Sugar Monkey

I read something recently that made me think. It read, “If you could do something that you knew would significantly change your life for the better, why aren’t you doing it?”

Where do I begin? That statement sounds so “Dr. Phil” but I think it’s true. So I started to think about what I would do. It’s not like I have only one thing I could do to change my life. But I could start with one. So I picked my sugar monkey.

It’s now day three of my life without processed sugar and let me tell you…

OH MY GOD IT’S SO FREAKING HARD!!!

I can’t believe how hard it is to get sugar out of my life! It’s in everything and it’s everywhere! You’d think that something so innocent sounding would be a stroll in the park, but it’s not.

On top of it, I’m suffering withdrawals. Believe me I know what withdrawals are and what they feel like and these are withdrawals. After the first day I was experiencing flu like symptoms and feeling like shit! I think about my favorite candy all the time. It’s interfering with my daily routine! And what make it worse, IT’S EVERYWHERE!

Every corner I turn, someone has a bowl of M&Ms or something. My wife has sugary stuff all over the place. She doesn’t understand why I just can’t say no. IT’S EVERYWHERE! Every packaged food that you eat is loaded with it.

This is gonna be really tough.

I’m a wreck.

Time And The Lack Of It

Time is becoming more and more the focus of my life. To be more specific, lack of time is becoming more and more the focus of my life. Is it just me or is time really speeding up as fast as it is? Is some alien race out there messing around with the Space / Time Continuum? I know that everyone says when you get older time just slips away. Everyone especially says this when you have children. Boy they weren’t kidding. But, still, it just seems so unnatural and unreal! I don’t know where my days go anymore. And I can’t seem to get anything accomplished.

My wife complains constantly about her lack of time to get anything done at her job. She’s a teacher. I find it interesting that when I was a kid in school we seemed to learn a lot more and still had time for art, music, and PE classes. What is different now versus then?

I think one reason there is less time for me is that you have to drive everywhere you need to go. Especially in California. There aren’t neighborhood markets and shops anymore. The movie theater isn’t just down the road. And then there is technology.

Technology was supposed to be that great savior of all things, making everything easier, simpler and more accessible. To me it just inflicts itself on my already chaotic life and ads to the already warped view I have on time and what it’s supposed to be. Instead of just sitting down and relaxing, I demand that everything should now be instant. When I was a kid, the only thing in life that was instant was coffee. Now, everything has to be instant!

And speaking of kids, these days, everything that you do with them has to be scheduled. You don’t just open the door anymore and tell them to get lost until dinner time. I know a lot of people still do that, and they usually don’t live in congested, high speed, urban areas like Southern California. So their time becomes highly scheduled, which means your time becomes highly scheduled with their sporting and other activities.

I really do think that someone is messing with Space \ Time. I just feels like the right answer. And for all the bitching I just did about having no time, I still had time to post this blog entry. Go figure.

The Attorney General of the United States

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., who has been critical of Arizona’s new immigration law, said Thursday, to the House Judiciary Committee, he hasn’t yet read the law and is going by what he’s read in newspapers or seen on television.

But, last weekend Mr. Holder told NBC’s “Meet the Press” program that the Arizona law “has the possibility of leading to racial profiling.” He had earlier called the law’s passage “unfortunate,” and questioned whether the law was unconstitutional because it tried to assume powers that may be reserved for the federal government.

THIS IS THE HEAD LAW ENFORCEMENT GUY IN OUR COUNTRY! THE LAW IS ONLY TEN PAGES LONG! HE DIDN’T READ IT! WHAT ELSE HASN’T HE READ? THE CONSTITUTION? THE BILL OF RIGHTS? HIS JOB REQUIREMENT STATEMENT? HOW ABOUT THE ONE PAGE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE!

OH MY GOD!