Monday, May 2, 2011

Mikey.

Remember that show "Recess"? I used to love that show! Lately I have been feeling like Mikey---you know... the big guy---not only because I have been feeling like a fatty and working on eliminating the 5 pounds I gained over Easter Break ( yes! FIVE pounds! Can you believe that? I, who have only gained 8 pounds since graduating 8th grade ((oh by the way, I wore my 8th grade graduation dress to church yesterday. Ha. I'm such a nerd) gained 5 whole pounds over a period of 2 1/2 days and it's taken me a week of intense Jillian Michaels' 30-Day-Shredding to get back to my pre-Easter weight).
ANYWAYS... back to my original thought. I also feel like Mikey sometimes because snippets of the Recess episode entitled "The Voice" have recently been coming to mind. See, in this episode Mikey shows that he can sing really, really well, but only when he's in the bathroom. As soon as he exits the bathroom he instantly has a horrible singing voice but upon re-entering the bathroom, he's excellent. Sometimes I think this might be me.
I sing in the shower...almost always. And perhaps it's the echo in the room or the effect of the water spilling over my face or... whatever the cause may be, I feel like I'm an A-okay singer in the shower. I even have a few favorite "shower songs" that are routine, a nightly "must-sing". But as soon as that shower head is turned off I become convinced that this talent is a "shower-only" one. I don't know what it is!
There. There's my secret. Now that I've admitted that I am a shower-singer, I can sleep peacefully tonight. (Although I'm not sure I'll be sleeping very peacefully at all this week since Luke is gone until Friday and I'm all alone.) Please tell me someone else out there is a shower-singer like me? And also maybe that someone else gained almost the same amount of weight over Easter weekend as they have in the past 6 years? Am I the only one?