Category — Microblog Mondays

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There was a statement made in one of the Second Helpings on the last Roundup that I can’t stop thinking about.  The person said that they always order what they want in a restaurant and never look at the cost.  They go to restaurants within their price range, and once they’re there, they allow themselves whatever they want to eat, even if it’s the most expensive item they’re considering getting.

This isn’t how I order at all.

I only look at menu prices after I’ve narrowed down what I want to eat.  I’m a vegetarian so my meal is rarely expensive in comparison to the other things on the menu, but if one pasta option costs $11 and another costs $16, I’ll go with the $11 one.  Even if I sort of wanted the $16 one more.  Mostly because once I put it in terms of “do I want this enough to warrant the extra $5?” the answer is usually no.

If it was yes, I would get it.  But it rarely is.

Do you look at prices in restaurants that you can generally afford?

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This blew my mind: every yes is also a no.  When you say yes to something, you are, invariably, saying no to other things.  Usually those other things are not a sacrifice or missed at all.  But sometimes they are, so you have to consider all the noes (the plural of no!) if you’re a person who says yes a lot.

Saying yes to writing this post means saying no reading a book.  Hanging out with the twins.  Cleaning the house.

That definitely makes me rethink how I approach saying yes.

Think back to your last yes.  What did you say no to?

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As the article points out, “Nietzsche detected the handwriting of envy everywhere, observing, ‘Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul’.”  Truth.

The article is about using your envy to discover what YOU truly care about vs. what society has told you to care about.  Because we all feel envy, and if we keep digging into that envy, noting when we feel envy, what we’re envious about on the surface, and then what we’re really envious about deep down inside — for instance, surface envy would be coveting someone else’s house; deeper envy is realizing what you’re coveting is assumed financial stability — then we can learn about ourselves and use that information to make decisions.

In other words, “envy can help us identify our vision of excellence and where need be, perhaps reshape it.”

My envy — like the example above — seems to stem from the idea of financial stability.  Rather than stewing in it, I’ve been trying to read financial planning articles.  The most boring reads of my life, but it’s making me feel like I’m accomplishing something.

What are you really envious of vs surface envy?

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I eat almost all the foods that put us in a bad mood.  I don’t know if there are more on the list because the actual book isn’t out until September, but if these seven are the focus of the book, I’m making some pretty poor life choices.

I’ve actually cut out diet soda for the most part.  I was having at least one glass per day, but I haven’t bought it in months.  Though I use artificial sweeteners in my coffee, so… I’m still getting the worst part of the diet soda.  I also use margarine when I’m baking pareve.  (Which is just a kosher way of saying it’s non-meat and non-dairy.)  Butter isn’t an option, so that wasn’t a very helpful suggestion.

I tend to bake my own sweets and we never get fast food (going back to that whole kosher thing).  But I love salty snacks (especially pretzels… mmm…).  And I use canned tomatoes all the time.  And cereal (though my main one, Special K, is on the correct side of the sugar limit).  So let’s say I semi-regularly consume 4 of the 7 and I hit 6 of the 7 on a monthly basis?

Crap.

How did you do with the bad mood food list?

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A professor set up his out-of-work message with a caveat.  Any emails sent between the dates he was gone would be deleted by the server.  The sender received a message instructing them to re-send the email again after an assigned date.  In other words, the professor returned to inbox zero, the same way they left for their vacation, and the burden to resend was on the sender.  He reasoned that if it was an important message, the person would resend.  And if they didn’t, he had to accept that fact in order to avoid being buried under email when he returned to work.

I kind of love this and I kind of hate it at the same time.  I think it’s brilliant AND it would depend on the person whether I resent the message.  I would really really really need to get the message through to play along.

What would you do?

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