Hi friends.  I just thought I would fill everyone in on what I found out today at the doctor and what has been going on with me.  I had my gallbladder removed on April 24th. From everything I have read and from everyone I have talked to I should have been fully recovered and back to my old self within a week.  In fact my moms friend had her gallbladder removed and she was back at work in less than a week.  So I went into this surgery thinking it would be nothing.  I mean I have had 2 other surgeries in thelast 2 years and those ended up being pretty easy for me.  The back surgery was tough but I recovered pretty well and right on track with that the doctor told me.  Anyway I have bI am now two and a half weeks out from my surgery and still having a lot of the same pain I was having before te surgery.  I am pretty miserable in fact.  I am trying to go about my business like nothing is going on but it is kinda tough to do when I am having to take the pain medicine.  My surgery was on Friday and on Sunday I was calling the doctor to check in becuase I was having some problems the my paperwork said to call the doctor if I was experiencing them.  My doctor wasn't the doctor on call so I ended up talking to my doctor's dad.  He made me feel pretty stupidfor calling and it was pretty bad.  He pretty much told me I shouldn't have called.  I felt really disrespected but since he wasn't my doctor I just let it go and figured I would talk to my doctor when I went on for my one week follow up.  I got to the doctor for that visit and ended up seeing the physicians assistant instead of the the doctor.  that would have been fine but I felt like the doctor should have at least stuck his head in asked me if I had any questions for him.  But I figured that is okay the PA knows what she is doing RIGHT???  Well that was wrong.  I have an inscision in my belly button that wasn't healing well.  The PA proceeded to clean it out(an open wound) without washing her hands or wearing gloves.  I was stunned into silence.  I couldn't believe she was doing that.  So here I am 2 and a half weeks out still having pain and needing to see a doctor.  I am so frustrated with my surgeon that I made an appointment with my primary care physician.  I have been his patient for nearly 25 years so I knew he would listen to my concerns and tell me what was going on.  After his exmination he feels there are 2 possibilities.  The first is that there is lots of inflamation around the surgery site.  He has prescribed me 2 medications to take that should help if that is the problem.  One of them is prednisone and the other is some kind of powder you mix with water and drink.It is absolutely terrible!!!  It is orange flavored and disgusting.  I am supposed to take it 3 times a day for a week along with the prednisone and at the end of one week I am supposed to call the doctor if the pain hasn't gone away.  If this doesn't help the doctor thinks the bile has leaked and somehow formed an abscess.  I am happy that the doctor took the time to listen but i am still frustrated that there is something else going on. I am supposed to start work again on Wednesday and I don't want to lose this job but I am afraid that I might have to make more doctor appointments or I might not feel well enough to be at work.  Kinda sucks.  Then to top it all off I found out today that my best friend is having to move back to Georgia.  I think we are destined to be in two different place in the country.  I am sure all will be fine but I am terrible stressed right now and in desperate need of your prayers.  I am also still awaiting the birth of a littler of kittens.  Anyway I guess I will post this.  I hope you are all doing well.  Love you and miss those of you that are half way around the globe!!

I haven't posted in a while. Thought I would just give you all an update.  I am doing pretty good.  Markis just came for a visit a few weeks aog.  He was here for 2 weeks and just left last Sunday.  It was a good visit.  He spent some time hanging out with some friends which is great.  I am glad he is making friends here.  He went to play golf with one friend and they had a really good time and another day we had some friends bring their kiddos over and we hung out and played the wii.  That wos lots of fun.  We also had a bbq and invited lots of friends over to the house to hang out and to get to know him a little better.  That was a ver interesting day.  We had planned on having an outdoor party where the kiddos could play in the water.  It rained so hard that our yard and street flooded.  The kids ended up playing in the rain.  One of our grown up friends started that trend!!  He went sliding therouhg the water in the back yard it was pretty amusing.  Ask Markis to show you the video some time.  Markis was supposed to head home to Hawaii on Wednesday the 22nd but he was asked to go to Kansas City to learn about some software so he went there for two days and then came back here for the weekend.  That was great except I had surgery on Friday the 24th.  I had to have my gall bladder removed.  That surgery was worse than the lapband surgery.  I was and still am in quite a bit of pain.   Hopefully I will recover quickly.  I am going to be starting a new job on the 11th.  I am pretty excited about that.  It is at a school I worked for a long time ago.  I will be the lead training teacher and the lead preschool teacher.  I am really excited about that.  I can't wait to have a classroom of 4 year olds to teach and work with.  As the lead training teacher I will be in charge of training the new staff as they are hired.  That is pretty exciting to me.  It opens up doors for more growth at my job.  Anyway I am really excited about the job.  I also inherited a new kitty.  She showed up at my granny's house and we all fell in love with her.  She is a prettly little flame point siamese.  We were feeding her at grannies and then discovered she was pregnant so my mom decided she wanted to keep the little kitty and then we could find homes for all the kittens.  so we took her to the vet and made shure she was healthy and she now lives at my house.  She can't live with my mom because my mom lives with my granny and Granny doesn't want any cats at her house.  We named her Makua.  We figured all the other kitties were from Hawaii so Makua needed something that would make her feel a little bit Hawaiian.  Since she is going to me a mommy Makua it is.  I am looking forward to the baby kitties getting here.  If anyone wants a kitten please let me know.  I am sure we will have plenty of them!!  Anyway life is pretty good right now.  I am looking forward to the day that Markis is here for good but other than that I am glad to be home. 

I had my niece and nephew this weekend and we had so much fun.  The kids came over on friday morning and we went to walmart to get groceries for the weekend and then we came back to my house where we had lunchables and apples for lunch.  After lunch we all laid down on the couch to watch Madagascar.  The guys came to mow my lawn so JC got a little wild so I went and put him down for a nap.  He slept for 3 hours.  While he was sleeping Carly and I played board games.  I got these three games from walgreens that are all basically the same game just with different characters.  One is a Tinkerbell game, one is the Disney Princesses and the third one is Mickey and his friends.  I like them because Carly feels like she is playing diffeent games but really she is learning to play one game.  We finished games and went outside in the back yard after JC wonke up from his nap.  After a little while we went to the bank and then grabbed something to eat.  When we left for the bank we got stuck in traffic because Arby's burned down so the fire department was dealing with that.  I decided that we would kill some time after the bank b going to get me an Easter dress and then we grabbed something to eat.  On our way back we got stuck in the traffic again.  I figured almost 3 hours would have been plenty of time for them to be finished with whatever they have to do when a building catches fire.  I guess I was wrong.  Anyway after we got home we decided to watch Madagascar 2 and take our baths and go to bed.  While I was getting the kiddos ready for bed Carly told me she "wanted to have as much fun tomorrow as we had today."  I said well I hope we do.  So Saturday we woke up and I took them to the campground where their mom, dad, brother and Nani were spending the weekend(the reason they were with me for the whole weekend).  We spent the day out there and had so much fun.  The campground was called Jellystone.  Yes it is a Yogi Bear campground.  He even rides around in a golf cart greeting people.  The kids went fishing and just ran and played.  The littleones slept all the way home.  We came home and watched some Dragon Tales on TV, had some ice cream and then we took baths and climbed into bed.  It is now almost 10:00 on Saturday night and I am exhausted.  I am looking forward to taking a bath and getting into bed.  I just thought you would all like to hear about our day.  Turns out both of the little ones are sick.  JC is running a fever and has a terrible runny nose.  Carly has a runny nose and a terrible cough.  Hopefully after their mommy gets home they will start to feel better. For all of my praying friends say a little prayer that the munchkins get better soon.  They mean the world to me and it makes me sad to see them sick.  Hope everyone is having a great day!

I am pretty terrible about keeping up with this blog but I will keep trying. I have been home in Houston for a little over 3 months now.  Things are going pretty well.  I really love the house we are in.  It has had a few problems with leaks but the landlords are really good about getting over here and taking care of it.  I bought a car.  I got a 2008 Saturn Ion.  The only real problem with it is that it is black so it will be hot in the summertime.  Other than that I really like it.  I started working at the end of January at a really nice school.  I enjoyed it for the most part.  I wasn't really fond of the curriculum because I had no freedom as a teacher but I really loved the children.  Unfortunately I found out that I am going to have to have surgery to have my gall bladder removed and it could be a little while before I will be ready to go back to work so I felt the best choice was for me to quit this job and to move on to the next one.  I think the best thing for me is to find a job that offers health insurance.  I have found A job that offers health insurance and I will be on the management team.  That will be a step up for me.  hopefully I will get the job.  She seemed pretty confident but I worked for this company several years ago so she has to make sure I am available for rehire.  I also have to take this test and make at least a 3 out of 5 on it.  I hope I did well.  I took it yesterday.  If I get the job they will be willing to hold it for me until after my surgery.  I hope it works out.  I am still waiting for the Dr.s office to call me to schedule the surgery.  I am hoping they call me pretty soon.  I am in quite a bit of pain.  I am ready to be minus one organ.  To top everyhthing off I have a new kitty and she is going to have babies.  About 2 months ago this beautiful cat showed up over at my grannies house.  I fell in love with her but since I already have 3 cats I wasn't going to take her in.  Well over the course of the next 2 months she sort of wormed her way ito my heart, mom's heart, and Krystal's heart.  We were all feeding her and everytime I would come over to grannies house she would come running when she saw my car.  A few weeks ago all the boy cats in the neighborhood got to her so we were pretty sure she was going to be a mommy cat.  Mom and Krystal decided to take her to the vet and I said if she was clean of and diseases she could come live with me.  She is technically mom and Krystal's cat but she is just living here for now.  I will eventually have a few little kittens running around my house.  I think it will be fun except now I am dealing with all the hissing and growling going on because the other three kitties don't like her.  I am sure they will eventually get along.  On another happy note Markis will be here to visit in a week!!! I am pretty happy about that.  I have been missing my hubby.  I am hoping the doctor won't want to do my surgery until after Markis leaves if he can't get to it before Markis gets here.  Anyway I guess  I will post this.  Hopefully I will keep up.

I know i am terrible and I haven't posted in a really long time.  So here I am.  I have finally gotten settled here in Texas and have found a pretty good job.  I am the lead preschool 1 teacher at Primrose School of Friendswood.  I am working with children 3 yrs old to 3 yrs and 6 months.  I work from 7:30 in the morning to 4:30 in the afternoon.  The bad partis that the school is about 40 minutes from my house so I have to get up extra arly to get to work so when I come home in the evening I go to bed pretty early.  My house is still in diarray.  I am still trying to get everything situated the way I want it.  I have gottne rid of the roaches!!! YAY!! I was afraid they would never go away.  I am not a big fan of bugs and roaches are the worst.  I think today my mom and I are going to take time to clean and get things put where they belong.  We have had my niece and nephews every weekend at leastone night and I am loving it.  They are the best little kids ever.  They are 7, 4, and 2 years old and we have so much fun with them.  I am doing pretty good helath wise.  I have lost about 112 pounds!!!  I am feeling pretty good.  I am now wearing a size 18/20 instead of a 30/32!!!   I am probably in need of a fill right now but I want to take some time and make sure I am eating enough. Since I am working in a new school I usually catch every little bug that comes through so hopefully if I am getting more nutrition I will be able to fight off any infections.  Other that work and sleep and having the kids I don't do much else.  I don't even watch much television anymore which is good.  While I was out of work I sort of became addicted to television.  Nothing like lack of time to kill an addiction like that.  Now when I watch TV it is usually with the kids so it is some kind of cartoon.  Like right now we have on Finding Nemo.  Pretty cool since I haven't seen it in a while.  oh wait I lied we watched it about 6 times last weekend.  But before that I haven't seen it in a while.  My kitties seem to like their new house.  Lots of places to run and hide.  I think the change in climate and the water has softened their fur cause they are all alot softer.  I am hating the weather here.  It is so cold and my skin keeps getting so dry.  I am hoping as the weather warms up my skin will get better. If anyone has any great suggestions o any lotions that really help please let me know.  I have a little 4 year old watching over my shoulder!!  It is so fun to have the kids around.  I also have a little Tinkerbell kitty with her chin resting on the computer keyboard as I type.  I don't know why I shared that other than I think it is precious.  Anyway friends I hope everyone is doing well and I miss those of you that ore in Hawaii and even the friends I have around the state of Texas and other far off places!!  Hope to talk to you soon!

Thought I would post and say hi and let everyone know I am surviving in at home.  I have a had a tough week.  I ended up in the emergency room with a kidney stone.  Let me tell you that really sucks!!!  I finally passed it  but I am thinking I have another one because the pain hasn't gone away.  I started a new job today.  I went in for an inservice day.  The school was closed to children for the holiday but they hyad the teachers come in to train.  It was good.  I am going to be the new Lead 3 year old teacher at a school called Primrose School of Friendswood.  IT is a beautiful school.  This particular campus is only 3 years old but the company is about 25 years old so that is good.  I am pretty excited.  I shouldn't have to pick any children up or change any diapers.  I will have an assistant and an aide during the day.  I can't wait to actually start in the classroom. I am going to start in the classroom on Monday the 26th.  I told them when I applied that I wanted a few more days off to finish getting my house together.  Anyway just wanted to update everyone on what I have been up to.  Hope you are all well.

So I have made it to Texas in one piece!!  I arrived in Houston on Friday morning and prompt;y began throwing up.  I think I had some bad milk on the plane.  I am really frustrated cause after I took a sip of the milk I sent it back and the flight attendant then proceeded to tell me that all the milk they received was bad.   Now why didn't she tell me that when I asked for the milk instead of giving it to me.  Oh well.  I was a bit embarassed because my future sister in law picked me up at the airport and I was throwing up in her car.  The good thing is I have at least already met her when I came home in March.  So I got home and slept for a few hours and felt way better.  I had to go over to my new house to meet the lady I am renting from and to get the keys to the house.  I love my new house!!!  It is beauiful. The only problem is ther eis a terrible roach problem.  I am having to spray the house like crazy to try to get rid of them.  I haven't even been able to stay over there yet.  Right now my mom and I are sleeping together in a full size bed.  Kinda funny huh!!  Anyway say a little prayer for me as I am going to battle with the bugs. I miss all of my Hawaii friends so very much and I hope you are all doing well.  Those of you here if I haven't already seen you I will be seeing you soon.

I am having a great time while my mom is here.  We went to Iolani Palace on Saturday and learned a little about Hawaiian history.  Funny how I wait until I am leaving to learn more about this wonderful place.  We have also done a little shopping while Markis has been working.  Last night mom and I went with some friends to eat at Zia's cafe for a friends birthday.  We had so much fun with that as well.  Markis had lots of fun going out with the guys to play poker while we were out for the birthday.  I am getting really excited about coming home.  It is only a week away.  I can't wait to see my new house and to see all the wonderful people I love at home.  Say a little prayer for Markis since I am going to be leaving him.  Anyway just thought I would post something since it has been a while since I haven't posted in a while.  Have a wonderful Christmas!!

Just thought I would check in with you guys.  I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving.  Mine was pretty good.  I worried about what and how I was going to eat.  We went to a friends house and had a wonderful day with close friends.  I managed to eat some wonderful turkey and ham and a little bit of stuffing.  It was the best Thanksgiving meal I have had in a long time.  I think it was so good cause I hadn't been able to eat anything like that in a while.  I even managed to have a little slice of pie.  So as far as the weight loss is going I am at about 80 pounds lost.  I am feeling pretty good these days.  I am a little freaked out about the skin stuff going on.  I know that my body is changing and I am going to have loose skin.  Markis has agreed to let me get plastic surgery when the time comes.  We want to have our kids first but I will get to have plastic surgery when all is said and done!!  I am pretty excited about that.  Anyway I am getting things ready for the move.  We have found a great house to live in.  We will need to find a fridge and a washer and dryer and of course furniture!!  We will pretty much have nothing but I am sure we will be okay and we will find the stuff we need.  I am just so excted.  I guess I will post this now.  I hope you are all doing well.