Something is happening to me, right now, at this very moment, and I realize it is happening, I can point at it and say "THAT" is happening to me, but I am almost powerless to stop it. I am a fairly intelligent person, with goals and dreams and poor spelling abilities and humble notions about saving the world I one day hope to rule. Fear me mortals!! But this, this thing that is taking over, I cannot seem to shake or overcome! What the heck? I hope this blog post does not reveal any weakness to governments I hope to overthrow.
It started when I read a blurb about meatless Mondays in March. See the alliterations. Doesn't it make you warm all over. Or someplace. Anyway, I decided to try it. And before you go all crazy on me thinking vegetarianism is a gateway behavior for protesting against soldiers, and professing a love of French international policies, know that meatless one day in seven for one month does not a vegetarian make. And any parallels drawn between diet and crazy are up to you. Except for diets strictly comprised of cookies, I think Cookie Monster has demonstrated the mental perils of such a regime.
So the thing, the "THAT" which is happening right now? That is me doing this: "ummmm so tomorrow, I have chicken - no meatless Monday. I have salmon - no. I can get some shrimp - GAH! I know, I will make spaghetti. No I have turkey meatballs. Wah everything has meat!" What?! Really, I can't make spaghetti with dry noodles and jarred sauce because I have frozen meatballs? How does that even make sense? I eat a lot of meatless dishes, there are at least 2 in previous posts, so why is it now, right now, I cannot think of anything? What is it about deliberately choosing something - going meatless on Monday's, hiking more, being more tidy - that has the opposite effect? Is the world full of sedentary meat eating slobs with the universe working against well meaning goals, or is it just a contrary streak of my very own?
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