I'll Take My Skinny Where I Can Get It.

As anyone who has ever seen my picture would know, I am not thin. I don't think that I am morbidly obese, but I am beyond pleasingly plump. However, I am pleased and proud to tell you that I DO have a couple of skinny body parts.

Last week I picked up my new glasses (which are back at the optometrist's - long story). When I tried them on, they slid down my nose, because - get this - I have a skinny bridge of my nose! My nose bridge is so skinny that they had to remove the nose pads from the glasses and replace them with those for people with skinny nose bridges. I am so proud of my skinny bridge of my nose. And the good thing about it is that everyone can see how skinny it is. I'll betcha there are people who have fat, flabby nose bridges who are quite jealous of my skinny one. They may even speak to themselves about it "I'd happily trade my skinny thighs if only I had a skinny nose bridge like Carrie's!" They probably sigh and moan and secretly think of ways to sabotage my skinny nose bridge. "Maybe if she eats these mashed potatoes, it will all go to her bridge of her nose and then I'll feel so much better." I have always taken my skinny bridge of my nose for granted, but I wonder if those with fat bridges ever find that they get in the way. For instance, does the flab on their nose bridges ever jiggle when they walk? Does is flop in front of their eyes when the bend over? Do they have to push it out of the way when they look at something close up? These are things that I don't have any clue about, because my nose bridge is SKINNY!

A few years ago, I hurt my knee pretty badly and needed to see an orthopedic surgeon. He took an x-ray and while looking at it, remarked on my very skinny fibula. He remarked that I had the skinniest fibula that he had ever seen. If you look at it from the front view, you almost cannot see it. My skinny fibula is a source of pride for me, but regretfully, no one can see it, including me. Sometimes when I am feeling fat and horrid, I think about my skinny fibula and suddenly feel warm all over. It's sort of my skinny secret. It's there, but you'd never know it because it is buried under all kinds of skin and muscle and . . . ah, more muscle. Yeah, lots of muscle because a skinny fibula probably needs lots of muscle to hold it up, so yeah, it MUST be muscle that makes my calves so large. Muscle and a skinny fibula.

Please don't be jealous of me because of my skinny body parts. I try hard not to flaunt them. I simply cannot help it that I was blessed with a skinny bridge of my nose and a skinny fibula. Some of us got it and some of us don't.