A More Exciting Life

Image courtesy of rakratchada torsap / FreeDigitalPhotos.net I’ve always had a terrible sweet tooth and comfort eating is something I’ve done a lot during the years, usually when stressed. And I mean quite serious binge eating here; a pizza washed down with Coke, followed by sweets, ice cream and/or various other things, often for several days in a row. And even when not stressed, I would indulge on Coke and chocolate after lunch at work, thinking that it would alleviate the boredom I felt about having to get through the afternoon. I fooled myself into believing that chocolate could make it better.   Of course it couldn’t. it was a very temporary help and soon after I’d either feel uncomfortably full of sweets or was fighting against the urge to go and buy some more to supposedly get me through a terrible afternoon slump, fooling myself to think that more sugar would give me an energy boost when I knew better. It would only make it worse.   I wasn’t always ...

I’m going to list some exciting things that have happened to me recently in a sad attempt to hide the fact that I haven’t really gone out to purposefully do something mega exciting. Well, this first thing is quite exciting. I was contacted about applying for a job in the Caribbean! Yes, really. One day out of the blue there was a message in my inbox from this lovely sounding lady who was looking for someone with my experience for a job in St. Kitts. I thought it was a joke at first. It wasn’t. It was very real. Ooh the excitement! I was going to move to the Caribbean, live there in a wonderful climate, walk on the beach every morning noon and night and swim in the crystal clear ocean just as often. Life would be idyllic and I would live in a small house with wonderful views of the coast and everything would be so relaxed. Image courtesy of Phil Thebault / FreeDigitalPhotos.net The next two nights I was seriously toying with the idea of applying for this job and spent hou...