Seven Deadly Sins

This big Internet/blog world is such an interesting place, each time I go exploring I run into something/someone new….I love it. Well a blog and blog-her I have found interesting is Huckdoll, met her on Cre8buzz and from there started checking out her blog posts. Last night she had a post on The Seven Deadly Sins, which is going to be an ongoing weekly commentary on how she fits into each sin. She apparently got the idea from the ladies at Caffeine Court and Secrets of a Black Heart. So I mosied on over to these blogs and of course I have now found two more blogs that I will be checking out on a regular basis – so many blogs so little time!! I also found this Seven Deadly Sins Carnival challenge intriguing. I have a hard time just throwing my personal life out there, but why not it could teach me something, and it just sounds like fun!! So I am starting with an easy one….can we say Chicken! (Love these chick pics...these are thanks to Mrs. Black Heart)

Gluttony denotes, not any desire of eating and drinking, but an inordinate desire... leaving the order of reason, wherein the good of moral virtue consists

So how am I gluttonous, well for those that know me they would say that this sin is the farthest from me. I embody many of the other seven deadlies, but my friends would say this one not so much….and this they would say because I am “a little thing.”

I don’t think you have to be big to be gluttonous so let’s break it down:

1. Inordinate; lacking restraint or moderation; too great or too many; immoderate
2. Desire; to wish or long for; crave; covet

I can be ridiculous about certain things, I call it stubborn or head strong, but maybe it is just gluttonous. I love things that are not good for me and in some cases loved them so much they have sent me to the doctor. My weaknesses are: mangoes, crab, li hing moi seeds, lemons, salt & vinegar potato chips, dried apricots/plums, and exotic food.

South American mangoes make my lips swell (I could use it in place of Botox…oops leave that one for vanity) my skin reacts to the oil on the skin of the mango like most people react to poison ivy. I love mangoes, will never give them up, so I just eat them a bit more carefully now. I have gone to the doctor twice for shots to bring down the swelling.

Lemons, crab, li hing moi seeds, and salt and vinegar potato chips give me the worst stomachaches ever, like an alien has laid some pod creature in my stomach and it is trying to bust its way out. Again I love these things and I will not give them up, I will deal with the stomach. No boys over on this night...oops vanity again I am going to have a lot to say on that one.

Dried apricot & plums make my throat itch and swell, but I continue to try new varietals hoping that I will find one that does not irritate my throat. I wasn’t allergic to them when I was younger and I refuse to be so now, I have practically beaten this one! This one nearly sent me to the emergency room three times.

Finally exotic foods, little miss adventurous here will try anything once, this one has kept me on the bathroom floor a few nights (wait was that the alcohol or the food?) expelling things that somehow looked better coming up then going down. Now what does that say to you about my gluttony quotient?

It is said that those who are condemned of the sin of gluttony must eat rats, toads, & snakes in hell. I have already eaten snake and frog's legs they tasted like chicken how bad can the rat be?

Since I just remembered –incredible that I could put this one out of my head it has given me so many embarrassing stories and nicknames, alcohol must definitely be added in with the rest of these. I spent the better part of my late teens and early twenties between a “buzz” and a hangover, there was definitely some gluttony there.

So like I said before I really don’t think weight has anything to do with this sin, I am gluttonous because I have an inordinate desire for these items. I lack restraint in my craving for these foods and I definitely do not partake in moderation. Well the exotic foods thing, there I do not gorge or over consume I merely try. You know what -this one I think should be in the pure stupidity category. Maybe there should be eight sins!