I have a problem with food— I love to eat! I'm so freakin' huge because I can't stop. I think part of it is also due to some bad wiring between my brain and my stomach. A lot of times my stomach will start telling my brain that it's hungry— and not just hungry, but famished— when it only takes a moment for me to realize that I'm not hungry at all. In fact, I'm usually full from my previous meal. But that stomach signal is hard to ignore, and I can actually get the shakes and/or a headache from it.
Last night I resolved to start eating healthier— and less. I bought a few different cereals and put them into plastic tubs as grazing food. One is multigrain flakes and the other is a Grape Nuts knockoff. (Here's some advice, if you like Grape Nuts, buy Grape Nuts and not a locally branded knockoff.) That actually worked pretty well today. I woke up and just ate a few handfuls whenever I felt a bit peckish. Then I made the mistake of going to 7-Eleven for a cup of coffee. 7-Eleven is right next to this wonderful little take-out place that opened up. It serves Southern food. The woman who owns it and does all the cooking basically makes two meals a day. One is usually fried chicken. The other is fried fish or pork or ox tails or something. She has several sides to choose from, three or four on any given day, including macaroni and cheese (my favorite!), white rice with gravy, green beans, greens, chili beans with rice, etc. If you want more, she usually has two of the following desserts as well: peach cobbler, sweet potato pie, and banana pudding! And trust me, it's all as good as it sounds. When you order fried chicken, she coats it and fries it right then. So, you can see my mistake today. As soon as I passed her restaurant, I decided that I had to come back for dinner. When I got home, with coffee in hand, I stopped grazing and let myself build up an appetite so I could pig out later. And I did! It was soooo good.
And that was how I lost on day one of my resolve to eat better. Keep your fingers crossed that I do better on day two. (And feel free to ask me about this new restaurant. I will happily show you there myself!)
Anybody else bedevilled by those scam phone calls for extended auto warranty service? I get four or five of those calls a week now, and they're really pissing me off. It costs me 13 cents every time to go check my voice mail and clear off that trash. (If I don't recognize an incoming phone number, I let it roll to voice mail. If I answered, it would cost me 13 cents as well.) I know these scam calls have been going on for over a year now. (I only started getting them five or six months ago.) The phone companies claim they are unable to stop this activity because the phone phreaks are using software to make the calls untraceable. I'm claiming "Bullshit" though. Every time one of these bogus calls gets placed, the phone company is charging the recipient. That makes it financially beneficial for the phone companies to continue letting these calls through, claiming the phone phreaks are just too smart for them. We all know there's not a drop of moral integrity in American business any more. Every mote of ethical behavior, every customer, every employee, every single facet that can be controlled and sold by an American corporation will be sold in a heartbeat for an extra dollar. If an American corporation is given the choice of making $10 million profit in one year and maintaining its business ethics or making $10.1 million in that year and ditching its ethics along the way, the latter option is always the one chosen. So, as long as the phone companies are making money by being 'unable' to stop the scammers, the scamming will continue. And, it really raises the question of who the actual scammers are...
I have to apologize if anyone's been offended by any recent comments left on my blog. Some spammers have hit recently. Because I don't want to force people to register in order to leave a comment, I leave the 'anonymous comment' option available, but that option lets some of these spammers go crazy. I remove the comments as soon as I see them, but you may see one before I do. If you do, please ignore it. The spammers, of course, do not reflect my opinions.
About 57 hours from now I'll be leaving for Vegas. I'm looking forward to the getaway and hope to have some fun. After that, I'll be home for a week and then taking off for three weeks in Florida. That too should be fun. I'm hoping that by changing up my surroundings for a bit, I can get some real writing done. I will have to cave to my parents for a bit of sightseeing and some card play in the evenings, but I envision a couple weeks of having the mornings to myself for swimming and writing. I've also invited Russell to drive down from Atlanta and join us, and I believe he may be planning on doing so for a week.
Unlike my last vacation, I intend to maintain my blog the whole while.
Enough for tonight I guess. Until next time!
"Sacred cows make the best hamburger."— Mark Twain
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