Goals for 2007???

What are your goals for 2007? They don't have to be weight related. What are you going to do to get out there and really enjoy this life you have been given? Here are mine: 1. Hug the longest. (When my kids hug me, I want to hold on until they let go of me first.) 2. Take dancing lessons. (ball room, salsa, and belly dancing) 3. Go rock climbing. Darlene

Well - I haven't given it much thought, but here's the short list. 1. Start a central Ohio OH support group. 2. 1/2 marathon 3. triathlon 4. Have an actual relationship. 5. Pole dancing lessons 6. become a personal fitness trainer and/or aerobics instructor Sharyn

#5!! Ha ha! Do they teach those at the Fred Estaire dance studio??? Darlene

Pole dancing lessons! You rock! My number one goal for 2007 is to regain my health and show my children what I am really like. I want them to see me as the able, active person that I was able to be before I gained so much weight. I don't think they've ever known me that way. Number two is to "give" as much as I can. To serve others as I haven't been able to do in the past. I also want to strengthen my marriage and overcome some anger issues that I still have! Great question... -Karen

Just 2 "main" goals for me. 1. Get a hug from Darlene. 2. Watch Sharyn Pole Dance. That will pretty much make my year. Earl

I'm liking that goal Earl !! I'm In... Happy New Year everyone!!

Well Earl - with a list that short, I suppose it would be wrong of me to stand in the way of meeting your goals for the year. sharyn

Here you go, Earl! Darlene

1. Open myself up emotionally for potential love interests.. I want to tear down those walls that make me want to stay invisible to men. 2. Go back to the Gym and swim like a fish again each and every day!!! 3. Have Sharyn teach me the finer points of Pole Dancing.. 4. Be the best Laura I can possibly be. Make my goal weight of 120. Go back to college 5. Work on being a more social person.. All work and no play is not a good thing. 6. Find a sweet lovable Teddy Bear of a man who will be able to understand what WLS is and living the life of a post op. I want to find a man who can make me smile, who loves the simple things in life ( Hiking, camping, fishing, stargazing on a blanket at Salt Fork... Making Out and Making Love by a roaring fireplace.. Not being tempted to settle for a one night stand just to get an itch scratched. Finding someone who sees the beauty in me and can fall in Love with me for me. 7. Love my kids more each day.. Call my mama more.. Tell all my friends I Love them and never part without a good long hug!! You never know when that contact could be your very last. 8. Get up the nerve to ask a certain handsome, funny, gentleman with sparkling eyes out on a date. 9. Work hard to achieve my dreams, but not so hard that I forget how to have fun and enjoy each day that we have been given. 2 Years ago I didnt think I would still be alive. Thank God for the WLS and giving me my health and my smile back.. 10. Continue to make new OH friends. Who better to understand how we think and feel than other Post ops 11. Start an informal Support group for Southeastern Ohio 12. Arrange a Spring Fling Weekend in Cambridge Ohio.. Lots of Pole Dancing lessons given by Sharyn... 13. Get Season Passes to Kings Island/ Cedar Point.. Go and ride every wild crazy roller Coaster possible.. And delight in the fact that I fit 14.. Renew my love of Thunderstorms. There is something so passionate and cleansing about a thunderstorm.. Love to take pics of lightning.. 15. Keep Journeling and finding my way back to my true self 16. Get out the Guitar and mandolin and see if I still remember to play it. Go to Bluegrass Festivals. 17.. Get into Community Theatre. 18.. LIVE!!!!! I think thats it for now.. I have so many things that I want to do this year and feel like there is nothing that I cannot accomplish. Thank you for Asking this Question.. Love ya Laura

Rock CLimbing.. Darlene. I am terrified of heights, but need to conquer that fear. I have thought about rock climbing myself. So I think I will have to add this on my already long list. Did I mention that I plan on having sex..of it this year. I had a 3 year dry spell and NEVER want to go that long again. I was very very cranky.. I am not looking for one night stands, but I am certainly not going to close myself off from meeting new people. For the longest time I put up my invisible wall around me. I was so used to being the 340 5"1 fattest girl in the room, I prayed to be invisible. Now even though I am less than half my former size, I find that girl wanting to stay invisible . If you are invisible you cant be rejected. But you also miss out on meeting some incredible people. I put that wall up around me in Columbus and missed meeting someone that I would very much have liked to have gotten to know better. So I just hope and pray that I can learn to trust the fact that I am a fun, adorable., likable, lovable sweet honest loyal and a very loving caring human being. I have to let this little light of mine SHINE!!!!!!! Thanks for picking our brains. OMG Its after 3:00 , I have got to get my sweet hiney in bed.. Love ya Darlene Laura