Yep this is me with no make-up, in the raw if you will. Soak it up I rarely show photos like this. Now, if your willing to get up at 4am and meet me at 24 Hour Fitness that is my no make-up zone. I’m not gonna hold my breath waiting on you at 4am. The reality is I’m such a person of routine I move in the same direction and order every single day of my life. I always drive the same route when out doing my regular errands. It’s more about control than routine.
Control, what a big word and a big part of my life. Being in control isn’t about being in charge. It’s not about having power over others. It’s never about showing off. It’s all about living my life with calmness. Well, that seems like a contradiction “control and calmness” and to most it is. For me they are hand in hand life partners.
Most days I get home from the gym around 6:45am. I don’t even go into the house I start working as soon as the garage door goes up. I love this time of my day. It’s totally quite with no interruptions until around 7:30 when there is a scratch at the back door and Cooper is up and ready to go outside. That is when I get ready to go to school and start my day away from the house. This past week my routine got interrupted something that I don’t deal with very well. Somehow I managed to get in a little quite time and start a great project.
I get many questions about myself. I get emails, text, face to face and phone calls. Some are easy to answer questions and others are hard to answer and plan down rude. So tonight I thought I would just get raw and answer the good, the bad and the ugly. Some of this, not gonna be pretty. Some answers might come off rude, it’s not meant to be it’s just my honesty. Others might seem to be over the top crazy but again my honesty is in that as well. I have this friend Marla from my childhood that I haven’t seen in years, by years I mean over 30 years. Recently I reconnected with her on Facebook. She is just the way I remember her beautiful, funny, honest and takes no crap from anyone. I love to read her post. She has such a fire for life that no one can put out, nor should they try if they like life. LOL LOL LOL I hope to get back to Arkansas to visit her soon.
So here we go lets step off into the raw.
Question 1: Don’t you feel like having weight loss surgery is cheating? Nope it’s one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. It’s hard work to keep it off just as hard as when I didn’t have the sleeve. At first it was like a great romance, you know easy, fun and no issues. Then time passes your 6 months down the road and the loss slows to a crawl so you have to try hard really hard to lose. The fun is over you go from crap I guess I gotta kick up the exercise or it’s gonna come back. Then the issues start you find out you can eat certain things or you get sick or your gall bladder goes bad. The list of things that are hard out weigh the list of things that are easy.
Question 2: Can I see where you had the skin removed? Well I’m not a shy person and if you really want to see my scars I’ll show you I have no issue with that. I just think right here in the middle of Kroger might not be the best place to drop my pants and pull off my top. What do you think? Always led by bugged eyes and an oddly pronounced giggle.
Question 3: Why are you so open about your life on your blog? Followed by Aren’t you afraid of what people will think? I’m open because I wanted my blog to be honest. I still have the choice to talk about or not talk about what I want to. Those close to me know all my truth and I’m completely open about everything in front of them. What you do in life and how your life works out is your choice. Yes bad happens to all of us as well as good happens and we have no control of that. How we react is our choice and our choice of reaction is what controls what follows that good or bad. I know that some people who cross my path don’t like me or the way I act, run my life or what I say in my blog I can’t help that. If you ask me I’m gonna tell you what I think, how I feel and my opinion. I don’t mean that to hurt just wanna be honest with you and that is what I expect from the people in my life. I don’t like fake, phony or people who try to get attention. I love people who act the same all the time.
Question 4: THIS IS A BIG ONE AND I’M SICK OF PEOPLE ASKING ME!!! Have you done anything to your face as in surgery, Botox, or fills? Well I’ve had NO surgery to my face. I did have lazering to my face that helped me shed a bit of my sun damage. I’ve had Botox for the 11’s that have appeared in-between my eyes from years of teaching. If you don’t know what 11’s are they are those 2 lines that appear between your brows side by side and make 11. Also Botox around my top lip because of a wrinkle line that caused my lip color to run. Other than that nope nothing else. I’m lucky Botox last a bit longer on me that most so I don’t have to do it often. I’m a big believer in investing in myself instead of shoes, clothing and jewelry. We each need to decide what is important for ourselves. Not depend on what others say to make decisions for us. Be who you want to be and be who you can live with.
Question 5: Is your marriage really that great after all you’ve been married over 30 years? Well my marriage really is what you see and hear about in the blog. We are neither prefect and don’t live in a fantasy world. We have both made mistakes small, big and huge. We realize that nothing and no-one is perfect so we can’t expect each other to be. At times our marriage has been perfect, at other times it’s been very one-sided for Greg and for me. Sometimes it’s 50/50, 40/60 and even 90/10 with everything in-between. I love Greg and I know what true love feels like from Greg. So yes it is really that great after 31 1/2 years. I’m looking forward to 31 1/2+ more years.
So there they are the most ask and most recently asked questions. Keep sending them in by email, text, calls and of course straight to my face. Oh one more who is Cooper? It’s not my Ex nor is it a child we still have at home. It’s my little Shih Tzu and Cherry is his sister, also a Shih Tzu.
