something I ponder
The FDA recommends you eat 2000 calories a day.
my reaction: How did they come up with that number? Exactly 2000 calories? Not one less, not one more. Has anyone ever adhered to the 2000 calorie daily intake? That seems like a hard number to nail down. That involves a lot of math. I don’t want to do math all day. I don’t want to count. When I’m hungry I eat and when I’m full I don’t eat.
all you can live
I can tell I’m getting older because I’ve changed my stance on All You Can Eat Buffets. When I was young I loved a buffet. It didn’t matter if it was Chinese, Indian, or Ponderosa (for those who remember it). Back in the day my brothers and I would see how many wings we could eat at Old Country Buffet. As kids we were averaging 20 or more wings plus all the sides. It was a challenge. It was entertaining. It was a blast. Now if I try to go to a buffet as a middle aged man it’s painful. It’s miserable. I don’t want to feel bloated and have trouble breathing from eating too much. Buffets are a form of food torture that I don’t want to endure.
plaid apples
I love apple picking. I don’t care that we have to pay $30 for 20 apples. It’s a time with family. Instead of the kids terrorizing the house they can terrorize the orchards. There are a lot of apple picking haters out there but I’m here to tell you go apple picking. The only thing I have wrong with apple picking is all the people that wear plaid. Is that a prerequisite? Everyone is wearing plaid. They all look like they belong in a hip Taco Bell commercial or going to a Bon Iver concert. Anyways, I ended up eating 3 apples. I housed 3 large crispy apples. I was bloated from all the apples I ate. I guess I’d rather be bloated from apples than crab rangoons at a Chinese buffet.
15 lonely
I heard somewhere that loneliness can subtract 15 years of your life. That’s an insane stat. How do you know if someone is lonely? How do they measure that in the medical field? If you’re a loser and have no friends? Are a lot of lonely people dying at a young age? If someone dies at 70 and they had no friends is that considered lonely? Will the Doctor say, “if he only had a friend he would’ve lived until he was 85.” “But Doctor he died in a car accident.” “Yes, but he was alone… wasn’t he?” “Sure, Doc.”
easy in easy out
I don’t like when people who are athletic take the closet parking spot at a grocery store or any place they shop. I actually don’t like when anyone does it. You can walk the extra few steps it takes to get in the store. It won’t hurt. I make it a point to take the furthest spot from the store and will say, “easy in easy out”. I will skip close spots on purpose. I’m all about the furthest spot. There is less people in the back of the lot which means less congestion. I don’t have to worry about people parking near me or my car getting dinged by a door. Plus, I don’t like people all up in my sh*t. Park in the back and take a walk. That’s my fitness advice for the week.
keep it 100
I’ve been watching a Netflix documentary on blue zones. A blue zone is an area where there is a high concentration of people who live to 100. People who live to 100 are called centenarians. It’s fascinating to see people in there 90s partaking in physical activity, gardening, and being active. It made me want to live to 100. It’s my newest trend. I want to live 100 but not for healthy reasons. I want to live to 100 so I can see where the world is going. I want see how AI is going to affect all the people. I want to see climate change and how it will affect Earth. I want to see if all the movies we watched about the future will come true. Will we be on a different planet living in a pod wearing all white eating pills for food? I don’t want to miss out on the destruction of Earth. I want a front row seat. It will be greater than any show on Netflix. It won’t be Netflix and chill, it will be Netflix and kill.
doogie howser moment
As a kid I loved All You Can Eat Buffets. Now they seem irresponsible. I shouldn’t judge, I go apple picking. Apple picking is irresponsible if you’re on a budget. Plus you don’t need that many apples. I don’t think I’ll ever go to a buffet again. I want to live to 100 but I don’t want to be lonely. I wonder how many years does eating buffets take off your life? I bet it’s more than loneliness. There’s no reason you need 2000 calories a day if you take the closet spot in a parking lot. If I make it to 100 I’m taking the closet spot to a buffet. I think that would be a great to celebrate my 100th birthday.