Early New Year's Resolution

During my trip into Little Town yesterday I had to make a stop at the liquor store (yes, my family is driving me to drink already) and I ran into the parents of a high school classmate. Now admittedly I definitely need to lose about 30 or 40 pounds, and I'm certainly 60 pounds heavier than I was when they last saw me when their son and I graduated from JHS in 1985, but did she have to point it out to me in our conversation? I can't remember the exact conversation, but it went something like this. At this point she's looking me up and down and says, "I see you've gotten to be like M.B. (her son)." I catch her meaning and say in response, "Oh, has M.B. gained some weight?" She says, "OMG, yes, he's HUGE!" The only thing I could think of to say was, "Yes, I've enjoyed life to the fullest the last several years." She responds with, "Too bad you didn't take after your mom and stay skinny." Since I didn't want to start calling her names, all I said was, "I like to believe I'm much happier than skinny people that starve themselves all the time!" I realize she probably didn't mean anything by it, she was just being honest and spoke before she thought about what it was she was saying, but it certainly made me admit to myself what I've been denying for the last several years -- I need to lose some weight. I know that I can do it if I just start exercising in some way or another and being more careful about what I feed my face with, so I think I'm going to put that at the top of my to-do list after the first of the year. I see no sense trying to do anything about the situation until after the holidays, especially since as soon as I publish this post I'm going to go load my plate with lots of turkey and dressing and then plop in front of the TV watching football! ;)