Big news on the exercise front

I'm getting a treadmill tomorrow.

That means, not only will I have fantastic abs (I've already lost almost 4 inches around my waist) but I will also be amazingly skinny. (and that pizza I had for dinner tonight wont matter so much!)

My Aunt told me she found a picture of me that was taken shortly before I went to France in 2002 and she said that I looked so skinny! Its true, I was much thinner back then - I was going to the gym on a regular basis and I was single. I tend to pack on the weight when I'm in a relationship. Maybe its the comfort - maybe its always been the beer - but like the Barenaked Ladies song says: "She's like a baby, I'm like a cat. When we are happy, we both get fat."

Anyway, moving on to more interesting things than my state of physical fitness, my stupid good friend Rodger* tagged me with some silly meme and I guess I have to do it. But I'm not passing it on.

Here are 10 things about me that you might not already know or might find interesting:

1. Upon returning from France I developed an allergy to all alcohols. If I have just a couple of sips of a drink, my face turns red and splotchy, gets super hot and swells up in odd shaped welts. Its lovely.

2. I cant remember a damn thing about my childhood except for what I see in pictures and even then I wonder if I actually remember the events or if I just know they happened because we have the pictures to prove it.

3. I love Barry Manilow but have seen him only twice in concert. Once as a teenager and once last year.

4. I cannot tell a lie. Really. I'm a horrible liar.

5. I have an extremely vivid recurring dream (and have had this dream for almost 10 years) where I search frantically for my college boyfriend only to have anything and everything get in the way of me actually finding him. In the dream, I know that if I can find him, we will be together forever and go off happily into the sunset and my heart is broken each time when I am not successful. Can you say haunting regret?

6. Im a CourtTV/A&E junkie. I love Forensic Files, First 48, Cold Case Files, American Justice, The Investigators, Dominick Dunne's Power Privilege and Justice, Til Death do Us Part, and Suburban Secrets. I'm also addicted to all Law and Orders.

7. I must not be that interesting because I'm having a hard time coming up with 10 things.

8. Austria is the place I loved the most in Europe. Salzburg and Hallstatt were dreamy and I would love to visit there again.

9. I'm a big cry baby. Movies, music, commercials you name it - I'll cry when listening to/watching anything. Especially things about little boys and their moms or fathers and their daughters. Talk about tapping the well. Pass the Kleenex!

10. I've had glasses since I was in college, but I never wear them.


Voila!

* Just kidding R, you know I love you! ;)