ROLL CALL! Fun Questions =)

I can't believe I forgot to mention NASCAR!!!!! I like Dale jr, Kevin Harvick and Tony Stewart!!!! (having withdrawls I guess...Is it February yet???)

Name: PATRICIA Location: NEW JERSEY Occupation: RETIRED DENTAL HYGIENIST Single, Married, In a relationship: HAPPILY MARRIED FOR ALMOST 23 YEARS Number and Ages of Kids: DAUGHTER 22 IN JAN. (ENGAGED) SON 20 Do you have any pets: LAB/GERMAN POINTER MIX "ROXIE" ALMOST 11 YRS. OLD Surgery Date: OCTOBER 18 Type of Surgery: LAP RNY Something fun about you: I HAVE A GOOD SENSE OF HUMOR Favorite thing to eat: CHEESE Favorite thing to drink: HALF CRANBERRY JUICE HALF WATER W/ A LIME Favorite snack: CHEESE Favorite Protein(includes protein drinks): ALL FROM FOOD Favorite Workout: YUCK... I DON'T LIKE ANY, BUT I WALK Hobbies: POTTERY, BEADWORK Vitamins, Supplements, RX that you take: NEXIUM, B1, B12, CALCIUM, 2 PRENATALS, IRON, FOLIC ACID, COLACE, LIPATOR, LEXIPRO Favorite Resturant & food to eat there: CHINESE/JAPANESE CHICKEN TERIAKI Motto you try to live by: DO UNTO OTHERS... Favorite Saying: DON'T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF Do you like to cook: MY HUSBAND SAYS THAT WHEN WE REDECORATED THE HOUSE I CARPETED THE STOVE, SO WHAT DO YOU THINK? How old are you: UGH... I'LL BE 49 IN FEBRUARY How tall are you: 5'9" Start Weight: HIGHEST 300... CONSULT 296.5... SURGERY 284 Goal Weight: 170 Why did you decide to have WLS: TOO MANY COMORBIDITIES... AND NEVER FELT GOOD List 5 things you want to do when you get thinner: BUY CLOTHES ANYWHERE... BUY RINGS, BRACELETS, NECLACES AND WATCHES WITHOUT HAVING TO ORDER SPECIAL LARGER SIZES OR EXTRA LINKS... PLAY GOLF... FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH MY APPEARANCE... WANT TO GO OUT MORE, INSTEAD OF WANTING TO HIDE AT HOME. If offered would you participate in a monthly card exchange just here on the October Board? SURE, I GUESS I WOULD, BUT I AM SUCH A PROCRASTINATOR, I HOPE I WON'T GET KICKED OUT!

Name: Deanne Location: Bondurant, IA Occupation: Accounting Clerk in Home Builders Office Single, Married, In a relationship: Married for 9 years Number and Ages of Kids: 2 boys ages 5 and 4 years old Do you have any pets: 3 dogs Surgery Date: 10-02-06 Type of Surgery: RYN Lap Something fun about you: I love to arrange flowers Favorite thing to eat: Nothing right now...everything tastes blah Favorite thing to drink: Water...Crystal Light Favorite snack: what snack...before it would of been granola bars Favorite Protein(includes protein drinks): Unjury Chocolate in warm water Favorite Workout: treadmill Hobbies: crafts, cross stitching, flower arranging, ect Vitamins, Supplements, RX that you take: 3 calcium chews, 2 bugs bunny chewables, 1 iron, fiber daily, prevacid Favorite Resturant & food to eat there: Applebee's chicken wrap Motto you try to live by: Do not worry about things that you can not change. Favorite Saying: Do you like to cook: Yes things that I want to cook. How old are you: 34 How tall are you: 5 ft 4 inches tall Start Weight: 264 Goal Weight: 135 Why did you decide to have WLS: To improve my health, to live a normal life, for hubby and my boys. List 5 things you want to do when you get thinner: jog, work all day and not feel like I have to sit down every few minutes, go on rides without the fear if I will fit or not, fit into clothes that come off any rack in a store, walk the dogs until they get tired If offered would you participate in a monthly card exchange just here on the October Board? Of course I have already sent my info to Felica.

Nice, Felicia! Name: Lisa Location: Philadephia, PA Occupation: Not yet published writer, currently between day jobs Single, Married, In a relationship: happily single Number and Ages of Kids: very happily child-free Do you have any pets: can't in my apartment, but have had dogs before...now...have teddy bears Surgery Date: 10/31/06 Type of Surgery: RnY, laproscopic Something fun about you: I love to explore new things and places...and I have a mile-wide silly streak Favorite thing to eat: whatever happens to stay down today (sigh) Favorite thing to drink: Ditto! (usually ice water or unsweetened ice tea) Favorite snack: double ditto Favorite Protein(includes protein drinks): South Beach low carb protein bars are not bad Favorite Workout: anything in water Hobbies: writing, travel, SCA, old movies, reading, activism, cooking... Vitamins, Supplements, RX that you take: seems like millions Favorite Resturant & food to eat there: so far, soup in any restaurant is the thing I handle best, but it's only been 6 1/2 weeks Motto you try to live by: I am a Daughter of the Goddess. I am in Her and She is in Me. Favorite Saying: "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." (Mark Twain) Do you like to cook: Love to cook How old are you: 45 (for seven more weeks anyhow) How tall are you: 5' Start Weight: 300 Goal Weight: I have been afraid to set a goal! Too many past disappontments, I guess. I'd like to be comfortably between 120 and 125. Why did you decide to have WLS: To beat the living **** out of diabetes! List 5 things you want to do when you get thinner: Just five??? - ride a bicycle again - dance all night - fly without embarrassment - learn fencing - do a charity walk for diabetes while wearing a t-shirt with my brother's name on it, in his honor