I've lost 3 pounds since Monday and am finally back under the 230 mark for the first time since January! Now at 228.5 pounds and still losing. It also marks me only being 71.5 pounds heavier than my boyfriend. When I first found out his weight in June, I was 83 pounds heavier! Woohoo! Now just need to stay on track and keep making progress!

In my last post here, I mentioned that I would be starting a job trial that I landed through a friend. Well I started the trial, and successfully completed it. On Monday, March 14, 2011 - the boss met with me to say I had been doing a great job, was a wonderful fit, and seemed to be settling in well. He offered me the job "permanently" and said ( Read more... )

Let's see, job ended on November 2nd. Am on unemployment and receiving severance at the moment, and looking for work. If anyone knows of any corporate library, business information research, law library or otherwise librar-related postions in the Portland Metro area, send them my way. I'm also keeping my eyes open for my fallback position of ( Read more... )

On Wednesday I took advantage of my "Free Detail for Life" deal for my car at the Auto-Body shop. I get 3 details per year, and I haven't used it since November 2008. They did a pretty good job, which is awesome for the price of free ( Read more... )

So, haven't updated substantially for a while again. Had an awesome New Years and the year is starting out in a great direction. Had my second weigh-in of the week today and I'm down another 2.5 pounds for a grand total of 35.5 ( Read more... )

Man, has it really been two weeks since I've updated here with a post of my own? I am on LiveJournal pretty much every day reading all the folks on my friendslist and commenting here and there, but since the advent of my activity on Facebook it gets harder to parse out those lengthier thoughts about what is going on with my life and out in the ( Read more... )

It's been more than two weeks since I've posted anything of substance. I've been busy with work and fun and been sick for a few days. Tomorrow I'm heading to Colorado for 5 days on vacation and will be away from the computer for even more days ( Read more... )

All events related to MeetIn Portland (MiPL) except where noted ( Read more... )

Had dinner at Chang's Mongolian Grill tonight and got a double lucky fortune in my cookie ( Read more... )

Oooh it's been a long time since I posted an update.

( Starting back with the start of the snow scare, December 12th )