I have been perpetually in a movie theater for two weeks. This is coming from a person who doesn't even watch television, except for the Nascar Winston Cup races of course. Speaking of which, my boy won last night and I was practically jumping on my bed and screaming because I was so excited and happy for him! I didn't know I had the ability to get that worked up over a sport. It is all that redneckedness coming out of me I guess. I want a big ol #8 sticker for my back windshield :) I guess it will go right over top of my Mary Kay - Best Selling Brand in America sticker when it gets here this week. I will have to get two and save one for my RV when I finally get my way.

Yes, I am a Mary Kay lady. My business is pretty much sitting still at the moment so if any of y'all loyal readers need some smelly goods or sumpthin' nice to wash yer parts with or some fixin' up and goin' out beautifying supplies jes lemme know. I can fix ya up real purdy like;)

About the whole movie thing, over the last two weeks I have seen: Atlantis, Shrek, Cats and Dogs, Swordfish, Dr. Dolittle 2, Artificial Intelligence at the theater. At home we have seen O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Erin Brockavich. I am on movie overload.

I spent a very nice evening watching Swordfish in the balcony of a theater sitting in a red velvet loveseat in the embrace of my very romantic and sexy husband *ahem* monkey. I finally got to wear my ivory off-the-shoulder dress and my very sexy ivory satin and beaded shoes that I bought for the wedding in March on my very romantic date! I felt like a princess. I love getting dressed up. Afterward, we got to have a very nice quiet dinner in a beautiful fancy dining room in the theater. Then we drove over to the beach and cuddled in the moonlight and walked barefoot on the beach until we got sleepy and finally drove home. It was so cool. *sigh* I live for evenings like that.

I have consumed an embarrassing amount of buttery popcorn and Nestle's Snowcaps. I am completely reforming as of tomorrow. Damn it takes so much self discipline! But I am sliding down a very slippery slope into the fiery pits of my own personal hell that is weight gain and self loathing and I don't like it one bit.

My mom was here for a week and suddenly there were four different boxes of sugary cereal, Slim Jims, angel food cake, apple pie, Oreos, three different kinds of potato chips, Nutter Butters, gormet chocolate fudge, and a yummy dessert pizza consisting of a peanut butter cookie dough base under a layer of cream cheese/ confectioner's sugar concoction and topped with various sliced and beautifully arranged fruit that I was forced at gunpoint to make out of tradition...I am kidding about the gun but geez! How the hell was I supposed to deal with all of that? It was like letting an alcoholic loose in a liquor store with a wad of hundreds. They are bound to find something they can't say no to. I consumed my share of just about everything except the Slim Jims. Just watching my twelve year old sister consume them one right after another gave me serious heartburn. I wonder how long it will take for all of that to catch up with her body. It is really quite sad because I had the same attitude at her age. I didn't make the connection that I would eventually pay for the way I ate. Anyway...

Let's see. What else has happened recently... we visited our local museum of discovery and science and went to Lion Country Safari again.

Tomorrow Hope will be two. I don't know exactly what to say about that. I am thrilled, proud, awed and saddened all at the same time. As is any mother who thinks of these milestones as reminders that time is indeed passing very quickly and that childhood and innocence is over so quickly. I wanted to grow up so fast so badly. I guess the price I am paying for that is the realization that my babies are growing up at lightening speed. It is so hard to swallow at times.

Posted by gwendolyn on July 08, 2001 at 08:11 PM