Thank you very much for the information. that helpe me out a lot. there is one very local for me to go to....once again thanks for the information.

 Hello my name is Elaine and i am pre op following the 1200 meal plan my question is i need to go to support group meetings and is there any around the sacramento area.  I live in the foothill farms norht highlands area. I also wil be having my surgery done at the richmond kaiser. so any advice is welcome.

Hey Jill

My sister is still here....ugh!! but she really can not aford her own place. If she made another $100 she might be able to make it on her own.. Ohhh well..

Her boy live across the street and do alot with her now and there for I do get some alone time. Like right now. Its great. They all took off and went to the beach. They will be gone all day. I have MY HOUSE to MYSELF. Its great and wonderful. LOL...But Shhhhh dont tell her I said that.

All the "fur babies" are doing great. and are kicking back with me today. We are thinking about getting one more small one. We miss having little Miss Fresser around. But are not all that sure yet.

I am still working for the county and with big time luck, changing my/our hours back to 8 hours SOON. We will find out on Tuesday. Gosh I think I might cry if we don't go back to 8hrs. I hate working 12s

Are you working still? How is that going? How is Jeff doing? Is he still working?

I think that is about it for me. Unless you want to see if Jeff would like to get a little puppy. LOL

IF you have $$$ please feel free to add to my page.  

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Wow!!!  Good luck with the marathon.  90% of me soooooo admires you all but 10% of me thinks you all are just crazy!  I cannot even run because I trip over my feet, seriously!  It isn't because ther are big either, they are only a size 7 1/2.

My oldest just got engaged last night, at Disneyland.  She is a really great girl so it is such a good thing.  It will probably be a long engagement since Dusty will be in Japan until February and then who knows where after that, hopefully back to the United States.  He has been to Iraq, was there for 9 months so he won't be going back any time soon unless all hell breaks loose.  He is an Energy/Environmental Tech in the Air Force.  I would love to have grandbabies but that's not gonna happen for a while with them a zillion miles apart.  Not sure when the wedding will be, but she has medical issues so they don't want her to move until he is back in the states for a length of time more than a year. 

My youngest is a freshman in college.  He is a braniac, and not so sure where that came from.  We do but heads a lot because of his age and we have totally different beliefs about life.  I am so liberal and he is so conservative and what I call a "Bible thumper."  No one in his dad or my family is like that so it is just weird to me how he is sooo different.  But difference makes the world go round and he is damn smart.  He's 18 and is teaching this 47 year old a lot of stuff!!  He is going to school to become a biotechnical engineer.  He works for an oncologist right now so he is getting a lot of experience just being around the office, picking up the terminology and stuff.  No girls for him yet.  A few dates, but that's it.

I haven't been around here in a long time.  How is your sis doing?  The last I remember I think she was going to get her own place. 

How are your critters?  Jeff got me a puppy a month ago because our black lab passed about four months ago at 12 years old of skin cancer.  My new guy is a white malti-poo named Flash.  He is just soooooo great.  But potty training, not so fun!  Then I still have all my cats (five right now).  Except for the youngest, they are all about the same age, about 12-13 years so it will be sad when they start croaking off. 

Things are good with me, I am going to start training with Liz, Kirsten, Gene, Cyndi and of course COACH SCOTT for the LA marathon.....Kind of scared about that, since I have not run more then two miles in 4 years. UGH!!! but I will do my best and that is all I can do.

I work tons but our hours change next month and I cant wait. 12 Hours are killers..

How are you and the boys?

Lu