I don't have the time for a drink from the cup

While I have no idea how much weight I have lost, if any, I HAVE lost size.

Yesterday, for my big day out, I wore a tencel (non stretchy) tank top that the week before my surgery was TIGHT. And yesterday? It was LOOSE - like grab a handful and shake it loose. Whee

So today I dug out a favorite rayon dress of mine that recently was also WAY too tight - and it fits again and has room to move.

So like I said I have at least lost size.

I won't know what I have lost weight wise until I see my surgeon on Tuesday morning.

Now if my back would stop hurting like a sunnofabitch I'd be MUCH happier.

And man it is hot today - I have an icepack sitting on my head cause I don't deal with heat very well and was getting to that not coping and edge of whinging space, which I cannot stand. So yeah - ice pack on head is my friend. Ahh - MUCH better.

Get another big day out next Sat cause it's the WesterCon 60 kick off BBQ and yep, you guessed it, cruz531 and I are cooking. There won't be much there I can eat sadly - but I will take some stuff with me and just try to enjoy smelling all the yummy stuff. Luckily by the time of the BayCon kick off BBQ in August I could be on pretty much regular food, just teensy amounts.

During the evenings this week cruz531 is gonna try to start teaching me CAD stuff so I can help with the outside detailing he's doing, cause the quicker it gets done? The quicker he gets paid AND the quicker we get more work. Rather a nice roundabout that. Having this extra work will be VERY helpful - it will at the least cover our new computers - cause MAN are we both multiple years behind with what we are using now. And we are gonna get a real vacuum cleaner - we're gonna splurge on a Dyson. After those purchases we're gonna split it between saving up for a moving fund (cause we still wanna get out of here) and paying off our huge debt so that we're paying out less on payments and can thusly actualy afford more rent.

I really hope that we can get ourselves out of the debt hole soon - both our cars will be paid off in 5 years and I am hoping to get all our debt paid off on or before then too. It gives me a goal and a timeline - and of course as debts get paid off the money that was being used to pay that debt can be rerouted to other debts to accelerate their payoff - so it could be less than 5 years. But we have a 5 year (at the outside) goal. Once our debt is reduced by half we can seriously start looking to buy a house. But that is a ways off and is not an additional debt hole we want to get ourselves into just yet. Two years ago we got pre-approved for a $400k loan but there was no way we could afford the payments on the debt we already had AND a house payment. So we reality checked ourselves and realized that we need to get rid of a good chunk of debt as well as save up a good chunk before buying a house is realistic. We're working on it - but it will take time. The outside work cruz531 has will hopefully help - we just have no idea how much more there is. It could be a lot, it could be a little, but whatever it is, it's welcome.