Ok so yesterday I ran 1.5 miles, I did day 11, the love handle workout, and I did the arms and legs workout. Woah. It was tough, but I finally made it through. Therefore, lol, today, I was only able to (struggle) through day 12 and do the love handle workout. lol I was sore. To say the least! :) But! I did it and just finished up actually. I think I'll be lucky if I can walk tomorrow. lol. I also feel like I have to be honest in saying that I have been STUCK the last several weeks (before I started doing the FitFeb) I went back up to 202. BOO. Still makes an overall loss of 69lbs though. I know it'll happen, but it doesn't make it suck any less!! I also know it could be worse, lol but again, it's hard to see that and want to keep going. But! That's what I was at the beginning of this, and I have vowed to not weigh until the end of the month and we'll see where I'm at then. :) So! I know I hadn't updated on my actual weight loss as of late, so I just wanted to keep ya in the loop about that, in case any of you were wondering where I'm at as of late. Hopefully that's not the case as of today, but I can't say for sure. Anyway, that is that! :)
Ok, so my best friend Megan, has been having some medical issues lately. She had to go to the ER on Saturday because she was excruciating pain. They decided they thought it was a ruptured ovarian cyst but wouldn't know until today after doing a sonogram. So, she went in for the sono today and they found out that she has a really, really big cyst on her ovary. Scary. Long story short, she is going to go to an OBGYN on Thurs (assuming she is still having pain) and they will do another sono and see if anything has changed and they will go from there. They have discussed possibly having to have surgery and either try to take the cyst, or take her ovary completely. Of course Megan and her husband are wanting to have kids and this would make it nearly impossible for them to do so, according to her doctor. It's absolutely heartbreaking. I literally had tears in my eyes and streaming down my face when she was on the phone telling me about it this morning. It just breaks my heart. I would really really appreciate it if you could all keep her in your prayers, pray that the pain eases as it's debilitating for her now, pray that things are different on Thurs, that the OBGYN gives her much better news... I'm keeping the faith, and I know she is too. I know she's praying just as hard. I just hope things work out, that things get better for them. Thanks in advance for thinking of her and praying for her!!
Now, I will go into a little more detail about our AD stuff, now that I have more of a chance to explain. Ok, so, as you know, Justin requested mast 2 weeks ago, they finally figured out what they were supposed to do to be able to do that, and he got the formal request (a form with a big long explanation) sent last Tues. or Wed. Justin's CO contacted him on Fri. by e-mail to tell him he needed to speak with him asap. Justin's contact info was relayed to him, but the CO didn't end up getting back with him until Monday morning. Justin received an e-mail from him telling him that he, the Capt of the Battalion, as well as the Lt. Col were all involved in this process. Um. Woah. He also explained that his package now went from what the admin section was telling him (level 2) all the way to the final level and was waiting to be signed off on. He also told him that he will have an answer, as far as accepted or denied for active duty by this Friday. WOW! We were (and still are!) completely floored by this. He also received a call later that day from the Chief Warrent Officer in his unit and he explained that it has been processed at headquarters (the final step) and was currently being sent back down the chain of command (procedure) to him and he would have it on or before Friday. He told him that he can't say for certain that it was approved, but he said that he "sees absolutely no reason it would be denied". YAY! :) Then literally an hour after that call, he received a call from the Capt. The Capt proceeded to tell Justin that he "got screwed" by this whole process, that if "even half of what he put in his complaint was true, it is ridiculous and should've never happened" and that he had every right to request mast and did what he should've done to get it taken care of. Wow, Wow, WOW. Justin mentioned to him that all he wanted as a resolution, was for the admin section to follow up on his package, to stay on top of it to make sure it was where it needed to be (since it had been lost and messed up more than once) and the Capt said that he himself made the phone calls to get his package pushed through, BECAUSE of all that Justin had to deal with. This definitely made both of us feel better about the whole thing. He honestly didn't want to throw anyone under the bus, get anyone in trouble, but he was tired of getting jerked around, he was tired of no one doing what they should've done. He was tired of having to wait to find out what he was going to do with the rest of his life, with his career, and having it be in someone else's hands, people that weren't doing anything to get an answer. Anyway, so every single person that it went through, could NOT believe what he had gone through, they could not believe how he's been treated, and why in the world it has taken 11 months and he still didn't have an answer of ANY kind. So! :) This is AMAZING news! It is finally happening! Of course, like I mentioned before we don't have a for sure answer, but from what the CWO said, and the Capt. the way he talked about it, we feel very confident that it's going to be approved. So, once this happens, he will go in to sign his re-enlistment package, the CWO says that as long as he gets the answer this week, which is what they are anticipating, that he should be going in to the unit next week to sign the re-enlistment package. He will then have to declare what MOS (job) he wants to go into, which he's planning for Intel, and then if there is a boat space (room for him to go into that MOS) then he will have to go in front of a board for them to decide if he can go into that MOS, if he gets approved by them, then they will find an opening in a school for him to go to to learn his new job in Intel and whenever that opening is, that's when he would leave for 3-6 months (not 100% on how long it is) for that schooling and G and I will stay here. After he graduates from that MOS school, we will get a duty station and we'll move!! So! As you can tell, there's still a lot to go through, but once he is approved this week, they only have 90 days to get all of this done (at least up until having him enrolled in a school) so it will go rather quickly. The only thing that may take awhile is if there aren't any openings in a school and he has to wait until the next one opens up. Otherwise, he literally could be leaving SOON. We will know more about that once all that other stuff is done though. From what we know, he will sign his re-enlistment package and be in front of a board within weeks. Then of course, it'll go from there on the other stuff. So there ya have it! That's what's going on in our world, in a nutshell! :) Of course we're used to things not going the way they are SUPPOSED to go, so that's always in the back of our minds, but at the same time, now that all of these important people are involved and it's not just the peons, we are thinking we have a MUCH better chance of things going the way they should go. But we'll see. Needless to say, we're anxiously waiting to hear the "for sure" news! :) It's kind of been surreal too, though. I mean, you have to look at it from our POV. We've waited 11 months with very little action taken on this. We have never been sure that it was moving where it was supposed to, we always figured we'd get updates every once in awhile saying ok now it's here, ok now it's here etc. so we kinda would know where it was, how long it had previously been taking to go to the next level so we could anticipate when we'd have an answer. Now all of a sudden, we feel like we've gone from 0-60! lol We were told just last week it was at level 2 (which we've been told numerous times, and it's also supposedly been at level 2 since Nov) so then to find out it was completely finished and on it's way back to Topeka, has been quite a shock! lol We'll see how quick the rest of this goes, but it would be nice for a LITTLE bit of time to soak this all in, lol!! :) So far we've had mixed emotions from the few people we've told about it. They are happy/excited for us because this has been what we've wanted and what we've been trying to do for awhile now, but they are sad that we are going to be leaving. :( We definitely feel the same way. I feel like it's amplified now because we haven't even had a real chance to have it soak in that it's really happening, because it all happened within a matter of days, after months of waiting. For that reason, we are hoping it's at least a couple of months before he would actually leave, that way we have more time to get used to this idea. I don't know what I'll do if we find out he's leaving like next month! That would be scary. Haha I know, I know, so back and forth, so many opposite feelings. I hope you can understand why we feel a mixture of excitement, sadness, scared, nervous, anxious etc. Anyway, I'll quit rambling now, but that's where we're at! I'll update more when I know more! :)
I hope you all had a WONDERFUL Valentine's Day! Ours started off with a trip to Hutch for Justin to have minor surgery. He has fatty tumors (thanks to genetics) and he had 2 of them removed, one from his arm and one from his leg. So that was fun. lol After that we came home and he went to bed since he is working tonight, and G & I hung out and played. :) My parents came to town to give G her Valentine goodies. :) It was really nice to visit with them. We hadn't seen them in awhile so it was nice to hang out! :) Justin left for work and later his parents came over and gave G her Valentine goodies (she's so loved!!) After that, I gave her a bath and put her to bed and I watched a movie! It's been a great day. I am very, very blessed. :) I hope all of you had a great day as well!! I really enjoyed seeing so much love on FB today. It makes my heart happy to see so many people happy and loved!!
1. I am thankful to have TWO very special Valentine's this year!! :)
2. I am thankful that my hubby's surgery wasn't a big deal and he's on the mend!
3. I am thankful for unexpected compliments of people noticing that I'm shrinking! Even when I can't see/feel it! :)
Lovesssssssss!!
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