Claire - she had to pay out of pocket, it was $12,000 but in my opinion seeing the difference it has made in EVERY aspect in her life, it was worth EVERY penny!

Kayla - yep it was a year the last week in June I think. Time FLYS! Thanks about my siggy! I love it to

Robin - yeah it is fun going get weighed especially when you know you have been sticking to it!! Can't wait for your results tonight! Thanks about my siggy You go get them girls.

Karen - I am doing SOO good with my water again today...Heather is in the pics with me, but she's the middle sister. Brandy is the oldest (my SIL is also named Brandi, but with an I). I will try to get some before and after pics of her, she's makeing a scrapbook and it's pretty cool!

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Karen- Thanks. I am feeling a lot more like giving it a go today. just had to have a serious talk with myself. Last night when I told DH about the new plans, he said "OMG, you did alot of thinking today" LOL.

Cassie- $12,000.00-that's it? Wow, that is certainly worth it. Sheesh! My Ins was billed $14,000.00 for my lap for the endo. Crazy.

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Claire - YEP!!! The sleeve hasn't been in the US very long like 6 years I think they said. So maybe that's why it is so cheap, b/c they don't REALLY know the long term effects/statisics???

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Hiyah.

Yay for fun beaching Karen, boo to blisters. I'm terrified of blisters after last summer (when I walked too fast on the street barefoot and got HUGE blisters on the ball of each foot and could barely walk for several days).

Kayla ~ I'm sorry you're feeling so bad. That's awful. I wish I had something helpful right now. That picture of Marika in her bikini is GORGEOUS.

Bina ~ I don't think you are the weird one about discomfort at being gawked at, I think I am the odd one that I don't feel it. I don't know why...I've always gotten a lot of physical attention for multiple reasons, so I guess I got comfortable with it young and fast. I developed at 13 overnight, then was in high school (13), with male friends who were juniors and seniors, and a boyfriend who was 17 (who I'm still friends with almost twenty years later; thank goodness I at least chose well because I could have been in real trouble). I think about that sometimes...and wonder what effect it all had on me to race through the first half of sexual development like that. And then being desensitized in the strip club business (I wasn't a stripper, in case anyone didn't catch this conversation in the other thread ), but I think you get MORE attention in that business when you are clothed! You have a sense of being constantly observed and appreciated physically, but yet, they keep a distance, like a certain level of respect. At least, that was my experience. I'm babbling. I think I'm having heavy introspection recently, so I end up babbling a lot. Sorry.

Hi everybody.

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We all have feel good moments and I had one today at the gym and want to share. Not bragging but it made me feel good.....This young cute girl came up to me after class and said you have the nicest legs I can't quit staring at them. I smiled and told her thanks. My dh tells me that all the time but for a cute 20 yr old to say it was like WOW~ Made me feel good.

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Karen - It nice when it comes from a stranger because you know they didn't have to say it. Okay that didn't come out the way I wanted it too lol I know you DH doesn't have to say it either. I hope you know what I mean

LMAO! Damn, Karen's getting gawked at by WOMEN! Hot momma.

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I know I would KILL for Karen's legs!!

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I'd kill just to have LEGS and not CANKLES! I'm just kidding.......couldn't help myself. I do actually have legs

Steph-Am I understanding that you were in High school at 13? Why?

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Clarie - depends on when your bday is, lots of kids start 9th grade at 13 and graduate at 17.

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Cassie- I guess you are right-duh. I was thinking it was much younger than that somehow. I guess I'm just getting old. 13 seems too young for HS! LOL

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Maybe it's regional, Cass, but I was the only one I knew of! Friends in my grade all throughout school were a year to a year and a half older, and I often on top of that had friends that were a grade or two ahead, making them several years older. I didn't graduate at 17-about-to-be-18, I still had the whole year to go before my birthday. I always looked and socially was way ahead of myself too. It's scary now, because my perception has altered and thirteen seems like such a baby...just a child, and I remember my life then, what I knew about, what I DID, my friends... I look at Gail's daughter, who is EXACTLY the age I was when I met the 17 year old, and it seems like CHILD abuse to think of her in a few of the situations I was in. Fortunately, he was a good guy and never pushed it when I obviously wasn't there yet, he was actually a respectful human, but still...to look at a thirteen year old and even begin to imagine her being in those situations...*shudder*.

I started school at four, Rhea. Most kids are five almost six.

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OIC, why did you start early? Was it the way your birthday landed in the calendar?

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Claire I laughed loudly at you. Cankles. hahahahahah You are a hoot! Christie says she has them too and she is lying so I am betting you are too.

Steph....hahaha I don't think she was checking me out. She was admiring but not like that...Oh shut UP! hahahah

Robin- yeah I know what you mean. Sort of like when your dh refuses to EVER say you look bad. He lies constantly to me but he HAS to.

Bina- thanks you are a sweetie!

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Rhea ~ It was right around the time when the 'cutoff date' was such a big deal, and all the parents were trying to put kids in school early. SO, the county we were in decided to test all the four year olds (I guess it was the county, maybe several, if memory serves, a few thousand kids). There was a week of testing set up, and each day, you'd go home with a letter saying 'thanks, we'll see little Johnny when he's five' or 'come back tomorrow'. They ended up putting seven of us in school. I don't remember any of it. But that six month period in Florida (we were waiting while my dad was overseas preparing to bring us over) is completely blocked from my memory. I always advise people against early enrollment. Most school districts won't even do it now anyway.

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Steph- Oh, Ok. I see how that all worked out......I was more picturing that you were some prodigy or something.

Karen- My DH WILL tell me when I look bad! LOL. Only certain types of clothing he hates. Like I love whearing basketball shorts around the house and he calls them my "ugly-a**-shorts". Or he'll say things like-I like those other (read: tighter) jeans. LOL. So I don't ask anymore

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