Commentary about life, relationships, food, and more
So I have been watching hoarders on A&E for the past several weeks. This is a series that lets you take a voyeristic view into the lives of troubled people that collect things. They collect food, animals, trash, trinkets from McDonald's to name just a few. It is incredibly sad to look into these lives of these troubled people. Why they do this varies from individual to individual. Watching this show, for me, is like watching a train wreck. While I cringe as I watch this show, I … [Read more...]
It is so easy to look around and complain. Actually it is quite easy for me, I get up in the morning, sometimes I feel I wake up too early, I have to feed the animals, and then go to work. My journey into work can take forever, or at least it feels like it. This morning, it took me 25 minutes to make it to the highway, not just to work, but to the highway so I could drive to work. Then you get cut off by other drivers, this is long before 7:30 in the morning. If you let it, if I let … [Read more...]
To read that 27-million Americans are on anti-depressants and that more and more people are accepting the 'diagnosis' of depression is one thing. It is so hard to believe or even imagine that so much of our population is on anti-depressant medication. One has to wonder why we are so depressed, and why the pharmaceutical companies promote their medications as the end all be all to depression. Anti-depressants come with multiple side effects and drawbacks, they are not the cure all … [Read more...]
So, as I continue to try to de-clutter my current life, I run into so many different things. But after writing that post, I did finally manage to clean out a desk that I had been tossing stuff onto since my moving back into this house. The amazing thing that happened through the cleaning out of that desk was that I found my a camera lens that I had been missing. For about the prior two years, I either had the up close lens, or the telephoto one, either way I was typically disappointed. … [Read more...]