I love it when I hear people comment that gastric bypass surgery is taking “the easy way out”.

Can you see the sarcasm dripping off your screen yet?

Quick, long-lasting results?

Yes.

Easy?

Um…no.

Actually, HELL no.

This is me:

Many of you have seen this photo in black and white on my “about” page.

There WAS really good photography involved, but it’s pretty much how I ended up.

I?

Did not always look like this.

(And still don’t. Again, REALLY good photography.)

14 years ago, at the age of 20, I had gastric bypass surgery . This is my story. Well, a tiny fraction of it, anyway. Continue reading →

“I could watch The Planet Earth documentary from The Discovery Channel over and over again. It is amazing.”

“Yup, it’s pretty good Sunday afternoon, curl-up-in-bed, viewing.”

“Dude, the filming of the “Birds of Paradise” mating rituals in the Amazon KILLS me. Look at the length that this little guy is going to impress the female bird and get some action! He’s performing a full-on ballet and is puffed up like a tutu. Now THAT is dedication to sexual nookie. It’s really sad it doesn’t work out for him, though.”

“He’s a guy and probably used it it. Most of us are.”

(Insert long-suffering sigh.)

“Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. Though doubtful due to the fact that I am a million months pregnant and feel like complete suck most of the time, maybe if you did some wild, complex, mating ritual to impress me you would have a better chance of getting laid, who knows?”

“I do that already, baby. It’s called “laundry”.

It is not a secret that I have a bit of an obsession with “Little House on the Prairie”, both books and television show.  I used to read them every single night before bed for like, two years straight. (I will not cop to how old I was when I did this…COUGH,24,COUGH, COUGH, COUGH!)

I believe I even recently copped to my love when a reader asked if I knew how to milk a cow because I live in Cache Valley, Utah. (Sadly, I don’t.)

So, I about fell over when I read that there is a LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRE MUSICAL and it is going on tour.

Sweeeeeeet!

I wonder if the actor they cast as Pa Ingalls will have curly Micheal Landon fro’? At the very least he should have his abs and they should include a scene where he gets his ribs broken by a rolling mill wheel so that he has to have his shirt off.

I’m just sayin’…