Guilty Pleasures
I feel like everybody has some guilty pleasures. You know
that thing that you know is terrible for you, but you just want it anyway? I see
my friends agonizing over these things, sure that they are a source of great
shame. Personally, I’ve got a few, and they’re certainly a little unique to me,
but nothing worthy of great embarrassment.
The first thing to recall, I suppose, is that I don’t lead a
particularly glamorous life. I don’t get out much these days, based on my
school, and work, and there simply being not enough hours in one day to support
everything that I’d like to do. More and more often my blogging has been
relegated to the early morning hours. That being said, my first guilty pleasure
is definitely YouTube. I watch an inordinate amount of YouTube programming. It’s
really more time than I’m willing to admit, but we are talking hours.
Speaking of YouTube, let’s not forget my other guilty
pleasure of marathoning TV for hours and hours. Sometimes I just need to have
it on for background noise. To give you an idea, we’re talking two seasons of
true blood in two days. Yeah. Not to mention TLC. I watch TLC shows like there’s
no tomorrow. My roommate and I will watch Say Yes to the Dress until all the
dresses start to look the same and the women blur together.
I also have a weakness for baked goods and desserts. As I’m
typing this, I’m watching an Apple Brown Betty bake to perfection in the oven.
It was a lot tougher back when I had a mother who also had a penchant for
baking, but now that I have to do all the baking, it’s a little tougher to get
all of the culinary delights that I want.
All of these things taken together sound pretty damning. But
they’re not really. Tucked in between all the beauty gurus on my YouTube page
are videos about physics and math and biology and other intellectual pursuits.
I’ve also been running (nearly) daily to keep up with my carbolicious
desserts. Not to mention my reading of
books, which I’m sure you guys have been following through my once a week posts
on the matter. I suppose that the real message here is moderation, and it goes
for just about anything you do in your life. It’s okay to do the things that
make you happy, even if you can feel your mind turning to mush, as long as you
balance it out.
Let me know your guilty
pleasures and what you do to balance them!