Kinda like you said, Sal. Not to sound selfish, but me first. Nobody else is gonna comb my hair or do my make up and I'm tired of walking around looking like a Halloween decoration.

I'm more important than the dust bunnies, the dirty clothes, the dishes. Maybe there's not much I can do about the pain, but if I can't feel all that great, at least I can try to look presentable even if just for me.

I'm going to put myself together every day, unless I don't feel like it. Gonna feed myself decent food, make my surroundings nice, pleasant to look at, functional for me and peaceful for me and my pets. Prioritize, me, then the critters, and everything else after that.

Inject a little fun into the day whether it's a good show, a good book, a good talk on the phone. When it's nice out, I'm going out, not stuck here cleaning, fixing, painting, working.



I want to lose that 20lbs I gained last year, but it's not gonna be easy. I keep living by the *No Carb left behind* motto.

Aren't mothers and wives wonderful??? I want one. No wait. Mine is dead and now I'm the wife. We tidy, give the last morsel of food to others (kids think I must be stupid, the way I give the good stuff up and stupidly do without or choose the bad, at 17 DD is started to look at me unbelievingly), we tidy and fuss, clean linens and towels to others, etc. No more!!!! MS has made me less tolerant, I really need what I need. When I ask, DH calls it nagging. I think I quit. He makes tasty meal full of grease and creams and thinks my bottom is spreading in this chair. Well Duh!!!! Any correlation you think?

Kicker - my dh still doesn't get a lot of things either. We went to a really nice restaurant. He wanted to try wine with dinner, but for some reason, didn't want to do so alone.

I don't drink wine - bad for migraines. He knows this, or should by now. He mentions wine a couple times - and this is not the first time, while I was in FL with him. I decline again. Finally I just calmly said "It's been a long time since I got kicked out of anyplace - you want it to be here? You want to start something?"

I don;t start it, but I will finish it. I almost got us *removed* from a nice steak house a few years ago.



*Stop telling me what I want to eat already!*

I know I need some "me" time each day as does dh and Mom. I called a family meeting and we all discussed our needs.

DH likes to nap after lunch while the tv is on in the living room, Mom likes to have quiet time to read in her room after breakfast and I like to do my exercises in the morning by myself and have a while to read after lunch.

We all have these times to ourselves and we all respect each others needs for time alone as well as family time.

So far it's working.

Fiber -- lots of fiber!

Like you said SalPal "meeeeeeeeee"

Last year was not a good one. With the buying of the house and remodeling, it was supposed to only take 8 weeks, it went to 9 months.

Yes just like having a new baby. Even with the contractors, I let them walk all over me, and my DS & DDIL lived their life and because I didn't complain, thought everything was going all right with me.
It was fun cooking in a small section with a toaster oven, micro, and a
electric wok they thought I could use. I have had it with keeping my mouth
shut. This year the big mouth is on a role.

I already started with christmas, when my niece wanted to come and
spend a couple of days with her 1/2 sister and two teenage boys. Can't do that. Come when you are heading back to Fla. without the boys and only
for a short time. It worked!!! I only made a pot of Pea Soup from the ham
bone left over from christmas, anything else, you are on your own to help make.

I have gained so much weight from over eating, do that when I am stressed. Going to change, have to get rid of the stress. No more spending
money for things on the family going to spend it on meeee.

The one thing I do want to do and it is for everyone

GOING TO SAY "I LOVE YOU" more often. Life is too short.

Jappy

Another Amen..

Good for you!

Doesn't it seem like we ALL have been through the same thing?

We all prided ourselves on jumping through hoops for everyone for all those years.


Well, no more circus poodles here!

That's why I like you, you're full of juice!!!!!