peas at a party

According to Thomas and Ruth Roy at Wellcat Holidays & Herbs, October 19 is Evaluate Your Life Day. I don’t know why it’s today; but it’s their holiday, copyrighted and everything, so they can have it when they want to. Neat.

And according to Emeril (so it must be true), we each eat 130 pounds of potatoes a year—that would be every last one of us. So I’m thinking, how does my life measure up.

I have lived 32,368,200.01 Make that 9.43 minutes. It took 9.42 minutes to write this. (These deep and insightful posts don’t just write themselves. Heh.)

In my adult life, I have eaten 207.56 pounds of chocolate: 134.91 pounds because I’m stressed; 41.51 pounds because I’m happy; and 31.14 pounds because I can.

I own 29.7 cubic feet of fabric, and I don’t sew. Anymore. But I might. That’s why I bought more fabric just this month. And the fabric looks wonderful with the beads I bought last month and haven’t made into anything yet. But I will.

In my closet there are 19 many (I’d rather not be too specific) pairs of jeans in four colors and three sizes.

I own 2.3 pairs of shoes for every pair of jeans.

In my adult life, I’ve gained 143 pounds and lost 118 pounds. A little up, a little down. More up, more down. Way up, way down. Starting up? I started skinny, but it’s still a 15+ challenge, my own very slow yo-yo. (Two of those pounds are explained here.)

According to Professor Irwin Corey,

“If we don’t change direction soon, we’ll end up where we’re going.”

So here’s a plan. As of today, I’ll be more sensible about shoes. Uhmm, make that tomorrow. Today I’m going to a trunk show at Dillard’s.

I will forgo the next 223.11 chocolate candy bars, thus alleviating the 15+ challenge.

Then I will buy these . . . because I can.