BadAndee's Journal, 30 July 2008

I'm back to shake things up around here! have you all been sticking to that diet!!? (I mean NEW WAY OF LIFE?)

Good Lordy, it's WONDERFUL to be back home! I missed my yard, and my birds, and my trees, and my bed, and my warm, bright, and sunny kitchen, and my empty fridge where there is NO food in there that I shouldn't be consuming...!!!! I could keep going on and on! Should I?? Heee heee heee!!

Did I gain weight? yeah, ya betcha! (Minnesotan talk!) but only because I couldn't hurt hubby's mom's feelings by not eating her food! She is the reigning queen of junk food! Every kind of sweet pastry in the world was found on her kitchen counter, in groups of 3! THAT was what we all looked forward to for BREAKFAST everyday! I skipped all that stuff, and went without nourishment, so by lunch (or "dinner" in Minnesotan talk), my defenses were down a little, and the guards failed to prevent me from being tempted by other types of readily available junk food! I ate things like crackers, too many nuts, a little bit of candy and bread, too many Atkins bars... Dinner time (or SUPPER in Minnesotan talk) was fried this-and-that, OR critters from the animal kingdom, such as deer meat, (weird! WHO in their right mind wants to chomp on Bambi's relatives??), buffalo (bizarre! WHO in their right mind would even think to eat a buffalo??) But, I especially loved the way they wanted us to be with-one over the consuming of these critters! WE went to hubby's friend's house where they raise buffalo, so we could see how they looked when they romped and played before they landed on our plates! and then we went fishing every day to catch all the ugly fish of the world, so that we could meet-and-greet before consumption, I guess! AND since it's not deer season, we got the pleasure of looking at all the pictures from when they were first shot up and killed, and THEN there were pictures of their being cut up for steaks and ribs and filets!!!!!! They were so proud of their pictures too! Hubby's mom prepares some of the best potato salad, pasta salads, crab salads, spinach salads and cut up fruit WITH EVERY MEAL...I only touched the fruit, though!! Small victory for MEEEE!!!
It probably didn't have much to do with food that I gained weight! It had to do more with the lack of exercise, if I had to guess! Sitting in a boat and fishing (ALL THAT WATER IN ONE STATE IS JUST UNFAIR!)out in the middle of a lake that was big enough to be an ocean, is not really a 'sport'! Soooo, considering my choices, DAMAGE TOLL could have been worse!

I missed you all so much! To show how grateful I am for you, I will shield you from my newly acquired backwoods vocabulary!! I'm going to spend the rest of this week purging words OUT of my vocabulary, such as; ya'll! supper! pop! don'tcha know! Is that right! LOL

I may laugh at their 'ways' and 'talk' but while I was there, I WAS THE OUTSIDER! about 100 people a day asked me what kind of accent I had and where was I from! LOL

wha???