........Thankful or Thank FULL?

    Hello all, welcome back to the fun and excitement that is my blog. I hope you all enjoy it, and of course we are just getting started.  
So I know you are wondering what happened with my PCP. Well  it turns out we needed that clearance letter after all or my entire surgery would be jeopardized or not happen at all.  I called my doctor and left messages with his secretaries asking for a callback from the doctor. I called at 9 am when the opened and again at 12 noon and 2 pm, and still never got the call back. 
   So the next morning again at 9 am i called in and this time i spoke to the doctor directly. I explained that I didn't need a referral just a letter saying that I was medically okay to have this surgery as far as he was concerned. 
   He then agreed to write it for me. So now ALL the paperwork is in and we are just waiting for the insurance company to give us the final thumbs up. 
 So that is that for now.
 With that said, here is today's taste test. 

  Now this being my last Thanksgiving prior to surgery, I am stretching my diet a bit just for the day. No worries though I will not undo  all that I have done. I would like to mention I had my final meeting prior to surgery with my Nutritionist. Now the last meting i had was with Kelsey, she was the fill in nutritionist, this time we got much more in detail about what will happen after surgery. We went over my vitamins and need to get in at least 70 grams of protein per day as well as 48 to 72 ounces of water per day. We went over choices and foods i should look at for when I hit stage 2 and 3. 
   Sorry, I should explain that. Stage 1 is the first few days after surgery. It is nothing but water, no shakes etc. just for a few days, to let the staples set and the incision line  where they removed most of the stomach heal a bit. Stage 2 is liquids  including protein shakes.
      This will last about two weeks then I go back in to see the surgeon and the nutritionist and they will evaluate my nutrition levels, and blood levels etc and decided if we progress to stage 3, a puree type stage, where  yogurts,  hummus etc can be started. 
      What is interesting is that you are basically causing your body to go into starvation. You keep away the bad parts of starvation with the daily multi vitamins, and the daily calcium tablets and of course the protein. 
     Those of you who have ever seen Survivor, the TV show not the band. Well you may remember how the castaways would continuously complain about not having any energy. They were lethargic, felt nausea and dizziness. Well that is the same state we are sort of shooting for. When you consider the size of my stomach after the surgery will be big enough to hold about 1/2 cup of liquid or food, you realize the extent of what is being done. 
    My nutritionist pulled out a set of plastic measuring scoops, the kind you use to bake with etc. When you look at how small a 1/2 cup scoop is, the realization of this endeavor really hits you. Now at a point much further down the road say a year after the surgery I may be able to fit a cup full rather than a 1/2 cup and that is why the maintenance is lifelong. Here is something you may not know about WLS ( weight loss surgery). It doesn't make you lose weight on it's own. Just because you cannot fit a lot does not mean you cannot eat a lot, or eat badly. people do fail at this. Now usually it is because they have not come to terms with this process. People say addiction but I don't use the word because I do not want to give an excuse to how I got fat. There are of course contributing factors and they start you off on the path to getting this way, and your mind does a wonderful job of putting blinders on itself until it is almost too late. 
    Now I know I mentioned before that one of the biggest changes I face is in drinking. I do not mean alcoholic drinking, although that does have to go away for a long time if not forever. I am talking about just drinking liquids. There are some very big changes you have to abide by. Like, no carbonated beverages, ever. I will figure out how to quickly make diet Mountain Dew flat, lol. 
     The reason for this is of course gas. With a normal sized stomach you stomach expands with the gas and then you burp it out, or it escapes in other ways we wont get into at this time. With the sleeve, you would risk rupturing it, and at the very least cause a great deal of pain to yourself and probably just throw it up anyway. 
     The other side to drinking don't is that you cannot drink for 1/2 hour before and 1/2 hour after, meals. The reason is almost the same. If you imagine I have to get in quite a bit of protein and water each day. If I drink with a meal I will fill the sleeve with liquid and not enough protein, so I would be wasting what I have with empty useless stuff. Getting enough water in is a very tough thing for many people after this surgery. You cannot just swallow a mouthful of water. You have to slowly sip it, ( and no straws please, you suck in air with straws, please see the section about gas above). A 4 oz portion of protein shake is to be eaten or drank I guess, over the course of 1/2 to 1 whole hour.  It is a very daunting task. Try it for yourself go get two small glasses with openings wide enough for you to get a teaspoon in. fill one with 4 ounces of water. Then take your teaspoon and slowly move the water from the full glass to the empty one, over the course of an hour. This is quite tedious, and people tell stories of when they finally gave up and tried to take a gulp of water. Besides having to get plenty of paper towels to clean the spray off the walls, the pain was enough to not do it again. Well not at least on purpose anyway. One of the people at my favorite spot on the net. Bariatricpal.com , had an idea where you mark your water bottle with a sharpie to show how much you should have been drinking at what time. Great idea, I will surely do it.I guess they make a water bottle with a timer on it but that's probably excessive.    
       Before I go I would to say I am thankful for all of you. I am thankful for my wife who is the most supportive person in the world. Everyday she helps me keep a positive frame of mind and keeps me moving forward. I am thankful for my In laws, who have always been there for me in many ways. I am thankful for my friends who always have my back. I am thankful for my co-workers who are always interested in what is going on with my surgery and with providing me an atmosphere that I can succeed in and are flexible with my schedule enough so that I can take the time I need to have this surgery. 

******************HAPPY THANKSGIVING ********
                                         To You All!

And now for today's Quote, another cartoon all about those Christmas early stores!

..............PCP isnt just a drug anymore.

Hi all, it's me. I know you're thinking,"Why is he back so soon?" Well ok, you're probably not thinking that. If you've followed my blog you know why I am here. 
So anyway, Today I had my big meeting with my surgeon and the nurse practitioner at St. Elizabeth's hospital. 
   
 The first news is good news. I surpassed my weight loss goal by 6 pounds. That made the doctor happy, and the Nurse practitioner happy, and heck officially it made me happy. Heree is a shot in the arm for you blog watchers.  My surgeon came up with the idea of doing a monthly ask the Surgeon Q and A piece in my blog. Bascially once i month i will take questions from people and he will pick one and I will print his response. I am very excited about this. 
   So no taste test today but I do have a short video for you. I hope you enjoy it. 

                                                           
  That's the new food pyramid for my post surgical life. Well at least a while of it anyway.  
Here's the rest of the story, because I have some issues regarding an upcoming probable change in benefits, we are in a time constraint regarding the surgery. My surgeon knows this and is working with me to move fast. We still had to do all the tests and everything, but me losing the weight as fast as I have has given us some leverage. 
   
His team that deals with the insurance, (great people by the way) asked me to see if I could get the office notes from my primary care physician (PCP) for the past two years and a letter saying there was no reason he could think of medically why I shouldn't be a good candidate for Bariatric surgery. 
   
Well I've had my PCP for nigh on 20 years. I knew I would have no problems with this request. So on the way home from the surgeon, I drove to the doctors office to see what I could do. Sure they gave me the office notes but then there was a problem. 
    
 My PCP who had been pretty much a friend for years, refused to write the letter. Not for any medical reason, but because his practice is affiliated with a different hospital than the one i'm having my surgery in. The hospital he is affiliated with couldn't get me in to their program for 9 months at a minimum and I would have to have had all my tests done in Boston, a good distance from my home, and expensive to park and more expensive in general. Also the surgeon I chose has done over 100 sleeves, and theirs is not as experienced. 

  So we have to go on without his letter and now it is all in the hands of the insurance company. As soon as we hear from them, the date will be set and two weeks before the surgery I will meet the anesthesia team at St Elizabeths and then we have liftoff. 
  All in all it was a good day. One day closer to the next chapter in my life. I often thank people here, today I would like to thank my coworkers. Especially those who work directly with me. They have never once complained about me taking time here or there, today actually was an even swap since i covered other hours for another member of my team so it's great how we all even it out.  I have to thank them however for being who they are and being supportive of me. Thank you.


I think since it is such a good day I will end this with a cartoon.

......................Rub a Dub Dub, I got a rancid tub?

Hello all, welcome to another installment of..well my blog. Thank you for coming. SO i know what your thinking, whats up with this posts title? Well i'll tell you exactly what it is all about right after these taste tests.

                     
                                                         

                                                         

                                                                     

So now that's over. Ok ok I'm getting there. So My regular morning and more likely lunch shake was so good I bought a second tub online. Well i got it  about a week ago and i finally opened yesterday. I brought some powder to work poured my mik in and took a sip and promptly ran to the sink and spit it out. It was sooooo bad. Well i figured the milk wa bad so i threw that small quart out and today i brought in two shakes since i had to work early. Well i went to have my first and absolutely disgusting again. SO i thought maybe the cup was the problem and I used my other cup and tried again, still ungodly terrible. So when i got home I called the manufacturer and they are sending me a out a new tub free of charge. I even smelled this one and its disgusting. So then i find out these powders do occasionally go rancid because of the proteins. Go Figure.

  Well so i thought I would tell you about a really interesting thing that happened to me. I had been selling some action figures on facebook. A woman contacted me and asked to buy a few so we met and did the exchange. Now I had noticed that this woman had lost like 40 pounds or so. Well when she saw that I was going to have this surgery she send me a message that she would like me to meet her wellness coach. Well of course i declined, she said oh its real easy and quick, i declined again and went on my way. Well today i get a message again from her about meeting with her wellness coach and her on a 3 way conference call. Now i'm getting mad, but still i politely decline. Then again she contacts me and I am done. So one last time I am polite but i insist . SO it stops for now, hopefully it wont happen again. The moral of the story is, Why do people think their way of doing something is going to the way everybody can do it? People used to say there is nothing worse to a smoker than an ex-smoker because they are so pushy about not smoking. 
  I have to say people who lose some weight are horrible to people who are trying to lose in a different way. A person on the forums I post on a lot on, told me the story where when she mentioned having to lose a large amount of weight and having the surgery to get a start, her friend responded by saying she knew what she was going through because she had been trying to lose the same 7 pounds for years.  Wow, seriously. 
  Anyway, well tomorrow is the big day. I meet with my surgeon for my weigh in and hopefully shortly thereafter i will have my surgical date. I am anxious, nervous and excited all at once. I will be sure to post the results of the meeting tomorrow night. My wife Hope is coming with me as well. We are meeting at St Elizabeth's Hospital in Brighton, which is also known as St Elsewhere, as in the model for the famous 80's TV show starring Americas Got Talent host/judge  Howie Mandel. Well let see what tomrrow brings shall we. Good night and come back to see what happens...

Here is this posts Quote.


 Blood may be thicker than water, but it's certainly not as thick as ketchup. Nor does it go as well with French fries.” 
― Jarod Kintz 

................Chair Leading Squad...........

Welcome back my friends, I would like to take some time to briefly go over a time that is very important in the lives of Bariatric patients. The time I refer to is what I call the epiphany moment, yes I know that is redundant.
But before we get into that lets take a look at a few taste tests shall we.

             


                                                              and then there is this one

 So there's that. It was very nice of Syntrax to send me all these samples. Some companies have sent me samples and it's definitely a great help in losing so far. Now I know many people have told me that their tastes changed drastically immediately after surgery, I am hoping that doesn't happen to me.

    Now I started to talk about that epiphany moment. The moment when you realize your weight is running your life, and you need help to take back the control.  I asked some of the people over at Bariatricpal.com  about their epiphany moments and here is a small compilation of those moments. I will leave out the names for privacy reasons.

     First I will start off. For me it was in my doctors office. I went in for what i figured was pneumonia , yet again. I will preface that by saying  I get pneumonia a lot, a lot of it is due to a surgery I had for sleep apnea. The surgery is called a UPPP  which stands for Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty . It has to do with cutting out parts of the back of your mouth including removal of the uvula. 
 Well anyway I was in my doctors office, coughing  etc, and i had to stand on the scale to get weighed. Just a routine thing. Well i weighed in at 408 pounds. i stepped off and made them check the scale. It was right. I was stunned, one of the things people say is " how did you get that fat, didn't they know it." Well here is your answer.  No, you do not realize it until its too late. Well this  hurt so bad i started changing, and slowly i got myself down to the 361 starting weight  prior to the this pre-op diet phase. Here now are a few other stories.

Anonymous #1

I cracked a chair at a baby shower I hosted at someones house. I just pretended to stand and "present" for the rest of the shower and visit instead of sitting. Nobody noticed and I never told anyone. I was horrified. I never even told the lady that owned the house. I wonder how and when she found out about the chair and if she thought it was me that did it. She never said anything... but I have to do this surgery. I often dream of the things I could do with my kids. No more hiding. I want to LIVE this life!

Anonymous #2 

I had thought about doing the surgery for quite some time, since my weight seemed to just increase more and more, even though I was doing the diet thing, the gym thing, the OTC diet pill thing, and more. As all this was going on, each time I went to see my PCP, she seemed to discover something new...high blood pressure, arthritis, high cholesterol, and more...I think the final straw for me was when I heard the word DIABETES...I saw how that had affected my family, and how I think it contributed to me losing my mother. I didn't want to abandon my family and have them deal with any suffering, so I think that was my defining moment.  
Now I'm happy to say that I am no longer pre-diabetic, nor do I have any issues with cholesterol or blood pressure...this was truly life-saving for me!


Anonymous #3 

I was at a wedding this past spring that was held outdoors. Folding chairs and the huskier among us do not mesh. I made a fair attempt at doing some sort of shaolin monk partial sit/partial leg squat maneuver over the chair for the whole ceremony so as to not crash through that puppy during the vows. Not sure if anyone noticed, but it was uncomfortable and had me feeling less than proud of myself. Had a "what are you doing with your life" moment at that point. Realized that my previous efforts were coming up short, started looking into the band, and ultimately realized the sleeve was a good option for me. I had always thought that even though I was extremely overweight (BMI >50) I still wasn't weight-loss-surgery-overweight. Not really sure why or how I had convinced myself of that, but the decorative white folding chair respectfully disagreed. Shortly after that I came around as well. 



So as you can see there are many differences in why we all got to the same point. Why am I bringing this up? Well my goal besides the weight loss , is to help other men with information and the facts they need to get over the stigma of weight loss surgery.  The surgery doesn't make the decisions for you, it doesn't lose the weight. You still have to do that yourself, but the surgery will give you a helping hand..or  sleeve in this case.

 Now i think i mentioned this Thursday is the big day when I meet my surgeon again to get that final go ahead underway. My wife Hope, will be coming with me to meet my surgeon and ask any questions she may have. I know i still have a few, some about things like painkillers,  since after the surgery you can only swallow clear liquids, how do you administer any pain meds and nausea meds, ( nausea is common after this type of surgery.) maybe they use a patch or a liquid. Heck  medicinal pot would probably work, although i have no idea how that would affect the newly stitched up sleeve, not that we can even get that yet anyway. 
   So I am hoping that this is a great day. I will be sure to post that night afterward so you all will now where i stand. If the surgeon gives the go ahead, then we just have to file the pre-certification paperwork with my insurance company, and once that comes back, we get our date, unless we get it on Thursday and the do the paperwork after, I am not sure which. I am very very ready to get this going, this process is such a long one. I started this ball rolling in March, and we still do not have a surgery date. Others have had to wait years for this to be finalized. 
  I would like to post a shout out to Laurrie Sostman, I know I have mentioned how much My in-laws mean to me, and Laurrie just had cataract surgery the other day , and from what i hear it was a rough one, with a good amount of pain after the fact. We sent her some soup, (yes you can get soup delivered by mail look it up its a great service.) and we want her back on her feet reading my blog as soon as possible, she is one of my most fervent backers and I love her dearly. 
 Okay I think that is enough of your time for now, thank you for coming and here is the quote for today's post:

Dieting is not a piece of cake. ~Author Unknown

.................I'm Not Hungry I'll Just Sample

Welcome again. This is just a small post before tomorrows post because I felt like writing a bit. It has been a very very busy week at work. One of those if anything can go wrong it will kind of weeks. I have not cheated though so I am happy about that. I have been working some food , more protein in some meats into my diet and I have leveled off nicely and held it for 4 days. Coming up next Thursday at St. Elizabeth's Hospital is my next and biggest meeting with my Surgeon. This is the one that should set up my surgery date. No taste test today that is coming tomorrow. I do however have a video that I would like to show you. I think you will like it. Either that or you might try to have me locked up in the insane asylum.

       
 So more on that tomorrow morning.  Now one thing is with these fruit flavors, milk probably isn't the greatest idea. So i use Turkey Hill Diet Decaf Iced tea for the liquid, and pieces of frozen fruit when i make a smoothie rather than a shake, I also add at least a teaspoon full of benefiber the tasteless instantly dissolving one, it helps keep you full and also help thing..um.. move along the way they are supposed to. Let's just say  high high protein diets test to make things, slow down you could use regular diet iced tea if you wish.  
   With the help of some of the guys on bariatricpal.com I will be putting together  top 5 reasons or events that led to someone having bariatric surgery. 
Now here is something you don't think of much but of course the holidays are coming up. Now thanksgiving has always been fun, except after ,my mother died years back the family sort of fell apart. Then after my dads death, it fractured a lot of what was left. I am making it a resolution that after the surgery and when i have a handle on this weight, I will try to reconnect with some of my family. My cousins, who have always done right by me, you know who you are. Two of my female cousins who i like to think we used to be close, live close by and have beautiful families. I miss them. My male cousins a few who i lived with even for awhile, and spent many years with, I miss them too. It's hard when you're close in distance but somehow never close enough right? I watched my mother die of cancer. I watched not as close up but still, two of my uncles, one my godfather and namesake, born on the same day as me 30 years apart, die of cancer. The other uncle who was my communion sponsor and just a really great guy die of cancer as well. I'll tell you a quick story. The second uncle i mentioned is the heart of this story. We had gone on vacation to New Jersey to Six Flags Great Adventure theme park. The whole family so my family and 3 sets of aunts uncles and cousins as well. We made a convoy down to NJ. Well one night while we were there we all went and ate at a chain restaurant. On the way out my uncle noticed they had these big  5 pound bags of peanuts for sale. Well I am 10 years old mind you and as I am walking out, my uncle hands me one of these bags and says " hey, bring this out to the car for me." SO of course I did. Well the joke was on me as he never paid for them. He just laughed . Looking back I'm laughing too. Not sure why I am so maudlin tonight folks. I guess I will leave it at that for tonight. Stay tuned tomorrow another taste test of the new product from the above video, and more about whats up and whats next!
 Now your Quote:

“The Brandy Diet is one of my personal favorites – you don’t lose any weight, but if you drink enough of the stuff then you neither care what you look like nor what people think of you. Also, if you’re very lucky, you can lose days.” 

― Kensington Gore

..........Life Gets In The Weigh..

Hello my friends and welcome. Sit down, relax, now get up and put the dog out, take the laundry downstairs, and clean the bathroom. In case you haven't guessed it, today's post is about how things in life can hinder us in our attempts to accomplish our weight loss goals and especially the sacrifices you have to make and the rules you have to follow after sleeve surgery.
      But first how about a taste test. ( gee I thought you would never ask)

             
                                       Well now another one down. So that's good. There will be many more taste tests soon as the Syntrax company is sending me samples of their Nectar line. I have had one already and I will review it again on video, it was a flavor called fuzzy navel, and it was delicious. I made it with frozen mango pineapple and peaches, and used diet decaf iced tea as the liquid, and wow! Even my wife loved it, she had half for breakfast that day as well. 
  So this week started out, kind of rough and that what I would like to talk about. My wife came home letting me know her car was making a weird clunk like sound in the front end.  The next day we were told it would cost over 900+ dollars to fix. Now I didn't have that amount, and we don't have credit cards due to a bankruptcy and my own vehicle recently required over 700 to fix and that ate our emergency fund. So we were very worried, I put stuff on ebay to sell, and my action figure collection , i figured i would have to end my guitar lessons,  anyway, to make along story short it all worked out in the end thanks to family who reached out and helped us. 
    Now why am I telling you this? Well I wanted to really mention this part. After we had the estimate and the worry and anxiety set in, I thought long and hard about really breaking my diet. I mean like McDonald's fries and big mac's kind of break. Maybe a kit kat and a few Reeses peanut butter cups. Instead I did have a bit of weakness and had a ham sandwich. Which is quite possibly my second favorite food behind the almighty cheeseburger. Having these feelings however, did make me realize that as people we do reach for our anti anxiety fix. Whether it be food, or cigarettes, or alcohol, or hard drugs, or for the healthy people ( i hate you, just kidding) they might read a book, or  (gulp) go for a run, or go to the gym etc. This is what I have to change, this is the hard thing I have to work on, this is the fundamental difference between obesity and health, between fat and fit, between me now, and me later. I am seeing not just how important this is to overcome, how important it will be to my success that I persevere, but that I must also  completely rebuild who I am. 
         I have said in the past that I am literally losing myself by losing half my weight. My surgeon said to me , well you're going to lose a whole persons worth of weight and since that person isn't paying rent, you are better off without them. I know now that he was right in more than just one way.  I will have to figure out who the heck I am. This weight, this body type, this behavior, has always defined me to the outside world, and defined me to, well..me.  
         I have posted several times , and had some great discussions on a website called bariatricpal.com . It is for pre op and post op weight loss surgery patients and for people who just want o know more about it or us.  One of the things that is often discussed is what we all eat now. Some of the both pre and post op responses scare me. I have seen many people who are just not putting everything into it, people making excuses for things they shouldn't be doing or eating. It seems like these are the people who complain after a year because they haven't made it anywhere near their goal.  If we do not give this lifestyle change the proper respect and put in the absurd amount of work involved to succeed, well then we just wont succeed, and we will have no one to blame, but ourselves.

 So with that said i think I will end this post , and here is your quote for the post.

"When I buy cookies I eat just four and throw the rest away. But first I spray them with Raid so I won't dig them out of the garbage later. Be careful, though, because Raid really doesn't taste that bad."

— Janette Barber

...........Second thoughts about Second Thoughts..

Welcome all. It has been a few days since I last saw you all.
   Sometimes work and other issues take precedence. Things like Halloween, for which I went to work as the Phantom of the Opera.
                                              Here's a picture.

            My shift at work has been changed from 12 noon to 8pm to 9:30am to 5:30 pm. Much more normal, but now I have to get a new regime going for my weight loss.
           I love the company I work for, It is truly a progressive company. They have supported me thus far and  are looking forward in helping me going forward. To those of you reading this from work, I say thank you, I love you all!
            My family, is small, but effective, to wit. My In-laws live out of state but they inspire me to do these things to get healthier, to be more. To grow as a person and to not give up. I love them very much.
   Now before we get to some more fun, how about yet another taste test or two? Disregard the caption on the second video, I forgot to change the text.

 

 

So those are two of the Abouttime Products. I will be posting more shortly.





Also I am hoping to have some Syntrax products  to taste test for you soon.
So lets see what else is new.
    Well I would love to tell you about how ready I am. I did indeed get cleared by my mental health person, she is sending a copy of the letter to me and to the weight loss center. I have to join a gym very soon, as diet alone will just plateau off soon. I really need to go into a sort of maintenance mode to keep from gaining but not trying to lose drastically. I am sort of ready, everyday I think about things out of nowhere, I was walking through the grocery store, and we walked by the snack cake display, and suddenly you realize that you are giving up not just some bad foods, but a lot of things that have given you pleasure for so long.
           It is deeply disturbing to think you cant just stop at dunkin donuts and grab a coffee and a donut. To know you're going to have to plan your day around several small drinks and eating very small portions of things forever. A lot of people on several of the forums I visit, will talk about the regrets you have almost immediately after you have the surgery and realize all these changes are now irreversible. I guess it is kind of like buyer's remorse with houses, that feeling of, oh what have I got myself into.
     You really have to be ready for this deep inside ready to get rid of so many things that fat people hide. We hide a lot of pain from people, and yes a heck of a lot from ourselves. From not being picked to participate in sports, ( I am sure you have heard that one before) to the more subtle things like, going to college and having to request a special seat because the stupid seats are too small. Getting in an out of small cars is a comedy waiting to happen. There are the stares in public, and there are much worse but I am not trying to make this into a pity party.
    I know I mentioned recently that I started taking guitar lessons, I had tried this before for a couple of months but let it go due to finances. I have the same teacher 15 years later , which is funny.  Jokingly I talked about this being part of my mid life crisis, along with the surgery. Who knows maybe I am trying to be a different person. I do think though that instead of trying to regain my youth, I am actually trying to gain some of the youth I should've given myself.
  One of the things talked about a lot  is setting goals for yourself regarding this surgery and weight loss. I have mentioned that my goal weight is 170 pounds, and I am currently weighing in ( today) at 340 pounds. So I basically have to cut myself in half.  We'll the reward , besides being healthier and all that comes with it, is to go to Disney. Well It may not be Disney, who knows. Id love to travel with my in laws, who are quite experienced travelers. In talking with them we joked about buying a new car, the epitome of the mid life crisis.
   I talked with my friend Tuck and he said he wants a Porsche, which I can understand. For me, it's a muscle car, One of the newer Ford Mustang, not new I doubt I will see a new car for years thanks to the Bankruptcy. Yeah I didn't mention that, oh well. But A nice used one, would be fun to take the wife out etc. I do dream though huh. Who knows what the future holds.
Well that's it for now. Thank you all for stopping by, I wish you all wealth , love and happiness.
   Here's this episodes Quote...
  
In the Middle Ages, they had guillotines, stretch racks, whips and chains. Nowadays, we have a much more effective torture device called the bathroom scale. ~Stephen Phillips