Vegas winds make me eat

Vegas winds make me eat.

Uhhhh…..Whuuut? Yes….and I’ll explain why. First…..don’t judge why I haven’t blogged in a year. I had another kid and I’ve been a tad busy.

Now….why have I been resisting the urge to eat all day? It took me all day to figure this out, actually. I’ll back up and describe my morning for you. After dropping my beloved children off at school and preschool, Scarlett and I headed over to Lowe’s for some retail/paint choosing therapy. This Lowe’s is in the direct flight path of McCarran International Airport. Yes…I live in the flight path of all of you wonderful friends who visit Vegas once a year. I live so close that I hear plane engines roar at night. Now, as I grabbed sweet Scarlett out of the car I noticed Mr. jumbo jet turn sideways a bit and then abort landing by gunning that sucker back into the air. (Those puke bags that are usually tucked neatly in the back of the seat will need to be replaced Miss Stewardess.)

Let’s just say it is stinkin windy today. It is windy season in Vegas baby! There are days with gusts of 70 mph winds that blow every loose trash bag in this city to Lake Mead. It may or may not have inadvertently cleaned out my car today when I opened the door to let Coop out at preschool. (Sorry Green Valley Methodist). At that very moment when I saw that plane abort landing…I wanted food. HUH?!? I ignored the weird urge and went back to my paint sample buying.

After staring out of the window for three hours today accomplishing NOTHING I realized what was happening. I’m reverting back to “Alabama tornado weather” stress binges. When I lived in the ‘ham, (Birmingham to my Vegas peeps), tornadic weather would boom about twice a month each spring. Ali would rock back and forth in front of the TV watching the hook echoes and munch on what the heck ever I could find…..chips, chocolate, tree bark….anything. Today, my friends, I felt the urge to chew…….as I nervously watched my neighbors palm tree snap in half and our trash can land on my neighbor’s fence. Vegas peeps are annoyed by the flying sand and swaying trees during these said wind storms. I, however, get petrified with memories of tornadoes…so I munched. I munched last week while watching my southern peeps deal, yet again, with horrific weather. I also chewed very frantically on my lip as my Excursion (Mr BIG and heavy diesel) rocked back and forth at the stop light today.

I apologize to my weight watchers points. Those allotted points were gone at 2:00 pm this afternoon. Today’s windstorm cancelled tball AND swim team practice. There is so much dust in the air that we could play tic tac toe with our pointy fingers on the car windshield. The weather forecast calls for “hazardous winds” until early tomorrow morning. Hey…….Martin kids…..where is the sugar free Jell-O?