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Boy do I! Weighed in at 148.5 this morning and thinking I have about 2 pounds of crud in me so it should be less. LOL No really I'm maintaining and doing what has to be done to maintain. I've maintained my current weight now for 14-15 months now. Go me! I work hard and watch what I eat and have been staying focused so far. I'm serious...this is for a life time and I get it. I can not eat what I want everyday if I want to maintain this current weight. I did that for 40 years and look where it got me. I have to sacrifice some days and that's ok with me. So what...I have a salad instead of fries 9 out of 10 times for the rest of my life. No biggy. I can still have fries, just not everyday. I got what I set out to do and paid for! And I'm going to try really hard to maintain my current weight and stay below 158 pounds. 158 pounds with my height puts me back in the over weight range. When the scale goes up (and it does) I go back to salads and the foods that work for me and I drop back down again into the 140's. It's me making my success now...not the surgery 100% of the time anymore. The honeymoon is over and I understand it's up to me now.

Guess I just came on here to whine a bit. :( Susy's got a summer cold. Saturday I felt like I was getting a cold and by Sunday I was in a fog and sick. On Sunday (Fathers Day) we watched stupid game shows and TV all morning. I didn't even leave the couch that day till 2pm. Took a shower and did some dishes and then it was movie and veg time again. I slept on and off all day. Today is Tuesday and lordy...I still feel rough and foggy and weak. This cold went straight for my head and chest. I can't breath in or out and it hurts. I have so far been a good WLS patient and not taking anything to relieve my symptoms, but I'm not sure how many more hours I can stand it. I do have some color when I cough up shit and in two more days or so if I'm not better I'll head to the Dr. But who could afford to go to the stupid Dr. anymore. I can't afford the Dr. as we pay our health insurance each month. And that alone is putting my family in the poor house every month. We pay $1450.00 a month for family health insurance. Do the math times 12. That's fucking crazy to pay out almost $18,000 dollars a year for health coverage. But if anything goes wrong with any of us we can't afford to be without. But soon there will be a time where we can't come up with anymore funds each month if something doesn't give soon. Every Jan. our insurance goes up at least $150.00. So that's why I can't afford to make another bill if I don't need too. I just got the bill for my yearly woman's exam that I should do each year. Just the Dr. bill for the office call and blood work and that bill was alomst $450. I haven't seen the bill for the mammo yet. Grr I'm sitting here right now watching president Obama talking about Iran and health care and other issues on TV. We all should have the right to go to the Dr. This is wrong. People and company's getting rich @ our cost with inflatted health care cost and getting rich off services- I just want to scream. So for that reason I'm not going to the Dr and making more bills unless I have too. So I'm getting nothing done this week as I feel like shit. Swept yesterday and did 2 loads of laundry but that's all the spunk I had in me.

Other news around here: Jonathan is back working/volunteering at our local aquarium again for the summer. He is working one full day there each week. He is looking forward to it as the aquarium should be busier and even more fun during the summer months. http://www.aquarium.org/ This is such a great thing for Jon and I hope maybe someday he will want to get into marine science. Right now he thinks he wants to be a pharmacist. But I think knowing Jonathan it will be too routine for him but whatever he wants to do and he's happy- I'm happy! There is time to figure it out later as he is just entering 10th grade.

This weekend D and S Greenhouses is doing our 2nd expo show in town. It's the Oregon Coast Gardening and Landscape expo. Were excited!http://oregoncoastgardeningexpo.com/

Also we finally made the local web page for our farmers market. After 3 years they final updated it. Yeah! Check it out. This is one page but you'll find us on other pages within the site with pictures. http://www.newportfarmersmarket.org/vendor-detail.php?vendor=12

And this is where I work while Derrel and Jon are selling planters and plants @ the market. I figure I've got to be there why not make more money and that we need for sure $$$. It's fun, no stress and I love it. I spend my Saturdays making doggies happy♥ with dog treats. I set up the vendor booth in the morning and evening and we sell homemade all natural dog treats. Bacon, PB, chicken, and cheese. http://www.newportfarmersmarket.org/vendor-detail.php?vendor=4


Ug! That's all!