All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth.

Some days I just can't quite figure out where the time goes.  I'm sitting in my bed and it's 9pm, and I have no idea how that happened!  I haven't eaten dinner!   Granted, I had an omelet for lunch (with chorizo!) so I'm not low on protein today.  That usually means I don't get that hungry for diner.  But mostly I think the time change has me a little out of whack.

Anyway!  Let's talk about goals.

I tend to overextend myself in terms of life goals.  Diets need to be all or nothing (this is why I have never been on a diet for more than two weeks).  Exercise needs to be intense and hurt the next day (again, me and gyms have never been friends).  I make goals that are not realistic and then make lists of do's and don't's for myself that I can't possibly do, and then when I fail I feel awful about myself and go buy a bag of chips and wallow.

So, one of the main goals of Boring is Beautiful is to slow down, to ramp up to big changes, to prove that I can do little things, and then stack them on top of each other, one at a time, until they add up to changes that aren't so little after all.

This week's assignment for myself is small.  Tiny.  Really, really ridiculously good-looking basic.  It's a morning routine that takes four minutes.  Before I leave the house, I have to take a) my meds, b) my vitamins and c) floss.

Flossing is gross.  Flossing is annoying and (when you don't do it for a while) flossing is painful.  Flossing has been my least favorite hygenic chore my whole life.  I am an grown woman, and I still hate it.  But I can do it.  Every day.  And when I do it every day and walk in to my December bi-annual check up, and the lovely woman who cleans my teeth looks at me and says "have you been flossing?," I will be able to look her in the eye and say, "YES.  YES I HAVE."  And that, my friends, will be worth every second.

PS - I have only a vague idea of what some of the pills in my pill container DO.  My mother is a health store junkie and sends me boxes of things purchased through mail order catalogs, and I believe I'm taking herbal supplements for things from eye health to joint pain to digestives.  I'm also taking hyssop.  I have no idea what it does (even wikipedia won't tell me!), but it sounds cool.  We'll see what happens...