Low Fives: 02/08/09
First week of February lows. Full moon tomorrow and the forecast predicts snow. Doublay-UGH!
- I take full responsibility for my weight issues. With that in mind, I do believe that the food industry’s marketing machine is really, really powerful. Let us hope to God this picture was not taken at a high school. Coffee? Check. Pizza? Check. Red Bull? Check.
- In a post-recession/pre-depression scramble (no pun intended), Denny’s Restaurant chain decide to give away free grand slam breakfasts to EVERYONE. Read this account of 5 breakfasts in 4 hours. I think I baby barfed.
- I was “outed” at work. As you know, I started working amongst the masses again. I’m glad to have a couple of friends that work there already but one of them (you know who you are) “outed” my blog. She did it because she’s really proud of me and was bragging about my journey (she is way too generous when she talks about it). But now, when I am walk down the hallways amongst the sea of cubicles, I catch myself thinking stuff like, “some of these people know how much I weigh or that my childhood was jacked up or that my first drug experience was mushrooms.” It’s one thing to quietly write your thoughts down in the confines of the kitchen, but it’s quite another thing to put yourself in a situation where people now know more about you than you know about them. I’m okay with it, but it’s still weird.
- Why the media love/hate affair with Sarah Palin? Let’s not ever talk about her again. Seriously. Never. Again. P.S. To CNN Talking Head: Aerial killing is waaayy different than hunting on foot. Imagine someone hunting YOU on foot. Now imagine someone hunting you from a helicopter. Which would you rather have?
- If you are experiencing this message when checking out my site. Sorry. I experienced it too. CNN wrote an update on my progress and I’ve had a flood of new visits. After reading the article that Elizabeth Landau wrote, I started thinking about all the things that I say on my blog and whether or not I’ll ever regret them. For the most part, I think the answer is “no.” But there are definitely times when I cringe at my videos and think that I sound like I am drinking the koolaid and completely full of myself. Believe me, I am not taking this too seriously at all, but I am having fun.
Here’s my “favorite” excerpt from the CNN article:
On a video that Giyen Kim recently posted on iReport.com about her frustration with trying to lose weight, one user commented, “Who cares how much you have lost you are still a fat a**. Stop eating and go to the gym.”
In the past, Kim might have cried and turned to a pint of ice cream for comfort, she reflected. But this time, she hit the gym — a reaction she views as a revelation.
Yes I did say that. But why? I have no idea.
See #3? Now people will imagine me running to a pint of Ben and Jerry’s every time they say something I don’t want to hear. Or even worse, they might rush to hide their ice cream from the community kitchen or walk on eggshells when mentioning the dairy delight.
To round this list out with something happy. I can hardly stand how much I love this song (I think I’ve mentioned it already). I found it through Dana Loesch’s blog called Mamalogues:
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Isn’t the song awesome? And the video is killer! The rest of their album (“Fur and Gold”) is just as good.
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I hear you about the people at work reading your blog. I have a similar issue, but mine is my FAMILY reading my blog. My husband’s giving me a typepad blog for my birthday (I really did hit the jackpot with him) and I will probably not tell my family about it. Then I can curse at will without worrying that my father will scold me in the comments section. (Because THAT? Was awkward.)
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I think your blog is amazing. There aren’t enough witty Korean writers that are published in America. I can’t wait till you write a book. I’ll be first in line to buy it. Promise.
Totally with you on Sarah Palin. Dear media, SHE IS COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT. p.s.- really enjoying the weekly roundups.
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That’s a bit discomforting to have your co-workers reading something like this. For whatever reason, it doesn’t seem as bad when it’s some anonymous person on the other end of the internet, but it’s awkward when it’s people you’re around on a daily basis. You know what? Augusten Burroughs uses curse words. J.D. Salinger used curse words. Other great writers that I can’t think of at the moment (it’s 8:10am EST) use curse words. Some of them also have interesting pasts. Didn’t Hemmingway used to get super drunk drinking daiquiris? And the most important part is that these are things from your past that employers can’t just you for — unless they’re aching for a discrimination lawsuit.
I think I’m developing a girly-crush on you! I love dropping by your site to see what’s up!
You were on CNN? Fantastic! Way to go!
And I love that song! Saw them live last summer opening for Radiohead- really good show!
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Amanda
(Reader in Amsterdam)
If we’re voting – I vote for the hunter on foot chasing after me.
It’s a bit like the Japanese whale hunting – big, powerful boats, motors, guns – and the whaling on Bequia in the Grenadines – 20 guys in a rowboat with a harpoon. Apparently they’re allowed like 3 a year but can only manage to snag max 2 and usually zero. Someone has to spy the whale, then all the boat guys have to bust a move to the rowboat in the harbor and then they have to row and then the harpoon guy has to kill the whale. I think it’s only the dumb, slow ones they catch because after all that the whale has usually swum away. They trying to catch a whale would be quite entertaining – I envision the whaling version of the Keystone Cops.
Oh, and love the blog, keep it up!
Ahh, you’ve been outed. It happens. I’ve been blogging under my real name since 2001, which has led to some self-censoring – to a point. But it’s been interesting to find out which folks I know read my blog, and which folks don’t. Many of my co-workers are regular readers, as are my ex-husband and my son’s bio-dad’s current girlfriend (it’s complicated). What’s irritating? The number of old friends and acquaintances who keep up on my life by reading the blog, but who don’t bother to comment or email or call (or also blog or even twitter) so it’s not information sharing, it’s just a one way street.
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Have you seen this site?
http://thisiswhyyourefat.com/
When we have food like that, it’s no wonder that 86% of Americans are overweight.
This is right here, in the present, not the future.