I love Rosie the Riveter. That's the broad with the 'guns' in my avatar picture. When I have accomplished my weight goal I would love love love to pose as Rosie (make a hell of a Christmas card, huh?) because she is one of my inspirations. There is a huge poster of her in the chick section of my gym; do rag tied up front, biceps popping, look in her face like, "yeah I built that plane, and I looked good doing it." Love. Her. It is the essence of how I feel inside. That's what I want to bring to the forefront.
This week is a kinda big week, first weigh in is Thursday. WooHoo! Sure, I could have started my weight loss from day 1. After all, if you are serious about something there is no 'best day' there is only 'today.' However in this case I am playing a bit of a numbers game. The weight loss tally goes by the percentage of pounds lost, not fat, so I kinda want to hold on to the extra 5 menstrual pounds I'm carrying around right now. lol Cheating? No. Strategy. It's not like I'm weighing in with ankle weights on. I can not WAIT to lose weight. I am soooo looking forward to being able to think straight and lay on my left side without feeling like my heart is going to get squished by my body fat. I am looking forward to seeing donuts and really not caring about them. I know I am capable of it, I've done it before. I am making a public declaration, more for myself than for you, This is the LAST time I am losing this weight. I am over it, I want nothing more to do with it, I don't want the lifestyle it demands, I finally realize that I will have more by having less, in a manner of speaking! It's funny. Any other time I've gone on a plan to lose weight it was outwardly optimistic but inwardly I braced for disappointment. This time I am just happy it will finally be out of the way. I'm not even sure what it is that I weigh right now. I will report that on Thursday, the REAL numbers, and I may even add a TickerFactory.com ticker for those of you who need pictures in your reading material. Thursday's Blog, I shall dub thee "Thinner Thursday!"
So I was looking around today and realized I have a lot of stuff. Cake making stuff, candy and chocolate mold stuff, paper making stuff, scrap booking stuff, sewing stuff, workout stuff, soap stuff...I bet a whole bunch of you out there do, too. Is there a way we could all get together and kinda....share....so that we can all help each other not only make use of our individual 'stuff' but also to get more people in the mindset to spend this holiday sharing more heartfelt gifts rather than making the CEOs of Walmart and Target richer? I have a lot of stuff but there are things I could use to finish projects. Sometimes, all I really need to finish a project is another person's energy doing something next to me, shared momentum, if you will. Those of us who don't have all the know how can get help from those who, well, know how. Where can this happen? Who has a big room or a big basement where we could all spread out, set up 'stations' and rotate from craft center to craft center making gifts? Has anyone ever out there ever done this before? I don't know. I know a girl I went to college with used to sell a line of home-party scrap booking products and she used to rent out the YMCA in Lebanon to have scrap booking parties for her customers. I'm thinking of maybe trying to organize the same thing but with multiple craft areas. Everyone could bring materials to add to the community chest and everyone could share, use what they need, do as much as they could there and maybe take the rest home to finish them. I think that would be totally cool. Anyone have any suggestions or insights? Anyone? Hey, how come no one is answering me? Did Captain Trips tear through the country without me knowing about it? (Stephen King reference...you gotta read The Stand to get it)
So hey ho, I gots to go. I need to figure out a schedule so that my blogs don't fall into the Single Digit AM hours. It makes mornings come very much early. Rosie and Her Guns bid you all a good night.
Sara Smile
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