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I'm gonna get me one of these at this year's Route 66 Marathon. I may have to steal it, but whatever. PHOTO BY SHERRY BROWN, TULSA WORLD

"Fumbling Towards Ecstasy" should be my theme song
Published: 5/19/2010 4:03 PM
Last Modified: 5/19/2010 4:17 PM

Alas, it's more like "Stumbling Forward into Things" -- a much less sexy title but decidedly more accurate considering I've been listening to Sarah McLachlan's "Fumbling" album today, as well as bumping into things because I'm a clumsy whore.

Anyhoo, so I totally fibbed to myself and, perhaps, you since last we chatted, claiming I'd be blogging more, blah, blah, blah. LIES!!! Hope I haven't lost any trace of credibility with you, if that's not too presumptuous of me to think such a measurement existed betwixt us -- especially since my more-public-than-I'd-prefer fall off the health wagon this spring.

In summation, most of March and large swaths of April sucked big, prickly cacti, if you'll pardon the plural. I won't get into it, but let's just say I used it as an excuse to start eating poorly again. Plus, I switched gyms, which fed into another cycle of excuses, none of which were the slightest bit imaginative or, more to the point, valid.

But I went to Mexico with E for a GLORIOUS week, came back semi-refreshed, fell a little ill, then got back on the proverbial horse (mine's named Flicka) to stop my self-blame-shame spiral. Like Mary J. Blige told me recently via CD, "No More Drama." Amen, Sister Friend!

And as I realized I've barely blogged, it immediately dawned on me that it's all because I haven't been holding myself accountable -- the biggest point of this whole blogging thing, at least to me -- and, consequently, led myself astray. Well, that's officially changing as of right this second. OK, that's another lie -- it's changing as of Monday. No, screw that, it's changing now! I have the Route 66 Marathon to start training for (who knew that was 26 freakin' miles?), not to mention a pair of size-31 Seven jeans taunting me from the closet. Come hell, highwater or Visa-billed liposuction, I'm gonna get in shape, dangit! I want those abdominal dimple things or whatever they're called near my hips, even if it means digging 'em out with a melon baller. I'd prefer exercise, though, as the latter option's better for my heart, mood and pant comfort.

Alright, that's all I got for now. Just wanted to 'fess up, get my sins outta my system before tomorrow, when I do something Route 66-ish with my beloved FGP, who's doing the half-marathon at Route 66. More on that Thursday, though.

Peace, love and size-31 accountability ... XOXO

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While other kids were watching "The Smurfs," Scene Writer Jason Ashley Wright was tuned in to "Style with Elsa Klensch." By fourth grade, he knew he wanted to write, and spent almost three years publishing a weekly teen-oriented magazine, Teen-Zine -- circulation: 2. After earning a degree in journalism from the University of Southern Mississippi, he became the medical reporter and teen board coordinator for the Hattiesburg (Miss.) American, a Gannett newspaper. Eight months later, with visions of Elsa dancing in his head, he applied for the fashion writer position at the Tulsa World, where he began working on Aug. 3, 1998. He is now a general assignment reporter for Scene.

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