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 Post subject: Twas the month after Christmas!
PostPosted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 7:09 am 
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Twas the month after Christmas,
and all through the house,
Nothing would fit me,
not even a blouse.

The cookies I'd nibbled,
the chocolate I'd taste
At the holiday parties
had gone to my waist.

When I got on the scales
there arose such a number!
When I walked to the store
(less a walk than a lumber),

I'd remember the marvellous meals I'd prepared;
The gravies and sauces and beef nicely rared,
The wine and the rum balls, the bread and the cheese
And the way I'd never said, "No thank you, please."

As I dressed myself in my husband's old shirt
And prepared once again to do battle with dirt...
I said to myself, as I only can,
"You can't spend a winter, disguised as a man!"

So, away with the last of the sour cream dip.
Get rid of the fruit cake, every cracker and chip.
Every last bit of food that I like must be banished
Till all the additional ounces have vanished.

I won't have a cookie, not even a lick.
I'll want only to chew on a long celery stick.
I won't have hot biscuits, or corn bread, or pie.
I'll munch on a carrot and quietly cry.

I'm hungry, I'm lonesome, and life is a bore...
But isn't that what January is for?
Unable to giggle, no longer a riot.
Happy New Year to all, and to all a good diet.


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 Post subject: Twas the month after Christmas!
PostPosted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 12:06 pm 
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Did you compose this? I have no words to respond, other thank thanks.
ilene

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 Post subject: Re: Twas the month after Christmas!
PostPosted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 12:16 pm 
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Ha, my post holiday purchases have included: a food scale, a neat new digital people scale with BIG numbers, and nutrition software.


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 Post subject: Re: Twas the month after Christmas!
PostPosted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 3:30 pm 
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True, true, painfully true...

Mary


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 Post subject: Re: Twas the month after Christmas!
PostPosted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 9:12 pm 
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I remember reading this last year and enjoy the reminder. Although words don't need to remind me - LOL!
Nancy ;)




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