WHATS HAPPENING.............MONDAY

Oh what a long and boring day Sunday was. I like Mondays because things are happening again. The mail runs, the stores are open, the banks are open. Lol I guess I'm weird. I have always liked Mondays though. Even when I worked. Of course with being a nurse I never had a Monday thru Friday job or was it 9to 5. So it never made much difference in the start of the work week. Lol I am so glad that it didn't snow or sleet too much and get the roads worse than they were. I have been looking forward to the support meeting tonight all month long. It has been a long, long month. I finally got ALL of my protein in yesterday. 94 grams and All of my water in too I felt so stuffed and felt like I was sloshing when I walked but oh well I got in 96 oz of water. I will see what it does to the scaled. I want to keep it up now that I know that I can do it. It really took a lot of effort to do it tho. And tomorrow with being gone most of the day will be really hard to do it. But I will take a protein bar with me that has 38 grams of protein in it so I can eat that and add to my daily total. The water isn't hard to get anyway. Julia: wow you got more snow and still happy? Well I hope you get into a new apartment soon. You deserve something better than what you are in. I hope you get to see Gretta and Kat on Tuesday also. It isn't suppose to do anything else is it? We so deserve a break in this weather don't we? Debbie M: Yeah Wyno would make a good mascot. Lol Wow sounds like that was a really rought run to Co. If you can do that you should be able to do anything. Lol Well this is your week Debbie. Wont be long now girl till you are sitting your butt on the losers bench. We will have to scoot down some again. But we don't mind at all. You are more than welcome there. I guess that would be sort of mean trick to play on you about the baby wouldn't it? Lol Hey yeah do post a picture of our new mascot Wyno. Ok Your medical questions I cant answer them . I guess you could wear the medic alert bracelet and if they want it off they will tell you or they will tape it to your arm. Some people don't want to take their wedding ring off and they tape them on. Taking your diabetic meds? Again I have no idea best to ask your doctor about that. Dr. H. will probably tell you something when you see him after surgery. Melissa: well looks like we will get to see you and Janet on Monday night. Please , please come. Hope everything went ok for you today. Lana: what sort of quilting are you doing to a sweatshirt? Sounds neat bring it Monday night and show me ok? Cant wait to see you and your new skinnier self. Lol Andrew: glad you didn't get a lot of stuff either. I guess most of it went north of I-44 up into the lake of the Ozarks region. Andy I meant to ask you how long did it take you to get the weight off when you were trying to get under 450? A month or two or what? Hope the day went well for you yesterday. And am anxious to see you again in March maybe ? Vesta: as far as I know the streets in Springfield are ok for Monday night meeting. Don't think anywhere got any thing extra and what it did get was melted by the rain that fell later at above freezing temps. I am bringing the pillow cases we talked about before so you can see if you can maybe repair them for me. Don't have to be strong I just want them repaired enough that I can display them in some shadow boxes. Ok? Sherr: maybe one day , you are still young , you will find someone that will treat you the way you need and want to be treated. There are some of them out there believe it or not. That is good that you have some things to sell that will help you get things straightened out. That is great on the yoga pants being 10s. I have been there for awhile and don't seem to be dropping fast like I was. I guess the body needed to stop and catch up. If I had this fat tummy off I don't know that I wouldn't be satisfied . I think I would be in like an 8 then. But will keep trying to get more off so when I do have the tummy tuck I will be less than that. Lol Hey that is ok to vent and tell the story about your nana. It is important to you and evidently you needed to tell it. That is what we are all for here to listen and give you a hug when you need it. Ok? So here is your (hugz)))))) we all love you. Preacher Bob: Glad to see you are still going forward with your studies and test that you will need to have the surgery. I think you will benefit greatly from it. You will be able to do more of Gods work than you have in a long time. And that is what it is all about. Sorry to see that someone is trying to throw a wrench into the works with being mean.. Tell them to get off of it and leave things alone. Lol Wish you could have someone to drive you down to Springfield to a meeting. I'm sure you would enjoy it. LOVE AND JOY AND PEACE ABOUNDS JAN

Good Morning Everyone: WOW I get to be first to reply to Momma Jans posting. Now that is a first in a long time!!! I am headed to bed. Thought I would check the board before I headed that way. DH & I are going to go check on his father in the morning and run a few errands. Then I am coming home to get ready for tonights meeting. I am so excited that I finally get to come to it!!!! Yea!!! Thank you all the the encourgeing word. And if there is any way I can help out. Please feel free to drop me an email. DH & I have talked and I think as soon as we get moved and DH has his surgery I am going to check into going back to school. And look for work doing something in barartic. After alot of praying and searching I believe that this is where God is leading me. Cant wait to see some of you tonight. And for those that wont be able to be there. I will be thinking of you all. I pray you all have a blessed day!!!! God Bless Melissa ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My mother taught me to read when I was four years old (her first mistake).... One day, I was in the bathroom and noticed one of the cabinet doors was ajar. I read the box in the cabinet. I then asked my mother why she was keeping 'napkins' in the bathroom. Didn't they belong in the kitchen? Not wanting to burden me with unnecessary facts, she told me that those were for "special occasions" (her second mistake)... Now, fast forward a few months....It's Thanksgiving Day, and my folks are leaving to pick up my uncle and his wife for dinner. Mom had assignments for all of us while they were gone. Mine was to set the table. When they returned, my uncle came in first and immediately burst into laughter. Next, in came my father, who roared with laughter. Then in came Mom, who almost died of embarrassment when she saw each place setting on the table with a "special occasion" napkin at each plate, with the fork carefully arranged on top. I had even tucked the little tail in so they didn't hang off the edge!! My mother asked me why I used these and, of course, my response sent the other adults into further fits of laughter. "But, Mom, you SAID they were for special occasions!!!" Isn't it easier to just tell the truth and be careful who you ask to set the table for you! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Goooood Morning Missouri Well it wasnt a bad weekend but Im like Jan, I kind of like Mondays, when I was working tho I guess I dreaded mondays lol Right now tho I like getting my week started on a good note, esp now since we go to the gym about every morning. Going to the gym in the mornings seem to just get our day started off good. Jan I started trying to lose weight after I went to the seminar on July 4th. I started hitting it hard the first of sept. I think sept i really got the determination to get this weight off, then the first of oct i started doing the 3 protein shakes and livin on broth and popcicles until my surgery, alot of my weight that first came off was water weight, now im down to the nitty gritty!! Boy I wish I was goin through springfield today, I'd sure love to see everyone again and meet melissa but hopefully we'll get to go in march, thats the plan anyway. Wont be long and we'll have our next support meeting here, sure cant wait for that. Speaking of support meetings, Brenda you been lurking for awhile now, come on out gurl lol havnt seen you post in ages How ya doing?? Do tell, we miss your posts silly!! Deb M. woot woot gurl, its almost here, you all going to sedalia the night before?? Be sure to get there in time to start drinking the lovely ****tail lol We'll make room on the bench for ya, just dont get to comphy on it, we gotta keep on movin for the others lol. Jan the last 2 days now I've gotten in all my shakes and 120 oz of water, I know what ya mean about slushin around lol I felt like I was swimming. Does drinking all tha****er make ya get up during the night? The last couple nights I've gotten up twice during the night, that never happens, lately tho I dont sleep well anyway for some reason. Ya'll have a great meeting tonight in springfield, Im gonna go finish my morning shake and head to the gym. Laterz ya'll, Andrew

Good Morning fellow posties!! ...and all you lurkers out there...lol Yes, the days are dwindling down! Seems like it took forever to get here and now it seems like I don't have enough time to do everything! I know it's just the anxiety of getting everything together and getting the surgery over with so I can start my new life. Looks like a gloomy ol day! I'm just taking it easy, packing what needs to be and cleaning what doesn't need to be packed! The room we rented is for Thursday and Friday. We got one with a fridge and microwave so I can heat up my broth and tea and keep my jello and nasty drink cold! I'm taking water but right now I seem to be munching on ice chips more than anything! I hooked all my dogs kennels together so Jake and Gracee will be fine. We left them in their single kennels when we went to Sedalia. We left Thursday around 6pm and got back Friday around 7pm. Neither one of them peed or pooped, I was amazed! This time we will be gone longer! Probably from Thursday evening to Saturday evening, at least. My daughter knows if we're not back by then that they need to come down and let the dogs out to run and do their thing. With the kennels put together like I have them, they'll have four very large kennels to go back and forth with the last one setup for them to potty if they can't wait. The first one will have their food and water. It looks like I have a train set up back there with all the kennels zigzaging back and forth. David and I were running around here last night looking of my wedding ring, my watch and a very expensive (for us) camera. When I take my ring off (swollen fingers), I set it in the middle of my watch and on my desk so I don't lose track of it. Well, it wasn't were I thought I left it and I was almost in tears when I finally found it! It was in my newest purse, in a pocket that I forgot existed, whew! The camera was a whole nother story. David and I searched high and low...no camera! We gave up after searching this house and the car for over an hour. We thought that we may of left it at the motel in Sedalia which would be really unusal because we both do a thorough search before we leave, anyplace! I got the number and called but they said that if one was found it would of been found by housekeeping. They had already gone home for the night and the room where they put all their stuff was supposibly locked! After David went to bed, I got to thinking of a place that I needed to look but it was in the bedroom but David is a light sleeper and I didn't want to bother him. This morning after David left, I went in there to look and sure enough, there it was, in my laundry basket. I had set it there for a moment while I went to do something else and got sidetracked. While I was in the other room, David had carried in a rather large load of clean clothes in and threw them in the basket that already had some clean sheets in it. I just sat down and thanked God for looking over us! That camera is worth a pretty penny! Not like we could just go out and get another one. David bought it for me three Christmas's ago because I do A LOT of picture taking! I knew something was strange because the camcorder was in my room, in it's case, right where it belongs and I always hang the 2 together. Wait until David gets home from work!!....lol He was also thinking that because of my diabetes that I may of put it (in his words) "somewhere silly" during a bad sugar moment....hmmm! As for my diabetes and blood sugar, I haven't taken any of the Actos for 3 days and no Metformin for 2 and this morning my bs was 125, fasting and 124 an hour after I ate. I will be calling my pcp this morning. With this diet I'm on, I'm afraid to take any because it all brings my bs down. I will do whatever my pcp says to do and then after surgery whatever Dr. H says. Well, I'm off to get some things done. Everyone have a great day! God Bless, Deb M

Good Morning everyone! Sorry I haven't been on since my first post on Thursday. This weekend has been so busy. My oldest stepson turned 14 on Sat, so the entire weekend we seamed to be running from one place to the other. Friday night he opened his presents and had pizza. Sat we did the normal weekly house cleaning, then for fun we took the boys to play Glow in the Dark Mini golf. We had so much fun. After that we went to some friends house, went out for dinner, then quickly got home once the snow started. Sunday was church, birthday dinner for Chris with his grandparents and thendriving to Illinois to take Chris home brfore the storn got bad there. I was ready for bad last night around 8. but I got into a book and didn't make it til 10. LOL Thanks to Everyone who welcomed me on Thursday. I am going to the PCP this afternoon. So I am going to break the subject about WLS and see what they think. I think my biggest challage is going to be that up until the last few months,I have not had a regular PCP. When you don't have insurance, I went to whoever would take me when I had a major problem. Otherwise I didn't go to the DR for much. I see that there is some sort of support group tonight. I wonder how far Springfield is from Florissant. Maybe I can plan on going next month. It would be kinda funtom meet more people who have already been through this process. Well, got to get going. I am a nanny for a 10 mo old and she is waking up from her am nap. Ta Ta for now. Blessings to all, Rebecca

Rebecca, Florissant is a burb of St. Louis. It takes me 3 hours to get to Springfield and about an hour and a half to get to that part of STL. That is 75 to 80 mph straight thru. Hope that this helps. ~Diana~

Jan and all the lovely Missouri OH peeps, Monday and back to work. School is a mess. They used my building for a shelter and although that was a wonderful thing and I applaud the University for doing it, it has taken us about three hours to get our stuff back where we want it. Students and teachers who are still without power are kind of zombies right now. I feel so sorry for everyone who is still cold and in the dark and kind of guilty because I never lost power. However, I did have people staying with me some of the time so I shared. I am so excited about the meeting tonight. Jan, I can't bring the sweatshirt yet, it is still in the pinned together phase but I'll show you soon and tell you all about it. I saw one at Silver Dollar City at the crafts fair and bought the directions because I was just sure I could make one for myself. Well, if I'd known how much work this was I might have saved up and bought the completed one. It was expensive but this is a ton of work. It will be pretty, I hope. Theirs sure was. I won't tell you how much I've lost until after tonight. I am pleased, not as fast as some but not too bad either. It is so hard to get enough protein in right now. I feel like I'm stuffed and still is isn't more than 60 grams. I pushed water yesterday and was up about three times in the night. It's so funny Andrew says he doesn't sleep well anymore. Neither do I. I am restless and wake up lots. I have always loved to sleep so this is sort of troubling for me but it helps to know others are experiencing it too. I have tried Ambien and Lunesta and they help some but I don't get that great uninterrupted deep sleep like a baby sleep. Guess because I'm not a kid anymore!!! Darn I hate it when that happens. See you all tonight I hope and I'll be thinking of all of you who can't make it. The Springfield streets are dry, what little snow there was melted yesterday. Come on out. Love and hugs, Lana

I guess there's some confusion. I'm going to the Circle of Friends meeting tonight at the firehouse. Hope you can make it. We're awesome. Lana