remember when "gay" meant happy?

K asked me the other day why "gay" can refer to both men and women but Lesbian only to women.  I told him I didn't know exactly but the latter was derived from a historical place near Greece.

Ever notice when gay couples started getting married, it ceased being referred to "gay marriage" and is now simply "same-sex marriage?" I figured it had to do with the "gay" being not PC when considering it defaultly means men, but I'm starting to wonder if the whole "same-sex" aspect to be less PC to transgendered persons. Gender is not equal to sex and I was under the impression that the rainbow was the whole LGBT spectrum. Or is it LGBTQIA?

Anyways, a marriage license isn't all it is cracked up to be, as the saying goes, half of marriages end in death. With that in mind, I figure that the happiness over the marriage equality ruling will be short-lived by advocates for "same-sex" marriage when they notice those non-same sex couples with children that don't get married.

In the grand scheme of everything, marriage is a tax, just like any other fee paid towards a government entity.

New Fitbit

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Fitbit update

Fitbit, it's now trading on Wall Street! 

I don't see how it's anything worthwhile given their customer service/tech support is lacking the ability to communicate well. I told them my naps aren't tabulated into the weekly graphs, so they told me to reboot my tracker. I rebooted my tracker without my problem being fixed, so they told me to delete the app and re-download it to get it back to "factory settings," though I'm dubious that's how apps work. Since I'm dubious, I waited until a challenge, which was unrelated to my sleep issue, was over before messing with my app, but yet again, the sums of my sleep weren't tabulated.

Sergio at Fitbit told me my Fitbit is broken, so I sent him some info about my employer and such, though I think the Android app is problem. Anyways, everyone is a bigot towards us sleep deprived, it seems.

Regardless, I started counting calories over the weekend. The weekend may not have been a great time to start a diet, but counting calories isn't exactly dieting and I'm not going to not celebrate Father's Day without steak, chocolate donuts, and apple pie if they are presented to me.

Counting calories is nuanced. Not everything is perfect serving sized into my gullet. I just assume marking my intake much like a soccer defender takes note of players in her zone. As long as I acknowledge food I encounter, I am accounting for it.

The Fitbit app allows you to scan bar codes and to add those items to your daily caloric intake, rather simply. For all other things, googling menu items and the add quick calories option works as well.

I'm hoping to ditch my fat jeans by the end of the Biggest Loser competition, especially since one pair has holes in the crotch, but even today, I am not doing great given I like leftover donuts and pepperoni pizza. To offset those items, I walked to the cemetery and paid respect to my dad a day late. After which, I had calories to consume in my budget.

No one is making me participate in the Fitbit challenges and such. It's an odd coincidence I don't want to wear my fat jeans, and I want fit in my jeans from a few months ago again. Free will is funny when it seems to coincide with peer pressure conformity.

I also think this article about dieting is funny.

Fitbit thoughts

I got my Fitbit  a couple days later than everyone else, so I am way behind in the various challenges. Two people from my store are in top 3 of 185, but neither seems to have a life where they are depended upon to do things unfun. I am not complaining just annoyed at my desire to be competitive with kids half my age.

Today marked the first day of Summer Vacation. We did stuff, the kids and I, at least.

I can't do things like long walks since I don't have strollers for my older kids and they lack the interest to walk as much as I do. D and I have been known to walk to the cemetery and back, but it's over a mile away so I can't walk with my older ones.

I will no longer need to keep a sleep log. Fitbit knows when I'm sleeping. My life is getting simpler in that sense.

Rabbit rabbit

Aw, it is the first day of June...

Conformity conflict

So I got in the mail a packet. Before I saw the front addressed to me and the return info, I saw band exercises diagrammed through the envelope, so I thought why am I getting an exercise packet?

Was it from my physical therapist and hand surgeon or from our insurance company? The latter has been known to suggest various programs that seem mildly creepy since no one else in the family gets the courtesy calls(I am neither primary holder nor a minor lacking freewill).

Imagine my surprise to see my employer be the return address. I open and see a bunch of initiatives regarding weight loss and team competition towards rewards. I am not on their insurance plan. I don't work full-time. So the encroachment upon my home life annoyed me enough to post on FB the above pic with a comment about my employer suggesting I need to lose weight.

Last time I saw my doctor, he told me not to lose any more weight. I have enjoyed a lot of cake since that visit, so I could probably drop a tenth of my weight and not get in trouble.

The question is whether I let myself go all in and conform.

The fact that I wanted to start running to use shoes I had bought years ago is a moot point. I didn't have time to run given my rest and parenting schedule conflicts, and I don't have anymore free time now.

First World annoyances are trivial.

May being good thus far

Today was Free Comic Book Day, so K and I were planning to go to Epic Loot to score free comics for a few weeks. We're taking the month off from Y swim lessons, so I got to sleep in since Epic Loot opens an hour before noon on Saturdays. B tagged along on our trip which found us there at 11:30 or so. My receipt said 12:20,  so I think we go there later than 11:30 but not much later. Regardless, we left and went to my mom's since her home is on the way back from Epic Loot.
K and I saw Avengers: Age of Ultron. It was okay. I just wanted to see it so Twitter wouldn't need to be avoided due to spoilers.
Day was nice but I was busy mostly with K to do anything around house or in the yard. I so want to get stuff done or at least have a green yard.