Plentiful Chocolate

A friend of mine suggested I tell my dietician my situation with the high deductible and ask her to reconsider. So I did. I don’t know what if anything will come of it, but at least I tried.

I didn’t rage eat anything yesterday, though I very well could have. Work was rough, chocolate was plentiful.

I did go to the Veterans Day ceremony in the auditorium. I had a lot of work to do, but I’m glad I went. It’s important to remember there are larger-scale struggles going on all around me, all around the world, everyday.

It’s important to remember the people brave enough to stand up for the rest of us. You’d never see me on the front line.

At one point during the ceremony, I got a little emotional, thinking about all of this and…everything. No one noticed.

In my defense, it was a lovely, moving ceremony. They invited all the local vets and their families to sit together as guests of honor. The speech path’s husband was in uniform.

In my youth I was very anti-war. But was I?

I say that without really thinking about it, but I was the quiet little nerd in eighth grade who opened my mouth one day and stood up to the school bully. So I’ve always known that sometimes you have to fight back.

So, while I’m not exactly gung-ho about war, I do accept that sometimes it happens, and I certainly support the people who put their lives on the line to protect me.

I happened to work with a lot of veterans a couple of years ago in manufacturing. They were good men.

I didn’t actually mean to make this post about Veterans Day, but I guess it’s á propos.

So, to all you veterans out there—you know who you are—I say, from the bottom of my heart: thank you. I appreciate you. ❤️🐇