Milestones

I went out with some people last night for the Eclipse release. I say people because they weren't all friends..just 1 and I've known her since we were wee little one's in elementary school. I moved away after 7th grade and hadn't seen her since. Well, we've seen each other a few times over the last several months. The rest of the peeps were her friends from high school. I'll admit, I was a little nervous not knowing these people and knowing I would be the odd one out. You see, my friend and I don't see eye to eye. We were good (not great) friends when we were younger but as we approached middle school, our personalities and outlook on life just didn't add up even at that young age. It's more apparent now that we live completely different lives. Aside from our Twilight obsession and general know how of being a mom, we have nothing else in common.

So I was the last to arrive since hubby was late getting home. I found them in the middle of the restaurant and proceeded to join them. This is when my first milestone occured. I WAS NOT THE "BIGGEST" one there..I wasn't even the second. Out of 4 girls, *I* was the smallest one. This has NEVER happened to me. Ok well maybe when I was thin in high school and didn't really pay attention to that sort of thing. The next milestone came as I went to sit down at the table. It just so happened the 2 "biggest" girls sat on the same side of the table and the table was sort of sitting at an angle to allow more room for the others on the side I would be on. Well, since it was at an angle, the seat left open for me was, well, small. In the brief second I had before sitting down, I stared at the tiny space before with a sense of unease and nervousness. NO WAY was I going to fit there. I had hoped no one had noticed my instant panic but ultimately decided to scoot the table just a tad. I mean, I was in the company of several larger people. Surely they'd understand though there wasn't much more room to move. I got maybe an inch and quickly decided just to squeeze in. BUT much to my surprise, THERE WAS NO SQUEEZING needed! And there was room for me to be comfortable!! YES!

This put an extra skip in my step the rest of the night and I just sort of had this confidence about me walking around knowing that I was not the biggest one in the group and that I had fit into what seemed like and impossibly small space at the table! Our night went on and we watched the movies. I was definitely the odd one out as for whatever reason, our seating arrangements put me on the end of the group with my 1 friend on the opposite end. Thankfully another friend from high school was next to me so we chatted it up.

A 3rd milestone came this morning when I stepped on the scale. I had been a bit discouraged by the slow progress in weight loss on the scale but this morning, I finally saw something that made me give a little YAY! 239.8 I AM UNDER 240! Woot! Another 10 down with hopefully another 10 to go before my 40 days is up on July 10!