I slipped
So I slipped up a bit when I got off work last night. I’m not quitting or giving up and I’ve done just fine since then. I just wanted to fess up. I did great all day yesterday, and then got tripped up by the candy aisle at Walgreen’s when I stopped to pick up a birthday card for a co-worker.
Since I get off work after midnight, I technically slipped up on today’s tracking. I go midnight to midnight. Since my hours are so screwy (getting up and going to sleep at different times), it was the easiest way for me to stay consistent. So a new day and a fresh start will start in exactly 25 minutes.
I have to stop at Walgreen’s again tonight, because being the horrible daughter I am, I completely forgot that tomorrow is my parents’ 35th wedding anniversary! 35 years!! I am swearing an oath myself (and you) that I WILL restrain myself tonight. Since my stomach protested mightily last night’s indiscretion, I do not want to repeat the experience. Contrary to popular belief, I can learn from my mistakes.
I wanted to share a couple of things that have irked me in the past couple of days.
First, as I mentioned previously, I’m currently reading “Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife,” one of the many sequels to “Pride and Prejudice.” It’s decent so far, but a bit crude even for me. It takes Harlequin romance to a whole new level. There was one line that bugged me, though:
Wickham was extremely vexed to see that all the newly-assigned chambermaids were great with girth and age (averaging ten stone in weight and two score ten in years).
Okay, first of all, I had to look up ten stone just to see how much that was. A stone is 14 pounds. That means that ten stone is 140 pounds. 140 pounds is enough to be described as “great of girth”????!!! I hope that the women they were talking about were very short.
The next item is a picture that my cousin posted on her Facebook page. I really like her and she has always been extremely sweet, but this kind of bothered me. Apparently it’s been going around the web for a while and a lot of you may find it humorous, but I think it’s rather offensive:
Her friend’s response was “I feel bad for laughing, but that is hysterical!” Her response was “I know. It’s terrible, but it made me laugh and I had to share.”
This makes me rethink my opinion of her. I just don’t get why people have to find humor by being mean to others.
American society is such a contradiction. On the one hand, we make fun of those who are overweight - sometimes viciously.
But on the other hand, we supersize everything! I’ve posted before about how I love the Lean Pockets breakfast sandwiches. They come in bacon, egg, and cheese; sausage, egg, and cheese; or ham, egg, and cheese. They were delicious, but they were smaller than the regular Lean Pockets so were only 3 points a piece. A quick, easy breakfast or snack. My last trip to the grocery store was extremely disappointing. Gone were the old boxes.
The new ones looked like the Lean Pockets boxes for all of their other sandwiches with the words “New: Bigger Size; Bigger Taste” plastered on the front. WHY?!! They are now 6 points each. It’s really frustrating. They were fine the way they were before!
So yeah, I don’t get it. Are *they* making bigger and bigger sizes of everything in the hopes that we will just get bigger and bigger so that *they* will continue to have people to make fun of?
Okay, rant over.
PS - thank you all so much for your supportive comments! I can’t begin to express how much they have helped. As you’ve all told me, I just need to take it a day at a time. In fact, that has become my mantra. “Just one day. Just one day.”
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