Week 2: The Competition is Fierce

January 15, 2010

Click on over to the Fantastic Asstastic Gallery and cast your votes. Remember, you can vote for your three favorite behinds until Tuesday night, and then, the four bums with the fewest number of votes will be eliminated.

Contestants, you can send your Week 3 photos any time between now and next Wednesday. And, as you all know, in AmyLawsonLand deadlines are fun and flexible.

Oh, and FYI, this is a very special week. We'll call it "Amy does Dallas." In other words, I'm headed back to my old stomping grounds so I can eat at The Burger House and shop at Central Market. And see my friends.

If anyone wants to hang around and compare cellulite, I'll be at the park, I'll be at Beth's house, I'll be at the zoo (because I can't get enough of those monkeys with the crazy bare asses), and I guess I'll be at church.

Wiggle Room

January 13, 2009

I'm swamped at work.

SWAMPED.

Got that?

So...if you haven't sent me your follow up picture, you can definitely sneak it in today. And you should.

Contestants....

January 12, 2009

Don't forget to send your follow up pictures! Let's go, let's go! There are three fabulous prizes at stake!

Jane Fonda? Billy Blanks? What's it Gonna Be?

January 7, 2009

I'll be back later this afternoon (or maybe tomorrow) with a fabulous post, but in the mean time, I'd like to let everyone know that I just checked my site meter for the first time in a long time, and yesterday this website got three times as many hits as it usually does.

This goes to show one thing: Technology may change, natural disasters continue to occur, and sadly enough, there are still starving kids in China--but my goodness, people will always love butts! Bums are a light spot in a darkened world, I suppose. A little gift that we should all be grateful for.

I'm signing off for a couple of hours, but during that time, there's something I'd like to know. Whether you're an asstastic contestant or not, what's your New Year plan for shaping up? I know you have one...everyone has one. Even if you've already abandoned the plan, what did it used to be?

Luckily, I don't have anything major to accomplish at this point. I'm six pounds away from my fighting weight (150), which I hope to get back to by the end of February maybe? At that point my favorite jeans should fit again. In celebration of that momentous event, I'll put them on, do cartwheels down my driveway, and probably split 'em up the seat.

Thanks to some serious inspiration from my cousin Kelly (the one in leopard print Snuggie), I've been doing Weight Watchers online for the last couple of months, and I really like it a lot. I'm eating five to ten fruits and vegetables every day--which I don't think I've ever done before. I still eat some kind of a sweet every day, but I've cut way back on my sugar intake. Honestly, the difference is so, so, so noticeable. I'm in a happy mood, my skin looks great, and my energy level is pretty good for a new mom.

Other than that, I'm back to running four times a week and doing some at-home strength training three times a week. I'm thrilled to be moving in the right direction, because I have a really big goal for 2010. I'll give you two clues:

It's been my dream for the last twelve years. Honest to goodness, I can still remember the day it crossed my radar screen for the first time in 1998.

And it rhymes with Paulify tor da Moston Karathon.

If you're not a runner, I apologize in advance. There's likely to be a lot of running talk on this blog this year. But there's good news...running talk always comes with fabulous illustrations.

You'll want to click on each of those words individually--trust me.

So really, what are you doing to shape up this year? Nosy people want to know.

Meet the Contestants

January 6, 2009

Well friends, I'm not sure how you measure success, but I've just managed to coax thirty-or-so perfect strangers into emailing me pictures of their rear-ends. In my world, I've finally made it. Sure, my chances of running for public office are completely off the table (could you imagine the field day they'd have with that one?), but really now, the whole I-want-to-be-the-first-female-president thing is so second grade. I'm way beyond that.

If you'd like to browse The Fantastic, Asstastic Gallery of 2010, go ahead and visit http://fantasticasstastic.blogspot.com/. The vast majority of pictres involve jeans, sweats, pajama bottoms (lots of pajama bottoms)--we've even got a Snuggie in there. But please be aware, there are bikini bottoms involved. There's also a woman wearing daisy-dukes that say "Hoo Boy!" across the rear...or something like that. Really, it's no saucier than a mid-week trip to the mall, but you know your boss better than I do, so don't say I didn't warn you.

Viewers: This is your week to pick your favorites, make large wagers with your co-workers, and provide valuable insight and motivation to the participants in the comment section.

Participants: This is your week to walk, run, count points, jump rope, buy some ultra-flattering pants. Just do whatever you have to do to trim your tram. I've changed the posting dates a little bit, so you have until next Tuesday at 11:59pm to send me your week-two bum pics.

The first elimination vote will open next Wednesday and run through next Friday.

Got it?

STEP AWAY FROM THE CHOCOLATE CAKE!