Tea Bags and Weight Loss…

I have a tendency…maybe we all do…okay…not you…you’re perfect…but…maybe the rest of us do…geez…

Anyway…I have a tendency…to want things immediately…to not have to wait…for things to happen in their own good time…we talked about it recently…Time in a Fountain…the same fountain…that has now stopped working…but I digress…

Okay…okay…I’m getting to the point…geez…can’t a girl ramble anymore…you are so impatient…ah ha…gottcha…you do have that tendency…

So…yesterday…I was working on the next…Big Book of Bertha…and I came across a story…that I’d written a few years ago…with that theme…evidently…I’ve needed to work on it for a while…

Bertha’s…first example had to do with instant tea…and…how…even though it was…quick…and…easy…I didn’t like it…so…it was worth the time…and effort…to make tea…the semi-old fashioned way…yeah…tea bags…

Her second point was weight loss…reminding me…that like making tea…it was better to take the slow approach…because…if I suddenly lost…fifty pounds…my pants would fall off…no matter where I was…

Of course…I have contemplated that scenario…and…she’s right…my pants would fall off…but…for instant weight loss…I think I’d take my chances…how bad could it be…and I’d be skinny…right…hmmm…

Anyway…it’s a cute story…Bertha’s crocheting high-heeled baby booties…and…yes…I know that you want to read the book…I know…I’ve been working on it forever…but…these things take time…what do you want from me…instant tea…

Jane

PS…I’m excited…and you’re invited…

I will be presenting Bertha-Size Your Life! in an online conference this evening…I would love for you to join me…and cheer me on…and…you will also meet…other awesome authors…and find out more about them…and their books…there may even be some giveaways…maybe…just maybe…a Bertha…if you play your cards right…

All you have to do is click…Master Koda Conference…enter your first…and last name…and…click enter…here are the times…see you then…

March 28…starts at...7:30EDT…6:30pmCDT…5:30pmMDT…4:30PDT

Time in a Fountain...

Lessons learned…like good things…often…come in small packages…case in point…

It was truthfully past time…but…this afternoon…thinking all chance of subfreezing temperatures was over…I decided to take the time and uncover the little water fountain…

So…the project I’d been dreading…took less than 10 minutes to accomplish…I had already reconnected the water hoses…the part that I really dreaded the most…disconnecting that Styrofoam thing…that protects the faucet from the cold…putting the splitter thing on…that allows me to use two hoses at the same time…getting it tight…albeit…crooked…then connecting the two water hoses…getting them tight…but…I digress…

Today…all I had to do was…remove the plastic…that covered the fountain…squirt it all out nicely with the hose…fit it all back together…fill it with water…plug it in…simple…

Except…the water was only coming out as a trickle…not the fountain it was supposed to make…

My first…frustrated…response…was…to take it all back apart…clean everything again…but…something…Bertha…of course…whispered…wait…give it some time…let it work it out…in its own way…in its own time…

And…I did…I waited…maybe not so patiently…but…I waited…and surely enough…the trickle started to grow…until…it became a fountain…just as it knew all along that it would…

Bertha…reminds me…all too often…I tend to rush things…to take them all apart…try to fix them…when…all along…given some time…they’ll work out…in their own way…in their own time…

Jane