Saturday Whats Happening.

Hello My Friends. What has everyone got planned for the weekend? Like I said yesterday we are going to meet some of our friends in Branson today. And hopefully they will want to come over to our house. They havent seen it since we have done so much work on it. But if not that is ok too. Son in law is suppose to come back down this evening and is going to put the coating on the roof of the trailer and paint the cabinets in the trailer for us. Hopefully he can get that all done by tomorrow evening. I have got to finish cleaning the knobs and hinges this morning before we go over to Branson. I intended to finish that up already but I get so many sticks in the fire I forget which ones I have going. Symptoms of my ADD still showing up from when I was a kid. I have learned to live with it most of the time but it still crops up as being ditzy sometimes lol Wonder if that has anything to do with me having the days once in awhile that I am just totally wiped out, I know I over do when I feel good. Linda I don't think you are missing anything. I went back and looked at my book and it says the same thing. I do think some people have a different diet plan, don't know why they would but maybe so. I wrote Craig an email and told him to go look at his book really well and see what it says. I think I just assumed it was a liquid diet because so many people said they had to. I never looked at it until you said something. Thanks that will be easier to do I think. If you look at it really close it isn't a lot of food. But probably more than enough. But then seems like a lot also. Melissa: Your pool sounds more and more tempting. I think it would help me get in shape for walking better and longer. Anxious for the meeting this Monday night too. I don't think Craig will be at our meeting he lives too far away. But I expect all you others to be there. Wish more of you could be there but I know the trip would be way too much. Sherr: don't quit acting like a kid. It will keep you young. As long as you don't think like one then you will be ok. Lol Hope the meeting goes as well as you hope since you had to travel so far. When my sis and I went to Dr. Hornbostels in Sedalia it was in the evening so we drove up and stayed the night after the meeting at a motel and then came home the next day. Hey was going to tell you that Jergens has a lotion I saw on tv that has a little bit of sunless tanning lotion in it. My friend uses it . She is white like that and it really helps her look healthy looking without burning. Im going to need something to take some of my tan away before long I think. I am in the sun so much with my garden that I am getting that weathered look im afraid. And I even use sun block most of the time. Brenda: did you email Dena? Or you can even call her if you want. She is super sweet and really nice and will answer anything you have a concern about. I hope you will go to the meetings at the Cape they will really help you with having a support system. Jai: Honey your day will come before long , Im sorry that it is taking so long to get your insurance's approval. There isn't any sense in that I don't think . They just like to keep people hanging on and on I guess I makes them feel powerful. My great niece (Sierah) is into Tinker Bell. I took her to buy a new comforter for her room , wound up with Tinker Bell curtains and all. Lol She is 5 will be 6 in October. Andrew: Hope you will take advantage of the meetings at the Cape too. Online is great and all but the meetings in person is like going to meet some friends. Especially if you can get some of them to start posting on here also. That would be nice. I know they have a yahoo group but wish they would come on the Mo. Oh. Board too. Don't forsake us for Yahoo ok? Craig you didn't answer my email about the liquid diet. My book doesn't say anything about a liquid diet it says to eat a low fat , low cal, low carb. Diet. Lots of water and keep the calories under 1000. Did you get a different diet plan? If so I wonder why? DAVID!!!!!!!yahoo ! We havent seen you on in awhile. Have the puppies overwhelmed you? Hope you arent sick or anything. If not hope you and your wife make it to the meeting on Monday. Wayne: Are you alive? Going to be at the meeting Monday? Hope you tear yourself away from your beautiful kids for an hour and if not bring them with you. Would love to meet them and your wife too. Colette: I guess you are busy with doing up more corn. That does sound good. I never have done much putting things "up" I love the taste of it but it is so much work. I did put up a bunch of green beans last year that my neighbor gave me. I froze them and they taste so good when I take a bunch out and cook them. Well I have to go get busy and finish up the knobs, hinges and drawer pulls for the cabinets. So I can get that all done before I need to take a shower and get ready for Branson. Everyone have a good day and LOVE , JOY AND PEACE ABOUNDS: JAN

Good Morning Everyone: How is everyone this fine morning?? It looks like it is going to be another beatiful day here in Missouri. I think I will go check out a few garage sales before everyone wakes up here. I am taken my nephew to the Drive Inn movies this evening. I was trying to decribe the Drive Inn. And he was amazed that you sit outside and watch movies. lol He is only 6 yrs old so Drive Inn's are prehistoric to him. lol So what are some of your plans for this weekend? It look like it will be over all a nice weekend. I need to get out and water all my plants today. Since we didnt get any rain over the 4th. I hope you all have a great weekend!!! Love Melissa

Good Afternoon, There is not much to report from my area. My husband's nephew came to visit today. He was the only child of my DH sister, she passed away last July of liver failure at the young age of 52. He is 19 this year. We are going to bar-b-q this evening and he is spending the night and will go with us to church tomorrow. He's a good kid and it's such a shame he had to lose his mother at such a young age. We all believe that our parents will always be there and it's hard when you lose them, but to only be 18 and lose your mother is a very long and rough road to have to travel. He has never had a father. He's a christian so I know that he has leaned on Jesus to get through. No Jan I have not contacted Dena yet, I will call her Monday or e-mail her if someone can send me her e-mail address. Please help me pray that I won't have to get any of that other stuff done. Well everybody enjoy the rest of the weekend. I know I will enjoy the grilled burgers, fresh corn on the cob, fresh tomatoes, watermelon and cantalope and potato salad. Man ain't it good to have summertime in Missouri to have the freedom that our young men and women are fighting for and dying for everyday! It just rubs me the wrong way for people to hold a protest at the funeral of one of theses fine men that has paid the ultimate price to give them the freedom to be able to protest. And doing it under the name of Christainity, They will have to stand before God and face the punishment that they will be given when he says "Depart from me for I never knew you" And I say AMEN and AMEN. My only son right now has been in Irag since last year and currently is in Bagdad please remember him in your prayers. Thank You. One more thing I would like to be able to take all these protesters and ship them to Bagdad and leave them and tell them "Now go ahead and continue your protest here"!!!!! I know as a christian that is not the correct thing to say and that we are supposed to pray for those that persecute us, but sometimes it's just so hard.

Hello everyone, Hope ya'll have had a good saturday in this wonderful missouri weather we're having. I've been out to yard sales and stopped at a few veggy stands. I just loveeeeee fresh veggies. Picked up some fresh corn and tomaters and new whole taters and a huge seedless watermelon mmm mmmm gooood!! Jan Im for sure gonna take advantage of the Cape Group once a month, I'll be going to it next month when they have it. It'll be great to meet a few people in person that know and feel the same as I do, even tho my support system is great. My wife is totally behind me and that makes all the difference in the world. I wont stop posting here and go to yahoo, even tho I've only been here a short time you all have made me feel like part of the family, that so makes me feel good!! Hope ya had a good time at the movies Melissa, We havnt been to a drive in movie in years, I gotta find one around here and go sometime, we used to love going. Colette, I used to work at a nursing home before I went on disability, I know the nurses there had it tuff and the director of nurses was always so busy. I remember her coming in all hours of the night filling in sometimes when nurses didnt show up. It was a tuff job but I know its a rewarding job too. I miss it and hope after I lose weight I can get off of disability and go back to work. Becareful and dont work to hard. Craig I kinda know what your goin thru, I've started protein liquid diet this weekend. Im only eating one meal a day and the others im doing the protein diet. Its so hard so far but like you I know we both can do it. Im about 485lbs so I need to lose a lil bit before surgery time. I wanted to get some off now before I see Dr. H on aug 9th. Good Luck on the 24th, I'll sure have ya in my prayers!! Brenda, Dena's email address is [email protected]. From what i've experienced so far she's pretty quick about returning emails, within 24 hrs, during the week at least. Well Im off to relax and watch some tv for awhile, hope everyone has a good rest of the weekend. Take care and God Bless!! Andrew

P.S. I've been trying to get a pic on my profile but cant seem to get it to work. I went to the user settings and all like it said to for the boards and uploaded a pic but it still wont show, its not a very good pic cuz all i have is a webcam. Maybe I keep breaking the system with my pic lol If anyway has any other info on pics please let me know. Thanks so much Andrew

Good morning everyone, Sorry I missed a day but I have been so busy. At work our Director of Nursing quit and naturally I have been in that position and stepped down because of wanting more free time 2 years ago. Since that time, I have filled in and this is the 4th time I am helping out. I teach and do orientation of staff and this is full responsibility of staff and all problems, so I told her I would help out. but I also told her I am going to Houston for a week next week. Needless to say, I have been very busy. Miss being able to keep up with garden and flowers and things at home. Hope it wont be too long of a time. they are putting ad in papers. It is a high stress job(24 hours a day one gets phone calls). The Lord will help me through this short time. As far as the corn I put up 30 quarts in the freezer - my DH helped me so it went pretty fast. We have enjoyed it for supper 2-3 times - only normally I would eat 2-3 pieces and had to stop at 1. But I can eat it again. I posted for Craig that it is not liquid diet for a week before. Only the day before is liquid. The other days I ate like baked chicken, veg, and fruits and stayed away from fat fried foods, and high carbs. I even had a baked potatoe 1-2 times. The purpose is to help shrink ones liver. He does not want you to eat like fried chicken, french fries etc. I cant believe he changed the book. I also ate low fat(80 calorie ) yogurt. I am off this weekend. Everyone please have a great weekend. Enjoy your friends Jan. And Melissa - have fun at the movies. (I can remember the drive in movies, but then again I can remember no tv.) So you see how old I am. LOL. Colette