So it's been again a long while since I've posted but it's because I'm still recuperating from the crazy surgery.  Also with the holiday weekend this past weekend, I just wanted to sleep, so that's what I did.  I stayed in bed until 10 am then started my days.  Now that "N" is back in school for a few days this week, I had to start our routine again.

"O" comes home tomorrow.  I wonder how big she's gotten.  I haven't seen her in just over two weeks and she's finally starting to go on the toilet again. Yeah!!  I'm finally getting my right arm back after the surgery but that's still not 100% but it's about 85% now.  Slowly getting used to the restricted diet but still not doing well.  My weight loss has finally stabilized at 123lbs.  Still sucks because I can't walk anywhere without shoes, my lower back hurts a great deal of the time.  I'm sure this wouldn't have been so bad except for the fact that I lost the weight in a matter of a week.  At least I'm not losing anymore.

I started taking a multi-vitamin again today.  I figured that I probably could use the extra supplements.  Luckily the vitamins I take actually get digested unlike Centrum or the other crappy so called "vitamins".  I did hit a sort of depression over the weekend and I'm waiting to hear from my doctor that it's okay to take a natural stress response capsule to help with that.  Anything I can do to make myself more comfortable I will do it.

"N" starts going to soccer camp at the end of June.  I gave him the choice of either baseball or soccer and he chose soccer.  I think he'll have fun and then also he'll only be going to school half days for that month so we'll see how it goes.  "The Hubby" is also training to to be in his first 5/K race in June as well and everyday that "N" has off, we all go to help "The Hubby" run.  "N" runs around the track with him.  I'll start running after my second surgery in August.  My goal is to be able to finish a 5/K by this time next year in Chicago.  That should give me enough time to get recovered and get on the ball.

So we are also going to start raising a stink to the fact that because I pay my taxes for the public schools and that we are in a school district that I can't even use the facilities my money pays for unless I spend more money to rent it PLUS take out a 1 million dollar insurance policy.  How crappy is that?  I can't believe that we have become a society that can't seem to think for themselves. 

Here are a few examples:

• We lost the right to accompany our family members to the gates at the airport.  We are herded like cattle through a screening process that has been proven to not really make a difference in our safety.
• We can't even save our money that way we want to for Social Security because the government thinks that we're to stupid to save it on our own.  That's why there won't be a Social Security when I'm older.
• Don't get me started on taxes.
• We pay our taxes and then we don't even know really where the money goes and then they have the nerve to raise taxes again because they overspend.

Do you get what I'm saying here?  We are acting like a bunch of lazy stupid people and letting other people run our lives for us.  When are we as a society going to stand up and say, "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I WANT MY CIVIL RIGHTS BACK!!!!"  We are a very shameful bunch of people who are to busy with look at how big my house is or look at this new expensive whatever I bought.  Never mind the fact that most people are is so much debt that they can't even afford to put gas in their ginormous SUV's.  I love the fact that people who bought houses they knew they could never afford to buy, bought it anyway and are now being foreclosed on and have the nerve to say, "That big, bad, bank is taking my house now I have no place for my family to sleep."  Well you should have thought of your family when you bought your stupid, overpriced, huge home that you NEVER should have bought.

Personal responsibility, something we seem to also lack.

After renting this home and with the lifestyle changes that we are making, we have decided that we never need this big of a house for just the four of us.  We have a 3,400 sq ft. home, two stories and all that stuff and luckily we'll be getting rid of it soon but at least I was able to be in this home so I know now what NOT to buy.  Renting does have it's advantages, you don't have to worry about selling it, you can move in either 6 month or a year whatever your lease is.  It's a nice thing to have this much freedom.

We are going to be getting rid of at least one car and possibly getting a SMART car in it's place.  You have to change the way you live now if you want your kids to be comfortable when they're our age.  I just don't understand people who complain about gas prices but yet don't change their driving habits and then still go out and buy the Excursions or other ginormous SUV.  People need to think before they buy.

Ok so I'll get off that rant but I still hope that you read that and really think about it because it's all true.