the vegetable tragedy & why i hate tennis & children's soccer

i'm all for vegetables. in fact, i'm a big fan. until recently. and when i say recently, i mean in the last 25 minutes. i was planning on eating vegetables for lunch. until i took one bite and felt like i was going to vomit and spit it back on the plate. now thinking about eating a vegetable makes me queasy.
this is an issue because you can't just cut an entire food-group out of your diet. okay, well I can & did for about 12 years successfully (which is why this is so alarming), but you can't do it and be healthy at the same time. and that's not the same as being a vegetarian- i don't eat meat, but i REPLACE it with "meat alternatives." just like i do with dairy. there isn't any such thing as a "vegetable alternative," as far as i know.
i eat a healthy diet. the only thing i cut out isn't even a food- it's an artificial substance that is entirely not necessary to sustain human life and anyone who doesn't believe me can read my 20-something page paper on it (or the condensed 8 page version i turned in for a grade). TRANS FATTY ACIDS (aka. trans fat, "partially-hydrogenated 'insert oil type here'", etc, etc). a very good decision on my part, however a very annoying one according to my less informed (i think it's called denial) friends, family, and random acquaintances.
must work on this veggie thing.

so- TENNIS & CHILDREN'S SOCCER. okay- the la costa open starts on the 28th. which means there will be 10 times more traffic (freeways will have people from out of town, side-streets will have locals trying to avoid out-of-towners), people will drive like bigger assholes, and the majority of it occurs right in the area surrounding my current area of residence. meaning- if i have to go northeast to work, i'll hit traffic since i HAVE to take the freeway for part of it- 30 miles of surface streets would take forever. and simply getting to the freeway last time there was a major event here took me 42 MINUTES. it was 3.8 miles! which left the other 3 minutes to go the 26.2 miles to work. if i want to go south (dr., grocery store, um pretty much anything) i will hit the tennis traffic, plus the regular traffic of the 5-56-805 freeway merge. yay. and finally, to go inland (which is where basically everything is- gym, pharmacy, my mail, various appointments, school, uhh and other stuff) i can take the back roads which will be full of other people trying to avoid the annual invasion of people with a freakish affinity for tennis.
it just so happens that the huge SURF Soccer Tournament is also starting on the 28th and goes for 3 or 4 days. same general area. except worse. because to get to the freeway, you have to drive right BY the soccer field. on the road that has one narrow lane going each way; part of it over a bridge. and people who play soccer have parents who suck at driving. or decide to simply STOP in the middle of the road to let their 26 million kids out of the car while they find somewhere to park. and then in between games these people invade the very few establishments in the area (including Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf unfortunately).
this happens with golf too- when we have the Torrey Pines Open or whatever in feb. and Tiger Woods comes and people get all excited (because golf is such a thrill). i got to watch it from my hospital room window this last year- it helped me fall asleep...but the golf isn't as bad because it's located a little more "off the beaten path."

ranted. done.
i want to rant about e-bay but i'll wait because it may not be necessary.