Some days are meant for throwing out all the rules and doing whatever comforts and feeds your soul.
For me today that was nachos, unfortunately I ended up with a Reuben sandwich but it was good enough.
I woke up battling whatever it is I'm battling. I've now determined it's allergies without a doctor's guidance of course, that would be crazy!
By the time I got to work I wasn't feeling it, but that doesn't matter. Life is made up of plenty of things you don't want to do but you do them anyway.
All morning I kept telling Giggles I wanted nachos. At one point I said I was so hungry 'I could eat a house, or a car, or maybe it was a horse.'
She laughed, because that's what she does, but then she said 'A house really? wow that's hungry!'
I was so famished I couldn't even think straight.
As soon as the show was over and we were able to leave I looked at Sunshine and said I want nachos!
She was in, so we ran out the door and headed across the street, but sadly when we got to the restaurant nachos were not on the menu so I did what any good producer does... I went to plan B.
A plate full of greasy goodness complete with melty cheese.. oh and french fries!
And I ate every morsel, every fry, every speck of bread, even the pickle... and oh was it good. (sigh)
The point is if I followed my head I would have had a salad, or something healthy to help me kick whatever this is, but instead I threw caution to the wind and went with my heart.... sort of. My heart with a slight compromise and it was worth every bite.
On the way home I was listening to a few guys on talk radio and they were talking about Patrick Swayze's wife texting and calling him after his death, even just recently.
The one guy felt it was weird, he kept saying 'he's been dead a year, let it go'. The other guy was right on the money at least from my perspective. He kept saying 'grieving is a strange process and everyone handles it differently. It's only been a year, if she's still doing this 10 years from now then there's a problem.'
I have never really felt compelled to write to anyone in that type of position but I think I will on this one today.
I want him to know from someone who's been through it and can now see it from the other side, that he actually 'gets it' in a way, when many people don't.
I'm not saying I'm sending Mr. Wonderful text messages, in fact I certainly didn't do that even the first year after he was gone, but I can understand where Swayze's wife is coming from that's for sure.
It took me 2 years to feel like I could get back to normal and it took the fear of turning 40 and being stuck in the same spot to pull me out.
From my perspective, I think the show host needs to know he handled the situation with compassion and was spot on with his thoughts.
Again, I guess its just another instance of following your heart and doing what you think is right. It's certainly not as tasty as nachos, but in some ways it's just as effective.
Everyone loves nachos so when you order them for the table everyone gets a little taste of the love to feed their soul.
You get that same love for making everyone happy by suggesting the appetizer (or dinner in my case recently). Ok so it's a little corny, not to mention a bit of a stretch but I'm running out of material here on day 120, and I'm still craving the nachos.
Maybe tomorrow, I'm not going to get them off my mind until I eat them.
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