On a path a Michelle Jones type situation

Things I Thought and Saw

This morning on my walk to the coffee shop I once again thought about how grateful I am to be living in my neighborhood and to have good health that allows me to walk all about it. On Tuesday we walked to vote then I walked to the bread store (Tuesdays and Saturdays are the only days high fiber wheat is made, yo). Yesterday Grace and I walked to the hardware store where I bought a new air filter for our furnace (I changed it when I got home go me for being a responsible house dweller) and this morning I walked to our local coffee shop where I’m writing to you courtesy of their free wifi and enjoying a really lovely cappuccino. It is a perfect fall day in Louisville.

On the walk to the coffee shop I saw two things that greatly amused me. First, someone’s lost or discarded math homework dealing with the area of rectangles. Second, a little old lady in a tiny car with a front license plate that said, in dramatic script, “FEAR NO ART!”

While walking I paid a bit of attention to how heavy my laptop bag is. Oh, it’s not crazy heavy but when packed with all of my stuff it weighs probably at least 8-10 pounds. That’s not really much at all is it? No, not really but I definitely feel it when it’s slung on my back. It doesn’t make walking difficult or anything but obviously you exert a little more energy when you’ve got an extra 10 pounds on you. That thought brings me to acknowledging that my body used to have an extra 170 pounds more on it than it has now. Yes, as of this morning’s weigh in I have lost just over 170 pounds. I don’t have any deep thoughts on this accomplishment at the moment,  I have a deeply shallow one though: this accomplishment would never have been possible without the invention of Coke Zero. I honestly and sincerely wish I could send a thank you note to the scientists who perfected the formula. They truly made a positive difference in my life. Yes, I could have lost weight without glorious Coke Zero to drink but it wouldn’t have been nearly as fun.

Coke Zero is the shit! I loathe Diet Coke, went on a Diet Coke with Lime kick for a little while, but nothing beats Coke Classic. Except for Coke Zero. Which I think is just a rebranding of Diet Coke with Splenda?
I still feel like it’s probably bad for me. Certainly I probably ought to drink water instead. But no calories or high fructose corn syrup is close enough.

You speak the truth. Diet Coke is nasty. There is no way I could drink it all the time. I know I drink way too much Coke Zero but that’s just too bad. I love it so. I love Coke Classic more than just about anything in the world. I haven’t allowed myself to have one in over 18 months because if I taste that sweet nectar it would be on. Giving it up about killed me so I’m so terribly grateful for Coke Zero.

I’m just smiling for you, m’dear.
And, on a personal note, I’m realizing I’m probably not going to be able to lose the 50 I want to lose alone. I might bug inspiring folks like yourself to help me stay on track.
You rule. Not for the number but for taking that active role in your life and, these days, loving it more than you did yesterday, yesteryear, yester-whenever.
Loving life is sexy.

An incredible accomplishment indeed! I hope you are suitably proud of yourself, because you deserve to be. A Coke Zero toast to you!

This is beautiful; hooray for old school blogging! I’ll try to glean inspiration from this to get off my ass and explore outside today.

I love Coke Zero and Cherry Coke Zero. The best diet sodas. What an improvement over Diet Coke! I’m not a coffee drinker so Coke Zero wakes me up in the morning.