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Table for one and a half please...
21 November 2006

I am not in a good place for the holidays!! My very worst and most hated pet peeve is tight pants on Christmas morning!! Solution... diet? I don't see how it will be possible to loose a pant size by November or early December!

First, my school is notorious for "blessing" it's teachers. The parent association sends around "favorite things" surveys the first week of school when every one is skinny and healthy. I listed chocolate, chocolate and anything covered with chocolate, especially caramel, as my favorite in the food area. I mean, who wants a holiday basket filled with carrots and sprouts? I have often said that the Westminster Parents club is a group of passive aggressive teacher haters whose ultimate goal is to fatten up a chosen faculty member for some annual ceremonial sacrifice to the "make our kids obey" god! I am the suspicious receiver of many a roll of Rolos!

Second, I'm on a bender! I have not cooked a meal in my own home since August! Thankfully, my mom cooks my family a meal every Thursday night. My girls and husband eat like they have been locked in a basement for a week! I have the following plan...

Mondays - Eat out - rationalization... Exhausted from the weekend and it is Monday after all.
Tuesdays - Frozen pizza - rationalization... Can't eat out because we just did... and pay day is eons away, too tired to cook.
Wednesdays - Eat a church or at church! Thank God!
Thursdays - Eat at Mom's house. Thank God!
Fridays - Eat out - rationalization... Celebration - It's the weekend!
Saturdays - Eat out - rationalization... - It's Saturday!!
Sunday - Eat out - rationalization... - It's a Baptist tradition... Sunday School, Church, Piccadilly!

It is not that bad... sometimes we get invited to a friend’s house for a meal... or, Jason will cook!

Third, I am currently in a serious love relationship with hamburgers! BTW, have you tried the new blue cheese burger at Chilies? Yummer!

So, there you have it, my recipe for growing out of all my cute skinny teacher clothes! Now it's the holidays and I have no growing room. Oh well, I guess I will just go shopping! Thankfully, they still got ready made clothes in my size.

One of these days... I will wobble into a gym and start working out again... I will re-discover my true love for salads and high protein breakfast bars. One morning I will wake up, decide to be brave and try on my slightly too young and cutest pair of levis. To my happy surprise, they will fit and I will feel adorable! To celebrate, I will get a baby-sitter and go out to eat with my friends!

LOVE YALL

posted by Ash @ 11/21/2006 10:10:00 AM,

2 Comments:

At 11:24 PM, November 21, 2006,  John said...

How big a church do you eat? Most are under 200 members. What would that be, like a million calories... mostly from fat-between the ears...?

I hear Evangelical-presbo-bapterians make a nice sauce.

:)

 

At 6:07 PM, February 11, 2007,  Laurie Jones said...

I so relate. I finally gave away my skinny clothes....and then grabbed them and put them back in their plastic storage box. :) I haven't totally given up. Thanks for the laugh. :)

 

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Ashley is a Part-time Stay-at-Home-Mom/ Teacher/Writer/Singer/Person of Adaptability. She has a B.A. in Theatre and Speech from Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. She finished her Master of Communication Arts at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. This writer in interested in sharing her experiences with life, her relationship with God, family and friends. She focuses on relationships, mothering, teaching, theater and writing. You have found a Swim in the Pond. Wade in. You do not have to be a Duck to enjoy the water.

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Bridget Jone's Diary
Miramax Films
2001
At the start of the New Year, 32-year-old "singleton" Bridget decides it's time to take control of her life and start keeping a diary. Now, the most provocative and hysterical book on her bedside table is the one she's writing."


A Christmas Story
MGM Distribution Company
1983
Deliciously warped and winsome boyhood memories of Christmas are told by a typical American man revisiting his native Indiana during the 1940s. Among other childish pursuits, his overriding obsession to finally own a genuine Red Ryder BB gun consumes his feverish imagination.

Coal Miner's Daughter
Universal Pictures
1980
The story of Loretta Lynn, COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER charts the rise of the queen of country music from her upbringing in backwoods Appalachia to stardom at the Grand Ole Opry.

Fargo
Gramercy Pictures
1996
Jerry Lundegaard is a car salesman in Minneapolis who has gotten himself into debt and is so desperate for money that he hires two thugs to kidnap his own wife. Jerry will collect the ransom from her wealthy father, paying the thugs a small portion and keeping the rest to satisfy his debts. The scheme collapses when the thugs shoot a state trooper and two innocent bystanders in rural Minnesota, drawing local Police Chief Marge Gunderson into her first homicide investigation. At first unaware that the homicides are connected to a Minneapolis kidnapping, Chief Gunderson draws closer to Jerry Lundegaard as his situation further unravels.

Gladiator
DreamWorks SKG
2000
When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by a corrupt prince, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge.

Good Will Hunting
Miramax
1997
Will Hunting, a janitor at MIT, has a gift for mathematics which is discovered, and a psychologist tries to help him with his gift and the rest of his life.

Grease
Paramount Pictures
1978
A rock 'n' roll celebration of growing up and falling in love.

Hair
United Artist Films
1979
During Vietnam, a small time farm boy enlists in the army and encounters New York City hippie subculture.

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
New Line Cenima

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2002
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003


Moulin Rouge
20th Century Fox
2001
Christian, a young Bohemian poet living in 1899 Paris, defies his father by joining the colorfully diverse clique inhabiting the dark, fantastical underworld of Paris' now legendary Moulin Rouge. In this seedy but glamorous haven of sex, drugs and newly-discovered electricity, the poet-innocent finds himself plunged into a passionate but ultimately tragic love affair with Satine, the club's highest paid star and the city's most famous courtesan.

The Notebook
New Line Cenima
2004
An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to an older, invalid woman whom he regularly visits. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately reunited, seven years later, after they have taken different paths.

Sense and Sensibility
Sony Pictures Releasing International, Sony Pictures Releasing
1995
As Elinor and Marianne struggle to find romantic fulfillment in a society obsessed with financial and social status, they must learn to mix sense with sensibility in their dealings with both money and men.

The Shawshank Redemption
Sony Pictures Releasing, Showtime Networks
1994
Andy Dufresne, a mild mannered New England banker, is convicted of murdering his wife and her lover. Despised at first by the other inmates because of his introverted manner, Andy slowly forges an unlikely friendship with Red, a seasoned lifer and his gang.

There's Something About Mary
20th Century Fox
1998
There's something about Mary that still bewitches Ted. Although he hasn't seen her in over a dozen years, since that shameful prom night, his heart still flutters at the recollection of her. He's still crazy about her after all these years, and curious as to her whereabouts. At the insistence of his good friend Dom, he hires private eye Pat Healy to track her down in Miami.

Urban Cowboy
Paramount Pictures
1980
John Travolta and Debra Winger star in this cowboy version of SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER, in which all the action takes place at Gilley's country-western bar, a rough-and-tumble honky-tonk in the heart of Houston. Travolta plays Bud, a young country farmer who moves to the city to find work at an oil refinery and finds love with Sissy (Winger), a cowgirl of easy virtue and spirit.

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