VISUAL IMPAIRMENT

Refrigerators can be used for a wide variety of purposes.


1. Magnets


2. Wild decorating ideas

3. Posting incentive photos that might keep you from eating what is IN the refrigerator

4. Posting scary photos that might keep you from eating what is IN the refrigerator


None of the above are helping - any suggestions?

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FRIENEMY

My daughter introduced this new word to me this evening, and it fits something perfectly.

Food.

Something that keeps you alive.

Something that can kill you.

Sort of ironic, isn't it?

But at least I'm gonna die happy, right?

THE ZEN OF DIETING

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right
doing there is a field.
I'll met you there.
- Jalai-as-din Rumu

We would rather be ruined than changed.
We would rather die in our dread.
Then climb the cross of the moment.
And let our illusions die.
- W.H. Auden

See as if for the first time a beautiful person or an ordinary object.

We accept the graceful falling
Of mountain cherry blossoms,
But it is much harder for us
To fall away from our own
Attachment to the world.
-Rengetsu

More important than learning to recall things
is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering your mind.

And so I urge you: go after experience rather than knowledge. On account of pride, knowledge may often deceive you , but this gentle, loving affection will not deceive you. Knowledge tends to breed conceit, but love builds. Knowledge is full of labor, but love, full of rest.

JUST SAY NO

Emily Post, the founding mother of American etiquette, has been quoted as having said "Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use."

So I am trying very hard to learn how to say no without hurting any one's feelings.

Like when my son brings me home a Frosty from Wendy's.

When my daughter offers to buy me lunch (well, okay, that happens about twice a year, and I normally refuse because it just comes out of the money I've given her for the week).

If someone brings warm, homemade cookies to a church function.

And when I walk past my own private stash of chocolate chips - I mean, they can give me such a pleading, longing look.

I try to remain strong and yet be culturally correct and sensitive to sensitive emotions... but mainly just my own.

YOGA AGOY

I finally have a yoga DVD that I'm very happy with. It's a nice pace, it's on a beautiful beach, and the guy has a pony-tail (I simply LOVE long hair on men).

Now why in the world am I NOT plugging it in every morning when it is on my regular Day-Timer Organizer 2-Page-Per-Day Daily To-Do List?

If I can get changed into something resembling my yoga work-out clothes (which can be as nice as actual yoga pants and a swanky thin t-shirt but normally is my pajamas before I take a morning shower), it usually happens.

And when the yoga mat gets unrolled in reality, not just in my dreams, okay, I'll get through at least five minutes of the warm-up.

But most of the time... I somehow walk right past the mat, which had been laid out strategically right in front of the DVD player, with that nice image of _____ facing up towards me, ignore the yoga outfit which I have laid invitingly out over the dresser....

And head straight for the computer instead.

Ideas, anyone?

(I mean, besides the obvious one of staying off my computer!!)

LET'S FIND SOMEONE TO BLAME

I blame restrictions on advertising for my current slump in weight loss.

Now, it's a wonderful idea to have limits on advertising. It's irritating to have huge signs for fast food restaurants, supermarkets and malls blocking the view of our beautiful mountains. It's a negative distraction from driving, which continues to get crazier and faster all the time, so the concept of smaller, less obtrusive symbols is great.

Except when you aren't from where you are.

Yesterday I was in a city which I don't know well (read that "Tucson"), following a medical appointment where my eyes were chemically dilated (read that "blurred vision"), trying to find Costco on the east side (read that "almost hopelessly lost") while also searching for a fast food restaurant (read that "crazed with hunger") and in need of a nap (read that "someone gimme a Diet Coke quick").

And I was cursing under my breath the fact that Tucson is now submitting to those insane regulations the liberal environmental nuts have forced on the general law-abiding solid citizens who need to know exactly where to turn in order to stuff their already-obese faces with more cholesterol-laden and saturated-fat-clinging junk food. I finally found the Costco.

But, because of the lack of signs, I was FORCED to eat a Wendy's LARGE chocolate Frosty, simply because I could not find ANY PLACE ELSE.

See? I'm not responsible.