Words Unspoken|Today is where your book begins, the rest is still unwritten.

I’ve decided to break this whole “diet” thing down. No sense in trying to do a million things at once, because obviously, it fails. I haven’t been watching my calories OR exercising, and that just WILL NOT DO! So, here goes. This week’s goals are:

1. No fast food.
2. No eating after 9 pm.

The first one won’t be horribly hard. I love Wendy’s, but it doesn’t help. So, home-cooked meals only. The second one, however, will be horribly hard! I always end up making a late dinner, and I always end up getting horrible munchies at night. I’m a bit of a night owl and I eat when I’m bored, and the two combined are disastrous! So, let’s see how I can do with these two goals.

I check the weather every day now, since I decided to go swimming/to the beach as often as possible.

Why, now that I want to go out and enjoy the sun, does it suddenly keep looking like this?

I’ve decided that going out is important, even if it is by myself. So, I went to the lake today and laid out on the beach! It was a bit weird, alone, but it felt nice anyway. So nice, in fact, that I intend to go back many times! I still have a month of hot days left, right? If not more! So yeah. The more I get out, the better I’ll feel. I hope.

Speaking of going alone… I suppose I should preface this with something. I love my online and offline friends. I love you all, very much. You’re all fantastic people, and I’d be crazy if it weren’t for you!

That said… I’m going through a bit of a rough patch in my life. It’s like a pre-mid-life crisis or something. I’m at an awkward age. Everyone speaks of awkward ages like it’s the years you go through puberty, but this one feels much more awkward to me than I did then. Everyone who knows me well knows that my baby fever is insatiable. But I can’t get away from all things baby! All my friends have children, and people online have children, and I swear if I didn’t know better, I’d think there is not one woman my age that is baby-less at the moment.

Now this isn’t meant to offend anyone, but I need to get it off my chest. I just have a hard time dealing with trying to find excitement and happiness while being childless when in my face constantly there’s the reminders of what a joy it is to be a mother. I’m so happy that all my friends have this joy, and I support them fully. I just think I need to figure out how to meet people more like me, who already know how to enjoy their time without constantly thinking BABY BABY BABY.

This isn’t being said because I intend to cut anyone out of my life. It’s not being said to hurt anyone’s feelings, or object to anyone’s life decisions. I just wanted to give an explanation as to why I have been (and possibly will continue to be) so distant lately. It’s nothing personal.

Okay, I’ve given a few days for people to get their submissions in for the Sex and the City challenge, and now it’s time to answer them! So here goes!

Stacy wanted me to relate:
Angela - Cynthia Nixon, who played Miranda, starred in an episode of Murder, She Wrote with Angela Lansbury.

Maria wanted me to relate:
Fans - In Ring a Ding Ding (Season 4, Episode 16), on the way home from the Chinese restaurant, they are waving fans, and Carrie makes a comment about how she’ll save a lot of money on air conditioning.
Pillows - In Luck be an Old Lady (Season 5, Episode 3), Samantha is suspecting that Richard is sleeping with other women at the hotel in Atlantic City, so she tries to wear him out before leaving him. One of her lines here is “Hi, I’m Samantha. Can I get you some towels? A chocolate for your pillow?”
Laundry - In Drama Queens (Season 3, Episode 7), Miranda does Steve’s laundry and ends up discovering, in her words, that she’s “dating skid marks man.”
Vietnamese People - In The Domino Effect (Season 6, Episode 11) they play a song called “In The Waiting Line” by Zero 7. This is the same song played in the party scene of Garden State. At the beginning of Garden State, Zach Braff is working at a Vietnamese restaurant, and he gets a hard time from a customer because he’s not a Vietnamese person.

Kalen wanted me to relate:
Tomatoes - In Just Say Yes (Season 4, Episode 12), Carrie says “Aidan, I just charged tomatoes, I really don’t think I’m in the position to buy an apartment.”
A Cup of Sugar - In Sex and the Country (Season 4, Episode 9), Samantha goes next door to Aidan’s country house to borrow a cup of milk for the pie Carrie’s baking. Of course, the stereotypical idea from most movies is not a cup of milk, but a cup of sugar!

Zi wanted me to relate:
A Humane Society - In The Big Time (Season 3, Episode 8), Miranda and Steve adopt Scout, their puppy. They adopt him from a pet store, but another place to adopt animals from is, of course, the Humane Society!
A Digital Camera - In The Real Me (Season 4, Episode 2), Carrie is documented for the New York Style fashion show by photographer Paul Denai. Obviously, he had to use a camera for the photographs!
Nasty, Dirty, Ratty Old Running Shoes - In A Woman’s Right to Shoes (Season 6, Episode 9), Kyra loans Carrie a pair of old sneakers when her shoes mysteriously go missing after a party.

So there we have it! How’d I do?

Leesha and I are proposing a challenge to you. We’ve both watched Sex and the City so many times that we know all the characters, the plot lines, the tiniest little jokes. It’s come to the point where just about anything can (and often will!) remind us of the show. This is where you come in.

Think of anything. Seriously, anything! A thought, an idea, a person. We want to see if we can associate it with Sex and the City! Not everything can be directly related, but we can relate it within one step. We’ll try to do it directly whenever we can though!

Make sense? Good. Start commenting! We’ll have answers up within the next few days.