SEEING A SONG

Since a couple of us are experiencing a weight-loss plateau, here are some lyrics I found - have no idea what the tune is, but my mind plays a sort of bluesy-cowboy twange:

Let's take a ride to the easy plateau

Where the cold don't come and the wind don't blow

Moonlight flickers on the water below

The orange grove blossoms

In the orange grove

Bad nights lead to better days

It doesn't matter but I think about it anyway

I want a easy plateau

Some place to rest my head

want an easy plateau
Some place to rest my head


For awhile, for awhile, for awhile

For a little while

Sleepyhead, come on let's take a ride
To the easy plateau in the back of your mind

Up through the alley, take the door under the stairs

My head ain't feeling nothing but cats and rocking chairs
Bad nights lead to better days
It never happens but I think about it anyway

I want an easy plateau
Some place to hang my head
I want an easy plateau

Some place to hang my head

For awhile, for awhile, for awhile

For a little while

I like it - at least the way I can hear it.

WHEN ENVELOPED IN SWEETNESS

As Latter-Day Saints, 90% of our non-Sunday meetings are required by commandment to have refreshments containing more than 18 grams of sugar and less than 1% fiber, protein or Vitamin C.

Okay, okay, so it's not really a commandment - it just seems to be a major requirement within Mormon culture.

For example, last evening we held a lovely introduction to Personal Progress, our young women equivalent to becoming an Eagle Scout, for both the girls and their parents.

But at the end, of course, we served TONS of Rice Krispies Treats.

How could I politely refuse?

AHA! I did have a time-honored, revered and honest excuse this time.

I was holding someone's baby for them... and you know it is impossible to eat anything one-handed.

 

The baby weighed about 12 lbs.... so it counts as a work-out.

 

And it was hot in the kitchen/serving area even without holding a snuggling, sleeping baby... so I probably sweated off several pounds.
 
Triumph over cereal and marshmellows at last!!!

MONDAY MORNING WEIGH IN

I should be thankful is some way - but I'm not at this moment.

I have not lost anything.

But, to do the half-glass thing that I normally am wonderful at, I have not gained anything.

Serious exercise is in my very near future - I've gotta find some way to shift this into a higher gear other than just walking the dogs.