Silent Hill, Black Friday & The Impending Diet

The day after Thanksgiving – oddly not as depressing as usual, but then again I haven’t seen any of my family since yesterday so just wait, I’m sure the depressing will find me.

But work is keeping me occupied. Some data entry since Thanksgiving Week phone calls are seen as tacky here (I love that about GMG), which I’m juggling with trying to watch Silent Hill for the first time and helping Helen and Annette move their blogs to a new server. Just busy work, and therefor a dream compared to the last few days when every little thing was a crisis.

But it’s after turkey day, aka Black Friday,, and of course that means that office chatter has turned from Thanksgiving to how to get home and when to start the post-holiday diet.

Wait, back up – shouldn’t the post-holiday diet be, well… post the holidays? Since when did that start coming up in conversation in November? Granted, people are thinking more about their health these days and the holidays seem to speed by. I can see how you’d want to get a jump start on your weight loss, what with there being no real Christmas vacations anymore.

Still, it’s hard to wrap my brain around conversations that, in years past, would have been all about parade floats, religious debate and what we’ll all be doing for Hanukkah, Christmas, Yule and Solstice. Now replaced by chatter of whether or not the rolls are whole wheat (they never are, Ken!), whether or not turkey is the ideal protein and the many all-purpose benefits of vitamin E, which can apparently heal every ailment known to man.

For being health nuts, they tend to be more nutty than healthy. Granted, we’ve all probably packed on a pound or two during Halloween season and then Thanksgiving pops up, but lord knows there’s almost a month between the two and then a month between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Surely you can eat properly between the feasts without having to go on a diet because the holidays are some kind of free for all? But rather than eat healthy, the ‘rents just talk big and take supplements. Then go about their day with chips, soda, candy and other junk. Then they come to dinner and tell me why I shouldn’t have rolls on the table that aren’t seven grain. Oy!

At least everyone seemed to have a good time? That’s all that matters to me. Speaking of holidays, I have to get back to work or I won’t be out of here in time for my Black Friday sales – Coca-Cola tins, here I come!

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