Living Past 100

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For those of you who want to live past 100 years old, put your hand up. Me neither.
I was watching TV the other day and saw a clip for an upcoming Oprah show about defying age and living past 100. Apparently there is a diet that can help in this process.
My first thought/reaction to this was: why are people so afraid to let themselves age naturally? C'mon. Let your body do what it is supposed to do. This fountain of youth crap is dumb.

Most of this age defying life extension diet comes down to eating healthy. Wow, what a concept. Eating food that is good for you helps you live longer? I hope CNN is on top of this one. The other thing that these people do is calorie restriction. Honestly, I don't have the time to limit my caloric intake. I enjoy food and I enjoy eating good food. I'm not a hoarder when it comes to food and I eat what I know will be good for me. I drink Youth Juice to help me get my essential vitamins and nutrients everyday. Let's be honest, it is almost impossible to get all the servings of fruits and veggies you need in one day. I find I waste more than I actually consume. Since I started drinking the juice I have not been sick.

Aside from that, if I did make it to 100 years old I'd probably be moving slower than molasses in the winter or in a nursing home. Neither of which appeal to me in the least degree. I realized this morning that if I died tomorrow, I'd be okay with it. I'm sure I'd have a lot to answer to for when God judged me but I feel I lived a full life and am proud of my accoplishments. Don't get me wrong, I'm not looking to die tomorrow. I'd be happy to see retirement and travel a bit more.

I honestly try and live in such a way that if I did die tomorrow I would not have any regrets and feel good about the things I did for myself and others. I never want to walk away from life thinking "I wish I had ________."

I Love Technology

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Technology is every where you go and every day that passes there is something newer, faster, smaller, better.

My husband and I have a PVR - like a Tivo. We, or rather I, LOVE it! We can record whatever shows we want and watch them whenver. I love being able to fast forward through commercials because then I'm really not up for another hour watching something... I'm up for maybe 40-45 minutes.
There are two problems I have encountered with having a PVR:

First, the purpose of PVR, for me, is to record something and watch it when I am able or to record two shows at once. I stay up later watching a show I know I can watch tomorrow. I know the show will still be there tomorrow but on some level I suffer from FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) and need to know what happens right then. Somehow I justify staying up later by saying to myself that I would be staying up even later had I not recorded the show, at least I can ffwd through commercials. It's really stupid but that's what I do.

Second - I feel like I should be able to fast forward through everything and find myself looking for the fast forward button or actively thinking "I need to ffwd" before I realise not everything is capable of this. For example, the radio.



The other device I have that I absolutely love is my iTouch. I love the applications I can put on it and the fact that I don't need a button to push but I just touch the screen and it does what I want (for the most part). The problem is obvious. I touch screens other than my iTouch expecting the same outcome. My work cell phone doesn't even have a camera on it and I try to access settings by touching the small one inch screen. I have found myself at my computer making the motion to swipe or push an icon and then a voice says "hey moron, you can't do that..." Not yet anyway.