Welcome to Up Down Adventures!

I'm Rebecca and this is my blog about my experiences and activities related to my weight loss journey, my experiences as a roller-coaster enthusiast, and my personal experiences with motherhood and life in general. I felt with all of these things... Up Down Adventures was a VERY fitting and suitable title for my page!

This blog is not just to share my experiences and thoughts with others, but more so an opportunity for me to keep a personal journal and to have an ability to vent, rave, brag, and rant when the fancy strikes me!

There are a few things I've wanted to write in detail about for some time... my weight loss surgery experience is a big one. Mental health issues is another topic I'd like to write about, which kind of coincides with the weight loss journey! The other big one for me is my experiences as a new person... THANKS to said weight loss journey!

About me...

I'm 39 years old. I'm a married mother of 3 children whom I'll probably embarrass on a regular basis (as nothing has stopped me from doing so yet)! I'm a school bus driver by trade and a roller-coaster junkie by choice. I love music, art, and adventure... and am an avid Blue October fan (and holy shit I literally just realized Up Down Records is their label... hah!)

I have a very dirty mouth, with no filter... I care what others think - too much really, but at the same time I don't waste time or energy trying to please or win anyone over.

My children are my favorite people in the whole wild world. They are my greatest accomplishment, my greatest joy, my favorite and my basis for just about EVERYTHING I do in life.

I've been told that I'm extremely immature, self absorbed, reckless, and irrational. I've also been told that I'm a "free spirit" (whatever that means), inspirational, fun, and all sorts of other good things... you can make your own evaluation however you wish!

I deal with personal issues on a daily basis and I'm trying my best to overcome a lot of things that have hindered my personal growth which have also had an affect on my children, my relationships, and people who are important to me... and as you'll find out - there's a lot of them!

I've not kept much of a record of my accomplishments and defeats over the years, but thanks to Facebook and other social media outlets I've got a good foundation which allows me to look back, reflect, and ponder the situations I've been in as well as the ones I've overcome, learned from, and continue to grow from on a daily basis.

I'm a very social / anti-social person.... yes, I just contradicted myself again - I'll touch on that later I'm sure... but overall I am truly an open-book.

My first blog series is going to be about my "rebirth" as we'll call it... which will touch on my past as a VERY unhealthy individual, as a mother who needed desperately to make a change, and as a person in general. It's not something I'll probably be able to do in one individual blog... so it'll likely be split up in several posts.

I hope you enjoy... if you don't - that's ok! There's other shit on the internet you can read to kill time if this isn't enjoyable for you!