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Sunday, April 17, 2011

Dear Blog; Day 104

Saturday.  My life coach and I took a little field trip. Where you ask?  To the scrapbooking convention in Mesa!  I know right... I was so stinking excited.  Upon walking in I was so overwhelmed that I had to take a minute.  How do you process so many things related to scrapbooking?  I didn't think I was ready for all that lay ahead of me, but I jumped in with both feet.  Talk about sensory overload.  And ps.  this was like a hard core convention, and people do not always play well with others....scrapbookers are out for blood sometimes and their needs come first, I tell ya!  It is like throwing giant steaks into a den with starving lions; only I wasn't told the steaks were coming and so I got trampled by all of the lions who know what was going on.  Will I go back?!?!?! OF COURSE. 

The worst part about being at the convention was that I had horrible allergies.  I could just see those around me grossing out as I held a tissue to my nose so that I wouldn't drip snot into the stickers I was searching through.  They were probably all thinking that I was germing up the merchandise!  Serves them right for thinking their scrapbooking was more important then mine.  I mean come on people really, its just stickers. Life is too short to take scrapbooking THAT seriously.  Who am I kidding if I had been feeling better and had an endless supply of money I would have mowed over anyone in my way, you better believe it.  (Don't lie you know you would done it too, I know you are all secret scrappers and not so secret scrappers.)  I mean this convention was so hardcore people even had scrapbooking themed shirts.  My favorite was "scrappers are acid free."  All in all, I collected a lot of good information and got some good ideas and now I want to scrapbook all night. 

I was suppose to go to a friends birthday dinner tonight.  I had even looked over the menu online so that I knew what I was going to order.  I have found that doing this helps me stay on track with making good decisions when faced with difficult situations.  Because of how bad I was feeling and how red and raw my nose was I didn't feel up to going.  Instead I crashed at my grocery shopping friends house.  She was gone to a baseball game and wouldn't be back for hours and I needed to rest.  I did stop and get me some dinner.  I made another good choice.  I went to one of my favorite places, cafe rio and ordered a salad with no: rice, beans, tortilla, cheese, sour cream, or guacamole!  Despite all the no's my salad was still filling and yummy in my tummy.  Making decisions like that, and still feeling like I get something makes this whole process worth while. 

Love Angela   

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