BigFatOofta

Yes, yes.  I am using the reference from the movie " How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days".... However, while the main character in the movie, Andie, discovers how to lose a guy (acting obnoxiously) for the sake of a good magazine cover story, I am not suggesting that we all try to learn how to lose hope by doing  a whole list of strategies; I am quite confident that most of us have all experienced the feeling of hopelessness all on our own, without trying.  And, might I add, we don't want  to be hopeless.  I am prone to quickly lose site of hope when I grab hold of something else, namely,  self-reliance . I could go on and on and create a book of a blogpost, but I'll try to be concise here.     When we see something we want, the world says we can have it if you only try hard enough.  There are rows and racks of self-help books with subjects of all different colors and flavors.  There are bajillions of blogposts out there with pe...

Humor me.  I want to talk about beauty.  Again.  And...I want to start out by quoting just a small piece of a pathetically sorry little ditty I wrote back in college entitled "Ode to Love Handles." Here's a chunk of the silly thing:  "These handles are the essence of love Not melting away when push comes to shove Wear them with pride and joy but beware Too much revealed and they all want to stare Don't be a fool and diet like mad Those handles are yours, you should be glad! The way they love is too much to take To keep them around, just feed them some cake." Ok.  I promise.... absolutely  PROMISE you...I am not proud of that poem.  It just came to mind as fitting for what I'm about to write about.   I am a mom.  This happened quite quickly.  Three months after marriage I got pregnant and 9 months later I have a baby...and 14 months later...I still don't have the body back that I used to have. It was pretty much  Boo...