Believe me, I've tried to be more timely with posts.......

...... but I always have to decide, sleep or post.. guess what wins.

Well as you can see my last post was shortly after Thanksgiving last year.  well Christmas came and went, we enjoyed all of the kids and grandkids, not all at one time but over the holidays.

I got hurt in Grand Junction, nothing too serious but I had to go to the urgent care facility to get some pain meds.

I still have the old job and doing a new job (same company, same boss). But I did finally get some relief, we hired a guy to help out with the old stuff.

I started a macroeconomics class early in January which is very time consuming as it's compressed into five weeks, it's really very interesting.

Gnarly is doing real well, he's going to start a refresher course (I guess a refresher) in doggie obedience next week. I'm really enjoying him, just wish he wasn't so rough when he plays, but if past Newfoundlands are any indicator, he'll turn into a rug by age four.  The funniest thing is we spend all kinds of money on doggy toys, Susan says $12.00 to $20.00 on each, they have a very short life expectancy. I don't don't know why but Susan threw an empty plastic gallon milk container out for him. He carried it around, smashed it up, chewed it and generally had a great time with it. He'll have a brand new one real soon... dang dogs. Amanda really loved them when she was his age too.

Gabriel is here without his younger siblings and it's VERY peaceful.

Talk about peaceful, Gnarly the couch potato in his favorite resting place.

Couch Potato

It's been a long time, years and years, sometime around the age of 30 I weighed in at more than 200 pounds. Got up to near 300 at one point (but not quite).  Changed my eating patterns thanks to Dr Akins, in general simply eating less processed carbs and junk.  I don't drink soda or eat very much "junk" food. Like the endo Dr. suggested I eat 2-3 eggs and plenty of bacon nearly every morning.

Finally, payoff. I vowed (to myself) that the first day I didn't see a 2 as the first digit I would take a picture for all to see.  I don't check daily and I've been stuck around 208 for MANY months, but a couple weeks ago I fired up the old scale and low and behold...

Hmmm what ugly feet, hairy

I got on the scale first thing in the morning, 5AM, thought I was seeing things the scale said 199.0, amazed I ran out got the camera and got back on, 8ozs for the camera is probably about right.

Few days later I went to the Dr. for a physical and the scale in his office said 204 fully clothed sans shoes.