Monday, January 19, 2009

I'm positive, I think.....

Monday morning sun is streaming thru the window ‘n glancing off the ‘puter screen...the dogs get me up early even when I think I’d like to sleep in....I’ll tell ya it’s hard to sleep when you have a dog sitting on your legs ‘n another one nosing around your face....I tried pulling the covers over my head but that just makes ‘em think it’s a game.....
Took ‘em out, fed ‘em breakfast, made coffee for m’self... that’s the order of things ‘round this household in the mornings......the thing about dogs is they pretty much got their priorities straight right from the get-go....they get up, go out, eat ‘n go back t’sleep...later, they’ll wake, stretch ‘n then pester me to go out again t’see what the chickens ‘n squirrels are up to.....I tell ya, it’s a laff a minnit around here......
Millyrose has got me on a diet of sorts, not really to lose weight tho’ that’d be a good thing since I gained about 30 pounds on the chemo diet.....I blame the chemo ‘stead of the snacking ‘cuz I learned early in life that you shouldn’t waste a good excuse.....Nah! The diet is spozed to help me control my blood sugar.....it works but it’s boring when you give up all the snacking.....
I’ve been eating toast with peanut butter ‘n bananas for breakfast.....I used to eat just toast with butter ‘n the dietician yelled at me ‘n Millyrose griped that I wudn’t gettin’ enuff protein....they both told me I should have peanut butter on my toast ‘stead of butter....’n y’know, it ain’t half-bad....speaking of butter, when I was first diagnosed with diabetes, the dieticians told me to give up the butter in favor of margarine....I tried a lot of different margarines ‘n they all sucked...ev’ry one of them....anyways....Millyrose got me t’try Challenge soft spreadable butter with canola oil (sounds yucky, don’t it) ‘n you know what....it ain’t bad.....I don’t know if it’s healthier or not, I like butter ‘n I don’t believe that it’s bad for people to eat butter...same with eggs ‘n coffee...
‘n chocolate....mustn’t forget the chocolate....dieticians get a little nutz from time t’ time...(well, ok, most of the time).....the thing about people is that we’re naturally omnivorous which is one of the reasons why we get t’be a dominant species on this planet...our outsized egos are what convinces us that we are ‘THE’ dominant species.....
The power of positive thinking is what makes us think that we are smarter than dogs who c’n fall asleep anywhere, jump up ‘n play, eat any garbage that strikes their fancy ‘n have the whole world for a bathroom.....
“I yam what I yam....” Popeye.

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