We had our kick off for the next round of Biggest Loser Boothbay this morning and it completely caught me off guard. I guess people like these things! Round one had a couple dozen participants and round two saw 53 people from Boothbay sign up. However, with this one being for the most part word of mouth and one fantastic article in the local paper about round two’s winners, I didn’t expect too much of a turnout. In fact, with Boothbay’s summer craziness looming, I honestly thought we’d be lucky if 30-40 turn out. Just to be safe, I made 60 of the handbooks and I had a bunch of calorie counters, so I thought if anything I was going to have a pile of leftovers.
Boy was I wrong.
Over 80 people turned out!!! Holy sweet moley! These things are snowballing! I had to ask couples to share their handbooks until Wednesday night when I’ll have more ready, I ran out of registration cards (I had actually made 80 of those), and I was completely floored by the response! When I have a chance, I’ll post the audio from the meeting – if I could find a way to post the video, I would, but it’s waaaay too long for youtube.
Meanwhile, in other news, Micah won himself a three hour trip to the emergency room. Heather gave the kid some popcorn this morning while they were all out and about and he thanked her by shoving a popcorn kernal so far into his ear it couldn’t even be seen anymore! Turns out, that’s not such a great idea. In hindsight, he has no logical explanation for doing it whatsoever. The doctor did fish it out but it had packed his earwax so far back that they had to spend another hour or so soaking his ear and then flushing it all out with water (he did NOT like that), and he has to take antibiotic ear drops for the next few days to make sure he didn’t get any infections or anything (he also does NOT like those).
I have to confess, the urge to stick a popcorn kernal into one’s ear is just plain bizarre to me. Weird.
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