Waking Up is Hard to Do (long, personal and stupid)

5:00 a.m. is not my best time. Prematurely awake, I turn on a.m. radio
to learn there were three stabbings, a fatal shooting (estranged
spouse) a new flu virus and a new vaccine we are urged to get. (I can't
take shots). A woman on the talk show about Shop-a-holics says she has
300 purses but usually carries the same one. Yesterday she bought five
of the same one in different colors. her husband never notices what she
wears.

Outside, it isn't light, but the streets are dark and shiny with cold
damp rain. There are thirteen days until Christmas and the list is
only a bit shorter. Something hurts in my nether parts. Is it gas or
cancer? A favorite friend is coming to town to stay just before New
Year's, and so is my daughter's giant dog. My friend has had her fill
of dogs of all sizes but I love them both and they will have to
co-exist for two days.

My dopey daughter is taking her kids to the Dominican for a week
despite the malaria scare. I have emailed her five warning type
newspaper articles but she says she is taking the pills. I vow not to
visit any of them if they are hospitalized.

The cleaning woman moved the scale. It will never function the same. I
get on it to prove it. My God. I weighed only eight pounds more in high
school and have been dieting all my life. What's going on?
It's Saturday and no plans.

What would Rumsfield do? More Humvees? I haven't even one. I need a
battle plan.

Options:
Dr. Bernstein--too expensive, too radical and involves taking shots
Stop lying too Fitday? Maybe return to Diet Sleuth which is simpler

or ( insert row of cartooned light bulbs here)

do what has alway saves you. Eat like it was 1968, (Weight watchers
original austerity program) walk even though it's raining, make plans,
change purses (choosing from one of your five only handbags)

8:00 a.m. Make an exception and weigh again. You need a sign from God.
She won't let you down. Yippee down two pounds in three hours. So what
if it's water!

Eat- this morning poach the egg, put it on a bed of steamed zucchini,
enter 149 calories in Fitday instead of 354 for a cheese blintze with
honey.

8:45- Friend Justin calls. We are to meet at Whole Foods to buy fresh
veggies, have a coffee and walk to the MAC store for me to refill my
favorite lipstick (only have one on one color) and then he is
presenting me with his extra set of musical door chimes which I have
long admired.

And tonight the last episode of "Sex in the City" is being rerun, Big
and Carrie finally realize they were made for each other. He gives her
a big backbend Hollywood kiss in the rain in front of a fountain in
Paris.

The Golden Oldies replace radio news and the Beatles sing "It's Just
Another Day," And so are they all.

It's what you make of it (dinner, home made chicken broth, broiled
chicken, mashed squash, 1/2 grapefruit, slivered green beans, tomato
juice-all those things that are no fun but losing some pre holiday
pounds just may be)

Which proves that even if you wear slip ons you can boost yourself up
by your boot straps.

--
Diva
*****
Using the Power of Now

"Carol Frilegh" wrote:

5:00 a.m. is not my best time. Prematurely awake,

That's definitely a sign of depression. Talk to your doctor about it.

"Carol Frilegh" wrote:

5:00 a.m. is not my best time. Prematurely awake,

That's definitely a sign of depression. Talk to your doctor about it.

In article 5cLud.4713$ve.2333@fed1read06, Daven Thrice
wrote:

"Carol Frilegh" wrote:

5:00 a.m. is not my best time. Prematurely awake,

That's definitely a sign of depression. Talk to your doctor about it.

But I've been doing it for 20 years..and sacking out at about
9:00 p.m. I only get to see Letterman and Leno via VCR.
Doctors are dumb. They write prescriptions because the Merck salesman
takes them to lunch and they know nothing about nutrition, exception of
course, Rosie R&P's Tom who is probably a prince.

--
Diva
*****
The Best Man For The Job Is A Woman

In article 5cLud.4713$ve.2333@fed1read06, Daven Thrice
wrote:

"Carol Frilegh" wrote:

5:00 a.m. is not my best time. Prematurely awake,

That's definitely a sign of depression. Talk to your doctor about it.

But I've been doing it for 20 years..and sacking out at about
9:00 p.m. I only get to see Letterman and Leno via VCR.
Doctors are dumb. They write prescriptions because the Merck salesman
takes them to lunch and they know nothing about nutrition, exception of
course, Rosie R&P's Tom who is probably a prince.

--
Diva
*****
The Best Man For The Job Is A Woman

Carol Frilegh wrote:

Which proves that even if you wear slip ons you can boost yourself up
by your boot straps.

I enjoy these "slice of life" portraits. Thanks for sharing. We all
just make do as best we can, don't we?

Good luck with the friend + big dog!

(And I bet you *would* visit your feverish yellow grandkids if they came
down with Malaria!)

Dally

Carol Frilegh wrote:

Which proves that even if you wear slip ons you can boost yourself up
by your boot straps.

I enjoy these "slice of life" portraits. Thanks for sharing. We all
just make do as best we can, don't we?

Good luck with the friend + big dog!

(And I bet you *would* visit your feverish yellow grandkids if they came
down with Malaria!)

Dally

"Carol Frilegh" wrote in message
...
In article 5cLud.4713$ve.2333@fed1read06, Daven Thrice
wrote:

"Carol Frilegh" wrote:

5:00 a.m. is not my best time. Prematurely awake,

That's definitely a sign of depression. Talk to your doctor about it.

But I've been doing it for 20 years..and sacking out at about
9:00 p.m.

Well, then, that's not "prematurely awake", that's "getting up at the same
time every day". I don't think you need to worry too much about that :-)

"Carol Frilegh" wrote in message
...
In article 5cLud.4713$ve.2333@fed1read06, Daven Thrice
wrote:

"Carol Frilegh" wrote:

5:00 a.m. is not my best time. Prematurely awake,

That's definitely a sign of depression. Talk to your doctor about it.

But I've been doing it for 20 years..and sacking out at about
9:00 p.m.

Well, then, that's not "prematurely awake", that's "getting up at the same
time every day". I don't think you need to worry too much about that :-)