Necessary Mutilation

Weight: 215.7 lbs.

Happy Holidays!!

Early today our friends are visiting for guess what? What’s a holiday without food?

Then, if she is up to it, Tom and Pete and I will visit Kris at the hospital where I called yesterday and was told that as expected, we need to take it day by day. She was doing “well”, which is all they would say given the laws of confidentiality. If “well’ again today, we will stop by, although I’m not sure whether to bring her any of the gifts we have gotten her.

Afterwards, we are due to Zoe and Dennis’ house to partake in a large gathering they are sponsoring that includes their friends and family.  I am bringing the shrimp. Yum! I’d like to say that this ensures that there is something high protein and healthy for me to eat, but I am sure that I will try some of probably everything, as Dennis’ cooking is not to be passed up! And why should today of all days be any different than like the last 20!?

So, today, rather like many other days lately, is about family, friends and food… In the new year, I will have to work harder to nurture the first two, while setting better limits on the latter. Tom and I have already begun thinking forward abouit “resolutions”, and his is to not eat my leftovers and everything else he sees, and mine is to make consistently healthier choices and work out more and in a more planful way.

For now, my wish is for others, including my friends and loyal readers of this site who feel like friends I just happen to have not met yet - happy, healthy, safe and skinny holidays for you and whoever is special in your lives!!! I am so grateful for the opportunities that having this site has afforded me and for the people I have gotten to know or grow closer to  as a result. Today, I wish to add this to my long list of things to honor and celebrate on this occassion!

(This, and the fact that no one has to suffer through another day of bizarre song title themed blog entries, and I no longer have to stay up nights thinking them up!)