Indulgence

Someone at the office today brought leftover Halloween candies and left the giant bowl in the kitchen area. I have been abstaining from candies recently in my bid to lose some weight and lead a healthier lifestyle, but here I sit sucking on a lollipop! It's not my fault that a giant bowl full of an assortment of candies was essentially shoved in my face. Who can say no to that?

The wrappers for 2 Lifesaver gummies, a bunch of skittles, 3 starbursts and 3 chocolate-dipped pretzels are staring at me from the trashcan, filling me with guilt as if the extra calories had not already accomplished that task. The sugar rush has definitely woken me up though, unlike the cup of coffee I had before.

I have discovered that when I'm visiting the gym regularly, I'm very particular about what I eat. But when I've not been to the gym in a while, I let an increasing amount of junk food sneak into my diet. A lot of this has to be psychological. After all, when I put a lot into a workout, I'm not going to let it all go to waste by gorging on a family-size pack of Cheetos!

I've not been to the gym in a couple of weeks owing to my GRE exam preparations and I think my gluttony today is reminder of how easy it is to fall back into the old lifestyle. I've to start going to the gym again, but perhaps not until after some over-indulgence meal over Thanksgiving weekend! haha

Superstitious twitch

I felt my forefinger twitch today. I am not sure if it had anything to do with me being at a job which has me typing and clicking away for most of the day, but it had me curious. So I picked the brains of google and came up with all sorts of ailments that could be related to muscle spasms. The internet must drive hypochondriacs crazy!

My mom would probably have an explanation for it though. Not a medical one, but one more superstitious in nature. Us Nepalis (and people from a lot of other countries too, I'm sure) seem to have explanations ready for any such seemingly innocuous anomalies in our bodies. Fluttering of the left eye versus the right eye could bring you good or bad luck. Those little white marks that would appear on my fingernail foretold possible new additions to my wardrobe in the immediate future.

Ok, I ran out of examples but I'm sure there are plenty more. I wonder what the origins of such superstitions are. And how it spread when it appears to have no practical value.

There's another one I remember that always seemed to happen after family get-togethers. It's not health related, but definitely a superstition. Apparently, it is bad luck to have guests leave for three separate residences at the same time. This has something to do with 3 being an evil number, I suppose. Must be true, if even Shakespeare in Macbeth thinks so!

I don't know how I came to grow out of all the superstitions that surrounded me as a child. Although, I'm sure there are a few that are so ingrained in me, that I don't even think of them as superstitions anymore!

Hello again!

So here I am, over 2 years since my last post, and over 6 since my first. I actually had to count again to make sure it was actually 6! It's hard to believe that teenage kid 6 years ago thought about starting a blog and actually did a decent job keeping it up on a regular basis, before the adult me stepped in and decided I didn't have the time to keep a blog! But thinking about the time I just spent watching another episode of House, I could easily have taken my fingers to the keys (a not-as-poetic way of saying pen to paper) and written another post.

I don't have a topic in mind today. Well I do have random thoughts, random observations I made during the day, but not sure any of those couldn't be described in little more than a couple of sentences. Hardly post-worthy. Of course I could try and be more creative with it, but if I wanted to put that much effort into it, might as well write an article for a newspaper. I feel like my style for this blog has always been impulsive, free-flowing and informal. It's nice to be able to write anything you want, any way you want. This is the way I enjoy writing, and in any case, who but me reads this blog.. right? right??

I want a dog. A nice big german shepard. But I wish dogs didn't poop. I can't imagine myself having to follow a dog around everyday with a doggy bag waiting anxiously for it to take a dump. I've never had a dog, but I think that part of the job description for dog ownership kinda sucks. Although everyone who's had a dog says its worth it, and it must be!

I saw a completely white jet without any livery yesterday. I thought it was kinda odd.

See? What did I say about random observations that don't warrant more than a couple of sentences! Maybe I'll dedicate a future post to just random observations I make. Things just slightly out of the ordinary, but not interesting enough to otherwise be written about. That could be interesting! The blog has been revived, and I hope to have stuff to write about on a regular basis.

For now though, my body's crying to get back to the boring, but necessary, activity of sleep. So I bid adieu, people of the interwebs!