the grass is greener

my mother does not want me to lose weight. She just came by with a ton of my favorite indian food on her way out of town. And I go out of town tomorrow. dang it all---so tempting. I am doing one of those weird they-mail-you-everything-to-eat diets. It is not working. It will work better when I stop going on vacation and when i stop supplementing with 4th meal.

so it will be better when school starts...unless there is cake and/or candy everywhere. I am destined to be a fat teacher. dang it! Maybe I will freeze this stuff and forget about it. Good idea, sapna....

Today, Melissa and I are going to the beach for the cure. I am going to cut and paste and e-mail from melissa to explain what this is:

"Saturday is the feast of the assumption of Mary into heaven (body and soul, duh). On the way up, she dropped her cloak over the Atlantic, which is why it's blue. Every year on 8/15, there's a cure in the water.

This comes from my Irish grandmother who spent summers in Rockaway, which seems to be the center of this myth/superstition/religiou

s belief in America. But my dad was in Northern Ireland last week and his cab driver told him about the cure there. Same ocean at least. My grandmother once made my uncle change the surprise plane tickets he bought her for a gift, because she refused to be out of Rockaway on the 15th. He tried to tell her the Pacific is even bluer so the cure is probably better, but she wouldn't hear it."

so, we are going to go to the atlantic and be cured. I am hoping for no back pain, the ability to lose weight when i try so I can stave off diabetes, no sleep disorder, and maybe even some mental stability. Here's to hoping. I walked backwards into the oceanat midnight on El Dia de San Juan Bautista (25 de Junio) in puerto rico. That was supposed to cure me as well. So hopefully I will be doubly good after today.

but before all that, I am going to go mow my lawn and freeze this food. Then I am going to pack for savannah....I leave tomorrow. I will be back in the RVA very early on friday morning. Please swing by my house and check on it. Still no deck furniture....