One door closes another opens.

So this is a little bit of a weird one, on the whole it's been a weird sort of week for me but I've got a smile on my face and I'm facing the world head on, so that's got to be a good thing hasn't it?

So the American dream is over for me, I failed the medical I needed to pass to get onto the health insurance, the old MRI's have found another lump this time behind my kneecap, so not in any pain with it or anything but it's been diagnosed as a form of arthritis, which is classed as a degenerative disease by the medical authorities over there, which means I don't qualify to be on there insurance. Yes it's a bummer and I was very much into the idea of moving to Denver but as they say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I guess Anna Kendrick is going to have to move to this country for the time being, or we can arrange to meet in a country that doesn't require me to pass a medical.....sorry got to stop day dreaming of things like that.

My big weight loss has helped me deal with the pain I've been suffering from for the last few years and I did hit a landmark today, I've not been weighing myself religiously during my weight loss, but after last weekend and me indulging in several big meals and drinking my own weight in costa coffee's I dreaded setting foot on the scales.....imagine my surprise when I found I'd dropped below 90kg for the first time in I don't know how many years.....so yay! I've also taken up yoga and at first I couldn't feel any benefits but after a few months I can honestly say it's helped no end, even if I do get some strange looks when I'm doing them down the gym.

So onto future plans, the world is my oyster still really, I've looked into jobs in Barbados and Canada, I've also been looking in this country as well. The only thing I am sure of is that my future lays away from Boston. I've stayed here for to long and the town isn't a nice place to live anymore. I hardly recognise it from my childhood days and it's a shame, it used to be such a lovely place to live, a slow placed, laid back way of life. It had some great shops, who of my generation could forget Beatties toy shop on West Street? It's hard to pinpoint when things changed, it was never the same place after I came back from University, but the decline has carried on. It'll be sad to say goodbye but on the other hand there is nothing for me around here anymore. So who knows where I'm going to end up, all I can be sure of it's going to be an adventure to find out!

So what else has happened? I picked up the last of my stuff from my old place and had a good chat with Sue, my soon to be ex- mother in law. It was great to catch up with her, true it wasn't in the best of circumstances but it was nice all the same, she's been great to me over the years and she's definitely one of the people I will miss when I do leave. This does lead me onto a little fun thing though, now in my younger days I had a reputation of taking far, far to many photos. It wasn't a night out without a cheap disposable camera from Jessops in the Arndale with it's free developing. So expect a lot of very suspect pics coming your way very very soon!