Reflections on a Costco Run

December 28th, 2004 Entries

Like thousands of Americans across uh… America, I shop at Costco. It’s a great place to buy bulk stuff at a cheaper price. Anyway, so I’m looking through the clothes section because 1) i don’t like wasting time at the mall and 2) they have good stuff at a cheaper price. So I’m looking for a pair of pajama pants because mine seem to have a big hole right near my butt (either i fart really powerfully or my dog bit on it making a small hole and then my big foot got caught on the hole…not sure). I find a great pajama pant style, and here I run into a problem I always run into when I’m at Costco looking at pants.

I am a skinny Asian. My pant waist size is typically about 28-32; I have to use a belt when I’m using 32. Rarely does Costco ever sell pants at 32. They sell pants starting at like 40. The pajama size I’m looking for is Medium. The boxes say sizes range from Medium to X-Large, but all it contains is X-Large. It’s not like I’m not trying to find my size either. I pull down box after box rummaging through all the pajama pants looking for medium. All I find besides X-Large is one pair of Large.

You know why America is obese? Because clothes people make and sell larger sizes. If you accomodate obese people, then they will think that there is nothing wrong with obese. While on the other hand, you have skinny people who can’t buy pants, who see that the only way they will be able to easily buy pants is to become obese.

If Costco were to sell only pant sizes from 28-40, people would be like, “Oh, I can’t fit these. Better lose some weight because I’m obese.” Yes, pants would still be sold, less people would be obese, and they would enjoy their pants even more.

Oh yeah, and my contacts (also from Costco) are now made of silicon. Which is really cool, because supposedly I can stay up all night with them and they won’t dry as fast as the old pairs. But, that means I’m looking at the world with eyes covered in the same stuff as fake boobies.

Not another one!

December 27th, 2004 Entries

So once again, I have a new site up. Don’t ask me about the old one. I started it a while back, forgot what I wanted, and thus it’s gone. This is here instead, and I think it inspires me to write more too. Plus it’s a lot slicker. So I’ll stay with this.

Enjoy, comment, etc. Yeah, right.

Christmas 04

December 25th, 2004 Entries

I hate it how I don’t love Christmas as much as I used to. Maybe it’s the commercialism or how I just look forward to there not being any school. Regardless, it’s just not the wake-up-at-6-to-open-presents exciting. Or maybe I’ve matured. Christmas is so much more to that… and I can’t really explain it without babbling on and on about its importance.

But last night… Friday when we had the church hot pot potluck thing, we sang some songs and then Grant read the passage from Luke on Jesus’s birth. I think we’ve all read that passage a million times… and although it’s the basis of the entire gospel and our entire faith, we never really give it second thought. And so I’m listening and kind of not paying attention, and when Grant gets to the angels appearing to the shepherds in the field, it just so happens that Luca makes his way to the stereo and out bursts Handel’s Messiah. It was awesome. Something so simple, so unexpected, but it was so timely… God really uses children.

Man… how many years have I really not given much thought to Christ’s birth. I think a large part of me only focuses on Jesus’s kingship… and nothing more than that. It’s time to return to the basics, to return to how he came to Earth, why that specific way, and why I believe in this awesome miracle.

By the way… I think it’s time that I actually work on this front page a bit. Heh. Merry Christmas.