I Did Something I haven't Done in Years

I bought a bathing suit.

I haven't had one in years. I just didn't need one for one and I didn't want to subject others to me in one.

Why did I break down and do it? Well, Dave and I are going to a resort here in Iowa for our anniversary next weekend. The place has an indoor pool park that looks really fun, so we're going to take advantage of it. I hope the suit doesn't make me look too frumpy in it. I'm also hoping it fits because I ordered it on line. I hope I get it in time.

The last time I remember owning a bathing suit was when we lived in California and that was something like 30 years ago. I looked a lot better in bathing suits back then. Before I had kids, would you believe that I looked like this:

Okay, maybe not quite that good, but close. I was also 18-19 and weighed 99 pounds back then.

I'd like to say that I weigh close to that, but the last time I did was when I was working full time and smoking like a fiend. I did go through a period where I did watch what I ate and I lost a lot of weight. From doing that and the lifting of heavy boxes almost everyday helped. But then I fell off the wagon and went back to my old eating habits. Now I'm doing Weight Watchers, but what I need to do is to get off of my duff and exercise again. I've gotten lazy over the winter, I was doing so well last summer. The bad thing is that it hasn't been all that cold this winter, except for maybe the past few weeks, so I have no excuse. I'll admit it, I can't blame it on anything or anyone else, the culprit is sitting right here writing this.

I keep telling myself I'm going to start up again and I know that once I do and keep with it, then maybe I'll be able to get back to looking decent in a bathing suit again or whatever else I decide to wear.