whats Happening ----------Wednesday

You guys that work Monday thru Friday are lucking out this week huh? Here it is hump day and you have only been back to work one day and for some this was the first day back. Wasn't yesterday beautiful. I walked around and around yesterday in the yard. Trying to decide where I was going to put certain things this year. Had to stop a lot because of my back and shoulder. Got the whirlpool going and sat in that for a long time until I started getting cold. That seemed to help the shoulder and then Joe rubbed it down with bio-freeze. All of it helped a little for a little while but there is still a knot there the size of a softball. I tried a ¼ cup of cottage cheese and pineapple tonight and finally got down about half of it. I don't know if the pain in my back is causing the difficulty in eating or what but don't understand it. I just want it to go away. Diana: I will continue to pray for you and your financial problems. I'm sure that God will show you another way to make more money somehow. Who do you work for and is that a permanent thing or just for a little while. Janet M: thanks for posting to Diana hardship. Would like to see more of you on here. Andrew: that would be so nice for you to get together with all of your brothers. Maybe you all could meet somewhere that is about half way between all of you and have a reunion. Would they all go? That is a long long drive across Texas to El Paso. A real long drive....You are in all of our prayers too. And Susan too , how is she feeling? Lana: well kick that colds butt girl. I know you can take liquid Tylenol for pain and fever. Did your doctor ever call you with an idea of what you can take for the cough. As long as it is liquid and doesn't have sugars in it , it should b ok but be sure and get your surgeons ok on anything. LOL so you want a State funeral. Not me I told Joe that I would haunt him if he spent any money on having a big funeral. That I want him to cremate me and then put me in two big flower pots . one at the front door and one at the back door so I can see who he has coming and going into my house. Lol Melissa:::: Yea! So glad to see you sweetie and so glad that you have the rash under control. Wow on the 200 pounds lost that is totally awesome. Amazing. Now please you have to come to the meeting on the 22nd. I know you are in the process of moving but please, please, please, with sugar on it. What will you be doing with your house? Will you rent it out or sell it or what? Please do NOT be lifting. You went thru way too much to mess it up again. Great to see you back on. Tami: you still look as cute as ever. Sherr: wow the new picture is awesome. I would put up a new one if I had one that looked that good. Lol Of course I don't and even if I did they would say it was too big to accept. And I for the life of me can not figure out how to use the program to decrease the pixel sizes. Sorry that all of your support people are sick or hurt. Hey did you see where Brenda is starting a support group in Fredericktown? Maybe you and the other lady in Kennett could car pool there. How far is it to Fredericktown. I know what you mean about the stall. Im on one too. Don't know how much I really want to lose at this point. I will know when I get there. In my thoughts it really doesn't have to do with the scale as much as what size I can wear and how I feel. At present I wear 12s and would like to get into at least 9 would prefer 7s but don't know that might be too thin for me. Barbara T: You sound like you dearly love your church as well as the Father. Please do continue to pray for the pain in my back and shoulder , I would appreciate it so much. I know how you feel about feeling free to move and dance around and to be able to tie your shoes , to shave your legs easily, to sit down into the bathtub and get back out easily, to stand up and put on your pants one leg at a time, to walk and not get out of breath, to bend over and be able to pick up things off the floor, to be able to sweep and mop your own floors. To get things out of the bottom cabinet, the top is still to high for me, the surgery didn't help my height any lol It is amazing and I understand about being free. The surgery this year was my highlight of 2006 and am hoping that 2007 will have something to equal that one. Maybe a face lift to take care of all the wrinkles . Losing the fat means it goes from everywhere and I had lots of fat in my cheekbones and neck, Now that that is gone im pretty wrinkled and never was before. But oh well I will take wrinkles over fat any day. I have an aunt that is shorter than I am and is fat, really fat. She just laughs about it and tells her husband , Hey Jimmy get me another candy bar, I see a new wrinkle that needs to be filled out. LOL Hope today is a great day for everyone and that the rest of the week goes by so fast that you don't realize that you are noting going to school today. LOVE AND JOY AND PEACE ABOUNDS JAN

Good Morning, I hope everyone is having a great new year so for. Well the first support meeting for me will be monday night, everyone pray for me to be able to host this thing and try to be a good support leader. I know Andrew W. is coming and I heard from a lady named Susan from Park Hills and she's wants to come, so I do pray that we will build up. Also as some of you read, my husband needs prayer that he will get approval for WLS. He has type 2 diabetes really - really bad, and needs this surgery, if for nothing else, then to try and control that. I'm so glad everyone is losing - losing and losing somemore. I do want to wish everyone well, that has soon upcoming surgeries, and speedy recoveries. Well I'm going to bed. Good Night Brenda

Good morning Jan and Missouri Board I woke up and couldn't get back to sleep so I thought I would check out the board and true enough Jan you were up and posting I had fallen asleep in my comfy chair and my husband woke me up to go to bed and well I've laid in bed and couldn't get back to sleep, soooooo here I am on the Yes I do love my new church, I was a member of my former church for 27 years, got saved in my former church in 1976 and last year God moved me to this new church to further my ministry, so now a new life, new minisrty duties, what can I say. I tried to email Tracey but I have to figure out what is wrong with my Outlook Express, and besides I know she is very busy but I really enjoyed her website. I would put a picture up but I don't know how and since I'm using the new profile OH Photos says they can't help me put up a pic on my profile, so I guess I'll always be the blank picture with the question mark There is such a difference in how I look it is amazing. I showed someone my picture B4 WLS and they said it wasn't me of course that made me smile. Well I'm off. Have a great day everyone, I'm going to go back to now and see if I can get back to sleep. God bless you all Barbara T.

Brenda you will do fine..You will be in my prayers....vesta

Vesta, Thank you so very much! Love Brenda

Jan - I love your post so much... you are so encouraging. I am in the group of the lucky ones that work from Monday - Friday and yes, this week is a good one....not only did I have Monday off but at my company once a month we get to choose one Friday a month to take 1/2 day off called a veg day day; because we work at lot from our home lap top computers. So anyway this Friday is my veg day, so I get off at noon. YIPPEEEEE.... Thursday I leave work early too, because I have my follow up appointment with my plastic surgeon for my last surgery (the large volume lipo) one; and I get to see the before and after pictures he took. We will also be discussing my upcoming brachiaplasty and arm lift that will be on Saturday March 3rd. So excited I can't even put it into words. The greatest thing that has happened to me was on Sunday....a really good friend of mine sells a high end clothing line (ones I can never afford to buy on my own) you know the kind....any way she said she had a lot of clothes left over that she was going to have to return from the Holiday line, she invited me to her store, and guess what....some of the clothes that I thought were my size, were too big for me.....oh my goodness.....this is just getting to much. I mean way too much fun...... I am going to start working on updating my portfolio here but right now I am housesitting and don't have access to my pictures to load into my portfolio....so when I get home I am going to do that.....I was surprises I went into it yesterday and haven't updated it for almost 10 months....shame on me.... Well, got to get back to work. Blessings always, Betty Myers

Just had to comment on you finding out that your size was now TOO BIG!!! Congratulations!!! That's so fun to see and hear folks tell those stories!!!! It's great to see how much fun you are having and how excited you are!!!!!!! Tami

Jan Good Morning!!! Yes, I know I am just barely in by morning. Looks like it is going tob e another beatiful day today. I am going from room by room today and making a list of what goes and what stay. And what gets boxed up for springs garage sale. Yea!!! I would rather chew my arm off. lol No, just kidding I am excited about the move. DH & I styaed up till almost 3am talking about it. It will take some adjusting but that okay too. Jan, we plan on renting out our house. That way if something ever happens to my F-I-L we still have our house to come back too. Well I am going to get busy. I hope you all have a wonderful day!!!! Congrats to Danielle!!!!!! Love ya Melissa

Momma J, if you want me to, send me a pic and I will shrink it and send it back to you. Your post about wrinkles and your aunt made me laugh.....I guess a a candybar AND WLS is a No No? Drats! LOL oh....candy Sh

i will have my hubby take several of me tomorrow and send you a couple . wish i had a magic eraser to get out the wrinkles lol I just stopped at the dollar store while ago and bought a navy blue pair of pants and a jacket in size 10/12 can you believe that???? wow.