T-Bags

The origin of Tea Bags was an accident!
The tea bag was accidentally invented by a tea importer named Thomas Sullivan in 1908. To minimize the cost of transporting tea samples to customers, Sullivan sent the tea in small silk bags instead of the more expensive tin cans. The recipients mistakenly believed they were meant to be dunked and soon Sullivan was inundated with orders for his Tea Bags.

This method of brewing tea soon became popular, and by the 1920s, tea bags were being mass produced in the United States. Silk was replaced with gauze, then later paper.

Dead Stop

Ever have so incredibly much to do that you just can't do anything?  Dead stop!  That's where I've been, where I still am, and where I'm trying to break free from!  Even the little things are tripping me up! 

So, I do what I love to do.  I make lists!  Then I do things, and if they aren't on the list, I write them down just so I can cross them off.  This may be a sign of some illness, but it makes me happy.

1.  Losing weight - I haven't been as strict as I should be, but I'm not doing too badly.   But we ate ham last night and all that salt showed up on the scales this morning, so I won't announce it until I'm sure.

2.  Exercise - Still avoiding this.  My skinny friend  suggested we do flights of stairs every day, so one day last week we started off with 3 flights.  I was surprised I managed it without much trouble since I haven't been active.  But since then, she has never mentioned it and I let it go.  However, I have ordered an extra pair of walking shoes that I can keep in my back-pack, so I will start walking on my lunch hour.  That's a bit of progress!

3.  Organizing my stuff - I'm going through my dresser, armoire, and closet bit by bit to get rid of clothes that are ridiculously big on me.  I'm almost done with the clothes, then I have to attack my shoes.  It seems I've lost even more weight in my feet and have shoes that are too big yet again.  

4.  Self-esteem - Have a ton of work to do here.  But I'm so far ahead of where I used to be!

5.  Blog - I have to get serious like I said I would!  I'm about to go scouting for more bloggy friends.  I need to find some friends who have already lost a good bit of weight so I can ask them some personal questions!