Well this pool looks kinda familiar...
Hi everyone- and welcome to Mudslide Friday hosted by yours truly...Spedwybabs.
Bill and Michael are on a well deserved vacation and as has become tradition I cajoled, begged and yes bribed some kiddie poolers to guest host sub Cheers & Jeers diaries until they return. For those that may not know me or the tradition, be assured that the use of Cheers & Jeers for a title of this diary is pre-approved by Bill and there are no serious side effects other than maybe a hangover or two :)
And speaking of tradition...the tradition when I guest host is that I babble and there's always a pootie or two so swing below the fold for tonight's babbling pooties :)
So I have now started and erased 4 different versions of tonight's C&J...there was the the pootie version...the Bill imitation version complete with a bong i mean gong...there was a serious version where i actually cheered things and then jeered things...and there was the Usual Sped hosts C&J babble edition...then there was the What I'm listening to edition that ended up bein too damn depressing for a Cheers & Jeers so now it's 6:17 pm and it's time to buckle down and write...
In other words welcome to another scary foray into Spedwybabs' Brain- not to be confused with my friend Brain(TM)
So it's been a while since I was in the kiddie pool on a regular basis. For those that are new...hi my name is Spedwybabs and I'm turning into the stereotypical blogger type- you know, electric blanket, pootie, laptop, blackberry- no cheetos for me though...pass the apples and bananas :) I used to own an ice cream parlor and for the last 20+ years there's never been a time that the word restaurant didn't appear on my resume....
Until this week that is. Now don't panic...PPST isn't going anywhere, I just figured it is always good to have it just in case in this economy. And for the first time EVER the word restaurant isn't on there at all.
Ya know it occurs to me that in Nov, 2008 we elected change but I never expected it to change my life in anyway...but it has...that resume wasn't the only change in my life lately.
I've also changed physically. No I haven't grown at all (insert obligatory short joke from andsarahtoo or strandedwind) but I have shrunk...as in lost weight...as in 52.5 lbs as of yesterday. Now I still look in the mirror and see 200, but the scale doesn't lie and most certainly the pants that had to be safety pinned in place at Progressive Summit don't lie.
How did I do that? I joined a gym and turned into a gym addict...if I don't get to the gym...watch out for cranky snappity stabbity Sped. I also cut out all the junk food- no chips, candy bars etc...lots of fruit and salad. Alas, I haven't yet given up my Pepsi addiction but I did promise a friend this week that I would TRY Monster (he SWEARS by them) and we'll see what happens. In the meantime, I'd like to lose another 20 and then go on a massive clothes buying spree.
I've changed well mentally, for lack of a better word, too. In many ways I've never been happier. I have a job I love (never thought I'd say that to be honest). I have all kinds of non job jobs that I love. I have an inner circle of 3-4 friends that are there for me 24/7 and without them I can't even imagine what life would be like. I have a circle of friends who are just amazing...some of you I've met in person and some I haven't but OMG is all I can on that subject.
And yeah, it's been a bad week in oh so many ways but I'm so lucky because it's friends like the one who just IMd me "emergency pooties" as if sensing I was having a bad moment that make me realize just how much I need to shut up and stop rambling LOL.
So here...have a few pooties and tell us what you're cheering and jeering. I promise a better Mudslide Cheers & Jeers next week :)