As I sit here writing this blog post it has become quite obvious to me that I haven’t taken the time to write anything for you guys in waaaaaaaay too long…. and by that I mean since LATE 2015!!! Well I guess it’s about time that changed right??
So. I guess the best ice to start would be in the form of an update. What has happened to us since the late part of 2015 you might ask? Well. LOTS (and not much all at the same time).
Easy stuff…. still blissfully married to the first (and last) man I’ll ever have the pleasure to call mu husband. Still working full time as a nurse, (though I would GLADLY retire early if I could only afford to do it!). Work hasn’t been the most pleasant over the last period…. lots of change. Lots of tension. Welcome to health care!! Lol. Health Care 101… change is constant (and often times it is just change for the sake of change which makes it frustrating to say the least). We have managed to fit in a few trips since 2015. There has been Mexico. Portugal. Cuba. Texas (several times), and miscellaneous road trips through the norther USA hunting for the vintage kitchen glass we love to collect.
Those are all the (mostly) pleasant things. Then there’s the change no one ever wants to have to deal with….. Yes…. I’m getting older. I have to face the prospect of entering a new decade within the next 8 months. Let’s just say I’m not fond of that concept. Of course, doing it a good 20 pounds heavier than when I last wrote an entry for this blog is even LESS fun, so yes. Back to calorie counting and blogging (and y’all wondered why I was back at the blog right LOLOL!!). Yes time has seen us slip a little. You know. one extra treat here. One more glass of wine (after a hard day at work) there. It was a slow creep. I mean it’s been nearly four years now, and I crept up 20 pounds. Five pounds a year is by no means dramatic… but it is still movement in the wrong direction…. So here I am. Back at the keyboard. Trying to change things once again. And hoping that you guys will once again be a part of the “accountability” that I apparently so desperately need in order to achieve and more importantly MAINTAIN my goals. I’m hoping that there are at least one or two of you still around to help me “behave.”
I will make the effort to post at least a couple of blog posts a week. I hope you’ll all manage to tell me if I’m writing anything that is even remotely readable. Deal?
All right…. back to your evening then everyone…. Look for another new blog post soon ok??
Duane.
Ok. First I have to say, I cannot be factual about my week at work here on the blog, because 1. The college of nurses hates it when people like me tell stories about patients and their care which could possibly be able to be identified through stupid and illogical connections which just seemingly randomly occur on the world wide interweb. And 2. I think my manager might be secretly stalking me on the internet. No I’m not paranoid, it’s only paranoia if you’re WRONG!!! (I joke, I joke!). 
So. Just the other day one of the surgeons walked up to the nursing desk and said “You’ve lost a lot of weight!” Now. Since I’ve known this doc quite awhile (let’s say two years) and he’s seen me pretty much every week during that time, I couldn’t resist the urge to respond “Yeah. Kinda. But really… Are you just noticing NOW???? Come on Jim….. I’ve been THIS slim for a couple of months now!!!” 
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