Monday Musings – ‘Tis the Season

 

Cheesecake that a coworker made and brought to work -delicious and brought joy to my palate.

‘Tis the season to be jolly, fa la la, la, la,la la la laaa. Every day is a new opportunity to experience joy or make your day jolly. However, the Holiday season can challenging for some people. How do you hurdle over challenges? I use humor. Let’s  be food.

The eating season begins with Halloween, whether you observe this holiday or not, there’s plenty of sweet treats to tempt your taste buds. In the office where I work there is the “candy lady.”  If you have a craving for chocolate, she has it. Need a piece of hard candy for your throat? She has that too. My job is a threat to my girlish figure (that’s hiding somewhere deep inside my plumpness).

Have you ever noticed that as soon as Halloween ends, there’s only a pit stop to celebrate Thanksgiving. Before you can even decide who’s coming to Thanksgiving dinner, Christmas is knocking at the door. I love the Christmas season. We celebrate the birth of Christ, but there is also a lot of food involved. There are programs at church that involve food; visits with family that offer lots of food choices. Then there is the office, where everyone brings in leftover food they don’t want to keep at home.

Cheesecake aftermath...the empty plate

I’m feeling bloated just thinking about all the delicious food I consume during the Holidays. Humorist Erma Bombeck once said, “If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.” This leads me to a story. I was chatting with co-workers last week, around the proverbial water cooler (we have one, but that’s not where we were chatting).

My supervisor was telling us about a new dog he has. Two of my colleagues were engaged and making comments. Next my supervisor tells us the size of his dog, “hew pretty big, he weighs 167 pounds.” My thought seeped from my head and I said, “I wish I weighed 167 pounds. Those were the good old days.”

Yes, indeed, the good old days. I’m still trying to lose my post pregnancy weight…it’s been 29 years. Perhaps the reason I’m not losing weight like I want to be is because I have so many jokes about my weight in my comedy sets. Yes, that must be the reason.

This is the season to be jolly, and I plan to do just that. I experience joy each time I share it with someone else. Whether you experience the battle of the bulge during the Holiday or struggle with something else, acknowledge it and move forward. Make time for self-care – smile more, giggle, relax. You can do it.