From Vegging to Veggies

It's no wonder New Year's resolutions exist, after the ravaging a body takes following Christmas and New Year's celebrations. The way it fell this year made for like 12 consecutive Saturdays (with a Sunday wedged in there, I think). It's been pure gluttony all around. A diet of sugar in all its various forms washed down with Dr. Pepper. I haven't had a vegetable since Thanksgiving dinner. Unless you can count the green onions in the cheeseball our neighbor brought over.

We didn't travel for the holidays and had no out-of-town company but we were blessed to have many fun get-togethers with friends. New Years Eve at the Amador's consisted of at least twenty Rock Band performances of "Eye of the Tiger," breakfast at midnight, and of course, a kitchen full of desserts. Like an I.V. of straight fudge.

And our other holiday days were just as gluttonous as they were spent watching Home Alone (Rafe's new favorite movie- he even demands his hair combed like Kevin) and other holiday favorites on the couch, eating chocolate marshmallow Santa's for lunch, playing board games and Wii games in the middle of the day, and staying up too late hyped up on caffiene.

Blake returns to work on Monday and the kids start school again which means major detox as the year starts in earnest. So for now my New Year's resolutions are:
1) reintroduce vegetables to my refrigerator
2) exercise- to remove the newly-acquired holiday weight
3) go to bed before midnight.

With the state my body is in right now I can't even begin to imagine any other goals. Basic needs must be met first. It will be a few days of stabilization before I can even visualize goals of higher personal, emotional, or spiritual attainment. But that can wait. It's only Friday morning. We still have two more Saturdays until Monday.