Is This Thing On?

Hello folks!  My mouth is much better now and I can't even begin to tell you how great eating solid food is after a month of eating only pudding and soup.  My Christmas dinner?  Mashed potatoes.  I think someone should have put green food coloring in there and molded it into the shape of a Christmas tree just to make the experience more festive.

Total weight lost on the no-fun no-chew diet:  17 pounds.  Total gained back since going a little overboard afterwards: roughly 8. 

In other news, I ordered an elliptical machine from Costco.com and am planning on quitting my gym.  I held off on doing this for so long because I have the opposite problem from the poor folks on "Hoarders" and I hate having any kind of clutter at all in my two-bedroom condo.  However, after a long winter of avoiding the gym because it's cold outside and I'd have to pay for parking and shovel my car out of a snow bank and any other excuse I could come up with, I decided the excuses have to stop.  If I have the thing taking up my precious, precious empty space, I know I'll use it.  The guilt alone from staring at the thing should motivate me to get my butt in gear.  Fingers crossed.

It should be delivered and set up this week, so if you hear a news story about a woman from Chicago who accidentally decapitated herself while trying a new exercise machine, that will be me.  Please let my family know I loved them and I went out doing something that I loved.  Oh who am I kidding?



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