Well, I am officially on the wagon when it comes to eating like the typical American overweight/obese over 40 white guy. I'm sick of feeling the way I do and all of the excuses in the world are not going to make me any thinner or healthier. I stopped at the Walmart today and bought some easily size controlled, packaged foods for breakfast and lunches. I am not going to go extremely low on the calories as it is a huge waste of time. I'm just done eating the size of meals that I have been eating more and more of the last few months.

We've been back in Oregon for a week now.  Amanda had her surgery yesterday.  Everything went fine.  She's in a lot of pain still and we had to redo a bandage because it was bleeding.

She has an appetite though which is very good for Amanda :).

I'm posting from a friend's house right now.  It's nice to see a lot of people.  It's pretty weird to see the kind of businesses that seem to have expanded and moved in since I was away.   Just the kind of businesses that this area does NOT need. 

I think there should be some sort of public education announcement to get people to stop giving their money to crooks, and learn how to responsibly budget themselves.

My scooter is kind of loud an all of my neighbors are pretty quiet so felt bad because I broke my old home made silencer that consisted of some copper tubing a couple of clamps and a riding mower silencer.

When we went to the hospital when we were 12 weeks along we found out that the baby had developed into a blighted ovum. We eventually had it checked by about 4 people and they urged her to get a D&C because of some extra tissue that didn't look normal and would cause problems.  Amanda has had the operation now, but we haven't gotten any information back yet on the tissue samples.

Just wanted to put it out there and let everyone know.  It has been a rough past couple of weeks.

The past couple days Amanda and I have been experimenting with some cooking.

We bought a whole lot of groceries and there was a lot of squash out on the shelves so I picked up some. Tonight I fried the squash with just 1 tbsp of vegetable oil.  Used about a tsp of garlic salt. And fried it until blackness appeared on both sides, just like back home.  That was really really good, something you can't find in a restaurant around here.

A good guy has died this weekend.  He is missed by many.  I personally have known him for a few years and can't believe it.  He was too young to die.  I wished I could have done something to have made it not happen.  Everyone locally knows him as Pokey Phillips.  His real name is Micheal Phillips. 

    So I'm not sure how many of you guys know yet, but Amanda and I are due to have a baby on September 7th! I am really excited and we bought some parenting books yesterday.  I hope I will be a good father.  I have no idea what I think would be a good name, maybe someone out there can help me out.  You don't get to learn the sex until the 5th month.

Everyone has been talking about the floods here.  I haven't been affected much, but it is very crazy the amount of damage it has done.  I-5 our central highway is pretty much decommissioned.