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Stupid shirt… thinks it’s better than me…
You know you’ve gained weight when you try to throw on a summer blouse from last year and you can’t get your arms through the sleeves… Yeah, this actually happened this morning. The cuff of my short sleeve shirt wouldn’t pull up past the crease in my elbow. Maybe it’s because my biceps are so huge! Except that I can’t even do 1 pull-up / push-up (that’s one of either, not one of both). I tried a few times to shove it on, but to no avail. As a bonus, my co-op still has the heat on. That combined with my super-mutant-ability to instantly shvitz at the thought of physical exertion meant that I was a sticky mess, making it that much more impossible to force my (now swollen – even fatter) arms through the sleeves. I looked a little like a Tyrannosaurus Rex – tiny arms and a giant head, growling the entire time. Although I don’t think ol’ T-Rex knows half the expletives that I was spitting out through clenched teeth. Continue reading
Don’t let the disaster drag you down…
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. But what do you do when Life hurls lemons at you like you’re its opponent in a particularly heated game of dodgeball? And I swear Life is ignoring the “no aiming at the head” rule in this game, too. Continue reading
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1 Part Mindy + 1 Part Blackberry + 4 Parts Liquid = Soggy Disaster
Remember how I said technology hates me? Well, it may be more like my technological instruments are severely depressed. How else can you explain the numerous times my blackberry has tried to kill itself? Continue reading
Better blogs than mine
This is the first in a series of posts that I’ll do highlighting blogs that are better than mine in just about every way. I have some great friends who always try and give me helpful advice or little “warm fuzzies” to help boost my (waning everyday) self-esteem. My great friend, Sally, is always trying to bolster my self-loving (vs. self-loathing) with things like: “The grass is always greener on the other side, but you don’t get their water bill.” I love that phrase, but when it comes to the condition of my current blog, all I have to say is this: At least the other side has grass and can probably afford that water bill, while right now I’m sitting on a frozen tundra with a cup asking for your spare change.
Anyhoo – my friend, Christina, told me about this blog last night and then she, my husband, and I sat around for an hour scrolling through its archives, laughing like the jerks that we are. If you haven’t already seen it, please check out Cake Wrecks. The premise is basically “disasters in cake design.” In the midst of my riotous laughter at some of the cakes, there was a flicker of realization that I was more than capable of creating one of the cake-tastrophies that was fueling my current amusement. Luckily, I’m a pretty terrible/hypocritical person and it didn’t hinder my amusement for too long. Continue reading
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A growing disaster…
You read my first post and laughed. Most likely, you thought I was self-deprecating and exaggerating a tad. Fine, both are true, but read on and tell me that I’m not (at least partially) covered with a rain cloud!
I love food. Actually, I’m obsessed with eating, which I think is a negative thing vs. the positive “love of food” spin. As soon as I finish eating one meal/snack, I start thinking about what I crave next. Recently, I took a job in the library at the culinary school where I work, effectively reducing my physical activity to almost nothing. So I went from constantly running up and down four flights of stairs and never sitting to hours on end spent on my rather significant rump. Basically, my metabolism took a nosedive while my eating never slowed. Continue reading
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Mindy's Recipe For Disaster 