####Thursday Roll Call####

Good Morning Everyone! I have been a real stranger to this board as of late! Lisa and I went to Joanne Hammond's Support Group Meeting last night in Harrington! Had a great time! Not trying to air my dirty laundry, but, I will any way. Because it adds a little more stress to the lives of my fellow workers! It just made a decision for me! Anyway, I work for a large publicly traded company (NCOG is the Nasdaq symbol). This past Monday the 19th, the Division Manager came to our local office Dover where we have about 50 people and announced that this location would be closing as of December 30th! They are relocating the jobs to a site in Maryland 2 hours away! What great timing during the holiday season! They still have 3 years left on the lease at the Dover location. It's not like they had a drop dead gotta get out date! I feel the pain and tears of my fellow workers! Oh, well, it ain't nothin' but a thing! Hey somebody please post to my roll call! Please! Kevin

Kevin, Good to hear from you. Sorry about what is going on at work. Does that mean you will have to move? Their timing sucks. Hope everyone has a good day today. I have a funeral of my really good friend today and I am a mess. My sweet eating is coming back to haunt me during this time. That is how I always delt with things like death and sickness in the past. I hope I can get it under control. It scares me. I have lost 83 pounds and I don't want this sad time in my life to let me get out of control. Take care, Ellen

Gosh, Kevin and Ellen, sorry to hear about both of your situations. They both stink. Well, I was going to post a happy, cheery message but now I feel kinda guilty. Oh well, maybe we all could use a little sunshine today so here it goes.......GOOD MORNING DELAWARE...WOOOHOOOOO!!!! I hope today will be a fantastic day for all of you!!! Only 3 days til CHRISTMAS!!! Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle all the way... That is Chloe's favorite song lately and she asks me to sing it all day long with her. I hope she will forget about it after christmas. Well, we are off to gymnastics class and then I am picking up a few gift cards that will complete my christmas shopping...yay! I thought I would have been done a long time ago, but nope, every year I am down to the last day almost. I just feel like I can't fully enjoy myself until everything is done...ya know what I mean? Robyn P.S. Hugs going out to Kevin and Ellen (((((HUGS))))) P.S.S Sorry that I didn't make it last night Joanne

Kevin, Thank you and Lisa for attending last nights meeting. I hope next month we have a bigger turn out because as I told you guys last night my physical theropist is coming to talk about the importance of exercise after surgery. She had a gastric bypass herself 2 years ago and was one of five done at Beebe Hospital. She has helped me over the last 3 months and it was so nice to work with someone who truely knew your struggles. Next months meeting will be the 3rd Thursday instead of Wednesday. Thanks to Ralph and Trish for attending too. I got all the information today on the jazzercise class and will be joining Tuesday. Since I will be having my T/T in May I really want to lose about 50 more lbs and am really going to have to work on it hard. My goal is to be well below 200lbs and a size 14. I know the ball is in my court and it is up to me what I do with it . Today was a really bad day foodwise. Cookies were calling my name everywhere I looked. I had to leave the lunch room today at work because everyone brought in so much temptation. All kinds of cookies, cakes, brownies and candy were everywhere I looked. Tonight I had to take my grandson to his Tiger Scout party and again temptation was everywhere. When will the madness end? The cookies are saying: JOANNE< JOANNE< JOANNE!!!! See you lighter Joanne