Inertia

I started a diet a few days ago. After following an extremely carb-heavy diet for the majority of this school year, suddenly switching to a no-carb diet has been wrecking me. The radical change in the type of food I was eating led to violent and explosive diarrhea. As I sat on the can, it got me thinking. There's always intense resistance to change of any kind.

Newton's first law defines inertia as an object's ability to resistance change to its state of motion. This idea of inertia doesn't only apply to the difficulty of accelerating a certain mass, but also to habits or addictions. The more "massive" it gets, the more you reinforce it, the harder it will be to break out of it.

It's 3 AM so I hope that made some sort of sense. Just in case, here's the tl;dr version:

Be careful about the habits you form. The more you reinforce them, the harder it will be to break out of them.

Just some thoughts I've been having. Trying to keep my blog posts a bit shorter so I can get myself to update more often.

- m(o )( o)bs

Interior Design

I love interior design. Yom (who shares a similar passion for interior design) and I just finished rearranging the Men's Den lounge for the fourth time this year in preparation for the Super Bowl, but we were so happy with the end product that we decided to stay with this layout even after tomorrow's game. We've even talked about it and we both agree that "interior designer" is near the top of our if-I-could-choose-another-career-what-would-it-be list. For real though.





When I was visiting Joanne in California this past summer, she took me to the Grove because it's super pretty. Here's a picture if you don't know what it's like:

Ignore me being fabulous and get an idea of what the Grove is like. What it looks like is actually not really that important. I just wanted to post another picture because I haven't used pictures in my previous posts and I wanted to make up for it. I'm also quite the narcissist so it was almost obligatory for me to have a picture of myself eventually. But that's a subject for another time.



Anyway, while at the Grove, we went to the Crate & Barrel there because furniture is awesome. Jo and I shopped around and kept an eye out for furniture we should have in our future home (yes, we're a little weird/crazy. DEAL WITH IT). We spent an unreasonably large amount of time there, especially given that we didn't have nearly enough money to buy anything. We did, however, decide on this incredibly soft Memphis Stone Rug. I've kept it in the back of mind and will continue to do so until I can buy it. I just have to say, that rug was amazing. I'd also like to say that, for the sake of our perceived normality, I don't usually have conversations with Joanne about the very distant future. But I do consider myself an honest person, so no can do. We are a very weird couple... or do other people do that too? Anyone...?

Just thinking about being in an empty room and being in complete control over what it will look like once I finish furnishing it is absurdly exciting to me. I thought about why it seemed so enticing to me, and I figured it's because of the satisfaction I get from it. When every piece of furniture fits perfectly and when each individual item in the room impacts its overall vibe, I feel an incredible sense of accomplishment. You really begin to understand what it means for the whole to be greater than the sum of its parts. It's magical.

What's the point of this post? There really isn't one. I just wanted to talk about interior design.

Though I love this gif, I am in no way a Lakers fan. Just making that clear. Go Bulls.







Have a beautiful Super Bowl weekend, friends. Take care, black bears.

- M(o   )(   o)BS