Sizing & Stuff

Also, last night, I had to do some shopping for "mandatory unmentionables".  The cool thing is that I went to Wal-Mart instead of a big and tall shop!!!  Also, I found a t-shirt that I bought.  It's a retro-looking black Star Wars shirt.  It has a big Darth Vader masked head and beneath that are two crossed red light sabers!!!  It was like $11 marked down to $9, then $5.  When she rang it up, it came up as $3!!!!  It was 3XL, which I haven't worn in many, many moons!!!  Same with the other clothing!!!  Knit shirts fit me in 3XL, but non-knit (button up) I think I'll still need 4XL for a little while. 

Yesterday at work I ate some sugar-free candies and wound up on the john for like thirty minutes!  I'm never doing THAT again!  I felt like I was dying of dumpstergut.  I had to get two front tires on my car at lunch.  They were eating through, and you could see lots of steel belt showing.  They weren't too bad, but it tells me that something (else!) is wrong with the car. *sigh*  My friend Lynn came in her to work today and put in her application and had an interview.  I really hope she gets the job.  Its a Customer Service Rep and she'd be perfect for it.  I signed up for insurance yesterday.  Its just about going to cripple me financially...or at least it'll feel like it, but I have to get it.  We all need it.

My friend Patrick wants me to help him move some stuff (i.e. drive the truck) back to DC on Thanksgiving weekend.  He'll be in his car, and he wants me to drive the truck.  I'm thinking about asking Theresia to come if she's available--to keep me company on that long drive.  It'll probably take all day on a Saturday...

I'm eating small amounts of sugary stuff now...and going sippy-sip on carbonated beverages.  As long as I take it easy (REALLY EASY) and don't overdo it, everything seems fine and dandy in the gastric-bypass-world.  Next week it will have been five months.  I don't go see the surgeon until early next month.  I wonder how much weight I've lost??  I know I was coming up the steps to my 3rd floor flat last night and my pants were slipping.  That usually means I need to cut another hole in my belt.