I'm Pretty Excited!!

I did 10 push ups today!!!!!!!!!!

(that is a "!" for every pushup)

I told my trainer I ate a half batch of no bake cookies this weekend and he responded with "drop and give me 10."
I told him I had never done push ups before. But I dropped anyway (mostly thinking I would prove myself a weakling again) and I did 10 push ups. I asked if I did them right (thinking he would say those were a pathetic excuse for push ups) and he said "surprisingly yes."

YAHOO!! I can do push ups. Another guy was watching me too (he was on the mat and I was just on the carpet next to the trainers desk) and he said he was impressed.

Someone was impressed with something I did at the gym!!

I feel pretty buff and amazing today. oh ya.

Santas Elf

WEDNESDAY
Anton and Mikey came over to move OUT my furniture. We also played the fun game of stuffing Anton into Little Red and took pictures. We ate pizza and made diet cake. i ate a lot of it. It was a great day.





MONDAY!!
Back home. Anton and his brother helped move my furniture back into the house. i dont wanted to move the other crap back in. so i haven't. i started painting my bedroom instead. i really dont want another project. but there you go . . . i got one anyway.... and its my own fault.

The latest

i think exciting things are going to happen very soon.

that is besides my refinished floors. although that is exciting.

tomorrow is the day. i have to move out for 3 days. but when i moved back in it will be new and clean. that is the perfect stage for the exciting things that are going to happen. i dont really want to bring all the crap back in. i think i will get rid of it all. that way i will never have to pack it up again.



now that is an exciting thought.

see? i knew exciting things were going to be happening.

I'm going to do it again.

i started today. again. no cookies, candy or dessert. 2 weeks. maybe more.

my body hates them. h.a.t.e.s. them.

my mouth, my eyes, and my brain LOVE them. but my body hates them.

so i will listen to my body.

my body wants so many things that i wont give it right now. i guess i will compromise my NOT GIVING IT what it DOESNT WANT.

ok. so its on. body vs. senses.

I dont mind

This is a cheerful little diddy. I like it.

do you?

memory lane

kids are funny. adults are funny too. in the past i haven't minded going to the dentist but the last time i went i wanted to rip the dentists face off her, along with the hygienist.

memory lane:
when i had my wisdom teeth pulled they knocked me out completely. i told my boyfriend at the time that no matter what happened he was to stop by Arby's at get me a jamocha milkshake on the way home. being the good boyfriend that he was he complied with my request but i wasn't able to get any of the milkshake in my mouth. it ended up all over my face and down the front of my shirt.
that entire afternoon i was trying to "be normal". i tried to watch a movie (Gladiator) the experience was horrible. (I still have no desire to try to watch that movie again.) i tried to pass out. i vomited up my pain medication.
I really did wonder if what i was experiencing was real life and if the horrible delirium would ever pass.
yes, its funny. but it brings back memories. and "no, dad-in-the-video, it is not kind of fun."

click on real life to see the video of reference. or for a star wars twist check this out.

My Walk with Milton

i wish i had a picture of my afternoon walk in the snow today. i really wanted to take a picture but i thought pulling out my cell phone and snapping a picture would have ruined the magical moment. have you ever had that happen? have you ever had a moment so magical that taking a picture would have ruined it despite your intense desire to capture the moment forever? some moments, like this one, will be captured forever in memory only. And, of course, in the shirt that will hang in my closet.

The story:

I was on MLK this afternoon and met a smallish, old man named Milton. I noticed that Milton was wearing a snap shirt. I have been wanting a snap shirt. I asked Milton where he shopped and he told me he had not been shopping in over 20 years. But back in the day he did all his shopping at Montgomery Wards.
I admired his snap shirt and told him I had been looking for one of my own but didn’t want anything trendy. He told me that if I would hold his hand and walk a block in his company that I could have the shirt off his back. We walked and talked and then he stripped off his shirt (with a snap snap snap) and handed it to me. It was a magical moment as the enormous snow flakes whirled down around us. (Don’t worry he had a very warm jacket and an undershirt to keep him plenty warm.)
While Milton is a small man he is still a bit larger than me. His shirt is a tad big on me but that detail is comforting to me. It feels manly. It will remind me of my hand in hand walk with Milton. It fills my need. I am happy.