oh, Valerie!

There are lots of things on my mind this morning:

people getting laid off all around me

lots o’ work to do

Valerie Bertinelli in a bikini 

how to pay for the kids’ music lessons so I don’t bust the budget

 the college student who wants to live on her own this summer

Valerie Bertinelli in a bikini and she’s 5years older than me

my husband asking me my opinion of the national debt while we were in the shower.... WTF??

the aging car that I hate and we’re still paying for it

Valerie Bertinelli went to Jenny Craig

 So, I’m wondering, am I spending too much time thinking about a woman who managed to lose 40 lbs and go back to bikini shape even while pushing 50?

And, I’m really trying to decide if I feel motivated or defeated, being 5 years younger and not having so much to lose? Sure, she probably doesn’t have to work and probably has a full time personal trainer, but she looks fabulous and deserves credit for bringing herself back from obscurity and a messy divorce.

I’d much rather see positive images like hers (healthy looking too) than grocery store magazines picking at young starlets for being too thin one week and too heavy the next. Just don’t tell me the photo has been airbrushed and photoshopped.

So, are you motivated or appalled?