must have done something right for God to reward me with finding AND marrying my soul mate and one true love of a lifetime. Its the simple things, like watching our garden and flowers grow, holding our kittens, petting our pups, its every birthday the kids have and the excitement when they open their presents. Its going on our fishing trips-its everything that revolves around those I live with and love with all of my heart. I also take great joy in being an angel to pre-ops. Its going to the group and seeing my extended family I love so much. I love it when one of my angelettes calls me with their first WOW moment and then the ones that follow-it wells my heart up-and lets me remember always where I came from too-and the excitement I feel for them, makes me cry, as it did when it was me! Its seeing a smile on someones face when you suprise them with something special. Its helping out a stranger in the face of a disaster-with something as simple as clothes or water. Wow-I guess I could go on forever-but I wont-LOL....I have a LOT of joy in my life-and a lot of happiness and I love that the Lord feels I am worthy to have joy and love in my life-all around me. I feel very blessed.
As for you, beautiful lady-you DO bring joy to so many, in thoughtful, loving things that you do....I KNOW the Lord is not finished with you yet-Your too much of an inspiration to so many-and a wonderful witness to the Lord and what he has done in your life as well. Dont sell yourself short! Love you.
**Sheila-I may have that relationship with my Steph like you do with yours, still. She is a wonderful girl-but definitely ALWAYS wants it HER WAY or NO WAY....Will see. Im not holding my breath that we will ever be as close as Megan and I-but I welcome it if it happens.
Please let us know what happens on Monday-or have one of your friends or family text me and let me know and I will post for you. Is it just a test or a procedure? Will they try and fix anything Monday?
I think its wonderful you have never stalled-because that is so frustrating, thats for sure!!!! Your lucky. I think your body will know when to stop, or at least thats what I have heard. I am losing WAY slow now-but I am still losing. Im not far from my last goal-and thats to be in "normal" range in the BMI....Im like 2 points away and thats just a couple of pounds. WOO HOO...I can do it, I can do it, I can do it....Then the tummy tuck and perky "girls" and there will be no stopping me!! Will have to go out and celebrate-wanna join me? LOL....Take care and hope you have a good weekend and I will keep my eyes open for you and a car.
Well, I am going to get off here. I hope everyone has a good weekend. As always, your in my thoughts and prayers. Janet
Morning All...Sorry I didn't post yesterday, was at the doc's all day. 
I had an appt. w/ my surgeon yesterday but like I told her, she had her baby Thursday night and didn't make it yesterday but they still had me come in because my incision is still draining. The antibiotics she had me on didn't work but they did give me one heck of a yeast infection that Monistat wouldn't even begin to help. 
They gave me a script for that and one for some ointment to put on the neck incision. They think it's not healing because of me being diabetic...it keeps trying to heal from the inside out when it's supposed to be the other way around.
On my way home from that doc I decided 
to call my primary doc to see about getting in because of some other issues I was having with my back and feeling like I have the flu, including a week long headache. I got in...my b/p was way up, I had a fever, I'm developing an itchy rash on my legs and neck and I have had diarrhea about 90% of the time since my RAI (radio iodine treatment). 
He gave me a shot of Toradol for my back, renewed my Vicodin and is running some bloodwork. He said the other doc has the rest covered....lol
I'm happy to say that today I am doing better...the headache is gone, so far the b/p is back down, no fever, the infection is better, the rash hasn't spread any farther and I haven't almost crapped myself today. 
As a matter of fact, I got up early and went to Walmart to get a few things I needed. I went to the garden center...I always do! They had a bunch of stuff on clearance and I wanted to go crazy...I did, but just a little!....lol
JAN...sounds like you guys are almost ready for Andrew and Susan. I think that is great...think of the support you guys can be for each other!
I can just picture all our flowers in bloom, I bet it's beautiful!! I have all the remodeling ideas but the body just won't let me do it. You guys are working hard down there. I sure hope you take a little vacation time when your done.
JANET...you nut!! You have me laughing and crying at the same time! Like my body isn't screwed up enough right now!.....lol
I laughed sooo hard when you talked about wanting to shoot the cow! It reminds me of awhile back, we had neighbors that had cattle and some of the cattle would knock down the fence and come over to our property. I was so afraid of them (teenage trauma that I caused) that I wouldn't go outside when they were over here, especially the bulls!
One day I had a BIG black angus bull in my yard and I couldn't get it to leave. It was around my dogs, veggie garden, even hanging out at my back door...eating everything in sight!
I called David at work to see what I should do! He told me to step out there, throw my arms up and down over my head and start yelling at it and it would run away, yeah right!! That thing just stood there, turned it's head sidways and looked at me like I was nuts....he made me run! Back inside the safety of my house I called David again...all he could do is laugh! By then, I was getting a little peeved! Once he regained his composure...he told me to get my bebe gun, load it and proceed to shoot the bull in the privates! 
My first thoughts and yes they were outloud were, what if I kill him? More laughing from the loving hubby! 
Okay, well now the bull has scared me enough that I'm not going back out but I could take a window screen out (note to Mike, no damage to house...lol) and do what I felt I needed to do to get my yard back.
Okay, bebe gun in hand, loaded and pumped to the max, aim, shoot...score!! That thing jumped and kicked like a mule!.....lol Thing is, he only moved a few feet!
Before it was over, I had removed three window screens to get a better aim at the thing before I got him out of my yard.....so I totally understand the cow shooting thing!
As for the teenage trauma...I use to ride dirt bikes with my brothers. One bright, sunny day, I decided to go off trail by myself......gotta do a little exploring at 14 years old don't ya know!
Now you have to understand that this was in southern Calfiornia were I was born and raised and had hardly ever even seen a cow much less had any dealings with one! I came across this old barn and in the area around the barn was a fence and there was an opening in that fence and inside that fence was a little calf! I decided to go inside said fence and proceeded to ride around the baby, checking it out and thought that it was funny and cute how it would jump around and hollar. That was until Momma came out of the barn, at a full run, directly towards me! Needless to say that when I spotted Momma, me and that bike were at a full run for the hole in the fence! I made it out and I never went back! I bet my blood pressure was up that day!!....lol Memories!!
As for satan, we just keep shoving him down in his hole and praising the Lord, He who is in charge of everything!
As for the re-vowing...I will let you know as we know! Thanks for caring!
No, poor Mike wouldn't know what to do if the two of us got to live close to one another. The again, David is as ornery as I and he would probably get Mike going and then we would have our hands full!....lol
Well, I got to run...look for the dress up pics. of me and Miss Emilie...I will get them posted asap!! Love u, Deb M
Debbie Loved thos photos of you and grandbaby playing dressup. I love to do that with my 3 yr old Pixie.it looks as though you made some wonderful memories!
just got a call to go pick up Miss Pixie so ill be getting off
I hope yall enjoy this gorgeous day!
nutti
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I cant wait till the actual moving day!! I know it will be here before I know it !!! I am hoping to move the last week in June, be settled by the 2nd week in July. My scope is rescehuled for July 9th My bday
I am excited because that puts me that much closer to the surgery!!! We found a townhouse that is 3 bdrm with 2 bath !!! I cant wait! It is a nice size place with pretty much No yard which sucks for the kids, but it is in a nice neighborhood and it spacious. It will be fine. Jazlyn says as long as she can plant her flowers she doesnt mind.
She is only 6, but spends lots of time with my mom helping her plant :D So, today we will see just how much we actually have to get rid of and clean out of the apt. Most of the apt is done already This should be a relatively easy move, as I am hiring 2 guys to move us. I just dont have the energy to move big stuff and since i live on the 2nd floor I just cant make those stairs like that. I hope everyone has a great weekend!! ~Lori 
Bec....Hummmm we might be kin lol lol....I have put off my house for sevearl months now...Well other than normal things that need to be done daily or so...But my house is in dire need of spring cleaning!!! But I keep putting it off too get in the pool....work in the yard....you name it, it sounds more fun than spring cleaning lol lol.....You go ahead and get yours done then you can come do mine heheheheheheee..
Deb...I loved your Bull story....Sounds like you needed one of those air horn things that sound off that loud sharp frog sound lol lol... I bet you keep your husband rolling on the floor...lol lol
Nutti....Girl I am sooo proud of you...Your doing so great with your weight loss and accomplishments from loosing the weight!! Love to see ya again....I haven't seen anyone in soooooooo long.....The last COF meeting I was at was the one in OCT of 07...Had hoped to get a group together to come to one this summer but dought that will happen with 2 surgeries coming up back to back....
Lori....So glad you found you a place to move.. I don't envi you at all lol lol..I HATE MOVING!! LOL LOL....Hope things go great for ya and the move is a easy one....
Sheila....Boy do I know about getting messed around by the mechanics!!! It is terrible that people have to be like that...And no I don't think I would be taking a darn thing back to that man to work on! I might even report him to the Better Business Burea or something....
Angy....Hang in there girl....Monday will be here in no time....Make it a point to call them bright and early Mon morn...And don't feel shy about checking back in with them in a few days. Once your approved it won't be no time and you will have a date!! Im so excited for you!!!
Gosh our board is growing so much I can't keep up with everyone lollol.....
Susan, Mel, Blondie, Kadi & all you other MIA's......Where you guys at???? Drop a line and let us know how your doing...
Well got to get....House is getting full.... They decided we needed to BBQ so everyone****ting Tammys house lol lol.....I been good and setting on my butt and letting them do everything since Thurs....But I'm getten in the pool if it kills us all LMBO!!
Hope you all have a wonderful Saturday...
Luv & Hugs....Tammy~ammy
Tammy~Ammy
~~~Happiness is being Christa's Nanna~~~
Start~474lbs /Now~285 /Goal~200lbs
Surgery:06~04~07 Total~191 lbs down!
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