Domestic Geek

OK, not really, but Marcus is off with Mike in Colorado Springs to do their annual Pikes Peak hike.

I am a little weirded out being home all alone. I couldn't put my finger on why until earlier today. This is the first time that Marcus has been away that I didn't have a dog in the house to keep me company. I need to find a way to remedy this situation sooner than later. I really hate not having a dog.

I had all of this stuff planned to do in his absence, but I've gotten off track. I had a yummy dinner at Chili's with dad. They're got this new rewards card thingy and since I signed dad up, we got a free appetizer tonight. Since it was N/C, I picked the most expensive one they had — a sampler plate. We got fried cheese, boneless wings and spinach artichoke dip. I love that stuff, but Marcus won't eat artichokes. Dad liked it. I guess I'll need to learn to make it.

I've spent the rest of the evening relaxing on the couch. I guess one just needs to do that once in a while, huh?

Man, I am definitely not as young as I used to be. Here it is late Tuesday night and I still haven't recovered from this weekend. I'm dead on my feet, but still can't sleep. I've been in a really pissy mood, too. Yesterday I was ready to quit my job and bite the head off the next person that said anything to me. I was definitely having a case of the Mondays. When my supervisor asked what was wrong and I told him I was tired and why (the blogathon), he said, "Well, that was stupid." Maybe, but it was for charity, dang it. Grrrr. Sometimes I don't think those people Marcus and I work with get us. More on that in a future post.

I hate grocery stores. With. A. Passion! Why do they always seem to be out of the one item I went to that particular store for? Today I went to Target to get a rotisserie chicken that Marcus really likes for dinner (since I'm trying to eat healthier). Noooo, they're out of chickens. So, I don't get the rest of the stuff I need since there are only 3 check stands open and I didn't want to wait in line for two items. I head to King Soopers and you'll never guess: they also have no warm rotisserie chickens. WTF? I pick up one from the refrigerated case and head over to get his Caesar salad mix and I was going to get some spinach. No fresh spinach. At all. Now I'm pissed.

Stupid grocery stores.

We have a big tree outside our house that gets infested with beetles every year. I think they're Elm Beetles. Anyway, they've been particularly bad this year. The poor tree has hardly any green left in the leaves at all. What really sucks is when they get into the house. There is dead beetles that I need to vacuum up all over the place. There's one that keeps landing on my monitor as I type. When I went to look out the back door earlier, the screen was just covered in them.

That's Pet Shop Boys for the uniformed. "Always on My Mind" and "Opportunities (Let's Make Lost of Money)" are two of the greatest songs ever.

Whoops, this one's a little late. I got busy reading other blogathon sites.

We have different kinds of stress to deal with today that people in days gone by didn't have to deal with. They could also relieve some of that stress they did have through hard, physical labor. I'm convinced that part of the reason we have such high levels of insomnia and other health-related issues is our bodies inability to deal with stress.

One way to deal with stress, as Marsia suggested to me, is to meditate or pray. I've been doing a lot of reading lately about how that internal chatter that is always going on in our heads is so detrimental to our well-being. It's so difficult to turn all that off, but it's definitely something I've been working on.

The fact is that when we're under stress, our bodies go into a kind of panic mode and hang onto fat stores. We also manifest diseases and hinder our bodies ability to heal itself.