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!