Lady bug....congrats on getting your surgery date. Im sure you will be fine and know that you have a good doctor. I cant tell you much about him except that i know a lot of people that have had him, including my sister. 
You live in Springfield? we have a good support meeting every month , the meeting this month is on the 19th but know you wont be able to be there this month.....we meet at the library center on Campbell once a month...we arent associated with any hospital or doctor hope you will be able to be there in Dec....we will see the date later.
when i had surgery my doctor wasnt using the two week liquid diet so cant tell you anything that will help...I did do only protein for the two weeks before my surgery so i would be loaded with protein and heal faster and drank lots of water. but i did that on my own.

If i can be of any help let me know ....will be praying for you and for your Doctors hands

Good Morning, Mama Jan & MO Peeps!

Brrr, it is cold outside!  I let the girls' out and it didn't take them but a few minutes to take care of business!  They were ready to come back into the nice warm house.

So far this week I've subbed 1 1/2 days.  Monday was for a 7th grade Social Studies Class (which I LOVED) and yesterday was 1/2 day in the afternoon for a Reading Specialty Class.  Enjoyed it too.
Today I'm going to try and get my kitchen and living room areas picked up.  Would love to start on our bedroom and closet, just not sure that's going to get started today.  I also need to put together our menu for the next couple of weeks.  Going to plan Thanksgiving Dinner as well. A couple of years ago we got a great deal on a Master Built Electric Turkey Fryer.  Now David fries to 15 lb turkeys and I just do the side dishes which I keep simple!  Going to have my dear step-daughter bring a couple desserts.  Hope it will be an easy day.

Monday is my Birthday.  DH told me last night that he'd like to take me to Jamesport for my birthday this weekend!  I'm going to call some B&B's that we haven't been to before and see what kind of deals they can give me.  Probably will only be for one night because David is still working 10 hour shifts and won't be home until after 6pm tomorrow night.  I'm thinking we get up early and drive to Jamesport (about a 2 1/2 hour drive), do some shopping...mainly window shopping and then go to the B&B and relax the rest of the evening.  We haven't been in 2 years and we both really need the time to get away and just be alone together.  Going to have my step-daughter keep an eye on Jake.  It's not that I don't trust him, it's just that he is a 15 year boy!  :)  Also, our church Family's Thanksgiving dinner is Sunday night...will see if we make it back in time for that.

David's step-mom surprised me and sent 2 Precious Moments figures to my house for my birthday!  One a little girl with a birthday cake that says "Count Each Birthday As A Joyful One" and the other one an angel standing on a cloud blowing a trumpet that has sparkling stars coming out of it and it plays "Hark The Herald Angels Sang".  Needless to say, it brought tears to my eyes!  My curio cabinet, which she gave me, is almost FULL of precious moments and a few other figurines.  :)

Mama Jan - I'm with you on the time change.  I just wish they would keep it one way or another.  Honestly, it takes my body about 2 weeks to adapt to the time change in the Spring and the Fall!  You still wear be out with all that yard work!  The only type of planting I do is a few flowers in containers for my front stoop around Mother's Day.  There are actually a few still blooming! 

Sorry to hear about that 54 year old dying from MS.  There's a woman who I'd say is in her middle 30's at our church who was diag. with MS about 7 years ago.  For the past 2 years she's been on an experimental drug.  She says it's been wonderful and she's only suffered 1 attack during those 2 years. This past month the FDA actually APPROVED it!  She praised the Lord for that during church one Sunday and said that she truly believed it would a miracle to a lot of people who suffer with MS!

Lovely Lana - I'll bet those new college kids do keep you busy! I'll bet you'll never know just how much they appreciate all you do for them!  Hope your DH has a wonderful Birthday!

Jo - We really need to try and get some from the KC area together again before Christmas and meet for lunch!

MO Peeps - Hope all of you have a wonderful Thursday and a GREAT weekend!

Debbie D.

Some one ask the other day what has happened to the board? and then they havent been back to post again . Look at yesterday how many people posted   myself and Jo and that was it. So now that is the answer i guess of what is happening to the Mo board.  No one has the time to get on and say anything. doesnt matter if it is a long post or not or whether it is real exciting or not . more or less it is just to say Hello everyone Im here . Oh well i guess it isnt going to do a lot of good ...Everyone knows .

Yesterday we didnt get much of anything done on my list because we were out running the streets lol
We live so far out in the boonies that if we go to Forsyth or into Branson it has pretty much ruined the rest of the day. taking 30 to 45 minutes to get ready , 40 minutes to get to Forsyth and another 15 to get to Branson then to do all the things you need to do , that is why we put all of it in one day that way we only have to waste one day doing all of the outside junk. lol \

well now they are saying we may not get any rain at all ....im really bummed everything is drying up really badly. all my bushes and trees are so stressed looking. the leaves on them were curling up and drying out before the heavy frost and i sure hope they have enough moisture to make it thru the winter....i have been trying to give everything a heavy watering but just hope it hasnt been too little too late.
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Today is being devoted to cleaning out all the dead flowers in the flower beds....and then we are spreading a good layer of mulch on the top of all of it.....We have some really good mulch that we have been making all summer. and some of the beds are needing some extra nurturion by now. after a few years of growing things i like to add about 2 inches of good decayed matter (mulch) to the top in the fall of the year and during the winter then it soaks down into the ground  and next year i have a good fertile ground again.  

got to get im wasting daylight and it doesnt seem like we have much of it anymore does it?  dont know what they do with it but never seems like we have any lol ...but i do notice that after they change the time back is when i start getting down and even depressed before winter is over. Dont see why they dont leave it alone....no reason for it at all.....when they started changing the time back and forth in the 70s i hated it and still do.  oh well off the soap box...get the protein coffee down and get motivated to get outside....see you all tomorrow.....i have to worlk tomorrow....hope we have no more that have passed away....the other day when i went back to work after a few days off we had had 2 pass away ....one i expected and the other was a complete surprise. the one i expected wasnt but 54 she has MS and was in the last stages ...that is a bad bad disease. 

got to go just keep rambling. besides my fingers have gone numb on me again.......

Susie i wish my passion for buying was for clothes for me ....i never look put together in anything i wear like other women....when i have extra money i buy something for the garden . a new flower. weed killer, fertalizer things like that. just dont spend money on clothes. I have plenty of them just nothing ever seems to go together really....need someone to come to my house and put together outfits for me and throw the rest of it out. lol ....too many choices makes me wear the same things all the time instead of different ones. ...shoes i never have anyting that goes with anything. all of them that i try hurt my feet...unless i get them one size too big and then they wont stay on my feet lol ...so i wear sneakers most of the time and dont worry ab out it ...wish i did....

Yippee we got the green house all cleaned out and installed a utility sink in there with only cold water. now have a table and sink side by side in one end ....makes it a lot easier to pot of things and to water small items....also can clean hands outside instead of in the house....love it. got my shelves all straightened out and they are all loaded down with elephant ears, cannas and pea**** orchids drying out....then will be able to store them once the bulb is dry....

Today Joe has an appointment with his pain doctor ....need a new prescription and needs to make an appointment for injections in his back ....i wish there was something that could be done that didnt involve that all the time.....

Payday is today... cant get chec****il after the monthly meeting at 2...that seems to me like it isnt legal to me....have to attend a meeting or you cant get your chec****il the next day ..??? this administrator ----oh well i guess some people get on a power trip when they get a little power....lol

Paying off a credit card today ....yippee.....paid one off last month , now only like 2 more but will take me more than a month on each of them ....dont know why i let us run them up like that. but on well paying for it now....just will be happy when they are done.
Then we are going to start on the house dont have much more to pay on it either so wont take long when i can put more money on it each month.. but all of that is after we get back from our winter journeys ....

Joe and i sat down last night and decided what clothes we were taking ....mostly spring and summer things we are taking....jeans and t shirts....with one good outfit to go out in ....me capris and jeans and several light weight jackets....good walking shoes. and one pair of nice shoes....we have got to keep it to a min....

after getting check today will go grocery shopping for some odds and ends still have lots of things in cabinets and fridge.

i need to go and move the soakers hoses onto some of my other bushes. let it soak around the base of several of the shrubs in our yard last night one more good soaking before winter sets in....everything has been so dry it is awful....
dont want them to die from the stress...

love and hugs--------oppss check how i spelled Wednesday-----lol left off the day