Happy Tuesday!!!

Good EARLY morning all.  I just got home from picking Jimmy up from work, so I thought I would pop on here for a minute before I crawl back in bed. Our next investment will be a scooter for him to ride back and forth to work.  Since he doesn't have his liscense yet, it is really hard, but we are managing.

He was officially made manager yesterday........that means a raise in pay and benefits!  In only one week! Thats a good sign!  Keep on praying.........it is really working!

Not much planned for me and the girls today, since Jimmy has to work.  We may just try to stay in and keep cool.  We are under a heat advisory for today, and then supposed to have strong storms on top of that.  Oh well.

Have a wonderful day all. I am going back to bed now.  Take care, and stay cool!

Well, this morning I got up at 3:00 to walk around.  Went back to the couch (need to sleep REALLY propped up) and slept til 6:00.  Fixed some breakfast for my husband and even made an egg and a slice of turkey bacon for myself.  It tasted so good!  My only problem is that I can't get a deep breath yet because it hurts so so badly!   Every now and then I catch one and oh it feels so good! 

Storms are moving through here.  Lots of hard rain.  We have it standing in the back ditch.  Almost sounded like hail earlier.   I know we could use the rain but for those who work outside it isn't very pleasant.

Well, I feel like I need to lay back down.  Blessings to all....

Glad to hear from you Lois,.. hope you're doing okay!

Lachelle.... that's great news for Jimmy! I'm really happy for you all.

I'm up at 6am. I weighed in this morning at 148lb. Getting back down, and close to that goal of 145lb. I walked the dog, and now I'm procrastinating getting ready for work, LOL. I don't really want to go in, but alas, I know I have to, I already missed yesterday this week.

Yesterday was a day! I drove up to Carmel, was supposed to meet at a place called Brunchies for lunch before my appointmnet with a lady from here, but it's closed on Mondays. I waited till about 10:40 am to see if she'd show up and we could go someplace else, but she didn't. So I found a little Roly-Poly's down the road. My appointment with Dr. Huse went fine. He says I'm doing good. I will be have be on the protonix a while, but the carafate, only 1 more month. That's nice,... taking it 4 times a day is a pain in the booty. After that I killed time. Got my hair cut, and shopped in Carmel for a while, until 3pm, when I had a follow-up appointment with the neuropsychologist who just did Mikey's evaluation. I don't know how I feel about that. They confirmed it's a developmental disability, though, and gave me some information to chew on.

Tonight, I am thinking about taking Maggie to the National Night Out. I have never been before, but it sounds like a good time. I just wonder if it will be too hot in the day still by 6pm. It's supposed to be darn hot today. So everyone stay cool!

Good Day Everyone, 

Storms woke me up. No biggie for today because I needed to get up early. Got a fill appointment with Dr Clark this morning. So here in a few I'll be leaving, dropping the fur guys off at the groomers on the way out of Crawfordsville and then head out to Indy. Gage is going with me so we can stop at Steve & Barry's and check out some bargins for him in the area of school clothes. He grew so much this summer it's unreal. Then it's back home to still deal with wedding stuff and organizing my house without it laying all over the place, hahaha. 

The wedding was awesome. I had so much fun. Matt and I smeared cake all over eachother during the cake cutting ceremony. Then as the night progressed it turned into a karaoke(sp?) event. It was so fun. I hope those of you that came enjoyed yourselves. Those of you that didn't but sent many wishes and prayers - Thank You So Much. As soon as I can I'll post wedding pictures. Right now I don't have any yet. Matt and I couldn't immediately leave for our honeymoon, as Matt had to get his full year in for his job in order to get his vacation time/pay. So we'll be leaving for our honeymoon Aug 17th returning home on the 24th. We are going to the Warren Dunes in Michigan and traveling up the coast line of Lake Michigan to Ludington staying in Light Houses along the way. I'm so excited to go. 

Anyways, blessings and well wishes to everyone for today. I hope everyone's day is well. Thank You Secret Elf for the "Thinking Of You " card. 

Love and Blessings

Jodi 

Mornin' Posse!

Well storms this morning woke me up so y'all are blessed with my post early this morning!  LOL

I prayed for my buddies up in the northern parts....hope y'all made it thru those storms last night! They were boogers! We are getting hit again this morning with some lightning and some boomers....rain included but not downpour! WHEWWWWWWW

Today is gonna be a stay at home day and be lazy.  My son was playing some basketball with his friends last night and sprained his ankle. Has to get better before back to Norfolk next Tuesday! 

The scales are FINALLY moving downward again. WHEWWWWWWW I was so in a stall. GRRRRRRRRRRRR

Thoughts, prayers, congrats and welcomes are sent out over the waves to y'all!

hugggggggggs
Janene

Good morning all!

I woke up to those thunder boomers this morning as well.  What really ticked me off was they woke me up about 1/2 hr before my alarm was set to go off.  GRRRR!
We are suppose to get more storms today, hopefully not severe.

I have been working on my living room getting it ready to paint.  I want to paint it some sort of brownish color, just not sure what shade yet.  I have burgundy carpet and my furniture is a lighter shade of green with some burgundy in it. 
As soon as I get my living room done. I am going to tackle my bedroom and my bathroom. Not sure on those colors yet either.

Well I hope everyone has a great day!

Dang gal ...your living room sounds like mine!  LOL  We just painted ours....we chose a light gray with choc. brown trim. We also painted our kitchen and now working on the bathroom....we are going with a moss green with same choc. brown trim. Our bathroom is in moose and bear. The kitchen is a light blue with white trim....I have watermelons all over the place in there...LOL

Happy painting! 

Have missed ya gal!

huggggggggs
Janene

Good Morning Everyone,
 Yawwwn- got woke up at 6;00, when lightening/thunder was rolling threw- my grandson was downstairs & said our flagpole got hit- again! I swear it is a lightening magnet. it has been hit twice before- atleast it distracts it from the house- ha! We sure needed the rain;our grass was starting to suffer- but not the weeds ,of course!

Today I am off, & have so much to do- where to start?? So here I sit talking to my buddies. I am sooooo looking forward to this weekend's campout. Now all I have to do is get the camper packed up with the necessaries, and off we go! DH is going to try to get off early so we  can get up there at a decent time. Use to we'd leave late afternoon, after he got off work, but now we are older/smarter, not !!! Too tiring and late pull ins/set ups can get pretty frustrating! Our daughters use to wait till the car stopped and scatter- they knew Mom & dad were going to be bickering over the set up and fled- geeze, what a impression we left! We all remminese (sp)about it now, & laugh! Back then, my stubbornness was in full force, as well as my weight- I pushed my way around in mopre ways than one.

Well, I gave my 2 week notice last night.The 17th will be my last day. It went well, and they aren't happy to lose me, but understand. They have seen my illness in full force lately when stressed. I just know it is best for us all. I have felt a real peace about my decision. I had such a migraine it was behind my left eye by the time I left work. I had been doing signing, and all of a sudden saw spots before my eyes. His wife, ( who is a nurse) told me "sit down, now" so I did. I hadn't taken a break ,so sitting helped. By the time I left (7;45) the Drs. office still hadn't called CVS, so I am getting on the phone again today. I guess my system is so screwy they are haveing a hard time deciding which med. to give me. I am definately going to miss my customers and co-workers. 

 Of course my daughter with the twins said- " good, now if I get a job, you can help with them!" Ok, when did I sign up for that??!! Don't get me wrong- I LOVE THEM TO DEATH~ BUT told her my health has to come first. IF I could help out a day or 2 here or there, I would- but don't start counting on it!!" I hope I didn' sound harsh or selfish, but know I am the only one who knows what I feel like/when. Same with my other daughter, if i can I will, but don't start thinking "Mom can do it, she's not doing anything anyway!" i may end up doing more volunteer work at church- i love to fill my time helping others, not raising them- hee~hee!!!
 To all of those who are newly post op, hang in there, just do the very best you can each day- it gets better everyday! To those thinking about it, read everything, attend SG meetings ( one at Clarian North tomorrow night) and be pro-active about your health. For those waiting for their day/date- it's coming! Many of us feel like we've been on a rollercaoster, but wouldn't trade the "ride" for anything in the world!your journey has just begun! Hold on tight for the "ride" of your life!
Have a great day everyone, sending big, (((((((((hugs)))))))) to you Lois, heal quickly!I'm praying for you!

Well I'm getting excited about seeing you all again this weekend and finally meeting some for the first time.  I hope my DH behaves.  He's being kind of weird about this.  He is really great and loves people and loves to entertain but since he's not been to any of the OH get togethers he calls it my little "cult" group.  I think he feels left out.  I'm hoping once he meets you all he'll understand better.  I'm going out to the RV tonight to see what I need for the weekend.  We haven't been out in it for a while and I have to make sure I put back all my towels and sheets from the last trip.  I don't plan to take a lot of food.  Just stuff for the carry ins Sat. and something for breafast Sunday.  I'm taking off at noon on Friday and will head that way.Once we get set up we will go to the Essenhaus resturaunt in Middlebury for dinner.  Great local place with good Amish cooking. 

Ellen , sorry about your headache.  Migranes are horrid. I used to get them, Thank God I haven't had one in a few years but I know how they feel.  My daughter gets them now when under stress.  Imatrex doesn't work well for her but she got some Maxalt samples from the Dr for last spell and it really helped during her last two headaches.  He also does accupuncture for migranes.  Accupuncture doesn't cure anything but will give you relief and allow your body to heal itself.  I was skeptical about it at first but I've had it done a few times for different things and it works.  You may want to see if anyone in your area is doing it.

Jodi: Congrats: I can't wait to see how good you looked.  Your honeymoon trip sounds wonderful.  I love the water along Lake Michigan and Lighthouses.  I want to start a light house scrapbook.  I think I three pictures to start with so I'd better get busy and visit a few more.  I didn't know there were some you can actually stay in.

I need to get back to work.  See ya all later. Have a great day!