Welcome, Humility! Thank you for the lesson (i.e. kick in the nuts).

I haven’t even formally written down my New Year’s resolutions and I’ve already broken the ‘no sugar’ one. Yup.

I was feeling so high and mighty on New Year’s Day for bitch-slapping the basement tools area…and that morphed then gloriously celebrating my triumphant (one-day) victory over sugar cravings, assorted frosted cookies, french silk pie, and any form of chocolaty-milky-goodness. Look at me! I’m so great! Of course, this kind of setup is just ripe for a good ol’ smack down.

Tuesday evening, while growing increasingly anxious about my End-Of-Holiday-Vacation-And-Imminent- Return-To-The-World-Of-Work, I scrounged for sweets I forgot to trash New Year’s Day and came upon a small, forgotten bag of chocolate-covered craisins.

Yup, that’s all it took: a few freakin’ craisins.

Snarf.

C’mon. A craisin! It’s not even a real fruit – it’s a genetically altered plum or muskmelon or something. I done been brought down by a craisin! On the second day of my resolution!

The gift in this is humility, humility that I’m not as much in control as I like to pretend, the humility to laugh at myself.

I still think decreasing the sugar dependence is key – I’m not giving up on that goal. My intention is to approach this goal with confidence, and also with outstretched palms, asking for help.

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