WOO HOO WED WLS EXPRESS- SMET edition

 Good Morning ,My Woooo Hooooo!! 24 more Hr.s til My RNY!!!!  I'm busy with the nesting thing getting everything ready,cleaning washing and donating.  I'm not scared or nervous just anxious to start my NEW LIFE!!!  Next time I see you all I'll be a New Woman.   Miss Jean

GOOD LUCK! I know you'll do great. Keep us updated when you can.

Prayers for you!!! This is such an exciting time. Make sure you take your own pictures tonite so that you can have them later on.

Good luck!!!
Tracey

Praying for you and the kiddos today.  Please let us know the outcome.  Also praying for no more continuences-you need a resolution now, the waiting game is too hard.  Have I told you lately how happy it makes me to see you on the train again everyday?

Hope your court date goes well Karen!

My whohoo is I get to see 8 of my peeps on Saturday.  Yeah!

I have plenty of folders/paperwork to keep me busy at work today.
Chores again when I get home.  I worked on housewor****il 6:30 last night...yuck!  I guess that's my 2nd whohoo...I can work 7:15 to 4:00 and then come home and work 2 1/2 more hours!

Prayers for all who need them.

You go Danni...great attitude w/ your hubby gone.  Keep yourself busy.  I know you'll be so glad to see Debbi this weekend.

Have a great Wednesday!

karla

Quit worrying about the house, we're coming to see you and gossip about everyone else-we won't even notice the house!!

Well...it sure won't be immaculate...far from it...if you open a closet door, crap may bury you!  It will be a little better off than it usually is.  I'm pretty much down to regular cleaning.  At least both commodes work now.  We might have had to take a number if only 1 did!  Thank heavens the plumber was able to do the work today.

Karla

Choo choo! I'm here today! This post really is great.

Operation 'prevent anaphylactic shock by eating all the Halloween Reese's PB cups' complete. ROFL! No, not really. But it was a nice idea. I guess I'll let Rhiannon have her peanut butter cups. But now I'm really nervous about coconut and almonds. That Almond Joy in there could be fatal! Hmm. That's pretty scary. Almonds are tree nuts right? OH NO! Tree nuts can be deadly. I may have to assume that risk to protect Rhi Rhi.  

Urology appointment went really well!! Better than I expected to be honest. I like Dr. Raj very much. The orchiectomy is scheduled for December 23rd. Merry Christmas, here's your you-know-what. But this dude knows his business and I am confident he's going to save Eric's life. He knows for a fact Eric won't need radiation down the road, but he also knows that Eric will have to have a RPLND, which is a surgery that cuts Eric from neck to just above the pubic bone and plucks out every last bean shaped lymph node in his abdomen. Yeah. I'm trying hard not to think about that one right now. I know he needs it, but good God is it going to be a horrible surgery to recover from. Lord give me strength that day. Ok, moving on!

Unfortunately, I found out yesterday that my family falls into the category of what I call lower middle class (barely out of lower class, really) so the CCA couldn't help is with utilities. It's funny. We're supposed to be able to afford health insurance at $800 premium a month because Eric makes enough to pay it apparently (ya right - that's why we were uninsured) but now we make too much to get any assistance with utilities. Guess what? 11 months ago, I didn't need help. 5 months ago, I didn't need help.  I am in crisis now. Why can't you look at my crisis now and not my income for the past year? Oh well. I hopefully have other resources available to me with calls into churches, etc. It just seems laughable that we can't get help when I have proof that we need it. And ohhhh the proof you need because of fraudulent a-holes who like to fake having cancer. Jerks. Whatever. We'll figure it out.  

Otherwise all is really good. Eric is hopefully going in to work for a couple hours a day today. I don't know for sure but he HAS to get away from cancer for a couple hours and stop waiting for it to be cured already. The distraction of work can offer that. I'm thinking about driving him for the first couple days to make sure he can get there, and home, without feeling stranded from pure exhaustion (35 min drive one way). At least my dad is here to help with Rhi and I can call on him in a moments notice. I don't know how I will ever repay them for their time. I know it's their grandbaby but they're just going above and beyond and I will forever be grateful for that. 

Hope everyone has an awesome day! I know I will!! Stay strong through struggle everyone. An equal or greater reward is right around the corner!

Jenny

Good morning Train Riders!  My woohoo is totally off topic...  My work laptop survived a coffee spill with no obvious side effects, other than smelling like coffee now.  It was a tense hour yesterday while I waited for everything to dry out and see if it worked, but it did, so I can continue on my work at home saga.  Phew!  

Today I've got to take my money pit into the shop.  By the time I got there yesterday they were booked up and their driver had gone home for the day.  So plan B is to have Jeff follow me there before he goes to work and then they can come pick me up later.  Hopefully the fix is easy and cheap or at least covered by my warranty.  I've also got to spend some time cleaning up my house.  I swear it gets more cluttered every day and I can't blame it all on Jeff.  

I've started working on my cross stitch again, partially out of a desire to actually finish the big project so I can get on to others, and also to get me away from the computer.  I found myself spending too much time just staring at the screen and playing games so I've got to change that habit.  Now it would be even better if I added some physical activity in, but I'll get there eventually.

Hope everyone has a fantastic day.  Prayers all around for our family here!

Debbi

I think that all of us crafters are in that rut.........I find myself always in front of the computer when I'm at home - so I'm trying NOT to even turn on the computer until the weekends at home....but then again - I'm not doing what I need to be or should be or would like be doing.

I think that we need to plan a Sat or Sun afternoon  2-4 hours...give or take and have a CRAFT day  1x a month at someone's home or at a starbucks or something.      I need to get back into my  crocheting, or cross-stiching - not because I have projects that need to be completed..but it just holds and helps to hold onto my sanity..............

When I lived in OKC - I took 1 night a week off for craft night at the church.......it was from 7-9pm. WE cross-stitched.......crocheted.......cropped pics............even did the complete scrapping -  what ever we were working on................Sometimes I remember taking a  basket of clothes to fold (socks, underwear stuff)  or  bills to go through  - organize and/or pay them........etc..........sometimes we just all sat there and visited......talked.....chilled out................it was great and I really miss that.................the kids had a gym to play in  - so we let them play..............it was great.................