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  • About Me

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    Smooch

    Female, 53, Married
    NY, USA
    Member since March 5, 2007

    • About Me

      Surgery was 4 years ago on January 11, 2006. More time to work, improve myself, see what is right/wrong in my life besides what I eat and how I look...

      Surgery was 4 years ago on January 11, 2006. More time to work, improve myself, see what is right/wrong in my life besides what I eat and how I look...

    • Interests

      My husband, daughter and son... dogs...design-fashion, pottery, drawing, creating new things...smart people...funny people...Sudoku.......being outside...

      My husband, daughter and son... dogs...design-fashion, pottery, drawing, creating new things...smart

  • Recent Activity

    November 11

    October 22

  • Journal

    • point system

      Mood November 11, 2009 3:29pm

      1-House:Cozy, furnished, decorated, warm/cool, entertainment-friendly

      2-House:Landscaped, clean, driveway manageable, garbage manageable....garage …

    • Here we go again

      Mood October 22, 2009 7:21pm

      I am in a terrible situation....Why, you ask?  Yes, it is improved....Less time with my controlling manager...who hates my guts....and feels …
    • crazy!

      Mood October 22, 2009 11:57am

      I reported CP AGAIN yesterday, to J....my boss's boss's boss.  I hope that something really happens to change the situation...I hate CP …
    • Journal Entry for October 9, 2009

      Mood October 9, 2009 11:23am

      Resigned from my position.  Took courage and I improved my situation in terms of weight control and mental serenity.  Dressing better, in …
    • 9/26/09

      Mood September 26, 2009 7:18pm

      I like the groups that I am connecting to...Healthy Relationships...keeps me focused on doing things that make sense-especially if it involves …

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    • High Five

      From EagleMom November 4

      A lesson that should be taught in all schools . . And colleges

      Back in September, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a social studies school teacher at Robinson High School, did something not to be forgotten. On the first day of school, with the permission of the school superintendent, the principal and the building supervisor, she removed all of the desks out of her classroom.

      When the first period kids entered the room they discovered that there were no desks.

      'Ms.. Cothren, where're our desks?'

      She replied, 'You can't have a desk until you tell me how you earn the right to sit at a desk.'

      They thought, 'Well, maybe it's our grades.'

      'No,' she said.

      'Maybe it's our behavior.'

      She told them, 'No, it's not even your behavior.'

      And so, they came and went, the first period, second period, third period. Still no desks in the classroom.

      By early afternoon television news crews had started gathering in Ms.Cothren's classroom to report about this crazy teacher who had taken all the desks out of her room.

      The final period of the day came and as the puzzled students found seats on the floor of the deskless classroom, Martha Cothren said, 'Throughout the day no one has been able to tell me just what he/she has done to earn the right to sit at the desks that are ordinarily found in this classroom. Now I am going to tell you.'

      At this point, Martha Cothren went over to the door of her classroom and opened it.

      Twenty-seven (27) War Veterans, all in uniforms, walked into that classroom, each one carrying a school desk. The Vets began placing the school desks in rows, and then they would walk over and stand alongside the wall... By the time the last soldier had set the final desk in place those kids started to understand, perhaps for the first time in their lives, just how the right to sit at those desks had been earned..

      Martha said, 'You didn't earn the right to sit at these desks. These heroes did it for you. They placed the desks here for you. Now, it's up to you to sit in them. It is your responsibility to learn, to be good students, to be good citizens. They paid the price so that you could have the freedom to get an education. Don't ever forget it.'

      By the way, this is a true story.

      Please consider passing this along so others won't forget that the freedoms we have in this great country were earned by War Veterans.

    • Shout Out

      From EagleMom October 29

      Wish you were here!! Linda and I put together a “Bedlam” OSU/OU Energy Lab…….complete with Tesla Coil, glow sticks, black lights, glow bracelets, a strobe light, and a black light spider web….for creepy crawly energy. Whoooooo Hooooo!! How about those Cowboys??? I dressed up as Pistol Pete, complete with cowboy hat, orange and black fingernail polish, wild black eyebrows, mustache, and neon orange hair. Complete with six shooter cap guns…..and of course……Cowboy boots!! Hugs from OKC!! Cindi

    • Hug

      From EagleMom October 28

      By T. D. Jakes:

      There are people who can walk away from you. And hear me when I tell you this! When people can walk away from you let them walk.

      I don't want you to try to talk another person into staying with you, loving you, calling you, caring about you, coming to see you, staying attached to you. I mean hang up the phone. When people can walk away from you let them walk. Your destiny is never tied to anybody that left.

      The Bible said that, they came out from us that it might be made manifest that they were not for us, for had they been of us, no doubt they would have continued with us. [1 John 2:19]

      People leave you because they are not joined to you. And if they are not joined to you, you can't make them stay. Let them go, and it doesn't mean that they are a bad person it just means that their part in the story is over. And you've got to know when people's part in your story is over so that you don't keep trying to raise the dead. You've got to know when it's dead. You've got to know when it's over.

      Let me tell you something. I've got the gift of good-bye. It's the tenth spiritual gift, I believe in good-bye... It's not that I'm hateful, it's that I'm faithful, and I know whatever God means for me to have He'll give it to me.

      And if it takes too much sweat I don't need it. Stop begging people to stay. Let them go!!

      If you are holding on to something that doesn't belong to you and was never intended for your life, then you
      need ....
      LET IT GO!!

      If you are holding on to past hurts and pains ......
      LET IT GO!!!

      If someone can't treat you right, love you back, and see your worth.......................... LET IT GO!!!
      If someone has angered you.................
      LET IT GO!!!
      If you are holding on to some thoughts of evil and revenge.....
      LET IT GO!!!
      If you are involved in a wrong relationship or addiction...........
      LET IT GO!!!
      If you are holding on to a job that no longer meets your needs or
      talents………………
      LET IT GO!!!

      If you have a bad attitude............... LET IT GO!!!
      If you keep judging others to make yourself feel better..............
      LET IT GO!!!
      If you're stuck in the past and God is trying to take you to a new level in Him.........................
      LET IT GO!!!
      If you're feeling depressed and stressed ......................
      LET IT GO!!!
      If there is a particular situation that you are so used to handling yourself and God is saying 'take your hands off of it,'
      then you need to……….
      LET IT GO!!!
      The Battle is the Lord's!

    • Funny Face

      From EagleMom October 27

      A blonde city girl named Amy marries a Colorado rancher. One morning, on his way out to check on the cows, the rancher says to Amy, 'The insemination man is coming over to impregnate one of our cows today, so I drove a nail into the 2 by 4 just above where the cow's stall is in the barn. Please show him where the cow is when he gets here, OK?'

      The rancher leaves for the fields. After a while, the artificial insemination man arrives and knocks on the front door. Amy takes him down to the barn. They walk along the row of cows and when Amy sees the nail, she tells him, 'This is the one right here.'




      The man, assuming he is dealing with an air head blonde, asks, 'Tell me lady, 'cause I'm dying to know, how would YOU know that this is the right cow to be bred?'



      'Simple,' she says, 'by the nail that's over its stall.'

      Laughing rudely at her, the man asks, 'And what, pray tell, is the nail for?'

      As the blonde turns to walk away, she says sweetly over her shoulder,

      'I guess it's to hang your pants on.'

      (Ain't it nice to see the blonde win once in awhile?)

    • Ray of Sunshine

      From EagleMom October 26

      Hi to all of my DS friends!! Whooooo Hoooo! How about those OSU Cowboys? They beat Baylor Bears 34 to 7 last Sat!! Watch out OU..here we come!! I had a fabulous weekend here in OKC!! Had coffee with a new friend Friday evening….then went on a walk around Lake Hefner on Sat morning with Berkeley the Wonder Dog…..then used my new BBQ grill to smoke a couple of slabs of ribs yesterday. How was your weekend?? Cindi

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    • Close Gastric Bypass Surgery

      surgery 1/11/07. Highest weight-256...surgery day ...237..maintaining 170...resist putting myself first!

      Treatments

      Dietitian Consult Working / Worked
      An absolute necessity, from day one after surgery....
      Gastric Bypass Surgery Working / Worked
      This is what I was looking for my entire life....
    • Close Financial Challenges

      I am 51 and still learning healthy habits regarding money....When I have it I love to make people happy with it....When I don't I create so much stress for myself, trying to accomplish the impossible on a shoe string.

      Treatments

      Cut Up Credit Cards Working / Worked
      After taking a CLOSE look at the frequency of my spending. Also, charging insulates me from realizing that I really can't afford certain things.... expenses that
    • Open Time Management

      Smooch hasn’t entered any details for this support group.
    • Open Healthy Relationships

      always trying to talk to healthy people..give/get advice

      Treatments

      Talking Working / Worked
      works
      Writing Working / Worked
      works
    • Open Anxiety

      strong feelings of anxiety-Wish I did not react to situations with anxiety.

      Treatments

      Breathwork Working / Worked
      learned from Dr. Joy Brown on the radio-called Square Breathing
      Meditation Working / Worked
      learned how to meditate from books and tapes. Love it but don't do it anymore. Like many self-caring behaviors..
      Writing Working / Worked
      Always helped. Always there when I need it.
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