Reflections of 2012

Posting for Monday, December 31st, 2012

Today is the day of reflections of 2012.  So here we go, hold on tight, the ride may be a little bumpy. 

January, of course was a good month, my birthday.  Went out with friends, different sets and Bobby came all the way here to help in celebrating my birthday :).  She is the best!! 

February, I don't have much recollection of this month, other than I joined the Y for a short time and was loving my aquacise class for awhile.

March, I believe to be uneventful.  I was unemployed at this time also so I had a lot of nothing to do while looking for a job that paid over minimum wage.

April, was Brittanee's birthday.  She turned the big 22, we all survived her 21st year--whew!  I also left some people behind in my life this month.

May, was a great month!  Brittanee graduated from IU Bloomington with degrees in Public Health, Social Science and Medicine and Gerontology.  What a proud mom and grandma there were!  She landed an internship to finish her degree at WebMD in Indy and got herself an apartment up there with a 6 month lease. Bobby helped us move out of the dorm to her new apartment in Brownsburg, Indiana. We then went to Myrtle Beach, SC for the very first time and had a blast!! 

June, started my job and extensive training at Vectren, made some super great friends, some I feel as I have known forever.  :)  And Brittanee added Teddy in her home.  An almost 2 year old Maine Coon cat, an orange cat, male.

July, nothing exciting that I remember.

August, Brittanee landed her first full time job...at WebMD, as a health coach.  Exciting stuff!  Not fair that she was/is making wayyyy more money than I am.  The WebMD office was moving, getting a new office building so she had to look for a new apartment, and new apartment is exactly what she found.  One that was just being built, and I don't think to this writing is quite finished.  I was there once when Bobby and I helped her move in in October.  Nice but pricey, she lives in Carmel Indiana, probably less than 10 minutes away from St Vincent's Bariatric Hospital where I had my gastric bypass 2 years ago. 

September, I know that I took Bobby to the Vectren picnic and we had a blast!  Since it was closed to the public and only company picnics were being held there, we had a lot of fun.  Rode the water roller coaster which is something I am finding hard to believe still to this date.  She doesnt want to ride it again and I am good with that, but I will probably be riding it next season sometime just to prove to Brittanee I really did it!

October, I was able to go visit Brittanee, we went to Hoosier Hysteria which is always fun!  It's where you get to see the IU basketball team for the first time before the season starts.  We had to sit in the nosebleed section, but hey it was free and very entertaining to this IU fan!  We went to Edinburgh of course, didn't buy a whole lot this trip, which was surprising.  Let me rephrase that, didn't buy a lot in Edinburgh.  Had plenty of other opportunities to spend money elsewhere.  Bobby, the kind soul that she is, helped us move Brittanee yet again (the first time wasn't enough for her), so we took her to the Cheesecake Factory.  She had been a Cheesecake factory virgin, well no more.  :)

November, I got really sick after about a week having the flu shot, but I had pneumonia and missed 7 days of work, enter short term disability.  Wow!  What an awful way I was feeling!  Needless to say it was a short work month for me and Quality Assurance picked several calls to monitor my first day back to work, when I felt like i was in a foreign land and my scores were awful.  Such is life. 

December, lots to say about this month.  First of all, since I have been at my current job I have gained 20 lbs.  I do not intend to keep these 20+ lbs that have found me.  I ordered some dvd's to help aid in my weight loss. 

No, I am not getting on here pledging to lose 25 lbs in 1 month like I have so unsuccessfully done in the past, I am not beating myself up over it all.  Stress comes in many shapes and sizes and I succumbed to some of my weaknesses, old hauntings if you will, in the scheme of things I find that I am human.  I make mistakes, some I regret, some I don't.  As I have said many times and i will say many more, gastric bypass is not the fix, it is a tool like most everything else in your life, you just choose how you will use it to make things better in your life.  Either way your destiny is in your hands, no one elses.  I believe it is true when people say if you cant love yourself how are you going to love someone else.  I am working on this.  I don't think I am this horrible ogre, dont get me wrong, but I have some things to work on.  And I will.

Enough about that, in this month, I exchanged gifts with Stephani & Ashley and had dinner with them at their home.  They go all out on decorations for Christmas, I believe they put up 8 trees, all different themes!  Very beautiful to see all of their decorations, plus Ashley is so creative and makes beautiful crafts, one is my Christmas wreath she made for me.  This exchange was a huge success!  The next day after that, Stephani and I went shopping for a few hours, had breakfast at Cracker Barrel....a fun filled day with lots of laughs for sure.

Family Christmas was a great day too, except that I had to work Christmas Eve allll day for the first time in many years.

I bought myself a new coat, gloves, 3 purses.  I know I know, Christmas was just here and my birthday is almost here again, I am not supposed to be buying myself things, but it is such a rarity that I get to do that, I just couldn't resist.  :) 

Brittanee was here 13 days this time and we had a nice visit, now I will be a nervous wreck until she makes it home to Indy in this upcoming weather tomorrow.  Please say a quick prayer for her!  Thanks!

With all that has happened in 2012, some good, some bad and some oh so worth leaving behind, I am looking forward to 2013!  I say bring it on!  Let the good times roll.....