My Yearly Post

I only post about once per year and each time it is about my weight and dieting. I contemplated either deleting the blog out of embarrassment or try to change both the yearly blogging and the obsession with weight/diet posts (that have clearly gotten me nowhere). So here we are, one year almost to the day since I last posted and I can't seem to come up with anything to blog about at the moment. Maybe I should just delete this blog. Well, here is a list of ten other things I also do yearly, in no particular order.

1. Spend way to much money on two little girls birthday parties, each year vowing we'll keep it simple next year.

2. Have my car inspected, usually three months late and only after getting a ticket. Thus the hassle of taking the receipt and the ticket to city hall and pay a twenty dollar court fee to have it dismissed, also vowing not to let it happen again next year.

3. Have a yearly well-woman exam, although it has now been three years and I keep reminding myself I need to call and schedule that exam, but never actually remember to when I have the time. (like now, at three am)

4. Change the oil in my car. I blame this on John. He really should step up to the plate and take care of the man chores; cars, bills and yard. But hey, he is a better housekeeper than I, so I'm saying nothing (to his face).

5. Have the girls pictures taken together professionally. I hate that I only get this done yearly. I'd love to do it seasonally, but it's really a pain to choose nice clothing that will compliment each other and that they'll agree to wear, not to mention trying to get them to cooperate.

6. Bake a cake, usually at Thanksgiving or Christmas. I buy all our birthday cakes and it makes me feel like a bad mom.

7. Actually cry at a movie, this year it was Justin Bieber's Never Say Never. You should see it.

8. File our taxes. This is a joint effort of John and I and we usually argue a little, especially when it's April 14th at 8pm. Thank God for online filing.

9. Have the car washed. Isn't that what rain is for?

10. Have another birthday, where I move even closer to no longer being a thirtysomething mom. Hopefully, there will be many birthdays in my future. I found out today that the mass I had removed was cancerous. Kinda surreal. Hopefully by having the mass removed that's all I'll have to do, maybe some radiation, but we're not for sure yet, waiting on lab analysis to find out what kind of cancer, then the treatment will be determined.

So if anyone still actually reads my blog, I'm sorry I just threw that in there, but really I'm trying to stay lighthearted and positive about it. Maybe putting it in blog form and trying to be funny isn't the way to go. Here is how it was shared with me. My surgeon, apparently having missed his bedside manner 101 class, stood over me as I opened my eyes in the recovery room and said, "well it's cancer, should be very treatable though, see you in the office next week" and turned to John and said, "excuse me" as he moved passed him leaving. Wow, I'm glad he makes up in skill what he lacks in personality.