please help

livesstrong

I have to post this one - sorry UB -

livesstrong

This pic was without my duvet cover - I have to wash it constantly it gets soooo dirty with the beasts sleeping on it.  Notice the plaid blanket - I use it  cause the beasts are forever pulling the covers ever which way!!! By the way, the brown color was UB's choice- the room was light blue before.

AE 

Ulla

dear sisters,,

i hope u all have a nice day..

its sunny here..very nice weather,,i had a short walk..

and miss u all..

AE the pix of the livstrong event amazing,,and the one for UB with the beasts,,lol...

mel,,how r u dear?

where is sue?

jane wat time is it there now???

dear sisters ,,i have a q about the wieght,,its about 4 weeks now since i start my diet,,i have jumped on the scale and there is about 5Kgm loss,,

i would like to know if u had experienced that..i wieght myself be4 eat,,and after eat,,there is always about 1kg difference between them,,is it possible that its the wight of the food that i have ate??

wat is my real wight with or without the extra kilo??

i was 88Kgm in 1st april

i am  82.5 Kgm 1st may

but it confuses me to c different numbers evrytime i jump on the scale..

love u all sisters

where is sue???

i miss her....

Anonymous

Hi Ulla,

I cant help with the weight question as I am really back with the change over from kilos to our american pounds....

I know I always see a diffence too....they say that if you weigh yourself fully clothed with no shoes then you need to subtract 3-4 pounds for the clothing weight...

I have weighed myself with clothes, without clothes, before eating, after eating and I ALWAYS get one or two pounds difference....

The thing I find funniest is that I have weighed myself naked before a shower, then again right after showering and find that I am 5 pounds heavier after showering, but I think I have that figured out....I have really thick hair and I think it is water weight in my hair after my shower...

Hugs

Jule

sueps

BOOOOOOO XXX

Dear Sisters...I love all your pix and all your words ..... I love my second home here hahaha....xxx

I am so sorry for my AWOL...I have been work work work work work all weekend ...it is bank holiday tomorrow and I am working...in fact I am working 9 days in a row without a day off!!!

We were so busy yday I was very cream crackered last night....xxx

The pictures of everyone mean so much to me....we are all sisters and you make my world a richer ...brighter ...and kinder place!!!

UB ..... oh my ....I love the pic of you too....lol..... theres a nice crash out going on there .... ahhhhhh xxx

I hope you are all having a good day ...xxx

sueps

FLOWERS NEED SUNSHINE,

VIOLETS NEED DEW,

ALL ANGELS IN HEAVEN,

KNOW I NEED YOU!

YEARS MAY FLY,

TEARS MAY DRY,

BUT THE BOND WITH MY SISTERS

WILL NEVER DIE XXX

Ulla

thanx jule for the answer..

its always 1kgm=2pounds (approximately)

so the difference is always 2 pounds for me..=1kgm

i would love to believe the less weight as if it wasnt true ,,would the scale read my wieght less than it is with 1kgm..

lets choose the less no..

smiles

love u sisters

sueps

Ulla you are one glamorous chic chick ....!!!!! I love your new pic....WOOP WOOP!!!

NancyD

Hi ladies,

Just popped in to say, it's chemo weekend for me so I'm laying low.

But having a disagreement with my daughter. She takes her driver's test this week and thinks she should be allowed to take the car off today, license or no license. Where's the brains? It's going around and around, and I finally had to tell her to just leave me alone.

Sorry, go to go check and make sure she didn't drive off anyway.

Nancy 

sueps

Yikes Nancy...hide the keys..... xxx

livesstrong

Sue - you crack me up- Woop Woop!!  Be careful you don't crash & burn working all those hours!!

I forgot to mention how FABULOUS ALL the pictures are.  I definitely think it brings us closer together.

On that note, I took some pics of my townhouse for you all to see - I thought it would be fun for us to see what each others places look like.  So here is my tiny home -

Ulla

ooo..ty sweety sue ..i felt like i need to look for my oldself again,,so i choosed to put this pic 14 months be4 bootface dx..hoping tp looklike it again ...

nancy ,,sue is right,,hide the keys...

i couldnt learn or take my driver licens wen i was unmarried and my father teaching me..i couldnt learn anything from him,,once i got married DH learned me and i used to steal the car while he had his short afternoon nap..wen he wake up and find that i took the car he was turnning crazy ,,so he used later to hide the keys under his pillow wen he want to take his nap...lololol

love u sisters

livesstrong

Hi Ulla!!!

When I took the house picture, the ducks down the street saw me outside and flew over - I feed them everyday.

This is the back of my place.

Ulla

oh god dear AE the pix of ur house r charming..and those ducks r soooooo lovely...

i used to feed the ducks everytime i go for shopping in a near bigger city called(Borås)..there r many of them swimming freely and i feel so relaxed to watch and feed them...

i will post some pix for my TINNY FLAT..it is really small..not wat i used to have wen i was in baghdad,,but everything is different here ,,not so much big flats and houses..everything is small in sweden..

i have a friend who is american man married to a swedish woman and he is attending the same class to learn swedish,,he said something made me laugh really ,,,he said that he used to use (TINNY )word infront of anything swedish to be accurate in describe it,,,

so TINNY swedish flat....etc

love u sisters

sueps

oh my AE what a charming house you have...I am just popping outside before dark to take a pix of mine heheheh.....its a bit dusky out there...

It is such a good idea ...I thought it a couple of months ago and then forgot....  hey AE .... I wannna come shack uo with you and UB....!!!

b back in a min ...with my pics !!!!

x x x x x x x x x

NancyD

O-o-oh, I love your townhouse, AE. Very nice.

And just wanted to report that daughter was good...waited for one of my brothers to show up and asked him to drive her to her bf's. Ah, young love. But it must be a pain to have a mom who's sick and can't do the things I was doing for her just a few months ago.

But on a funny note, last night she was looking at the hairs left on my head and started pulling them off with a wad of tape. Then she made a comment that we were like monkeys grooming each other. 

Back to my dark hole. I'm so fatigued this time. And absolutely no taste buds at all. Totally shot. And my brothers are grilling lamb chops tonight—one of my favorite meals; they really know how to make me suffer.

But this is half-way through chemo. Now we'll have a break for some tests to see where we are...maybe ready for surgery. 

And at some point, I'll have to learn to post pictures myself. I'm not technically challenged, but this format seems a little different than I'm used to.

'Night. (Even though it's the middle of the afternoon here. My room is dark enough that it could be midnight.)

sueps

OK  ....Soz for the blur its a bit rainy...this is my shack and my lil red brum brum!!!

And this is what I see from my shack door xxx

Anonymous

Oh, Nancy, I'm sorry. Grilled lamb chops would put me over the edge. But I adore your attitude. You are one tough lady. When are tests scheduled? And to make you feel a bit better, I hope, about your daughter...my youngest daughter used to take my car while I slept long before she was old enough to get a license. I just learned this the other day. I only knew about the time she lost control backing out of our drive and hit two cars parked at our neighbor's house. My insurance company specifically listed her as not covered on my auto policy! It shook her up so much that she never drove again until her late 20s! She grew up to be extremely responsible, but I wondered during those teen years...

AE, you and UB are amazing. And I love your townhouse, especially the ducks outside and the critters on the bed. Are they labs? (not UB, of course, he's clearly a Racing Snoozhound...I just love those). I adore labs and German Shepherds.

Ulla, weight varies day to day, time of day, before period, after period, and phase of the moon. It is useless to weigh frequently and try to make sense of it. Weigh yourself at the same time every day...morning, naked, before shower or food is a good one. The ideal is to weigh once a week, but I think you would have no patience with that. Once every day or so is also fine, but instead of trying to figure out what it means, look at the trend...over time are you going down or up? Is there a difference in how your clothing fits? Try to ignore specific numbers as much as you can. You look amazing just as you are now.

Do you have to use the word "tiny" when you refer to mature Swedes? They do love to eat!!!  I know...I'm one of them.  Tiny would not be used in a description of me!

Sue, love the poem and, as always, your bright spirit and wicked humor. Your boys are amazing, too. You have much to be proud of, Dorothy!

I'll try to post some photos of my current abode. It's fun to see faces and the places they live. Everything becomes more intimate.

Sweet dreams Nancy,

Judie 

Oh, Sue...you posted while I was writing away. I LOVE your red jitney! (you have to be old and American to get that one!!!)  

Ulla

dear judie,,

evrything in sweden can be really tiny but not the swedish ppl..specially women,,i was shocked when come in here last year ,,i noticed that they r realy fat and dont care that much for wieght issues,,i even had a conversation with some swedish ladies at the charity shop that i always have my weekend cafee in it about that and one of them said that they love to be REAL WOMEN NOT HUNGRY STICKS!!!!

even wen i started to gain wieght and complain soo much about it ,,they used not to pay me any attention wen it comes to that point,,i asked for a single appointment with a specialist dietition but they told me am not covered for that and they just do it for free for the patients who lose weight,,,

even in the gym ,,i used to take my trainer as my example,,but i cant do that here for most of the activities the trainer is not slim ,,she can be mucular,lil filled and so far away from wat i want to look like,,the k-balance lady is really overweight..the spinning lady is lilfilled and muscular like a man..the only really nice one with very beautifull wieght is the step2 trainer which is really hard for me and undoable at all for me so i cant attend her class,,,

wow sue ,,ur house looks realy beautifull,,

i couldnt go out to take pix for the building but i will tomorrow,,

now i will just invite my sisters in my lil living room and my lil kitchen wer i love to sit in the mornnings..

i hope u all have a nice time..

ps,,this post took about 1hr as i took a bath in the middle of it..

much love

Shirlann

Oh Wow, all these wonderful photos!  I must learn how to resize before photobucket, I can do the rest?  Any help.  I can get the photos to photobucket and on here, but they are tiny.  I know I must re-size BEFORE photobucket, but how?

Now, Ulla, I love your house.  Oh Sue, your house looks so much like the one we stayed in in Dublin!  Amazing.  We traded houses with an Irish family for 3 weeks.

AE, I love the photo of the dogs and UB.  Now, Dusty, the Whippet, sleeps UNDER the covers, so no complaining about dirt, hahaha, the kitty, Cleo sleeps on a pillow just over my head, she is high there and feels safe, I think.

I will try and figure out how to get pix on here that are not teeny.

Love you all, Shirlann 

sueps

and these photos are at least 35 years apart ...

lil me in a lil english garden age 3

and me just before dx at a friends house afterr work..excuse my unifrom LOL and hat hair ...xxx

Shirlann

livesstrong

Glad you liked the pictures, its small but its home.  I have a rose bush on obe side of the front door and a butterfly bush on the other - neither have bloomed yet.  The tree to the right I planted about 8yrs ago - it was about 6 inches high back then.

I'm going to catch hell from UB for posting that picture -  

Sue - your place is great!!  It looks like it belongs in the US.  We have houses here that are very similiar. Love your Voom Voom.  And that pic of you as a child - you looked like the cat that swallowed the canary!LOL. The other one is fab- that smile is infectoius.

Ulla - your place is beautiful - I love the red & white kitchen - red is getting more popular here as well.  

Judy - I have a bloodhound and a Cheasepeake Bay Retrivier.  That is exactly where they sleep at night - thank God I have a king size bed!!! 

Nancy -  sorry to hear the s/e's have kicked in.  They just suck. Hang in there - they don't last forever.

AE 

Anonymous

OK, Shirlann and anyone else who wants to know...

Photobucket:

Go to Photobucket. Under "Upload Images & Video" where it says "use our faster bulk uploader" click on the words "bulk uploader"

When the uploader opens, at the bottom of the colored rectangle where pictures go when you select them, you will see, in tiny letters, the word "options".

Click on that.

Choose  the size you want. I use "15" screen". It's a nice large, but not huge, size.

You do not have to resize before Photobucket...the uploader does all the work.

Now get busy, Shirl!!! 

Judie 

Anonymous

OK, everybody. I hunted, but don't have a photo of the house. I went outside, but can't get a proper angle. If anyone wants a tour of the inside, send me a pm and I'll give you the link and password to the photos. My son doesn't want them posted publicly. It really is an interesting, lovely home. It's just not my home...at least not yet. I'm trying.

Yes, Ulla, I assumed that Swedish women were "plump" to put it nicely. I would fit right in over there.

  

About where I live...not at home, or what was my home. It is my son's house and is still unfinished. I am probably the most impoverished member of this group and am overwhelmed. While I can admire and appreciate the beauty of this house, my heart yearns for Ulla's bright, cozy space. Maybe it is once again the Swedish side of my nature.

What a gorgeous day in Seattle!!!

Judie 

Shirlann

This

Shirlann

That was my dog, Dusty, this is my grandchildren, about 8 years ago.

Shirlann

Shirlann

Up there is our condo, here is me and my last boss. Down in Mexico.

Shirlann

Here is my little Tanzanian family.