I spent the entire afternoon in the kitchen and it seemed like old times. FrankenThumb is healed; no more bandage and the tender new skin is getting tougher every day. And every day I get a little more bold and a little less chicken shit. Body and soul are indeed connected. It helped that it [...]
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Cats, dogs and Chinese food
January 9th, 2010
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Don’t read anything more into this title than three separate subjects in this post. I am certainly NOT implying there are cats and dogs in Chinese food. At least, there isn’t in any of the places I’ve ever patronized. Any old hoo, I had to take my cat to work on Friday. It’s a long [...]
Posted in Rambling crap that I am too tired to spell check, apropos of nothing, dinner menus, fine dining, food | Tags: cat, Chinese food, dog, Hoylier, husband, office, pets
It’s a new day
January 4th, 2010
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I tried to be good today. I really did. I took my lunch to work, a Healthy Choice chicken & rice dish vaguely disguised to taste like something with some kind of pseudo-Asian sauce. I had two of these Jello mousse-pudding cups – awesome, fat-free and 60 calories, score! Then I had to deal with [...]
Posted in coffee bliss, dinner menus, fail, happy rationalizations | Tags: fail, grilled cheese sandwich, skinny vanilla latte, Starbucks, weight loss
Perfect pasta
November 10th, 2009
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After spending the afternoon looking over the DASH diet, I find that it’s pretty common-sensical: Lots of whole grains, veggies and fruits, lean meats and seafood, low-fat or no-fat dairy, heart-healthy oils and limited amounts of sweets. Keeping the sodium to less than a teaspoon a day is a challenge. That pretty much means giving [...]
Tonight’s dinner? Yum
September 14th, 2009
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OK, our nightly meal was a total fail as far as dropping pounds, but my wonderful hubby grilled up some fan-fucking-tastic cheeseburgers, with grilled portobello mushrooms and grilled red onions for topping. Out of this world. And to help my nasty head cold, I am sipping pineapple-banana-orange juice with a full day’s supply of Vitamin [...]
