First of all, birth control pills do not make you gain weight. Read that over again. Digest it. Then accept that the reason you gained those 10 pounds was because you ate all those donuts and sit on your butt all the time. Yes, it was. Don’t argue with freaking facts. Or me for that matter.

In all seriousness, someone gave me the old “you can’t go on birth control pills! It will make you fat” speech the other day and I wanted to pummel them. Just because you hear something all the time, doesn’t mean that it’s true. I had heard that routine about the pill so many times I looked it up last year. Wasn’t true then, isn’t true now. I honestly think it’s a more general reflection of our society’s inability to accept responsibility for their own actions, but I don’t want to get all deep on you.

I have developed a strict believe nothing until you have looked it up policy. This stems from the time I was at this sleepover in elementary school and listened to a gaggle of idiotic girls yammer on about how you could see a munchkin kill himself in the back of one scene in the Wizard of Oz. They all excitedly crammed around the screen and “proved” it. When I actually watched the scene they referred to again at home without their bodies in the way and it’s a bird’s head. Idiocy on a stick, my friends.

I actually wrote a paper about this for a psych class once. I’ll have to dig it out and post it.

I understand the pill thing, I really do. The times when most people go on the pill it’s usually right after they get married or start a new relationship which, let’s face it, are times when you gain weight anyway. Accept responsibility for your fat, people!

Anyway, this uplifting rant was brought to you by the fact that the radio and a woman at the gym today both said that this week is the week that most people totally give up on their New Years resolutions and quit the gym. Now, since I cannot find any info on this anywhere, it’s likely an urban legend as well, but all the same, if you did quite the gym today, you should know that it’s not the pill’s fault.

“I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I’m gonna put pins into all the locations that I’ve traveled to. But first, I’m gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won’t fall down.” - Mitch Hedberg

I have zero desire to travel the world, particularly alone. My brother wants to just go off a backpack all over the place. A lot of people want to do that. I just have zero desire to.

I like going places with my husband or friends, but I think that is more about the people then it is the destination.

Maybe I just haven’t seen enough of the world to make an opinion….