The battle rages on...

I'm sitting at my desk.

I just came out of a meeting, and I'm ticked off. Like shake some people, slap some others, spew profanity into the air, throw things around the room ticked off.

But I'm at work, and I can't afford to get fired, so I'm sitting at my desk, mind spinning, unable to focus on work, with an angry face on.

And I so badly want to go to the vending machine and get a snack.

But I'm not hungry. I'm angry.
And so I don't go.

But I want to.

I have been fighting this mental battle with myself for the past 15 minutes.

I'm not hungry, I'm angry. I'm not hungry, I'm angry.
But you can get something good, you know? Wheat Thins, Baked Lays. They have good options.

But I'm not hungry, I'm angry.
But you've been good today. You had apples for breakfast, a salad for lunch, you can get a snack. You know you want to.

But I'm not hungry, I'm angry.
The problem with that mantra is that the other option for squashing my feelings is to throw things around the office, and that's kinda frowned upon.

But eating a snack at your desk? Who doesn't do that from time to time? Looking around the room, two co-workers are doing so now. They even provide vending machines for you to get snacks.

But I'm not hungry, I'm angry.
And I'm tired of being fat.

So I'm getting it out the only other way I know how. I'm writing.

I'm not hungry, I'm angry. I'm not hungry, I'm angry. I'm not hungry, I'm angry.
The battle rages on...

Playing Catch Up

Oh wow. I can't believe how busy I've been lately. I know, I know. You're probably getting tired of hearing it.

As it relates to blogging, the good thing about being busy is that I have lots of stories I'd like to share with you.

The bad part is that I have no time to write them down!

Everything from the cute (Jena's pet snail) to the mundane (work drama) to the somewhat scary (the bear was this close!) to the entertaining (sharing the stage with a star) to the criminal (should I steal these dogs?). And everything in between.

Much of it happened on our recent trip to the Smoky Mountains. Always a good time. If you've never been, you should totally go.

And now I'm playing catch-up at work and at home, on top of the busy-ness I was already experiencing. But I have got to get some of these stories down while they are fairly fresh. Seriously.

As always, thanks for checking in!

Hypocrisy

Have you heard about the man charged with murder for tricking his girlfriend into taking the morning-after pill? No? Well then, read here:

http://www.wcpo.com/dpp/news/local_news/water_cooler/john-andrew-weldon-tampa-man-charged-with-murder-over-abortion-pill-trick-on-girlfriend-fbi-says

Does anyone see the hypocrisy in a legal system that says if you want a baby, then to kill it is murder, but if you don't want it, then it's a legal procedure?

Am I the only one who recognizes the hypocrisy in that?

As someone who had an early ultrasound with my first pregnancy - at 7 weeks - and saw the heartbeat, and as someone who recently had a miscarriage, I cannot imagine my horror if I ever discovered that I had been tricked into aborting my child at 6 weeks along.

But at the same time, the fact that the system legally permit abortions of the same unborn children, the same heart-beating babies, because the mother doesn't want it... is disgusting and heart-wrenching.

I saw Jena's heart beating on the monitor at 7 weeks gestation. She was alive. A living human being with her own body, her own tiny heart beating on its own.

And yet in most states she could have been killed for another 5 weeks. In a few states, she could have been even older than that.

Disgusting. Selfish. Murder.

Wanted or unwanted, legal or illegal, killing is killing, murder is murder.

Bad Blogger

I know I've been a bad blogger lately. Things have been crazy busy & stressful at work, and at home I've been spending every spare minute trying to get things together for an upcoming family vacation.

Since I don't have a whole lot of time to report, I'm going to direct you to a blog post from Momastery that I just love. Enjoy! And I promise to be back soon!

http://momastery.com/blog/2012/09/18/yes-and-no/

Chick-fil-A FreshMade Giveaway !!

As if Chick-fil-A weren't already awesome enough, they're refreshing their menu with the addition of three new premium salads and an improved wrap... all for under 430 calories!

 I mean, who doesn't already love Chick-fil-A?!? I know at our closest location the drive-thru line is wrapped around the building every day at lunch time, and often at dinner time as well. Good food, great customer service, fun atmosphere... how can you not love them?

And yet, they're updating their menu to offer us even more choices. As someone who's trying to make healthier eating choices, this is very exciting to me!

As part of these new menu additions, they are offering a giveaway for my readers. One of my lucky readers will receive a coupon pack for two FREE Chick-fil-A salads.

How to enter

There are two ways to enter (do both for more chances at free food!)

- submit a comment on this post telling me the results of your "Are you a Starter" quiz (see below)
- comment on my Facebook page telling me your favorite Chick-fil-A menu item

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TERMS & CONDITIONS:
Multiple entries are accepted. Each comment on blog and FB will be assigned a number, and one winner will be chosen using MS Excel's random number generator (I'm a total Excel nerd). Entries accepted beginning 12noon EST on 5/16/2013 and ending at 11:59pm on 5/21/2013. Winners will be announced on this blog, on the KyFireWife FB page, and on the @kyfirewife Twitter account. In the event either winner does not provide contact information with 48 hours of announcement, a new winner from the original pool of contestants will be chosen.
DISCLOSURE
All thoughts and opinions shown here are exclusively my own, and no monetary compensation was received for this post. I did receive two Chick-fil-A coupons to allow me to try the new product.