CATCHING UP. . .

It's been a lot going on since I last blogged. A friend has passed away, I've been under the weather, and work has been a little more than I expected it to be. I grow tired more than I use to. I guess that is understandable and I know that time will improve all situations. I've been thinking about getting away in November. I am going to stop in to see my brother in the process. I need a small break away from everything. It would be nice to travel to some far away exotic place. That's money and money I do not have yet. To everyone in the Gulf Coast. . .Watch out for the storm. Find somewhere safe to be. God Bless!

SOCIETY. . .

I'm not a 100% today. I still have my bad times, but I have to remember that I am almost 2 months post-op. I can't complain because I am doing very well. I'm back at work and doing most anything that I want to do without getting too tired or stressed out. Most people that I talk to did not fair this well with that type of surgery. In fact I just lost a friend who had the same surgery that I had. She died from complications and not from the actual surgery. She was only 35 yrs. old and left behind a husband and 2 beautiful daugters. Did her death bother me? YES! It could have been me. The thought of that bothered me.

My thought is that society is so hell bent on the weight issue. It makes people sometimes go to the extreme to fit the norm. What is the norm? If you are anywhere between 50 to a 100 lbs over your idea weight, then you are considered obese. What does obese mean and who created that word? Well let's see. The word obese in the Webster Dictionary means excessively fat. It stems from the Latin word obesus and it is considered an adjective. Rightly so because it is discriptive. I could not find who created that word. Probably some doctor in a labratory stuffing some poor rat with some food.

So why did I decide to have the surgery? I did it for health reasons which is working out for me more than I could have ever imagine. The benefites of living a longer healthier life outweighs anything that I could have hoped for. It is just fortunate that I get all of the added advantages with it. A slimmer me, a happier me, and a more satisfied with myself me. Don't let anyone tell you anything different. Fat people are not real happy people. We shy away from society and we are not too confident in ourselves. I know cause I have been there and I am still here with it until all the weight is off of me. Lets just face it. . .people are so cruel. Adults and children alike are cruel. Children learn to be cruel because their Mothers and Fathers are the cruelist people they know, but have you ever notice that society in a whole are cruel people?

My neighbors think that I am sick because the weight is dropping off. I see them staring at me. I guess they feel sorry for me. Sorry enough that the morons cut my grass for me. They've even started acting like real people LOL LOL. Another added benefit right? I've called the Law on them almost every 3rd day. Would you cut my grass? If that is not the reason, then I have to say that God has touched their hearts:).
Have a Bless Day!

INVISIBLE ME

I often wish that I had the ability to become invisible. Maybe in the form of some insect. . . A spider suspended from a ceiling in a dark corner, behind some old box. Or maybe invisible in the way of dust lightly coving furniture. Just forgotten for a long space of time.

I often wish that I can go away on a long vacation, in a cabin facing a creek. Not one person in sight. . . . just the signs of the fall creeping in. A slight chill in the air, leaves showing a hint of color and the grass turning to that awesome shade of wheat.

There are so many things that I wish for. It's never much. I never ask for the great things in life. They have never been that important to me. The smaller things always mean so much. When you're invisible, you can't be found. You're exempt from the hum-drum of life and all it's complications that others want to bring to your world. DRAMA!

DEVASTATING. . .

It is a bad situation in New Orleans. The people need so much help. I do not see how New Orleans can be salvaged. Just viewing the pictures made me feel so helpless. What I am able to send will not be enough to help. It is not the idea of loosing everything that you own, because material things can somehow be replaced (most of the time it is with better things), but you cannot replace a life.

The sad thing about the whole situation is that if these people are not evacuated to a safer place quickly, more lives will be lost from diseases. There is so much in that water surrounding the city that you do not want to think about what it can do to the children and the adults there.

You can not help but feel deeply for them. I ask that God move quickly in this situation and bless the people of all the areas that have been devastated by the storm. Let everyone send something to the Red Cross to help them. We should all pull together to help. Didn't other nations benefit from the U.S. when their countries were in devastation?