Happy Thursday..

It's a little past 3:30 and I'm dead tired but still awake. My sister had oral surgery yesterday. The infection in her mouth was so bad they had to put a drain in where they removed one of the teeth (they ended up cutting 3 out). She called us crying hysterical tonight because my jerk of a brother in law let Marissa (3 year old) take a nap when my sister fell asleep from the pain pill she took for her pain at like 6 or so. Marissa woke up at 9:30 rowdy and jumping and not being very easy with her mom and my BIL went to bed because he he didn't feel good. Anyways to make a long story short my sister couldn't handle Marissa and I talked to Rich and went and picked her up. So we went to Louisville to get her and left here at 11:30 or so. I'm sooo tired. :( She's wiiide awake too. :( I wish she'd go to sleep so that I could but oh well. I sure hope they appreciate this because as much as I love them money is tight and I just spent 30 dollars today for gas to make the trip and getting food for both the nieces who I have now and stuff  :( Today was exhausting but fun too. I ended up not having to take her to the oral surgeon because a family friend who lives closer did otherwise I'd brought her home with me earlier. Rich's grandma was already in the car with me and so we headed to the Edinburgh outlet mall to just walk around since it was sooo pretty. After I got home I picked Rich up and we bought a couple cheap carry out special pizzas from Dominos to feed everyone and went and seen his aunt and took some pizza to her and his cousin because she has no running water because the pipes are messed up and her stove isn't working (it's a dump of a house but it's a long story I can't get into right now) and she has no money so we treated. 11 more days til my g-tube comes out YAY (I'm thinking positive and that it's definitely coming out). I look forward to going to The Beach water park in Ohio this summer. I'll probally go back to the wild life refuge tomorrow to try and get some good pics of the girls I've not had both them together in ages and want to get some pics for mothers day and print them or whatever. Anyways I think thats it for now I'm going to try harder to get her to sleep before she wakes Rich up and head to bed myself.

Hello all! I hope you're having a good day. I was intending to get up at 5am again and go to the Y today, but I overslept. I was really tired actually, because I went to Carmel last night for support group, and got home about 10:30pm. The driving wore me out. It was an interesting group though. I am thinking about joining TOPS here in Terre Haute to help with my last pounds. I called the number listed in the paper, and talked to a lady. It sounds like it could be interesting. And she said they do not mind if I've had surgery. I've heard some support groups look down on people who have used surgery as a tool. So that was good to know. Today I have to go to both jobs. It will make for a long day, but the good news is that pay day is tomorrow. WooHoo! That will come just in time to go see Mikey this weekend. We're supposed to be able to take him on a pass again this weekend. So that will be nice.

Good Morning, I have a chiro. appt at 8:00 and then of to work. I wasn't scheduled untill 11;00 but I am going in at 9;00 because I need the hours. I think I might feel better today. Seems like I am extremely tired and i can't sleep enough. Probably from coming off meds. I usually get about 8 hours a day but man I feel like I could sleep 12. Last couple days I have gotten 6-7.  Gail, sweetie thanks for the ecard. You are such a doll.  I love trying to typre int he morning without my glasses on. If things look weird thats why. 6 more days and counting........Getting a  little nervous.I am trying not think about it at this point now. Seems like the clock is standing still.  Have a great day Shanna

Allot of us deal with less sleep.  I awake at 5 AM no matter when I go to bed and then about once every 2 weeks I will crash during the day and take a power nap. I am getting used to less sleep and am enjoying it.  Especially since summer is coming and I can sneak in a couple mile walk before work. E

Good morning all! I got a nice surprise from my secret elf in the mail yesterday.  I didnt open it until this morning because I didnt know it came until this morning.  I had to work 15 hours at work yesterday and didnt get home until about 10:30 and went straight to bed.  My daughter said mom you got a big package in the mail. So anyway I got some lotion, candles, a little stuffed animal kitten, a magnet and some stickers.  How cute is that? Thanks again my adopted secret elf. Misty~ I am sure your sister appreciates what you are doing to help her out, even if she doesnt tell you.  Shame on your BIL for not helping his wife out more. Bet you cant wait for that g-tube to be out. I know the short time I had the drain tube after surgery was the pits. I cant imagine to have a tube hanging out of me for so long.  Shanna~ 6 more days....woohoo! It will be here before you know it.   Can someone tell me who brought the calcium to the clothing exchange for people to try?  I was wanting to look into getting some of that.  I dont even remember the name of it. Everyone have a good day

Good morning all.  The girls just got on the bus for school, and I am just sitting here relaxing a bit before I have to go to work.  Another 10 hour day of fun and excitement! LOL I was just thinking about Jacqui's post about Holiday World, and got to to wondering if anyone would be interested in having a get-together at the hotel/casino during the same time that we go to Holiday World? The casino is only about 1 hour away from there, if at the most, and I have already talked to someone in the banquet dept about hosting an event at the resort......I would just need to know the details about dates, or other things as well.  It was just a thought.  Let me know what you all think. I had a wow moment yesterday that I have to share with everyone!!!  I had to get fitted for new work uniforms AGAIN yesterday!  I have now gotten MEDIUM shirts and size 16 pants!!!  OMG!!!  I can't believe that I am wearing a medium! LOL That just blows my mind!  Another wow moment at work yesterday was this......when I worked in Metropolis at Harrah's, we had a couple of gentlemen that would come play, and their wives would just sit back and watch, and we got to know them......real nice people.  Anyway, they made a trip up to our casino here, and are staying the week.  I talked to one, who had been here a couple times before, but his brother hadn't come with him until this time.  When Bobby, the one that had never been before, came up to the dice table, and saw me.......the very first thing out of his mouth was........"Good Lord, woman, how much weight have you lost???? You look AWESOME!!!" His wife was with him, and she asked the same thing!  They couldn't get over how much I had lost, and how better I must feel!  I told him how I had done with my wls, and we talked about that.  He really wants to have it done, but his insurance won't cover it, and the doctors in Western Ky aren't that great when it comes to wls.... I am so glad that I didn't have mine done there! LOL Well, enough of me rambling on........time to get in the shower and head on to work!  Have a wonderful day.  It is going to storm here tonight, so stay safe all!

Hey everyone just wanted to stop in an say HI!!!! Congrats Shanna on your surgery!! I didn't realize that you had gotten approved I've been out of the loop for a while. Everyone take care!!! TTYAL

Good morning to all of my fellow Hoosiers Losers. I hope that you have had a great day so far.  I am here sitting for them to come back and finish my bathroom. As you all know the bathroom upstairs from me sprung a leak and the guy also doesn't shut the shower curtain all the way when he showers. They sawed a big hole in my ceiling and now I have had a huge Tornado fan going in my bathroom since yesterday morning. I am getting a headache from the noise. I am going to be so glad when it gets done. My bedroom is right across the hall from that bathroom and I had to keep the door shut in order to get any sleep. Once I got to sleep I did well. I am going to be so glad when it is done. They are suppose to do some of the drywall this morning.  I am going to go to the one grocery store this morning since I got a sale paper from them yesterday and they have 95% lean ground beef on sale and I just used my last package last week. I am so glad that it came on sale. I wait for it and then buy several packages and keep them in the freezer.  I am wanting to do some things around here today too. I was going to do something yesterday but it was so topsy turvey here with the bathroom work that nothing got done.  I better get going. I have to get my medicine and vitamins. I will check in later to see what is going on since I am nosey and want to know everything!!!!!  lol  I hope that you all have a wonderful and blessed day today. Love and hugs to all.

Good morning everyone, I haven't been outside yet but i'm thinking its not to warm today compared to all the other days cuz i had to turn my heat back up cuz i was freezing yet again lol.  Yesterday I had to drive to st v's where i work just to do some computer work that for some reason I couldnt do at home, and since I have had my surgery I only work PRN and most of the time thats a weekend here and there so I dont see everybody like I used to and I went to walk in my department and there were some girls that were like OMG I didnt even know who u were and then a nurse that I know had his head turned while walking and almost ran into me so I told him just jokingly to watch where he was going and he just looked at me and was like ok, then he goes do i know you, I just laughed and then showed him my badge cuz i haven't gotten the pic changed on it. He was like goodness you are looking good, and I didnt even know who you was.  Well I just thought I would ramble on about that for a min, cuz it always makes ya feel good to get those coments.  Misty I hope you finally get some sleep. I know how those littles ones can be. My daughter does that to me all the time, she hates sleeping at night. She would much perfer to sleep all day. She's just like me lol.  I was gonna try to get a walk in today since i wasn't able to yesterday but its not looking to promising outside today. I am just now finally not sore from my 8 mile walk on monday. I dont think I will pu**** that far again or at least not yet.  My daughter wants to make brownies today, and I promised her that we will. I really dont want to at all, cuz my will power has been really terrible lately and I dont dump (wish I did though) and I'm afraid that I will find myself sneaking in there to get little pieces of it.  I just hate telling her no, after I promised.  She is the first to remind me though that "mommy isn't suppose to eat sugar" "I'm gonna tell your doctor" lol so if she does enough of that I'm sure I will be safe. I was a stress eater before and I'm finding that I really didnt get over that i guess, cuz when i get stressed now thats my first thought to eat and drives me crazy. I try to make sure i find something to do.  So if I cant get past it I do my best to make sure its like cheese or something that is protien cuz I still dont do the best at the protien. I hate to eat meat any more. I would of never said that before surgery lol then the more meat I ate the happier I was, now it all just taste like crap.  Oh well I have rambled on here enough now, I hope everybody has a wonderful day.