I was sitting at my computer this morning logging my breakfast when it occurred to me that I had not been to a movie in quite some time. My wife loves it when we go to a movie so I figured, "Why not?" Then it hit me - can I actually sit through an entire movie without an oil drum full of buttery popcorn?? Hmm. It is easy for me to eat healthy when I avoid facing my dragons. However, nothing is really gained for the long haul if I don't at least take a shot at dealing with them. After all, what am I really afraid of? Only one way to find out. We went to see Lucy and I ordered a what seemed like a 55 gallon drum of Coke Zero. And, I managed to decline when the clerk tried to up-sell be by asking, "Are you sure you don't want some popcorn with that?"

Remember the song from Fiddler on the Roof? "Wonder of wonders, miracle of miracles . . ."

I made it through the whole movie without so much as a kernel crossing my lips. Drank the whole soda and barely made it to the end of the movie before my bladder was complaining loudly, but NO POPCORN!!

Success! Nothing motivates like success . . .

I feel amazingly invincible!!! (Well, maybe just a little invincible.)