I always felt like I was really active through high school and a few years after. I played volleyball, basketball and was at the lake almost every weekend swimming and riding wave runners. I was never skin and bones but was relatively in shape. I was able to wear a bikini and felt good about my body even though my dad always called me “thunder thighs” joking 
about my larger than normal thighs. However I had and still have either a huge obsession or an extreme weakness for food. I love to eat. I love food. Cake, chocolate, cheese, bread, Mexican, Chinese, BBQ…anything, everything, I love it. It doesn’t matter if I’m happy, sad, stressed or relaxed I eat food. After leaving a job as a manager at a pool I decided to take more of a “career” route and got a great job at a bank. So now not only was I sitting at a desk all day munching on crap I was still finishing up my bachelors degree so I was sitting in class for hours at a time, again, munching on crap. Soon the pounds began piling on. +10 pounds this year, +10 pounds that year, etc etc etc. Around October of 2008 I hit my heaviest weight I had ever been…XX3. Did you really think I was going to tell you how much I weighed?! 
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goodness you are able to check into your flight 24 hours ahead of time now when you book a Southwest Vacation package because we were running late. We arrived around 5:30 at The Parking Spot and patiently waited for the shuttle to take us to the terminal…waited…waited…waited. I finally picked up the phone to call the front desk where I was very rudely told they were almost there…and we waited…waited…waited. I called again and after the phone rang probably 50 times someone finally picked up. After slightly raising my voice the shuttle was there in less than 30 seconds and we were off. 
light is getting longer, afternoons are getting warmer, and thunderstorms are forming in the skies. Quite often the highs were pushing 70, 80 and even 85. I finished cleaning up the leaves from the fall, got my planters ready for flowers, and had fertilizer on the yard. Spring was here! Key word: WAS 
left my side (literally). Whether I just need someone to talk to, a shoulder to cry on or a bunch of kisses I can always count on him to be right here. He’s my rock, my best friend, my baby…he’s my dog Murphy. 
