December 25-30 Diet Blog

Christmas went great. I had my husbands family over and cooked a smaller-but lovely dinner for them. I made an oven stuffer roaster; chicken. I made rice pilaf, gravy, biscuits, stuffing, salad and vegetables. My mother in law is not a fan of turkey and since it was just us I thought that would please her. I was right.
For dessert, I had promised my niece that we could make some kind of a fancy cake because her brother and I had made the spider cake that won the cub scouts bake off contest a month or so ago. She had originally chosen a ladybug cake. I designed it, purchased the items to make it and the day before Christmas she changed her mind and decided that she wanted to make lips.
I didn't really see it as a problem of any kind and my coworker came up with the idea of using a fruit roll up cut into shape to make a tongue that stuck out of the lips. I thought that it sounded hilarious and so that's what we did. My niece loved the idea too!
It came out excellent! The lips were pink with pastel colored sprinkles, the lines were drawn in purple and the tongue was a huge bright red fruit roll up. We served it after we took several pictures and posted them on face book. She was so cute and so proud... so was I really.
The face book comments were sweet; all saying what a cute idea and things of that nature. The funniest thing happened though. I had a ton of private messages in my face book inbox! That is unusual. As it turns out my friends teased me to death in playfully crude and rude ways about the cake, the tongue and several things that could be done using those items. I was laughing so hard as I read them to my husband that I could barely get the words out. He said my face was so red that he thought my cheeks might explode. It was really funny. That was a first for me.
The next day the same thing happened. I can't believe the reactions! I took the picture down. There was one inbox message that did not match those though. This one was from a friend of my brothers from high school. I may have mentioned him. He always thought my name was Mary. It's not. He was the guy that ALL of the girls swooned over. Myself included, not that he ever knew I existed obviously.
He teased me without mercy over the fact that I have two black belts. He actually knows my real name now. Funny that it took 33 years and two black belts for me to be brave enough to tell him. He had no mercy though...I laughed so hard. It went on for several days until I couldn't take it anymore. I cannot believe the amount of come backs and the ability he had to twist my words...and my head...into a pretzel. I was forced to 'concede.' He's been behaved for several days now. I was shocked at the way my head reverted right back to how I was then tho. Still, it was pretty fun to try and banter with 'the big boys,' even though I didn't do very well in the arena. My brother thinks its the funniest thing in the world. I'm thinking that I might beat them both with a broom! (Just kidding.)
I got an award of appreciation at work today. I nearly fell off the chair. It was quite a surprise. It was nice and it felt good to be acknowledged in such a nice way. All of the freeholders signed it. And that leads us here to the 30th of December.
The dieting is non-existent. When New Years Eve is done I'm going strict again until Feb 14th. That is the goal. Join me...it'll be okay. Well do it together. By Summer we'll be gorgeous! See you next blog.