skinny fat

My conversations with Alexander are generally short ones.  I ask him questions like, “Did you receive the scarf I sent you?”  It takes him days and days to check his mail.  “Ya, I think it was there.”  “What do you mean you think it was there?”  Then he concedes he hasn’t looked yet.

Or, I find a cashmere hat at Maxwells’s 60% off sale.  I ask him to check the link I send him to see if he wants the hat.  I have to ask him at least five times.  Either he’s too busy, or he’s just running out for class (or the gym), or he’s at the mall with a friend, or something.  Really!  You’d think I was asking him to physically go to North Falmouth to look at the scarf.

Or, I ask him to send me his schedule.  This request must be asked at least a dozen times.  It’ll probably come down to a threat.  “I’m not sending your (whatever) until you send me the schedule.”  At least that’s what worked last semester.

But…

If I hear or read something about nutrition or working out, now that he has time to discuss. 

Today Alexander tells me all about skinny fat.  He says that’s what I am.  (Though I'm not so sure about the skinny part.  At 128, I still want to lose six pounds; my jeans are starting to feel tight). He even sends me an article.

http://www.superskinnyme.com/skinny_fat.html?vm=r&s=1

When your 20-year old son notices, it's definitely time to do something.