Conversations and Controversy

It's hard to believe it's already getting to be the middle of January and I feel all I have done is worked. I have had the pleasure of seeing and talking with friends who I miss daily and I am always increasing my knowledge, and of course trying to keep an open mind when encountering controversial conversations (that will come later). For now though, I thought I would give an update on the progress of my new years resolutions (or lets call them just goals to make them a little less cliche). I have updated my facebook status a few times with my gratitude, though I think for the next I should be more specific to the daily situations I encounter. I have NOT exercised though.. I was so motivated the first week of January (in my head at least) but then when I awoke I thought "I better get a healthy breakfast before I exercise" and then when I realized I didn't have the food I needed I thought "I better go out and get some great protein filled food" and spent te first 30 minutes browsing the internet for a meal plan that would work for me and for exercise ideas to get in supreme bikini weather fitness in just over a month! By the time I finished browsing, eating, and shopping I had to go to work. The following days were sort of the same - waking up with the thought about exercise, eating breakfast, browsing the net, and then looking at the clock "oh my, I guess I have no time now!" whatever my excuse was for the day.

So.. ok, it's Friday.. though in my career that doesn't really matter too much.. so it's mid-week... though again, in my career I think it will be easy to exercise on a night shift and I start night shift tomorrow.. so I will try and find some better motivation tomorrow.. or the next day... ok I'm not going to lie.. it's easier to exercise when it's not a weekend because the man is not home and I don't have to worry about looking silly or getting in his way. I digress. From now on, to reach my goal of better fitness I will start exercising Monday - Fri even if it's only for 10 minutes a day to start. That's an achievable goal. 10 minutes! And to keep me motivated I will read motivational speeches like these:

Or I can just pretend I'm being chased by a giant dinosaur!

So that being said, I have started to come up with a financial plan to reach $0 on my credit card and have been working a few extra shifts giving out flu shots to the terrified people hearing news of the hundreds of people hospitalized for influenza and the handful that have died.. that's been reported. It's a little frustrating that many people never get an immunization their entire life and the minute an outbreak is reported they contribute to a long line of people, a short supply of vaccine, and overworked nurses. I'm all for making your own decisions regarding immunizations, but it frustrates me when people complain about being short the vaccine they wanted to have and having to wait in line for 2 hours when they could have come in October and walked right up to us in 5 minutes and be done!

This is where the controversial conversation came up. I have realized that maybe I'm not as open minded as I would like to think I am. Maybe I haven't done all my research either and have taken my information from people I trust to be reliable.. but sure, there's always a chance we are being lied to and the government makes up the importance of vaccination so that they can control the power of the people. It still frustrates me when people are completely of the opposite minds and unwilling to even sway a little to believe there is some truth in the research that is produced.

Anyway, I suppose I should get to work now so I can engage in even more mind-opening conversations and do my part for society.