Family US Road Trip 2015 memories - Day 19 (of 39): A low-key day with late wake-ups, family games, a movie, and pizza overload, and as always (for privacy), everyone is Abraham Lincoln....

July 6 - 1:15 AM

Day 19:

Tonight marks a sad moment in our journey. It is officially the half way point of our trip.

Oh well. Still a lot to do.

As promised, today was something of a day off from our norm. We didn't get up until nearly 10 AM. We played some games, did some laundry, and went and saw Inside Out. We enjoyed it. After that, we went to a pizza place for dinner and then watched a little something on Netflix (first time since we left, but we wanted to finish the day very low key). Over all, it was a relaxing day, without too much going on, which one would think would result in a short, concise, status. One would be wrong.

The place we had dinner was inexpensive and reasonably well reviewed, but, most importantly, it wasn't just pizza. Basically you could get anything they had as a sandwich, pizza, salad, calzone, etc including Greek, Philly, buffalo chicken, and the list goes on. I got the stuffed buffalo chicken burger, which was great because their version of a stuffed burger was 2 patties wrapped around boneless buffalo wings. That is a concept with which there can be no argument.

They also had a whole host of sides, including corn fritters, breaded deep fried cauliflower (or broccoli if you prefer), poppers, onion rings, mushrooms, zucchini, and, again, the list goes on and on.

So, of course, I had to have multiple sides.

That was about 5 hours ago. I am still literally painfully full.

Now I am a full-blown adult of at least average intelligence. I can do basic math and answer standard trivia questions. I am able to perform my duties at work as requested and generally take care of my responsibilities at home and yet it is always impressive to me how stupid I can be. It isn't just with food, but this is a good example.

Somewhere deep in my brain, there is something broken. I was aware of how much I "needed" to eat. I was aware of how much was "plenty", and yet that broken thing in my brain turned the dial up from "plenty" to "physically uncomfortable" while still managing to convince me it was a great idea at the time. It would be different if this was a brand new experience. If my post was something that began with "The most surprising thing happened tonight....", but the only "surprise" is that I continue to do these stupid things knowing the consequences.

This is, of course, not unique to me. Everyone has their "stupid" things, but that doesn't make it any less baffling (although, hopefully more forgivable), but rather more. The capacity of humans to do things to themselves they KNOW are detrimental may be their most impressive trait merely BECAUSE it is so illogical.

I have no solution to this problem or anything particularly profound to say about it.

It was just on my mind.

Because I am so full.

The craziest thing, of course, is that the whole time I've been writing this status, I keep thinking that I should bust open my chocolate bar that I made yesterday at Hershey.

And you know what? I think I just might....