1st Mini-Goal / Father's Day

The day has been pretty good and this morning started out wonderful for me. I was determined when I set out on my journey of weight loss through bariatric surgery to set mini-goals for myself to make sure I felt accomplishments on the way to my last end goal. Well, this morning I hit my first big mini-goal! I'm down exactly 30 pounds. To be exact I've gone from 271 pounds to 241 pounds. It feels so good to type it. :)

My journey so far hasn't been without problems; however I've been incredibly lucky in having nothing major go wrong. Recently I've been having a lot of nausea on and off when trying to eat. I'm thinking I might just have a touch of the flu but I'm not entirely sure. It's only lasted for about 3-5 days so I'm giving it a bit more time before actually discussing things further with my doctor. I'm still getting in enough fluids and while my food intake is down I'm making sure the majority of it is protein.

Yesterday I got to meet several bariatric friends that I met on OH. (http://www.obesityhelp.com/) I've been organizing a picnic / bbq for the last couple of months and it turned out great. This is a pic of the gals who've had bariatric surgery. We ranged from all levels. 1 being preop, another being 1 week out, others being between 6-9 months, to 1 year out. What a wonderful group of people.

There were a lot of husbands, boyfriends, and kids there as well. It was so wonderful to meet everyone and share story and experiences. We're going to get together again next month at one of the gals houses (who has an inground pool!) .. I can't wait. :)

Today is also Father's Day and that part hasn't exactly gone off without a hitch. Dave's two boys didn't call him and when he called them they stated they had forgotten it was Father's Day. (not exactly true since they were celebrating Father's Day in PA with their uncle). It's been hard on Dave and he's been moody and upset most of the day ... understandably. We had dinner with Dave's Dad and enjoyed the company of family. Dad got a little bit tipsy on wine at dinner and I have to admit was really quite amusing. I thought of my father a couple times today but mostly in passing. July 2nd will be 3 years since his passing but I find myself unable to still think of him for more than a few minutes at a time. I loved him, he knew and possibly still does know this.

A Trying Day

The day didn't start off to bad. I woke up on time, found an outfit that I liked that fit better than it did last week. Discovered that I had lost another pound in the last few days ... overall, a great start.

Work was a disaster. This last weekend they installed some upgrades and patches to our main claim processing system and since then it has been a mess. Yesterday wasn't so bad, we only crashed once or twice. Today -- it was a nightmare. The system went up and down at least 20 times. About every 15 minutes to 30 minutes. This resulted in me trying to calm team members, trying to find places for everyone's work (and not succeeding since all offices went down) and redirecting team members to other things they could work on other than just claims. *sigh* .. by 4:45pm I was more than ready to leave not at a walk ... but at a run. Tomorrow the back log will be there and we will once again work our asses off to catch up lost ground. Tonight I'll just pray that the system actually works tomorrow!

After work we got together with a couple of friends for dinner and a movie. That went well and we enjoyed ourselves. However, after the movie I tried to discuss some things that were frustrating me with Dave and that went all kinds of wrong. Whoever originally said marriage is hard work, was right in every way possible; and I've only been married a year!!! (as of June 16th). We never finished talking. I dropped Dave off at home and drove around for about an hour alone talking to my newly found great friend, Barbara. The discussion with Dave was around procrastination and feeling like I'm having to remind him of his responsibilities all the time -- where as he doesn't feel like I am or need to. I suppose the answer would be to just stop reminding him or doing things and see what happens?? ... I don't know. Sometimes I just don't have the answers. Maybe tomorrow some insight will come.

The day hasn't gone all wrong .. but it's felt crappy enough. I'll look forward to trying to get some sleep and hopefully I actually will.

A Quick Post (kinda)

I've been telling myself every day I'm going to post again because I have all kinds of things on my mind; however, I'm currently sharing my laptop with Dave (husband) as his computer's motherboard decided to die a miserable death. We're hopefully that we'll have this problem of sharing a computer fixed in the next couple of weeks.

So .. random thoughts.
Three things I want to write about but I'm sure most don't know about me.
1) I lived homeless and on the streets (by choice-long story) for 6 months when I was 21.
2) I have a 7 year old son who was adopted by a wonderful family when he was born in June 2000.
3) I'm opinionated and I stand up for myself, but I used to be that girl that hid in the corner, avoided talking to anyone, and was mostly that way until 2000 - 2001 when my life began to change drastically for the better.

The basics:
I'm 32 years old, just turned it on May 25th.. eek!! I have 1 birth son who was adopted when he was born - I have a great relationship with his parents. I'm married to a man that I moved over 3000+ miles for after meeting him once and speaking with him for 3 months. We've been together for 5+ years and we've had our ups and downs. Our 1 year anniversary is June 16, 2008. I have two stepsons from my husbands previous marriage. My passions include writing, the outdoors, swimming, all animals especially horses horses horses. There is nothing quite like the bond you can form with an animal - especially one that you have to put your trust in as fully as they trust you.

Okay - so it wasn't a super quick post.... but it was a super quick run down of some info. Need to let that great hubby have the computer now. :)

OH .. one more note (rant): For GAWDS sake work people - if the printer is jammed - UNJAM it!! .. Don't walk away and use another one and leave it there for the next person to deal with.