Leahdorus

Chop up the meat, add some chopped veggies (water chestnuts, edamame, etc), some light sauce, and make lettuce wraps!

Rhea

working late...yay fun...

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daddy needs a forty and some cigs so keep wurkin babydoll.

DeniseK

sleepy....finally. Night all.

Sandy55

Been busy all day, chillin' with DS23, having some guacamole I made earlier, uploading more photos onto my profile. Good ones of granddaughters and a new one of DS and Dog after DS new haircut. DS likes his hair short, both sons do must stem from two parents in military for so long....

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finished writing a document and emailed it to the republic of slovakia

preso

yeah sounds good, thats what I was planning... for myself.... lettuce wraps.

GMTA
( great minds think alike..... lol)

Still losing weight !!!................ and I love my effexor

preso

Making meal plans for rest of the week...........

lots of hot paninni sandwiches for husband, with a small bowl of soup.
lettuce wraps for me and low carb fruits ( berries)
lean meat and salad....

I'm off all cereal, bread, potato, pasta, milk and any high carb fruit
or sugary foods
for the time being.


breakfast ( for husband)
egg, cheese, potato burritos


lunches ( again for husband- all paninni sandwiches)
tonight- rueben sandwich and small soup
wednesday- smoked turkey, bacon, tomato and small soup
thursday- BLT's and small soup

dinners- dont know yet

My meals are far less complicated
and far easier to make.

Sandy55

Back from doctor for wt and BP monitoring check and to get some Lunesta for when I begin working nights and need to learn to asleep in daytime hours. Now a fight with MEDCO about the prescription....authorization. No, I cannot take Ambien, already discussed that with Doc, so why do I need to jump through paperwork hoops AGAIN!

Beating self up about emotional eating and not watching my hand to mouth disease.....

Sandy55

Off to go pick up DS 15.6 from friend's house. Last night the movies, now this tonight. He gets his license in 5 months 5 days.

Last mom's taxi service year. Oh, another milestone..

Preso: Your food sounds great!

preso

This weekend we are going to celebrate stepsons birthday as he is not living with us... so we are limited as to which days we can do this.
I must say, his mother bought him a new vehicle 6 months ago and I don't understand why she would do this for a boy who wasn't even old enough to drive, unless its some form of bribery... or to make herself look good.
I feel its foolish, but if she wants to spend her money on foolishness and create a slacker, thats her business as we are moving far, far away soon and he will be her problem that SHE created and will have to deal with.
What we are going to do this weekend, as he is 16, will be his first time to drive over for his visitation
and I plan to get him a novelty cake, perhaps one that looks like a cheeseburger...
My husband bought him a fancy mobile radio from Sams, although I fear his son will say something snobby, like " I have a stero, better than this radio".... and I sure hope he doesn't do that... and I'm sure husband will give him 40-50 dollars too.

I bought him a car emergency kit with jumper cables, fix a flat, etc...
and we are making him his favorite meal, grilled steaks/ french fries.

My husbands kids.... and what he and his family believe is to celelbrate birthdays until age 18 and then just a card. After 18 there is no more gifts or money.
His daughter is already over 18 and she is getting nothing but a card. She has severe emotional and behavioral issues and we just pray she will start to grow up but realize she may remain as is, a creation of her mother ( a snobby bratty but ignorant young woman with a HUGE sense of entitlement--- her mother can deal with that since she created it)

A lot of work for his son of his... as well as expense... I can only hope he appriciates it.

Not feeling super good about this because he has become very snobby since his mother bought him a new truck 6 months ago.

preso

Just checked his myspace page ( stepsons) and he says his phone is broken... so I think I'll just get him a cupcake cake... as not to waste money as I'm not sure his mother will allow him to go.
She likes to do that to screw up our plans.

This way I can easily freeze the cupcake cake.
I'll sure be glad when he turns 18 as we are through with the games his mother likes to play USING HIM.
ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Maybe I'll wait to defrost the steaks too until I know he's coming, for sure. In the past his mother has made him change plans spur of the moment.
I may also hold my emergency car kit until Christmas... as it looks as if his mother wishes to start kaka over the birthday.
She tells him his father should be getting him things like a new car, like she does and that she loves him and his father doesn't as he doesn't buy him super expensive toys ( like the car)
ugh.......
what a mess.

preso

O. M. G !!!
Just back from the mall.... they are clearing everything out for winters shipments and the deals were unbelieveable !
For instance...
something 100 dollars is reduced to 50 ( 50% off)
then another 75% off that comes to 12.50............ sometimes even more off, even half of that !!!
( Pennys, Macys stores)

You should see the shirts and sweaters I got...
75 dollars original price, minus 50%= 37.50
minus 75% off comes to less than 10 dollars. Some were even more off, got one
long sleeved cotton t-shirt for 2.98
orginal was like 32.00 on that....

woah.... I'm just going to do ALL my clothing shopping first week in august. I bought maybe 1000 dollars worth of stuff retail
( jewelry and clothing) and spent about 50 bucks
even got mineral makeup kit, down from 60.00 to 6.99 !!!!

Is it me? or is this is kick butt , having lots of good fortune summer?



Must be retail and the malls did not do well this year to clearance out so many nice things so cheap...
maybe a bad year for retail, but GOOD FOR ME !!!!

preso

I just checked my reciepts, sent a lil more than 50.00

I SURE HAD FUN TODAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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thanks preso

we're all pulling for you

keep us informed of your every move