{"id":1243,"date":"2014-08-12T05:27:14","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T09:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeezjosie.com\/blog\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2014-08-06T01:59:59","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T05:59:59","slug":"shooting-from-the-hip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jeezjosie.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/shooting-from-the-hip\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting from the Hip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I&#8217;m working without benefit of my template and my image editing program tonight. C&#8217;est la vie. I&#8217;m on my work computer because my personal one is presently undergoing heavy, full-on, deep tissue scanning processes.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I don&#8217;t really <i>think<\/i> I have a virus or anything, but I saw a weird screen during shutdown this evening and even though I&#8217;m fairly certain it was just a notice that new updates had been applied &#8211; I am not taking any chances. Scan it is.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Anyway &#8211; I&#8217;m writing this a few days in advance of publishing because that&#8217;s how I roll these days. I write when I have something to say and I do it as often as I can &#8211; but the pressure of composing 500 &#8211; 1000 words every day regardless of thoughts\/inspiration\/topics got to me. My solution works. I&#8217;m usually a couple weeks ahead with RP postings for the off-days and I scatter in these non-writing posts on the on-days. I don&#8217;t stress, I get to enjoy blogging again, and &#8211; Why am I telling you this? My readership pretty much consists of me, myself, and I &#8211; with occasional perusals by my bestie, Tim, my husband, or my Mom.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I have a co-worker whose wife is dealing with a lot of the issues I have &#8211; healthwise &#8211; right now. The difference is that she&#8217;s already had her kids.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; But anyway &#8211; she recently went on insulin and is having WLS soon.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; It turns out our insurance <i>will<\/i> cover WLS after all. Wich brings up a whole new conundrum for ME.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I have debated WLS for years.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Some days I 100% WANT to have it. I need the help, I could finally get healthy, I want it.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Some days I 100% do not want it. I want to do it myself, no help, no crutch, no surgery.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Today, I&#8217;m really seriously considering it again.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; My sister had the lapband. She&#8217;s healthier than ever with two gorgeous children.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; My former co-worker had Rouen XY (or something &#8211; full-on bypass) and though she has trouble keeping weight ON these days, she always says she never regretted her choice.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I really honestly believe that if I could get the help to get started &#8211; the kick-in-the-butt, so to speak &#8211; and lose about 50 lbs, I could enjoy being active again. There are so many activities I love, but its just so hard&#8230;so sweaty, so painful, so embarrassing.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; So I keep praying on it. What to do, what to do.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; But I&#8217;m shooting from the hip today, telling it true.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I don&#8217;t have the answers, but I have a possibility now, a chance&#8230; and I might just take it.<\/p>\n<p><i>Image by me, in Paint. 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I&#8217;m on my work computer because my personal one is presently undergoing heavy, full-on, deep tissue scanning processes. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I don&#8217;t really think I have a virus or anything, but I saw a weird&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/jeezjosie.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/shooting-from-the-hip\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1],"tags":[183,214,53,82],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","category-uncategorized","tag-fat","tag-life","tag-rant","tag-wls","xfolkentry","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeezjosie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeezjosie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeezjosie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeezjosie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeezjosie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jeezjosie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1245,"href":"http:\/\/jeezjosie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions\/1245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeezjosie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeezjosie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeezjosie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeezjosie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}