Decline in mankind

At what point in time did people get so damn stupid? It's a rapid increase in our society. The amount of lazy people has gone up, people who are out to make money on nonsense lawsuits and people who go absolutely mad over the "threat" of bad weather.

Lets start with lazy people. Being in retail for the last 4 years, I have seen a lot of them. People too lazy to look for things, people too lazy to read a simple label or package and even people too lazy to walk.
I understand there are some people that do have health problems that can't walk long, those aren't the ones that piss me off. It's the ones that park half way down the parking lot, walk perfectly fine into the building and then grab a motorized cart. The other ones are the lazy no lookers. They walk in, find the first person they see and ask where something is. Usually its the most simple thing to find. They are usually given the answer of "right behind you" or "right next to you". Hey lazy person, use your eyes!

I'm going to save the lawsuit part for another blog in the future. I'll move on to the crazy weather people. I've been on this planet for 37 years. 32 of them I can actually remember without a problem. Not once do I remember the weather ever causing people to rush to the store and buy everything because of a possible hurricane coming. Seriously people, we don't live by the ocean. We are not going to get stranded anywhere. And think about this. All these people bought large amounts of refrigerated foods. What are they going to do with it if the power goes out? It's all going to spoil. And I'm sure not everyone that was buying this stuff has a generator. How many people did I see buying canned goods and water? Not many at all. I just don't get what has happened to our society.


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Lesson learned

Yesterday I did a 2 pound burger challenge with my bro, my bff and her bf. You are given and hour to finish it.

Now the meat patty is 2 pounds, throw in a huge bun bigger than my face, lettuce, tomato, onions, relish, pickles, banana peppers, ketchup, mustard and mayo. You can remove one of those items before the challenge. I removed the peppers. I should have removed the relish..too sweet. I also asked for a side of bacon with it.
15 minutes into it I was making good progress. It had a nice flavor going on. I though I could finish the burger, maybe not in the required time though. 30 minutes into it and I was slowing down. Shortly after that I hit the "wall". The taste of everything became too much to take. No matter what I did, there was no way I could get it down. I wasn't full though. By the time the challenge was over and I finally tapped out, I had the shells of the bun left, the veggies, and a fistful of meat.
I was a little angry with myself that I didn't do better and I was a little humbled by it. Me of all people that can eat everyone I know under the table couldn't finish the burger. Oh well, I tried, that's what matters.

Lesson learned, keep pushing past the wall.



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Slacker

Well I've been slacking the last couple of days. My last post was about smoking I think, or lack there of smoking. That didn't work out well. I did manage to make it 3 1/2 days without smoking, then the demons overcame me and I cracked. Two of those days I wasn't working, so that helped a great deal. The third day I went back to work and made it till early the next morning. I guess you could say I made it close to 4 days. Next time I try, I'm going to take a week vacation, 7 days, and try again. That will give ample time for my body to cleanse it's self and for my mood swings to chill out. I wasn't doing too bad with the mood swings during those three days. I had my moments but never snapped on anyone. I was angry within.


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Day Three?

Really? It's been 3 days since I quit smoking? It doesn't feel like it at all! It still feels like the first day, but I'm at work. So it is my first day not smoking at work.
I'm feeling so lost and confused today. I don't know what to do on my breaks and lunch. I'm passing the time on lunch now with writing this.

The hardest part of this whole quitting thing isn't the not smoking part it's the doing it cold turkey route. Anyone know what cold turkey is anyway?
I've talked to many people that have tried to quit. They have tried patches, gum, or other things prescribed by their doctor. And all of them went right back to smoking in no time.
Those nicotine gums and patches don't really fix the problem. Yeah sure, no more ciggies, but you are still a slave to the nicotine. You're still losing to the addiction.
Let's look at the drugs my doc always wanted to give me. The two popular ones, Wellbutrin and Chantix.
First, Wellbutrin, it's basically and anti depressant. I was on that already. Let me tell you, never give and anti depressant to an already happy person, it doesn't work out too good. Imagine mr Rogers but 100x happier. Oh and don't forget it kills the sex drive too. No thank you!
Now Chantix. If anyone has actually seen the commercial and listened to it, they would have heard a little side effect of night terrors. The other goodie, blood clots! Oh boy, where do I sign? Don't forget about mood swings and other psychotic stuff it does.
That drug does not work for me either. Besides, taking one drug to kill an addiction to another one seems silly and pointless to me. And for someone like me that has had health problems in the past that required large amounts of pills to control, more pills isn't the answer. I'm free from pills except for the occasional excedrin for a headache.
So that's that.
My blood/nicotine/caffeine levels are still adjusting.


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Now what?

I'm on hour 13 of the no smoking thing. I'm very tired and kind of spacey. I'm trying to figure out what to do after I eat, during commercials, etc..it used to be grab a smoke. I'm lost now.

No smoking?

I have been a smoker for, well, too many years. I've said I have wanted to quit many times over the years and haven't been able to. The closest I have come is when I was in the hospital for a little over a month when I had my surgery. I didn't smoke for a little over a month after I got out. I slipped and bought a pack. I figured one wouldn't hurt. I was wrong. Once you have one, you have another and before you know it, back up to a pack or more a day.

This morning at 2am I finished my pack of smokes I bought the previous morning. I didn't buy anymore. I have two days off in a row so why not try and quit? I have 48 hours to get through the initial phase of the nicotine withdrawl.

It's now 11 a.m. I already hate everything.
You know what else, girlfriend hasn't noticed I haven't been smoking.

My wet ass.

This morning started off like any other morning. I got up at 3am, had my coffee/smoke and got dressed for work. Girlfriend was sleeping on the couch, so I kissed her on the head, and left. I get in the jeep and have a seat. To my surprise, my seat was soaked. I had left my window open just a crack last night. I guess it rained just the right way to get in and soak it. Joy! It's already too late to go in and change so I just suck it up.
Now I am off to work with a wet ass and part of my left leg is wet too. I thought it was going to be a hell of a morning working in a nice 30 degree or colder cooler.
I got to work and found things outside of the cooler to keep me busy till my pants dried. It didn't take too long for them to dry.
Why did I choose to write about my adventures of having a wet ass? Well I just got home and having my coffee before my nap. I just got a new app for this blogging stuff.
Once I rest for a little bit, I'll have to write about something interesting. :-)

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redbox guy

I made a quick run to the store for a few things. On my way in I noticed a guy at the redbox, which is one place I was going to stop. I decided to wait till I was done grabbing my stuff then hit it. So I do my shopping, a whole 15-20 minutes. Now I can stop at redbox! But wait, what's this? The same guy that was there on the way in is still looking at the movies!! WTF?! I have never browsed that thing for more than 5 minutes. If I couldn't decide in 5 I'm not going to in 20! I guess no redbox goodies for me tonight. I'm better off I guess, the kids are still at the house which means no leisure time for this guy.
Did I mention I hate kids?

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Dear blog..

It has been quite sometime since I have written anything.
I totally forgot I had this until a long time friend started her own blog. I'll link her blog here eventually.
At the current time, I am writing this on my phone. No formatting and no idea where my paragraphs will end.
No matter, it's the Internet, I do what I want!
There has been a whole lot of stuff that has happened since my last blog entry. Various people have come and gone
in my life. Some have stayed around, which I am thankful for. I have made a very good friend the last few years.
We have had our up and downs, along with some downright nasty times together. But through all that we emerged victorious.
My brain just stopped so I will as well. I guess I'll keep up with this thing now.