A Little Background

I figured I would give you all a glimpse into my life past & present as we head toward the future. I am the youngest of 3 children. I have an older brother & sister. My brother & sister share the same dad I have a different one which I will probably occasionally refer to him as “the jackass”. I mention this for a reason keep on reading. As a child I was always chubby, big boned, whatever you want to call it. My brother & sister were skinny my sister was so skinny she looked like one of those kids you would see on tv in the Sally Struthers feed the children commercials but all that ended once the teens hit.

I wasn’t that lucky I swear if I hadn’t seen my baby pictures from when I was born I would have thought I came out of the womb overweight. A lot of the women on my dad’s side were overweight from what I have seen from the women on my mom’s side they are fairly health. I don’t know for sure if genetic like overweight grandmother & aunts play into I but if so well there is a small piece of the puzzle. For as long as I can remember I hated school well not all of school pretty much just one part of school & that was of course gym not all of gym mind you just where you had the climb the ropes(who the hell came up with that idea I can see if we were in the army for basic training but come on man its gym & we are a bunch of 5th graders) my hated continued on in 6th or 7th grade when it came time for swimming cause ummm hello me in a bathing suit at all (let alone in front of people) was not going to happen sorry pal I don’t think so.

Funny enough I didn’t hate gym in general I loved doing things like badminton, soccer even tennis(those came alone in high school). But granted as much as I liked doing them I still failed gym 2 of the 4 years in high school(yes said I know). I don’t know if it was the changing in front of people or what but I just couldn't’do it. But come senior year when I had to take 2 gym classes that year plus one gym class in night school I had no problem taking gym I still didn’t change in front of people I used the showers if I got their early enough but at night I would just show up in my clothes instead of having to change. I guess I felt ok with having to do it over because I wasn’t alone there were other people the who had also failed gym some fat some skinny, some guys, some girls. In the end I graduated all 200 and some odd pounds of me it was the middle of freaking July & here I am in a gown that fit almost like a sausage casing not quite but it was damn near close let me tell you.