As I’m browsing through the Inbox this morning, I come across and email from my post-WLS vitamin provider. I usually just delete them, as they tend to be sales ads or what have you. However, one of my loser friends, Beth, had mentioned something to me about vitamins recently. So I read over it — and it’s the headline that gets me…

A study just published in the May issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition shows that the majority of gastric bypass patients cannot maintain their nutritional health on a basic multivitamin supplement.

Wait. What? You’re telling me that even though I’m taking my vitamin supplements, and have been for almost 3 years, I am still prone to malnutrition or nutritional deficiency? Now what? I’ve put in a phone call to my nutrition specialist and I’ve also requested the full text of this article — I’ve yet to get a response from either one.

Contemporary Christian singer and songwriter Steven Curtis Chapman’s youngest child died Wednesday evening after being struck by a car driven by her teenage brother in the driveway of the family’s Williamson County Tennessee home.

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I really don’t have that much interest in television.  Seriously.  You can count the number of shows that I watch on one hand.  One of those shows, over the past few years, has been American Idol.  Well, after last night’s “boxing” schtick and tonight’s season finale, something happened.  I’ll keep it simple.

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That’s all.  Rest in peace, Idol.

In 11 days, the family will be in Orlando, Florida for a summer vacation at Walt Disney World. We are staying on-site, so coupled with the fact that we are flying, we won’t have to do ANY driving until we get back to the airport and head home.

I can’t wait and I certainly know my wife can’t wait. She’s had a very difficult year as a first-year teacher and I’ve put a lot on her with all that I’ve gone through. She deserves this and it will be a nice way to celebrate our 9th wedding anniversary just a little early.

We’ll be flying to Orlando via Southwest Airlines from Nashville, Tennessee. We’re leaving early on the morning of June 1st and getting home the evening of June 5th. We are staying at Disney’s Pop Century Resort for 5 days and 4 nights. So far, we’re looking most-forward to riding Soarin’, the all-new Toy Story Mania, and all of the character dining we have booked. To top it all off, on our last evening there, we’ll be attending Mickey’s Pirate and Princess Party.

We thought about trying to slip away to Universal or some other attraction in Orlando on our last day — but we decided to spend our last day at Downtown Disney.

We’ve done most of our shopping and gotten our packing lists ready, but we’ve done little to no packing and I don’t really know when we will start. This will be the first time we will have flown since 9/11 and our daughter’s first flight as well. My biggest decision will be what to take with me on my carry-on and what to put in check luggage.

A more detailed post will come later — but, I just want to thank the Lord for my wife, the planning guru.