The flower that continues to bloom: Word Problem

Thursday, July 23

Word Problem

Daltongirl burns 800 calories if she sits around and does nothing all day. On Wednesday, she consumed 749 calories. One pound of fat = 3500 calories. How many pounds did she gain?

Variables:

Water retention
Possible thyroid malfunction
Migraine
Extreme sloth contributing to the burning of zero calories or minus 8000 calories

Answer: 2 lbs.

It's enough to make a person want to eat a pint (or ten) of Haagen Dazs.

3 comments:

alisonwonderland said...: If this were on Facebook, I'd click "like." :); 1:30 AM
daltongirl said...: That's because you love math.; 10:27 PM
Cicada said...: I opened a box of individually packaged chocolate sticks.

Each stick was 80 calories. Quite a sensible snack!

I ate ten sensible snacks!

How sensible does that make me?; 3:23 PM

What's the blog title about?

In 2010 I came across a series of vintage booklets entitled "Amy Vanderbilt Success Program for Women" (copyright 1965) at a thrift store. I didn't look inside any of them: the titles and cover art were funny enough that I had to have them. And it didn't hurt that I got four booklets for 25 cents. My favorite was "How to be a more interesting woman." Who could pass that up?

A few days later I started to look through the book for a laugh, and found myself almost immediately absorbed by the author's wisdom and wit. She made some good points . . . she made a lot of good points. This was something I could use, for who doesn't want to be more interesting? And here in my hands was a surprisingly progressive manual on how to do it.

So, in my newfound quest to be more interesting, I thought I'd use this forum to try things out and reflect on my efforts. In short, I hope to become the kind of person that continues to flower and grow.