I am so excited: Friday is Miss Sodapop’s birthday and I’m going to see her!!! SQUEEEEEEE! It’s been way too long! Tomorrow night I’m going to her meeting with her (she’s chairing) and then hopefully I can drag her ass out for a late dinner or something. Then, early Saturday, we’ll be driving up to Bloomington, IN, to see MY team, the Michigan State Spartans, play the IU Hoosiers. Srsly. That’s their name. The HOOSIERS. We have one of the greatest mascots EVER, Sparty, and they have … fuck me, I don’t even know what their mascot is. I haven’t been to a college football game since I was in college, so it ought to be fun. I have my MSU hat already packed; I picked up a green t-shirt the other day at Target so I will stand out in the sea of red!

So, that dress I bought for Halloween arrived today. It’s SHORT. Like mid-thigh. Ummmmmmm. With some black opaque tights, I might still wear it. My ass is covered at least, thank God. And, I will probably lose some more weight in the next month, so the dress will get a little longer (hopefully). If not, well, hell, I’ll be in the Ville for Halloween, so Laci and Sodapop will be the only people who I actually know who will see me like that LOL. I’ll def wear a blonde wig to draw attention upwards!

I was at the gym today and Kara had me doing walking lunges. On the second one, I went down. Like, straight down. My knee just buckled. It was the weirdest thing. Then, my other knee started acting up. So, we gave up on that task. I don’t know if losing 40 lbs in 7 weeks has caused joint issues or what. Thank God my knees didn’t “pop.” I did agree to do strength training 2x/week though; she just casually dropped that into conversation lol. I know it’s good for me, and I felt really good tonight while working out (knee weirdness excluded), but I still don’t like it. Bah. Big baby Monique, I know.

I had a headache yesterday that just wouldn’t go away. To compound matters, I had a full day of meetings. Ok, the meetings were interesting and informative but still, I was at work and swallowing Tylenol as often as the tiny tummy would allow it. Then, there were a fun-filled dinner after work. BAH. I ended up in bed at 8:45 p.m. and slept straight through ’til morning. It was fabulous!