My Day at the Fair or I am Never Going to Live More Than 10 Miles From a Coast

Yee haw. Yesterday I went to the California State Fair with my friend Sunny. Let me just say wow. It was a blur of patriotic emblems and funnel cake stands (I did make it through the whole day without having a funnel cake so I guess I will still be a person who has never had a funnel cake in their whole life). There were corn dogs (and 8 inch long JUMBO corn dogs) around every corner. There were several lemon shaped lemonade stands. There were carnies taking people's money away from them as they demonstrated how easy the games were to play. (I must have fallen victim at least 5 times. It really does look so easy.) There were kids on leashes. There were families in matching outfits. There were a lot of Bush/Cheney stickers. I was truly out of my element.

What did i experience directly at the State Fair, you ask? I did win my self a lovely 8x10 framed picture of the Playboy Bunny. It's hawt. I won it throwing darts. Apparently that is the only thing I can do. I was sneezed on by a giant hog. That was gross. I sweated more than I ever have n my life, I believe. I drank a lot of Bud Lite out of souvenir cups. (I came home with 3!) I ate a corndog and a half a sausage sandwich. I watched a woman order the no sugar added fro-yo (it was pretty damn good) but got it in a waffle bowl. I had a conversation with a woman by the bathroom before we went into the fairgrounds. She was tellign Sunny and I how we were brave to bring in our purses cuz "they search 'em, ya know. I got things they don't need to be seein'. My husband said, 'take yer knife outta yer purse.' And I said, 'No way - my knife stays in my purse always.'" There was greater detail tot he conversation,s ome involvingher using a public mensroom when she was "at the coast" with her sister. She told the other men inside "You ain't got nothin' I ain't seen before!" i am sure the men were truly thrilled to have her there. She was a gem. She was also wearing a nascar shirt, btw. That was pretty obvious though, wasn't it?

All in all, it was damn fun. We hit some masive traffic on the way home - that sucked. But we had a great time. We have decided to make it a yearly tradition as long as we are both in California.

Now to the update on food/exercise stuff: I didn't get to do the treadmill yesterday but we did walka round the fair for 5 hours. I counteracted that with shitty food, thogh. And beer. All in al it was not a successful day on that front. Hopefully today will be better. I m havin' some coffee now and intend to walk this afternoon. I also got groceries on Friday night so I am going to start my yogurt or oatmeal for bfast, frozen meal for lunch, frozen meal for dinner regimen. Molly suggested I dd soem veggies ot my frozen meals for soem bulk so I don't get too hungry. She is a smart one, that Molly. I figure if I am exercising AND I start eating a lot less, I will actually lose the weight I need to lose to get my surgery. This isn't going to be easy - a lifetime of failure with food has proven that. But this tme I am doing this so that I can win the tool thatw ill help me keep this all off forever. Every pound I lose now is a pound that is guaranteed never to come back, as long as i continue to follow the plan post-op. I can do this.