I had kind of a frustrating morning, trying to get the baby and I out of the house to the gym, which is 25 minutes away and which I had a difficult enough time convincing myself to go to even when it was only FIVE minutes away, and as a result of the morning hassles I decided I would have a slightly shorter workout than usual and then a slightly longer shower, but my relaxing post-workout shower was ruined by having to spend it listening to 3 women loudly discuss their weight (exactly how many Christmas cookies they can have before they gain 5 pounds, how long it took them to lose the 5 pounds from last year, etc.) and the weight of their various friends (one of them went to a Leafs game the other night and her friend ate 2 pieces of pizza AND drank a beer and this particular friend gains weight quickly, so what was she THINKING) and there was no sharp object to poke myself in the eye with because I was trapped in the SHOWER, so I just stood there under the water wishing they would talk about their haircuts or their kids or their plans for Christmas or JUST ABOUT ANYTHING ELSE OTHER THAN WHAT THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT.
- exact calculations of how many cookies a person can eat before they immediately gain 5 pounds, and subsequent discussions of how this compares to how many cookies someone ELSE can eat before they immediately gain 5 pounds, and smug/self-deprecating proclamations of being “blessed” with a fast metabolism or “cursed” with an insatiable sweet tooth
- descriptions of what someone ELSE ate, in a judgemental tone, because come on, it was just one hockey game, not every meal they prepared and sat down to for the past six years
- advertisements suggesting with a straight face that you should eat bland, air-filled cereal for 66% of your daily meals, as though that will help you solve the life-long problems caused by 1) and 2)
Christmas cookies ARE good and I, for one, refuse to count them.
Great post. 🙂
So you left us all hanging… Exactly how many cookies does it take?
From what I remember, it went as follows:
Woman #1 — she made 3 different kinds of cookies, and tried 2 of each, and that was too many
Woman #2 — she made way more than 3 different kinds, and last year she tried one of each and that was too many, so this year she just took a tiny nibble of each kind to make sure they were okay
Woman #3 — she can eat as many cookies as she wants without having to worry about gaining any weight
I would much rather hear that she ate (at least) one of each than that she served her guests pre-nibbled cookies! That’s just me.