Oops.

Today I got an email from a good friend back in St. Louis. She was updating me on her life and her new email address. I updated her on my life, told her about my surgery, gave her my blog address and sent it off. Suddenly I started getting mail delivery failure notices popping up. My heart sank. I had hit "reply all" for some strange reason (I never do that!) and emailed it to what must have been 100 names on my friend's list. I hurried and wrote a quick note saying, oops, I only meant to send that to my friend. Well, when I looked over the list, I knew a good portion of the people on her list from being in the same ward in St. Louis. Somehow this was even more embarrassing because all these people know me.

It's not that I'm trying to keep my weight loss surgery a secret, but I just wasn't ready to shout it from the rooftops quite yet. It was like having a conversation that I thought was private and suddenly I realize a whole bunch of people were listening in. Anyway, I've gotten a couple of sweet replies to my email, and I'm sure more will come, or maybe not.

So here's a special welcome, for anyone joining us here due to my little misclick today. Please post a comment on this message so we know you're there. Even if you want to stay anonymous, I'd like to know if people are actually reading here because of what happened.

I figure that I've let a bunch of people know personally now, instead of letting it spread through the normal gossip vines that run through our world. I'm less embarrassed now that it's been a few hours, but I was very embarrassed at first. Oh well, live and learn, I guess.