Friday, June 27, 2008

Connecting with my inner couch potato

Unleashing your inner couch potato doesn't have to be difficult or make you feel guilty.

Step 1- Pick an average sunny day with temps between 60-100 degrees F and convince yourself that you will get outside with your children when the heat "burns off".

Step 2- Take requests from your children for a favorite TV show....just for a little bit until you get your coffee fix. Then of course, just like the TV the bets are also off.

Step 3- Channel surf just to confirm that TV after 10am is full of pious no-name judges handling petty court cases that no one really gives a shit about.

Step 4- Sit in wide-eyed wonder at how great your life really is, because you actually know ALL your baby daddies, you have never taken your own mother to court, and you don't have to deal with a makeover today.

Step 5- Don't stop at watching daytime TV, go ahead and scour the fridge in search of whatever goes with sitting on your ass. Any cheesy concoction be it powdered, solid or liquid is a personal fave with me.

Step 6- Repeat