Oh wow!!!

WOW... I don't even remember the last time I wrote here. But so much has happened but there is no way that I can ever go back and retrace my steps.

A couple of things that I can mention... the hubby and I finally traveled to Las Vegas!! And we had both a wonderful time and a bad time. But I guess you have to take the good with the bad, right? We traveled together for the first time since our honeymoon.

I joined a book club! Something that I have been wanting to do for a very long time. I was presented with the opportunity and even though I was very "scared" about joining a group of women that I didn't know, but I went and had a fabulous time. I won't be able to make it to the next gathering - they are going to watch a movie and talk about it - but hopefully I will see them again sometime before the end of the year.

An update on the little princess... she is getting so big. And talking up a storm. Her vocabulary is increasing each day and she is forming sentences on her own. My little girl isn't going to be little much longer.

She will be entering her second term of swimming lessons. During the month of July, I was busy running around on Monday nights getting her to Wright College so she can take her 30 minute lesson. It took more time to get there, get ready and get ready to go then the class itself. LOL!! But it was so worth it seeing her face light up when she saw the school from the car and hearing her say the words "swimming, mommy!" because she knew that she was going swimming.

And even though she really didn't learn anything... which is what I think... she enjoyed herself and I want her to have the skills of swimming for her own safety. You never know where this can take her.

And with classes starting again on the 1st of September, she is going to enjoy herself even more. I cannot wait to get into the water with her again.

And now about me...
Well, I fell off the Weight Watchers wagon... and gained back all the weight that I had originally lost. And I am so disappointed in myself. B-U-T... I have some great news......... I started up again! And this time around, I will not allow anything to get in my way of finally losing this weight. So this coming January, I want to see where I am with my weight loss. I am hoping that I am at least in the high double digits in my weight loss, and have already gained my key chain from Weight Watchers. That is my main goal... but my first goal is the 5% mark: which translates to a 12 pound loss for me.
Starting from the beginning but since I know that I have done it before, I should not have any problems doing it again.

So, this picture is of me at my starting weight... 233 pounds! YIKES!!! But sometime this year, I will be able to post another picture of myself looking much more thinner. Even if it is 5 pounds thinner... and with each major step, I plan on adding another picture of myself on here so that I can track the way that I look.

And another is that the anniversary of my dreadful morning of bad news is fast approaching. And I want to have some positive news in my life before then.

One bit of changing news is my new job! I am finally back downtown - where I have been waiting to be for almost 5 years - and my commute home is cut in more than half. I took a huge pay cut but knowing that I will be home earlier than I have been before makes up the difference. I am not as stressed as I have been in the past and I am learning something new each and every day. And according to Karla and Grissell, I sound much more happier in my emails to them. LOL!!

So with that, I will leave this blog here... I am sure that I will write again soon. I am so happy that tomorrow is Friday. We have big plans with the little princess this weekend and I am hoping that things turn out the way that they should.

Until the next time!