Finally-Friday!

Oh my, friends; it's been a long week! Time usually flies for me, but this week, not so much. I had several things to do at the Bug Hunter's school, bills to pay (oh, glory!), toenails to paint (my cute little flip flops are callin' from the closet), and a mild depression to overcome. Nothing too big; I went in for a physical last week (what's not to love about paper gowns and cold hands? Oh, and needle pricks.. always the icing on MY cake). It's been a while (maybe a year or two.. or six), so I requested a cholesterol test. I always run high, but my LDL (bad cholesterol) has always been good. But, the good doctor warned me this time that, since I had now entered "the change", my body would begin to fall apart like a rusty old car in a junkyard. Well, he might have phrased it differently, but I could hear him loud and clear. So, I shouldn't have been surprised when I checked the automated line for lab results and heard the nurse's voice say that my cholesterol was extremely high. I'm used to that. But when she said that my LDL's were DANGEROUSLY high? Well, I might have gotten a little bit down, but then I saw Valerie Bertinelli's picture in a BIKINI, and remembered that she's 3 months OLDER than me, and "down" was replaced by "determined". I walked 2 miles for 3 straight days (and then God pulled a Noah on me and I've been getting my exercise while building a boat in the backyard and rounding up pairs of animals. Seriously, I think we might just wipe out the drought in Georgia in one week!). I've made pretty drastic changes in what I cook and how I cook it (I KNOW the right way to eat, but for the past couple of years I've buried that knowledge in the deepest, darkest hole I could find). I am determined--to have my cholestrol levels drop by at least 40 points when I go in for a recheck in 3 months, without going on a cholesterol drug. I am determined--to drop at least 20 pounds in the next 3-4 months as well. I don't see a bikini ever again in my future, but if Valerie can do what she did, I can at least TRY to do better. (Note to self; no more movie theaters~ when we went to see Monsters vs. Aliens this afternoon, I could NOT keep my hands out of the popcorn bucket! I need my own personal hand-slapper! or some duct tape...) Anyway, my pity party is over, my big girl panties are on, I've laid it down in front of God, and I'm back and ready to blog again. Tawaaaannnda.......