Angie and the terrible horrible no good very bad day

Can I just whine for a while?? Please? Thanks.

It all started yesterday. Went to my appt./seminar for the Gastric Surgery and listened and filled out a bunch of paperwork. I talked with the doctor and he thinks I am a good candidate. Now normally I am not one to announce to the world how much I weigh, but this is supposed to be a place I can come and talk about almost anything. Maybe if I share with the internet, I might help someone else who is going through what I am with their weight and how to control it. My stats are as follows: I weight 301 lbs. I stand at 5′ 5″, my blood pressure was 143/93 which for me is high and the doc thinks I have undiagnosed hyperstension, my body mass index is 50.5, and he also thinks I might suffer from sleep apnea. As much as it pains me to reveal the thing I hate about myself the most, how much I weigh, I know it can only get better from here. I am asking for help and I know some way or another I will get it. Insurance might put me through the ringer, but Dr. Davidson thinks he can help me. I made an appt. for a sleep study, I will also go and talk to some other people about their experiences thru a group support meeting at the hospital next week. All in all, I learned some more about not only myself and in the Doctor’s words, that I am in “deep doo-doo” as far as my health, but I can at least say that I did something and not just sat there literally and let my weight kill me.

That really wasn’t the bad part either. Emotionally draining, yes, but cathardic in a way. Today was the killer.
I am catching a cold, my job interview isn’t until tomorrow and I showed up today. The dog came home from the Vet last night sicker than a dog (ha.) and so she had to go back this morning. She stayed all day, was given steroid shots for her soreness, and pain medicine for tonight and the next couple of days. Who would have known that going in to have your teeth cleaned could end up making you sick? I sure didn’t. The gave her all of her shots and did all sorts of tests on her for her yearly exam. Poor baby.
I almost hit a car on the way out of the parking lot at the job interview that isn’t until tomorrow. I had to take Michael to the doctor because his ear swelled to the size of cauliflower. Turns out something either stung him or bit him. Lauren has a rash, Brenna has an ulcer in her mouth, Dan got a note home from school saying he didn’t do his homework. Jon is ok, for now (knock on wood) and I went to pick Sadie up from the Vet and they tried to charge me for her medication. I said, “I don’t think so sister.” and they took it off after I explained that she wouldn’t even be here if they had just asked my permission to do the wellness exam.
I did get to take a short nap, but the kids think that it’s ok to come in and ask me dumb questions like, “Hey Mom, do you think I can go over to Cade’s house sometime?” Me: “Uh, Dan? Do you think I could think about that and get back to you? Do I have to answer you right now? BECAUSE I AM TRYING TO TAKE A NAP? DON’T YOU PEOPLE KNOW i AM SICK?” “Ahem…sorry Dan..I’ll ask Daddy later”  Haha. I can laugh now, but then…no so funny.
In fact, as I sit here writing this, Dan just walked up to me and asked me if I had talked to Dad about going to Cade’s yet? Unbelieveble!
Things are looking up though. The kids are almost in bed and there is some TV that is waiting to be watched. Then I get to go to bed. Ahhhh….love my bed. Say it with me. Beeddd. B.E.D: Beautiful eyelids dreaming.  Yep, that’s me. Night!

All smiles and bippies around here…

Wow, look how early it is. 7:41am. For those who know me well, I don’t usually get up early unless it’s Black Friday Shopping, or a mega shoe sale going on. Today is a busy day for me. Not that everyday isn’t “busy” in its own way, but I had to be up early to take Sadie the Beagle in for her dental cleaning and they have drop off between 7am and 9am. I have been looking around for her shot records hoping I would find where I stashed them. See what happens when I clean up? I can’t find stuff!!

After she gets dropped off and takes a nap while they clean her teeth I’ll be at a surgery seminar. It’s for those who want to explore the options in weight loss surgery. I have gone down this road two times before and both times I was turned down. Once by my insurance because I didn’t have enough history with weigh loss attempts and the second time I was turned down in the doctors office with the excuse that my insurance at the time wouldn’t let me. It was all very hard to accept that I wasn’t going to have that option. Now we have different insurance and with the technology more advanced these days, it seems to be a better time to explore. However, with the technology more advanced, the insurance is requiring even more “evidence” that proves you are indeed obese, have a history of obesity, and a long painful history of Doctor supervised weight loss attempts and excercise. So we’ll see how this goes and cross your fingers that my insurance company has a short list of requirements.

TTFN!

Why dinner is spelled L A Z Y

It’s that time again. Dinner. Blech. It’s not that I don’t love to cook. I just don’t love to cook my kids dinner. They whine a lot about what I am making. If I want to try something new, they object. When they were little I did everything right. I fed them lots of varitey and didn’t worry about if they would like it or not. Then they started to develop their own tastes. Wha?! No, no no no…..they aren’t supposed to actually have opinions! Not about food anyway. So then began the battle of the wills and ofcourse theirs won out more times than mine. I promised myself as a Mother I would not make them eat things they didnt’ like, like stewed tomatoes, peas, and liver (sorry Momand Dad, had to mention that). I would let them decide if they liked it or not. Well when that day came, I was like, “I don’t think so, you will eat that because I am the Mom, and I said so, blah blah blah”. It wasn’t as easy to stick to the “eat what you like sweetie…”.

Almost 12, almost 10, 7 and almost 4 are hard to fight and I am tired already. Goodbye TaterTot Casserole, hello plain buttered spaghetti noodles with a lb. of grated parmesan cheese. I will miss the good times we could have had while you took up residence in my fat cells.

All’s well that ends well…or something like that

My home party was a success! I had 7 women come plus myself. Everyone had fun just getting away for a little bit and hanging out. The house looked great and I would have been even more happy if I had been able to clean all the bedrooms and the rest of the playroom, but that’s ok, it looked great! It looked so great, we had an impromptu card night here and Debbi (hi Debbi!), Matt, Natalie and her husband Michael, and their kids all came over and we played Shanghai Rummy while the kids played. We ate pizza and laughed a lot! It was just what I needed, some time with friends to laugh and just be.

Tomorrow is a busy day. Church, swim party, youth choir, Sunday School Home fellowship, and then bake choc. chip cookies for Mission Kids mission project for Monday. Whew! Lots to do and again, little time to do it. That’s ok though, I seem to like busy….as long as I can sit down after I am done!

The one in which I had a really good list of things I did, then I lost it. Oh Poopy!

I didn’t mean to screw up my post, but I did. So l leave you with this. Enjoy. And I have no idea why this is underlined. It’s late and now I am pissed. Goodbye.

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The one where I don’t have a witty, funny, or cute title.

Okay y’all, I am tired. T. I. R. E. D. Pooped, beat, bushed, dead, , weary, bleary, burned-out, haggard, raddled, worn, drooping (don’t even think about agreeing with the drooping part!), flagging (what does that mean? I am waving my flabby arms like flags? lol), exhausted, dog-tired, played out, spent, washed-out, and whacked. Whew…I need a nap after coming up with all those words! Get my drift? I think I need a vacation.

When you have been married as long as I have, sometimes you take on your spouses moods, feelings, and energy. Jon has been sleeping horrible the last 2 nights. His BIpap mask broke and he can’t sleep without it. Obstructive sleep apnea kicks yer booty when it’s not on. Not only can’t he sleep, but I can’t either since I am so used to the white noise his machine makes. He went and got a new one today and I am so happy! Now he can sleep and so can I! I think we are feeding off each other’s energy, which the last two nights have been nil. I think he feels more of those adjectives than I do, but I am tired.

I have a lot to do to get ready for a home party I am having tomorrow. I bought a mop. I know! I don’t usually use one of those things. They are yucky. Mopping is such a pain, cuz first you have to sweep and then you have to mop and then you have to wait and let it dry, then the kids come along and spill red kool-aid all over the floor that you just spent 2 hours sweeping and mopping!!!! Not that I would know, cuz I don’t usually use one. But I have heard that is what happens. Did you know that mops are expensive?? I think if you pay almost 20 bucks for a mop it should mops the floor its own self!!

So.. since I am the queen of procrastination, here is what I have left to do in exactly 24 hours:
sweep kitchen and livingroom floors
mop floor in kitchen and livingroom
put away all the papers and junk in the livingroom
do at least 5 loads of laundry
take the junk off the patio
and clean up the play room. Not too much eh? Nah…I’ll just get my slaves kids to help me out. After all, they made most of the messes, and yes, I told them to clean it up about 1 bazillion times, but they seem to suffer from hearing loss at such a young age.
*would love to get done but know it won’t get done*: hang curtains I made from a vintage looking tablecloth
paint the kitchen, put down new vinyl tile in the entry, put the rest of the laminate floor in the hallway, and paint the front door inside and out. Probably too big of a bite, huh? LOL Oh well, can’t blame a girl for dreaming.

Ok, seriously, I am going now… to clean. I mean it. Right after I eat something. After all, I have only 23 21 hours until my home party.

Don’t hate me because I look like a celebrity

So Ali over at I write therefore I blog did this and I jumped on the band wagon. Fun huh? I don’t know who Ali Landry, Angela Lindvall or Billie Piper are, but that’s ok, they look good. Now if I could lose 100 lbs. I would look exactly like them!

Cleaning makes the world go ’round…

But naps make you pretty.

I can bring home the bacon

I can fry it up in a pan too, but I prefer the pre-cooked bacon you heat up in the microwave cuz it doesn’t splatter on my arms and burn me. Anywhoo…while you guys were giving me warm fuzzies on my new bloggity blog, I was working at Michael’s preschool as a sub. While he was painting and drooling on his blankie (not at the same time), I was with eight 4 year olds. Let’s just say, I am sure glad to be home in the quiet and air-conditioning. I think I said shhhh about a frazillion times, so my susher is a little sore. Good thing about today is Mikey got to go today for free and I get paid too. I get to come back tomorrow and Thursday, so that puts a little extra dough in my mixer if you know what I mean.

In typical after MDO fashion, I do what I do best: turn on the electronic babysitter and go take a snoozer. Except this time, I’ll have to dog on the bed with me and I’m not thinking after being crated for 5.5 hours she will be too thrilled with “laying down” again. Can’t blame me for trying tho. I did however do a good dogMommy deed and put a little peanut butter and liver treats in her KONG and put it in her crate with her. Kept her busy I’m sure…either that, or her tongue got one heck-uve a workout!

ttfn

Hip Hip Hooray

Last Friday, my Mom had her right hip replaced. The surgery went well, she is still in the hospital recovering and when they release her, she will go to a facility for hospice care until she is well enough to go home and be on her own. Please pray for my Mom’s recovery, that it will remain complication free and that her oxygen levels will be up where they should be. If you would like to send her some get well wishes, you can do so thru this website and I will make sure she gets them when she is able to get back to her computer. Thanks for the prayers and well wishes!!