Poignant Irrelevance

Monday, April 25, 2005

blah. blah blah.

i have nothing to say but i know how you are hanging on my every word. ha. i did 30 minutes on the elliptical tonight. wussed out. i had an hour in mind but then i rationalized quitting in order to do my biceps routine. then i felt guilty about quitting so i indeed did some biceps stuff. not much though. warm-up set and then 3 sets of somewhat heavy db curls.

most of the time i freakin' hate the elliptical, its so boring. tonight all that was on tv was the local news. i'd rather watch paint dry than tune in to the local news. it is so pathetic. if its not about who was shot or who died in a car accident its something like, "we are on scene here tonight outside the gas station where an under cover 17 year old was sold cigs. we believe the brand purchased was blah blah. now back to you" blah blah blah what a waste! i don't know why everything has to be so negative on the news. who made up that rule?
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late last week someone was telling me a story about an alcoholic falling off the bandwagon. or is it on the bandwagon? whatever. anyway, i instantaneously drew the parallel to me and sugar. i'm not saying its the same thing but i do wonder if certain people are more prone to lose their mind by just eating one candy bar. by lose their mind i mean, struggle immensely with whether or not to go buy a whole bag of candy (after eating said candy bar). regardless of rational losing weight thoughts plans and goals, there is an immense internal struggle. if you can't relate to this, i dont know how to explain it. its so easy, hey don't eat a candy bar. it should be that easy anyway.

8 Comments:

  • My local news recently aired a special on, "What would you do if you won the lottery?" This was actually a headliner! It made me want to tear my hear out.

    I totally understand the sugar addiction. Do I not buy the ice cream and hide the car keys from myself so I don't drive to Dairy Queen or do I buy the ice cream and fight with myself all night to not eat the whole carton in one sitting? Baaaah!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8:32 AM  

  • Sugar is totally an addiction!

    By Blogger M@rla, at 8:35 AM  

  • It's actually "Falling off the wagon." No band involved there.

    By Blogger Scooter, at 9:43 AM  

  • Hey Brent! I wanted to tell you that your route looked fun, especially the part around the river, but blogger wouldn't let me comment there yesterday, so I'll say it here. There!

    Also, some people have a theory that alcoholism is sort of like a sugar addiction - there's actually a lot of sugar in alcohol - and some people have physical reactions to sugar. That part really is true. The part about it maybe causing alcoholism, that's controversial. Anyway, food for thought. ha! Get it?!?

    By Blogger Mia Goddess, at 11:09 AM  

  • It's falling off the bandwagon (and, yes, I've heard "bandwagon"...not just "wagon").

    Oh yeah, I hear ya...I CANNOT - I repeat - CANNOT buy a 1/2 gallon of ice cream. I'll have one bowl, but then, like a strong magnetic force, I'm drawn back to the freezer for a 2nd bowl (and by "bowl" I really mean "big huge honker pot"). My "all or nothing" mentality with certain things makes me have to stay on the "nothing" side...or at least find ways around it (for instance, I only only only buy the single serving ice cream bars/sandwiches...for some reason, opening 3 ice cream bar packages makes me realize I’m going overboard...having 3 bowls of ice cream doesn’t trigger that same mentality. Go figure!)

    By Blogger lainb, at 11:49 AM  

  • hanging on every word.....lol.lol.lol. Now whatever would give you that idea. As for sugar and addiction. After my race on Sunday I went out and bought myself 2 treats - a large bag of potato chips and a REAL candy bar - Mars with almonds & milk chocolate. I emphasize real as I usualy have one of those "low carb" phoney things. So here's the good & bad of that. The good thing, when I ate the bar I was disappointed and will not likely induldge again for awhile. The bad, the chips were so good I ate the whole damn bag didn't even share with hubby...lol.

    By Blogger Dawn - Pink Chick Tris, at 1:27 PM  

  • waiting anxiously here...

    news is sick. just plain sick. my idea, and i may start a grassroots push to get it going, is to start a cable news channel that offers nothing but positive news items, a positive spin on breaking news, segments on local heros, teachers, etc, and anything else that would motivate, encourage or uplift people.

    i'd call it GNN (good news network).

    know anyone in the industry? =)

    By Blogger Unknown, at 3:02 PM  

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