[nfbwatlk] Fw: [acb-diabetics] The month after Xmas

[Albert Sanchez]

hahaha!
Albert Sanchez
Al's Piano Tuning & Repair
215 John Avenue
Greenville, NC 27858-4113
252-757-3023
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
To: "NFB of Washington Talk" <nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 5:30 PM
Subject: [nfbwatlk] Fw: [acb-diabetics] The month after Xmas


> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Patricia LaFrance-Wolf
> To: Acb-Diabetics at Acb. Org ; Blind-Diabetics at Yahoogroups. Com
> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 1:48 PM
> Subject: [acb-diabetics] The month after Xmas
>
>
> This seemed appropriate for this month.
>
> the month after Christmas,
>
> and all through the house
>
> Nothing would fit me,
>
> not even a blouse.
>
> The cookies I'd nibbled,
>
> the eggnog I'd taste
>
> At the holiday parties,
>
> had gone to my waist.
>
> When I got on the scales
>
> there arose such a number!
>
> When I walked to the store
>
> (less a walk than a lumber).
>
> I'd remember the marvelous
>
> meals I'd prepared;
>
> The gravies and sauces
>
> and beef nicely rared,
>
> The wine and the rum balls,
>
> the bread and the cheese
>
> And the way I'd never said,
>
> "No thank you, please."
>
> As I dressed myself in
>
> my husband's old shirt
>
> And prepared once again
>
> to do battle with dirt...
>
> I said to myself,
>
> as I only can
>
> "You can't spend a winter
>
> disguised as a man!"
>
> So, away with the last
>
> of the sour cream dip,
>
> Get rid of the fruit cake,
>
> every cracker and chip
>
> Every last bit of food
>
> that I like must be banished
>
> "Till all the additional
>
> ounces have vanished."
>
> I won't have a cookie
>
> not even a lick.
>
> I'll want only to chew
>
> on a long celery stick.
>
> I won't have hot biscuits,
>
> or corn bread, or pie,
>
> I'll munch on a carrot
>
> and quietly cry.
>
> I'm hungry, I'm lonesome,
>
> and life is a bore!
>
> But isn't that
>
> what January is for?
>
> Unable to giggle,
>
> no longer a riot.
>
> Happy New Year to all
>
> and to all a good diet!
>


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