Mystery Solved

I'm laying in bed the other night and notice that where I've been having that pain in my ribcage I can feel a vein or something. It only hurts right on the vein, not the slightest to the right or to the left. So the next morning I call the plastic surgeon's office and they have me come in that afternoon. The pain is apparantly a clotted vein from the surgery.... a thombosis..the surgeon comments ever so quickly. hmmmm. I'm supposed to take advil for five days to see if it clears on it's own. Meanwhile, my primary physician is a little freaked out that he didn't do an xray to see where it was and what kind of vein it was. So, this is me waiting five days to see if I have a heart attack, a pulmonary embolism, or that I just have nothing to worry about and hope it fixes itself. Surely, if it were a big deal the surgeon would have appeared more concerned. Surely.....

Can I say I hate the time difference this time of year??? It was totally dark when I dropped the boys off to school today. There's something wrong with that. I love the sunlight and long days. I'll take that over dark and dreary any day. It's nice once in a while but daily?? No, that has to go and soon. I could never live in Alaska where it's permanently dark for days or months on end. There has to be a high suicide rate in that state. I get depressed after just three days of rain...call me a wimp.

So getting back in the gym has been a humbling experience. Wow, have I lost alot of strength...particularly in my legs that haven't had a real workout since my injury. Hubs went with me yesterday and made me do single legged movements on my right side. That's the weakest. It's just embarrassing lifting with baby weights when you're used to lifting really heavy. What's hysterical is seeing the same strained look on my face with light weights that I had with the super heavy sets. It's hard to get through the set without bursting into laughter! You'll see I changed my profile pic. I was getting too many pervert stops on my sight with Monica's hot body posted up there. Maybe the skull and crossbones will scare them away, even though they're all girly. I'm so far from achieving Monica's bod right now that it just depressed me anyway. Maybe later.

Here's a fun pic. Thing 2 and me went on a date about a month ago. How handsome is he??? No comments on my stylish "do".....I had 10 minutes to throw myself together, so all things considered, I think I looked FINE.

Breaking Radio Silence...

Nope. I'm not dead, I wasn't abducted by aliens, I didn't evacuate to another country, AND I didn't lose my fingers in a tragic accident thus preventing me from blogging. It's worse...much worse. I started a new company with my husband. I say worse only from a time perspective as the new gig has taken off like a rocket. The problem is finding time just to do the simple things like clean my house, hug my kids, and wash my hair. Ugh. So I'm taking a bit of a break this week since the dust has settled a bit and thought I would post before someone hacked in and posted an obituary.

The girls have settled in and I love wearing all my new fun tops! Can't wait for blog blowout...and um...they won't be making a finale appearance girls, sorry!! I have this wierd excruciating pain along my right side though that I think is related to the surgery. I'm thinking nerve damage at this point, so hopefully it will repair itself. The right girl is still totally numb, too, which totally creeps me out. Doc says that should come back in the next few months. Other than that, it's so great to look proportionate in clothes for a change.

Last week was my first week back in the gym consistantly since I got the girls. It was awesome seeing MuscleMomma again and getting sweaty and stuff! After leg day it was quite painful to get around for a few days, so I'm thinking we need to ease back into legs a bit more slowly than we thought. MuscleMomma is coming back from an injury, so we're starting back in the same place. Our goal now is the Texas Shredder next May. Fingers crossed I don't get derailed again next year!!!

Thing 1 and Thing 2 are doing awesome in school and so far it's been a great year. I've been warned that third grade is hell, so I'll enjoy it while I can. We went to the pumpkin patch yesterday then went and took munchkin to Build a Bear. Unfortuantely, he was much more excited about pounding away at the computer. Maybe he'll warm up to his monkey at a later date! I have a cute pic but can't get it off my camera for some reason.

That's enough updating for now and I have lots of work to get done today....Great to be back though!!