My New Life

Last night, just as Brutus and I were about to head out for our evening walk, it started to pour. So instead of our traditional route we headed to Coburn Park for some play time in the rain. The park has more grass and less mud than our walk route and it turned out that we had the whole place to ourselves. This turned out to be a really good thing because I found myself in a pretty embarrassing situation...

Like a dummy I thought "I'll just go in jeans and a sweatshirt and I should be just fine." There are a few things I failed to identify:
1. When you lose weight it is good to wear a belt if you'll be running around because jeans that were once snug, don't stay that way.
2. Jeans in the rain get heavy... really heavy...
3. Jeans in the rain with poop bags, dog treats, cell phone, and keys in the back pockets are extremely heavy
4. Trying to play with a dog and running around while wearing extremely heavy jeans without a belt means they aren't going to stay placed on my hips where they belong....

The result? I tripped over a rock while frolicking with my pup and my jeans drooped down far below my crack.. If anyone else had been at the park I'm pretty sure I would have been charged with indecent exposure...

This is just one of the many things that have made me fully realize that my life is different now... It is definitely for the better and I have no complaints about my new life that revolves around the bowel movements of my new love.

Let the period of adjustment begin!

<3 Katie
Day 2 A.B.
176lbs
Feeling like Brutus is training us to be real adults as much as we are training him to poop outside and I'm not sure what that says about us....

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