I just found out that my Aunt Jean passed away at about 5:30am.
She took her first pain pill yesterday. What a woman.
Her life is a testament to how we all could and should live our own lives. She was actively involved with her church and taught Sunday school for many years. She also led a very exciting life, one that I wish very much she wrote down. At least for family lore, if not for a bestseller.
I can't do her memory justice with the words I leave here today, but Jean, my thoughts will always be with you. I love you very much. All who knew you did too.
Last night whilst working i thought of something:
It's inexcusable laziness that makes us so fat.
There is a market with five hundred thousand unique products.
You learn to shop for convenience. We want quick easy meals.
We buy things to present an image of who you think you are.
I bought a two liter for $.53 and dude buys a 20oz for a dollar. Why? Was it because it's easier to lift a 20oz bottle to his lips? Was it because the taste of his name brand was so much better than generic that he paid over 400% more than what I did? I have a hard time with this question, but I'm sure the answer is for image. It's got commercials and that makes it taste better. Isn't true? Why are there commercials?
Other reasons why we buy what we buy include giving yourself a treat. Oh yeah, every time we get a beer, or ice-cream, or anything like that what is it that we're telling ourselves? I deserve a treat. Is that healthy? Have you seen that people that constantly are giving themselves treats? I don't want my butt to look like that.
I was once told that bottled water sold because of it's sophisticated name. I can't think of any reason that someone couldn't just use a bottle at home and get their own water from tap. Nope, I have to have my Avion, and pay a dollar a bottle for it. It's humorous! Free, or a dollar, I can't even give a percentile difference on that because the first one is FREE.
Why do we want quick and easy meals? Because we're spending time doing other things like working, shopping, watching TV, driving and sleeping in. We have a convenient meal that means that it buys us more time to do the things that we love. Eating is a secondary activity to these things. We grab some fast food while on break from work, that's convenient. We take so much time shopping that it will take a whole evening, after that it's good to have convenience. We don't even eat in the dinner table anymore, yet most of us have one, a dusty reminder of days past. We'll get a coke and some chips for a car trip, or we'll nuke that $1.26 2 inch by 2 inch biscuit and eat on the way to work.
Are these healthy eating habits?
And what about our kids? When we buy them single-serving nuke meals for $2.14, aren't we telling them that food should be convenient? These meals especially bother me, because children come home from school and their parents aren't home yet. So of course they nuke this meal and sit in front of the babysitter watching cartoons.
So I ask, why convenience? Because we have convinced ourselves that we have to eat convenient food. I wonder where the other 8 hours a day went to that one doesn't work. Are these hours so filled with chores that you have to grab a "quick bite?" What's worse is that we're teaching our kids about this earlier and earlier. How long can this system expand when it eats everything? Soon it will grow too big and eat itself I fear.
I realized that one of the most important things to me right now would be to be able to wake up when the sun rises. It would be worth a million dollars.
In the twilight just before sunrise our hero comes home. Past he drives sleeping cars, covered with frost. These are the machines of the thankless many who know not their proximity to danger. And it's our unknown hero who holds the forces of evil at bay.
It's the Amazing Third Shift Stocking Boy. With his uncanny ability to stay awake all night he provides Tullahoma it's supply of canned food and Fruit by the Foot ®.
The new job has highs and lows. It's amazing (though not to me) that a simple conversation can make all the difference in my day. So many of my coworkers drag themselves around and speak to no one, or when they do it's to say nothing good. A good conversation is so rare. I found myself in two today and it made my day.
That's all for now. I'm just taking care of myself and my girl.
Today is our two year anniversary. May many more years be enjoyed.
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