I have to say, I find it odd how my brain works these days. I was driving home from work this morning and I was lost in thinking. See, not I hate thinking as it requires brain useage but well the radio on the car is not being user friendly so I had nothing else to occupy my mind but well my mind. Scary thought isn’t it? Anywho, I was running some events/memories/whatever through my mind and something a friend of mine says (typically when she’s drinking that isn’t quite repeatable in polite company) popped in my head and I had to giggle. Now that’s a site watching some poor soul alone in their car driving down the road laughing. Makes ya want to run the other way :D But I digress. Anyway, so this saying of hers popped into my head. And then I got started down the path of SueBisms. I remember her telling this story of the last time she was in California visiting her sister. Now remember my friend is quite a bit older than I, has grandchildren not much younger than me. Well, anyway she was out visiting her sister and her sister looked at her and told her she was awful wrinkled for an old woman. Well, SueB looked right back and told her that if she got fat too then she wouldn’t have wrinkles! So, here I am remembering her getting all up in arms about how just because she was thin she had wrinkles where as her sister was well padded (like most of the real world) she didn’t. So then my brain started thinking and I realized that there are some benefits for carrying a few extra pounds of “padding”.

First, we do wrinkle less. You have to have hanging skin to wrinkle. As we age our skin hangs, it’s just life. But with a bit of padding to hold in the slack we don’t hang therefore we have less wrinkles. Yup, heavier people have the ability to look younger longer!

We have curves. Real curves. I remember years ago my sister (who is still in her 20’s for a few more months) embarked on the path to thindom. She lost all her “curves” and her face lost it’s youthfulness. Yup, in her 20’s dear sweet sis had wrinkles!

Insulation. Supposedly, from people I talk to anyway, that extra padding helps keep the cold at bay in the winter. Though it supposedly makes one more hot in the summer. Mine however works the opposite trapping the cold in to my bones. Once I get cold I stay cold. And I’m always cold! I’m kinda opposite to what most people lay claim to I suppose.

I’m more than sure there are even more reasons that we should love our padding. But these three just “came to me” as I drove home from work this morning. Aren’t those boring long trips home with nothing but your mind to entertain your mind just a wonderful thing? Ok, this is all I have for you today. May each of you have a wonderful day with at least one thing to make you smile~