Happy Valentines Day Losers

Hi Losers,

Happy Valentine's day to everyone. Here's to being a good loser this year. So, if you are into getting or giving gifts then go forth and enjoy them. Personally I will take a gift any day of the year and if you want to hear that you are my sweetie then, hey i will ablige that too just to get the gift. But, seriously, I hope all of you are sticking to our game and what we are all trying to accomplish.
If you have read Lori's blog, she has challenged each of us to walk 10,000 steps each day. That is a good challenge and hopefully all of you can accomplish that. Good luck to that.

But, getting back to valentines day. One year when I was stationed in Korea, I decided to send mom a beautiful box of chocolates. It was a gorgeous box, beautiful red satin ribbons with satiny roses and sequins adorning the box. The candy in it looked pretty good too. Well, I just couldn't send that alone, I also included in the shipping box a can of kimchi, which if some of you don't know, is a Korean dish made out of fermented cabbage. It is made similar to pickles, however, it is stored in big pottery urns and buried in the ground to ferment for any amount of time. Some of the kimchi's include other vegetables such as onions, carrots, radishes, cucumbers, etc. It has a definite distinct odor to it and at every meal that you eat in any Korean restaurant you will be served a variety of small dishes to accompany your meal that have different kimchi's in them. Trust me, your breath will be a lethal weapon after you eat kimchi.
Well, I sent the beautiful box of candy and the can of kimchi to mom. It was a few weeks after valentines day, I hadn't heard from her as to whether or not she received the candy, so I wrote to her and asked her about it. She told me that she had indeed received a package from me, but when the postman delivered it to her, he told her that he had to make a special trip for her package alone and he had put it in the back of his old farm truck to deliver it. Apparently the can of kimchi had burst and there was an odor that came from the box that was pretty disgusting and he did not want to keep it in the post office any more time than he had to. Mom said when he delivered it to her, the package was so smelly that she promptly carried it over to an old metal burn barrel we had in the back yard and burned it. Alas, she never got to see the box of candy in it. When I heard about what had happened, I laughed so hard, I am sure that mom never got another valentine quite like that one.

Well, i can imagine that some of you have received some doozies as far as valentines day is concerned. So, lets hear some stories, lets share some funnies with everyone. It doesn't have to be all mush and goo. Hey, you never know when one of you might receive a can of kimchi from me one day, you all are such sweeties. and hey, I am sure that there are few if any calories in kimchi.

So, lets go losers, and hear the stories.

oh, and don't forget the bi monthly weigh in on the 15th. Easy on the chocolate between now and then.

later losers,
Susan