La! Updating for the hell of it.
I've been swamped with work lately, and when I haven't been swamped, it's more of a case of my get up and go went off and left me. I have some time off coming up, so hopefully then I can catch up on all the great stories and drabbles everyone's posted and maybe get something written of my own. (I don't know, maybe I'm weird. I don't like replying if I'm tired. Someone made the effort to write something that I like. If I reply, I want to make the effort to show how much I enjoyed it. Plus, I over think things endlessly to death (is that just redundant or a mixed metaphor?) which is hard to do if you're trying to be quick.)
So, randomness in random order:
1) I gave up caffeine. Again. I swear, this is why I'll never smoke, because giving this up is hard enough, I can't imagine trying to give up something that has even more addictive qualities to it. The headache was a bitch and a half. And, I feel better (and my heart is doing less of those palpitation things) then I did previously. Plus, I've been drinking more milk, and that can only be a good thing because...
2) I went to the dentist yesterday. I have the beginnings of a cavity. -_- Not to the point where I need a filling yet, so yay! \o/ But it's long past time that I should start rethinking all the sugar I inhale on a regular basis. We do not live in a society that is healthy eating friendly. We just don't. I don't have the time to cook everything from scratch (and even if I did, I lack the knowledge...which I suspect most in my generation do unless they went out of their way to learn). And processed foods are teh evil. I watch the commercials for Carnation Instant Breakfast which totes all about how you get all these minerals and vitamins that you're probably missing in your diet all in one yummy glass of chocolate milk! What they neglect to tell you is that it has 20 grams of sugar. (Also. Gogurt: That shit ain't natural. O_o;;)
Now, I'm not a calorie counter. I usually don't give a rat's ass. But, as I'm struggling to find something healthy to eat while at work, I realize that there really is no true convenience health food. No wait, Quality Dairy sells bananas? (Customer tried to tell me the other day that Gatorade was more healthy than a banana...not quite sure I buy that.) And most of the 'health' diet foods that are all prepackaged and toting how healthy they are, I now no longer believe so will not suffer through their cardboard chemically taste for anymore. Also, they're like three times more expensive than the fattening/sugary/doom-filled and yet tasty candy bar at the counter.
I get to the point with people whining on the news and elsewhere about other things that if they don't like the way something is then they should get off their collective asses and do something other than bitch loudly and irrationally about it. And then I realize that I need to step up or shut up. Of course, the first step for me in this would be to either figure out how to cook, stop obsessively buying mac and cheese, or attempt to eat more fruits and vegetables myself even if it would take a crowbar to get J to eat one. Impending cavity is reinforcing this and the 'whole grain' healthy stamp on the box of Lucky Charms at the grocery store is just begging to be laughed at...Now to convince my hubby that a diet shake drink is not a healthy, filling and nutritious breakfast. *facepalm*
I used to be a huge cereal eater. But, I've since discovered that cereal is the devil. It is the quickest way for me to have a case of the major bitchtastic cranky three hours later when the sugar wears off and there is no food in sight.
Also, I'm trying to get back into walking to and from work when I'm not closing. And being me, it makes total sense that I waited until the start of fall to think about this. O_o
3) Dear Makers of Digital Cameras,
You know what would be super dooper awesome to include with every new camera? A How to DVD. Seriously. It doesn't even have to be that long. A ten minute version for the beginner, something longer for those who want to know how to take a picture of a grain of sand or be the next photographer hired by National Geographic.
This whole 'instruction booklet' thing? Not worth the paper it's printed on. It is the first thing the camera owner throws away and/or uses to line the kitty litter box. Little old people will use it to make paper hats, convinced that their younger family members will know how it works and will instruct them on how to use it. (FYI, they don't.)
In the last two days, I have talked to five customers who have no earthly idea how to erase the pictures off of their camera card. It's...sad, for lack of a better word. And let me tell you, if they can't do that, there is a whole host of digital camera operations and functions that are a completely mystery to them. When I tell them that they need to take pictures at a higher resolution, it's like I'm speaking Klingon to them and since their camera was 18 trillion million dollars, they can not be convinced that it is a problem with the settings on their camera and not the machine that is merely printing the pictures.
This would not be so bad in itself except for there are hundreds of different kinds of digital cameras and they all have vaguely different, yet for the most part, uninterpretable symbols that are supposed to indicate certain functions but merely look like slightly decipherable symbol garbage to peons like me who are a little O_o over having to explain to customer after customer that the picture maker kiosk will not delete pictures off your camera card for you. (Yes, the trashcan is obvious, that one I do get. The one where the play button leads to the ability to delete has me scratching my head a little...)
facepalming and trying to be patient,
Me
4) I gave Sasami a haircut today. There was enough hair left over for two more cats. Fluffy cat is excessively fluffy.
So, randomness in random order:
1) I gave up caffeine. Again. I swear, this is why I'll never smoke, because giving this up is hard enough, I can't imagine trying to give up something that has even more addictive qualities to it. The headache was a bitch and a half. And, I feel better (and my heart is doing less of those palpitation things) then I did previously. Plus, I've been drinking more milk, and that can only be a good thing because...
2) I went to the dentist yesterday. I have the beginnings of a cavity. -_- Not to the point where I need a filling yet, so yay! \o/ But it's long past time that I should start rethinking all the sugar I inhale on a regular basis. We do not live in a society that is healthy eating friendly. We just don't. I don't have the time to cook everything from scratch (and even if I did, I lack the knowledge...which I suspect most in my generation do unless they went out of their way to learn). And processed foods are teh evil. I watch the commercials for Carnation Instant Breakfast which totes all about how you get all these minerals and vitamins that you're probably missing in your diet all in one yummy glass of chocolate milk! What they neglect to tell you is that it has 20 grams of sugar. (Also. Gogurt: That shit ain't natural. O_o;;)
Now, I'm not a calorie counter. I usually don't give a rat's ass. But, as I'm struggling to find something healthy to eat while at work, I realize that there really is no true convenience health food. No wait, Quality Dairy sells bananas? (Customer tried to tell me the other day that Gatorade was more healthy than a banana...not quite sure I buy that.) And most of the 'health' diet foods that are all prepackaged and toting how healthy they are, I now no longer believe so will not suffer through their cardboard chemically taste for anymore. Also, they're like three times more expensive than the fattening/sugary/doom-filled and yet tasty candy bar at the counter.
I get to the point with people whining on the news and elsewhere about other things that if they don't like the way something is then they should get off their collective asses and do something other than bitch loudly and irrationally about it. And then I realize that I need to step up or shut up. Of course, the first step for me in this would be to either figure out how to cook, stop obsessively buying mac and cheese, or attempt to eat more fruits and vegetables myself even if it would take a crowbar to get J to eat one. Impending cavity is reinforcing this and the 'whole grain' healthy stamp on the box of Lucky Charms at the grocery store is just begging to be laughed at...Now to convince my hubby that a diet shake drink is not a healthy, filling and nutritious breakfast. *facepalm*
I used to be a huge cereal eater. But, I've since discovered that cereal is the devil. It is the quickest way for me to have a case of the major bitchtastic cranky three hours later when the sugar wears off and there is no food in sight.
Also, I'm trying to get back into walking to and from work when I'm not closing. And being me, it makes total sense that I waited until the start of fall to think about this. O_o
3) Dear Makers of Digital Cameras,
You know what would be super dooper awesome to include with every new camera? A How to DVD. Seriously. It doesn't even have to be that long. A ten minute version for the beginner, something longer for those who want to know how to take a picture of a grain of sand or be the next photographer hired by National Geographic.
This whole 'instruction booklet' thing? Not worth the paper it's printed on. It is the first thing the camera owner throws away and/or uses to line the kitty litter box. Little old people will use it to make paper hats, convinced that their younger family members will know how it works and will instruct them on how to use it. (FYI, they don't.)
In the last two days, I have talked to five customers who have no earthly idea how to erase the pictures off of their camera card. It's...sad, for lack of a better word. And let me tell you, if they can't do that, there is a whole host of digital camera operations and functions that are a completely mystery to them. When I tell them that they need to take pictures at a higher resolution, it's like I'm speaking Klingon to them and since their camera was 18 trillion million dollars, they can not be convinced that it is a problem with the settings on their camera and not the machine that is merely printing the pictures.
This would not be so bad in itself except for there are hundreds of different kinds of digital cameras and they all have vaguely different, yet for the most part, uninterpretable symbols that are supposed to indicate certain functions but merely look like slightly decipherable symbol garbage to peons like me who are a little O_o over having to explain to customer after customer that the picture maker kiosk will not delete pictures off your camera card for you. (Yes, the trashcan is obvious, that one I do get. The one where the play button leads to the ability to delete has me scratching my head a little...)
facepalming and trying to be patient,
Me
4) I gave Sasami a haircut today. There was enough hair left over for two more cats. Fluffy cat is excessively fluffy.