Look at it This Way

So here's how I really feel.......Most of the time.I got used to this position during my Catholic girlhood when, every Sunday like clockwork, I fainted in church."Put her head between her knees!" the grownups  were always shouting. (Adults were cruel in those days.)"Turn her upside down!"I knew better than anyone in the congregation how much gum there really IS stuck under those pews.Now of course we all feel this way.Especially in the month of December at whose rag-tag end we now find ourselves.This squirrel was in our hawthorn tree all day, even doing the Houdini move to get at the last of the berries.Can't blame him.After the first he too will probably be joining Weight Watchers.Don't scoff, yo. It works if you work it. :-)

Fun for Me on the Old DL

What a huge thing to be forbidden trips to the Y, though I have devised this home workout you see on the left. (Yup that's me in the red fur and sure the knots were a little hard to get right but it all works great now.) And wow are the days deliciously long with no Y-trip to schedule into the old workday! Plus it’s really quieted me down to be sittin’ on the bench here with an incision that looks like what you see stitched into a football, only uglier; a wound you have to tend every day, unwrap and air out and poke with a Vaseline-daubed Q-tip and all.And so much for shorts and skirts with a dressing on my leg the size of a dinner napkin. I’m in so many pairs of jeans and long hippie dresses it feels like the 70s again. :-)Also I’m catching up on my sleep. I was in the bed ‘til ‘til 7:30 yesterday morning, a record for me. I did get up at 4am and make a quick tour of the house making improvements but that’s only because the leg hurts just enough to keep me in light-sleep mode.I figure I might try eating less since I can’t exercise. When I was on the table and the surgeon was  wrapping my leg with a super-tight Ace bandage I said “I heard when you have liposuction they put you in this all-over bandage for a whole month while your tissues get over the shock of being Hoovered half to death, did you know that?"She glanced up from her bandage winding to give me a bland noncommittal look. “I did know that. We do that here.”Only then did realize I was actually ON the cosmetic surgery floor of this famous hospital just because everybody just assumes the sky will fall if they they have a regular scar, even on their lower leg where no one is ever going to notice it. Who knew I'd be  in the cosmetic surgery unit? I mean it’s not like I'm Tina Fey after having her cheek slashed by some crazy guy that’s for sure.So I'm thinking hmmm .... Diet and exercise? Or the sucky thing and the body bandage after?  Diet and exercise or the sucky thing? It’s tempting to go with the latter but I figure with my home workout here and a little of what Jennifer Hudson and my WW pals call tracking I‘ll be ready for my close-up in no time  - from the knees up anyway.