Update

Apr 24, 2010

So I always used to hate it when OH members would get their surgery, post a lot and then disappear off the face of the earth it seemed.  And guess what?  It has been almost a year since i've posted on my blog.  uh huh. 

Why?  You get in a rut, maybe?  Life seems to be so busy and so stressful these days with the economy the way it is, the kids' lives changing and everything rushing at such a fast pace. (DD is 22 now and DS is going to be 16 soon!)  My old self-comfort measures are very dangerous now and have such bad consequences.  Luckily, I've never taken up post-op drinking so that's ok.  Still, I don't get enough sleep and then consume EXCESS amounts of caffiene and also am an insomniac so even when I could get 5 or 6 hours of sleep I can't get TO sleep without aid.  Half a very small ambien knocks me out but won't keep me out so at least with the help of that I can start to sleep.  It has provided my family with some very funny 'Mom and Ambien' stories let me tell ya.  ;)

So far that gives us: life stress, sleep defecit, increased desire to self-soothe with food.  Hmm.  Not good.  At least I am still keeping up with my support group (except this month because I was just tooooo tired to go).  My weight is up but not horribly so.  The size four jeans are gone for good and I'm ok with that.  The sixes I have are 'relaxed fit' so my rear is probably really more like an 8 or 10 and is that so awful?  NO!  That being said, i do not have permission to keep increasing sizes and will.  not. do.  so. 

Gardening season is here now so I will be forced back outside for some manual labor that isn't my paying job.   That's got to be a help too since there will be the benny of that natural Vitamin D.  And soon the strawberries will be cheaper and help me replace the sweets I'm craving so terribly.  Mmm. and after that comes watermelon and zucchini.  This is the best time of year to be a food addict! 

Let's see, other updates from the past year:  We made outstanding progress remodelling our basement in the past year and life is more comfortable with two living spaces instead of one.  I dearly love and value my husband but there is only so much WWII and SciFi programming I can stand without losing my mind.  Now he can blast the tv downstairs and even though it is still so loud I hear all the dialogue at least I don't have to watch it and feel the vibrations from it too.  There is still a lot of work to be done down there but it feels good having made this much progress. 

More recently, I hit a deer on the way to work Thursday and have a teensy case of whiplash to heal.  It isn't really bad though considering and I'm hardly even stiff from it today.  Don't they always say you feel worst on the third day?  I think Tylenol will take care of the neck today so I won't have to use the big pain pills and be a zombie. 

Off and on I update my regular blog (www.geminisdream.blogspot.com)  but haven't done any wonderful weight-loss baking so there isn't anything great to report there.  It has been very time consuming and relaxing reading other people's blogs the last few months.  There are SOOOOO many wonderful blogs out there, who needs tv???  I love mostly the cottage decorating type blogs but also read about the sewers and thrifters and such.  They've inspired me to redecorate the house a bit and also to be upcycling some of the finds I have here.  I've repainted so much stuff recently that my mom seems to think if it sits still long enough I'll paint it white.  

So there's my update for now.  I won't lie and promise to be back to OH all the time but I do genuinely miss my surgery month peeps and keep them in my daily prayers.  We are all in this together, whether or not we get here to provide the support each of us needs is a whole other issue and I'm terribly sorry for not being here for those who have needed me in the past and need to try to be better about that.

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