{"id":526,"date":"2009-01-30T16:54:19","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T16:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/?p=526"},"modified":"2009-01-30T16:54:19","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T16:54:19","slug":"on-role-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/30\/on-role-models\/","title":{"rendered":"On Role Models…"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I have a dirty little secret to get off my chest today.\u00a0 I feel freakin’ guilty as hell sometimes when people say I’m their inspiration, or they look up to me.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Well, while I have totally done some awesome things, and I have stopped doing a lot of totally un-awesome things, I also still do some completely reprehensible things or…have some things about me that are just plain weird.\u00a0 So in the interest of full disclosure, let me unearth some skeletons from my closet and see if you all run away screaming.<\/p>\n

\"\"1.\u00a0 I still smoke 1-1 1\/2 packs of American\u00a0 Spirit Lights per week.\u00a0 Yes, I am well aware of the fact smoking is bad.\u00a0 I should quit, right?\u00a0 Like the boy in the picture, I know it’s a bad idea every time I light up, but I do it anyway.\u00a0 I have cut down over the last few years – I used to smoke in a day what I do now in a week.\u00a0 I can go a few days without one, but I also cannot completely quit.\u00a0 It’s like when I tell myself I can’t have chocolate\/chips\/etc ever again, I go craaaaazy.\u00a0 Think raging PMS times twenty.\u00a0 It’s getting easier to go longer periods without one, but I am still not going to hurry myself to quit.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 I enjoy a good, solid night of drinking about once a week.\u00a0 I budget it into my weekly calorie plan and typically only eat about 1000 calories or less of food that day (unless I am really and truly splurging).\u00a0 I’ve read the same articles everyone else does that say that women should have no more than 1 drink per day.\u00a0 I just save mine all week for one night.\u00a0 Unless I drink more than one night.\u00a0 Then, I’m just screwed.\u00a0 Incidentally, one of the best hangover cures I have ever found is just slogging through a somewhat intense cardio workout.\u00a0 Just…not too early in the morning (read: 3pm).<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 I eat white rice, white bread, white pasta, and potatoes without shame.\u00a0 Some people, like my mother, claim it makes them craaaaaazy and once they have it, they just can’t stop.\u00a0 Some people say it fills them up more.\u00a0 I will absolutely acknowledge that it has more fiber, but generally, I am at or above the recommended fiber count per day.\u00a0 My poops are regular, yo.\u00a0 For me, I find no difference between getting the calories through white stuff or through brown stuff.\u00a0 I also have never been so miserable in my life as the few months I gave up carbs on Atkins.<\/p>\n

\"\"4.\u00a0 I regularly go 3 days without washing my hair.\u00a0 I don’t look like this or anything, but I like my hair with a little…character.\u00a0 Now that my face is slimmer and I have added pigtails, braids, ponytails, buns, and little poof buns to my hair repetoire and have amassed a decent collection of hats, I can easily go 4-5.\u00a0 I have, on occasion, febreezed my hair instead of washing it.\u00a0 I shower, brush my teeth, and wash my face daily – but long hair is sometimes a drag to deal with.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0 Sometimes only the wrong motivations get me to workout.\u00a0 Like, fear of getting fat again or that I’ll never get to my goal weight.\u00a0 Or the fact that someone I inspired to start workout will see me skip a day and…I dunno, but it’s a thought.\u00a0 Or the desire to burn off enough so I can go splurge on dinner.\u00a0 Sometimes just the thought of getting a day off to sit on my ass will get me through it.<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0 In general, I think babies are ugly.\u00a0 And I have no affinity with children.\u00a0 They scare me to death.\u00a0 They look into my soul and know things they shouldn’t.\u00a0 Ok, maybe not, but I am totally missing the mommy gene.\u00a0 There is one kid who’s the exeption to the rule, but honestly, we are still ackward around each other even after 2 years.<\/p>\n

7.\u00a0 On cold nights, I really and truly wish for a little more fat on my legs and butt – I honestly get too cold and I know it’s partly because I can’t really pinch an inch anywhere down there.\u00a0 I would totally enjoy if it could come off my stomach though, I’ve got plenty of inches to spare there.<\/p>\n

\"\"8.\u00a0 I am such a stargate fangirl, I joke about the fact that IRL there has to be a stargate and the show is just for plausable deniability, but I really and truly hope I’m right!\u00a0 The picture on the right kinda makes me giddy and hopeful at the same time.<\/p>\n

9.\u00a0 While I am really and truly happy I lead a more active life and enjoy the fact that I have more energy and can keep up with anyone and all that, some of the most cherished days are the ones where my ass barely leaves the couch and we order delivery food for the entire day.<\/p>\n

10.\u00a0 I listen to horrible music sometimes just because it’s fun.\u00a0 Just think of the stuff you hear on the top 40 stations or the hip hop stations…anything that makes me feel peppy.\u00a0 But only in my car, alone, or on my mp3 player.\u00a0 I would never subject anyone else to it.\u00a0 And I’ll probably not ever admit to specific bands or songs, because it’s less fodder to be teased with.<\/p>\n

Does this make me a terrible person, or am I just human?\u00a0 Go ahead and run away screaming now if you must.\u00a0 I’m just not one to try to be something I’m not, it’s just too exhausting.\u00a0 Anyone have a skeleton in their closet they want to get out?\u00a0 Feel free to hit me up in the comments…<\/p>\n

…And pretend this was posted last night, please!\u00a0 I just got too sleepy to edit it…at least today will be a two-fer!<\/p>\n

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