the ups and downs of sickness
Today was my last WeightWatchers weigh-in; it's a 10-week program that's sponsored by the place where I work, and they have a policy that if you lose 5% of your starting weight by the end of the program, they'll refund your signup fee (which was $115). I hadn't been doing so good; I'd been losing, but usually only about half a pound per week (or less), and the last time I weighed in I wasn't even halfway to losing 5%. So I'd pretty much given up hope.
Then I got a cold this past weekend. And when I'm sick, I have no appetite. So I go for the final weigh-in today, and the group leader checks the scale and says "oh honey, I'm sorry, you just *barely* missed getting your refund. You're two-tenths of a pound over." And all the other WW members in the room start yelling "Take off your shoes! Take off your belt! Go weigh in again!" So I'm stripping down in front of everybody, removing my belt and my shoes and my work badge and emptying my pockets. You can't weigh in without some kind of footwear, but my mom had flip-flops with her, and so I put those on. :) And the group leader was very nice and let me try again, and this time I made it. So I'm thin(ner) AND getting my money back! w00t.
I've never been so glad to be sick. Thank you, germs!
The downside, though, is that when I'm sick I get rather loopy and say things I shouldn't. Like when I was out to dinner with my parents the other night and blithely mentioned that my website and one of my LJ entries were linked to from MSNBC.com (which is really kinda freaking me out; I've been half-expecting a C&D ever since. Neither my site nor my LJ are indexed by search engines so I'm not sure how you would randomly come across either of them. And this isn't a news/informational/current events blog, it's my own personal journal, and the thought of strangers coming here in droves makes me nervous. Yeah, yeah, I know, don't publically post anything on the Internet that you wouldn't want the whole world to see. Flocking is always a solution, of course, but I'd rather not do that unless I have to). Anyway. Back to the point, which is that I unwittingly gave my parents enough info to find my LJ, if they tried hard enough. Which I'm really really hoping they don't, because boundaries are a good thing.
I have been doing that a lot lately: revealing too much, or saying the wrong thing, or saying the right thing in the wrong way at the wrong time. I am totally blaming the cold germs, yes indeed. All Their Fault.
Also, I feel the need to point out that "The Moth" was my first vid(let) in a year and a half. I didn't realize how much I missed vidding! Hooray for getting back on the horse.
Then I got a cold this past weekend. And when I'm sick, I have no appetite. So I go for the final weigh-in today, and the group leader checks the scale and says "oh honey, I'm sorry, you just *barely* missed getting your refund. You're two-tenths of a pound over." And all the other WW members in the room start yelling "Take off your shoes! Take off your belt! Go weigh in again!" So I'm stripping down in front of everybody, removing my belt and my shoes and my work badge and emptying my pockets. You can't weigh in without some kind of footwear, but my mom had flip-flops with her, and so I put those on. :) And the group leader was very nice and let me try again, and this time I made it. So I'm thin(ner) AND getting my money back! w00t.
I've never been so glad to be sick. Thank you, germs!
The downside, though, is that when I'm sick I get rather loopy and say things I shouldn't. Like when I was out to dinner with my parents the other night and blithely mentioned that my website and one of my LJ entries were linked to from MSNBC.com (which is really kinda freaking me out; I've been half-expecting a C&D ever since. Neither my site nor my LJ are indexed by search engines so I'm not sure how you would randomly come across either of them. And this isn't a news/informational/current events blog, it's my own personal journal, and the thought of strangers coming here in droves makes me nervous. Yeah, yeah, I know, don't publically post anything on the Internet that you wouldn't want the whole world to see. Flocking is always a solution, of course, but I'd rather not do that unless I have to). Anyway. Back to the point, which is that I unwittingly gave my parents enough info to find my LJ, if they tried hard enough. Which I'm really really hoping they don't, because boundaries are a good thing.
I have been doing that a lot lately: revealing too much, or saying the wrong thing, or saying the right thing in the wrong way at the wrong time. I am totally blaming the cold germs, yes indeed. All Their Fault.
Also, I feel the need to point out that "The Moth" was my first vid(let) in a year and a half. I didn't realize how much I missed vidding! Hooray for getting back on the horse.