I know it was a little late but after a very long day of very hard work I decided to treat myself to a small turkey sandwich. Not until my last bite did I realize that it was going to mess me up for the rest of the night. Thanks to a lovely little chemical in turkey named tryptophan, I’m now extremely exhausted with about 2 hours worth of work remaining before I can call it a night.
I know people who aren’t effected by it at all, I consider them to be weird considering it’s effects more than 90% of the people who eat turkey. Quoting the boyfriend: “Thanksgiving is the #1 nap day of the year!” and if you’ve ever been around my family on a holiday then you know that’s the exact truth. Everyone in my family, even those who have married into it, are asleep before their stomaches even get the chance to settle the food once they walk away from the table. All of my uncles seem to fall asleep and they’re pretty YOUNG guys so you’d think they would have a bit more stamina to fight it. The women are always fine though, no one understands it. We can easily get everything done without any real effect to us at all, the men are usually snoring until someone says “Dessert”.
Tonight, however, it seems to be kicking my butt. I don’t quite understand why but I think it may have to do with my ‘crashing’ from all of the Crystal Light I drank today. Just because it’s “Sugar Free” doesn’t mean there isn’t a sugar substitute in there throwing a bunch of energy at you.
It’s expected to reach the mid 60’s tomorrow so I was hoping to go to the beach and do some walking, the best kind of work-out on your legs is walking along the sand. I’m lucky that there’s about a 2 mile strip of stand stretching across a few towns down on the shore so it makes it pretty interesting. Unfortunately there are quite a few thunderstorms heading this way so I don’t think I’ll be able to do it. The waves tomorrow night should be awesome considering the storm is moving off-shore but Baby and I have tried that already and it didn’t quite turn out to be a good idea. He owes me a cup of coffee anyway so maybe I can still talk him into it…:hmm:
I guess I should get back to work.