confession tuesday

does this blog make my butt look big? i have lost zero pounds in 2009. zero! i exercise a lot. i don’t eat sugar (except when i crack, and it’s not often). i don’t eat fried foods. i don’t eat beef or pork. i generally don’t eat large quantities. i have a few food vices, of course. blue chips. guacamole. corona. wine. i said out loud to jill (and maybe to all of facebook) a few weeks ago that i was giving up all four of those things. it lasted 24 hours. but desperate times call for desperate measures. what a freakin’ bummer.

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i am also giving up diet pepsi. it’s horrible for me but i’ve known that for a long, long time. something being bad for us isn’t always motivation enough for ditching it. but it is suspected (by some people) that diet soda is a culprit of weight loss failure. what a freakin’ bummer.

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stress. stress can make your body hang onto its fat stores. i don’t know

confession tuesday (late)

i am quite certain i will win “bad parent of the year.” i got in an altercation this week at the drive-thru at dunkin’ donuts while my kids were in the car. i was at the window waiting for the kids’ food as we were preparing to leave for maine, and i heard someone honking and yelling, “a**hole” repeatedly at the top of his lungs. i thought to myself, “what’s going on over there?” it was so unexpected it took me a while to realize this jerk was yelling at me. granted, the workers were taking a long time. but i had nothing to do with it. it wasn’t my fault.

i should have ignored him and just driven away. i didn’t. after i got my food i pulled up so he could get his order but i blocked his exit with my husband’s mega-SUV and jumped out of the car. (i am not conscious at this point that i have children, let alone that they were in the car.) i yelled at the guy about yelling at me for something out of my control. he used profanities. i used profanities.

i was reminded that my kids were there when the door of my car opens and my oldest

random bits of gladness

this is glorious. it makes me smile every time i look at it. and i look at it a lot.

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on st. patrick’s day, i attended two latin dance classes and drank one mexican beer.

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i feel like my poemer is on the fritz again. yes, i just posted one. but i don’t like it and i didn’t have any fun. (why is this item on a list titled “random bits of gladness”? well, maybe i had a little bit of fun with it.)

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i am super excited about doing hot, sexy things to