Monday, January 22, 2007


Identify the object in this picture.
Is it: a) a blueberry muffin b) a donkey c) a figurative illustrative of April ?

You guessed it! its' letter "c" ! A picture of ME! How lovely!

Today, I acted as a stand in on set for hipster photographer Christopher Cumming (www.christophercumming.com) He repeatedly and mercilessly asked me to stand in front of the camera as a "model" to ensure the lighting was correct for several portraits of important business people. When I peeked over his shoulder at the pictures he took of me (test pictures), I experienced a kind of gag reflex. In fact, it dawned on me that I couldn't talk myself out of it anymore. There was no rationalizing, 'oh, its just water retention' or 'the shirt shrunk in the dryer.'
IT IS SO MUCH WORSE THAN I IMAGINED!!!
I have a nice, plump, unyielding, muffin top!
Eeeewwww!!!!! My first reaction was to steal the camera, book to the nearest body of water where I'd toss the camera in, hoping that it would it sink and instantly become water-logged beyond digital capture. However, this is against moral human standards. So I just let him take the picture.

Let me add: in the coming days I will not be available. I will be at the gym, night, day, in my sleep and awake trying to get rid of THIS GIRL'S MUFFIN! Enough already of being mistaken for a hobbit!! I work out at the gym, seriously, 5 times a week, do resistance training, eat chicken, veggies and sugar-free everything AND live with a dysfuntional thyroid (yes, its true) and I'm getting nowhere except further down muffin-lane!!! Gag me with a spoon!!!

I will now end this post and head for my new home, the gym. I will make friends with the weights and become one with the treadmill.

Until then...

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