The other day David and I were walking around campus and I decided we should go into the co-rec just so I could weigh myself because I haven't done that in awhile.  Apparently I'm 117 lbs now.  Last time I weighed myself was July 21st and was 106 lbs.  So in one month I gained 11 pounds?  Needless to say I freaked out a bit because that is too much of a weight gain for me.  David is going to buy a scale sometime soon so that I can get a second opinion, heh. 

David and I had lunch at his place today.  He was going to watch me eat, to make sure I ate something I guess, but he was on the phone most of the time I was eating lunch so he didn't technically see me eat.  But I did eat   It was hard though.  I kept having to tell myself that my weight is more normal  now and that it's ok to weigh this much and that eating was a good way to keep my weight this high.  I'm going to have to go through the same thought process for dinner tonight   I won't have David around to keep an eye on me, he's going to a club callout tonight so we can't eat together.  I think I'll be ok.  I'll probably have a salad, maybe some pasta, idk. ~Steph~

Sam and I did a lot of weeding today.  A lot of the time I felt very light headed and that feeling of passing out was creeping up on me.  I had eaten a full lunch before hand and was going inside for the occasionally drink so I'm not quite sure why it was happening.  I managed to get through all the weeding and then the sweeping up outside.  I got another page done on my sewing today   I'm glad it's coming along well and that I'm getting more of it done quicker than at school.  I also got through listening to the 6th Harry Potter book so I'm all ready for the movie on Friday. 

Sam and I played a bunch of rock band before her, me, Nathan, and Dan went out for chinese food.  Dan was doing some training thing at the base so he came by for dinner.  It was nice to see him.  We chit chatted for a bit and David came up in our conversation   Dan likes him, hehehe.  I'm so glad that everyone that's meeting David is saying that they like him a lot and that he's really easy to get a long with.  A bunch are saying that they like him the best out of all my previous boyfriends, major plus points for David.  Anywho, I ate a boat load of my dinner tonight.  A lot more than I thought I'd eat.  There's just some left over so I might have that for lunch tomorrow along with the other half of my chicken caesar wrap.  I also had a big bowl of ice cream just a couple hours ago.  I think tomorrow is going to be a big snack food day because we're going to have a really super late dinner, Sam doesn't get off of work until 9. 

I might do some more yoga or something tomorrow or I might just play rock band with my sis until she goes to work.  We'll see.  I've been really happy today.  I think it's because I'm going back to school in a month and finally get to spend a lot of time with David *squee*  As far as job searching goes I think I might end up getting the Telefund job.  Only because they seem to always need people.  I'll probably find out shortly before school starts.  *fingers crossed*  Good night everyone   ~Steph~

I don't know if I mentioned or not but Sam and Nathan both have jobs now, yay!  Sam is something like the co-manager at a Joanne Fabrics and Nathan does something like tech support/selling stuff, I'm not really sure what he's doing.  He starts later today and has to go through a long training session.  I think it's really great that they found jobs so quickly.  They've only been unemployed for two-ish months. 

Funny how that is, they found jobs after two months and my dad still hasn't found a job after near 2 years.  WTF?! *sigh*  It's really eating my mom up.  Especially since Sam is getting married in September and my parents can't afford to help pay for any of it.  Mom and my aunt Sande are making the center pieces, so that's their contribution   I don't think dad is doing anything for it.  Mom wants to get Sam and Nathan the professional series of this pot and pan set, it's the same my mom has and they are absolutely amazing!  She's had them for as long as I can remember and they're still in near perfect condition.  The only problem with this set is that they aren't cheap.  Probably at least $200 for all of it, most likely more.  The parents are scraping for the money for that and I'm sure they're scraping for my phone bill, since I'm currently unable to afford it on my own   I feel absolutely horrible about school starting because I know I'm not going to be able to afford my school books and I'd have to ask either the parents for help with it or Sam and she's got a ~$10k wedding to pay for.  I'm sure we'll all figure something out when it comes that time.  I've starting applying to jobs at Purdue for the school year so hopefully I'll get something so I can stop mooching off of my folks.

I'm not sure if I mentioned how my grandpa Smead has been doing.  Quick sum up, his thyroid cancer came back and he had to get a trach put in so that he could breathe because the tumors were closing up his wind pipe to the size of a straw.  He went into surgery several weeks ago and all the tumors were removed.  The update Sam and I got yesterday was that he will be going into radiation treatments starting next month and he'll be doing that for a month and a half for 5 days a week.  Mom said that he will be very tired and very thirsty, apparently the last bit was important for us to know.  The bad thing about the timing of the radiation is that the ending of his treatment will put it at a couple weeks out from the wedding.  Grandpa really really really wants to be there for Sam but he's not 100% sure if he'll be able to make the trip.  The good thing about all of this is that soon, in a couple months, they will be able to take out the trach and he'll actually be able to talk to us without plugging up his air supply.

News on me.  My back has been progressively feeling better.  It doesn't hurt immediately after I wake up anymore and the pain at night doesn't make me want to cry.  So all I have to do is not stay in one position for very long through out the day and then my back doesn't ache until after dinner.  I've usually just been sitting on my bed all day with my pillows behind my back positioned just right for support and all that good stuff.  Every once in awhile I'll lay down to give my back a bit of a rest.  I'm planning on starting up more exercises later today in hopes it helps take some of the pain away.  I wanted to start up weeks ago but that's when all my back pains and other pains started and I wanted to wait on the exercise until they lessened more in the morning.  I'll probably post weight and BMI tomorrow since the Wii Fit gives you that and I haven't posted any info like that in quite some time.  Course these aren't exactly accurate but they should be pretty darn close to the actual measurements that it shouldn't matter. Last time Wii Fit told me I was underweight, no really?!, and if I gained 20 pounds I would still be underweight   I was hoping to improve a bit on my weight before school started up again.  I want to be a normal weight.  It'd be nice if I didn't look like a skeleton at my sister's wedding.  *fingers crossed* ~Steph~