I hit my goal weight last year, and like a true 90s girl, I thought that would make me happy. I focused on numbers alone: calories, clothing sizes, and the digits on the scale. Okay, I’m not unhappy. But there’s more work to be done.
This year is about strength, stamina, and overall health. I still get to obsess about numbers, but only when it comes to working out. That’s my positivity for today.
Now for the negativity.
I keep seeing the same idiotic things on FB/IG and translating them in my head thusly:
- “Watch till the end” means (1) skip to the next reel immediately, and (2) till (like a farmer) instead of ’til (abbreviated until) is here to stay no matter how wrong it is.
- “Can’t believe I caught this on video” means literally nothing interesting is going to happen.
- “Hack” means the third dumbest way to complete any task.
- “POV” means I do not know what POV stands for.
- “Wait for it” means do not wait for it.
I had to get that written down before it drove me nuts. Obviously, I need to limit my scrolling. Maybe I’ll file that in the “overall health” category.
Here is my handsome familiar, Warlock, to end on a positive note:

– AK