Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell is one of the best books I have EVER read. I hope to emphasize the point by noting that I am a reader: I read a lot of books, so I feel like I can say that with some background in the area of those out there who read for enjoyment. Definitely if you dive into the non-fiction realm, which this book is, it is definitely in the top ten and probably in the top five (I'm hesitant to dub it my #1 as I'm on an emotional high after just finishing it, but it may end up there once I let time pass and more perspective develop).
Let's put it this way, I wasn't even a quarter of the way through this book before I got online and ordered his other two books. Generally when I read I get to the end of a chapter before I think about what I read. I found myself putting the book down temporarily on nearly a page by page basis to think about what I had just read, then was excited to pick it back up and see what came next.
Outliers describes the backgrounds, circumstances, and opportunities of successful people. Not only does it take TONS of work to be a true outlier (which he dubs the 10,000 hour rule-very intriguing and I would think is absolutely true) but you have to be extremely fortunate to be born in the right place, at the right time, and grow up under the right circumstances. Unfortunately, I was NOT born at the right time, nor in the right place, and I have not grown up under the right circumstances to be the next Bill Gates or Beatles or a professional athlete; but applying the points of this book to myself I can easily understand why I'm in the life position I am, to the point I might feel the need for myself to expound upon it at some point.
I've read some critiques saying the book throws out individual accomplishments and basically says all successful individuals are pure luck. I don't agree with that at all. The author clearly notes multiple times that these people are those that took advantages of opportunities, he just points out that those opportunities were very fortunate and circumstantial, down to the timing and location of their birth and upbringing.
Think about it and it makes sense before even reading the book. Does a child who grows up in a two-parent affluent household have a better opportunity to succeed than a child who grows up in a single-parent poor household? Not that one or the other can or can't succeed, just that the opportunities are far greater for the latter. In turn, the "poor" kid still has a much greater opportunity to succeed compared to a child in 3rd-world Africa. It's relative and circumstantial, but it makes sense. The book has MUCH more to say than the simple example I just shelled out.
I like to buy books. I generally don't use the library for whatever reason, mainly that I don't mind buying books because I don't ever think purchasing a book is a waste of money. Reading is never a waste of time or money in my mind. However, I rarely reread the books I buy. I've even recently told Rachel she can start selling the majority of my books because I'm unlikely to ever get back around to reading them again. I enjoy it the first time through and that's usually it. It's not like a movie that only takes a couple hours to get through a second (or sometimes third, fourth, fifth, etc.). The bottom line for Outliers for me is this: I look forward to rereading it before the end of the summer.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Commercials Part 1
Once again I'm up in Washington and I find myself wathcing copious amounts of tv at night (ok, so not all that different from my normal life). But I have seen too many commercials tonight that have upset me not to write about it; particularly what I am going to dub "the downfall of Arby's".
All that know me know I LOVE commercials. I should have gone in to advertising becuase I'm such a sucker for commercials (can you say sham-wow, p90x, perfect pushup, iron gym, magic bullet, and on and on), but I am especially a sucker for food commercials. If I see a new food product, I want to try it. If I see a good food commercial, I want to go there (and I usually do). In fact, while I'm thinking about it, I'll note that I went to KFC tonight with a coupon for a free "Grilled Chicken" meal. Maybe I was expecting the type of grilled chicken you get on your grilled chicken sandwiches or something but I would've probably rather had fried. And the grilled certainly didn't taste healthy, it tasted just like the fried. . .hmmm. "Unthink KFC?" I think KFC needs to stick to their NAMESAKE and keep it fried. People know when they're getting fastfood level food they are getting unhealthy stuff that ideally tastes really good. Tonight I got something that might have been marginally more healthy but didn't make up for it with extra taste. That's a thumbs down for me. The most upsetting part is these guys are owned under the same umbrella as Taco Bell, and I think Taco Bell routinely puts out clever commercials that make me want to each there.
Anyways, back on topic. I generally like almost all food commercials, because I like food! But I absolutely cannot STAND ANY of the new Arby's "Roast Burger" commercials. Look, I know you're trying to focus on your "non-greasiness" but by focusing on it in your commercials you are making me want to avoid YOU because you are the one I associate it with. Why is Arby's trying to reinvent themselves as a "burger"? Whose idea is this? Stupid stupid stupid! Don't call it a burger! I used to hold Arby's on a "upper-echelon" of fast food if you know what I mean, but they are downgrading themselves to McDonalds/Burger King status by trying to say they are a burger (I know you all know I love McDonalds, and I do, but most put McDonalds at the bottom of the barrel and I am referencing McDonalads according to popular theory, not my specific tastes). Anyways, the commercials suck and make me want to avoid Arby's at all costs. Too bad because their roast beef sandwich and their market sandwiches are pretty good.
One more commercial I keep noticing. This of course has no bearing on my purchasing since I've never purchased this product nor ever will, but I keep getting pissed at these new Budweiser commercials. They focus the whole commercial on how they are the great "American" lager. If they're so American, why are they playing a song by Jet (an AUSTRALIAN band) every commercial? Who hired these adverstising people? Or am I the only moron out there who notices things like this?
Anyways, this is Part 1 because sometime in the future I know I'm going to get riled up about commercials again and write some more. For now. . .
All that know me know I LOVE commercials. I should have gone in to advertising becuase I'm such a sucker for commercials (can you say sham-wow, p90x, perfect pushup, iron gym, magic bullet, and on and on), but I am especially a sucker for food commercials. If I see a new food product, I want to try it. If I see a good food commercial, I want to go there (and I usually do). In fact, while I'm thinking about it, I'll note that I went to KFC tonight with a coupon for a free "Grilled Chicken" meal. Maybe I was expecting the type of grilled chicken you get on your grilled chicken sandwiches or something but I would've probably rather had fried. And the grilled certainly didn't taste healthy, it tasted just like the fried. . .hmmm. "Unthink KFC?" I think KFC needs to stick to their NAMESAKE and keep it fried. People know when they're getting fastfood level food they are getting unhealthy stuff that ideally tastes really good. Tonight I got something that might have been marginally more healthy but didn't make up for it with extra taste. That's a thumbs down for me. The most upsetting part is these guys are owned under the same umbrella as Taco Bell, and I think Taco Bell routinely puts out clever commercials that make me want to each there.
Anyways, back on topic. I generally like almost all food commercials, because I like food! But I absolutely cannot STAND ANY of the new Arby's "Roast Burger" commercials. Look, I know you're trying to focus on your "non-greasiness" but by focusing on it in your commercials you are making me want to avoid YOU because you are the one I associate it with. Why is Arby's trying to reinvent themselves as a "burger"? Whose idea is this? Stupid stupid stupid! Don't call it a burger! I used to hold Arby's on a "upper-echelon" of fast food if you know what I mean, but they are downgrading themselves to McDonalds/Burger King status by trying to say they are a burger (I know you all know I love McDonalds, and I do, but most put McDonalds at the bottom of the barrel and I am referencing McDonalads according to popular theory, not my specific tastes). Anyways, the commercials suck and make me want to avoid Arby's at all costs. Too bad because their roast beef sandwich and their market sandwiches are pretty good.
One more commercial I keep noticing. This of course has no bearing on my purchasing since I've never purchased this product nor ever will, but I keep getting pissed at these new Budweiser commercials. They focus the whole commercial on how they are the great "American" lager. If they're so American, why are they playing a song by Jet (an AUSTRALIAN band) every commercial? Who hired these adverstising people? Or am I the only moron out there who notices things like this?
Anyways, this is Part 1 because sometime in the future I know I'm going to get riled up about commercials again and write some more. For now. . .
Thursday, April 30, 2009
The Shangri-La Diet
Upon writing my little "review" for Water for Elephants I remembered that I didn't do the same for my sweet diet book: "The Shangri-La Diet". If you haven't heard of this book, you should definitely pick it up. It's probably available to buy on amazon or something like that for around $6-8 total. Not a bad investment for a diet book.
So to answer your question up front, no, I haven't lost any weight and the reason is because I haven't ever followed the diet. My buddy from work lost 30 lbs. on this diet so I picked up the book to see what it had to say. I honestly think it would probably work.
I don't want to write the whole book but this idea is a serious paradigm-shifter for weight-loss. The author compares your weight to the setting of your thermostat. You "set" the thermostat, if it's too hot, the air comes on; if it's to cold, the heat comes on. For weight, you eat more if you're under your "set" point, and less if you're over your "set" point. This totally makes sense to me and I always hover within a few lbs of my current weight (for those dying to know, a "healthy" 240). So he concludes you have to do something to "lower" your set point.
The second point is that Americans particularly have strong flavor-calorie associations: all of our food is strong-tasting and generally loaded with calories. He feels if you consume 200-400 "flavorless" calories a day, you will effectively lower your "set" point because your body will kick in to the "use the fat" mode. You won't feel hungry and as a result will simply eat less.
That's the diet! Eat whatever you want, just drink 200-400 calories a day of flavorless calories (sugar-water or extra light olive oil). The one catch is you have to consume the oil in a 2-hour "flavor free" zone, and brushing your teeth counts as a flavor; otherwise it would be easy to do it right in the morning and wait for another hour before eating anything. I can't seem to find a point in the day where I can drink roughly 3 tbls of extra light olive oil (not including work hours where I always forget to take a little vial of oil to work). Morning? Going to work and brushed my teeth (not an option to skip in my opinion). Night? I eat dinner upon getting home and brush my teeth before bed.
Anyways, if you want to try a diet I think this would seriously work and basically costs nothing. You should lose the "healthy" way: roughly 2-3 lbs per week. Note you can lose as long as you'd like, but if you stop taking the oil you'll eventually slowly creep back up to your old weight. Sounds promising to me. If anybody knows more about it let me know.
So to answer your question up front, no, I haven't lost any weight and the reason is because I haven't ever followed the diet. My buddy from work lost 30 lbs. on this diet so I picked up the book to see what it had to say. I honestly think it would probably work.
I don't want to write the whole book but this idea is a serious paradigm-shifter for weight-loss. The author compares your weight to the setting of your thermostat. You "set" the thermostat, if it's too hot, the air comes on; if it's to cold, the heat comes on. For weight, you eat more if you're under your "set" point, and less if you're over your "set" point. This totally makes sense to me and I always hover within a few lbs of my current weight (for those dying to know, a "healthy" 240). So he concludes you have to do something to "lower" your set point.
The second point is that Americans particularly have strong flavor-calorie associations: all of our food is strong-tasting and generally loaded with calories. He feels if you consume 200-400 "flavorless" calories a day, you will effectively lower your "set" point because your body will kick in to the "use the fat" mode. You won't feel hungry and as a result will simply eat less.
That's the diet! Eat whatever you want, just drink 200-400 calories a day of flavorless calories (sugar-water or extra light olive oil). The one catch is you have to consume the oil in a 2-hour "flavor free" zone, and brushing your teeth counts as a flavor; otherwise it would be easy to do it right in the morning and wait for another hour before eating anything. I can't seem to find a point in the day where I can drink roughly 3 tbls of extra light olive oil (not including work hours where I always forget to take a little vial of oil to work). Morning? Going to work and brushed my teeth (not an option to skip in my opinion). Night? I eat dinner upon getting home and brush my teeth before bed.
Anyways, if you want to try a diet I think this would seriously work and basically costs nothing. You should lose the "healthy" way: roughly 2-3 lbs per week. Note you can lose as long as you'd like, but if you stop taking the oil you'll eventually slowly creep back up to your old weight. Sounds promising to me. If anybody knows more about it let me know.
Water for Elephants
Rachel recommended this book to me and the only hesitation I had going in is that I know a number of women who have read this book and liked it and zero men who have read it period. I didn't want to be diving in to some type of "Twilight" females-only love story. Fortunately, this book can be read by both sexes and enjoyed.
Water for Elephants is about a 90-year old man remembering his young days in the depression era working for the circus. I've never really read anything about the circus before so it was actually quite intriguing to think about life as a performer. It made me think what it would be like today working on some type of concert tour. Set up every day, do the show, take down and get on the bus (or train in the book's case) to move on to the next city. The author noted that many of the subplots and events in the books were true stories that have happened on various circus tours, such as an elephant drinking all of the lemonade that was to be sold the the patrons during the show.
Even after reading the book I'm amazed during that time period (or even today for that matter) that so many animals: bears, lions, panthers, giraffes, elephants, etc. could somehow be kept under lock and key and transported all over the country like that. It would take serious trust with the animals to get in some of those cages.
I would recommend this book to anybody who wants an easy, semi-nonthinking read if that makes sense. Most books I usually get about half way through and get so into it that I stay up late finishing the second half in one night. That didn't happen with this book; just an even-keeled, you kind of know what's coming but don't type ride. There are some racy parts for anybody that would want some advanced notice, those parts are pretty minor and probably also true of those times.
Water for Elephants is about a 90-year old man remembering his young days in the depression era working for the circus. I've never really read anything about the circus before so it was actually quite intriguing to think about life as a performer. It made me think what it would be like today working on some type of concert tour. Set up every day, do the show, take down and get on the bus (or train in the book's case) to move on to the next city. The author noted that many of the subplots and events in the books were true stories that have happened on various circus tours, such as an elephant drinking all of the lemonade that was to be sold the the patrons during the show.
Even after reading the book I'm amazed during that time period (or even today for that matter) that so many animals: bears, lions, panthers, giraffes, elephants, etc. could somehow be kept under lock and key and transported all over the country like that. It would take serious trust with the animals to get in some of those cages.
I would recommend this book to anybody who wants an easy, semi-nonthinking read if that makes sense. Most books I usually get about half way through and get so into it that I stay up late finishing the second half in one night. That didn't happen with this book; just an even-keeled, you kind of know what's coming but don't type ride. There are some racy parts for anybody that would want some advanced notice, those parts are pretty minor and probably also true of those times.
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Utah's Best Burger
Last week I went to St. George with Rache-Train and the C-Murder for some much needed sunshine. I was also pleased we went to settle once and for all something brewing in my mind the past few months. . . the best hamburger the state has to offer.
I believe I've tried all the "best" burgers available from the obviously low-end (think major chains like Wendy's, BK, etc.) to "gourmet" burgers (Red Robin, Training Table), to "one-hit wonders" (the garlic burger at the Cotton Bottom), and to those that claim they are the best burger ever (i.e. the Counter-OK but pretty pricey).
Overall the past few years I would probably assign the best burger label to the Crown/Apollo/Astro chain (hereafter referred to simply as Crown) Burger. The pastrami burger is an absolute gut-bomb but it tastes so good going down it is worth any painful consequences. A few months ago at work we tried a new restaurant in town, "Five Guys Burgers and Fries". There are so many positives associated with this burger I can't possibly name them all, but a few include: A) the regular burger is a 1/2 pound double; when you're going in for a big-time burger you might as well go all the way, B) going all the way includes adding Bacon (come on, we all knew Bacon was a major player in my best-burger analysis), C) all toppings are free, and the toppings options go beyond the normal ketchup and pickles. I'm not even a huge toppings guy, but I see this as a plus for others, D) the meat and fries are super fresh, you can taste the freshness in every bite!
Now, I didn't label 5 Guys the best burger in the state the first day I tried it, even though I was highly impressed. It is the days after when you start to realize just how good it is. I couldn't stop thinking about it! I just wanted to go back because all day I kept thinking, "Dang! That burger was freaking good!" And so, of course, I went back. I've been back multiple times since. So good, so fresh, how could this not be the best burger Utah has to offer? (Editor's note: I still think the Crown is dang good and pretty much label it as #1A, but this 5 Guys place just has something to it).
I had one hangup on my final declaration. . . In-And-Out. Too many "Californians" or wannabe Californians always talk about how it is the best burger on the planet. They too emphasize freshness and simplicity in the menu. We all know one is coming to Draper but Utah already features an In-And-Out in St. George. I had forgotten about this until we saw it last Thursday. Of course we had to go for lunch! I had only eaten at In-And-Out once before like 4 years ago. I remember thinking "This is good. I am enjoying my meal and would never be opposed to coming to eat here; however, it is not the best burger I've ever had". Since that one visit was so long ago I was excited to renew my acquaintance with In-And-Out in order to make an educated decision.
In-And-Out was cheaper than I remember, and the fries are definitely top-notch fresh. I would put them on par with 5 Guys for freshness no problem. The burger, however, was good but not "best" category. It was fresh, but a little small (their double cheese is like a McDonald's-size double cheese). I don't know the whole "secret menu" garbage either so that is arguably a downer for me. I thought, "This is exactly like the first time. Great meal, no real complaints at all, just not the best burger I've ever had".
So that settled it for me, 5 Guys offers the best burger you can get in Utah. If somebody has a better place please don't keep me in the dark. If you go try 5 Guys, take notice of not only how good it is the day you eat it, but how bad you want it again the next day (like me right now!).
I believe I've tried all the "best" burgers available from the obviously low-end (think major chains like Wendy's, BK, etc.) to "gourmet" burgers (Red Robin, Training Table), to "one-hit wonders" (the garlic burger at the Cotton Bottom), and to those that claim they are the best burger ever (i.e. the Counter-OK but pretty pricey).
Overall the past few years I would probably assign the best burger label to the Crown/Apollo/Astro chain (hereafter referred to simply as Crown) Burger. The pastrami burger is an absolute gut-bomb but it tastes so good going down it is worth any painful consequences. A few months ago at work we tried a new restaurant in town, "Five Guys Burgers and Fries". There are so many positives associated with this burger I can't possibly name them all, but a few include: A) the regular burger is a 1/2 pound double; when you're going in for a big-time burger you might as well go all the way, B) going all the way includes adding Bacon (come on, we all knew Bacon was a major player in my best-burger analysis), C) all toppings are free, and the toppings options go beyond the normal ketchup and pickles. I'm not even a huge toppings guy, but I see this as a plus for others, D) the meat and fries are super fresh, you can taste the freshness in every bite!
Now, I didn't label 5 Guys the best burger in the state the first day I tried it, even though I was highly impressed. It is the days after when you start to realize just how good it is. I couldn't stop thinking about it! I just wanted to go back because all day I kept thinking, "Dang! That burger was freaking good!" And so, of course, I went back. I've been back multiple times since. So good, so fresh, how could this not be the best burger Utah has to offer? (Editor's note: I still think the Crown is dang good and pretty much label it as #1A, but this 5 Guys place just has something to it).
I had one hangup on my final declaration. . . In-And-Out. Too many "Californians" or wannabe Californians always talk about how it is the best burger on the planet. They too emphasize freshness and simplicity in the menu. We all know one is coming to Draper but Utah already features an In-And-Out in St. George. I had forgotten about this until we saw it last Thursday. Of course we had to go for lunch! I had only eaten at In-And-Out once before like 4 years ago. I remember thinking "This is good. I am enjoying my meal and would never be opposed to coming to eat here; however, it is not the best burger I've ever had". Since that one visit was so long ago I was excited to renew my acquaintance with In-And-Out in order to make an educated decision.
In-And-Out was cheaper than I remember, and the fries are definitely top-notch fresh. I would put them on par with 5 Guys for freshness no problem. The burger, however, was good but not "best" category. It was fresh, but a little small (their double cheese is like a McDonald's-size double cheese). I don't know the whole "secret menu" garbage either so that is arguably a downer for me. I thought, "This is exactly like the first time. Great meal, no real complaints at all, just not the best burger I've ever had".
So that settled it for me, 5 Guys offers the best burger you can get in Utah. If somebody has a better place please don't keep me in the dark. If you go try 5 Guys, take notice of not only how good it is the day you eat it, but how bad you want it again the next day (like me right now!).
Friday, March 27, 2009
Pandora!
If you haven't ever hear of this sweet site, let me introduce you to pandora.com! This is one of the best sites the internet has ever created! A buddy at work introduced it to me about a month ago and I've been listening to it nonstop ever since. Pandora is an internet-radio site where you enter an artist or a song and you "create" a radio station that plays music from that artist or similar artists (based on something called the music-genome project). I don't know how it works but as the various songs play you can definitely agree that they all relate in a general way within each station you create.
So this week on my ever expanding list of created stations I decided to take a trip down memory lane, as in "riding with my mom from ages 4-10 listening to New Mix 107.5" memory lane. My station anchor? None other than the classic Wilson Phillips! It shouldn't be hard for anybody to imagine me belting out "Release Me" or "Hold On" without hesitation. I will say that listening to their songs this time around I've noticed every song has a quasi-bridge-guitar solo that would be described as the antithesis of a "face-melting guitar solo". Seriously, even when Wilson Phillips was at their peak performing to a packed stadium, there's no way during one of these solos the hired professional guitarist was thinking, "I'm shredding the guitar to Wilson Phillips!" Be that as it may, I take them for what they are: a classic easy listening group who dominated the airways in their time. Their station offered up plenty of other soft-hits gods (like rock-gods, but soothing and romantic!): early Madonna, Tiffany, Pat Benetar, Richard Marx, Lionel Richie, Chicago (or Peter Cetera, their lead singer who later had a solo career. I note this because I heard all these songs and kept thinking "I know this song but I've never heard of this guy! So I investigated). Basically every song that comes on I mark the "thumbs up icon" because I love it. (One downer to note-after about 6 hours straight of the same station you start to get repeats of all the same songs).
My "coming out" of the soft-hits closet this week has had a couple of interesting effects: 1) all my coworkers who at first were ripping me and acting all "manly" like they didn't like what I was listening to within hours were crooning right along with every song. Either they love it like me or had mothers who also listened to "New Mix" and FM100 in their youth (probably a little of both). 2)I keep discovering old favorites again and again through all these links, at which point I discover another old memory! Some of the favorites from this week of soft hits: Gloria Estefan (You know you want to "Get on your feet!") Mr. Mister ("Take these broken wings"), Michael Bolton (Yes, THAT Michael Bolton! I even heard a new sweet song, "How can we be lovers if we can't be friends?" that was just too catchy to not enjoy), and of course the kings of the 1-hit wonder soft hit, Toto (you know how FM100 plays only Christmas music through December? I think the rest of the year they have an automatic "Africa" every hour on the hour. Seriously, I never switch to that station without getting myself some "I bless the rains down in AFRICA! boom, boOm, bOOM, BOOM! Gonna take some time to do the things we never HA-AAA-AAAD! ooo, ooo!)
Pandora-awesome. If you have some other sweet golden oldies for me let me know.
So this week on my ever expanding list of created stations I decided to take a trip down memory lane, as in "riding with my mom from ages 4-10 listening to New Mix 107.5" memory lane. My station anchor? None other than the classic Wilson Phillips! It shouldn't be hard for anybody to imagine me belting out "Release Me" or "Hold On" without hesitation. I will say that listening to their songs this time around I've noticed every song has a quasi-bridge-guitar solo that would be described as the antithesis of a "face-melting guitar solo". Seriously, even when Wilson Phillips was at their peak performing to a packed stadium, there's no way during one of these solos the hired professional guitarist was thinking, "I'm shredding the guitar to Wilson Phillips!" Be that as it may, I take them for what they are: a classic easy listening group who dominated the airways in their time. Their station offered up plenty of other soft-hits gods (like rock-gods, but soothing and romantic!): early Madonna, Tiffany, Pat Benetar, Richard Marx, Lionel Richie, Chicago (or Peter Cetera, their lead singer who later had a solo career. I note this because I heard all these songs and kept thinking "I know this song but I've never heard of this guy! So I investigated). Basically every song that comes on I mark the "thumbs up icon" because I love it. (One downer to note-after about 6 hours straight of the same station you start to get repeats of all the same songs).
My "coming out" of the soft-hits closet this week has had a couple of interesting effects: 1) all my coworkers who at first were ripping me and acting all "manly" like they didn't like what I was listening to within hours were crooning right along with every song. Either they love it like me or had mothers who also listened to "New Mix" and FM100 in their youth (probably a little of both). 2)I keep discovering old favorites again and again through all these links, at which point I discover another old memory! Some of the favorites from this week of soft hits: Gloria Estefan (You know you want to "Get on your feet!") Mr. Mister ("Take these broken wings"), Michael Bolton (Yes, THAT Michael Bolton! I even heard a new sweet song, "How can we be lovers if we can't be friends?" that was just too catchy to not enjoy), and of course the kings of the 1-hit wonder soft hit, Toto (you know how FM100 plays only Christmas music through December? I think the rest of the year they have an automatic "Africa" every hour on the hour. Seriously, I never switch to that station without getting myself some "I bless the rains down in AFRICA! boom, boOm, bOOM, BOOM! Gonna take some time to do the things we never HA-AAA-AAAD! ooo, ooo!)
Pandora-awesome. If you have some other sweet golden oldies for me let me know.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
I'm Sick
Is there anything worse than being sick? Whenever I get sick or even can feel myself getting sick I go into panic mode. "What did it ever feel like to be healthy?" Whenever I get sick I start off with a sore throat and after 5 minutes of a sore throat I can't remember what it ever felt like to be able to swallow normally and I wonder if I will ever know what that feels like again. Of course this only lasts a few days but days turn into ETERNITY when you are sick. Right now is especially the prime time for me to get sick. All I want to do is sleep for 14 hours or so; instead I'm at work for that long. It's like a self-fulfilling prophecy: spend a few months working like crazy, definitely EATING like crazy (and we all know I can pack it in with the best of them), sitting and stressing all day, not sleeping much, and avoiding exercise like it would kill me (which, of course, it might in my current state).
I always get sick right when I think, "Maybe I will make it through this season change without getting sick for once!" Which of course during the nice pre-storm weather last week, I thought. Here's to all who get the yearly (or in my case, seasonally) cold. To our suffering and misery for the few days it lasts. To the NyQuil and DayQuil that pulls us through. I'm going to bed (hopefully I won't wake up to my alarm in the morning).
I always get sick right when I think, "Maybe I will make it through this season change without getting sick for once!" Which of course during the nice pre-storm weather last week, I thought. Here's to all who get the yearly (or in my case, seasonally) cold. To our suffering and misery for the few days it lasts. To the NyQuil and DayQuil that pulls us through. I'm going to bed (hopefully I won't wake up to my alarm in the morning).
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