i've been gone from this forum for a while, but i just came back from a trip in which journaling played an important part, so i guess i'm still in the blogging mood.

this morning i had the #7 meal at McD's, the soh-seh-jee/egg/cheese McGriddles with hash brown.  Mm mm!!  not only was it delicious, but i just found out, nutritious as well!  talk about this for convenience:  in one single meal, i took care of 66% of the total fat and 68% of the sodium recommended for daily nutrition.  it's so densely packed with nutrients, it almost feels like cheating. 

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for a while now, i've been complaining to myself (and to others) that i'm too fat.  my pants were fitting too tightly and it would have been horrible to have to buy a new wardrobe just because i'm a lazy bastard who can't get to the gym.  well, on my recent trip i had the great fortune of getting food poisoned- not only did it flush out my system (and by "flush", i mean FLUSH), but i ate very little for the next three days because i lost my appetite.  and now, voila!  my jeans are loose again.  not only that, but i rediscovered an old friend called "my abs" which were hiding beneath a layer of fat for many, many months.  i thought they disappeared entirely, but turns out they were just hibernating.

where to go on your next vacation?

there is wisdom in this, hear me out...  when we go on holiday we often choose exotic places for some good R & R.  then when we return, we return miserable until a few months later when the cycle repeats.

i propose this: for your next vacation, go somewhere real crappy and destitute.  spend a week there, eat bad food and get travelers diarrhea.  then when you come back home, you will be so ecstatic and appreciative of what you already have.  it's more important to appreciate the life you live everyday rather than to enjoy the life you escape to for one week stretches.

 Jeremiah 2: 34-35

On your clothes men find
       the lifeblood of the innocent poor,
       though you did not catch them breaking in. 
Yet in spite of all this you say, 'I am innocent;
       he is not angry with me.'
       But I will pass judgment on you
       because you say, 'I have not sinned.'

awesome idea!  ... but maybe not that awesome.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25786594/

a Dark Night, indeed