Monkey Shines

Start date: 05/12/10   248 pounds          

Today: 05/17/10  238 pounds       

Attitude:  Pretty good.

Ten pounds down! I feel like the Wicked Witch being hit by water - I’m melting!

I spent yesterday afternoon with Jane’s grandchildren. Sasha is in kindergarden (grade zero, if you ask her) and Cassandra is nine years old. Both of these girls are amazingly intelligent and have massive vocabularies. 

Cassandra and Jane - August 2008

Sasha - August 2008

I babysat  girls while Jane went to a funeral and their parents went to a fashion show.  We hung around Jane’s house for a bit, then went to McDonald’s for supper.

Here is what I learned:

If a kid says the food is too hot, they might mean it is too spicy.  (Sasha) 

It’s better to dip french fries and chicken nuggets in caramel sauce made for apples than to dip the apples in the sauce.  (Cassandra)

There is a disease men get that women don’t get and it is advertised on TV and it makes them go to the bathroom a lot.  (Sasha)

When you order at McDonalds, you have to take your tray to your seat and wait for them to call you to come and pick up your food. (Cassandra)

Animal documentaries are boring if they are only about one animal. (Sasha)

The playground at the McDonalds is “vile” (her words) and there is graffiti inside the tunnels. (Cassandra)

When kids at school pick on you, they shouldn’t have been born.  (Sasha)

I can watch other people eat food and not attack them.  (Donna)

My first doctor’s meeting and weigh-in is tomorrow.