Fully Alive…Ready to Smile

posted by erin on Sep 23

My blog’s anniversary came and went without too much hooplah.  Probably because I’m busy trying to organize my own hooplah!!  It’s my birthday in 18 days and I’m having a little party.  Wanna come?  It’s going to be fun.  I promise.  There will be costumes, and food, maybe some craziness (that’s usually guaranteed if I’m in the room), a game or two, and perhaps some prizes for the best costumes.  I’ve finally decided on hosting a party in our house and making everyone who is invited dress up in a costume.  I’ve heard a little bit of grumbling from some friends who I won’t name Shelley and Louise about having to wear a costume, but I’m hoping that my charm and loveliness will win them over to participate and join in the fun for me because they love me so much : )

So now the question that is brought to mind…WHAT do I wear?  I’ve found a few fun ideas:

Pebbles from the Flinstones (isn’t that wig adorable?)

or maybe Betty Boop (it also comes with the wig, but more than that, I wonder if it comes with the body?)…

or perhaps my favorite superhero as a little girl…Wonderwoman!  Of course the top on this costume would come to my armpits since my tatas are not that, um, perky! : )  I guess we all know why she’s a “wonder.”  Somehow I don’t think I’d invoke the kind of awe that she always did, lol.  But it’s a fun costume nonetheless.

I have come to a few conclusions while looking at costumes online:

• All women in these costumes are skinny little bone racks
• All women in these costumes are skinny little bone racks with nice tatas
• All women in these costumes are skinny little bone racks with nice tatas and legs up to their nice tatas
• All costumes on said women are short, tight fitting and low cut to better enhance all of the aformentioned traits
• I.Do.Not.Look.Like.That!!!
• Perhaps Louise’s idea of wearing a white sheet and coming as a ghost is not such a bad idea.
• That or I’m getting me a figure enhancing, tummy sucking in, tata lifting body suit so that I can pretend I look like that!

On that note, I spent all day yesterday cooking and baking with Shelley.  We decided to make food for freezing cause we’re cool like that.  We made 4 lasagnes, 11 dozen meatballs, 10 dozen mini banana choc. chip muffins, 14 tins of spinach and artichoke dip, about 200 monster cookies (we’re talking 13 cups of oats and 4 1/2 cups of peanut butter in that recipe!), approx. 100 bacon cheeseburger pockets, and the 80 of the yummiest most scrumptious lemon crunch muffins you have ever tasted.  All while being awesome moms to 4 children.  Yeah, I’m totally getting the Wonderwoman costume!

In the last few days on top of our jogging, Shelley and I have been using her Wii Fit.  Now, can I just say that I want one?  Good.  I want one.  After wanting to smack it for showing my weight on the screen (and I’m assuming that like my scale a week ago, the Wii scale is also broken), I actually quite enjoyed it.  When I first had my body test done my Wii Fit Age (based on height, age, weight, center of balance, and some other minor tests) was 39 years.  Hmmm.  I got to skip the whole turning 30 freak out and head straight for my 40′s!  A little perturbed by that, I did 30 minutes of exercising on the Wii Fit and then retested.  I was sure that 30 minutes could change something.  And it did.  I lost 0.2 pounds (ya!) and my BMI went from 24.9 to 24.88 (ha!).

Then yesterday after all our baking (of which I didn’t do a lot of taste testing) I did the Body Test again and I had lost another 1.3 pounds, my BMI went down to 24.6 AND my Wii age was 29.  That’s a little more like it.  I decided that even though I didn’t feel like it, I would go for a jog this evening and I have to brag just a little, I made it almost 2 1/2 miles.  Then I stopped in at Shelley’s to “weigh in” and I’d lost another 1.5 pounds.  I had made a 14 pound weight loss goal for the next 2 months and I’m happy to say that I’ve accomplished almost 3 pounds in 3 days.  I guess we’ll see if I can keep on a downward decent with the weight.  Wish me luck.  I have to fit into a little costume in less than 3 weeks : )