Post Election Sanity

This week has been a blur for me. I have alternated between very good CR eating and silly eating. Election day was especially a challenge for me, since I am a stress eater. Apparently I am a celebration eater, too. I am pretty happy to see that democracy works after all. My other blogging is often political and I have a very low dailykos ID number. If you know what that means, you are a leftish political blog person, too. But, really, congratulations to all of us here in America. We did a good thing.

I was very invested in Howard Dean's candidacy in 2004, contributing money and time. This time, I was sort of shell shocked from that experience and didn't do as much. I did try to talk various people I knew into voting out the Republicans - who I believe deserved to lose big regardless of whether you support Democrats or not.

Any way, I am glad to be past the elections. Perhaps I can eat very good CR through most of the holiday season now.

Today, I ate odd food that I would rather have not eaten. In retrospect, I probably should have said no to some of it. My husband made spoon bread for breakfast. I ate too much of it, even though it was rather bland. Then at lunch I ate some french fries and onion rings at Ski Shores, a very old, classic Austin dive on Lake Austin. I also had a grilled chicken sandwich, which did not taste very good, so I threw half of it away.

When I eat silly like this, I record it all and then reflect on the foolishness of it all. Then the next day or two, I eat very well. This makes everything better as quickly as possible.