I've officially lost 50 pounds, yay.  Haven't really been able to do much in the way of exercise, but my eating habits are quite different from what they were a year or more ago.  It's really not that I'm eating healthier, it's that I'm eating less.  It started six or seven months ago as a side effect to a pain medication that I'm no longer on.  I would wake up every day feeling sick and I would hardly eat anything because of that.  I switched to a new medication that didn't upset my stomach, and since then I just haven't eaten as much as I used to.  I'm under 300lbs for the first time in at least 3 years, so that's way cool.

I'm still fighting the government machine, particularly the social security and state disability offices.  I don't comprehend how some people I've seen can cheat the bejeezus out of the system, but when you actually have medical problems and are having hard times it's worse than pulling teeth trying to get responses and help from those agencies.  Not that I'm bitter (yeah, right).

In the past few days I've seen two separate white-trash beastly looking women beat the shit out of their little kids at walmart.  Two different visits, two different 'families' (I use that word loosely).  Neither one of the kids was really doing anything wrong, the idiot moms just smacked them around because they were frustrated with them.  One kid actually screamed "Mommy, you're hurting me!"  Loud enough that everyone at all the other checkout lanes could hear her.  I was spanked when I was a kid but holy crap, nothing like what I saw this week.  I've said this before and so have many others, but there should be a test for all prospective parents.  You fail, and you get sterilized (male or female) so that a child doesn't have to suffer due to your sheer ignorance and stupidity.  Again, not that I'm bitter...but really, where's a cop when you need one?

So, just to recap, I've lost weight, my back still sucks, the government aid agencies still suck, and there's a lot of ugly, nasty, beastly white trash women in Lafayette that are incapable of being parents.