too fat

[susandennis]

I am a morning person. I always have been. I even had a boss once who told me he learned quickly to never give me a task or discuss anything complicated with me after 4 pm ("4 am, no prob. 4 pm, no way"). So I try to stay away from decisions or thinky things of any kind after dinner.

Last night I failed. I've always wanted to take a hot air balloon ride. My brother said he's go with me. There are several companies offering rides around here but they only do it in Summer (so we couldn't do it when he was here last March). Something tripped in my evening half-mind last night and I decided to check on a ride for when he is here around Labor Day. I studied all the websites. They all start a 30-75 minutes' drive from here and 6-6:30 am. and they are all monstrously expensive. I finally decided on one and booked it and then you have to sign waivers so I did and I got my brother to. And I paid.

And then I discovered in a very delicately worded statement that they really didn't want people more than 200 pounds. And possibly, if they had room they would charge you double or if the trip was full, they'd kick you off. And then I discovered that all of the websites had much the same policy worded and veiled a variety of ways.

On the up side, they promised full money back on cancellation. So I cancelled. It's fine. It was too much money to spend on something like that anyway. Let the skinny people pay that and enjoy.

Plus there's the whole not spending money this month project which is now, whew, back on track and doing nicely.

I blame that asshole Mariner announcer who sometimes does the TV broadcasts. He was on last night and flapping his jaws about stupid stuff so I had it on mute. And that's when I got into trouble. Asshole.

Today he's on mute everywhere because it's one of those YouTube broadcast only games. Fine. Much as I hate those, they are far better than listening to him flap on about shit.

Yesterday, I started watching The Split - a TV series (AMC+) with Nicola Walker. I had watched the first episode before and never went back. There is a time and a place... This time I was hooked totally. Weird that. Then my brother texts me about Before We Die (PBS) which I had watched 10 minutes of a while back. It's Swedish with English subtitles. I just don't have the patience for subtitles and hate dubbing. But he said it was in English. WTF? Well, turns out there are two of them! The original Swedish and now a new one in English so yeah!

It's still very cool here. While the rest of the country fries its ass off, we're hitting highs of mid-60s. Next week we get up to low 70's. I'm sooo grateful. Really hot (which is 80s for us) is still at least a week and a half away. At the top of all the very many reasons why I love living in Seattle is the weather. A few years ago, I toyed with looking at other places to live. I love snow so much but all the snowy places had horrible horrible summers. I'm not a snowbirdy person. I could not find another place that had comfortable weather as many days of the year as Seattle.

Today's excitement includes cutting Biggie's pills in half. I love my life and that's not sarcasm.

Comments

[yesthatjill]

I’m in a conversation on twitter about chairs (looking at you, ikea) that have a 200 lb weight limit. I’m tired of shifting sideways in a legged-together chair and having it come apart.

[susandennis]

skinny people are fucking up the world

[bill_schubert]

Nice of you to say but neither of us made the balloon cutoff.

I had a vague hankering to do a skydive a few years back. I was going to do the tandem so I didn't have to go through all the training. Nope. Cutoff was way below my weight.

So, yeah, bring on the eggs benedict.

[mollywheezy]

I went skydiving (tandem, of course) and the cutoff for weight was 250. This was in 2006 that I did it, so I don't know if rules have changed or if different locations have different rules . . .

[bill_schubert]

Yeah, I just looked that once and then lost interest. I'd like to do it by myself but don't want to invest the time/money.

[desdemonaspace]

That balloon site pisses me off. Is it sexist? Sure seems to be. Most men I know are over 200 lbs.

[maisydaisy]

200 pounds is not a lot.

[wpadmirer]

I think Seattle is a nice place, and the countryside is stunning, but I would not be able to stand it raining as much as it does. I'm a sunshine person. So I accept the heat, and enjoy my daylight! (grin)

[sherlockishere]

Well, blast. A 200 lb weight limit is ridiculous.

[greghousesgf]

fuck em!

[mollywheezy]

I have always wanted to go on a hot air balloon ride and I would not meet the weight requirement either. Oh well. I'm also NOT a morning person, but I could manage for one day. ;)

One of my patients' apartment complexes had a sign up that said "If you weigh more than 200 pounds and break this toilet, you will pay for it." Of course, I saw the sign when I was sitting on that toilet. :P Good grief! I'm sure my patient weighed more than that, too, and it was her apartment.

[susandennis]

that's horrible!! on more than one level. arugh.

[msconduct]

I'm currently reading a memoir by the writer of The Split, Abi Morgan. Her partner gets encephalitis, is horribly brain injured, and as a result has Capgras Syndrome (he thinks she is an imposter who's replaced his real partner). Plus other terrible life events I won't spoil for anyone who wants to read it. She's called it This Is Not A Pity Memoir, but of course I do feel very sorry for her. It's always astonishing reading this type of thing how many curveballs life can throw that fiction writers could never come up with.

[susandennis]

yikes