I've been gone....

t00 long!

So, I've made a promise to myself and friend that I would write something, anything on this blog everyday for a month. At least.

Let me first explain WHY I've been gone.

SCHOOL.

Since I've been on my weight loss journey and having the surgery generously for me (more on that later), I've decided to pay it forward.

The only way I could pay it forward was to become a bariatric nurse. I started nursing school in the Fall of 2009 and am going strong.

That explains my absence, now why do I all of a sudden have a burr up my butt to write??

Well, it all started on a fateful day in November of 2009. My boss called me in and fired me. End of story. No more money, no more insurance, no more creative outlet for writing. For those of you that don't know, I was a writer for a local paper....more on this later.

THE BURR

My good friend, adventurer, spaz, sweetheart and personal heroine Maggie Downs decided to write a story about me for the Desert Sun. What's the Desert Sun you ask? The Desert Sun is a Gannett owned, locally driven paper.

Anyway, she is writing a piece on "Gastric Bypass: What happens next?" So, I sat down with her at a coffee shop and poured my heart-out. I regaled her with tales of pinching my giant arm flaps on my deck chair at work, having to buy size 16 when I'm really a 12 and the like. Hopefully the story will go into a series as I have the plastic surgeries to (in the words of Quantum Leap) "put right what once went wrong".


So, I've decided to blog more to keep you abreast (giggle) of my story...


So, let's start at the very beginning...