I'm now fat. Thanks a lot "light" ice cream.

Hey people. So not fair. The package said "light" right on it. So it was chocolate ice cream (this said "ice dream" before I caught the typo-- not kidding.) with swirls of peanut butter-- it could be made of mostly air-- who knows?? Okay- I pretty much did, and I snarfed it anyway. There was basically a whole week of debauchery including m&m's and deep dish pizza and now I'm FAT you guys! (sobs)

That's right. Look away. (jiggles her blubber at you) Heed my warning. That ice cream that Target sells is NOT light.

Oh well. Time to get back on track. Running and riding and keeping my face out of the treat bag. Booooo. (This makes me very pouty.) It's easier for me to solve problems proactively-- DO something. If it was just "work out more" or whatever, no problem. I'll be a total animal, but stuff like this is hard. "No, you have to NOT do something (eat delicious treats), day after day thanklessly, and after, like, a month-- you might begin to see some results."

"UGH." (drops dead) Being over forty sucks at times. You have the metabolism of someone being cryogenically preserved.
Oh well. Not a real big problem as far as world affairs go.

In other SueNews:

I have been OBSESSED with THIS IDEA all weekend. (The Minneapolis Urban Assault Ride-- it's like a big weird bikey scavenger hunt/ obstacle course/ race/ party.) I super want to do it but want to find a band of nutballs to do it with me. I was all set to try to talk a bunch of you into trying it. You have to be able to bike 20 to 30 miles over the course of the race. Check out the link if it sounds like something you might want to try BUT-- when I looked further into the deets on their site I see the entry fee is $94 per team of 2 people! That's pretty dang steep. I thought it was like $30. BOOOO. They should have a cheaper "keep your swag and t-shirt" option.

I was so all set to do this too. This reminds me of when I was all excited to go to the Weezer concert and their crappy concert T-shirts were $45. $45 for a not very nice T-shirt! Out-fricking-ragious. I threatened to just go buy a regular old fruit of the loom T-shirt and write "Weezer" on it with a sharpie in protest, but I never did. (Seriously Weezer-- like you guys aren't rich enough.)

Now, just right this second, I had another idea about the Urban Assault ride. Spectators are encouraged to ride the course and cheer people on. Maybe it would be fun to just check it out?
Grrr-- I was totally into trying to get some big nutty costume-y extravaganza going-- get everyone to dork-out their bikes and wear weird hats or something.

The mountain bike park where I ride should do something weird like this. Have a big team thing where you stop and have water balloon fights or something, and wear costumes of course, and run around... Can you tell I'm in one of my "nothing is fun enough" moods?

I could probably still be talked into the Urban Assault if anyone else wants to do it...

EDIT TO ADD;
Looks like Trusty Pam & I will be going for it. Now to come up with a team name, outfits... Oh yeah, and a strategy of course. Stay tuned!