Hello everyone!
Lisa, I've been jumping in and out of here too, hearing crickets most of the time.
Sorry Lisa and everyone!!
I'm here, I'm always here, but with very little motivation to post lately. Hubby is finally returning from Mexico tomorrow, so my mood and spirits have lifted a little bit today. He's had one heck of a time getting out of there, he's ended up on a bus and is due into Chicago at 5am tomorrow morning. From there he's said he will take whatever bus will bring him here, downtown. I tried to find out from Greyhound, departure and arrival times for Lafayette this morning, and ended up finding out that our town isn't even on it's list of arrivals and departures!! It's because they only pull in and out of here if/when tickets are purchased...guess you learn something new everyday.
Boy this has been a long two weeks, he left me with just over two hundred bucks in my account and I've made due. I've left the house once in two weeks, that was to get a hand full of groceries and to put gas in my truck, how depressing!! Talk about a case of self impossed cabin fever!
I want to thank you all for your condolences, he was very close to his mother. I picked up on the fact that he was the favored son as soon as we were married and made our first trip down. She was a terrific lady, that's for sure. She gave birth to sixteen kids, a set of twins didn't make it through birth and one sister passed when she was around seven. Thirteen are left, most of them living here in Lafayette. He has two brothers and two sisters still living on the ranch and one sister in LA. The house we're restoring is where she lived, my husbands father built it in 1953, right after they had their first child. After my FIL passed, she went back and forth between Mexico and here, she lived in one of our rental houses all the years she was here. She announced about three years ago that she was tired and wanted to go home "to die". When we took her back we were startled over how the house had fell to ruin and that started the restoration. The home was willed to my husband's youngest brother (it's a Mexican thing) who knew he'd not return to Mexico. He sold it to us years ago and we always knew we'd be restoring it and spending time there, his mother return there only caused us to speed up the process a little bit.
I've wondered over the past few weeks how her passing will effect his desire to spend time there now and in the future. I guess I'll be finding out.
I do have a bit of fun good news to share, my eldest daughter Abbie, that's expecting in August, is having TWINS!! Makes me laugh everytime I think about it! She said her DH (Chris) told the ultrasound tech that all he wanted to know was if it was twins or not, (he was only teasing Abbie) and sure enough, the tech smiled really big and said well dad your insight was correct, here they both are. Abbie said you could see them both perfectly in their individual sacs. She says she's never been so terrified and thrilled at the same time over anything in her life. They have two boys already so they need to even out the household odds with girls!!
They're being so funny over it!
Lisa, I can't imagine having botox, or should I say, having the extra money to afford botox!
I want details!...heck I want a facelift!! Seriously, after my weight loss, I'm covered in wrinkles and it's so embarrassing. My 35th year class reunion is this summer and it's almost keeping me from considering going to it. I've told my husband so many times that I need to go see about having something done about them and all he does is laugh and say, "You're fine, you're fine, I love you, wrinkles and all." ...okay, okay, so it is funny when he says it.
I've managed to stay pretty close to Step I and I've lost 4.5 lbs since the first of the year. I'll take it!
I've decided that what saved me from gaining back far more than what I did was that I never returned to drinking sugar or actually eating much candy. My bad carb upped intake was from breads and pasta, pizza, stuff like that.
Okay, so did I yap enough? Everyone jump back in here and say hello!? No more crickets in here!
<<< this is me doing the cricket stomp dance!
Yuck! My nose is so chapped I didn't want to go to the supermarket today in case I ran into anyone I know. I went to the convenience store instead. Today was the first day I felt good enough to go outside.
I see later in your post where it went. 
