Eat Healthy
Healthy eating takes effort at first… but then it becomes a habit… and then you prefer to eat healthy…. because it just tastes better. Don’t get me wrong… I still love chocolate… GOOD high quality chocolate.
But I can’t listen to Opera for very long…. my ears begin to bleed.
nice bread reference.
Immediate rewards for doing bad, but so yummy good, are enjoyably, noticeable right now.
Delayed so-so’s (an eventually healthy body) for coping with bad, but healthy, are intangible at best right now.
What’s that you say? Oprah makes your ears bleed?
Astra, about last nights final two comments of the day:
— “Your” ment “Target’s.”
— You sound like a rebel.
— You may hate contributing to Target’s well-being, but it contributes to yours.
— I don’t know who an “STL” is, I’ve never worked there.
— Too bad you didn’t participate in the 20th Anniversary FFF dog’s design, the Ambassador Dog that won out was really lame and mostly borrowed from bits and pieces of past dogs.
— Yes, I’ve got an original FFF Dog and one of the 20th Anniversary Ambassador Dogs.
— I’ve also got one of those barkers, it doesn’t get to bark, though; very irritating. What can I say? I have a collection going.
— Wow, you really call your Target dogs, “doggies?” Repeatedly?
— The Lego Dog? Did you open up the giftcard packing and assemble it, or leave it sealed?
Be forewarned, I may put up an avatar with a Summer Dog (he’s mid-sized at about 15 inches, wears a red & white Hawaiian shirt and RayBans). I use him as my ebay avatar.
STL is store team leader
I do a half and half on health food, healthy dinner, small dessert of very not healthy 🙂
I agree on opera, well, most of it. I can’t help being stirred when I hear “Ride of the Valkyries” and some Pavoratti. But I eat pretty healthy food most of the time. My problem is, I like it too much. Being alone sucks.
Mmmmm…. dessert. Yah, it’s one of those things you have to balance. I find that when I eat too much unhealthy stuff, my body begins revolting… I get sluggish and I actually crave more bad stuff… (there was a study about that I heard about recently). Anyhow… Life should BE FUN, yah? Maybe the REAL key is a balance of diet and exercise… Hey, I could write a self-help book!
Stick: Oprah only sometimes makes my ears bleed. She does do a lot of good but seems to be rather overly self promoting at present…. “O”wn magazine, own tv show… OWN network! get “O”ver yourself O.
Stick:
— The only contribution Target makes to my “well-being” is they’re required to pay me for the work I do there. I won’t get into my beefs with the organisation, because I don’t want to use Brig’s website as my soapbox 🙂 My encounters at work also give me good material for my own web comic. But the comic doesn’t give me a revenue stream.
— “Doggies”? I’m that kind of person.
— The Lego dog is assembled (which is why I got it).
Wow, was listening to NPR this afternoon (driving) and they had a whole bunch of intriguing stuff about food banks.
There’s a “Hunger-Obesity Paradox” of hungry people tending to be overweight. It involves bad food being cheaper than good food. Follows the reasoning that fresh fruits and veggies have short lifespans and preserved guck lasting forever. Has anyone ever figured out the avg. shelf-life of a twinkie? Anyhow, food banks tend to accept lots of, uh, crap, because the stores that supply it also give good stuff too and the banks do not want to upset them. And so, they get lots of generic sodas, out of season candies (candy corns for instance), damaged and soon-to-be-rotting fruits and pass it along to their poor clients. A sort of quantity coming ahead of quality. Especially so with much more folks depending on food banks for their meals. Where does that lead? The poor, obese, border-line diabetic only become more so.
Sad, sad, sad. Starvation, no, yet healthy eating, also no.
Astra,
Interesting animal collection you have there. Thank you for showing it. If you’re willing to mention your email address, and you happen to have Word on your PC, I’ll send you an enormous Word file with photos of Target dogs (sorry, I don’t call them “doggies,” but that’s just me) that will surely surprise by their many numbers and amazing variety.
I love that you create comics based on your job. What is the website, if its up and running? I once worked for Pac Bell back when Scott Adams was also working there, days (only he was working in the San-Fran area), and drawing Dilbert comics about it, nights. Eventually he got to the point where he was making much more from the comics than in IT ($60K from P Bell and $120K from papers, as I recall hearing it) , not to mention pissing off some key management folk, so he left and got more commercial (made more $$) as time went on.
Be good to Target, as they are on my sponsor short-list of parties I will soon be approaching concerning participating in the launch of my own cartoons. And, I will be asking for big money. On a funny note. Target is headquartered in currently-frozen Minneapolis Minnesota. On another radio station (rock) that I was listening to today, the host was laughing about a recent study that ranked Minneapolis the most gay city in the country (not that there is anything wrong with that). By comparison, San Francisco came in 11th place, and Sacramento, where I live and where there is a very active gay community, did not even make the listing (not that there is anything wrong with that).
Brig,
Your Oprah comments made me laugh out loud with their funniness. I made the comment as a play-on-words sort of puntastic joke in-passing, but do agree with you. A big shame is that her new network is somewhere in the upper registers of cable programming, and that her faithful viewers will have to sign up for premium cable (big bucks) to keep watching her. Then again, Oprah and her Harpo Productions (Oprah spelled backwards, nice) are also on my desireable sponsor short-list, so all I’ll say is….. You go, girl.
PS: I can’t believe that funniness is an actual word but I spell checked it and there it was. Oh for the love of Funniness!!!
MMMMMMMMMMMMM Chocolate!
I dunno about most opera … but I adore Gilbert & Sullivan. But then, they tended to mix in entertaining fast-paced numbers and witty banter between songs …
Stick: If you click my username, you’ll find my website – and a way to contact me 🙂
Gilbert and Sullivan isn’t OPERA, it’s operetta…which may be why I love G and S and don’t really care for OPERA. It’s kind of diet opera, opera light,..whatever, it’s surely more digestible!