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Good morning, Y’all.

We finally made it home. 

The trip was an adventure, to say the least.  Our flight from
Boston (Northwest Airlines) was scheduled to leave at 7:10.  We got there and the flight had been canceled.  They booked us onto a flight out of US Airways with a departure time of 8:15.  Ok.  We could handle that. We got to the security checkpoint, and when I went through he called “full search, no alarm”.  I standing there thinking “what the hell?”…then Micheal went through and they do the same thing.  They have us standing in this one area, and after a couple of minutes they finally decide to let me have my cane.  I asked if there was a place for me to sit down, and they tell me no.  Then after another 5-10 minutes they send us both to this holding area and tell us to sit down, apart from each other.  They do a pat-down of both of us and search all our carry-on luggage.  They finally tell us that that was a requirement since out tickets had only been purchased within the past couple of hours.  We didn’t purchase the stupid tickets!  Our flight was cancelled and we were rescheduled!!! But you wanna know the funny thing about all that?  When they searched me, I had a disposable lighter in the pocket of my jeans.  They didn’t even find it!  And Micheal had 2 in his computer bag.  They didn’t find either of them, either. Well, we finally get to the gate and they tell us that our 8:15 flight has been delayed and would not be leaving til 9:20.  At 9:30, when we were still sitting at the gate and they weren’t telling us anything, I walked over to the displays to see if they’d changed the departure time again.  Our flight wasn’t even on the board!!  It finally arrived just before 10 and we got off the ground about 10:45.  It was a little after 4:00 this morning when we finally got home. But we weren’t the only ones having problems.  Most of the flights in and out of
Boston were either cancelled or extremely delayed yesterday and there was a huge scramble to try to find flights for people.  Luckily, when we got to
Indianapolis, Hertz had found out about the delayed flights and had stayed open late so we were able to get our car.  They even gave us a free upgrade. 

So that’s how our trip went.  We sure were glad to get home!!

And we’ll be leaving Massachusetts September 1st instead of the end of September.  Micheal’s project manager decided to let him go early because Micheal’s expenseses were going against the manager’s bonus.  That’s also why it was decided that he wouldn’t be there for the 5 years we were originally scheduled to be there. 

But that’s ok.  The manager’s bonus is gonna take a big hit!!  We’re gonna get a rental car when we get back to Mass so I can have the truck every day.  And we’re gonna drive the rental everywhere we go.  And we’re gonna quit buying groceries and go out to eat more often.  This jerk will screw anybody necessary in order to keep from losing any of his bonus, and Micheal decided he just wasn’t gonna get screwed as bad as this guy is trying.  Yup, Micheal can be a real conniver when he wants to.

Ok, I’ve got a lot I want to do today, so I’m just gonna skim blogs.  If there are very many, I probably won’t comment.

Good morning, Y’all.

It’s a rainy day here in
New England.  And it looks to be a rainy weekend.  I’m glad we won’t be here!!!  It’s supposed to be nice and sunny back home in
Indiana.

My weight-loss is still pretty much at a standstill.  I’ve dropped most of the 10 lbs I gained after I had the wisdom teeth extracted, but I still have some of it to get off.  But I’m not giving up.  I’m trying to eat healthy, although it’s difficult at best to eat fresh fruit and veggies with all of my upper molars missing.  I’m gonna enjoy that when I finally get my new partial.

Everything’s still up in the air about staying here or leaving at the end of September.  We’re supposed to find out for sure by the end of next week, but Micheal says, from what he’s hearing at work, we won’t be staying.  So, we’re gonna take some things home this weekend – books I’ve already read, winter clothes and odds & ends that we won’t need – so we won’t have to haul so much home when we do leave.  We’re planning another trip home the middle of August, so we’ll take a bit more home then.

This past Saturday I managed to get the final
New England keychain for my collection.  Now I only like 8 states to complete my collection…Alaska, Florida, Hawaii, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, North Dakota and
South Dakota.  A special friend offered to send me one from
Florida, but that would be cheating.  It’s not the same if I don’t actually visit the state myself…even if it’s only a layover at the airport.

Tomorrow evening we’ll fly home for the weekend.  I have a few things I need to do at home.  And Micheal’s going to work some from home so he won’t have to count Friday and Monday as vacation days (he’ll automatically get Thursday and Tuesday as travel days). 

I finally broke down and had my rings sized up.  I got my wedding rings off in the shower the other day, and wasn’t able to get them both back on, so Micheal convinced me to take them and have them resized (they ended up having to cut off the one I got back on).  I felt like I was being pessimistic, because I was determined to get more weight off so I wouldn’t have to get them resized, but Micheal said if they start getting too loose I can just have them sized back down.  His other argument was that now I can take them off to clean them, and take them off if I’m doing something that will get them really dirty (like making bread dough).  I guess it made sense, but I sure felt naked going for more than a week without them.

Anyway, today and tomorrow are going to be spent packing things to take back to
Indiana.  We have a 7:00 flight out of Boston tomorrow evening to
Indianapolis.  We’ll rent a car and drive home from there.  We found a non-stop flight from here to there that would get us home much earlier than if we flew to
Fort Wayne.  The Fort Wayne flight leaves Boston at about the same time as the Indianapolis flight, but it has a 2 hour layover in
Detroit.  We’d rather drive 2 hours than sit around an airport for 2 hours.  The plane is a bit more cramped than the one to
Detroit, but the convenience will be worth it.  We’ll fly back home next Tuesday afternoon.

Ok, I’m gonna go read a few blogs then get packing.  Y’all have a great day and a wonderful weekend!!

Good morning, Y’all.

Yesterday was a bad day.  I spent most of my time on the couch with a book and my Kakuro puzzles. 

And it looks like today is gonna be a repeat.  It’s a good thing I stocked up on Kakuro books and novels Tuesday.  I still have some Vicodin left from when I the teeth pulled so I guess I’m gonna have to break down and take one of them.  And Micheal’s gonna have to settle for leftovers for dinner.  It’s a good thing he doesn’t mind that.

I’m gonna have to find a doctor here.  Micheal was talking about sending me home by myself for a couple of weeks so I can find a doctor there, but I told him I could find one here and have my records transferred if we don’t stay here.

I just hate going to a new doctor.  First they insist on doing all these tests that have already been done.  Then I have to spend time talking them out of prescribing mood enhancers, which is what they always want to give you for Fibro Myalgia.  Then I have to explain to them why I can’t take sleeping pills.  With sleeping pills I lay in one position all night, then wake up in the morning hurting so bad I can’t even get out of bed without help.

One reason I don’t want to take the mood enhancers (beside them messing up my mind) is because they’re part of the reason I’m as big as I am.  The first time I was put on them, I had just lost over 50 lbs.  I was under 300 lbs for the first time in 15 years and feeling so much better about myself.  I started taking the meds and gained 45 lbs in one month, without changing my diet or activity level!!  And it’s been going downhill ever since.  I want to take the weight OFF not put more on.  And I’m afraid if I gain any more weight I won’t live to see my 52^nd birthday.  So I’m dreading going to the doctor.  I’ve been putting it off for a while, but I’m just gonna have to do it.  I’ll procrastinate just a bit more and wait til we get back from our weekend at home.

And as for the diet…it’s still the same.  I stay within my calorie range, or below, and the weight still isn’t coming off.  I know it would be easier if I could just get some more exercise, but…  I was looking forward to spending some time in the swimming pool, but it’s not heated and the temps don’t get warm enough here to heat it up enough.  Getting in that chilly water will just make things worse.

Well, I’m through with my pity party and bitch session for today.  I’m gonna go read some blogs, then take a Vicodin and settle in on the couch with my book and puzzles.

Good morning, Y’all.

Yesterday I took Micheal to work then went for my manicure/pedicure.  I went shopping after that.

Micheal invited one of his bosses home for dinner last night.  That was ok.  We stopped at the grocery store and picked up steaks and broccoli.  They had steaks.  I was stuck with hamburger (and had to cook my broccoli tender), since it will be a few more weeks before I get my new partial.

The worst part was the heat and humidity.  The kitchen was like a steam bath!

All we have in this apartment is an air conditioner in the bedroom.  It’s fine at night with the bedroom door mostly closed, but isn’t enough to cool the rest of the apartment.  There is a place for another in the living room, but we have to furnish that ourselves, and we’re not gonna spend the money to put an air conditioner in a furnished apartment that we won’t be staying in much longer.  So we set a fan in the doorway from the hall to pull a little of the air from the bedroom.  It doesn’t help that our apartment gets the afternoon sun.  I keep the blinds closed all day to try to keep it cooler in here.

I haven’t been able to eat much lately.  Yeah, not having my new partial yet doesn’t help, but that’s not it.  I haven’t had an appetite, and even when I do sit down to a meal, I can’t eat much.  I guess it’s the heat and humidity.  But that’s sure not gonna help with the weight loss.  If I don’t eat enough, my body goes into starvation mode.  That’s why I put on that 10 lbs after I had the wisdom teeth pulled…I wasn’t eating enough.

So now I’m struggling with trying to get enough calories in.  I bought some Slim Fast drinks, but half an hour after drinking one, my stomach starts grumbling and feeling like I haven’t eaten in days!  Maybe I need to get some higher calorie count foods to eat right now, but I don’t know what.  Nothing sounds good.

Funny story from yesterday.  I had to stop at a public restroom while I was out running around (I HATE public restrooms).  This one was a one-holer (as my granny used to say), so the outer door had a lock on it that showed “occupied” or “vacant”.  Well, I’d just gotten in there when someone starts rattling the handle and trying to jerk the door open.  It says “occupied”!  Can’t you read, lady?  So I finish and start out of the bathroom.  I open the door and this lady (actually she wasn’t much of a lady) starts trying to push past me before I can get through the door.  I said “let me get out, please”.  Her husband, standing to one side, looks at me and says “hey, be nice!”  I tell him “I was being nice.  I said please.  Tell your woman to be nice and not be so pushy!!!”  I hate pushy rude people almost as bad as I hate public restrooms!

Well today I’m gonna concentrate on trying to stay cool.

Y’all have a great day.

I’ve not blogged in a while, and have had a few people send me e-mails asking me to ‘come back’.  So here I am. 

I had those two wisdom teeth pulled, and thought maybe that would kick my weight-loss back in and get me off this plateau since I wouldn’t be able to eat a lot.  Well, it did get me off the plateau.  But…I went the wrong direction!!  The week after I had the teeth pulled I gained 10 pounds!  What’s up with that?  I’ve gotten 5 of them back off, but those other 5 just keep hanging on.  I can’t win for losing!!  Uh, well, I’m not losing, so I guess I should have just said ‘I can’t win’.  I’m gonna have to wait til the end of the month before I can get my new partial so I’ll have to stick with mostly soft foods til then.  But I am drinking all my water and then some. 

There hasn’t been much going on around here.  We didn’t do anything for the 4^th.  We stayed home.  We were able to watch the fireworks from our balcony…somewhat.  There were a couple of trees blocking some, but we got to see most of them. 

Thursday evening we went out to dinner.  I had salmon and a baked potato and Micheal had meatloaf.  That evening he ended up with heartburn really bad.  I ended up going to the drugstore at 1:00 in the morning to get him some medicine, but it turned out to NOT be heartburn…it was food poisoning.  He took the heartburn medicine with about half a bottle of water, and it all came back up.  It was the middle of the next morning before he could even hold down water. 

And he’s such a baby (and a pain) when he’s sick (aren’t most men?).  He stayed home from work Friday and was grouchy all day.  I finally quit trying to do anything for him.  Maybe one of these days I’ll learn that when he’s sick, I should just keep my distance and let him take care of himself. 

Saturday afternoon we went shopping…Walmart, Best Buy and the grocery store.  Yesterday we spent the day watching movies.  Micheal was still being a pain, but not quite as bad.  He’s finally back to his normal self this morning. 

A week from this Thursday we’re gonna fly home for a few days.  We thought that might be a good idea since we haven’t been home since the end of April.  I probably have a stack of mail 2 feet high on my desk!  It’ll take me the better part of a day to go through all of that. 

So that’s how my week has been.  Now I’m gonna go see if I can find my Buddie’s blogs, since everything has changed.  I go get my wisdom teeth pulled and when I come back I can’t find anything!!!!! 

Y’all have a fantabulous day!