Sugar Blues

How sweet it is.

Oh yeah. Oh this is so good. You are bad. Oh yes, oh yes.  I love it. I love it.

More, more, Oh yeah, and your twenty-eight? Twenty-eight grams of sugar? In this little strudel? Oh no, I can’t see you anymore. That’s it.

 

I have had a sweet tooth since I was a child – my mother has a sweet tooth and passed it on to me.  I really have to watch how much sugar I ingest.  It throws my emotions into a tug of war – I’m happy. I’m sad. I’m angry.  I’m mad. For Christmas one year my mother gave me a mood swing. I’m a Gemini so I already have two personalities. And each of those personalities has two more personalities – I’d go out on a date and have to get a table for four.  I’m in group therapy, by myself.

 

I remember the day I quit, December 27th and I was in control through April 27th, checking labels, just using honey in my coffee,  – no sugar substitutes, I was pure as cane.  And then I went to Cancun to an all-inclusive resort with Atlantis Events and I gave myself permission, to have just have a taste of the home made fresh French Pastries.   So we agreed, I brought my gal I am dating, and she was watching her sugar intake as well, we would allow ourselves just a half a slice of pie.  So on the second night, we split this indescribably delicious-berry-crumble-strudel that was OH so good. But no more, still in control.  But, the insidious addiction was rising from its’ dormancy and the next night, we agreed, to each have our own slice of pie. Uh oh.  Then the next day we decided to eat a tiny little innocuous chocolate éclair. It was so tiny; we had two, well maybe three. It is on. That night at dinner we by passed the main course and went straight for the desert table.  Now let it in, ice cream and petite fours, cream puffs, carrot cake, chocolate cake, pies to die for – lady fingers we ate both hands, soon we were full blown sugar junkies, getting high on the sugar and then passing out on the beach in a sugar coma.

 

It is so hard to stop once you start. And now that I’m home I can’t get off the sugar – I know I’m on a binge when I wake up and there are empty fluff containers all over the house – candy bar wrappers strewn all over the couch – I need an intervention –

 

And my birthday is coming up and do you know what kind of cake is my favorite. It is an angle food cake with marshmallow 7 minutes frosting and semi sweet chocolate drizzled down the sides. You know my mother is going to make that for me. She loves it when I eat sugar cause it makes her feel better about her sugar intake. Can you say enabler?


 

 

Poppy performs

June 7th Stardome Birmingham AL

June 9th Natasha’s Bistro – Lexington KY

June 10th Zanies Comedy Club, Nashville TN

June 11th Silver Threads Ptown MA

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