barriers to health

I've been putting together a list of things that keep me from being healthy lately (mental or physical). Here's a short sample.

1. There's a yoga class at my gym that I've been wanting to take but it's at 8:30 on Sunday mornings. I've thought I could set my alarm and get there in time, but who wants to set their alarm on Sunday morning? Do I look like the kind of person that would normally be up at the crack of dawn on the weekend? Bastards. The other yoga classes are during the week at lunch time or on evenings I can't make it. Hmph.

2. I miss the pieces of paper that go on the toilette seats. They don't exist here in New England and I'm always conflicted about the best way to handle going to the bathroom. How can a person relax on a public toilette if there's no paper? I know there are other options: hovering, putting a string of toilette paper down, wiping the seat, etc. But it kind of boggles my mind. Is it really so hard to have that paper in a bathroom stall? Is it a by-product of a more libertarian mindset over here, or does California have more militant public health officials? I just want the paper.

3. There are people who drive 55 in the car pool lane. No, this is not specific to living here, but in the last week I've been stuck behind slow people at least three times. In one week. Where did they come from, and why can't they get out of my way when I'm trying to get somewhere? Jeesh. All these cars were going so slowly that I was tailgating before I even knew it. Since tailgating is against my religion, I got irritated, and then I started yelling at the car in front of me, waiving my arms about and generally venting my road rage in verbal form where it will do the least amount of damage (probably). And two out of three people (I think) saw the arm waiving and either sped up or changed lanes as soon as they could. Which means to me that it was an effective communication technique between drivers.

4. More ice cream places would be nice.

5. I like wearing sandals in the summer, but I now have three mosquito bites on my feet, which is very irritating. Two of my toes- my toes!- are itchy. And, no, before you say it, it's not athlete's foot or anything like that. They're bites. And they're making me cranky.

6. This must be skunk season because I've been seeing them and smelling them all over the place. Last week I was woken out of a deep sleep by the ripe smell of skunk outside my window. How nice for me. And last night I saw one on the way home, jogging across the street, trying to get hit by a car. They're everywhere, which really sucks.

I know I had more, but I can't remember what they are right now. Do you guys have any barriers?