This job of morning radio can be grueling. I don't think unless you wake up at 4am every day can someone truly understand how it wrecks your body. It's easy to lose focus on why I do what I do. I dreamed and worked so hard to do morning radio and sometimes I completely forget why.

Here's a great e-mail I recevived from a listener that reminds me why I love my job:

from m@BLANK.com to miguel@island106.com date Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 8:26 AM subject Thanks!!

Hi, Miguel!

I have been intending to email you for a while and am just now getting around to it. I was listening a while back when they were replaying older segments. They happened to play the "If you really knew me you'd know..." and you were talking about your struggles with weight. I listened to this and cried all the way to work, my heart really went out to you.

As the day went on I thought more and more about what you had said and how I really felt the same way. I am always the "funny one" or I hear "but your face is so pretty" and God knows living here I am not nearly as comfortable in swimsuits and shorts as I should be to participate or even enjoy things in the summer time with my friends. I realized how completely tired of feeling that way I really was and that I needed to take control and change things! I am a single parent and I need to be 100% healthy and happy and convey these things to my daughter so that she will grow up to be healthy and happy with herself as well.

I went January 3rd and joined Resolutions Weight Loss in town and renewed my rarely utilized membership at Golds Gym. I have since taken my diet and exercise very seriously and had very few "cheats" or lazy days where I was not in the gym or active. I have lost 22 pounds now and I have to you thank for that! I have a long way to go but I feel so much better already! Thank you so much for being so open, honest and all around FABULOUS!

Best Regards,
Memory

Lord! It's been a coon's age since I've written in this old thing. I feel like the Mundane Misgivings of Miguel is like a old beat up journal. You only think about it in time of great need or boredom. I was having dinner with friends tonight and someone remembered I had a blog! After I finish writing I think I'll take a stroll through memory lane and read some of my posts from high school and college. That Miguel was such a different person than who I am today.

When I started this blog I was 17 years old and a senior in high school. I'm now 25 and four years removed from college. WOW!

I find it harder to write in my blog now. When I was in college I would just type whatever came into my mind. But now, as an adult, the rules have changed. You can't just type exactly what's in your mind because God forbid you offend someone.

EEEK! Now I'm just rambling. Let's just do a quick run down of where I am in life:

-I'm approaching the 3 year mark of co-hosting a radio morning show in Panama City Beach. Never in a million years would I think I would live here. The time I've spent here has been amazing. I've met so many life long friends and discovered so much about myself I wouldn't change my time here for anything.

-I'm living with my boyfriend Brett (almost celebrating a year together!), my co-host on the morning show Holly and her husband Christopher. It's a lot of people in one little ole' house!

-Since my early days of college I have become a bit of social butterfly. I went from never wanting to go out and meet new people to going out all the time. I've been endorsing a gay bar here in PC for almost two years now. I talk about it on the radio and a lot and host the drag shows. That has been so fun to me. It's like putting on a mini-comedy show...well when I'm sober enough to put words together. EEEK!

-My weight loss journey continues. I lose it. I gain it. I lose it. I gain it. I'm sitting a pretty substantial weight right now. I'm so ready to shed the pounds. Next week I start endorsing a local Gold's Gym here. I'll see a personal trainer 3 times a week. I can't wait to start this journey.

Well that's all I can really chew off right now about what's going on. There's always so much to talk about, but I have a movie in the DVD player I want to get to and my eyelids are getting heavy. I'm telling myself I want to spend more time here on this space to articulate more of how I am feeling and thinking this year. Let's hope it happens!