Good morning all and happy Friday!! I hope everyone has a great weekend. What's everybody's plans??? We've got some out of town company coming in tomorrow (unexpectedly).....just gonna hang out by the pool and try to stay cool. Supposed to be a scorcher the weekend. Everybody drink plenty of water and stayin the shade! Love ya'll, Kim

Yeah, those things annoy me too. Most of the time I see what it is and just delete it. It depends on who the person is as to whether or not I say anything about it. And too, the amount of stuff that they send me. Most of the time, those are few and far between for me. I've only had one person who just continually sent me crap...and I finally said...I love hearing from you, but please don't forward me any of that kind of stuff anymore. Good ideas I like...and funny stories I like, but please don't send me anymore of the "your head's gonna fall off if you don't do this in the next 5 minutes" stuff. And it worked! I still hear from her, not as much as I used to...but now its quality and not quantity. Even with Mike, I've had to tell him...hey honey, thanks for thinking of me...but I really don't get anything out of those...please don't send them to me. Becky

You know, I have a few people who are always sending me those stupid forwards with the "Send this to 10 people within 5 minutes or you will have bad luck for a year!" I sit here in this apartment, sick as a dog, unable to do my basic stuff and feel like my life has gone straight to hell and here I get these things promising MORE bad luck????? I know it's supposed to be fun, fun, fun and cutesy pie and all that, but I think it's friggin RUDE to send stuff to someone who has a miserable life, predicting another year of bad luck! I am NOT going to forward them on to others because I don't know one single solitary soul in the whole world who likes these things. So when I get the crap, I want to just throttle the people who send them because I think, "So it's YOU who have sent me this bad luck!" I know they haven't, of course, but I do believe that what you send out to the universe comes back to you, so I don't think the vibes these things send are good. I have one guy especially who sends me 10 or more forwards a day. I want to tell him to quit sending me the bad luck forwards, the religious forwards, the George Bush is great forwards....I hate that....ahem...individual. And that is my right. I don't push my beliefs on anyone and I don't want anyone pushing their beliefs on me. He can think any political figure he wants is great, but I don't want him cluttering up my email with all that crap. I could tell him to leave me off his stupid forwards list. However, he does send, on occasion, some of the funniest jokes I've ever heard. So if I tell him to quit sending me bad luck, I lose out on the good jokes. I don't think he censors any of his forwards. I just think he forwards everything he ever gets to every single person in his address list. Anyway, I just needed to vent. I am getting sicker every damned day and when I read that I am going to have another year of bad luck if I don't intrude on 10 of my friends within 5 minutes, it just makes me madder than you can imagine. And I have enough stress! Dammit! Ok, got that off my chest. Thanks for listening. Love ya'll, Joni

Joni, Here is the BMI calculator obesity help.com... http://www.obesityhelp.com/morbidobesity/bmi-start.phtml I prefer to use this one though because it even measures ounces. http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/bmi/calc-bmi.htm Thanks for the congrats! I am fortunate too that there is not a BMI for the mind...I would be tipping it as well!! Gail

Dunno on that one, but I dread that part. It grosses me out when even ONE hair comes out when I'm washing my hair. And I hate all the loose hair on the carpet, on my bed, etc. I do shed some and it makes me crazy. I shudder to think how much is in the carpet since I don't have a vacuum cleaner. I have one of those little mini Scorpion vacuum cleaners, but can't vacuum the whole apartment with it...well, I guess I could if I could stand on my worthless legs. I keep meaning to start taking Biotin now, but never seem to see any anywhere and forget to look when I'm in Wal-Mart. Where do ya'll get your Biotin? My hair is just about the only thing that hasn't fallen apart on me, so I hate to see it fall out. It always looks like crap these days because I can't stand on my feet to fix it or hold my arms up to blow it dry, so I just wa**** and go out with it wet and then I sweat buckets so it looks gross, but at least I have the feeling that should I go to the beauty shop and let them fix it, it would look good...until I walked out of the shop and started sweating again. I hope I have the same reaction that most people have to the surgery and start to freeze to death all the time. That would be nice. Speaking of which, it feels like it's 6000 degrees outside these days. I hate it. You do have a lot of pretty hair, so it shouldn't be too bad. Love you, Joni