Friday, July 16, 2010

Not anywhere close to perfect, but better than last week

My score is 678.

Another fun part of trek was that a lady from our stake, who was dressed in a black Grim Reaper costume, with the nickname of "Miss-Fortune" would be on the trail. Every family was stopped by her at least once on Trek. She would hand you a piece of paper with a misfortune on it. The worst one that I heard of was a family whose paper read that their cart had tipped over and broke. So they were told they had to empty their cart, wait for 30 minutes "to fix it", reload and then they could continue. Our family lucked out with an easy one. It said that our milk cow, Bessy, had been scared off by a heard of buffalo and we had to pull off the trail and find her. After searching for a few minutes we found a cute cardboard cow behind a bush, a ways off the trail, that instantly became our family mascot for the rest of the trip. All the others had passed us and we then ended up last in line on the trail. Once we found our cow we were anxious to get going again and catch up with the others. I wish I were more like that in my life. We all have misfortunes that pull us off our trail (illness, injury, unusually busy schedules, holidays, vacations). I have a VERY hard time motivating myself to get back on track when it comes to eating healthy and exercise. That's why Belly Busters has been so good for me. But I also have mixed feelings about it because my goal right now is to try to simplify my busy life and this game is definitely not simplifying it. Yet I know that all of the things this game forces me to do are so important. If I could learn to motivate myself to jump right back on the trail after misfortune strikes I wouldn't need this game. So, Dan, I will have to think about jumping on board for another round.

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