Nyrial

a long time since I wrote anything here. I apologize for that, things have been kind of crazy with the holidays, work and school starting back up. I’m taking a Saturday morning chemistry class, in addition an online class about how to learn online, and economics.

So I’ll make this quick and get to the good stuff. 5 more pounds till the 100 pound mark (since surgery, not including pre-op loss) I feel damn good about myself.  I’m actually stealing Dan’s jeans, which makes him unhappy, but since he had to buy new ones anyway, its ok. I can almost get those on too, give me about 15 more pounds and I think it will happen.

Work has been busy, we have a lot of restructuring and other crazy goodness going on. I’m still not sure who my manager is now. But I just keep doing my job, and hope someday to have a “hi, I’m your new manager, nice to meet you” email. Joe.. something.

I’m getting back into workouts hardcore, it’s all part of my master evil plan.

So, without further ado, here is the Christmas/Holiday picture goodness :

The calm before the storm, thank you to the many generous family members who made Christmas so wonderful for my kids.

Santa Came!!

That weekend, we visited the Seattle Children’s museum, it was our first time there and the girls had a blast!

So as you can see, we’ve been very active lately. We have several upcoming visits to look forward to from both family and friends, and we’re really really hoping to be able to get home sometime this summer. The most challenging part will be finding a house/pet sitter that isn’t intimidated by the birds and is willing to stay for a week.

There were a couple today.

Scene 1 : We’re sitting around the dinner table. Gretchen reaches for Dan’s glass, and he hands it to her. She attempts to take a drink, then immediately flips it upside down, all over the table and herself.

Me: OMG

Dan: I didn’t know she was going to tip it upside down.

Me: ….

Dan: Well I didn’t!

Me: …….

Scene 2: Amelia and Gretchen are sitting on the couch, Gretchen has gotten into a head-flipping phase. She and Amelia are playing and BAM, head slam right into Amelia’s cheek. We got her comforted, and she had resumed her spot on the loveseat watching The Good Night Show, and I happened to look up. Massive shiner. So now she has been thoroughly spoiled with a brownie, pop and almonds for a snack, and is happily watching Caillou. It’s a good thing I cancelled pictures on Saturday, because they both look like we beat them now.  She is being very cooperative about holding the ice on her eye though.

I worked from home yesterday, so I didn’t have a chance to share my shopping trip success story with one of my coworkers. He’s been one of my biggest supporters during the pre-diet, and post-op phase. He makes sure I stick to the exercise, and asks me about it on a regular basis, it kind of shames me into doing it when I’m slacking.

Naturally he was thrilled for me, and very encouraging.

Anyway, I just wanted to give a shout out to Martin.. He and the other people I work with are part of the reasons I still love my job after almost a year, and the encouragement and interest about my progress that I receive on almost a daily basis from him really help when I’m feeling discouraged because the scale hasn’t budged for a week, or when I just need to vent about missing things that other people take for granted..You know, the good things in life, like beer and chocolate.

I don’t have much to write about today. My life isn’t very exciting, and I don’t do anything that would be considered interesting to most people. I would rant about stupid people, but I’m feeling far too mellow right now to really care. See, I spiked my coffee today with about 2 ounces of caffeinated coffee, when your stomach is the size of a hard-boiled egg, and you haven’t drank much in the way of caffeine for almost 8 months, a little caffeine goes a long way. It’s like the alcohol effect, it doesn’t take much. Well, I’m coming down from that now, but not in a bad way, I just sort of feel, normal. While I’m contemplating getting a refill, I think it would be best to wait, as I don’t want the effect to be dulled next time I feel I need a hit.

I’m trying to be faithful to NaBloPoMo, but it’s hard when you don’t have much to say.

So I did it.

I submitted an application for the PA job. I’m not sure if I will take it if it’s offered to me, but I figured it can’t hurt.

I’ve compiled my own list of pros and cons.

Pro-Washington

We both really love our jobs, I enjoy the milder weather, even if it is gloomier for 6 months, we’re getting to know our way around, we’re getting to know people, and it’s just a very laid back place to live.

Con-Washington

We’re damn far from both of our families, sometimes it’s TOO laid back, traffic is hell, high cost of living.

Pro-PA

My job probably wouldn’t change much, MUCH cheaper cost of living, closer to both of our families.

Cons-PA

Dan would have to find another new job, The portion of the company I would be working for is much less stable than the portion I’m working for now (military vs. commercial), we would have to break our brand new lease, and I don’t know the consequences of that. I would have to find another engineering school flexible enough for my schedule.  Closer to both of our families (kidding!)

I don’t even know why I’m comparing it yet really, I need to get an offer before I should be thinking about any of this, and I would reject any offer that paid much less than what I make here. The pure truth of it is, I don’t expect an offer that would be the same, but if they did offer the same or a bit more, we would probably move, because my salary would go much further there than here.