Friday's Food For thought

It's Friday, and that means another version of Food for thought... Now for the specials of the day...

Appetizer

Let's see, somehow after I started out this am I had a muscle spasm in my lower back. The past two weeks I have been working out like crazy. Monday-Friday, every day. I haven't given my muscles a chance to recover so.. it was not doubt that at some point they were going to just spasz out. Well they did it today. I just arrived home from my trip to the chiropractor and am now on the couch with laptop and candy. Yes, candy, it always soothes my soul, not my tummy. It's a treat I allow myself every now and then...cherry sour balls and chocolate covered raisins.

No matter the occasion, heartbreak or celebrations...I usually have red licorice, the old fashioned kind, it's the best, but I've switched to sour balls and choc. covered raisins.



The Main Course

I am a gadget person. Which essentially means for me that I need a new cellphone every six months. Unfortunately for me, it doesn't come cheap. As you know the only deals you get on a new phone is when you sign up with a new carrier or renew your contract. I renewed my contract six months ago and got a new phone, the treo 650, which gave me so many problems technically that I had to return it and get another one, that one too gave me problems so I traded that in for another PDA/phone. At this point you may think, it's not the phone maybe it's you.

Well, this new device is just too big and I knew it, but I got it anyway. So here I am five months later hating it. It phantom calls my friends when I am singing alone in my car or when I am in the middle of a call if anything touches the screen poof! the call is gone. Did I mention it looks like a small laptop is attached to my waist when I clip it to my pants? Many of my friends BEG me to not do because I quote, "you look like a geek." However when it sits in my purse, if anything hits it, it begins the phantom calling.

After a phone call to my carrier today I am getting back my treo, which I truly do miss despite it's malfuntioning. I think the fact that I have a rather substantial credit on my account and basically told them I wanted to cancel my contract was the deal breaker. Or is it that it's been six months and I need another gadget?

Dessert

For November the weather could not be more fabulous. It's been in the 70's, sometimes near 80's and the trees are turning beautiful colors. The warm wind blows this majestic rainbow of dancing colors across the streets, yards and under our feet.

Last night at the outdoor boot camp exercise program I attend was so amazing. I loved being out in the warm autumn air. The leaves were fresh and crunchy under my feet and it reminded me of when I was a kid. We used to pile the leaves up and jump into them and hear the crunching of them beneath our feet as we would hit the ground and begin to roll around in them. We would wrestle with each other in these piles of leaves throwing them up and around as if they were conffetti. As they rained down around us, you can smell Fall. That in itself is so indescribable. We would end up with leaves in our hair, shirts and jackets. But nobody cared. Those are the moments I relive in my mind every Fall...wish we could all be kids again.