Monday, May 30, 2005
I dined out with a three-year-old recently. I mention this because he was praised lavishly by his mum and all present for eating so well. Disappointingly, nobody at all congratulated me on how heartily I'd eaten.
I discovered today that my flabby body is not caused by my over-indulgence in the sweeter and creamier food groups or my reluctance to exercise. It is, in fact, the result of yang deficiency. I have this on the excellent authority of an acupuncturist who then proceeded to flog me $30 worth of tiny pills to correct this terrible imbalance. "Take 16 of these twice a day" "32 pills a day? You're kidding, right?" But I could see from her face that she wasn't. In retrospect I can't believe that I coughed up. I hadn't even gone to see her about losing weight and I just know that the tablets are gonna end up gathering dust at the back of the bathroom cabinet. I can't look a slice of toast in the eye before mid-morning so for sure I'm not going to be knocking back 16 pills at dawn.
A day of discovery all round really because I also found out that my current specs are old-fashioned.(That's spectacles not specifications.. though come to think of it...) Until today I was blissfully unaware that glasses had status to the fashion conscious. My local optician soon put me right. "You've had those for FOUR years? Well they must have been quite a fashion statement at the time but now we have moved away from that..er.. style. Try these square frames in a nice warm burgundy." I didn't like to tell him that I was only getting new ones because my precision screwdriver was confiscated at the airport last month and if I don't tighten them up every two days the glass falls out. So not only was my plan to hijack the plane thwarted but I've had to get new specs as well. I did try getting a new screwdriver but it was never the same somehow. I should have realized that the day probably wasn't going to go according to plan when I managed to drop my watch in a mug of tea before even getting out of bed.
Current weight: 78 kg.
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I discovered today that my flabby body is not caused by my over-indulgence in the sweeter and creamier food groups or my reluctance to exercise. It is, in fact, the result of yang deficiency. I have this on the excellent authority of an acupuncturist who then proceeded to flog me $30 worth of tiny pills to correct this terrible imbalance. "Take 16 of these twice a day" "32 pills a day? You're kidding, right?" But I could see from her face that she wasn't. In retrospect I can't believe that I coughed up. I hadn't even gone to see her about losing weight and I just know that the tablets are gonna end up gathering dust at the back of the bathroom cabinet. I can't look a slice of toast in the eye before mid-morning so for sure I'm not going to be knocking back 16 pills at dawn.
A day of discovery all round really because I also found out that my current specs are old-fashioned.(That's spectacles not specifications.. though come to think of it...) Until today I was blissfully unaware that glasses had status to the fashion conscious. My local optician soon put me right. "You've had those for FOUR years? Well they must have been quite a fashion statement at the time but now we have moved away from that..er.. style. Try these square frames in a nice warm burgundy." I didn't like to tell him that I was only getting new ones because my precision screwdriver was confiscated at the airport last month and if I don't tighten them up every two days the glass falls out. So not only was my plan to hijack the plane thwarted but I've had to get new specs as well. I did try getting a new screwdriver but it was never the same somehow. I should have realized that the day probably wasn't going to go according to plan when I managed to drop my watch in a mug of tea before even getting out of bed.
Current weight: 78 kg.
