Where the heck did September go?

Sheesh I can't believe we're into October already. I'm glad September is over. It wasn't an especially good month.

I'm waiting on the cable guy as I write this. We're bailing on DirecTV because the cable guy gave us a better deal. Plus we'll have faster Internet than we currently experience with DSL. We're also switching to cable out of necessity. Our neighbor's trees interfere with the satellite signal and I don't want to cut his trees.



The small company I'm part of meets twice a year for staff meetings. This time we gathered in Kansas City, where four of the nine of us reside. I could have extended my stay in Kansas City and gone to the cup race, also there that weekend. I regret that I didn't, because I would have seen my driver, Tony Stewart, win!

While I was out of town, Courtney cut her hair. I hardly recognized her when she greeted me at the airport. It's HOT.



I was supposed to start being someone's motivator this morning. I know, Trop as a motivator is pretty laughable, as I can barely motivate myself to do anything. Nevertheless, someone has asked me to be their exercise motivator. She saw me in tight jeans, what can I say.

I haven't worked out in over a month. Some motivator I'll be!



I know I should take them as a compliments, but the superlatives people are beginning to use to describe my weight loss are becoming... I don't know... humiliating. That's too strong a word perhaps, but when someone who hasn't seen me in a while says "Trop, you are a mere shadow of yourself," I cringe a little, because the implied message is "Trop, you were REALLY FAT!"

I have to get over that.



Amanda is a completely different person lately. She even has a social life. She's been going out with friends a few nights a week. She's even seeing her long-time crush from middle school, Bryan. He's a year older than Amanda, but because he's still in high school (a senior) and she's in college, it's like he's dating an older girl and younger girl at the same time.

For now I'm not going to worry about all the trouble she might get into while she's out about about with friends with cars and a boyfriend. I'm simply going to enjoy that we get to have the house to ourselves a few nights a week. I love when we don't have to behave like parents. We can be loud!



We have the gay cafe this upcoming weekend, which is always a lot of work. As it is we spent much of this past Saturday doing all the required shopping. On tap this month is a Halloween costume party. Thursday night I'll be carving a jack-o-lantern for the event. I would love to do a LLP pumpkin, but I don't think Courtney would approve. I hope we get a big crowd this month.

Sunday we're going to the wine and garlic festival in Amherst. We've been looking forward to it for months. It had better not rain!

Finally, I have to get our camping gear ready for our weekend at Martinsville Speedway later this month. We'll drop off our gear the week before to get the good camping spot, the one we got the last time we camped there. This will be our second trip to Martinsville in 2009. We went to the spring race, but didn't camp. I'm going to try to get myself on RaceDay again. Watch for it on SPEED.