Incentive!!

Boy oh boy did I get some last weekend!  Have you ever gone go kart racing?  Not the Scandia miniature golf kind.  I mean the cool karts that go really fast.  The karts where you can skid around corners like you're one of the drivers in that Tokyo Drift movie.  Well, as you can see from the picture, these things are fairly small and really low to the ground.  Once I got my behind wedged into that narrow seat and drove the kart around the track for a while I worked up a sweat just trying to get out of it.  I'm pretty sure that I was about as graceful as a turtle on its back and, for a while, I wondered if they'd need the jaws of life to pry me out.  A very sweet friend offered to try to help me out of the kart but I declined for fear of pulling her in with me.  I found my own escape route.  In all honesty, it probably took about a minute to get out of the thing.  But, it felt like an eternity.

All in all, a really great day with friends served two purposes - 1) making some great memories, and 2) incentive to work hard at this challenge, to remind me to focus on the goal of making positive life changes, and a reminder that just getting around in this world will be easier once I'm traveling in a smaller frame.

I hope that you all have a great weekend!  I'm hoping to fill mine with some gym time, good friends, and sleep :-)

Bye for now,
Cindy