So it's been a rough week and Easter certainly didn't help. Audrey and I somehow managed to get up for our Saturday WW meeting after dancing around all night with Madonna and Lady Gaga impersonators for her birthday. I felt like I was living on the edge as my Saturday activities included getting up early to brush my teeth really well to try and impress my dentist (you know you do it too) for my 8:30am appointment with him then back to my AA meeting for chubby people at 10am.
Early in the week I attempted to work out again which this time included swimming with my cousin, but due to my sprained ankle and her pregnancy we were somewhere in between flailing shark victim and floating 80 year old woman.
So we sit through our regular meeting and at the end of every meeting there is a time for celebrating anyone's accomplishments on or off the scale. This is usually the time frame in which I dread. Not because you have to speak up but because they do this strange thing called fireworks. When someone has a really good weight loss week or they hit a goal and mention it during the meeting, the instructor usually turns to the group and says "what do you think, does this deserve fireworks?" In my head I'm thinking no you crazy B, we are inside a building... until I learned what it was and then I really wished that she had set off fireworks inside the building instead.
Everyone in the group in unison goes "OOOOooooooo AAaaahhhhhhhh!" Yes. We ooo and aahhhh at people when they do well. Except it always feels fake like the person next to you is really thinking "Bitch I wish that were me I haven't eaten Popeyes in a week and a half!..... ahem I mean ooooooo ahhhhhhhhhh, congratulations!" (not pulling from personal thoughts or anything) I can't even bring myself to do it yet. (Although, I caught Audrey's mouth moving the last time... I can't decide whether to give her credit for participating, or make fun of her because that's what we do).
I thought to myself, what if I just started ooooooing and ahhhhhhing at people when they told me things about themselves, or even a story maybe. For some reason I think this activity could get the crap kicked out of me, or possibly shanked. Think about it, if you came up to tell me about your day and how you just got laid off or something and then I went "OOooooo Aahhhhhhh." [Insert punch in the face right here].
SOoooooo why in the lord's name is it acceptable at this meeting? Can't we just clap, what the hell happened to clapping? I personally think this group could use every activity point we can get so why not lift our hands up and clap them together to congratulate someone on their success? While I have yet to unravel this mystery, I intend on making it clear at next week's meeting that I refuse to firework someone, I will however let you know how it goes when I start doing it to my friends.
