Walking in a blog

It is impossible to blog without electricity.

So listen, December is crazy and it is winning in the war of Blog V. Christmas. I'm gonna do my dangdest to come here and share on a regular basis, but I am afraid you may have to be satisfied with semi regular. We have been having electrical problems in the apt and the electricity kept blinking out and back on every hour or so. I'm SURE that's as maddening as water boarding. Seriously. Impossible to blog when your electricity keeps blinking out and your computer has to reboot every few minutes.

THEN we had an electrician here yesterday for 9 hours. That wouldn't usually be a problem but it was overcast so I was trying to do everything by candle light. You realize that colors don't look the same by candle light. Right? So wrapping presents was a push. It's VERY hard on the eyes to sign Christmas cards in the dark. Here's what I learned from my plight ... electricity is good.

Okay so I only have a minute and I just wanna talk about Weight Watchers cookbooks. WW as a program didn't really work for me as you may remember me telling you. If I have 15 points in a day I will eat them all in one sitting and not eat the rest of the day. That's not how my body works. I have to eat every couple of hours and I have to eat mostly protein. And i have to drink water and work out and ALL SORTS OF STUFF! So the program didn't work. But the COOKBOOKS ... they are really worth picking up and giving a try. I have used my most recent to cook up that stuff I bought at the store for a week of meals. Good stuff. REALLY good stuff. I made a couple of different pastas. I made pan fried catfish. I made flat bread sandwiches. Now ... to be honest, my eating has been out of control. I stepped on the scale today and I have gained five pounds in the last two weeks. That's some emotional stuff about my career and money and stuff so I am working it out. I can tell you that my recent weight gain is NOT about the recipes from the WW cookbook.

So I'm up 16 pounds from my goal and I have a party on Saturday and I need to fit into a dress I bought. So ... we'll see if that happens. I might need to lose a limb or something to make that happen. Do you remember in The Grimm Brother's Cinderella that the ugly step sisters cut off parts of their feet to make them fit into the glass slipper? True. Look it up. I bet the ugly step sisters were southern. Southern women will do ANYTHING to keep a man. I will qualify that by saying: that's how it was when I lived in the south. It's been 20 years. Maybe things have changed.

Anyhoo, I'll keep you posted.