Monday Monday Monday! What's NEW?

Good Morning OFF!  HA!  it is 1204 am in NW Ohio and I get to start the thread! So as you all noted, I have been MIA for a while.  Yeah, ok, it's been a long while.  Like many I've had my ups and downs in the past month.  So here is what's new with me: 1. I'm broke, 2. I decided at the age of 57 that maybe I should go back to school and get my degree (BSN) but have no clue how to pay for it. 3. Foster dog Tink got adopted, foster dog Kiera terrifies Angus. 4. Parents have finally decided to downsize and leave the wonderful place they built 30+ years ago in the country and are actually moving to a house around the corner from me in town! 5. Son, Matt is doing well.  6. I am looking for a room-mate/renter to help meet expenses.  7. Work is going well at least. Going to get busier as we look for new clinical system. 8. Have gained probably 30-35# back...Up to size 14 now still feel pretty good most days.  Of course have aches an pains but heck, I am 57!  9. Sleep apnea giving me some issues, back on c-pap and take ritalin.  and finally, 10, I cannot think of anything else!  
So there is that, now, whats new with all of you?

Hello, Debbie and the rest of the gang!

Debbie...soo good to see you again! Ive had my struggles too but I've forced myself to get back here..this place is my lifeline!  I've also gained 25-30 pounds but it's well on it's way because I've been working so hard at it.  Even went to a wedding on Saturday and ate all the proper things (didmt even drink the champagne...jus****er all day)..except that I did have one teeny tiny pastry..just the one so I felt good about that and that way, I didn't feel deprived at all. In fact, the dress I'd planned all summer to wear was actually a bit big...long mauve dress with tiny white flower print, sleeveless with a collar... and over that, a white crocheted lace short-sleeved jacket.

It was an outdoor wedding and reception at my friend, Rosemary's house (her son was the groom)...a HUGE storm just moments before and then we all sat outside with NO shade as the sun came out and toasted us..it was HOT and HUMID!  The reception was in a huge tent affair and at dusk, out came the mosquitoes.  And then outdoor outhouses!!!... *shudders*..so I drank alot of water and calculated how many I could "hold" before having to say it's time to go home...lol..fortunately we live about five miles away.  After eight hours there, I was glad to leave...let the young ones dance the night away..I was toasted..literally! I'd carefully brought along a small bottle of citronella essential oil to repel the mosquitoes but there were a number of perverted ones that snuck UNDER my dress...sheesh! and all over my poor swollen lymphodemic feet..they still itch!

Sunday was spent studying...really heavy reading...working on my certification.  I've got my over 200 hours of study in...just need to finish a few books. 

Today, Monday, we drive up to Toronto to see my WLS surgeon and I will get weighed in...of course I'm nervous but I refuse to postpone my appointment anymore...I have got to be accountable..as much as it hurts....and I've still got 250 pages yet to read in "The Divided Mind" by Dr John Sarno and hopefully I can study while JB is driving.

From there, we will head home and stop somewhere for an early supper...Red Lobster is one of our favourites so I can eat properly on shrimp..yum!  I have to be back to Niagara for my "LifePath Group" meeting at 7 pm in Niagara Falls.

Happy Monday to you all!

Nancy B

nancy...you have been in and out but haven't told us what your certification is for??????

Hello again, Margo!

I just got up because I've been lying on bed unable to sleep  and I have to be up by 8 am so we can leave at 9 am to drive to Toronto and the mosquito bites that I got at the wedding on Saturday are driving me crazy with ITCHIES!!  Naturally I don't have any Benedryl in the house and nothing else seems to work...eeeeeee!!

My certification will be as a Metaphysical Counsellor and Consultant.

um ok-i'll look that up!!! i know it has been a wondrous journey for you since you left the chickens!!!! please try to post more often!! sorry for the itches--hugs!!!!!!!!

Nancy and anyone else ....itchies from bites of any insect  one dab of Tea Tree Oil will stop it ...and no man made drug used......also if you get a tick on you , dab some tea tree oil on him and he will start backing out , guess they dont like the stuff ....and after you get him out put a little more on the bite and it wont swell or itch at all. or rather it works for me and im super super allergic to all sorts of bites. .and itches....

tomorrow we have an appraiser comeing to appraise the house , we want to see what it is worth and then we are going to either refinance it to get the payments way down. also this way we will have it done too in the even we want to sell it if the market ever comes back up .....

Margo i have been praying for you all to get an offer on your house. i hope it happens soon so you can get that off your mind. do you have plans if they wanted imediate possesion? 

Good to see some of the older posters on here lately. i hope they keep coming back. i have missed them.

put up 4 bags of okra in the freezer yesterday. have winter squash ready to store too.
almost the end of the tomato season.the plants are loaded with green tomatoes but not ripening im thinking i may pick some of them and slice them then flash freeze them to have fried green tomatoes for family that loves them ....does any one have a green tomato relish that i could make? someone told me of one either here or on the Mo board ...it really sounded good.

all my flower beds are back up to speed and cleaned out , we have been having the most beautiful weather , no humidity and in the low 80s. very very unusual for the Ozarks in August.
dont know why? of course we may have August weather in December lol ....dont know if it means an early winter or a mild one. guess i will have to wait and see because here in the Ozarks with all the mountains and rivers and lakes it is really hard to guess ....one of our weather men that said he had worked all sorts of places said that this area was the hardest he had ever had it to predict the weather ....

well got to get busy and pick up the place and get some coffee down and then my protein drink...see you.

Hi Nancy!

Metaphysical Counsellor and Consultant sounds just like you!!  Good luck on the studies and try an oatmeal bath on the itchies. 

Also, try dabbing with white vinegar - the vinegar seems to take the sting out [or did for my girls when they were little!]

Good morning all.  A good weekend.  Nice easy night at work right now.  All is right in the world.


The Rangers finally won.  Gotta press on.

Had my first of 5 fantasy football drafts tonight.  I guess 5 leagues will be enough for me.

Doing pretty good in my primary fantasy baseball league.

Good morning Debbie and OFF family.  It is 1:00 AM here in rainy, storming NW North Dakota.  There was a tornado warning but it has expired and now there is very loud thunder, dangerous lightning and alot of wind.  That is probably why I woke up and cannot get back to sleep.  We have had such odd weather all summer and actually very few hot days.  The rain is pounding the windows now and I think it sounds like hail pelting the roof instead of just hard rain.  I am doing just fine.  I have lost a total of 114 pounds since November, 2008 and hope things go as smoothly in the future as they have these past 9 1/2 months.  I know I have to be careful and to really watch my P's and Q's or I could easily get back into my old eating habits but for now I have no desire for sweets, fats  or breads.  I pray each day that this doesn't change. 
I hope everyone's weekend was good and that Monday brings them peace, love and prosperity.

Hugs,
Sandy

good morning debbie and OFF!
it is sooooooooo good to see you posting again-and those of us who know ya love ya warts and all so stick around...debbie i am sorry to hear of the money woes at your house-excited about your schooling!! and i would think the prospect of mom and dad being closer would be good??!! i know thru fb that you are staying busy and still with PPI--i hope those issues have resolved-i know there were some?life is good even if the purse is empty and you are a very good,very talented  person so hangin here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and to see nancy posting!yippee!!!! i think this is a reunion right here!!!

well- i had a rough nite and dunno why--went to bed at 10 cuz i had to get up at 430-tired tho not really-anyhow- woke at about 12:45 to find michael not in bed- and got up at 1:15 to have a small bowl of cereal thinking it would help to put me back to sleep-then awake at 4 again--what is this about????now i am getting the yawnies at 530...gonna be a loooonnnng day....

because i am taking the friday off before labor day-and missing hours on 3 occassions between now and then; my boss is allowing me to make up hours-so! that means 6:30 -3 everyday that i can and a few shorter ones--ughhh ---however-i am so grateful that he allows this- gives me a full paycheck and it gets the work done! i am making progress- almost done with 1938 and i soooo much want to get into 1941 before i leave in october- there is NOTHING in that particular database and it's just a challenge i have put for myself to enter something there!!!!! the databases are by decades- i started out in the 1890's i think so--it's just a game for me -but it gives me a goal....we'll see where i get!

i posted the pic of the grands and me yesterday- we had an interesting day-the kids don't really know me- so it was tense for a few minutes- aidan is afraid of the birds-his mother's fear did that to him- alaina loved them! the dogs were in the bedroom for much of the visit because roxie is wild and alaina is little!she adored brody when he laid on the living room floor!we spent some good time together but those kids will never really know me-or i them....

michael rolled the riding lawn mower over on himself and we didn't even know it yesterday-he seems alright but the mower flooded (carb) and is sitting in the backyard like a dead dinosaur! and he wonders why i worry about him??????

then he spent hours on the computer in worker's comp land and is determined that our lawyers are not doing their job-should be very interesting on weds when we meet with the head guy! i really wish he would understand we ARE getting a good representation....his injury was/is serious to us and changed our lives tremendously in horrible ways, however he is alive and able to walk and talk and etc-and it is not so serious as many that you read about --sorry--soap box was creeping out here.....
i really cannot be strong for both of us all of the time and he gets to be unbearable sometimes when these issues come up--

i've had my 2 eggs and coffee and need to get dressed soon- not really looking forward to this week--and so much to do at home that isn't getting done--i can visualize it but can't seem  to do it!

56 days...............
hugs and prayers...................