Beginning Anew

Not nearly as easy as just 'eating right and exercise', but lately I have started loosing a few pounds here and there. I do have a significantly larger amount of physical activity in the new job, and I have been eating salads for one meal almost every day. (So I take weekends off... shoot me). It has made a tremendous difference. Ann on the other hand is loosing weight too fast because of being kinda sickly for the last 6 or so weeks. She's on her way back from the Doc as we speak. Maybe we'll get her leveled out soon, but the good part is that she's starting to fit in clothes she wore in high school. I'm not arguing, I just hate that being sick was the cause. (I'm also not catching up right at the moment... *sigh*)

We have a good opportunity to drop the weight now, i've lost a pant size already with only minor adjustments... I can probably keep this up. I just know that one meal per weekday I eat a salad. It may have some meat on it, perhaps some boiled egg or something to give it a little protein.

Caught up with an old friend in Wal-mart today. It was good to see her. Ya know, 2 kids later, she still hasn't changed much physically or... well mentally either for that mattter. Ann and I are going to have her and some of Ann's friends from high school over for a cookout sometime soon. That is if we ever get all these blasted boxes unpacked!

Progress has been made on the boxes, we have a very large pile of empties on the back porch, and slowly but surely the closets are gaining clothes. It's the "slowly" part of that phrase that kills me.

I just realized how much i'm rambling. You probably aren't even reading by now. You are thinking "Geez... he hasn't posted in over a week...and this is what I get?" That is if you are, in fact, still reading. Oh well. I'm gonna shut up now.

To borrow the phrase... "love, peace, and chicken grease!"

Unfortunately, i'm not quite as happy about it as Willie Nelson is in that famous song. I know it's almost done, but we have 2 more stores. They are small stores, which is good. The bad news is, the smaller stores usually have the least maintenance, therefore they are the ones with gremlins. Last night, we had 4 workstations. It took 6 hours. First a dead workstation... then a dead printer. Stuff just kept going wrong.

As a note, if you have never been to Chattanooga, there are some pretty interesting things to do here. The Aquarium is a great visit, just make sure there aren't groups of 400 screaming children already on the tour if you go. Be sure to hit the IMAX while you're there.

We are going to take a couple of days off next week to try and get ourselves settled in the house and all of the boxes unpacked. Sounds like great fun, huh?

Always seems like i'm looking toward the next big event in my life.. I finish one thing, excited about the next until I get into that thing and then start looking forward again. This time however, I have a better reason! On May 18th we stop travelling for the business and come home. This means those boxes stacked up everywhere might get unpacked... furniture might be put in place... and just maybe... I could have a meal cooked in my own kitchen again.

Anyway, in the way of news, I traded in the Malibu last week. Got myself a truck, which I reason to be an acceptable move since I now live in the country.I got an 06 Chevy Colorado.

I've already had it out in the pasture getting some mud on the tires. But hey, I caught a 5 lb bass in the process ( gotta love them ponds in the middle of a pasture!)

Things have been quiet other wise. They delivered my son's headstone last week. It's another step in a process that will never completely end. We are so glad to have a permanent marker there. I can't really explain the psychology of it, but it gives yet another level of closure.

Anyway, Ann is grumbling cause i'm making her wake up from her nap so we can go grab some supper. We are in the Eastern time zone, so it's actually 5:30 here.. gonna hit some grub and then go to the pharmacy for tonight. Only 7 more stores!!!!!!!!!!!!