Beth Williamson’s Blog

I’m proud of myself this morning. I got up thirty minutes early and exercised today! Woot! In keeping with that theme…

Thirteen Reasons I Need to Exercise

1. My closet is now divided into three sections. Clothes that fit, clothes that almost fit, and clothes that fit 30 pounds ago. I need to fit into ALL of them.

2. I feel better when I exercise. Corny but true.

3. I bought that stepper to exercise. I’d hate to have wasted the money.

4. There’s a full-on home gym upstairs. Um, what excuse could I possibly think up not to use it?

5. My butt doesn’t look good. I need to work on firming that up.

6. Ugh. Eleven years after giving birth and I still have a baby pot belly.

7. My knees are ugly. I need better looking legs to distract people.

8. I’m almost 40. I’m sure there’s a survey somewhere that says I HAVE to exercise.

9. I’m almost 40. I had to repeat that twice cause it’s so traumatic.

10. Larissa does it, and she’s really thin.

11. It’ll give me more energy for other pursuits… hey! I was talking about writing, you dirty minded people.

12. I get to read while I exercise, and reading time has become a precious commodity.

13. It’s for me and only me. If I exercise I feel good about myself and that’s what counts.

I don’t think I’d last if it was any longer. I usually don’t feel this tired until Friday morning but damned if I wasn’t tempted to hit that snooze button and drift back into sleep. Lately my dreams have been very vivid, telling me stories with all kinds of weird characters and interesting things. That’s a sign that my imagination is kicking me in the ass.

I. Need. To. Write.

Which means I need to turn real life off. Are you laughing too? Yep, it’s that funny isn’t it? *sigh*

So on Wednesdays I’m thinking I’ll share some strange news each week. There’s always some oddball story that catches my eye… here’s one about a guy who likes shoes.

In Wisconsin, they caught this 27 YO man with 1500 pairs of shoes. Did you read that? That’s one thousand five hundred pairs of shoes. Girls shoes, not men’s shoes, stolen from schools. Ick.

Apparently two years ago, he was charged with the same damn crime. Hello? Authorities? This is the rest of the world calling, the man has a PROBLEM, people. A big one.

Here’s another squicky part… he liked to smell them.

So there you have it. Today’s strange news. Anyone else have any to share?

Join me over at Passionate Prose. I’m talking about my neighborhood book club’s review of The Treasure!

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Today is John Wayne’s 100th birthday. Go and rent a movie, any John Wayne movie, and celebrate the Duke.