What a difference a year makes (LONG)
Hey, guess what.... Nope not that! I have Internet at home now!!!! I'm living la vida loca out here in the desert with a cell phone and broadband Internet! My how life has changed in the last year!
One year ago I was just learning of my surgery date. I was pumped that I was gonna get it and scared at the same time. Scared because my mom had the surgery and died because of complications.... pumped because I soooo wanted it. Now here I am exactly two weeks from my one year anniversary. I have lost 131 # and went from 26/28 (tight) and 30/32 to a size 14/16. My wedding dress was a size 5X and now I'm looking at my T-shirts in a size XL thinking they hang on me. POOR ME! My health is so so so much better. Better than I ever dreamed possible. I can go for walks with Don now. I won't lie and say that I always WANT to walk but I will say that I CAN! I can go up or down stairs, no worries on how much it's gonna hurt, I used to look for, actively search out, elevators, now not so much. I have a $3000 handicapped scooter. I remember when we bought it I thought it was the answer to my prayers. Now it sits unused on the patio. I'm not sad to see it go. I still use the electric shopping carts at Wal-Mart and stuff but again, not so much any more. I also remember the first time I forgot to get one of those handicapped carts at Wal-Mart. I was in and out of that store so fast I was shocked.... the carts move slower than I walk... that never would have happened, I was always so slow it wasn't funny! Turtles passed by me in droves when I had to walk! Now here I am Speedy Gonzales! There has been more than one time that I've been walking intent on getting somewhere only to look back and there's Don behind me. He's a fast walker. I actually apologize for leaving him in the dust. He says he doesn't notice and maybe since I'm not dragging behind and we're moving at a pace closer to his norm he really doesn't notice.... wow what a theory!
One year ago we were living in California. I was happy there. Wal-Mart was just down the street, literally. There were any number of grocery stores mere blocks away. Movie Theaters and Starbucks. Nice restaurants too. Now here we are out in the sticks.... see you drive to the boonies turn left go three more miles to BFE turn right and go for another ten miles, look around, you're now in the sticks, do you see my house???? Restaurants? We have 1, stores? only two dollar stores and a couple of mom and pop places. We do have a bank, we used to have two but there wasn't enough business to keep the other one going! But hey we have three gas stations and two fast food places. One is Sonics, which I thought was awesome until I ate so much Sonics that it's now boring. The other place charges restaurant prices and gives out just under fast food standards food.. I won't be going there any time soon! I like my digestive tract too much to puni**** that way!
We were in a three bedroom mobile home. Now we're in a one bedroom house. She has lots of windows which is great for winter lighting but I'm thinking will be pretty much not a good thing come summer and they allow heat in. Oh yeah, we live just south of the face of the sun.... find that and you'll find us! We've named our house.
We're moving slow on getting things done but tomorrow we have another $400-500 trip to Home Depot planned. Goody! I just love spending HOURS prowling the aisles of that store.... NOT! But if Don's doing it (he's the one lovin' it) I guess I can do it too.... but I think he'll hafta pay me with a nice dinner out... say a kids meal at Denny's! You know, go top notch! Maybe something from the dollar menu at McD's that stuff is small and I usually get two meals outta one burger!
I have learned things that I never thought I'd need to know, things I never WANTED to know. Why should I bother when Don's here and he can do those things? I can fill the fresh water tank and empty the black and gray water tanks. BY MYSELF! Not really a huge accomplishment but it was kinda big for me. Like I said why should I bother to learn when Don can do it for me??? I chose to learn because while I like it when he takes care of me I like it more when I take care of me with him looking on.... funny how things work. I can also fill the generator with fuel, nasty since one is diesel and the other is gas. Diesel stinks but it doesn't dry my hands out. Gas is icky and it drys my hands out.
So anyhow, life out here is just dandy, sometimes a bit on the boring side but hey I don't have the massive traffic and crap to deal with. I just gotta remember to get things when I "go to town'. Like soda. Don drinks lots of soda (and he never gains an ounce the brat!) and we've been outta soda for two days now. We're going to town today, I have a doctors appointment, and then we go to Safeway, stock up on soda among other things... I just gotta remember to do things like that all at once, Wal-Mart is now 25 miles away and that's the closest one.... or I could go to the local mom and pop and pay four times the going rate... not a good thing!
Love & Hugs, Gayle
Stacie S. 
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