Who Knew?

Growing up we always had music in the house.  Mom would crank up the old Victrola (hahaha  just kidding; we aren't that old!)...flip a vinyl on the phonograph and music would fill our little home on Moonmist.  I grew up to Eddie Arnold, Peter, Paul and Mary, Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, and a wide host of musical genres.  Today I am remembering Ray Charles' "Born to Lose." You see I'm feeling like a dieting loser~ and not in a positive way....purely negative.  I have a headache from my starch coma I was in last night and my fingers are bloated to bloat-y proportions.  I'm a mess!  This happens when I feel stressed and out of control.  Do you have those days?  Everything seems to be a chore.  Why do I sound like a broken record?  Second side same verse or some saying like that.

I have some exciting news.  My son's Eagle Project was approved.  Problem is the fund raiser and project are around the same time as my papers are due, a task force I'm on is meeting, a church pancake breakfast is coming up and I'm cooking, and I'm hostessing a dessert for an organization I'm a member of.  And I know that's not all!!!!  When it rains, it pours and baby it is a torrential downpour.  It's not like I scheduled all this at the same time.  Some things were decided upon long in advance.  Who knew the professors would assign all these papers; who knew the long-awaited project would get approved now and it needed to get done immediately.  Who knew?  I should have known.

So do I claim defeat and put de-feet up on the couch and order take out?  Or do I take some time and put on an upbeat song and make a grocery list and plan out fast and easy meals that will not break the dieting?  I believe the answer is as easy as that.  I will not go with the grain as I'm tempted to do.  I will call and get help...first call to Hubby.  He LOVES to grocery shop and I know just the healthy meal I'll have him pick up.  Who knew Ray Charles would be singing about my lifelong dieting dilemma?  This will be the year I'll stop singing "Born to Lose;"  I'm losing once and for all.