flymojoplayer

I’ve had a big week. I need to tell you a little history before you can understand.

In my pants size, I wear a 34” length I wore a 34” waist size for a long time. A day came about seven years ago when I could no longer button my 34” waist and I had to buy 36” pants. My waist size got bigger than my length! That was a hard day. Eventually, I had to start wearing size 38” pants.

So, when I started getting in shape, I set two goals for myself. One was to get under 190lbs and the other was to fit into a 34” waist.

Well, it finally happened this week. I weighed in at 188lbs. So I went out and tried on some 34” pants, and they fit!! They’re not even tight. This is just huge for me and I can’t believe I’m wearing these pants. I haven’t fit into a 34” waist since about 1999.

It is really encouraging because before I was still wearing my 36” pants and just cinching up the waist to keep them from falling down. Now, when I look at myself in the mirror in the smaller pants, I really do finally look thinner and healthier. So all the work is finally paying off and I’m finally seeing a difference.

OK, so I guess the first step in finding more female friends is to identify some possible candidates and see if I can build a friendship with any of them.

There is one lady in my life that I would really like to be friends with. She has been cutting my hair for the last few years, but I don’t have a friendship with her outside our professional relationship. I have seen her at least every couple of months for the last few years and I’ve really grown fond of her. She is fun to talk to, and I really enjoy her company. She is happy and optimistic and has a positive energy (I’m really tired of negative people). She also has a peaceful spirit.

When I come in for a haircut, she actually takes time to sit down and talk to me when she could go off somewhere else and take a break while I wait. So she must like talking to me (I guess).

Problem is, I’m not sure how to take our relationship to the next level of being real friends. I don’t know if I should just ask her, because she may not want to be friends, which would be fine, but it might make her uncomfortable. We have a great rapport and I don’t want to ruin it by making things weird between us.

If anyone has a suggestion about how I could handle this I would really appreciate it.

I left a really stressful job last November. I worked there for 8 years and overall it was a great experience, but I ended up in disagreements with my boss and I wasn’t being treated fairly. During the last couple of years, it was a dysfunctional situation, so I left.

In January, I started a business with my Dad. He is officially retired, but he has always wanted to run his own business too and I think all he needed was a push from me to get going.

My Dad is a brilliant engineer. We are working on an idea we have for a new type of computer chip.

So far it is going great, but I need to stay motivated. Things aren’t going so well in my personal life, so I am trying not to get down and depressed. It is easy to get overwhelmed with all the work I need to do on the business. I’m trying to take it one day at a time and celebrate the little successes, but it is not easy.