Exercises on furry legs and with paintbrushes ... Snippets of my WLS journey...

November was a month of loss and blessings ... . of gratitude ...a little bit of pain ... and lots of love and fun and life going on ...

I am almost 6 years post op ... my official 6th year anniversary will be on February 5, 2013.  I have rocked my journey away from morbid obesity one day at a time, one choice at a time.... keeping a total loss of 203 pounds off with no regain ...

I rocked my paintbrushes painting my winter mural ... I GESSO-ed out my autumn wall thinking to re-use the pea**** ... but then decided against it... this is the pictorial of my mural that is still unfinished as I am still working it and don't know for sure where I am going with this...

White Gesso on wall thinking I would re-use the pea**** I painted on my Autumn Mural..

Decided against the Pea**** after starting to paint my vision on the wall so I GESSO'ed it out...

Then the tree and the mountains got on my nerves and they were covered with GESSO and redone as I re-worked my winter mural...

that is looking something like this....

My daughter suggested I add a Poodle to my wall and I am thinking to add a toy poodle too ... an itty bitty doggie like my VERY OWN TOY POODLE PIERRE ... remember in 2007 when I first joined OH I shared that my Yorkie was stolen and I was in the market for another or another lap dog? but then I waited and waited until the time was right or until that dog that instantly bonded with me appeared .... and it did ... my friend's sister is the breeded and it was like this that we bought Pierre home on Friday and we ALL fell in love with him!

I even did my empowerment collage from my journal 'A picture a Day Keeps the Pounds and Inches Away" with Pierre and I this morning... 

I love lap dogs and I waited 8 long years before replacing out Sweet Pea who was stolen with this awesome pure bred toy poodle Pierre...

We are all smitten ... my DH and I...

My dear daughter took him to zumba...

My son lies there and lets him play all over him LOL...

Even my ferrets love Pierre and he loves them right back... Pierre and my ferret Caspar

and me of course I am sooooooooooooooo happy Christmas came in November in the form of a teeny tiny bunch of furry love...

Who dat? oh Hi! My name is Pierre...

and Me? I am loving loving loving living my life post weight loss surgery ... with health and mobility I am loving it!!! Just to think that 5 years and 10 months ago I weighed 327 pounds but that is no longer so .. with 5 co-morbididies in remission and no longer mobility impaired I am loving life one day at a time, one choice at a time...

This was my empowerment collage on Friday ... the day Pierre came home ... when my Autumn mural was still on my wall ... and in my before my awesome lap dogs that I have had in the past .... I love my doggie Pierre and with my dog in arms I bid you all a very happy and blessed day and thank you so much for allowing me to share snippets of my journey...

Inspiring you made my day. I love your little dog. I love lap dogs too. I have a Chinese Crested.

Thanks ... I feel like my life is now complete ... I love love love lap dogs ... my doggie fits in my pocketbook and can even get lost in it LOL he is really a teacup but the breeder does not like using that term because she cannot guarantee that.... The Chinese Crested are AWESOME dogs and sooooooooooo beautiful too .... How awesome for you to have one ... does he munch on stuff as much as my baby is doing ... I thought my house was child proof but he got into my Kleenex LOL ... I signed him up for school already...

Thanks for sharing :)