December 15, 2009

Another Year Has Gone By

It just doesn't seem possible, but this year has flown by so fast. Lil graduated from college, both girls took jobs and moved to other states, our beloved Gordon Setter Roxie died, and we have accomplished many of the goals we set in January. I have successfully wiped my exact age out of my memory bank, so unless I do the math, I'm not quite sure how old I am today, and that's a good thing.

The only goal I feel is a miserable failure is weight loss. I put on a pair of jeans yesterday that just didn't fit, and I thought I had grabbed a pair from the "small size of the closet", looked at the tag and no, they were my usual size. I was bummed, and chalked it up to eating junk while sitting home alone all weekend. So today I am wearing a pair from the "large size of the closet", a pair I have been meaning to take up, but now I'm grateful to have.

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

Yesterday I went out to stack the patio chairs and found a West Nile virus incubation center in a flower pot on the patio. (When I bumped the pot, a huge cloud of mosquitoes came out of it.) Evidently the drainage hole had plugged up and all the water from the last rain had filled the pot. Armed with a shovel, I tried to remove the soil from the pot so the water could drain out. I call it soil, but it was actually sloppy mud, which I got all over the patio, all over the shovel, and all over me. From the knees down I looked just like the Mister Rogers mud monster statue, but smelled like swamp thing.

Until next time, may you have blessings and good drainage,
Marti

4 comments:

  1. What a nice day you seem to be having--I am also battling the "three different sizes of jeans" syndrome. Lately it doesn't seem to matter what I "don't" eat, I still gain weight. Disgusting.

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  2. LOL, it doesn't feel like a good day. I don't know why I even bother keeping the smaller size jeans. The ones that didn't fit yesterday used to be my larger size and now I have a whole new set of larger size. You're right. Disgusting.

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  3. Hello Marti,
    Thanks for your sweet comment on my blog today. I feel your pain. I've resorted to wearing LL Bean's "perfect pants" with elastic waist. However, I still look longingly at my jeans that are hanging over our bedroom door, hoping for a miracle.
    All the best,
    Joanne

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  4. Something must be going around! :-) I put on a pair of jeans this morning that fit a week ago and they are pretty snug today!?!? Time for me to do more walking.

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