After Christmas.......

[Diane]

: t'was 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.
All 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!

[oldherbaceous]

Dear Diane, how true that is, and i must admit, i have even put a couple of extra pounds on this Christmas, not sure what that's all about.

[Westi]

Diane - great! Mind I don't care - will work it off with some digging!

Westi

[PLUMPUDDING]

Couldn't agree more Diane, although I'm still trying to eat everything up before I start dieting - putting on a pound a day!!! Scary.

Still the sun is out today so we're going for a walk to kick start the metabolism hopefully.

[Primrose]

Can't wait to get the Christmas cards, tree & decorations down, have a thorough clean-up and get the place back to normal again. My OH on the other hand wants to hang on to it all until Twelth Night.
As the commercial build-up to Christmas takes three months at least, by the time Christmas Day is over, I've had enough of it!.

[Monika]

It will be great to back to "normal", won't it? This time, Christmas and New Year seem to dragging on longer than usual - or perhaps I am just getting older and more cantankerous.

[oldherbaceous]

Dear Monika, as i can't believe for one minute, that you are becoming contankerous, it must be that it is dragging on.

[Monika]

How kind, dear OH, but haven't met me!!!

[Bren]

All the Christmas decorations, greenery and cards are all down boxed and waiting for my son to come and put them up in loft. it is supposed to be unlucky to take them down before the 6th but I take my chance each year fingers crossed.
Bren

[Westi]

Bren I agree - as soon as Xmas is gone out goes everything associated with it. My Nan told me what is reflected in New Year's Day will be your year..I'm not the best housekeeper at the best of time so don't want a year of mess - & boy doesn't everything look messy post Xmas! Life is too short for cleaning - when the lottie calls!

Westi