Good Lord. Perhaps I didn’t think all this through. I’m several days behind on the swans and ducks and maids and lords and pipers and whatnot and my computer is acting up. I think maybe it’s hungover.

I’ll get there and I PROMISE you, when I do, there WILL be a belated Monday Hotness with bagpipers piping.

Rrowr.

In the meantime

Miss Plumcake wants to know:

What are your feelings about New Year’s Resolutions? Have you ever actually kept one?

I give myself a New Year’s gift each year, with the caveat being it’s got to be something that will make my life better EVERY day for the whole year, not just when I’m wearing it/eating it/asking it to fix me the other half of that martini.

Yes, my friends, it’s time for the first Sunday Caption Madness of 2009! You all know the rules. I post a picture, you send in your best captions in the comments section, and next saturday I’ll announce the winner.

And so, without further ado, let’s take a look at the first image of the year:

Ready…set…snark!

Is a diet on your New Years’ resolution list? If so, you might want to think again. According to an article published by the BBC yesterday, restricting calories can seriously impede recovery from a flu virus.

Apparently mice given restricted calorie diets in a study at the University of Michigan failed to fight off the flu virus even when getting adequate vitamins and minerals. The mice on restricted diets who survived, took longer to recover and showed more symptoms than their non-restricted counterparts.

Of course the article goes on to chastise us all that we can’t leave off dieting forever…but we should save it for times when the flu is less prevelant. Yeah, I’ll get right on that diet as soon as the thaw hits. (rolls eyes)
In the meantime, I’ll enjoy yet another piece of evidence that good health and low weight are not automatically the same thing.

And I’ll enjoy all I want of the hearty, delicious beef stew I’m making for tonight’s dinner.