{"id":2722,"date":"2011-08-30T10:04:49","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T14:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/ourladyofweightloss\/?p=2722"},"modified":"2011-08-30T10:04:49","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T14:04:49","slug":"kick-in-the-tush-tuesday-post-storm-coverage-comfort-food-life-lessons-and-survival-techniques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/ourladyofweightloss\/2011\/08\/kick-in-the-tush-tuesday-post-storm-coverage-comfort-food-life-lessons-and-survival-techniques.html","title":{"rendered":"Kick in the Tush Tuesday: Post Storm Coverage – Comfort Food, Life Lessons and Survival Techniques"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dear Tushkateers,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong> We made it through the storm! The Hurricane of all hurricanes, Irene, which – as it turned out here in NYC – wasn’t soooo bad. Praise Be!\u00a0 Still, we had our own hurricane of sorts.\u00a0 Hurricane Harriet!\u00a0 Mother of all storms \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

As some of you know, my mother is 95 years-young and she lives in Long Beach, Long Island.\u00a0 If you were listening to the news, you’d know that Long Beach was under mandatory evacuation!\u00a0 For numerous reasons, Mom wasn’t willing to budge.\u00a0 She wasn’t going to a shelter (can’t blame her at 95, can you?\u00a0 imagine her sleeping in a gym with a few hundred other folk – the experience could be worse than the storm); nor was she willing to come to me!!!<\/p>\n

She hadn’t left her neighborhood since my father died 10 years ago.\u00a0 With Dad at the helm she was a bit more adventuresome.\u00a0 The last time she slept over was 25 years ago, when she babysat the kids when Peter and I went on our honeymoon (yes, second marriage – yes, deep sigh).<\/p>\n

Anyway … you get the point.\u00a0 Getting her here, to our apartment, was going to be a crazy-ridiculous-angst-fear-ridden-major-league project.\u00a0 Fortunately, because we were going to visit dear friends in Vermont, we had already secured a rental car for the weekend.\u00a0\u00a0 When we heard that the storm was rolling in a few days prior to the weekend, I said, “Let’s keep the car rental open.\u00a0 Just in case we have to ‘rescue’ mom.”<\/p>\n

Who knew I was so smart and had such psychic ability???\u00a0 Peter, the hero of the story, upon reaching the car rental place to pick up said car, said to me, “If we drive out there and your mother refuses to get into the car, I will lose my mind.”\u00a0 He then telephoned her and said, “Harriet, we are on our way.\u00a0 No if’s, and’s or but’s about it.\u00a0 You’re coming with us.\u00a0 Pack your bag; be ready.”<\/p>\n

She reluctantly agreed.\u00a0 The trip out there was horrific.\u00a0 There were pockets of heavy rain (worse than during the actual hurricane – the kind of rain you can’t see through), and we feared that we might not make it there, or even worse, we’d make it there, but not be able to make it back to NYC!<\/p>\n

There were many lessons learned over this weekend.\u00a0 And the big one is this:\u00a0 It takes courage to be old.\u00a0 And a good deal of creativity, intelligence and determination.\u00a0\u00a0 Because we were together for a prolonged period of time, on my turf and not her’s, I saw things that I would not necessarily see, which made me ask questions that I would not normally ask.<\/p>\n

Every task done, from bathing to laundry, has been retooled and relearned.\u00a0 For instance, the laundry.\u00a0 My mother does her own laundry.\u00a0 She wants to.\u00a0 She wants to keep on doing anything and everything that she can for herself, without help, because it keeps her going and gives her a purpose.\u00a0 So – the laundry.\u00a0 Mom lives in an apartment building.\u00a0 There are fire doors in the hallway.\u00a0 And they are heavy.\u00a0 She has learned to push her body against the door, open with both arms, wedge herself in, toss the laundry ahead of her and then, she quickly slips through to the other side.<\/p>\n

And there’s a subtle prejudice against old people.\u00a0 She experiences it at the pool.\u00a0 She sees the look on the young people’s faces when she comes out.\u00a0 She has her group of friends, a large group, but nonetheless, the look stings.\u00a0 After all, on the inside, she’s the same person she’s always been.<\/p>\n

I am still processing the weekend.\u00a0 It was my intention to share in this week’s KITT Club e-letter a powerful, eye-opening, fat-melting experience courtesy of one of my private clients.\u00a0 BUT … the ‘storm’ threw me off kilter!\u00a0 So off kilter that I indulged in comfort food after we returned mom safe n’ sound to her home.<\/p>\n

I hit the frozen pancakes.\u00a0 Imagine!\u00a0 My husband picked them up as part of the ’emergency food supply.’\u00a0 Had we lost the electricity, I don’t know how we might have toasted them??? Emergency shopping for New Yorkers is a funny thing to watch.\u00a0 That’s another story\/post!<\/p>\n

Still, I did count the calories.\u00a0 3 pancakes = 270 calories plus 100 calories of lite syrup = 370 \/ rounded up to 400 calories.\u00a0 I had a light dinner later in the day!\u00a0 Not so bad; not even ‘bad’ enough to confess to Our Lady of Weight Loss and seek forgiveness!!!<\/p>\n

While not seeking forgiveness from OLofWL, I do seek your understanding.\u00a0 Your fat-blasting ‘lesson’ will be loaded and ready for next week’s KICK, as well as the responses to Chewing the Fat: Military Action.\u00a0 Thanks to those who wrote in!!!<\/p>\n

And a special howdy to all the new members of the Kick in the Tush Club.\u00a0 Remember to add Kick in the Tush Club, Tushkateer in Good-Standing under ‘membership’ on your resumes\/bios!\u00a0 That should land you the job of your dreams \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Thank YOU for listening and allowing me to process and let go of the weekend.
\nYou are the BEST Tushkateers ever!<\/p>\n

Have a safe, storm free week!!!\u00a0\u00a0 AND PLEASE Feel free to post your stormy stories below!!!<\/p>\n

Spread the word … NOT the icing!<\/p>\n

Janice Taylor (dictated by Our Lady of Weight Loss – but not read)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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