Time to Get Busy...and Fit

So you know how I did that whole "month of daily blogging" in February in the hopes that it would lead me to regularly blogging my thoughts on an assortment of topics? Clearly, as it has been almost two months since my last post, that did not work. Sure, I've been busy with a number of things....work, new romance, playing with the cats. In general, I've been a slack ass of magnanimous proportions. Not only in blogging, but in my exercise regimen as well. Which I figured out this past weekend while at the pool with friends. I was having a good time, throwing back beer and chasing it with round after round of fruity shots. At one point I looked down, and to my great horror, I discovered that I am in the early stages of a horrific disease. It's an all too common illness that more and more of us seem to be succumbing to. That's right, I'm talking about Kentucky Dunlap's Disease. Aptly named for the paunch you get when your "stomach done lapped over your belt". Not cute, not cute at all. It's time to tighten up and get this body back to where it used to be. Or at least within the same zip code. No alcohol for the month of May, healthy eating, getting back into running regularly and maybe even joining one of those new workout places. What are they called again? Gyms?

Of course, the planets are conspiring against me in my plan. The day that I discovered my new belly SHOULD have been the first day of my non-alcohol fest. But come on, a Sunday at the pool without alcohol is like Star Jones saying no to a second helping of mashed potatoes. It just doesn't happen. Thankfully, I will be busy the rest of the Sundays in this month, so hopefully I can stay on that wagon. That's if a semi-flooded apartment, a 30-day stretch with no complete day off, or any number of calamity that might happen between now and then doesn't drive me (in my Corolla) right to the liquor store.

Now if anyone needs me, I'll be snacking on a cardboard flavored rice cake and dreaming about May 30. (It's Memorial Day, I HAVE to have a beer then!)