Random babblings of a lonely person.

(Maybe that should be the title of my blog.)

Have you seen the commercial for some car that's supposed to be able to predict accidents "two cars ahead"?  I'm thinking bull *fake cough*.  How is that even possible - especially in the scenario in the commercial where they are behind a truck there's no way any driver could see around let alone any car.  What protects them from the accident is not riding the bumper of the truck!  It has nothing to do with some magic trick the car supposedly can do.

I have a stack of books in front of me.  One is a self-help book about dealing with ones past.  Another is a Buddhist thing that basically says the same thing as Philippians from the New Testament of the Bible (for the random non-Bible-reader who might accidentally run across this post).  The last is a book full of information on essential oils.  I have the rather irrational belief that I might look at one or all of them over the course of the evening.

I made something really awesome for dinner.  There's no easy way to record it in my "food tracker," though.  It's rotini pasta, some pseudo-cheese, some pseudo-butter, spinach, tomatoes, bacon pieces, onion, and a splash of chipotle sauce.  That probably sounds weird, but it actually is very awesome.  But it's also organic and homemade, so putting it into the "food tracker" is unfortunately very difficult.

Speaking of the "food tracker"...Work gave everyone in my department this bracelet thing that's supposed to be able to track my steps, whether I'm awake or asleep, etc and the website lets you track food, water, BP, mood, allergies, and even more.  It's pretty neat.  I'd never have done it if the thing hadn't been given to me for free as this bracelet thing costs about $100 on its own.  According to the sleep function, I wake up at least 3 times a night (12 last night, but who's counting...besides the bracelet).  So it's been pretty interesting.  I've also learned that though my eating habits are atrocious at best and my activity level even worse, I'm actually 9 times out of 10 burning more than I'm taking in...and yet my weight stays the same, so that makes no sense.  However, I intend to change that.  It also has a function for setting up goals and tracking them, so I've finally set a weight goal and it is using my activity level and calories consumed and sorting out how much I should be consuming compared to how active I am.  If nothing else, this will be an excellent exercise in futility, but at most it should be a good tool for meeting some goals and sorting out a few health things.

And speaking of health things, I've been on a sort of "new agey" (to use a made up phrase from a friend) kick and have been looking for natural remedies for as much as possible where it comes to my ailments (thus the aforementioned book about essential oils).  It's been rather interesting learning about foods, teas, oils, and so on.  Hopefully I learn and try something that actually helps with enough significance to improve my health or at least give me tools to deal with it better.

Well, I'm distracted by a movie now, so I guess the babbling will have to stop for now.