Blame it on Rio

I have it blame it on something for heavens sake. It has been a month since I started my countdown blog. Actually, that’s not exactly true, it’s been longer than a month. But not by much… really just a couple of days…okay more than a couple…six to be exact. There, full disclosure! So far I have been terrible at orchestrating my own personal before and after makeover. Ugh. Who knew that blogging and self improvement could be so difficult? I give that blogger chick Julie a ton of credit. The energizer bunny has nothing on her. I wanted to blog everyday but that hasn’t happened. I am close to everyday but don’t they say close only counts in horseshoes? I will be more diligent and delicious with my posts. Other goals go as follows…

Weight…embarrassingly enough I have gained two pounds! Ouch, that one hurts. Even after stripping down to my birthday suit and standing on the cold glass scale ten times in ten different positions while holding my breath in, the ugly truth stares back at me. In big black lit up digital numbers too. No fudging with an old fashioned needle teetering back and forth like a metronome while you shift your weight around. Those numbers seem so BIG first thing in the morning. Perhaps it has something to do with the crispy bacon lardons at school or with the next item…

Exercise…nil. I really need to work on this! Spring will be here before you know it. It's not like I want to run around the beach in a teeny bikini like Valerie Bertinelli, God bless her, but perhaps it would be nice if my biceps could see a little sunlight this summer. I bought a workout DVD for home. It came with pretty hot pink girly dumbbells. I better get that going. These biceps need a lot of help pre springtime unveiling.

As for my other goals, I did buy a French word of the day calendar. The words have been easy– like la banane and le sac, duh? However, I feel very frenchy French already and certainly almost bilingual. I am working up to something difficult, like a sentence. La banana est dans le sac. See what I have learned? Beautiful that French language is.

This coming month I am going to think positive, work hard and not sweat the small stuff too much. Remember what our dear French friend Doris Day said – que sera sera!