HAPPY/MERRY/GOOD FAT/ALCHOL/SWEETS

Why do we have holidays stuffed with food or booze... or BOTH.

New Years - booze.

Valentine's Day - candy

Mother's Day - chocolates

Fourth of July - BBQ and hot dogs

Halloween - candy

Thanksgiving - massive feast

Christmas - ditto AND candy

Can we being to have HEALTHY holidays - ones that do NOT involve massive amounts of calories and fat, but perhaps fun activites, water and FRUIT!!?

Who's with me? I mean, after January 1st (we still have to eat Christmas dinner, don't we?)

BAH HUMBUG

This evening I attended a perfectly lovely Christmas party, with dinner and desserts.

I participated in much small talk, make several charming anecdotes, and graciously excused myself after approximately 90 minutes.

And I ate ONE bowl of warming soup, ONE small serving of peach cobbler with an EXTREMELY SMALL topping of a unique whipped substance of which I could have inhaled several gallons of.

Grinch, move over a bit - I'm getting pretty good here.

TRASH AS A GOOD THING

I am continually amazed by people who litter.

I try to not be judgmental about it - maybe it accidentally flew out their window as they were experiencing cardiac arrest, so they were completely unable to stop the hamburger wrapper, large soda cup, french fries holder and 2 cans of Budweiser from being strewn along the road.

But really, how many people or peoples can be having a major health issue on the same road for weeks at a time?

So today I tried to extend my walk to include a large garbage bag and a half-mile more to pick up all the crap that peeks out of the tumbleweeds along the adjoining roads to my house.

Unfortunately, empty aluminum cans, wrappers, and odd bits of plastic don't wear much, so I can't even claim the extra walk as weight-lifting (yeah, like I'm ever gonna look like this guy!)

Only lifting that excess of my weight as I walk.

But hey, it was something, right?

And this nice lady with the elephant wrote a very similar blog article about littering, and I'm including the photo because I think she looks a lot like ME!

WHAT A PRETTY FACE CAN DO

An old habit reared its ugly head again tonight.

I have been doing so well on eating slowly, and only eating small potions, that I naively sat down tonight to watch the pre-recorded NCIS episode.

With a half-full carton of Dryer's Chocolate Cookie Dough ice cream.

And, needless to say, I did NOT stop with only a cautious and reasonable amount.

I blame it all on Mark Harmon.

LABOR OR LATCHING?

THREE LBS.!

TOTAL OF 8.5!!

Hurrah ME!!!!

(But should I feel like I just gave birth, or like a slimy fish?!)

SHOULDN'T IT COUNT JUST AS A DAIRY PRODUCT?

Why is ice cream both so wonderful and so evil?

I had promised my family that Saturday evening, I would pick up Cold Stone Creamery.

I even got everyone to chip in five bucks apiece.

But after sitting on a metal folding chair for over three hours, the idea of driving an additional twenty minutes simply to get superb, ideal and rich ice cream mixed exactly as you would like it was overwhelming.

I elected instead to simply stop at the 24/7 convenience store right on the way home.

Thinking in some convoluted way that purchasing ice cream I really didn't like would magically reduce its power over me, I got two things of Dryer's.

It didn't work.

So although I could excuse one very small bowl last night, I have no rational excuse for having another one tonight.

And I weigh IN tomorrow morning!