"I'm just a girl....

who can't .say no."  Don't panic. I'm not in the same "terrible fix" as the young lady in "Oklahoma" which, by the way, is another great musical with singable songs.  My problem is saying no to food, especially food I don't have to cook for myself.  It started yesterday when a friend came to visit and we went to the Johnny Appleseed Festival with another friend. Everyone knows that the best part of this festival is the food.  And it was about lunchtime so we indulged.  For me it was ham and beans with lots of onions and cornbread crumbs on top.  Topped off with a cookie of course.  Then we went to a movie (I liked the new Downton Abbey movie) and ended up at Red.Robin for supper.  Today for lunch my friends and I went to Biaggi's, for pasta of course.  Now, by this point, I was merely eating to be sociable.  After all, I couldn't let my weekend guest eat alone.  By midafternoon my friend had left to drive back to Ohio and I was promising my very full self that I wouldn't eat anything else all day.  Then I checked my text messages (which I hadn't had time to check all day) and found a text from other friends inviting me to join them for supper at Hall's Gas House.  I could have said no, I probably should have said no, but did I say no? No.  I said 'Yes, I'll see you there."  Now I can rationalize that these are really good friends, they are, and I hadn't seen them for a while. I hadn't.  But that doesn't explain why I ate another full meal with wine instead of maybe just a cup of soup.  I could have visited over soup.  It also doesn't explain why I really needed the cookie I just ate for my bedtime snack.  Ah well, I'll practice saying no tomorrow.