I Hate Food

WHAT?! YOU HATE FOOD? WHAT KIND OF FREAK ARE YOU FOOD IS LIKE THE BEST THING EVER KNOWN TO MAN JESUS WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!….

…everyone just calm down!

Of course I don’t hate food. Please breathe and don’t have an aneurysm.

I love food. That’s just the problem. My mom always asks my brother, “Are you living to eat, or eating to live?” (Living to eat…duh.) But the way I see it, food is a huge part of our life even if we don’t want it to be. We eat (minimum) three times a day, if not more. Including snacks and “grazing”, I probably eat closer to five times a day (especially when the pantry is stocked full of delish tidbits). Even when we’re not at home with food at our fingertips, we’re either out for long periods of time (in which, we are guaranteed to eat) or tantalized with food stands, food smells, food posters, food advertising. Food (now that I’ve typed it so many times, “food” is starting to look weird) is a constant in our life.

But I’m not one of those people who can eat to my stomach’s content and not put on an ounce of fat (CURSE YOU CRUEL GENES!) This is the main issue. If I wanted to, I could probably reach around 200 pounds in a week if I ate in a certain way. It’s because my family is freakishly healthy that we all maintain normal weights despite our (much) less-than-average heights.

If you’re like me, you probably get SO annoyed when you see these skinny or buff people and are like,

“wow…they must have ridiculous willpower and exercise A LOT to get that body…wish I could do that” *goes back to eating sundae*

Then you meet them and are like

“SOOO what sports do you play?”

“I suck at sports.”

..oookay. “Do you like diet a lot?”

“Are you kidding me?” *holds up plate with every possible item from the lunch buffet*

Yeah, those people can go die.

If you are one of those people, I’m kidding. You can stay alive. But you are ridiculously lucky.

Food has this obnoxious way of creeping up on you at the worst times. Like when you’re TRYING to lose five pounds (hypothetically speaking, so people don’t get their knickers in a knot) and then there happens to be this cute family reunion just as you’re getting on a roll. You’re faced with eleventeen kinds of pies, eighty kinds of cakes, forty kinds of cookies, and some special coconut-ice-cream-chocolate concoction that you just HAVE to try. Yeah, thanks a lot Food. THANKS FOR HELPIN ME OUT!

I guess my “hatred” for food is partially my fault. Like when I’m home on the weekends, I can go from breakfast (noon) to dinner (8 PM) without any food in between. But I just don’t. At 4, I go, “WOAH I HAVENT EATEN FOR FOUR HOURS WHATS WRONG WITH ME” *stuffs face*

Just kidding.

But I do have this internal clock thing that tells me I should eat even if I’m not hungry. This isn’t about me trying to lose weight or anything. I’m just jealous of the people who have lightning-fast metabolisms and never put on a gram of fat no matter what they eat.

What about you guys? Are you one of those people who can pig out and never gain weight, or one of those people who has to watch what they eat? What’s your take on food?

Issues with Technology

TECHNOLOGY=BEST THING EVER INVENTED, MAN!

….

maybe.

Technology has definitely made our life infinitely easier. Imagine if we didn’t have computers, phones, or TV. No internet, Facebook, Myspace, IM, Twitter, BLOGGING :’( , Word Processing etc. No calling, texting or picture messaging. No TV shows, movies, or news updates (for the nerds that love the news). Everything would be so much slower, harder, and less enjoyable.

But think on the flip side. Technology is something we all take for granted. Now that we have it, we can’t live without it.

Take my brother for instance. He has to do this retarded “reading log” crap EVERY NIGHT (the teachers are REAL creative at his school). He, a perfectly capable middle schooler with two hands, five fingers on each, INSISTS (and I mean he will put up a vicious fight) on TYPING his reading log. Like he will have a heart attack if he has to hand write his reading log. Kids can’t even do a simple writing assignment without the aid of Word Processing. It wasn’t even this bad when I was his age four years ago. I could function without the computer, writing diligently by hand on wide-ruled sheets (ah, I was such a good child). Now, he “can’t” do his reading log by hand; it’s “impossible.”

Then we have cell phones and iPods, which pretty much every kid has nowadays. Bored? Text a friend or listen to some tunes. Trust me, these things TOTES make my life better on long car rides, after school, during boring classes- I MEAN…. but some people are seriously addicted. You know the obnoxious type who texts LEGIT every five seconds to three different people. Yeah, they annoy me. SOCIAL SKILLS PEOPLE.

Or the type that’s constantly listening to music. There’s this girl in my school and I have NEVER seen her without a headphone in her ear. It’s glued into her ear. She showers with it in, that’s how addicted she is. And if the headphone falls out, she scrambles frantically to shove it back in her ear ASAP so she didn’t miss any precious part of her song. Seriously, are you THAT obsessed with music that you can’t survive for five seconds without listening to it? Oh…wait, you aren’t, you just like looking cool having that headphone dangling out of your ear as you skip to class. I totally understand, I do the same thing.

Back to the computer thing, there’s not just a simple email account (which is how it used to be) where you can shoot cute little emails off to individual friends and get cute little responses back :

Hey Sue, What’s up? We haven’t talked in a while, I miss you! Email back soon! xoxoxoxo heartsmileyheart!

Hey Zeenie, I miss you too! Life’s great! love ya! xoxooxoxooxox heartheartsmiley!

Now, if you want to talk to your friends, it’s all over Facebook or Myspace or Twitter (which is probably the dumbest invention ever). And to make it worse, people can comment on it!

Take the previous exchange. All I want to do is send a nice lil message to my bestie Sue. Then I get this:

FB: “Betty has just commented on your wallpost”

Me: ??? *checks thing*

FB: Betty – AW THAT’S SO CUTE YOU GUYS ARE TALKING! I miss you too Zeen!

Me: Gee thanks Betty, but last time I checked, I sent this to SUE…OH WAIT, now that I’m on Facebook THE WHOLE WORLD CAN SEE THIS! AINT THAT SPECIAL!

But I’ll save issues with social networking for a different post.

Technology, even a few years ago, was much simpler. If you had a personal phone, you could call someone. If you wanted to get in touch with someone, you emailed. And TV (thank god) hasn’t gotten all 3D-ified yet so that’s still pretty much the same.

Of course, I love technology as much as the next person, but sometimes it annoys me how accessible it is and how dependent we are on it.