New Year, New Me !

2010 and counting the days...dieting days, that is!    Eighteen days/ four-hundred  thirty-two hours/twenty-five thousand nine hundred twenty minutes of dieting!  Ugh!  What to show for it?  A loss of three pounds.  Three lousy pounds!  What the hey?  By now I expected a svelte, curvy figure peeking out from under the layers of winter clothes.  Instead, I'm still round.  I'm in shape, right?  Round is a shape.  What I really need to do is fatten-up everyone around me; that way I look thinner! Fat Chicks, come hither!  Generally in the A.M. I trudge myself over to the nearby gym and do an hour sweating to the blare of the "Golden Oldies"on the treadmill.  I use the other weight machines as well.  Someone suggested checking out the free weights.  I did.  I took 'em home.  I've even been using computer software to fine-tune my diet menu and food intake as well.  Man, I have even FORSAKEN MY MARTINIS and I drink low-calorie beer (which, by the way, tastes like water!)!  GIVE ME A BREAK!   As I get older, it is harder to lose weight; after all, my body and my fat are really good friends!  Mentally I flash a memo to my brain cells:  It took 62 years of living to pack it on, so why  expect it to melt away in 18 days?!  By my next blog, so help me, I'd better be five pounds lighter or I'll just decide to get rich quick by selling my shade!

2009 Remembered

Happy New Year to One and All!


Where did the year go?  In a blink of an eye, the days flew by and 2010 has arrived with its promise of hope and happiness.  Before the new year settles in I'd like to remember 2009.....the year we
........celebrated our 40th anniversary.
........dragged a huge palm tree back from the Keys with Larry saying it wouldn't fit!
........made a family trip to Pensacola and had so much fun we're making it an annual family to-do!
........explored the historic towns of Charleston and Savannah (another item to cross off our Bucket List)
........experienced a cancer-free year!
........finally got new flooring in the house.
........took the grandkids 30 miles out in the Gulf, fishing for red snapper and coming back in with their limit!
........gave up smoking cigarettes and cigars!  (now if I could only lose ten pounds!)


And the list could go on and on... but for now let's all look forward to what 2010 will bring.  May it be good health, much happiness, and lots of lovin' !