This past year, and especially the past two months, has/have been crazy for me: exciting, surreal, stressful, surreal, and extremely busy. I mentioned surreal twice because that's the feeling that comes through the strongest whenever amazing things happen to me – this is probably because I spent so much of my life thinking I'd be content just to hit 'average' on the excitement/pleasure scale of life (no pun intended). Whatever the reason, it's a serious issue of mine; when something wonderful happens to me, I'm so blindsided and disbelieving that it's actually hard for me to enjoy it. It took me a year and a half to relax into my relationship with my boyfriend; I went through the entire book publishing process in a fog of disbelief, and I'm still not sure I believe it; and now I have something else to convince myself is true: I'm engaged . Yes, my boyfriend is now my fiancé. I won't give you any proposal or ring details, because I'd
Life after Gastric Bypass surgery