"It" has begun

So I know I haven’t been keeping up very well lately with this whole blogging thing.  *Slaps hand*  Shame on me!  Honestly, I’m not even really sure how many people read this thing anyways.

I had a blast on my vacation, which seems like ages ago already.  Things are back to normal around the house and at work.  All that reminds me now that we ever went to the Caribbean is my fading tan and album of photos.  As predicted, my daughter was well into “spoiled rotten from the grandparents” mode since she split her time between them while we were gone.  She’s finally getting over some of that though, growing out of the “terrible twos”.  She’ll be 3 in February.

I turn into a professional photographer the first few days of any exciting trip I take.  I begin the adventure taking a picture of EVERYTHING – from my friend picking her nose to a crooked blade of grass.  Needless to say, I have to sort out many “duds” when I get home – not the nose picking one though…that one is a “keeper”!  Looking at my, over 300 pictures, from this trip I saw a common theme.  I wasn’t looking any better the more I flipped through them!  I guess you never quite realize how big you’ve become until you look at yourself through another’s eyes.  In most of the pictures, I’m wearing some sort of head covering – baseball cap, bandana, etc.  But there are a few where I am full scalp.  The underwater ones are the worst!  There I am in spread eagle – bald eagle at that –  swimming pose wearing a tight wet suit accentuating my lack of tan, gigantic thighs.  How could I think that was okay?  Now I didn’t see the actual movie, but Demi Moore in G.I. Jane shaved her head.  She still looked good.  Do you know why?  Because the rest of her body was in good shape/health.  A thinner person with no hair is more inconspicuous than a chubby one like me.  On that note, as I sit here nibbling on my rice cakes, I reflect on the beginning day of my new regiment - Monday.  Not sure how good it will stick.  I seem to be in the habit lately of starting off well; then by a week in, I grab a double chocolate chip cookie and inhale it like it’s nothing.  That, in turn, puts me on the path to Krispy Kreme donuts and entire bags of Funyuns.  I would really like to wave goodbye to those days for good.  We’ll see how I do in a week…the count down has begun.