WHATS HAPPENING FRIDAY

Went in to Springfield this morning for Joes checkup on his neck...had x rays done first and then went in to see surgeon. , Joe and the surgeon got to talking about deer hunting .lol I said you know I hate to interrupt this but how did the x rays look , he looked down at some papers he had and said lol oh he is fine....looks really good and they went back to talking about hunting...So he is cleared to do anything he can and wants to...that is great news... when we left there I called Sugar and told her I was going to Food 4 Less and she said she was right there at Aldi’s So she came in there and I got a few things and my ON protein powder...well as well as I like that protein , they have some protein bars and those are awful , save your money lol...I do like some that they have there called HIGH PROTEIN  --CHOCOLATE BROWNIE              HAVE 33 gram of protein and only 3 net impact carbs,. They do have a lot of sugar alc 26 grams but those don’t bother me,,,the real sugar is only 1 gram so for me they seem to do all right

We then went to lunch with ‘Sugar  she had already gotten her food when we got there .. she said before you go get you sometime try this and if you like it you can have it...so the two of us shared the half sandwich and  cup of soup and small bowl of fruit...was really good but I could only eat two small bites of the sandwich...that was really good...some sort of tortilla soup...

I have got to go Christmas shopping for sure I haven’t done any shopping lol I know isn’t that awful ?well im giving Michele my desktop computer. My son took it home and erased everything , cleaned up things added some ram and memory so it is a great computer now...i just need to get her a new keyboard and mouse to go with it.  Money is sort of tight so am looking to find things I already have that they need or want...My son im giving him a gift card to Wal mart and also a blue tooth wireless  what ever you call it.. lol  I bought it for myself but used it two times and  didn’t like it so will givr it to him since he loves gagets too .lol....the great grand babies are the only ones that are getting presents really...need to go one day soon that is for sure lol .dont have any idea what to get either one of the boys...the girl  is easy lol ....

 

But I have to go without Joe , he is very impatient about things . so I need to go shopping without him

 

Oh I saw in the Springfield paper  that in Highlandville they are going to be teaching ball room dancing for a six week course for 72.00 I told Joe that is what I want for a Christmas present.  I use to teach ball room dancing but it has been so long ago that I have forgotten most of the steps. I remember the rhythm but not the steps so I cant teach Joe with out knowing them my self...if they have a class later in the year because we do plan on leaving here soon after Christmas. And probably wont be back for quite awhile.

Will need to get someone willing to take over the Support meeting in January and maybe in Feb too. I will still keep up doing my Whats Happening post since I have the laptop and the alltel internet card. I should be able to do my post anywhere we go...and I think it will be fun to do while we are out and about.

   

SUSAN::::: I hope your trip to Columbia was without incident...i have prayed for the two of you all day due to all of the fog...when we were coming home from Springfield it was horrible...could have had a bumper to bumper car pile up very easily...

Hope Andy got all the test done.  Cant wait for you to get to see the Dr. Monday.

 

See you when you get home. 

   

DEB(POOH):”””””” WELL did you take a nap today? I hope so if you got up that early. How is your hubby , better I hope..

Ice is very beautiful on the trees and bushes...but when it keeps getting heavier all the time and start breaking trees and elect lines, it uses up all of its beauty in a very short amount of time right/

I guess weather men just gress most of the time, yes It is an educated guess for sure but still a guest...

   

SUGAR:::::was good to see you today...you look so good. Just wish I looked as thin as you do....oh well im made dumpy and your made tall and majestic. lol glad that you went and exercised today....

I feel so sorry for Chele , to lose a friend like that with little ones...makes her know that she has no guarentees either

 

Hey how come you get to see the video and Bec got to see the video and I haven’t gotten to see it yet lol ...ok Debbier I need to see this video...before it gets circulated on the world wide web lol  next thing you know Sugar it will be on Utube and then people will be calling you to be on tv and stuff lol

  

VESTA:::::: wow so now we are going to steal a cruise ship??? Hey you all that is her idea not mine, I didn’t tell her to go commandeer a cruise ship.boy you all can come up with so duzzies when left to your own imagination. Lol  you are silly girl

  

PEGGY::::::well sounds like you convinced yourself to stay away from the dentist lol

I have got to go shopping in the morning , sure hope I can find some things I want. I know what I am getting Joe he has been wanting a construction radio....is a big rugged radio that can run on batteries or elect. But has a covering on it that doesn’t hurt to be bumped and banged around . any way that is what I want to get him anyway....Home Depot did have it on sale hope it itstil is.

  

JANET:::::::I can certainly agree with you about seeing some sun.....i don’t mind the rain even if it has to be cold , just let the sunshine in....

Yeah making sugar cookies from scratch is  for sure time consuming. But it is something fun to look back on that you did with kids or grandkids. My kids and I use to do that at Christmas time because it was something we could do that was fun and didn’t cost much...My son use to eat more of his cookie dough than he rolled out . lol and Michele always wanted to make the reindeer green. Always...she said Santa was red so the reindeer should be green lol My oldest  always did all of it perfect as she did every thing. She just couldn’t have fun getting flour every where or all the silly things the rest of us did she took great pride in getting each and every one of her cookies perfect ...bless her heart I think she missed being a kid a lot....

  

Do you think you are needing all of the pain meds you were taking before? I hope you get the scripts but hope you wont have to use them....did you ever check and see if there is some reaction between some of them?

 

How neat to know that some of your dad lives on with someone else. I have all my organs donated. I think it would be so heartwarming for family to know that my organs made it possible for someone  to enjoy life more than they did. ...

 

Im sure looking forward to seeing you and one or two girls with you on Monday lol

   

RENEE:::: why haven’t you written me ? im so sorry that you have had some bad stuff happen, don’t know if it is car trouble or money but you should always come on here and put yourself on the prayer list. I am glad that you decided to come , you know we would have been upset big time if you hadn’t came.

Oh I bet those pictures of your first grandchild are precious aren’t they?

 

LOL so you don’t think you could pull off the bank robbery???? Lol you can have as many Jan Hugs as you want ...

Anxious to see you and how much you have gone down...and anxious to see your daughters and son in law again....hope they can all come with you...

  

SUSIE::::: sweetie you will get on the scales one day soon and it will be a big jump......you cant keep losing inches for ever and not loose weight too. Just don’t be impatient and remember this about the water....the more you drink the more you flush that fat out of your system....do you use the treadmill down in your basement? That looked like a really good onewhy don’t you see if you can walk a  mile on it....i dare you...

   

BEC::::: cant wait to see you sweetums....how do you make your party mix. Is that with pretzels, and the chex cereal and nuts: I was thinking of making some of that for my family on the 27^th...send me the mixture recipe ok?

 

I am making me two 6 foot shelves for my one wall in the dinning room...I have so many pretty knic knacks that I am so tired of them being in boxes so I am going to start with these and then see how well this does.  I am going to get out and paint them in the green house in the morning , at least one side so when I get home from shopping I can turn them over and do the other side. They have  some knot holes and gouges but I had to sand the splinters off of the edges so noone would get splinters if they touched the shelves...

 

Janet was telling you the truth about the pain you are having in the afternoon...why don’t you try just half the dose in the afternoon so you wont be in pain for the rest of the day.just do it a couple of days and you will feel so much better and you wont I guarantee you that you wont get hook on that drug if you are in real pain it works only on the pain not on your mind ok”

Anxious to see you on Monday, and hope Paul gets to come with you too....

 

How come your daughter is going to teach her dad how to make cookies? Do you have a video cameral? Would love to see the video of that. Lol How come he agreed to do it too:?

  

LOU::::: you know after awhile it does get easier to be able to look at those luscious desserts and other things and not have any feelings about them....and now that im out as

 

far as I am sometimes if my brain wont shut off of something. I use my baby spoon and take a bite of it...might be a good idea since you work In a place that im sure people are always bringing in things to invest in a tiny baby spoon you know one of the first ones with the rubber on it  ..you cant eat a big enough bite to really hurt and you got a taste and most of the time one bite is all you want. You just wanted to know that yes you could have some of that if you really want to , you just donjt want to...hang in there I bet you don’t need a tub of Crisco. And we would love for you and your family to come ....Adults tho.lol .wont hurt if thery act like kids I guess.

   

LOVE AND HUGS

GOD BLESS

Well good morning...if you can call it good when youve been up since 3 or so..ugh! I had the worse nausea before bed last night and it stayed all thru the night. UCK! Anyway I am better this morning...hum???

Sis, you are not dumpy and I am most certainly not tall and majestic! lol....that was so funny. It was good to see you too except we needed more time together. But I had to get my groceries home and put away before time to go get the boys from school.

Boy I agree, those bars are nasty!!!!!!!!! Dont ever bother buying the "ON" protien bars. They may have been what made me sick last night come to think of it.

Skyler created and cooked supper for us last night. He made sasauge and potato kabobs on the George Foreman...They were really good. He told me he thinks he would like a cook book. Him and Levi both kinda like to cook. It is funny.

I am wondering about what kind of folks we have on here...wanting to steal a cruise ship and rob a bank???? OH MY! And I thought most of you were good Christian people....lol!

Well I revealed to Debbie that I was her secret santa sis...how many others on here have yet to do that? Now Im excited about next years victim, I mean secret sis! lol It is alot of fun to try to keep it secret throughout the year. Are we going to do for the entire year this time?

Well I have another party today...for my water aerobics class. We are doing an ornament exchange and eating together at 11 so that will give me time afterwards to finish my shopping for our family Christmas on Sunday after church. We are just doing meat and cheese trays and sandwich stuff and fruit and cookies and veggie trays and chips and dips...decided not to do the big dinner again so soon after Thanksgiving. We will have that again at Ricks folks next weekend. Then Sunday morning Im having a party in my SS class and then we all know what MONDAY the 22 is right? COF Christmas Party.........MAN I cant wait for that one.

Bec is coming down and we are meeting for lunch in Spfld..does anyone want to join us? Hey Lou and Lana and someothers in town that arent coming to the party, why not meet us. Bec wants "The Wall" chinese food. Let me know..around 11 I think. I have to have time to get back to the church and get things all put together for that night... 

Janet I will probably go to the church around 3 and make drinks and coffee and start decorating. Hope that wont be too soon for you.

Ok, Ive already got laundry going this morning and I need to go get some things out of the dryer.

OHHH I made an almost sugar free oatmeal pie. Jan remember those down at WW cafe? Yummo! I will let you know how it is later... It has a little coconut in it that is sweetened that I will leave out next time and just add nuts instead. I looks great and smelled it too! If is is good I will post it later today..

Love you all to pieces.....HUGSSSSSSSSS and KISSESSSSSSSS

Sugar Baby....

If more decide they want to come to lunch we sure can meet somewhere else to accommodate others that might not like Chinese...you asked what I wanted and that was the first thing that popped into my head so feel free to change it if you want or need too... I'm ok with just any thing.

I'm more interested in seeing you girls than anything else... but a crab rangoon would be nice too ~tee hee  I'm not even sure I can tolerate any of that food...???

The Oatmeal pie sounds interesting for sure... you will have to let us know... I am going to post a wonderful hot drink recipe... my sis made it for me and it was simply delish! So I didn't "fight" with her THAT day ... ~tee hee!

Let me know if you get any responses to lunch and if you need to change it...

Bec

Sugar you mean your not going with us..we thought you would help us get the ship....lol...vesta

No!!! Im going ahead to the Carribean and investing your $ into that beach property down there....yeah! Thats the ticket!

Yea I knew I shouldnt gave you that money...lol...vesta

Good Wind Howling Morning!

WOW oh WOW....this is the strongest wind I can remember here...

Well got the mix all made... Mimi I put the Chex Cereal, Whales, Bugles, butter flavored pretzels, Cheerios, Cheese balls and mixed nuts in mine... I just use the recipe off the box of Chex.  Since I put more of a variety in it than their recipe calls for I add up all the cups of what I have and then divide it out and make enough "juice" to cover what they say is one batch x's how many batches I have according to their directions... the mix is very expensive to make if you do not collect the stuffs on sale... I have been collecting for the past 6 weeks now...

The shelves will be real nice and look good I'm sure... I like your color green.

Boy you better get on out there and get that shopping done... or will you go right after Christmas?  I did not do alot of shopping either... just mostly for my girls, Paul and a few party gifts.  Our families are just way to big to shop for everyone.

I would love to get out and walk outside today the wind is warm but don't know if I want to fight it... and I think I have a touch of the flu because I've been running to the little girls room for a couple of days now...hope that is over soon I have places to go!!! and that's not it!!! ~ha  I haven't been out all week and I'm ready for a change.

I am going to spend the day finishing up the craft projects I have going... How many sets of ornaments do you think I need for the party?

Tomorrow will be house cleaning and grocery shopping... then the Christmas party with my family on Sunday and then......

Oh boy, I'll get to meet up with all you lovely folks on Monday!!! I'm so very excited and I'll get to see my babies ... my Crystal I have not seen since May!!!!  Way Way Way tooo long!!!  Boy I just have so much to look forward to!  This is great!!!

Well I better get in there and get going on something.  I will try the half dose of pain meds this afternoon if I'm miserable like I have been for past couple of weeks...  and see how it does... you mentioned it usually being muscle spasms.... my back hurts a constant hurt like cramps in your legs like when you was a kid use to hurt except much worse... do you think that is spasms?  I had an MRI done on it several yeas ago that's when I learned I didn't have cartilage in the two places.. they said it was like bone on bone and thus the swelling and pain in that area... it's why Advil worked for the most part because it let the swelling go down... when I go to the doc in January I'm going to ask him about that cream you are using.... and other possibilities....

My thoughts and prayers are with those in need.

Everyone have a wonderful good day!

Bec

Hey Bec, If I hear anything from anyone else who wants to meet up then I will ask them about where...I dont care where either...

As far as how many ornaments to make...we have about 18 signed up and Im hoping for at least 24....but who knows, we may have 10....lol! NOPE!!!!!!! IM going to think positive. We will have at least 24! There, Ive made a decision...lol

Im going to set 4 tables that will seat 6-8 each so that will surely be enough....if not we have plenty of tables there. Or maybe I will set 6 and be really optimistic. lol

Hey everyone...PLEASE bring containers to take left overs home with you if you would like because I know there will be lots of them....

Good Morning Missourians,

 

Well we made is safe and sound up to Columbia and back,  was quite the trip tho.   Left here about 6am and it was drizzling rain but the roads were fine  the fog tho was so thick in some places it was so hard to see.  There was fog most of the way up there, seemed the closer we got to Columbia the cooler it got, that really concerned me since it was drizzling rain all the way up but the roads were fine all the way, Praise the Lord.  Once we made it to Lake of the Ozarks and that area you could tell they had gotten a good 2 inches or better of snow, was really pretty in some spots.  The trip home was worse by the time we got to Springfield the fog was so thick in some places it was unreal,  the Lord really had to of been watching out for us cuz we could of easily ran off a road or been in an accident because you truly could not see but a few inches in front of you at times,  I know the prayers from this board really kept us safe.   Thank you to all of you for the prayers.

 

Well I had both tests done,  an EDG and UpperGI.  The EDG was done by Dr. Ramswamy (sp)  She is a really nice surgeon, she explained in detail what they were gonna do and did exactly what she said.  Once they gave me the sleeping medicine I was out and didn’t know a thing  lol.  After the test she came and told me for being 2 years out my pouch looked good,  was just a bit bigger but then I am 2 years out, she said tho that the stoma is quite diolated, even at 2 years out it shouldn’t be as big as it is,  she said there’s a simple procedure to take care of that they will discuss with me on Dec 22^nd when we go in,  so that was good news,  I don’t have a fistula just the stoma is diolated.  She said that would explain why I get hungry so soon after eating cuz the food passes through much faster, so hopefully we can get that fixed and I can get back to losing weight much better.  Im really excited for Monday tho,  Susan gets to meet with the Surgeon and we’ll find out what tests she’s gonna have to have and get them out of the way so she can get the surgery but most of all Monday is our COF Christmas Party w00t w00t that’s gonna be so much fun. 

 

***Jan*** Thank you so much for praying for us all day,  it really was bad out there like you said,  especially from Springfield to forsyth,  you just couldn’t hardly see anything at all and those crazy people just driving so fast like its nothing, crazies!!  When we pulled up in our driveway I wanted to get down and kiss the ground but I knew I was to tired to get back up off the ground  LoL.

 

***Janet & Sugar***  I just want to thank you both so much for working so hard to make the COF Christmas party a success,  I can already see it’s gonna be such a great party,  sounds like we gonna be a bunch of party animals all night lol.  You two are true angels of God,  thank you again so much for all the hard work you both are putting into it. 

 

***Bec*** Y’all drive safe on Monday, cant wait to see you and Paul again,  hope gets to come with ya.  I know you have to be excited about Monday since you get to pick up one of your girls, w00t w00t!!

Well Im gonna get off here and get my day started,  gotta run into town and get a few groceries to prepare our stuff for  our Christmas party at Church on Sunday and the COF party on Monday.  Hope everyone has a blessed and safe warm weekend.

 

Andy

 

Well if the scales would ever move here I would worry about blowing away. The wind is really bad here. Kept me awake half the night. At last its not freezing so I won't complain to much.
JAN . I tried mixing protein in my hot chocolate,I mixed it first and then heated it but it still turned to foam rubber. Don't know what I did wrong. I am trying so hard to drink but I cannot get it in and eat too. I guess a day or two with liquids only might help. I do use the treadmill but not on a regular basis. I am sure that hurts me.I am really trying to do better.I have to. A half a pound in three weeks is not what I did this for. I tried on some old pants I had been saving from smaller times and the waist is too big. I xould not believe it. I guess you were right about losing inches because three weeks ago this was not the way they fit. I still want to lose pounds.
I am off to work today,the last day of school till Jan 5. I hope I can sleep in tomorrow but bet I wake up early like normal.I hope everyone holds on today and doesn't blow away.

Merry Christmas to all