DD11: Goldfish Cupcakes & Cartman’s “Respect Authori-TAH!”

Bridget Jones’s Update of Day 11: BMI: 25.1(+ 0.1) Up. A little. I don’t get it. Starting to examine intake- yesterday went a little over board on snacking… Oy Vey. Activity Level: Worked out, 177 calories burned. I really like EA Sports Active, as it predicts, and calculates final caloric burn. Dislike the crappy strap band, it’s weak or I’m kicking ass. Will go into more in full TLB review later. Meditation: Whilst Baby Lug watched some TV, Mom closed eyes and spent 20 mins focusing just on breathing and nothing else. At the end, I was relaxed. Nice to know you can fit it in anywhere. Brief Observations: I am having severe bouts with the chills. Days of it. Am I getting sick? I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop (sneezing, flu, fever) but it doesn’t come. Just don’t get it. Part of Detox?

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I slipped.

After yesterday’s blog post, I really hate writing this.

How the mighty fall. I don’t blame anything, I ate absentmindedly. Crap.

My daughter, The Toaster, belongs to the six-year-old division of Girl Scouts. Daisies. Totally super-cute.

I’m in charge of tomorrow meeting, the theme being “Respect Authority.” Of course, all I can think of is Southpark’s Cartman big-wheeling, and channeling his inner Sheriff- Boss Hog screeching “Respect Authori-TAH”

But we’re not. Mostly because I couldn’t think of how to responsibly incorporate Cartman into the meeting. Cartman Cake? Video? No, that’s not going to fly….

So back to slipping, I have the joy of coming up with snack for the girls, one that (divining Martha Stewart) fits the theme. Something like cupcakes.

Ohhhhh Cartman cupcakes! Uhh, that’s not gonna work…

But if it did, it would totally look like this:

Le Sigh. Le Funny. And totally Le NOT appropriate for 1st graders but totally Le Funny. Ok, maybe Cartman upper left corner would work, but definitely not nudie man 3rd row down, center. Dear God, you can tell the man is uncircumcised.

Jeepers!

So back on topic… as we’re having the local Harbor Master visit to chat water safety, I decided to go with sea blue cupcakes, circled by multi-colored goldfish crackers. Water. Fish. Cupcakes. Martha would probably wonder why I didn’t hand- and homemake everything from goldfish to paper cupcake wrappers (can’t you just hear her, “Laaaaadies, just cut down your sapling, crush the wood pulp in your handy home paper-maker…form into cups, dry… and voila! A creative and very special paper cupcake wrappers your guest will love AND cherish!”)

Having coming to my senses, and gone with Duncan Hines, I was making the cupcakes with The Toaster. She loves to bake, and was enthusiastically filling the cupcake tins, managing to get more outside than in the actual cups.  Messy. Fun.

I was on clean up and this, my friends, is where my tale turns dark.

While cleaning up, I, La Betsy, snarfed up two HUGE spoonfuls of cake batter. Duncan Hines toxic, full of chemicals, sugar, raw! eggs, and oil batter-y spoonfuls.

Boy do I love batter. Raw (spare me the salmonella speech,) wonderful batter. Always have. I guess I could even be a connoisseur of the stuff. My fave is oatmeal chocolate chip. Pure heaven in a spoon, and when Ben & Jerry came up with cookie dough, I thought heaven had come a millennium or two early.

So I slipped. It seems stupid in retrospect. Two spoonfuls. No biggie. But as I said yesterday, I’d know. And I do.

So I’m taking Dr. Alejandro Junger advice to heart. Basically to stress over something, in the past, is toxic. So accept and move on. This little blog helps with a lot of that. I write it and walk away. Leaving the issue  (and the stress) here.

Thanks for letting me share. Slips happen, what’s important is what you do after you fall.

You get up, dust off, and keep going.

That’s what Cartman would F%!K’n  do.

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