Gretchen,

Congrats on your blood labs! That's great. It's good to know that we can all keep chugging along.

I definitely hear you on the "finding a whole new me". That girl that I found hiding-out inside of me is doing all kinds of things that would have terrified me 10 years ago! Every now and then the "old" me still peeks back out and says "You wanna WHAT???!!.... Are you INSANE!!???". So I give her chocolate to shut her up! (A good anti-depressant helps too!)

I think I'm gonna test-ride the Sequoia this weekend. I have scraped together about 2/3rds of the money from selling stuff that I don't need, and it is starting to burn a hole in my pocket!! I want to get outside again soooo bad. I want another weekend like last weekend!!!