Author: criscollrj
My new journal!
2020 – so this was a diet page I made at I believe LiveJournal (https://weighdownagain.livejournal.com/) around 2006 while this blog also was still at LiveJournal. I eventually merged them and just tagged the weight journals with the appropriate category, but this was the beginning of it… I also have an earlier weight journal at my old pre-blog site, here, that goes from around 1999-2005 – http://www.criscollrj.com/site%20files/Weight%20Journal.html
I finally have it set up the way I want with the background picture! Now I need to find some readers and blog my weight loss like I hope to!
Some of my history is at my home page on my diet page (the second link, above, as this link is no longer valid). I plan to journal more here and hopefully meet a lot of great people in the meantime. This site is also interesting, the one I kept back in the late nineties. (2020 update — https://www.oocities.org/dorifam/food.html). Happy there are still links viewable from the “oocities” Geocities archive!!!
I started dieting on and off at the age of 10. I am now 40, so a 30 year history!
but now I must go, 3 year old is crabby!
add me if you’d like!
dori
please check out my home page, https://criscollrj.com
okay, now a criscollrj.com pic…
testing pic
aggravated!
If anyone can see why I suddenly can’t post pics, let me know???
I’m trying again here…. 
Ryan on the bus! I copied this from successful picture posting from the past….
If this doesn’t work you may hear me screaming, and as my kids are running wild and loose (and healthier now, so more able to get into trouble) now I will have to give up and be very crabby until tomorrow’s quiet time!!
dori, perfectionist ADD type who has trouble giving up on things that bear no importance at 7:10 p.m. on a school night with her house a mess and screaming 3 year old next to her.
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st patty
I love St. Patrick’s day — it has a lot of meaning for me because 11 years ago we were stuck paying for 2 households, and on St. Patrick’s day 94 our trailer sold that day for cash and we got out of the hole right before my precious Colleen was born. (not fun, paying a trailer payment, lot rent, and a mortgage on another house!!!).
So we have a big bash every year for St. Patrick’s day – corned beef, cabbage, etc., and this year I’m making green jello jigglers and green cake —
party on, and no alcohol even involved 🙂
We are feeling MUCH BETTER, and I’ve never been so grateful for good health! One week ago my temp was climbing and I was sick on the couch. Ugh. Now my MIL has it – I feel so bad. We went to the birthday party Sunday she had, thinking we weren’t contagious anymore — not even knowing we’d had influenza. She just said, none of us knew, don’t worry about it, and it’s going around everywhere. I just feel so bad for her….
AMERICAN IDOL ANYONE? I’m loving it….
look for surveys soon — I’ve borrowed 3 now that I need to fill out S – O – O – N
love, d
Lake Lure
testing an old geocities pic….
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I have been under the weather since Tuesday night and it’s getting old… but I know it’s ALMOST OVER! Ryan tested positive for influenza virus yesterday at the drs. (he got sick Wednesday night) Chris had gotten sick last Sunday night and finally went back to school Monday. Ryan’s going back to preschool tomorrow. So we know what we had. Luckily (so far) neither Rog nor Colleen have gotten this.
I hadn’t been that sick in years though – 2-3 times my temp was almost 101 (for me that’s high) and the barking cough, headache on and off, and aches. I thought I was all better today (had been feeling better since Saturday) but for some reason the aches are back in my legs. Ugh!
Ryan’s temp was 104 on Thursday, and on and off 103, 102, etc., through until about Saturday. He’s doing better and finally ate breakfast this morning. Chris’s temp had been over 103 twice too.
I am overwhelmed now with housework but at the moment can’t get started. Yesterday I cleaned up the living room, made a dinner, and cleaned under the dining table, and ran dishwasher. I still have tons of dishes to wash, and laundry to do.
Would anyone like some cheese with my whine…..
dori
mind-boggling
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Time: Wednesday, 3/9/2005 8:31:31 PM (#66445)
User: dori
Comments: hello – thanks for prayers and thoughts! After discussing, we decided not to do this at this time, but to really start spending some time researching facilities in this area so that we are more prepared when they call again (which they will – Chris will keep this top spot and when the next opening occurs they call us back). We just would feel more comfortable with more researching being done in the placement – 2 days just isn’t long enough to decide. I also am concerned with what I’m reading about Governor Taft cutting funding to ICFMR facilities (which is what this was) and want to learn more about how the private facilities are funded. I wanted to post a site about it, but the screen froze loading the pdf, so I’ll be back with it….
dori, very sick (ugh) and not quite up to all this today…. please continue to pray for us!
(2020 these links are no longer valid) Chris got the I/O Waiver in 2011. Ryan got the I/O waiver in 2018.
Comments: http://www.lakemrdd.org/pdf%20docs/petitiontopreservechoice.pdf
http://www.lakemrdd.org/pdf%20docs/icfmr_morethanchoice_updated15feb.pdf
I can’t believe I didn’t know about this….
dori
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Time: Wednesday, 3/9/2005 8:44:04 PM (#66447)
User: dori
Comments: I agree with having a waiver program in place for home services. We are on a waiting list for this (and were told last year that the wait may be 20 years). We were on the wait list also for the ICFMRs, which is the type of opening that came up today. We were on both lists for the same amount of time (3 years). So while we would love to have the first kind of waiver (40 hours of help in the home per week instead of the 14 we have now), the wait is ridiculous, and to think of this going through and adding ALL the people on the second list that are in ICFMRs now is just mind-boggling!
astounding phone call!
(Note from 2020 Needless to say we didn’t do it — we felt he was way too young — wish we had waited in 2008, also. Look how young he was here…. glad we at least waited 3 more years. Picture added in 2020.
User: dori
Comments: I just got a phone call that our local county MRDD Center has an opening for Chris to live there. They really want to know in 2 days so they can offer it to someone else if we don’t want it!
I’m overwhelmed. I can’t get ahold of Rog to tell him.
Geez! I don’t know what to do. Pray for us!