By Marsha Sinetar. We are healed to the extent that we love ourselves as we are right now--blemishes, vulnerabilities and all--not as we wish we will be at some time in the distant future. Since I don't seem to be getting a quote up every day, I guess it will always be the quote of the whenever. Ya'll bear with me. Anyway, this one is a good one for WLS people, mainly me. I am trying to love myself, warts and all. I don't want to wait until I have WLS and reach my goal and have plastic surgery and get my finances in order and write a best-selling novel and get another motorhome and do Antonio Banderas right there in front of Melanie Griffith or reach all my goals in life. I wanna love myself now. And I do a lot better than I used to. I love myself more now than I did when I was young and thin and SHOULD HAVE LOVED MYSELF. I want to heal myself, inside and out. I've always tried to work on the outside so others would love me. Now I wanna work on my inside so _I_ will love me. Besides, what's not to love? Love ya'll, Joni who keeps saying she's going to bed and does not...

Wonder if anyone has emailed Jacksonville State telling them that a mass hate mailing was sent from their campus at 09:09am? I'm sure this is not something they would wish to be involved with, especially if there were lawsuits threatened.... Hmmmm..... The sender is getting sloppy. Like in mystery novels, it takes more and more for the criminal to get their thrill, so they start doing more and more and taking bigger risks and one day.....bam! They slip up and are caught. Yep, this will be "interesting." Of course, it's not just one person causing trouble. Even if this person is banned, there's a few others who will continue the cause. I'm just happy to be on this board with all my sistahs. Love, Joni who has had enough of the BB for today and is going to bed