When life hands you lemons add alcohol and stir!

[kml]

My rhythm guitarist (who is Italian/Hispanic) permanently endeared himself to me when he told me I needed to "stop losing weight"

[mishka422]

WOW! That's a dream come true kml! LOL

[kml]

Yeah! If he wasn't a happily married man I'd have jumped him right there! His wife is one lucky woman.

[mishka422]

That's for sure.

[mishka422]

I think I'm getting restless and that is not a good thing for me. I'm feeling a need to get away from everyone for a few days and clear my head and sort through some stuff. Does that sound strange to anyone here? I've never done that before but it occurred to me last night that maybe I can't focus because I have too many distractions going on at home. Of course, knowing my pattern of avoidance, I can see myself parking it on a beach by myself and still not working through anything because I've found other things to distract me.

UGH!

[MichelleLT]

Roger saw a pic of me from the midst of the D when I was at my thinest and he was like, damn you were skinny! (And not in a good way, from the way he said it lol).

I certainly don't aspire to be some supermodel. I aim to eat the most unprocessed healthy foods I can find, in moderation, and work out regularly. I figure the rest will take care of itself.

We all need a break sometimes. Even your big vacation was with Marc, so you haven't really taken much time for yourself. There's something to be said for parking it on a beach lol. Just read and nap and swim. You might be surprised how much you work through when you think you're not doing any work.

It's better to take that time for yourself and get away instead of letting it build up IMO. Otherwise you might end up having a full-blown MLC in a year.

[mishka422]

That's what scares me Michelle! The weird, restless, dissatisfied feeling I have is NOT good at all and I feel like I could easily slip into that mindframe! Maybe it's a good thing Gabe already had his so I kind of know what to watch for.

I don't know if it's going to be possible for me to get away before the fall, but I'm going to look at the office calendar and see if there is any time that I could just take a long weekend and go.

My cousin lives in Destin, FL so it would be free to go stay with her but then I wouldn't be alone either. I haven't been to the north Atlantic side of FL, maybe I should do that. Ponte Vedra? Anyone know anything about that part of FL? I really prefer the gulf but I think I would feel bad being near my cousin and not seeing her.

[kat727]

What about just taking a weekend in a hotel by yourself? Just time alone would do you some good.

Kat

[BeginningAgain]

St Augustine is a really cool place to visit. It's on the Atlantic side of Florida just south of Jacksonville.

BA

[MichelleLT]

St Augustine was the only place I was able to visit when the Army sent me to Camp Blanding in April. Beautiful old city. I would definitely second that recommendation.