Giving of Thanks

I can smell free air around me,

I know that Thanksgiving has found me,

With Turkey in future and past,

The week is moving so fast,

I'm glad I have nothing to work at.

There was joy and trouble this weekend,

Some things my psychiatrist just can't mend,

Annoyances left,

My faking skills are deft,

In my room now watching movies I sat.

But hours have past since last class,

Soon in the air will be my ass,

Off to explore a cool city,

Thanksgiving will be pretty,

This week I'm going to get fat.

Turkeypalooza

Turkeypalooza at Campus Kitchen, a time when volunteers come in and work with us to create holiday meals for Thanksgiving for over 400 people and families. What do we do? Make turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, greenbean casserole, sweet potatoes, pies, muffins, and lots of other stuff. Where does it go? To those that would otherwise not be able to afford such a wonderful meal and would not be able to celebrate the traditional holiday with those they love.
So, what are we doing after we cook all this?  We deliver it to families, and the leftover foods get filled into shopping bags to come Thursday, when it's actually Thanksgiving, people can recreate the meal they ate on Monday and Tuesday.

My Saturday looked something like this: Wake up at 6am to prepare our turkey for the party we are hosting the night to come. It was all a success, so good. Then at 8:30 I headed to Campus Kitchen to start my shift at 9am. Until 13:00 I cooked with volunteers and helped organize and figure things out so it would be more fluent this year. Last year apparently it was somewhat hectic and some things didn't get finished in time, but not this time around, this time it was all a success. Around 12 I started chopping apart raw turkeys to cook them faster. I'm glad I was taught by my mom how to take apart a bird like that, success. Yes, I was chopping up a poor little bird, and I thought it was fun. Mostly because I knew how to do it and almost no one else knew or wanted to do it. POINTS.

It was a wonderful morning and my refuge at the kitchen is always fun and relaxing, getting my mind off other annoyances or stress as there is not enough time to think of so many things at once.
Working on Campus Kitchen makes me realize I kind of wish we didn't need to make money so I could do this as a job without having to worry about pay to survive. Otherwise, I could just... you know... work for minimal wage and love my job anyway... future? I think so.

This is a post of great news. I think I discovered the key to losing weight. "Ha" you may think. But seriously. I've been losing weight for a while now and I think I just realized what the components were.

1. Lots of sleep. Lots. By lots I mean like, before midnight bed time sometimes, and getting up around 8ish or 9ish. Another excuse for me to sleep more, do less work. It's win win.
2. Sit ups. I do sit ups a lot because I am fully convinced exercising the stomach will make the food go away. Don't burst my bubble...
3. Actively eating. Meaning, I only eat three meals a day, small meals. And even if I'm hungry after that I won't eat. Small meals include a sandwich for breakfast, a larger meal for dinner, and little left overs for dinner. By doing this I think I have an excuse to eat unhealthy once a day. Which, you know, I don't really do anyway...
4. Eat a snack a day. Any kind of snack, rotate between fruit, vegetable, and chips or sweets.Yay for chocolate.
5. Weigh yourself every four days. Sad, but true........

Ignite the fire

Everyday, in the morning, in addition to many other times throughout the day, I cross five lanes of road. Sometimes I run, sometimes I walk, sometimes I need to take a little break in the middle because cars are coming. But that's not the issue right now. So, as I had no issues to write about yesterday, today is when I realized I just don't get some people.

First off, you can turn on your car when you're not even there yet. I mean, you can ignite the engine without the key, just by remote, from meters or more away! I don't get that. I mean, why would you need to start the car when you're not there yet. That's just ridiculous. I don't get why people have to have their cars on all the time. It's part of the experience, sweating like crazy, or freezing your a** off when you just get in your car. It's part of the experience!!!
Second, I don't get how every morning when I walk to school, not destroying the environment, not owning a car that would do it, not doing any of that crap, but then there are a couple of people, about 5-10 each day, that sit on the stretch of road I walk along and have their cars on, are on the phone, just hanging out and waiting, putting on makeup, reading, or listening to music. While their car is on. So... you don't care about other people, is what you're saying? Or is what you're saying you care so much more about yourself than the environment? No matter how you argue this, it's not acceptable to leave your car running.

And I always bug my friends about that when they keep it running and we're just sitting around and talking. You're wasting fuel, you're using up your car, you're causing harm! Yet no one here really cares enough when they do this. And so many people do this!!

The issue that concern me

Hey there fellow humans and non-human intruders,

It's been a while, yes, but it's been a busy while. Over here it's gotten windy, and cold, so I'm finding myself devoting a lot of time to sulking and being upset about having to walk outside. It's also raining a lot, which sucks. But other than that, I am through a round of papers and stuff for uni, so that's good news. And thanksgiving is coming up with a weekend of Turkeypalooza at campus kitchen here. Exciting!

But now here's the thing: I have to write a philosophy paper and I'm struggling. Yeah, that's my issue for the week, OK!
So, that's the update. But here's some up-to-date problems around the world in case mine isn't big enough for you...
Case one
or this one...
or this little video

So enjoy worldwide misery while I sulk because of wind and a paper to write....