Another great week! I am really enjoying this new role at work but I think it may be like jumping off that steel bridge! You know, the one that has the sign posted saying "No Jumping or Diving from Bridge! " But your young, its summer and everyone who's cool in your high school is watching you hang off the edge. You can't back out now. You'll be branded a chicken. So you jump and then it happens. You fall and fall and fall and you realize it is, if I may say, one helluva long way down. Upon impact, your swim bottoms are catapulted so far up your rear you're just glad you have 40 feet of water depth to retrieve them in some semblance of privacy and time to wipe the excruciating look of pain off your face before rising to the surface. LOL
So I have jumped and it is exhilarating! I have no idea what is really awaiting me when I hit that proverbial water!

Post Script: I never did jump from the Arlington bridge. I never even got the never to climb on the other side of the rail. I did shove my sister off. Does that count?

Laughter and Belly Flops

Wow! Today I worked hard and laughed a lot. Laughter has such value! I find that I laugh hardest when I am laughing at myself. Like when I make a faux pas I typically laugh very loudly and people will turn to gaze in frowned wonder, which in turn makes me laugh even harder. When others laugh at me I am just naive enough to believe they are laughing with me as I laugh at myself. Gotta love it. Life is good.

At this moment I am staring up at the artwork above my desk. It has lemons and lemonade in the drawing with the words below it: "It'll cost nothing to dream and everything not to". It kind of sums up my attitude...I love to jump in with both feet and find out later if I am truly in over my head! For I know I can swim. Why not just jump?! If I do a belly flop, then I figure out where I went wrong last time on the way down and tell myself how to correct course. Next time I'll point my toes and plug my nose!

As for the challenge, I have lost two more pounds. (does it matter than I had gained them back last week and re-lost them? Is re-lost a word?) I am exercising and sleeping on a routine. Eureka!