dolmas leftover rice tea macaroons |
free refills of Dr Pepper Although I would have liked to eat something else...like vanilla cake...mmm. I never do know what I want to eat these days...so much food is unappealing. |
half a snapple lemonade cantaloupe, honeydew, and blueberry fruit salad |
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If you count other times, then I had a bunch of pretzels and a few life savers. And a mixed berry nutra-grain. |
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dried apple slices 4 oreos water the discussion ran around the theme of unpleasant animal encounters, such as scorpions, organized squads of raccoons, and hantavirus carrying mice |
alas, neither of us were discussing organized squads of raccoons. |
friend and i planned an '88 Buick drive to Downville, NY, because it sounds like it should be my home town. |
For afternoon tea I had a really messy, juicy orange and a ginger kiss. |
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.......fucking california! if you were in arms reach i'd slap you for saying that today i had a small salad from the deli and a cheapo frozen pasta dish. |
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Anyway, I actually ate meat today: Half a can of steak chili, broccoli normandy, with extra broccoli... It was so so... |
steamed lacinto kale tempeh oranges double bergamot earl grey tea |
-Timbale and beet salad for dinner. Yum. I'm thinking of becoming a vegan, but I look at today's menu and wonder what I'm thinking. Hrm. |
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lemon soy yogurt |
what's wrong with guac? today: braunsuager sandwich peach crackers. |
i get 6 grams of protein and no mucus with that! |
I had a good old fashioned Taco Supreme from Taco Hell! |
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juice veggie sushi candy |
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Baby carrots 3 Pecan Sandies water Today the conversation was about "hoors", getting a ride home from the bar with an officer, and walking home from the bar and falling in the river. Apparently the crew had a good time last night. |
grilled ahi with peanut sauce roasted chicken breast with black bean sauce smoked salmon lox with capers rare roast beef with spicy white horseraddish salad greens with mango vinegarette cold melon and cucumber dill salad cold marinated mushrooms lobster dim sum red argentinian wine dessert: chocolate mousse yesterday my dad took me to Baci Bistro and i had a seafood salad. a huge pile of nalo salad greens with carrots and beets served with a swordfish steak, two jumbo shrimp, calamari steak, and flaked salmon. i love to eat. my tummy is happy. PMS hell is nearly over this time around. HUZZAH! |
poppyseed bagel w/ cream cheese cup of coffee back when I was in the antiques business, I called this type of meal a temporal sandwich. And you better be in Philly, patrick, cos you know it's not a Philly cheesesteak otherwise. |
But, more importantly, Antithesis reminds me to tell the brain taco story. The other day, we went to eat a small Mexican resturant called La Bamba (Burritos as big as your HEAD!). I, being one of those terrible non meat eaters, ordered a vegetarian burrito. (Not, regrettably, as big as my head.) However, while reading the menu I noticed a very peculiar item: brain tacos! Though I tried to convince him, Antithesis refused to order the brain tacos. Now. My question is--should we go back and make him eat them anyway? I mean, what would the effects of the brain tacos be, exactly? I'm really curious to see if he actually got smarter or something. Or will he get some cool diasese? Who knows. So, anyone here eaten brain? |
"Here, little boy... eat some COW BRAINS" urk. I am now being reminded that they MIGHT NOT BE COW BRAINS. well. that's comforting. thanks. Would I get smarter? *smirk* If I could get any smarter, I'd.... um... nevermind. Anyway, why would eating cow brains make me smarter? I might start farting methane, but that's the only side-effect I can think of. Are cows smart? Gary Larsen can't be wrong, I guess. Still, I feel like there should be some weird dancy ritual whenever someone eats brains. clan of the cave bear, anyone? Lunch today was Ramen (with garlic and pepper) because my boss forgot about me. I was lonely. *sigh* |
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"Braineaters" - The Misfits Enjoy. Eat up, antithesis! Brains are good for you! |
Cape Cod Potato Chips Nantucket Nectar Apple Juice which gave me a big mouthful of glass shards. I thought that lid came off awful easily, and darn if it didn't have that little plastic "sealed for your protection" thingy. Somebody obviously dropped it, and then put it back in the cooler. I would like to thank that considerate soul. Also, it was spoiled too. MMM, lunch. |
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I thought you did not blame things on PMS? |
I read a bit of this new journal I bought today, the Annals of Improbable Research. It's something like the Journal of Polymorphous Perversity. Pretty funny. It's interesting how much everyone likes to talk about their lunches, isn't it? |
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and Diet Pepsi. Breakfast was bigger -2 boca links, a cinnamon swirl bagel with yogurt spread, and coffee, followed shortly by a glass of soy dream and peanut butter on toast. (I'm experimenting with removing most of the meat from my diet. If I enjoyed cooking, it would be easier.) |
Eating meat is hard fuckin' work. You either have to go out, which means money and finding another human whose company you can stand for half an hour and finding a restaurant and waiting for a table and multiplying by 15% or. . . you can make your own meat. This means thinking of how to cook the meat, going to the store, choosing which of the 8000 shrink-wrapped meat packages best suits your needs, paying, going home, cooking extra-hot to kill off the nasties, putting the meat away with more shrink wrap so the nasties don't grow back, eating the rest of it tomorrow cos otherwise it'll go bad, and then washing all the dishes which are now at risk of having meat nasties all over them. . . in contrast, the following vegetarian dishes are all certified very very lazy: lucky charms with milk bread and jelly bread and peanut butter dried pineapple jazzers so you can eat them right out of the bag and don't need a dish 100 slices of american cheese cheez-its(R) wheat thins(R) ramen noodles, fried into a ball so you don't have to worry about spilling the broth (note that you don't have to wash the frying pan, as the residual MSG makes it even less likely that anything will grow on it) bonghits quaker toasted oatmeal with chocolate milk chocolate-covered pretzels kool-aid strawberries oranges triscuits(R) VANILLA CAKE |
We had a little fight over the keyboard just now over who gets to tell the story. The result: he brushes his teeth while I type one version, and then, having adroitly avoided the brain kiss of doom, I will consider the last statement and go puke. Alright. The setting: a darkened Mexican grocery named La Bamba. A gameshow is on. A woman is stripping to Toca's Miracle in front of a slackjawed hispanic man. "I'll have a taco," he says. I nudge him. "A...uh...a brain taco, at that!" I cheer silently in victory and take a chug of my 7-Up. (In a bottle, at that, _heche en Mexico_!) the taco arrives, neatly packaged in paper. Cheerily, I hand the man the money and we flee, almost knocking over a small child in the process. There are two tacos in the bag, we realize, as we sit on the steps in front of the credit union. He opens one. I silently rejoice that I am a vegetarian, as he prods the meat. It looks suspiciously like steak. I can't contain my glee as he slowly brings the brain to his brain-virgin lips. I wonder momentarily if he'll die from eating the taco, like those people in Tennesse who ate squirrel brains. He chews thoughtfully. "It tastes kind of like liver," he says. "You know, like vital organs. I'm eating a cow's vital organs! OHMIGOD!" Yum, I think. We gave the other one to a man at Safeway while buying alchohol for the mammoth party we're hosting later. You all can come too. If you can find us, that is. Call 707.961.1244 for directions. We'd be happy to have you. Or write us. |
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What's even funnier is that I had already eaten brain before and knew it, so I don't know why they were keeping it from me. As a kid I didn't question what was put in front of me to eat. I still don't very much... I had pizza and garlic knots for lunch today... and a cappuccino... mmmmmmmm |
3 devilled eggs, lima beans, corn bread, blackeyed peas, potato salad, dressing (no chicken), 7 layer salad with Fritos, a piece of cantaloupe, slices of cucumber (peeled), broccoli casserole, fried okra, fried yellow squash, slaw, pecan pie, a baked thing with blueberries and fresh peaches and some kind of crumbly granola-like topping, and iced tea (sweet, but not too). might have missed a thing or two in that list. can't remember the upper right hand corner too well. it was all good, I ate every bite and it made up for the bad dining experience Friday night. |
refried beans & rice w/ cumin, louisiana hot sauce, and lotsa cheese. mango. iced coffee, no sugar. |
rye bread portobello mushroom soup white chocolate cheesecake with raspberry swirls on the dish half-stick of cinnaburst gum mmmmm...king of prussia mall.... Then I bought a ferociously red shirt half-off at Oilily. Too bad it's too small. |
NONE OF YOU CAME TO OUR PARTY. I would've noticed. The brain was actually pretty good, but I wasn't very hungry when I ate it. I think they over-spiced it to hide the fact that it's, well, brain. I may have some cow's memory of it's mother lodged in my gut right now. Gotta love it. Lunch today was leftover chocolate / mudslide cake and saltines. oooh... portabello ... I used to make portabello steaks. yum. that's what I'm having for dinner tomorrow. I need some examples of exotic (WEIRD) foods for vegetarians to get back at Isolde for that ...colorful... rendition of the brain story. |
haven't had lunch yet, but for breakfast i had a small bowl of granola with papaya and organic milk, a hard boiled egg, 2 cups of coffee and 2 chocolate truffles that i hand selected yesterday from the vast selection of treats at neiman marcus. i ate the other four truffles yesterday for supper. each was outrageously delicious. concurrently i am on the hunt for chunky monkey. that stuff is really hard to find. wish you could mail order ice cream. alas. Daniel? :-) |
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And 2 tigers milk bars....yummy! They are THE best. And of course, some powdered Powerade. And I am definitely looking forward to that vanilla cake...mmm |
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oh man, do you people eat like this all the time? |
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apple water more water grilled sandwich of pesto and spinach i love hearing about what people have for lunch, btw p.s. vanill cake sounds so good |
Lunch: Bowl of Rotini pasta with butter, garlic and lemon-pepper seasoning. Snack: 5-6 mini-milky ways (bite-sized) and a KitKat while we discussed plans for features sections for the next month. To drink: Red creme soda. |
6 oz turkey breast from a 22 lb turkey i roasted this weekend. salad. green tea. tasty enough but definitely boring. i want more truffles! time for coffee! yay! |
cuban black beans & rice (moros y cristianos) assorted chunks of: cantaloupe, honeydew, watermelon, mango, and orange iced coffee |
stefans oj. and I didnt pay. |
Lunch was vegitarian maki. |
trader joe's soup in a cup thing. black bean. broccoli, cauliflower and cucumber. |
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chocolate truffles have turned into aliens in my belly. but the pregnancy test came back negative. perhaps alien impregnations do not require significant changes in prolactin. |
oh, and i haven't had lunch yet, but i predict that it will be a can of tuna and some indian curry vegetables, or something equally unexciting. |
Ritz coke peanut butter on a slice of bread a banana Animal crackers |
A big bag of all green and black m&m's. |
1/2 a loaf of dill rye all the mayonaise i could pack into a babyfood jar six carrots 64 oz diet coke |
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pasta salad peanut butter on toast lemonade |
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My mother used to make brain fritters and force us to eat them. Actually, i think it was the texture that put me off the most - all squishy. I don't like slimy, squishy food. We just drowned it in tomato sauce so you couldn't taste anything else. Thank heaven for Watties. Moonit- I LOVE Stefans OJ. |
I asked the dentist about my amalgam fillings once. "should I worry?" he said that they cause as much mercury leakage into my body as eating--what did he say?--a couple cans of tuna a month. well, that's probably for a single filling. I have five or six or something ridiculous like that. so if I'm already eating the hg equivalent og a dozen tuna sandwiches a month, I hardly need to be consuming the real thing as well. today I had for lunch the same thing I had yesterday. I eat the same dinner every night, too. spaghetti sauce, no pasta. I've been doing that since last december, I think. I wonder how much this bothers my new friend. we had sex six times on saturday. six times! over the course of 18 hours, which included a night's sleep. it was all great fun until his wife came home. |
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slices of colby cheese as of yet unpickled egg i fished out of the pickling jar coca-cola |
eat some protein, pack a lunch, it takes three minutes, I do it every day. |
i decided to eat 4 of the tiny chocolate covered cookies for dinner, but i couldn't wait until supper time so i ate them on the way home from the store. i can't exercise until i visit the surgeon on thursday because my guts are hanging out all over the place. yesterday i looked about 4-5 months pregnant, today it is more like 5-6 months, but i haven't gained any weight. in fact, i'm down yet another pound this week overall. my body has turned into a calorie inferno and i get to basically eat whatever i want now. fun! but shit, i wonder what the fuck is going on in there. maybe hernia from weight lifting? the symptoms get worse when my bladder and/or stomach are full. it looks fairly ridiculous because my arms, chest, back and legs are all very visibly muscular but my tummy sticks WAYYYY out. my belly button is also infected, which is totally gross. i'm secretly hoping that this becomes a recurring problem so that my insurance will pay for the cosmetic surgery. |
a little ice cream for dessert later so I can keep my beta-endorphin craving going. Headaches be damned. Oughta watch the truffles, like, um, where'd the chocolate ones come from, and who's the pig that routed em? |
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2 slices of pepperoni pizza glass of milk peach snapple cinnamon roll 7 oreos (I skipped breakfeast) |
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Chicken Cordon Bleu, rice pilaf, green beans, bisquit with butter and honey, and a jumbo (as always) coke. |
I had a Creamy Pest Instant Lunch. Pretty tasty, actually. |
hee hee i had cake and coffee! |
I didn't realize that I missed the 'o'. Oh, and I went all the way home to grind up some beans and make some fresh coffee with my coffee press at my desk. I needed coffee badly. |
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Just come work with me. I guarantee an increase in appetite. Buckets of soil (dry) must weigh about 30 pounds or more, and you'd lift one up to chest level once every ten-fifteen minutes. Plus shoveling. Plus using the rocker screen (good for rear deltoids!) then you would be doing what amounts to body-wieght squats each time you got out of the unit or the area excavation... Or, you could work with Steve the Gothic Archaeologist, doing "shovel testing": digging an 80cm deep hole every fifteen meters, all day. You'd be expected to get at least 30-40 done, a day, of course. I had one light eater wokr for me. Slowly, her lunchs got bigger. Not very much, but bigger. Plus, she'd always be hungry by the end of the day. Right now, I'm pretty hungry, but only spent a 1/2 day in the field. On a full day, I'm starving by 3:30. |
whoop i mean sem, what shall we cook when i arrive? the vodka tomato cream sauce pasta or mavis most famoust pesto or what?? |
I can't choose between the two. You'll have to see what I have and work your magic. |
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6am: vodka 9am: a peach 1:30pm: something leftover (pasta?) 3:30pm: a second peach 4:15pm (off work for the day) vodka To come... Who knows? |
airplane food for lunch. and a shitty chicken sandwich in toronto. |
currently contemplating more cookies. this is my recipe for lentil stuffing (for the wheat intolerant eater): 2 cups dry lentils 2 cups chopped or sliced celery celery 1 yellow onion, chopped lots of minced or crushed fresh garlic 1 lg can mushrooms or 1-1/2 cup fresh mushrooms 3/4 cup raisins chicken or poultry seasoning tumeric ground ginger oregeno crushed red pepper bring 2 cups dry lentils to a boil, reduce and boil on low for 10 minutes. rinse in cold water, drain, put in a big bowl. saute in some olive or canola oil the onion, garlic, celery, and mushrooms. add in any or all of the spices to taste. cook until the onions are clear. i suppose you could add in here any other vegetables you want or think would taste good. mix vegetables in with the lentils. add raisins. stuff it all inside the turkey (chicken, hen, duck, whatever) like regular bread stuffing. |
The Belly Report: no weight gain or loss as of this morning. still feeling and looking about 5-6 months pregnant. i got some weird enjoyment when sales clerk asked me when i'm due. i told her early december. bloating still gets worse after eating or when my bladder is full. mild lower abdominal cramping. belly button infection slowly going away with help of cockroach sized antibiotics taken orally twice a day and liberal application of topical steroid cream. doctor appointment tomorrow at 10 a.m. |
goddammit kel, update your weblog. |
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health schmealth. alien impregnations take a backseat to Working For The Man. dave, i'm always in the water, sometimes with a suit on, sometimes not. if something wants to get up that way, ain't no nylon trunks gonna stop it. |
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Oh yeah, and sour cream, garlic, and paprika and cayenne in the dip to go with the Sun Chips described above. |
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pack of starburst blue powdered powerade (lots) OJ I woke up at like 5:17 today...so I actually was hungry and ate breakfeast. Raisin Bran, eh, Jay? |
French Fries, and, of course, Jumbo Coca-Cola |
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blue powerade does funny things to my poop. i recently got back from a trip to canada where i was eating fish and chips like it was my fucking job. i found a good place that went easy on the batter. |
my breasts have shrunk to a C cup, on their way to a B. i've been a D since high school. what the bloody fuck is that about? it's not as if i've lost all my body fat. yet. Belly Report: gained one pound. tomorrow i go to the gynecologist. i'm one of the few women on earth who always enjoys going. my female parts have rarely functioned properly, and while they've never healed me or given me even remotely definitive answers about my female health problems, nevertheless it's always an interesting experience. i'll admit that i'm obsessed with the fantasy that they'll find i'm pregnant when i get the ultrasound, though i know the chances of that are a million to one. the last time i had sex was late april. he pulled out. but not only that, i don't ovulate. i had a pregnancy test that was negative. so yeah, not at all likely, but still, i can't get it out of my head. Lunch: humongous salad [clams, greens from my garden, spinach, tomatoes, red cabbage, bean sprouts, lentil/pea/azuki bean sprouts, carrots - with creamy garlic dressing], can o' tuna, 5 little chocolate covered cookies, green tea. i ate it all with chop sticks beacause i couldn't find a fork. i need to get out of this office. |
2. Dedicated, hard swimming and stealthy sperm can find their way into pre-ejaculate love lube. 3. If you had a refrigerated post office box, you'd be getting some Monkey from the Mainland. 4. Don't worry, they'll never suspect I'm directly addressing you...here. 5. What IS lunch anyway? |
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people. this is banana *and* peanut butter ice cream with walnuts and huge chunks of thick chocolate covered peanut butter cups. it was everything i could do from eating the entire pint. that would be 1,240 calories of ice cream. that would be just 300-400 calories short of an entire day's calorie load. instead i ate half a serving, tricking myself by saying that this way it lasts longer. though i doubt that pint will remain through the weekend. in fact, i plan on eating Monkey Wrench for breakfast in the morning. oooh except i wanted to make oatmeal pancakes*. but those can wait til sunday brunch i suppose. or maybe i'll have oatmeal pancakes with a scoop of Monkey Wrench on top! yes! see? don't pregnant women have food hallucinations and fantasies like this? ah, but i have two jars of spicy dills stashed away in the back of the cupboard. they shall serve as a litmus test. Daniel, at this moment i would pack my bags and move to wherever you are if you promised me crab-stuffed shrimp and Chunky Monkey. uh. not that you'd want me to actually do that. |
Grilled ham and cheese on sourdough bread Onion Rings and..A JUMBO COCA-COLA |
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read the previous post! it's ice cream!not a game! it's hat size! not dick size! |
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I have no appetite today. I don't feel good. I had a mouthful of VO5 for "breakfeast"...ugh...that's not going to be too pleasant on the digestive tract. |
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I ran out of instant lunches. Hmm... First thing I see.... |
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I've never heard of Monkey Wrench. Is it new? Ben and Jerry's was bought by Dreyer's earlier this year... It's good to know that the ice cream is still good. I met my first love over a bowl of Cherry Garcia. Ice cream is such wonderful stuff. |
And got some in my mouth. Which was then swallowed (nervous reaction?). And the "wonderful" flavour of shampoo permeated throughout my system. Yuck. Although money would be appreciated! |
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As for my appetite, my mom's here now and is making me eat like a normal person. I guess working would be a healthier way to achieve that, but I'm not gonna refuse free restaurant food. |
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Breakfast--6:55am: vodka Lunch--12:33pm: a chai glacier Damn. I should eat something. Maybe Anti wouldn't mind if I ate his cat. Tib looks kind of tasty. A little thin, though. |
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Breakfast: 1 egg & 2 egg whites scrambled with bean sprouts and 1 tbs shredded parm cheese (125), 1/4 cup oatmeal (75), 1 cup cantelope (120), 2 cups coffee with 2 tbs 2% organic milk (20), 3 tbs Monkey Wrench (100). Lunch: 1 Pure Protein meal replacement bar (280), 40 oz Glaceau "vitaminwater"** (80), broccoli salad (100), 1 carrot bran muffin (200), green tea. Aniticipated Dinner: salad from my garden greens (150), seared ahi sashimi (200). Ben and Jerry's make Monkey Wrench and it's fuckin divine. i forgot to mention the fudge chunks before, which i discovered in this morning's tasting. so that would be banana and peanut butter ice cream with walnuts, peanut butter cup chunks and fudge chunks. yeah baby. Belly Report: after gynecological exam and internal ultrasound, i was scheduled for surgery the morning of August 15th. the paperwork reads thusly: Condition: PROFESSIONAL: left adroxal* mass [aka alien impregnation] LAY LANGUAGE: Complex mass in left side of pelvis Proceedure(s) PROFESSIONAL: Laproscopic* ovarian cystectomy, left salrino* sophonectomy*, possible abdominolysis. LAY LANGUAGE: look in abdomen and scope, remove all or part of left tube and ovary and mass, possibly divide* scar tissue, possible biopsy on right ovary. RISKS: bleeding, transfusion, infection, injury to bowel/bladder, uterus, pelvic organs. * indicates probable misspelling due to my inability to dicipher the surgeon's handwriting ** recommended by doctor; blood tests indicate acute electrolyte depletion |
take your vitamins vitamin e really does work on scars good luck vibes going your way lunch, the red bell pepper soup, the tuna rollup in the crunchy wrapper they press in some kinda waffleiron contraption. right now i'm having a beet. fresh beets are beautiful, earthy things. and now i have a pot full of brilliant cooking water, and a bloody-looking stove. |
i don't have any problem recommending or encouraging others to get surgery if they need it. get that taken care of and good luck. ovaries are nothing but trouble anyway: get rid of 'em. will they let you keep the tumor? |
And is it really necessary to post more than 50 times a day, as you did the other day? Pretty please consider going for quality rather than quantity. <rant over> |
1:32AM--Breakfast: heated timbale with Anti. I keep forgetting that he needs food more than I do. |
somebody explain to Isolde that YOU NEED FOOD TO SURVIVE. she eats tea, vodka, a piece of fruit a day and a bit of pasta every now and again (read as: every other day) when I finally get hungry. Now, I'm thin as a toothpick in a torture-rack-stretchy device, but she manages to eat like 1/4 of what I do. If I EVER, EVER hear you complain about being dizzy again, I'm going to knock you out and stick those nasty nutrient IV thingies in you. Or just watch you like a hawk for 24 hours and shove food down your throat every 6 or so. |
from http://www.oncologychannel.com/ovariancancer/symptoms.shtml Despite an increased awareness of ovarian cancer in the news and other media, the ability to detect this disease is poor, and many women are not diagnosed until their tumors have reached a late stage. Ovarian cancer ordinarily produces no distinctive symptoms, and most tumors metastasize, or spread, to other abdominal organs before being diagnosed. Metastasis can give rise to ascites, a build-up of fluid in the abdomen that usually causes abdominal swelling. Such swelling may be the only indication that something is wrong, and it is the most common reason given by ovarian cancer patients for first visiting a physician. Other vague, but sometimes lingering symptoms of ovarian cancer include: * bloating * abdominal/pelvic discomfort or pressure * changes in bowel function or urinary frequency * nausea or loss of appetite * back or leg pain * a malnourished or wasted appearance * fatigue * gastrointestinal symptoms (e.g., gas, long-term stomach pain or indigestion) * unusual vaginal bleeding see also: http://www.medhelp.org/lib/cancernet/200950.htm how's this for Friday Night Fun? |
It's a good thing you're so healthy otherwise, it'll help in your recovery. You have my posittive thoughts going your way. |
I went through this with my ex wife on Valentine's Day in 1979 when there were less understandings and less knoweldge of the thing. She lost half her operating equipment, and a child growing outside her womb, nearly died from loss of blood because the surgeon didn't know what was going on really until he got in there, thought it was something it wasn't, and yet she fully recovered and had three good prenancies after that. But that was medicine twenty some years ago. It is good you are healthy, that medicine knows what it knows now, that you have folks here sending you warm thoughts and prayers and ice cream. Yeah, shit, I'm older than the laser. Let us know what time of cut and paste- I will drum for you. SUggest other sorbjites who believe in protecting the spirit from unwelcome complications while in surgery do the same. Or do whatevere the hell they do for the same. Remember, the door is painted red, kiddo, and ice cream awaits. |
it kind of reminds me of the story about woman and the brine shrimp or lobster or whatever the hell that was except that story was totally sick. |
the fact that i match all but one of the symptoms of having ovarian cancer is probably just a coincidence. it could be worse. i could have Turrets. so i just got back from the market. i bought the following items: 2 packets cream cheese granulated white sugar graham cracker crust whipping cream condensed milk coconut extract blueberries crushed pineapple capers lamb chops teriyaki sauce crab meat bean sprouts spinach ghiradelli semi-sweet chocolate chunks oh, and even though the pint of Monkey Wrench is, as of 5 minutes ago, half way empty, i lost 3 lbs this week. calorie inferno, baby. this is why i've worked as hard as i have over the last year. |
Daniel, what is Reliv? i'm sure i could buy it online somewhere if i can't find it around here. |
isolde: eat something. today is my last day on medication. antibiotics from hell. i have been confused. i want to use "dave" as an adjective. you know, as a compliment. i am going to go to my favorite inanimate object, whatever that turns out to be, and name it dave. later. i think i'm going to change my handle to dbone. its testicular/mammalian duality is strangely compelling. |
dbone: did I get it right? |
just had lunch (it is 10:01 p.m.) veg. biryani, chhole, naan, Coke®. dave, what story about the woman and the brine shrimp |
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One morning around 5am 22 year old Susan DaLucci of Kittery Maine, woke up with a painful need to urinate. At first she thought she had diarrhea, but when she stood up out of bed, she realized that it was urinary pain. It was very similar to the feeling of having diarrhea, just out the wrong hole. She wobbled to the toilet and upon sitting on it, her vagina erupted into the most horrific messy farting noise anyone has ever heard. In paralyzing pain, Ms. DeLucci for the next few minutes continued to push and squirt out of her vagina a burning tide of wretch and filth while she gripped the sides of the toilet, white-knuckled. She was screaming wildly, and the neighbors called the police. When medics arrived they found Ms. DeNucci unconscious lying on the floor of her bathroom wearing nothing but her bath robe. Running down her leg, was a stream of brown and green syrup. The medic had to transfer her to a stretcher, so he grabbed her left leg which was bent crossing her other leg, to straighten her out. She was lying there all twisted up. When he lifted her left leg to straighten her body out, he exposed her vagina at which point a creature, no larger than the tip of a finger wormed its way out of her genitals and landed on the floor with a wet popping sound. Shocked, the medic stared at the creature that was lying on the tile bathroom floor in a casing of mucous. It was a tiny mud shrimp and it sat there on the cold floor gasping for water while flipping itself back and forth. The horrified medic turned to the toilet as he felt the nausea setting in. When he put his face down into the toilet to puke what he saw was so horrific that to this day he cannot look into a toilet without convulsing. The entire toilet bowl was boiling with baby brown mud shrimp flipping and splashing at a furious pace. If you think that is bad - wait until you hear how it happened: Ms. DeLucci official death was the result of a combination of shock and severe head trauma. She stood up over the toilet in pain and when she saw what she had done, she went into shock and fell, smashing her head on the toilet and then on the floor. It is believed by medical police that on two nights before the accident she had purchased a live lobster at a fish market. While lying in a tub, she gently inserted the creature's tail into her vagina to derive pleasure. At that point, she held a lighter under the creature's face causing it to flip its tail in a violent snapping motion. The medics found a lesbian XXX video in the VCR and the TV was positioned on a table in front of the tub. The lobster was found in the kitchen garbage can wrapped in a paper bag. Traces of Ms. DeLucci's DNA were found on the lobster along with pubic hairs that had wedged themselves between the lobster tail joints. The lobster's face was lightly burned with the same fuel used in lighters. The lobster's digestive track and colon were found to be full of mud shrimp egg casings. Doctors believe that the lobster had eaten them (they are common in the water at fish markets and are usually harmlessly boiled to death) and the lobster had crapped them out into Ms. DeLucci's cunt when she was torturing it. Maine mud shrimp only take two days to gestate and Ms. DeLucci was only four days away from getting her period, doctors believe that at that point of her menstrual cycle, her womb was the perfect PH balance to grow these mud shrimp which are a much larger version of the popular "Sea Monkey" pets sold throughout the US. Over night the eggs had hatched and the mud shrimp began doubling in size every ten minutes. You can imagine the pain she was in when she woke up that morning and gave birth to well over 1,000 mud shrimp in her toilet. of course, it's bogus. |
as if a vibrator somehow wouldn't measure up to the pleasure delivered by a live lobster tail... the fresh blueberry vanilla cheesecake is chilling in the refrigerator. |
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I hope your wierd growth is benign, Sarah... |
best wishes, sarah. hope your friends give you neat presents. |
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thanks everyone! i'm ok. so far nearly half the people i've talked to about this said they had a friend or knew someone who had the same thing. it's not uncommon. it sounds scarier than it really is. i haven't had lunch yet, but i'll be having the lentil and squash curry soup i made yesterday, which rocks, and maybe i'll hunt down some sushi. i ate two big pieces of my homemade blueberry cheesecake on saturday night. last night i finished off the Monkey Wrench and even poured all over it the Mississippi Mud fudge sauce that i heated up. i weighed myself this morning and it turns out i've lost 3 lbs this week, which is miraculous, considering since last sunday also the truffles and chocolate covered cookies. 95% of the time i've had the opportunity to eat chocolate or sweets, over the last year, i chose to abstain. it's what i had to do to get to where i am now, but now that is all over for me. now i feel as if i am really tasting sweets for the first time and it's beyond words. it's highly experiential. |
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When I got into work this afternoon, I had a slice of sourdough bread and then later I had a coke and bag of pretzels. I really ned to eat something 'real' and substantial for dinner. Or... or.. I'll feel dumb for not eating right or something. Sara - where are you? you sound a LOT like another sara I've talked to on the web. Chances are, you're a completely different Sara than I'm thinking of, you just have some similar tastes. Confirm or deny? |
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dinner: Arby's dinner combo - chicken sandwich, curly fries, Mt. Dew and a handful of Hot Tamales candies to satisfy my sweet tooth. |
in that order. for supper i'll be having vicodin. |
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it's hard to say. The doctor relayed information me to right after the surgery when i was still way out of it, so basically what it sounded like to me was, Wah wah wah ovary wah wahhhh wah wahhh wah tumor wah wah wah. </charlie brown's teacher> actually, the surgery was fine, but they fucked me up real bad in the recovery room. when i came to after surgery, everything was in slow motion because i was still dealing with anesthesia. i wasn't feeling well. my belly hurt and i felt groggy and dizzy, and maybe even like i might faint. i had to concentrate on my breathing. the nurse asked me how i felt. i told the truth; i told her i was in pain. she extrapolated or assumed that this meant i needed narcotics. i didn't, nor did i want drugs. i was groggy as fuck, confused, disoriented, and in pain, but DUH, i just had abdominal surgery... i expect that having pain is natural in this type of situation, and the pain was not unmanageable. before i could protest, she injected my IV with demerol. bad idea. i became even more dizzy and lightheaded. i was confused, groggy, and i had to try to concentrate even harder on breathing because i could tell i was about to faint. i looked at the monitor next to my head; it read that my heart rate was 33. now, your average person's heartrate is about 70. my average heart rate, however, is 40-42. i walked into the hospital with a heart rate of 40. yes, 33 might be dangerously low for post people, but most people are not as cardiovascularly fit as i am. also, my blood pressure was just fine, about 115/80 - which is actually a little high for me. my heart was still pushing plenty of blood at 33 beats per minute. but the nurse failed to check my chart to see that my regular heart rate is 40. she called the anesthesiologist and reported my 33. he told her to give me a drug, the name of which i cannot remember right now, but it ended in "itol". the drug is like epinephrine [also known as adrenaline], which is used to bring up the heart rate. when i was a kid, periodically i would have severe asthma attacks. once they gave me a shot of epinephrine to increase my heart rate and get oxygen around my body and i had a very bad reaction to it and passed out. it was awful. she told me she was going to give a drug to increase my heart rate and i knew right away this was Very Bad. in my groggy, confused, drugged up state, i tried to stop her from putting the "itol" drug in my IV. i told her the story about my reaction to epinephrine the best i could. she said, "but this isn't epinephrine, it's different, and we need to get your heart rate up, it's too low" and before i could say or do anything else, in went the drug. within seconds i had a siezure. my heart started pounding, my blood pressure shot up to 170/120, and all i could do was cry. i couldn't talk, i couldn't move, and i began breathing very very hard and irregularly. and they were like, "What's wrong?" because i was crying, but i couldn't say anything because i was having a siezure. "We can't help you, dear, if you don't tell us what's wrong. Your heart rate is only at 72 right now, that's perfectly normal." What i wanted to say but could not, was that 72 was not normal for me. What is normal for you is not necessarily normal for me, you dumb fucking bitch, now step away from my IV before I get out of this gourney and kill you. But i was having a siezure, so i couldn't say that. It took 2 hours before my blood pressure came down to 140/90. At that time, she asked me if i wanted more demerol. I couldn't talk, so i just shook my head. No thanks, bitch. Just step away from my IV, alright? I don't need anymore drugs. She asked me every 15 minutes and i kept refusing the demerol. So get this. Are you ready? Without telling me, she put valium into my i.v. and i passed out. As i was passing out, i thought that it was a post-traumatic reaction to having the siezure. I'll admit it felt great to be that relaxed for whatever reason. When I woke up from the valium, she told me she had given me valium so that i would calm down, and after i went to sleep she gave me more demerol. I am not making this up. Ironically, her giving me the valium was the most humane thing she could have done at that point. I was able to rest and relax after 3-4 hours of terror in the recovery room, and when I woke up I felt immeasurably better. I nearly felt lucid, but not quite. However, I was supposed to be in the recovery room for 1-2 hours at the most. I ended up in there for 5 hours or more. Eventually they sent me to a private room when my vital signs stabilized. When I got there, the new nurse asked me, "Do you need a percoset?" "I do not require any more narcotics. I'll take some ibuprofin and that will do just fine." But I'll tell you something - it's fucked. the minute you walk into a hospital, you are no longer in control of your own body. they don't listen to you; they do what they want or what they think is best and then they end up doing unnecessary damage. This is a perfect example of why health care costs are out of control. That entire ordeal cost my health care insurance provided a fuckload of money and it could have been avoided. I didn't need or want the first dose of demerol which was the trigger. Drugs drugs and more drugs. They sent me home with no less than 4 bottles of prescriptions. One is an estrogen, one of 800 mg of ibuprofin, one of 750 mg of vicodin, and one 5 mg of valium. After that whole ordeal, i made the nurse call my doctor and give the scrip for valium so that i could sleep, since at the time of my release from the hospital i had no intention of taking any vicodin. i still haven't taken any. i've prefered to manage the pain so far with ibuprofin and Ben and Jerry's. but last night i took 10 mg of valium and slept from 9:30 pm to 11:30 a.m. today, only waking up because my phone rang. i'll do the same in just a few minutes. good night everyone. thanks for your concern and good wishes, it means a lot. y'all stay healthy. |
valium's great, though, ain't it? once when i was in rehab i had a pulmonary embolis - the blood in my legs became so congested they forced liquid into my lungs, filling them up. like trying to breathe through a pinhole etc. passed out. when i woke up i was in the icu with a tube shoved through my nose down down to my stomach (god knows why). finally some guy came in and said he was was going to pull the tube out, but first he was going to give me valium. i said, "don't make me take a pill with this tube in my throat." "nah," he said and pulled out a syringe. heaven, bliss, rapture while i lay there watching this guy standing over me like a longshoreman pulling that tube out through my nose. |
it's much better to try and stay healthy. hope your gut gets better Sarah. at least your hands are good. just a' typin away. |
speaking of loss of control, i saw on dateline last night a really neat story bout sleep paralysis.....apparently a small percentage of people, sometimes wake up, however one part of their brain is still in REM sleep mode, therefore your body can't move, your chest is barely breathing, considering your heart rate winds down in this mode... so patients often feel pressure on the chest, yet they are awake and aware..furtherrmore, and this is the kicker, your brain still being in partial sleep mode, you can see people and monsters and such, your dreams come to life, literally.... while wide awake, they appear as real as your nightstand........as terrifying as the patients said it was, i would like to experience this just once. sara im glad you are well |
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Back in the teenage years... I'm eating chicken strips and a Sobe "Energy". And smoke. The air tastes funny out there. |
i think i need to start a recipe corner for my website. i've been making these oatmeal pancakes, which are just out of this world delicious and easy to make and good for you. especially good for people who can't eat regular kind pancakes because wheat makes them ill. here it is: 1.5 cups old fashioned oats 1 tablespoon sugar 1 tablespoon brown sugar 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 3 egg whites 1 12oz can lowfat or nonfat evaporated milk 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/2 teaspoon coconut extract (optional) if you want to get serious about it, you can blend the oatmeal in a food processor to make it more like flour, but whole oats work too. in one bowl combine the top ingredients. in another bowl combine the bottom ingredients. pour the liquid bowl into the dry bowl and mix well. in a hot pan with a teeny bit of canola oil, dump 1/4 cup pancake stuff into a pan and cook until brown, then flip it over and cook the other side. serve with macadamia nut syrup (my preference) or whatever syrup you like. you can also put mangoes or blueberries on top and that is yummy too. one pancake is about 100 calories, unless you dump a shitload of syrup on it, then it's a lot more. if you eat it with Monkey Wrench on top, you're on your own with the calorie count. |
ooops. i forgot to add: 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon to the top ingredients. |
It's good to see you're okay Sarah. : ) |
Yummy Jumbo Coke |
might as well eat lunch. nothing better to do. |
i had a garlic burger with jalapenos and assorted raw vegetables for lunch. |
I'm here, on and off...I wish I could be here more. Life is, as usual, doubleplusunfun. I had I don't remember for lunch. I've been eating compulsively this last week or two. It's a really bad thing. I'm not even hungry in the slightest, and I just have to eat. I hope I'm not turning into one of those people that eats to feel good... |
chicken and pork laulau, humongous salad, Chocolate Fudge Brownie ice cream, water. |
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and a discussion about faith, spirits and basic beliefs in the park |
i guess i was in the mood to eat things i didn't want to eat reorganization at work |
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my parents get mad at me for not eating enough fruit. |
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Guac? How Dave. (maybe. still don't have a firm grasp on what "Dave" is. anything like spedoinkle?) |
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The all american lunch |
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turkey breast, salad, 3 homemade cheesecake brownies. |
I've never seen the movie anywhere around here. |
will call medical professional in the morning. this blows major chunks. i just want to go surfing. |
And a cider doughnut. |
On my wonderful 6 hour bike excursion today, I stopped at a farm and got some water and about a half pint of raspberries...yum. |
I drank my dinner tonight. I rode my bike to work and drank two cups of punch upon arrival. Then I drank most of a 24-oz cup of water. About an hour later, I had more punch - a cran-raspberry/sprite concoction that I make once in a while when I'm in the mood. Now, I'm getting a little bit hungry, but I can probably survive until I get off in a couple of hours - if not, I'll just down some more water. Silly thing is, as much as I'll want something to eat when I get home, I really shouldn't eat because I won't metabolize it before I go to bed... FYI - I'm 6'1"-ish and weigh 190 pounds, so it's not an anorexic thing. Just drank so much tonight that I wasn't hungry. |
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for my first 20 years or so i never had a raspberry because we weren't a raspberry eating family, mainly because i never saw any in the store, so my only experience was artificial raspberry flavoring which i despized. that first fresh raspberry was a revelation. i don't know what they do with the raspberries now to keep them fresh until they get to your store, but you have an obligation to immediately give them a good home in your mouth, and not neglect them. same for blueberries. wish i could've gone to Ezzards Berry Farm this year, although the crop was probably not up to expectations... |
there were also blackberries. and i can remember finding rose hips on one of the islands. |
Luckily, I had some Godiva raspberry chocolate truffle ice cream inthe fridge, so not all was lost. |
homemade crab and salmon cakes with homemade yogurt/cucumber/wasabi sauce. garlic lentil salad. green tea. mocha brownie with peanut butter cheesecake icing. i need to write down these recipes. |
Raspberries grew like crazy along the riverbanks there too - a nice treat while hiking along. Just make sure to leave some for the bears. While you're at it, make sure you make a LOT of noise so you don't surprise a snacking grizzly - a surprised bear is an unpleasant bear. |
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bbq chicken and rice and potato from this korean place. Ate with brits and an australian. The girls sat at another table. by "potato" I mean a big fried piece of potato, kinda like what somebody might give you as a joke if you asked for a "large fry" then cookies and cake and three cups of coffee for tea. my exam went well and I was pleasantly surprised by my ability to mingle for a full hour with no ill effects. |
Why is it that anyone finds a list of "what did you have for lunch?" interesting??? I dunno, but I keep reading it. Is it because the mundane is so unique? or are our lives so deadly tedious, exhausting, and repetitive that such a topic gives life to the ordinary and tasteless. Oh look! A pun! |
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grapes (starting to go bad) water chocolate flavored Soy-Um |
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We ate with a girl from my work, who ordered a caeser salad, but she asked them to hold the croutons. Said salad is actually very good--the resturant where we ate has really good food, and I've eaten the caeser before. Unfortunately, antithesis likes his food to watch him while he eats, so he can't conceive of a meal that doesn't spurt blood when you press the fork down. |
2 Packs of them. For din I'm gonna have rice, soy, and "general tso's chicken"...that's a quality meal. Chinese restaurants always taste different. I mean, like one dish will always taste different from restaurant to restaurant. I stopped getting sweet and sour chicken because the one near me sucks for that, but rules for any beef dishes and their General Tso's is quite scrumpcious.' I need some more raspberries. BAAAD. there's a really nice orchard type place near me that has big fields of "Pick your own" stuff. I used to go their with my friend and just walk around, picking some and putting them in the basket and then eating the rest. |
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an egg salad sandwich, deviled eggs, salad and a big frosty glass of chocolate banana milkshake. i won't need any more substantial food for the rest of the week. but i have quite a few days off coming up (so have my parents) and they'll make sure i eat lots of chicken. i think i'll buy ice cream for my dinner at work tomorrow. at least that way i won't be overly full. |
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anyway, at the grocery i also bought pomegranate champagne vinegar, a bottle of petite syrah and a bottle of bull's blood, and i copied down the exact ingredients from a jar of artichoke tapenade, which i will make from scratch and will definitely taste better than whatever was in the 4oz jar they were selling for $6.99. it will be good in scrambled eggs or mixed in with goat cheese and spread on rye toast points. before i left the store i shopped for some other stuff and of course stopped in the ice cream section where lo and behold i found a pint of chunky monkey. a moment of insanity overtook me, though, as i mentally reviewed the current contents of my refrigerator. 1 pint Cherry Garcia, 1 pint Chocolate Fudge Brownie, 1 homemade lilikoi cheesecake, 1/2 pan of leftover homemade mocha fudge brownies with peanut butter creamcheese swirl. i regret now not buying the Chunky Monkey for what the fuck no reason at all, but i can go back tomorrow. there were plenty in stock. thanks for thinking of me, and i wish i could share that particular pint with you. i called the human resources department at my place of employment today and told them i'm taking a medical leave of absence and the earliest i'll be back is September 1st. today, after the morning doctor's appointment (because the belly button infection suddenly and rapidly reappeared and i can't help but think this is a sign of the universe telling me to cut the fucking self-involved navelgazing already) and grocery shopping, i slept from 1-4:30 p.m. after getting 9 hours of sleep last night. after the nap i got up and did gardening, planting broccoli and more beets, pulling weeds, etc., while the chicken roasted slowly on the little webber under the lanai. i sat and drank pineapple iced tea. after a walk tonight i'll begin the pie crust. when i go back to work on September 1st i'm going to give my one month's notice. i'm not superwoman and i don't buy into the soulessness of working for the Lochness Monster of Capitalism, of being considered a worthless lazy slacker if you don't work 50-60 hours a week and make your job your life. it's nice not to have to worry about money, but i don't care about that anymore. so, it shouldn't take me longer than one month to finish the job they hired me to do, so i can leave with a clean conscience. by that time i'll have a solid outline done of the book i'm going to write and for which i have already begun the proposal development process with a literary agent with whom i've signed a contract. no more souless work and no more excuses and definitely no more fear. this whole experience has given me the gift of feeling nearly entirely fearless (which is a little bit dumber than being courageous, but i'll take it). from now on, it's all about writing, and no matter what many may say or think, something i write will make a difference to someone in this world. |
i've lost 6 pounds since surgery. probably most of that was loss of fluid that was being retained in my abdominal cavity. but in reality, i don't want to lose any more weight at this point. if i lose even five more pounds i'm going to look sickly and my tits will disappear. ' plus, Lavernis told me i better keep my booty or he'll be disappointed. |
I knew I wanted to say this when I came here, but it just looks stupid when I have to follow Sarah. (I'm glad you're okay/good Sarah.) |
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Today's muffin, at first glance, appeared to be a chocolate chip muffin. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that it was, in reality, a cinnamon raisin muffin. I made the mistake of grabbing a variety pack of muffins, so I feel obligated to eat the ones I don't like a lot. |
at midnight last night i made pineapple oatmeal muffins. i'm about to roll out the pie dough. i haven't had lunch yet, but i'm thinking leftover bbq chicken and some salad. and as much Chunky Monkey as my tummy can handle. ya see... it was fate. after a short meeting with Faith, my landlord, i went back to the store this morning to get the Chunky Monkey that, in a moment of delusion, i failed to purchase yesterday. when i got to the freezer section, what did i discover? [get this] it went on sale this morning. two pints for $4.99. it was MEANT TO BE!! naturally, i bought two pints. in my excitement, however, i forgot to get the jar of peanut butter. |
But I did get hungry afterward, fruit notwithstanding. So I picked up a roast chicken club sandwich at Arby's on my way back to work. |
2 were miniature croissants, cut in half and filled with tomatos, meats, and cheeses. I love my Safeway pre-packaged foods. *yum* OOoooh... Arby's GOOD... that's it. road trip to Arby's. I think there's one near San Francisco somewhere? |
And, of course, the more pressing matter is: do vegans swallow? |
I took my sister out for lunch for her birthday (actually her birthday is on Monday, but I'm off work today, and we just wouldn't have enough time on Monday). We went to Browsers, which is a garden centre / cafe. All the outdoor tables were taken, because despite the 5 deg C frost this morning (or because of it) we have a lovely sunny day today. Anyway, by the time we lined up and ordered, a table cleared in the temporary conservatory they have rigged up with clear polythene to let the sun it and keep what wind there is out. I had a sesame bagel with herby cream cheese, lettuce, smoked salmon, gherkin, capers and mayo. Yum. My sister had a chicken salad with croutons and grapes and stuff. To finish we shared a piece of carrot cake with yoghurt and cinnamon on the side. For her birthday, i gave her a framed 8x10 enlargement of the sunrise photo Glenn took outside our hotel room at Hoi An when we were in Vietnam in June. What the fuck is in chunky monkey? it sounds way to close to any number of slang terms for vomit to be in the least bit appealing! |
Another way to look at Chunky Monkey is ... cream, skim milk, liquid sugar, water, sugar, bananas, walnuts, egg yolks, coconut oil, dextrose, cocoa, cocoa processed with alkali) concentrated lemopn juice, butter oil, guar gum, natural flavors, soya lethicin, vanilla extract, carrageenan. Shit, and Ben and Jerry have the udder audacity to advertise they oppose recombinant bovine growth hormone. So everything but THAT is in it. Windy here tonight, very windy. |
As for me, cheez-its and jolt. |
tomorrow's my dad's birthday. i need to make up a funny rhyme for the card. |
Gwar Gum. Gwar!!! |
Bring on the Limitless Sex! Today I had picnic buffet lunch outside with the other people in my organization (Directorate of Training and Mobilization). This included the pasta salad i made all by myself (from Mavis' recipe), coleslaw, hot black beans, chips, crackers, some sort of noodle casserole, a donut and a piece of cake. Plus water, and two pops. Then i played tug -o-war. Speaking of Vegans: The vegans should find this amusing. I was watching Headline News with Lynne Russell ( the bad-ass Mamma Jamma herself), and she related how McDonald's is ordering all its egg suppliers to give ther hens bigger cages and better feed. McDonalds has also "cracked down" on other animal product suppliers to, as Lynne put it, "treat the animals more humanely...before they are killed!" (emphasis hers) |
lemon iced tea snapple popcorn ginger ale pixie stix maple and brown sugar instant oatmeal |
gelatin is high in protein. |
bbq steak, barbecued veggies, salad, slice of pear and cranberry pie with pecan crumble topping (also used sheila's crust recipe) breakfast: chicken thigh and leg homemade carrot oat bran muffin* more pie lunch: thinking about clams and salad and definitely more pie or at least the final mocha/peanut butter brownie. i haven't touched the Chunky Monkey yet. it seems suddenly i've developed a fearful respect for its power. it's got to be just the right moment. i can't believe i haven't gained a pound yet. this is weird. * muffins 1 cup flour (whole wheat pref) 3/4 cup oat bran 2 tea baking powder 1/2 tea baking soda 1/4 tea salt 1 tea cinnamon 1/2 tea nutmeg (optional) 1 egg + 1 egg white, beaten 1/4 cup packed brown sugar 1-2 tbs molasses 1 tbs honey 1/2 cup milk or buttermilk 1 tbs canola oil 1 cup shredded carrots 3/4 cup crushed pineapple, drained nuts optional mix all that crap together in a big bowl with a fork and pour into muffin pan, filling it up to the top. bake for 20 minutes, or until they turn dark brown, at 400 degrees. if you don't use molasses or honey, you might consider upping the brown sugar to 1/3 cup so the muffins don't taste like crap. these muffins taste good and if you're in need of such a thing, they do a better job than a box of exlax. |
today for lunch i had onion rings and a soda |
I don't know when this happened, but there is suddenly Monkey Wrench in my freezer. WOW. HOLY SYNCHRONICITY!!! ACK!! I can't take it anymore, god. I give up. Okay. I was about to blame Isolde for being awesome and buying Monkey Wrench for me and leaving it in the freezer, even though she doesn't eat ice cream anymore now that she's "vegan." I was about to type her name, when she walks in the door. That's totally weird; I usually don't see her for another two hours... and she was only stopping by to tell me that I won't be seeing her later. And this is totally the wrong thread for me to be posting about synchronicity and Monkey Wrench. BUT... she informed me that she DID NOT buy the Monkey Wrench. Sometime, during the last week, my roommate, who probably would say "gesundheit" if I said "sorabji?", bought some god-damned money-fuckin'-wrench ice cream. JONESY: If you are really a closet sorabjite, and you're hiding from me, well, then, it's time to come out of the closet, man. I'm going to sit here and eat your ice cream until you 'fess up. |
Lunch, 12:32pm: stole a seasoned fry off Rhea's plate at Denny's. I asked the waiter if they were vegan first. Snack, 4:48pm: a heaping bowl of lemon sherbet. YUM! I mean, all it is is lemon and water, but...yum. And...later...I have a big pot of lentil soup with potatoes, broccoli, mushrooms, and onions simmering on the stove. |
Then I ran back to work, got hungry later, and ended up eating something I haven't had in years......a pimento cheese sandwich. Probably the work of the devil, but it was passable. Especially when washed down with a can of Yoo-Hoo. |
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raisin bran I have an INSANE craving for soda right now... |
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Breakfast: 7:32am: water. Lunch: 3:24pm: two samosos and mango sauce Dinner: 9:07pm: yummy vegan lentils/tea. |
guarana and dextrose enhanced "energy" gum I found in the basement. |
breakfast, 11:32am: salt and vinegar potato chips, tea. Lunch, 12:47pm: ramen, tea Snack, 1:02pm: tea, more potato chips. |
lunch: mashed up about a cup of black-eyed peas (i had made a pot over the weekend). sauteed chopped onions & garlic in a pan till soft, then mixed in the mashed b-e peas. mixed in cumin. let flavors blend in pan. lightly oiled a large, non-pocket, plate-size pita bread and put it on a pan. covered it with bean mixture. doused it heavily with louisiana hot sauce. covered it all with shredded cheddar and popped it into the oven till it all melted. ate it like a pizza. with a coke. |
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I worked right through lunch today. I get pretty monomaniacal when I'm researching in an archive. |
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oh, and breakfast kicks ass. |
No syrup or butter. Ate them with my hands. Fresh huckleberries kick ass. Drinkin' Breakfast Tea. |
the very last of the pasta salad i made a week ago. water. When did I start eating better? No pop, no little debbies... |
Oh, and a jumbo coca-cola |
Lunch: 11:48am: some vegetables, crackers, hummus, fruit juice, a cookie. Snack: 3:20pm: More of those yummy chips. |
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For lunch today I had: beef fajita strips, onions, tomatoes, cheese, and peppers folded in a tomatoe tortilla, grilled, served with beans and nachos. And a JUMBO COCA-COLA |
Quel dilemma! |
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mahi mahi is a very soft, buttery delicious ocean white fish. yesterday was my final day off the wagon. as of today i am back to being the Health and Nutrition Warrior. i had a romantic dream two nights ago about my trainer. we didn't have sex, we just slow danced to Otis Redding. it was really sweet, but i took it as a sign that i need to get it together again. unfortunately i only gained one lousy goddammed pound in the last 20 days, which means i could have eaten even *more* crap and gotten away with it. argh. so i took a banana walnut bread, apricot cheecake oatmeal bars, and entire chocolate pie, 3 carrot pineapple muffins, 2 pumpkin cranberry muffins, two pints of ice cream, and a half frozen leftover cheesecake down to my friend matt's house yesterday. i felt like little red riding hood. "Here ya go!" I said, "I've brought you a bag full of poison! Enjoy!" this morning for breakfast i ate 1 egg and 3 egg white scrambled with bean sprouts and 1 red plum and two cups of coffee. lunch will be a heap of chicken and a heap of salad [tomato and all greens from my garden]. dinner will be 2 grilled ahi steaks and stir fry. but now i have to go back to work. this seriously blows. |
Iso, for chrissakes, why are you puking? cut that out. |
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So you think I am saving myself, you guessed it; AND it is most highly doubtful I could ever be pregnant. But I could hide it well. Keller is here tomorrow night; they's giving free tickets away, and BOTH my boys are going to see him, and I am not. This truly is unfair. But at least I don't hav e to pay their way. My oldest went to Keller's birthday bash here last ? winter spring I dunno and I was SUPPOsed to get a tape of the performance from the guys at the head shop. Oh well. I guess I wasn't buying enough ;} I thought one must ingest pickles and Chunky Monkey for pregnancy. I am confused. And I thought the Cat was a-hankering after one happily married photographer last I checked...saving myself indeed. Oh... "it ain't crazy, baby, when you're following your dream....you don't know which way it is that you want to go...you"ll find find your answer in the clouds..." "people always telling you the right road to take...they always telling you it's your road to make...relax, enjoy the ride...cuz the more the road it takes you... the more it makes you feel inside...." (Acoustic Hooka) Takes me to the refrigerator. Finds the answer in Hank's frozen chocolate turtle cheesecake. Fine antidotes to excessive chigger bites and possibly poison oak. And helps the empty in-box (whine). |
i fell in love in the porta potty line in the parking lot of some show she was dancing 'round she was clutchin' herself she was waitin' for her turn to go Daniel, i have plenty of his live stuff on disc. i could make you copies sometime this decade if you would like it. |
However, if you're talking about a certain single geek...weeeeelll...(censored to protect the innocent) |
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grilled cheese on white bread, french fries, and a JUMBO COCA-COLA |
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How's your tummy tuck post alien removal doing? One might suggest that if the patient is well enough to surf, the patient is well enough for many things...medical leave not withstanding. Hope you are healing well and whole. |
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Eat something, then tell us all about it...where are you staying? Are you lonely? Are you OK? Eat something immediately. In case you didn't catch that...EAT...NOW! |
I had a salad. Saw a cute boy, too. I must be recovering. Although I feel a twinge as I write that. Maybe I'm trying to pretend I'm recovering? |
But it's a nice place and got nice rocks. Where are you anyway? If close to Middlebury, drive up to the Bread Loaf campus past Ripton. If not, then try to get there this fall when the colors are out. Lake Champlain rocks. Glad you made it safely. |
Well, I've only had one of the dj's in treatment. It's a volunteer run station and commercial free, like the radio and the internet should be. Enough political input. Actually, in answer to "where I'm from," I'd have to admit New York State originally. Been in the Great Midwaste for a long time though. |
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Like I am from NY but I am in MO. Bennington is nice I guess. |
muddy waters (a mississippi moan) dixie moonlight, swanee shore headed homebound just once more to my mississippi delta home southland has that grand garden spot although you believe or not i hear those breeze a-whispering: "come back to me". muddy waters 'round my feet muddy waters in the street just god don't shelter down in the delta muddy water in my shoes reeling and rocking to some lowdown blues |
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For lunch I had 1.5 tomato sandwiches with tomatoes from my Mom's garden which kicked tomato butt. Also strawberries, a lemon merengue chips and peach salsa. Iced tea, which I need more of. Caffienated drinks are my best friend. |
chew your own foot off I'm in love with strawberry lemonade. I would crawl to the ends of the earth for half a glass. honest to pete. |
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Then, after going through stuff that we can sell in the garage sale, I had a bowl of Kemp's Bear Tracks ice cream. Just recently I had a piece of cold free-range BBQ chicken. Feels like a forage day. |
Ginger ale. Ice. I think I lost 2-3 pounds today from sweating like a siberian whore in nigeria. Hmm....I'm hungry again...what to eat? Oh, yeah, my dad hates me for liking sorabji and this board and you people...he thinks you're losers. I told him to bugger off. |
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Dinner Lady, obviously, I wasn't around long ago when you used to post here previously, so I don't know what to think of you... but, in all seriousness, BLAH! |
i need another boy to eat. mine's defective: he thinks i'm a doormat. |
I didn't know if sarcasm could be detected in typing. Well there was supposed to be sarcasm you see. |
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chicken ceasar salad, no croutons, and spicy au poke. water. |
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Now my pets are deer in the yard, and a turtle in the raspberry bushes. Yeah, a griffin in the front yard spitting water, but he's not hooked up yet. Dinner: pink heart shaped noodles and green tree shaped (left over from Christmas several years ago, a gift to my gf from her brother, but still tasty after this long), crab and white fish, Newman's balsamic dressing, garlic salt. |
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kimchi is a korean food - spicy pickled cabbage, mostly. sushi is a style of japanese food that sometimes includes raw fish, sometimes cooked fish, sometimes rolled in seaweed, sometimes not. sashimi is raw marinated (ocean) fish. a lot of times the fish will be aku, swordfish, or yellowfin. sometimes red ocean mackerel. poke is a way of seasoning raw fish or cooked seafood. it includes shoyu, sugar, fish sauce, seaweed (not the dry flattened sushi seaweed, but real chopped up fresh or pickled or sauteed seaweed), green onion, and hot pepper seasoning. sometimes garlic. my favorite poke is raw ahi (yellowfin) or aku poke. korean mussel poke is cooked and has a hint of kimchee flavor. i also like tako poke and plain seaweek poke, though i can only eat a little bit of it if it's really salty. |
yesterday i stumbled upon egusi seeds for sale at a market just a few blocks from my office so i went home after work and made egusi stew* which i ate for lunch. btw, my favorite (affordable) restaurant in town serves garlic fried tofu poke as well as the very best raw ahi poke ever. extra extra seaweed. * Egusi Stew 1/2 - 1 cup egusi seeds (or pumpkin seeds will work if you can find egusi seeds) 1 pound cubed stew beef 2-3 tbs canola oil 2-3 cloves crushed garlic 2 large tomatoes, chopped up 1 small onion, chopped up 1-2 hot chili peppers [or 1 tsp chili pepper seasoning or a pinch of habenero sauce or spice] 1 16oz can tomato sauce 3 tbs tomato paste 1 cup water 1 can vegetable broth 2 cans crab meat, shrimp, or one pound cooked fish of your choice 1 pound fresh spinach, washed and chopped up blend egusi seeds into a powder and set aside. saute beef in oil, salt, pepper, and garlic in a large pot on medium-high heat for 5 minutes until brown but not cooked all the way through. reduce heat. add tomatoes, onions, and pepper to the beef. cover and cook for 20 minutes. add tomato sauce, water, broth, and fish. simmer on low for 5-10 minutes. add spinach and ground egusi seeds and simmer another 10 minutes. serve it up hot. |
i just ate a teriyaki chicken cup o noodles and a sundried tomato bagel. yum. i have a happy stomach. |
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trace, I would suggest you haven't had sushi in KC.......where ever you get sushi, look behind the sushi bar, you can look for certain certifications........i forget the standard sushi chef certification symbol, however if you see a stuffed blowfish with it's spikes extended, you know the chef is badass as he is qualified to prepare (insert fish name) which is very poisonous, if not prepared just right can kill you. |
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I rarely pick food off a bone. |
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Doug, you're right. sashimi traditionally isn't marinated... but a lot of the stuff i get in restaurants here has been flash seared in a pan with light seasoning on the outside or is served with some kind of seasoning. but yeah, regular ol' sashimi is just raw fish. YUM! pure protein baby. yesterday i ordered a bottle of creatine. |
If you guys are scared of uncooked fish, may I suggest you try ceviche? It's uncooked fish which is "cooked" in citrus juice, served cold. South American, originally from Peru I think. Awesome. |
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by "cooking" though you mean "killing bacteria" and "adding flavor". it's still raw fish. |
burger king and an oreo and some apple pie and hi-c and all kinds of other food for lunch at home goldfish for mid-essay snack |
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i like the pickled ginger and wasabi that they serve with sushi. today i ate a pint of lo-fat cherry garcia. |
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i had two lunches today. at noon i ate about 5 oz of steak, a cup of salmon and lentil salad*, and tossed spinach and lettuce salad with homemade wasabi lime dressing. at 2 pm i ate a huge turkey and broccoli salad with tomatoes, olives, onions, and bean srouts. * Salmon & Lentil Salad 2 cups cooked lentils (not overcooked) 1 15oz can red salmon or 1 lb. fresh cooked salmon, flaked 2-3 celery stalks, sliced thinly 1 cup purple cabbage, chopped 1 green bell pepper, diced 1 red bell pepper, diced 1/2 cup green onions, chopped 1/4 or 1/3 cup cilantro (chinese parsley), chopped up finely 2-3 spicy red peppers, diced (optional) Mix all that crap together in a big bowl. Then make the dressing. Dressing: 1/3 cup olive oil 1/3 cup wine vinegar 5 cloves crushed garlic 2 tbs oregeno 2 tbs dill weed 2 tbs dried chili pepper flakes 1 tsp salt dash of hot sauce, if desired Let the spices soak in the oil and vinegar for about 5 minutes and then pour it all over the salad. Mix well and eat it up. LOSE WEIGHT NOW ASK ME HOW |
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coffee. then some blue corn chips. now what? |
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Eat. Enjoy. |
know what? it wasn't bad. thin crust. not too soggy even out of the microwave. somewhere in my brain is a smell and taste image of the ideal pizza. a Pizza Pie. it's a cheese pizza, it's got a thin crust, and there's a kind of perfection to the tartness of the sauce and the greasiness of the cheese that may not have ever been realized in this lifetime... although i think when i was very small, i had some somewhere... and no, Domino's isn't it, but actually comes closer than what you end up getting lately in the better pizza places, spongy pizza loaded with broccoli and all kinds of weirdness... |
for my worklunch i had raisins, orage juice and a turkey/swiss/green bell pepper sandwich on polsbo. with mustard. i still have bell pepper on my breath. |
drawing makes you hungry, and measuring everything even more so. |
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it's all the cheesy baby, the cheese please! |
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I think for afternoon snack it will be tums..... |
I don't actually object to eating meat or dairy or eggs or any of that stuff, as long as it's from an animal I raised or hunted myself. I don't believe in: a. torturing an animal unduely for my sake, since I _can_ live without, and it doesn't kill me, and I think animals are entitled to a happy life. b. the impersonalization of meat. I don't like the thought of going and grabbing a cut of steak off the shelf of Safeway and eating it. I want to see where the meat came from, be intimately involved in it, wallow in the blood of and respect the animal I'm making a meal of. Does this make sense? |
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"He thought he was the King of America Where they pour Coca Cola just like vintage wine" Isolde, I know what you mean about sanitized, shrink-wrapped meat -- when I go out and catch fish and bring them home, I often feel better about having dispatched them myself (even though I don't enjoy killing them) than had I bought them at the store all prettied up with the heads cut off and gutted and scaled. |
And isolde, rolling around in it is what caused my reaction |
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M-E-T-A-P-H-O-R. Go look it up. |
Water Nurta-Grain Oreos |
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-Your mother's ass, lightly salted.. -pint of harp -big fattie i think this meets the RDA of EAT HOT FUCK diet program |
i do need to practice more. i've missed it. there's some sort of pride i get from the feeling in my arms after playing the flute for 45 minutes straight. mmm...tea. |
The burrito I ate was vegan. Amy's non-dairy Bean Burritos! Yummy! Although probably not the best combination with grapes. I had a diet coke with it too. I am enjoying bad dietary habits this week, in preparation for good dietary habits next week. |
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mmm...mushrooms... and now i've got a pound and a half of fried boneless skinless chicken breasts in the frige waiting for a use. maybe chicken salad. i really should be completely vegetarian. i can't look anything in the eye if i know i'm going to eat it...which is why i try to be away from home any time my parents want fresh fish for dinner. gives me the willies. |
Last night, I fried up some tofu, added a mandarin-style sauce from a packet, and green peppers, onions, and sunflower seeds. Then a serving of brown rice. Same again tonight, except warmed up in the microwave (whic, btw, is safe for you: the rumors of microwaves casuing cancer are false. Microwave radiation is not the kind that splits DNA). |
I also have a huge canker sore now, and it hurts like a sonnuvugun. Damn. I havne't goten one is months, and my whole mouth feels like it wants to explode. |
2 chicken thighs in ginger and bay leaf gravy cooked choi sum with oil and vinegar Lunch #2 huge greek salad - with olives, feta, onion, tomatoes, cucumbers, artichoke hearts, and yogurt cucumber dressing big scoop of dilled tuna fish salad i'm stuffed. |
strawberry lemonade hot sourdough bread and garlic butter salad w/lo-fat honey mustard spinach and cheese ravioli in a marinara sauce spumoni and i took my time eating so i would know when to stop. it was sooooo good! |
snack: one 20 ounce Mr. Pibb sweetly sucked until warm (took from noon til 830 pm to drink it all, all 65 carbs, all afternoon. dinner, just now: one microwaved chicken breast skinless boneless tastefully drenched in basil, black pepper and cayenne/cajun seasoning mixture with garlic. Roasted on a plate with a bowl upside down to keep all the moisture in. desert: words here. |
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Tofutti. Let me back up a moment here. Someone was talking about it the other day, and I went down to Hannafords to see if they had any. It's a vegan dessert--they call it "dairy free ice cream" or something. It tastes kind of like pudding. Anyway. It's really, really good. I ate half a container and loved every bite. Yum. Soy is awesome stuff. |
i'm about to slice a small loaf of bread in half (by small loaf, i mean would make about two sandwiches), hollow it out, cook some stir fry, fill the bread and heat in the oven, drenched in barbeque sauce. yummy! i want to try soybeans sometime. |
Damn, I'm hungry. Maybe I'll go find some food. I haven't been eating enough lately. |
grilled or fried child? did it come with baby sauce? |
Warm brown sauce? Carmelcolor chunky flecked with smashed peas? Staleflavored yesterday's new experimental imitation crusty nipple? WAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! always wanting something else always wanting wanting o for a baby's body, lunch prepared by someone else, naptime after eating, a new toy a day, itsthesamebody you have today.... try this: hold your hand for a moment, feel some pulse, remember the "tomatoes, olives, onions, and bean sprouts" were once connected to living plants give thanks and the plants were connected to the dirt and what is the dirt connected to, momma? things that pulse in the night hold your folds of belly and look and look again months later years later measure using nothing but the caliper of your own grip the same that holds another's hand that picks the garden that cleans the plunder that stokes the fire that touches touches touches hold the blade straight as you dissect the muscle from the bone, and twirl the white meat that resembles chicken, feel some dull ache, remember the meat you eat once clad another body the giveaway you what you and I take for granted with every bite we should be grateful no one ate us even if we hate our bodies it is ours the only thing we have, "the only thing / between you and / everything else you are" (I read that once and again just now, thanks, to some writer on some island, someone writing things, thanks for reminding us) |
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i think you really are the only one who is paying close enough attention to get it. to really understand all the connections. your attention is a great gift and for that i owe you more than appreciation and gratitude. but i have nothing else to offer. |
if nothing else. vain enough to think the undirected comment is directed. but nothing else. nada. |
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funny though. they'll try to tell you over and over again that you have an eating disorder. a closet eater. an emotional eater. overeaters anonymous. food as comfort. food as stimulation. food as opiate. relentlessly they pound this into you, convincing you that you have a problem. you must be hoarding candy bars. you must be sneaking potato chips. is that Burger King on your breath? face it, you need help. actually, sometimes you're just really hungry. sometimes it's just that, in all your years of school, K through 12, even in college if you were lucky to go, nobody ever sat down and taught you about basic human physiology and nutrition. instead you read Glamor and Elle and Vogue. you read french magazines but ate an american diet. processed, boxed, frozen, fast, convenient. vegetables grown in soil raped of nutrients and sprayed with pesticides. 7-11. dining as image or leisure. eating - an afterthought, an annoyance, a chore, something on the daily To Do list. you step on the scale. oooops. you read about fat, low-fat, no fat. the Pineapple Diet. The Cabbage Soup Diet. on your TV you saw Sweatin' to the Oldies and Deal a Meal. Weight Watchers and the Weight Loss Clinic and Stop The Madness. i tried throwing up once. once. it wasn't really my gig. Stop the madness. the doctors are the worst of them all. checking and re-checking your thyroid, your blood sugars, your glands and your horomones. here, take this pamphlet. here's a meal plan. dry toast, apple, tea or coffee. roasted chicken, 1/2 pita, 1 cup lettuce. 1 tablespoon low-fat mayonnaise, dash of salt. pork chop, potato (no butter), steamed broccoli. 1,200 calories. stop the madness. funny. Lonny uses the caliper of his own grip. periodically he pinches me. he'll just reach out and grab the fat and skin, a big hunk of my belly or my arm or ass or thigh. places on my body otherwise inappropriate to touch in such a manner. but he's a pro. he grabs me and announces some number to me and says, quit your whining. i'm starting to think it's no coincidence that my sex drive has totally vanished; any wane residual interest in men and dating is slowly becoming about social and economic function. yesterday an exec from the mainland told me he became a grandfather two days ago. i almost burst into tears. ok, so it was PMS, but still. oh god. i just realized. this is it. this is what i've been waiting for! these bulletin boards are magic. thanks mark. |
From: Matt M'sen Subject: long lost michigander Hi Sarah, It's Matt M'sen, from Lutheran North.. Wow, that's a long time ago.... I found your web page through the high school alumni page. Let me say this, you look fantastic!!!!! What a change people can make when you haven't seen them for years..... Also, your web page is KILLER!!! I've been reading your log of info about your life, and find it very, very cool. You have an incredible way with words, and it keeps me checking for more.... Just a quick note to bring you up to date with me... after high school, I worked for 2 years installing carpet. Then friend of mine introduced me to the world of automotive design. Sense then, I have taken many trade courses and continued working in that field... I now have 10 years behind me in design, and love my job.. In early 97' my sister-in-law introduced me to a friend of hers. We hit it off great, and got married in 98'.. Which brought me from a single guy with a 3 bedroom house, to a married guy with a step-daughter.!!! Wow what an adjustment...!!! My step daughter is turning 7 in Nov.. Two weeks after we were married, she got pregnant with our son!! Later that Nov.. He was born. Wow again.... Adjustment number 2.... But I love them both to death....... And currently we are building a home in Macomb Twsp.!!! How's that for a cliff note version of my life... Anyway, it sounds like you have a great job, and are doing well... Glad to hear you are doing better after your alien encounter!!!! I hope your bouncing back quickly... By the way, I also workout constantly, and its great to hear about your training... What type of supplements are you taking? Oh, yeah, I am extremely jealous of your residential location... Sun, Surf, Web Developer... Sounds Great!!! Take Care, Your Michigan Connection Matt M'sen ************************************** Student Profile Rob Claus My email address is ***@21stcentury.net I am 31 years old. In high school, my hobbies were: Band, Chorus, Community Service, Football, Honor Society, Track, Wrestling, Basketball Other interesting things I'd like you to know: Wife: Sandra ************************ Student Profile Lisa Wardlaw (Moldenhauer) I am 30 years old. My address is: 7762 E. Dover St. Mesa, AZ 85207 I have 2 children. In high school, my hobbies were: Cheerleading, School Newspaper, Softball Other interesting things I'd like you to know: I am living in Arizona with my husband Todd (married for almost 8 years-we met at Western Michigan) and 2 children (Stephanie-4 and Tyler-19 mos.) I am a stay-at-home mom and spend my days with my family, and love gardening, camping, hiking, and swimming. ************************ Student Profile Rachel McCaffrey (Carpenter) My email address is ***@home.com I am 29 years old. In high school, my hobbies were: Band, Yearbook Other interesting things I'd like you to know: I have been working as a music therapist for the St. John Health System for 7 years. ************************ Student Profile Robin Strange (Schwark) My email address is ***@yahoo.com I have 2 children. In high school, my hobbies were: Softball, Track, Volleyball, Basketball Other interesting things I'd like you to know: Currently I am a full-time Mom of two, Marina and Spencer. My husband and I decided to adopt and we went to Russia and started our wonderful family. It was the greatest experience. ************************ Student Profile Todd "Kid" Hermann My email address is ***@qctech.com I am 30 years old. I have one child. In high school, my hobbies were: Baseball, Football, Soccer, Basketball Other interesting things I'd like you to know: Been married to Sarah since October, 1994. Meet her at Concordia Univ. in Mequon, WI. She's from Oshkosh. On December 21, 1999, Kaitlyn Rose Alma was born. Working at a Production/Prototype mold company in Madison Heights as General Manager. |
Whoah. Very glad now I didn't go to my class reunion. |
spooky shit, isn't it? i love it, man. god do i love it. i would have gone to my reunion for sure, but i didn't know anything about it because i never got an invitation. after the fact i found out i was on the "Missing Persons" list. it's like raaaaaiiiinnn on your wedding day, it's a free riiiiiiiiiiiiide when you've already paid, it's the good adviiiiiiiiiiiiice that you just didn't take, and who woulda thought, it figgers. |
food: 2 chicken strips and an almond croissant from Safeway, a 6-inch subway sandwich (roast beef and horseradish). Much more than I usually eat. I've been incredibly hungry lately; maybe because I'm trying to quit smoking. Again. I always get totally emo and dumb and hard to deal with while trying to quit. Haven't had one in about 28 hours. I'm sweating. Anyone want to inspire me by sharing deep, personal stories about escape from the nicotine monster? |
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Subject: Contact Information Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 17:24:43 -070 From: Sean Kettley <skettley@themestream.com> To: syrup@syrup.org Sarah, I am looking for some contact information for you. I am with a company that is interested in your work. Regards, Sean Kettley Themestream, Inc. *************************** what the fuck kind of weird day is this? i should go check my fucking horrorscope or something. jeeezis. |
oh, and for lunch #1 i had 1/2 bbq chicken breast, back, wing, and a tossed salad with homemade salad dressing. i think lunch #2 will be salmon with mango pico and a nectarine. i'm using flaxseed oil for cold dressings. it has lots of the needed omega-3 fatty acid, to balance out the overload of omega-6 i ingest. yes, i realize i am an obsessive freak. it's either this, or my love life. and i have no love life. and work isn't worth this kind of energy. |
The nicotine is out of your body in 48 hours so any cravings after that are just purely psychological. I am weak so if I can give up, you can. Not having to run out in the rain at midnight to buy cigarettes with your last few dollars...it's a fantastic feeling. Total freedom. I used to smoke a pack a day until three years ago. Now I just have the very occasional swiss cigarette or joint. |
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that's one of my internal aphorisms. thought i'd let it out for some air. speaking of air, for lunch today i had Jell-o® |
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mmmmm. then i ruined it (well lets be honest I'd already ruined it with the butter and cheese) by having the most fantastic non healthy slice, crushed malt biscuit & condensed milk base, topped with caramel, peanuts and then lined with thick dark chocolate. mmmm heaven. |
i wasn't asked to cook today, but i felt like cooking. i keep on checking out cookbooks from the library, but this is the first time i've actually used one. i need a glass of milk. |
Oh yeah, a wish sandwich. |
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but i had northern beans, green beans, salad with lil bugger chick peas, homemade vinegrette, chicken flavored rice, and plain yogurt for dinner........ i miss going to Morrison's cafeteria and getting the veggie plates...a plate of steaming vegetables makes me happy.....the variety, the color.... |
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GO BEANS!!!! |
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also, what are bocas? |
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Which is fine by me. I had a bar-B-Q pulled chicken sandwich and shack fries, with a big ol' Mr. Pibb for lunch. Mr. Pibb - The King of Sodas. I'm thirsty for one just thinking about it. |
3 cups water 2 chopped garlic cloves minced 1 1/2 cup bulghur 2 tbl veggie oil of your choice 1/2/ cup scallions 1/2 cup grated carrots 1/2 cup chopped parsley or other green 1/4 cup tahini 2 tbl tomato sauce (I like spaghetti sauce) 2 tbl soy sauce 1 tsp dijon mustard 1 tsp horseradish salt if you want pepper makes it good While bring water to boil, saute garlic and bulghur in oil on med heat, stirring, 2 -2 1/2 minutes. Add water, return to boil, reduce heat, simmer on low 20 minutes until water is absorbed and the grain is chewey. Stir in everything else and knead very lightly to form burgers. Fry em up in a little oil in a cast iron pan on medium low (it doesn't take much to make outside crispy and the inside still chewey and moist). When one side is cripsy, maybe ten minutes, flip. You can bake em on a cookie sheet too for twenty minutes. Be careful grilling them, use a fish or double sided open weave stainless steel basket; they like to fall apart. According to the Moosewood cookbook (my source), you can increase the protein by adding mashed cooked chick peas. Experiment. I've cooked these out in the woods over an open fire, a real challenge, but at least you're not eating the glue that the commercial preparers use to keep em together. Recipe above yields 6-7 burgers, @ 367 calories, 9.3 gm protein, 24 gm fat, 33.8 carbs, 927 mg sodium...but no cholesterol. One is a meal. Bulghur is cracked wheat. I've not tried making these with quinoa, which tastes better and is more nutritous, and is (of course) wheat free. Eaters need other eaters, too. That's what this's 'bout. |
what is quinoa? thanks for the recipe. i might make those bocas this weekend [with egg whites for nutrional value]. now there's something really new. potentially interesting. tonight i'm going to bake an orange and peanut butter bread cake. and nobody can stop me. now off to lunch. i'll be dining at the Pacific Club, where my dad just got a new job in member services. i'll be his guest and i'll eat lamb. lots of lamb. and i'll remember to be thankful. |
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Common names. English: quinoa. quinua; Quechua: quinua, kiuna (Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia): Ayn1ara: jiura (Bolivia); Mapuche: quinhua (Chile); Chibcha. Suba (Colombia) Quinoa is a food plant which was extensively cultivated in the Andean region by pre-Columbian cultures some 5000 years ago and was used in the diet of the settlers both of the inter-Andean valleys, which are very cold high areas, and of the high plateaus. After maize, it has occupied the most prominent place among Andean grains. At present, it is grown in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina. Its marginalization began with the introduction of cereals such as barley and wheat, which eventually replaced it. The reduction in its cultivated area in the Andean countries is also due to technical, economic and social reasons. Harvesting and threshing, which in the majority of cases are done by hand, take a great many days and the grain requires a process to remove its bitter ingredients before consumption. The prices received by farmers often do not justify their labour. Uses and nutritional value The parts of Chenopodium quinoa used as human food include the grain, the young leaves up to where ear formation begins (the protein content of the ear is as much as 3.3 percent in the dry matter) and, less frequently, the young ears. The plants nutritional value is considerable: the content and quality of its proteins are outstanding because of their essential amino acid composition (lysine, arginine, histidine and methionine); its biological value is comparable to casein and it is especially suitable for food mixtures with legumes and cereals. Of the Andean grains, C. quinoa is the most versatile from the point of view of culinary preparation: the whole grain. the uncooked or roasted flour, small leaves, meal and instant powder can be prepared in a number of ways. There are numerous recipes on about 100 preparations, including tamales, huancaína sauce, leaf salad, pickled quinoa ears, soups and casseroles, stews, torrejas, pastries, sweets and desserts and soft and fermented, hot and cold, beverages. as well as breads, biscuits and pancakes, which contain 15 to 20 percent of quinoa flour. The whole plant is used as green fodder. Harvest residues are also used to feed cattle, sheep. pigs, horses and poultry. The leaves, stems and grain have medicinal uses and the properties attributed to it include cicatrization, anti-inflammation. analgesia against toothache and as a disinfectant of the urinary tract. It is also used in the case of fractures and internal haemorrhaging and as an insect repellent. |
i should dig 'em up. just ate some lukewarm veggie pizza and am lusting over baja picante doritos and a cherry pepsi. damn fred meyer, they should have cherry coke! |
can you feel the power of the Tractor? |
Yep. Nutritous grain. Yep. Endangered crop species. Yep. Good for burgers and cattle fodder. Yep. Works for hemmoraging and as an insect repellent. What diversity to choose from! |
Still hunting for a way to send a burrito cross-country without having it lose any of its vegan yumminess. It'll get there. promise. heh. speaking of which (and in the totally wrong thread): Zephyr's computer parts are heading out today. I don't think I have anybody else's real addy's yet, for Stuff that Sucks. And boy oh boy, do I have lots of stuff that sucks. Dinner yesterday was Spanakopada (sp?) and a rootbeer float. Lunch today (so far): milky way bar. Maybe I'll go buy another liverwurst sandwich. it was really good. Liverwurst is possibly the most disgusting substance on earth. |
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No one on the coast is capable of making edible spanikopita. I don't know why you guys eat that shit. |
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Decidedly non vegan. Decidedly good. And I make really good spanikopita. Or I used to, until I went vegan. |
i'm itching for fresh stir-fried red bell pepper and rice. or a big juicy orange. i got a package in the mail today. lemon smints are yumlicious. thank you, isolde! |
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Lunch. um. Quinn (the new roommate) and I walked downtown, stopping at the health food store (where I got an ice-cream cone, of course), and ending up at the coffee house, where I purchased a big slice of blackberry pie, eaten cold. Yum. Then some white bean and sausage soup. Protein good. Need to eat more, but tummy is funky. I ate lots of Smints and Orange tic-tacs, too. weird combo. |
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actually, I got sidetracked because today is Streetrat Katie's 18th birthday. I ended up spending burrito money on a toy guitar for her. |
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i like your handwriting, isolde...i do my "7"s the same way. smints are WAY better than altoids. i just had dinner: chicken, marinated "picked" cucumber slices, and plain corn. yum. i LOVE corn fresh, boiled, and in my stomach. |
Isolde I am worried about sending you candy - with your vegan-ism... however I will anyway and you can read labels and if you can't eat give them to people you want to kill off like th... ah I mean give them to people you love. yeah thats it. love. |
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i'm pretty sure there was more, but i can't remember now. i finished up that creamcheese shrimp dip, on celery and broccoli, but that might have been yesterday. tomorrow is my housemate's birthday and i baked her favorite dessert - pumpkin cheesecake. i'll decorate it with candles. i also baked a chocolate coconut pound cake. i ate nearly half of it, took the other half to my friend's. left a piece for here for john. |
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Then again, I can't resist a free wet super burrito from Los Gallitos. The friggin' idiot of a shipping hick always pronounces it "Gal- leet-O's." And after lunch: a thrilling conversation between the two little gossipmavens about giving their boyfriends head. I started to talk about altoids and creme-de-menthe (both ideas I intend to try within the week; I'll report back.) I figured they couldn't take it, though. And I would probably get sued for sexual harrasment for asking them whether they like to play Empress. This really is the wrong thread, isn't it? |
And I don't think I want to hear about you getting head. It distresses me. Plus, the mint conversation ended a while ago. I had hummus and pita bread for lunch. It was foul and I"m really hungry. |
you're thirsty pretty much all the time, eh dave? let's scrabble. |
Tom, what's an Empress? |
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put lemon in your water. |
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Finished off lunch with a donut, an ice-cream sandwich, and a coke. |
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German publishers are NEVER nice. They're the most cutthroat people in the business. Bertlesmann? Heidelberg? These guys are deadly. Sure, he SAYS he works for a tiny independent press in Bonn, but let me tell you, he's backed buy 5 billion deutsch and the rights to Jagger's autobiography. What's the name of the thai place? A friend of mine just went back to UCLA today, and was complaining about how she'd been there for a year and still hadn't found a decent thai place. |
I was going to work out tonight, but didn't. I feel slovenly. I have to be up early tommorrow, too. Working for the post office is fun, but...sorting mail sucks. Especialling since I'm new, and I don't know how to do a lot of stuff, and my supervisor yells at me. That, and I catch the rap for everyone else's mistakes, which pisses me off, but I don't mention it, because I don't want to be petty. So I sit and stew because someone put the wrong mail in a box and I was blamed. Damn. I hate being the underdog. |
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I just made chai, but I'm out of soymilk. Goddamnit! |
sampan house. and a jumbo coca cola. heh no just kidding about the jumbo coke. I had a regular. it was really cheap too, so I see this becoming my new lunch rice muchy place. |
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Or you can buy me lunch October 1 in Augusta MO, where I speak at 10 am and again at 2. Actually, I could buy you lunch there at the FRESH Renewal Center, but bring a dish to pass. Last year the speaker was William Cope Moyers, Bill Moyer's son. Before that, Ernie Larsen. I'm honored. You're all invited. Or try Philadelphia at the Adams Mark October 4,5,6,7...where I'm speaking on Friday and Saturday mornings, and moderating a panel on expressive therapies. Lunch could be on me, too, but this weekend entails a budget: vegan burritos and NOT at the Adams Mark. Or how about October 12, 13, or 14 when I'm speaking Saturday and Sunday morning at the Missouri Addictions COunselors Association at Grand Glaize Resort; what passes for food at this resort is not good there but nearby I'll treat you to blackened swordfish at the Happy Fisherman (where there are no ugly fish...) Or buy me some benedictine wine October 20., 21, or 22 when I'm at the Dunrovin Retreat Center outside of Minneapolis MN. Close sorabjites need inquire; I'll be there for the second weekend of my celtic mysticism classes. Or I could, if the company is right, even buy you lunch, but I think the place is deep in the woods and on a river. I'd be a cheap date as I don't drink. And lastly, you can do the Thai thing when I return to St. Louis the next weekend; or during the week; or whenever you get here. For healthy specialities, the hospital where I work makes a mean liver...but you'll never know whose it is...so I'd stick with the pizza. Which is what I had for lunch today. Pizza. |
Adam's Mark is where we always stay in Philidelphia; it's close to the Orthodox relatives. Last time we were there, every Freemason in the state of Pennsylvania was there. The elevators were jam packed all day long. Tofutti....when that first came out, my grandfather bought us stock in the company, thinking it would take off. It never really did; it was never intended as a health food; originally, it was made as a non-dairy frozen dessert for Orthodox Jews to eat after a meat meal. Early annual reports showed the board of directors in full Hassidic dress. Bulgar is best in kibbe. Once in a blue moon my dad and I will order raw kibbe at a Lebanese restaurant. It's an acquired taste for sure, but when they do it right...mmmmmmmmm. Have to wait until he's all done chemo to have it again. Lunch today, a thai chicken burrito. I was such a schlub today, got almost nothing done, but I did help my friend paint his bedroom, and checked the phone line I installed for him. |
You have stock in Tofutti? |
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********************************************* A Filipino cannibal who killed and ate a priest said people should no longer fear him because he turned vegetarian during his time in prison. Noberto Manero has been released from jail after serving a 12-year sentence for murdering the Italian priest. When he was freed, he said he wanted to move to an area where there were few priests, claiming he "no longer has a taste for men of the cloth". Manero told reporters he had converted to Islam and become a vegetarian while in prison, the news of the world newspaper reports. He said: "It is true that I ate one priest but that was a long time ago. I no longer have a taste for men of the cloth. People need not fear me for I am older now and wiser and I eat only cabbage and lentils. "During my time in prison, I converted to Islam and became a vegetarian so it would be strictly against my beliefs to eat anyone at all now. I have also asked my parole officer to move me to the north because there are very few priests there." |
someone was nice to me yesterday! |
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and i'm a mean motherfucker all day long. go figure. |
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It's an excellent idea. *picks up the phone* I think I'll ask myself out tonight. |
So I'm thinking I'm gonna put one in to myself. "Hey coffee shop girl. You're hot. I'd do ya." It's an ego boost and I'm not insane. No, really. |
i think i have another alien impregnantion. i'm experiencing the same freaky symptoms i was having when i had that mass removed from my left ovary back then. last night i could barely breath during yoga, and my tummy sticks way out when i have to pee, or right after i eat. and i can't breathe well. and i can't poop well. and there's general abdominal discomfort. and severe overall bloating. i wake up in the morning and even my eyes are bloated. i am not making this up. i probably should see the gyno. in fact, i'm due for my annual this month. but i don't want to go. i'm afraid of having another surgery. i'm hoping it'll just go away on its own. also, this may or may not be related, but i also seem to have rapidly deteriorating eye sight. i called today and had them move my opthamologist appointment up to thursday from next week because when i made the appointment my eyes were giving me trouble. but today there seems to be this film over everything, and in fact, i can barely read the words i'm typing on the screen right now. vewy weiwd. |
not great. On my list of things to do are make appointments with eye doctor and gyn, though not because of any strange symptoms. I hope everything is okay. I went back to my therapist today. Will update when the time feels right. |
desperately. i am also eating lunch right now, and i am having cous cous, corn, and broccoli. it's actually really really good and i may have another bowl. only four points! (1/4 cup cous cous, 1/2 cup broccoli, 1/2 cup corn simmered with a little boullion, salt, pepper, chilis moonit.) |
this one screw keeps falling out of the god damn right ear piece (?) . They still hold together, but with munchkin pulling at them...they arent long for this world. |
Thanks Platy, cept I don't think I like cous cous. Today I had a baked potato for lunch, and I put on 100 grams at weigh in (or whale in as I call it). I'm going to be better. |
I am going to sleep for three hours now. |
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I recommend the lasagna. i just realized that i'm not a big fan of lunch. So much uncertainty. So much pre-planning involved. tired. spelling skills are always the first to go. |
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He gave me hydrogen peroxide to put on them. I put my contacts in these little baskets and put the baskets in a vial of the hydrogen peroxide. Attached to the baskets is a disc which neutralizes the peroxide in six hours. It looks really cool and is my new toy. My new contacts should be in by the end of the week. I've been spending so much money lately, but on grown-up things like rent, contacts and boots to wear to work. I'm going to wait another week before I order my glasses though. Don't want to dig any further into my pockets. My glasses broke off at the hinge a year ago, I patched them with red duct tape but it's not the same. Somewhere I have a pair of frame I bought waiting for lenses, but they're so delicate to the touch that I wonder if it's a good idea. |
Lunch #1: Hot & Sour Soup Springroll Sauteed Vegetables in Coconut Curry Sauce White Rice Fortune Cookie Green Tea Lunch #2 Vegan BBQ Wheat Gluten sandwich (there's a company in SE that makes wonderful ones and they deliver them twice a week to my work) Salsa flavor Kettle Chips Water Something Else: Cold Leftover Vegetable Soup with Bragg's, Nutritional Yeast and Cumin I have Strawberry Newtons in my room. Question: Whatever happened to Zephyr? |
then again, lunch could be the noon meal or what have you, so they could be two names for the same meal. my first meal was at about 3pm today. i think i rolled out of bed at about 1:30pm. the first meal was a can of tuna with some mayo and several sprinkles of 'old bay' seasoning. it's mostly celery salt. my second meal was at about 9pm. it was double decker PB&J. i want to call it a triple decker, but it was three pieces of bread and only two regions of fill. the J's were strawberry preserves and blackberry jam. or vice versa. maybe that was lunch. i ate standing at the fridge and chugged milk out of the jug. i do this often. i usually have dinner around now, 2am, but i'm not really hungry for anything i have. it is silly, i just went grocery shopping today. i'm going to go make the rounds. peek in the cupboards and poke in the freezer. the standard i'm hungry but don't feel like making a production rounds. maybe a little grazing. the problem is i don't actually buy good grazing food anymore. i'll probably have another PB&J. or heat up a can of refried beans with the rest of my cheese. i should have bought cheese. i picked up a block of it in the store today, but i put it back down for some reason i cannot fathom. this happens all the time. every time i walk by the yogurt case i long for yogurt. i am afraid of it, though. i bought a quart of vanilla yogurt a few trips back and ended up eating it in a span of 24 hours. that really fucks you up. worse than turnips. i never buy what i really want. i write off just about everything as 'too expensive.' i look down the chips and crackers isle- too expensive for something i really don't need. wtf. a box of wheat thins here and there is probably within my budget, but don't tell that to me when i'm in the safeway. i end up eating a lot of PB&J on the cheap ass crushed wheat that is constantly on sale for 99 cents and tastes like like a sponge you used to wash the malt-o-meal pan. i eat a lot of scary meat. like the chicken thigh that is badly butchered and flash frozen and sold in 4lb bags for $6. i put three of those in a pan of water and soy sauce and simmer it for 45 minutes. i also will buy anything in the meat case that has a "$1 OFF (discount taken at the register)" sticker that has been mostly covered by a "$2 OFF (discount taken at the register)" sticker. that meat is always well aged and tender. whatever it is i'll fry over medium-low heat and splash soy sauce over it right before i pull it off. sometimes if i feel perky and the meat has produced a lot of - fluid - i will get fancy schmancy and make some sort of quick gravy. as i am a master chef, it always comes out tasting like the bomb. or slightly raw flour. one or the other. and sometimes i have no patience for cooking anything. like right now. in times like these i will sometimes pour a huge glass of water and tell myself i'm not really hungry, just thirsty. if i ever become anerexic it will be because i once read that often when you feel hungry you are really just slighty dehydrated. i guarentee that at this moment, having eaten nothing for five hours and nothing more than a can of tuna and a PB&J sandwhich (double decker, but still,) i am not feeling pangs of thirst. the other times i will graze the kitchen. not having anything particularly grazeable, this means i will be making a lot of spoons dirty. i'll have a spoonful of peanutbutter, i'll have a spoonful of mayo, i'll have a spoonful of jam, i'll eat a few olives. when it is really bad i will shoot that vietnamese rooster hotsauce into my mouth and i will sprinkle spices directly onto my tongue. if i had ice cream in the house i would eat most of it. i don't buy ice cream for a reason. this is incredibly boring to read about. i had to get it out, though. my diet is hell. my mother would be so disappointed. |
just please stop eating spoonfuls of mayonnaise. or at least stop writing about it. thanks, bud. |
pizzas made from tortillas [handmade tjs, good] canned pizza sauce, oregano, and a little cheese. broiled. super easy, super good. (and probably less than 5 points :)) |
lately ive been skipping dinner. i just dont have the energy or time to cook and clean up. nico has been busting her ass lately with work so shes working until late at night. i dont want to spend the money to go out. i dont want to eat fast food. and i dont want that frozen healthy choice meatloaf. so end up having some wine or a jack and coke and maybe some chips and salsa. next thing you know, by 9pm, im tipsy and starving, eating like nate. its not a good routine i know. this week nico bought me kid food. she bought a case of pink lemonade caprisuns and a can chef boy r dee stuffed ravioli. shits good when your starved and stoned. |
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Sandwich: Raw Spinach Roast Turkey with cajun seasoning on the edges Provalone A quarter of an Avocado Spicy Brown Mustard Wheat Montana(tm) Wheat Bread |
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-super9oct09,1,540388.story?coll=la-headlines-california |
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its a rare rare treat. i've been skating all week and generally feeling damn good, but i was famished. sinc emy throat is feels a bit funny, like im fighing a minor sore throat, i walked in to the diner planning to order soup and grilled cheese, but philly cheese steak slipped out of my mouth. its been probably 6 months since i had one of those bad boys. they didnt put enough cheese on it thought. if im going to break the rules, i might as well go all the way right. |
When i got home from work Rowlf and i went across the street to the grocery store to bask in the chaos and see if we could get some ice cream for free. They turned out to be the only store left open in town, they have some magical 1 hour backup system for the cash registers. Clerk boys were madly trying to block off all the doors but one with carts. All the lights were off but they have big windows. All 13 cash registers were open. Inside, it was mob rule. People were running, RUNNING, with their kids in tow buying pudding snacks. Several people had carts stacked with water cooler jugs. 5 or 6 jugs per cart. A month's supply of drinking water. All meat in the store, regardless of size or cut, was 1/2 price. There were very few takers. Some people however, who i assume had huge freezers or huge families were filling their carts with it. Good call. Some lady had 3 thanksgiving size turkeys. What the hell to buy when you don't know how long until you can cook again? I pondered for a long time and then got 2 packs of supermarket sushi, a can of apple juice, a can of corn, tortilla chips, potatoe chips, cream cheese and some bagles. I figured that would last me 2 days, or until everything in the freezer thawed out, then i could eat that. Really, what do you do? I had cheese & peanut butter at home, i would survive. Walking home i realized that i maybe should have got more, because if the power wasn't back on by morning the house might turn into some 'Lord of the Flies' type situation with the housemates killing me in my sleep for a can of beans. Around 9pm we started to loose the freezer food, so i filled a punch bowl with the dying chocolate ice cream and passed it around the living room. Ice cream doesn't taste so good when you HAVE to eat it. It was a sad sight indeed. |
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i feel like shit lately. this belly business is causing major consternation. and i've been so hungry, i'm eating absurd amounts of food. trying to stick to the good stuff - cans of tuna, fresh fruit, salad. but i end up eating like 3 cans of tuna in a sitting. and like 5 bowls of salad. and 2-4 pieces of fruit. then cookies. i've been obsessed with cookies. and of course chocolate. i'm so bloated it's obscene. i'm depressed again. i hate being depressed, it pisses me off. i have no reason to be depressed, my life is pretty good compared to most. i have little to be sad about. but i think i'm sad about turning 33 and feeling completely lonely. i've been feeling invisible. everyone here it seems, even all these new people i've been meeting through my roommate, they don't see me. they do but they don't. which is fine i guess. i'm just not used to feeling invisible. generally people like me, want to get to know me even just a little bit. but not lately. i'm just a shadow. i'm Donna's Roommate. the one who doesn't drink or smoke pot. maybe i'm the Smiling Blonde Idiot. i don't know. it sucks. it sucks that it's my 33rd birthday in a couple days and i'm still here with no family and little friends. no plans for the holidays. no plans for my birthday. i emailed kelly today and asked him if he wanted to go see Step Into Liquid w/ me this weekend. i have no earthly idea why i did that. setting myself up again for some sort of fucked up disaster. i should go to the gym, but i can't work out. my body is slow, sluggish, tired, bloated, groggy. i toss and turn at night. my clothes are ill fitting. i don't want to go out because my clothes don't fit and i feel fat and ugly. see? isn't this pathetic? i don't deserve to feel this way. maybe if my entire family had just been killed by a freak accident or something, then i'd have a legitimate reason to feel bad. fuck. |
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dude, doctor. get that tummy thing checked out. |
thanks. i will. i called and made an appointment for next week. i don't want to go, i just want it to go away. by itself. btw, nate, about the yogurt. just buy one of those little one-serving deals. just one. i was all excited because i checked my voice mail and glen had called and said he's getting a bunch of hyde park people together for just a sit-down hang-out sort of thing. i thought he meant tonight, which was why i was so excited, it would be something to do NOT BY MYSELF. but i think it's actually saturday night. bleahg i want to drink frosty pina coladas. or port. i want to have a friend who would come over and rescue me. take me out and make me have fun and make me laugh. |
Creepy ex-mormon stoner boy is calling me again. Last time I spoke with him he called me a psychiatrist. So I take it lunch is the second meal of the day. What if the second meal of the day is also the last? Would that make it dinner? Anyhow. At one, I had my breakfast at the cafe across the street from the library. The Abbey. I had a hot vegan sandwich (artichoke, bell pepper, tomato and cucumber) called The Saint with a side of bland rotini pasta salad. Which they tried to make up for the blandness by pouring on the parmesan. At work, my (lunch? dinner?) was a cold vegan sandwich from the "nutrition center", the brand is called higher taste. Water and a bag of tequila, lime and jalopeno flavor kettle chips made the meal. I want a grapefruit and some spinach and to make some honey-mustard dressing for a nice big salad. It's two am, though, all the stores are closed and I'm tired. |
Sarah, I wish I had known you needed to get out. We had a party out here last night. Went to Graham Central Station (so no designated drivers necessary). I actually sang karaoke (it was the booze, I'm a big chicken) and I was the only one who got up in the cages and danced. We had a total fucking blast last night, and I was wishing you were there with us. It was slow enough that the whole meat market thing wasn't going on and we just got out there and danced for the sake of dancing, who cares whos looking. It reminded me of one of the first posts I saw from you up here, and I wished you were with us then. Once my van is legal, I just might have to go up to Austin and kidnap you!!! |
but i guess your job is worth staying for, at least until jobs are easier to get here....whenever that will be. being forced to walk at least an hour a day is actually pretty nice, i'm liking it. i need new shoes though. |
i'm afriad of living in big cities. so you're doing weight watchers and walking an hour every day? maybe i should try something more normal and sensible like that. i hate it when people get you pity gifts when they find out at the last minute it's your birthday. it makes me feel pathetic. |
too. i don't live in the big city. i live in the smaller one across the bridge. it's nice. and there are many even smaller cities just a short way from the big one on public transit. i have to walk a lot now that my car would kill me if i drove it. otherwise i probably wouldn't do it [ :) ] but i am really enjoying it. i kept trying atkins like my sister [who is a size 2 or 4? she's another story altogether] but i just could not get myself to eat enough, meat is starting to gross me out. turns out the points thing is about how i eat anyway, but with math. didn't think it would work at all but it kind of is and i like it. |
that's great! yeah, i have seen it work for a lot of people. i tried it last summer and it did not work for me. plus, i don't weigh myself anymore. so i won't do a program w/ a weigh-in, unless it's with lonny, but he's in honolulu. i used to weigh myself several times a day. it was sick. i probably should weigh myself once a week just to keep me on track, but i'm afraid of the scale now. i won't get on unless i can tell i'm more toward 145. right now i'm definitely above that. if i don't go to mexico for thanksgiving, maybe i'll come visit the bay area instead. or are you going to michigan? |
sure what's happening. last time my parents came to visit at my sister's, hopefully they won't this time. [heh] i don't have a scale or go to meetings or anything...i'm just taking suggestions from the website. the biggest difference is that my, uh, 'constitution' is better. i'm sleeping much better, but that's probably the lack of diet coke. |
(what I had for lunch) mmmmmm. |
I forgot to make rice to go with it. Later on, 1/2 a roll of SweetTarts. I've felt 100x better since i stopped drinking cola or pop of any kind, except when i go out with people to a bar or etc. So about once every two weeks i'll drink it. Makes me feel gross inside. Drop the pop. It's a good thing. |
I cant place his accent or tell where he's from from his face. he could be italian, greek, or even arab. he's slightly tanned, moustachioed, and somewhat old. this one lady forgot her keys after putting on her mustard and walked far away to her car, and then had to come back. while she was walking away, he noticed... hot dog man says: "Dee Women. Day are not dee too bright uh? uh? heh heh heh heh" she comes back "here you go with your keys. You no look so happy having to walk so far back because of forgetting, uh?" ...and he's always like this... he might even be a racist, because for me and most customers, when you get a hot dog, he gives you a good sized slice of his 3.00 sausage and puts it in the bun (delicious egg buns). good deal. Whenever Chinese/Japanese people come get a hot dog, he never gives him the extra slice. what gives? but I look past this, because the hot dogs are that damn good. And the sausage! Oh, the sausage. Its the biggest sausage you've ever seen, almost a foot long, big thick and dildo-ready. Its that fine. I love the hot dog man |
I was fucked. I think the first tequila really set the scene. Due to everyone staring, and teasing me about how I don't flinch and almost get sexual with the lemon, I _had_ to keep going. Andrew picked me up. Apparently it was raining, I wound down the window and tried to rock out to Metalica. Then I opened the sunroof. He closed it. I got out of the car and fell onto the verge. I got the giggles at this point and couldn't get up or stop laughing. By the time I had pulled myself together enough Q and Tarn were there. Q was jealous and wanted to be in my state. I was trying to get to the bottle of tequila in the liquor cabinet, but it wasn't happening. I laughed so hard I was crying. I love you tequila. Apparently I did some sem-strip show involving the boy and a chair but I don't remember that. No hangover today. |
last time we had a binge with margies, nico and i took of our pants and played ping pong in our underwear. though you should be in pain for the mere thought of putting diet coke in any cocktail. |
I actually like it better with diet coke. Weird. Especially as I was such a coke fiend. Uh cola that is. My punishment is to cook Andrew a big greasy fry up of which I can't eat anything, but I might have a kranski. |
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organic roast beef slices stuffed with homemade greek salsa (feta, olives, tomatoes, peppers...) and salad and an orange and a bottle perrier. kelly said last night that he would call me today and we would go to the 7 or 9 movie. it's about 4 and i haven't heard anything yet. not that i'm waiting around. i'm just laying in bed watching base ball in my jammies and reading Hey Nostradamus. in other news: yesterday afternoon i had a profound epaphany yesterday afternoon about buddhism. even though i wouldn't call myself a buddhist, now i feel as if i finally really and truly understand what it's about, what it means, spiritually and ethereally and intellectually. |
protein shake and coffee. now i'm bleeding. i'm at home, day off. columbus day. i went to a morning yoga class. my roommate's cat peed in my bathtub. i went to see the movie last night, it was fucking kick ass. kelly went with me. he was painfully nervous, and i have no idea why. pity. i guess i'll do some chores and go for a bike ride or something. i should bake a bread today. |
I had a "pitza" for lunch - a piece of pita bread split open and cut in half to make four wedges. Then a tomato garlic sauce with charbroiled chicken, peas, and grilled onion strings on top. pretty good. One movie I can heartily recommend for people who like movies that just blow you away with images is Winged Migration. It's just unbelievably beautiful. Also I recommend the Andy Goldsworthy documentary "Rivers and Tides". Both would be good for stressed out folks, too, I think, because they are very calming movies. |
this is a fast. |
i went kayaking instead of a bike ride. just got home and had a beautiful early dinner of lamb steak and homemade coleslaw. fasting always seems like a good idea until i do it, then it fucks me up. |
For lunch I had pad thai, my first experiment with trying to make it at home. Turned out well, needed more spices. And I think I need to break down and use oil for that crispy pad thai action, even though it will up the points. Damnit. |
FUCK that's good stuff! fuckin a, man. $3 heaven. serious. |
today i ate pitas full of veggies....so damn good, who woulda known. ahem. dear god, i would like to POOP EVERY DAY ON A REGULAR BASIS. thank you. heh. i said it. also- alcohol and/or drugs seem to shut down my digestive machinery for days. is this true for everyone? |
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shut down as in no poo at all? or shut down as in poo that looks like what you ate mere hours ago? |
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For "dinner" I had a veggie sandwich. With both these meals I took a dose of over-the -counter sinus medication. I also injested one can of mountain dew and a liter and a half of water. |
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i am having oatmeal for breakfast! not the instant kind! it's less gluey than instant which i will say is good. |
i can't wait a whole damned fortnight for a bowl of oatmeal. |
For breakfast, my usual: 2 hardboiled eggs, nutrigrain bar, yogurt, banana. |
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i must have the kind-of-instant oatmeal then cause you don't have to cook it very long. hm. damn is it filling, how am i gonna walk to work this way? |
I usually don't stuff the chickens, as it takes longer to cook. 1) Boil up everything in the little plastic bag that comes with the chicken, except the livers, so that you have a nice little stock for the stuffing mixture (usually takes about 1/2 hour if boiled on high). 2) About 10 minutes before the chickies are done, dice up the liver, and some onion. Fry them in butter, but don't burn them. (Don't worry, you won't taste the liver in the stuffing). 3) Strain the stock. Add some raisins to it so they plump up. 4) Chop some walnuts. 5) Make any type of stuffing you like (Stove-Top, Pepperidge Farm). I like the latter, sage flavor. 6) Add the raisins, walnut, liver & onion mixture to the stuffing. Let stand warm until chicken is done. 7) Pig out. |
i'm gonna have campbell's chicken (insect and rodent) noodle and maybe a couple p b & js. |
caffeine particularly is known to be a stimulant for the walls of the colon to expand and contract, thus pushing all the poop right out. |
Last night I had swordfish with a lime and tomatillo sauce. Ohhhhh, man. Best fish ever. |
today i started keeping a food record again, in an old xls template i made when i was body building. i'm instantly remembering why this is a good idea and why it works. i'd wonder why i get so damn hungry during certain times, and now i realize that it's because i'm not eating enough at regular intervals and then i binge out. like i just did. on 7 little peanut butter fudge cookies. now i have a belly ache. bleagh. |
and easy and i feel great and not guilty about eating pita and hummus and sriracha actually i do feel guilty, but i'm trying not to i hope it's okay to eat them, i suppose a couple of weeks will prove it my current method is to eat whatever occurs to me with the idea that if i need protein i will feel like eating it i'm still wondering if i should force myself to eat all the points if i don't feel like it, sometimes it's hard to eat them all. that doesn't seem right. last night i ate 10 prunes. TEN. the lemon essence kind. super tasty. |
You can really tell that the Zoloft is in my system. I went to lunch with a group of gentlement that were 2-3 levels above me, and I did not feel nervous at all. Then there was the guy who makes the REALLY stupid jokes and loves to embarrass folks (like when you are in the kitchen, getting a cup of coffee and comes in and says really loud "hey, what are you doing taking two donuts?" and you are not even taking one). Another customer in the resteraunt leans over and wispers something in his ear. He tries to look over his shoulder and pulls his shirt-back a bit, and strains to look at his back, and says "I thought I felt a warm sensation earlier"...... A waitress had aciddently let some sauce drip from a plate onto his back, about 10 minutes before this happened. So, I say outloud "You must have kids if you ignored a warm, trickling sensation, or a bladder control problem".... Yes, Zoloft works wonders. |
humor while in business situations? neat the people who like to embarrass you do so because they feel like assholes. giving them the raised eyebrow usually does the trick of ending that shit. |
Point was before I would not have said anything at all, |
I'm going to the vegetable store later and will buy potatoes, onions, spinach, grapefruit and some apples. I checked out this cookbook from the library called Everyday Greens and I've got to try something from it. |
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maybe ocd, too like budgeting, it makes me happy and relieves anxiety. though i haven't had any since recovering from going to detroit. there's also the hour of walking, that has to be counted in somewhere with the feeling great. i feel alert more, which is nice. |
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On top of everything, they are reflooring the gym so my workout program is on hold, too. And now it's raining. And Kazu left for ATL this morning. I am supposed to go to see the Handsome Family tonight but I don't know if I feel like it, although I promised Mavis I would. |
I keep having to fight off buying Cream of Wheat. I LOVE Cream of Wheat, but i already have all this organic oatmeal to eat..... and if i have Cream of Wheat i'll eat nothing else. Cream of Wheat is a real investment food, i think a 2-portion bowl of it is made from 3 tablespoons from the box? That could last me years. I also want some Red River. Some ski instructor mocked me as a child for saying i loved it: "You eat that?! It's nothing but birdseed!" and i have to agree, it is a lot like shoveling down bowl after bowl of birdseed, but brown sugar turns it into something wonderful yet simple. I didn't even remember it until a few weeks ago and had to call my mom to find out what 'that birdseed stuff i used to eat' was called. i guess you could say i'm a big hot cereal fan. "Another customer in the resteraunt leans over and wispers something in his ear." ahahaha! it's catching on! soon my spelling mistake name will take over the world! Glad to hear you're more relaxed, spunkster. I bet it will help you at your job. |
But i had pumpkin pie for breakfast 3 days in a row. I think i'll start making one once a month. They're too good for just Thanksgiving |
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Ok: breakfast: coconut lemongrass soup (3 points) snackypoo: a bit of brownie (to test, people!) and an apple (3 points) lunch: pad thai redux, cooked with a little bit of oil (7 points) pre-movie snack: coconut lemongrass soup, cold, because I am lazy (3 points) and...: brownie (2 points) I think I will have a lot of popcorn later (2 points) and that will polish me off. I love the point system. I can eat whatever I want and be accountable for it but not guilty. Sometimes I am guilty when I eat, say, a brownie instead of a banana. But that's ok. These things do happen. The pita/veggies/sri racha sounds really good. I may have to break down and invest in a toaster. Make some baba ghanouj. On pita. Yum. |
i would love to eat oatmeal every day. today i had supermarket sushi for lunch again. i'm going to the gynecologist this afternoon to have the aliens photographed. and see if any drug companies have released any new birth control pills in the last two years that might be worth trying, until two months go by and they make me criminally insane, and i once again conclude that hormone therapy is the root of all evil. same fucking reproductive organ nightmares, different year. if i didn't want to give birth to a baby, i'd just... well, anyway... |
today is Boss' day. as a gift i'm going to give my Boss a guilt trip. which means i won't be attending the Boss' Day Luncheon. |
when are they going to have Middle Management Day? |
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like secretary's day or grandparen't day |
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I had a Hot Pocket that tasted like burnt mouth. |
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this is one of my favorite threads ever. so, tomorrow i'm having YAS (Yet Another Surgery). and this makes through three surgeries y'all will have been with me. it's my right shoulder. recurring injury that i re-injured in may (partial dislocation, three torn ligaments) and have been hoping wouldn't need surgery. hoping it would just go away. but it hasn't. getting worse. i decided to do the operation because the whole summer has wasted away and i haven't been able to do yoga hardly at all, and no kayaking, no tennis, no softball. it has sucked. and i'm in pain almost all the time. plus if i don't, i'll always be at risk for dislocating it and won't be able to the activities i love. so i'll be in pre-op at 5:30 a.m. tomorrow. what a fucking ordeal. i'm 33 years old, and this will be my fifth surgery. joy joy joy. |
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our sarah is hurting :( |
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Leftover Meatball Leftover Rice Peanut Butter and Cheese Sandwich Cookies Mean while I was eating , I made a call to my old boss to see if I can go back to my old job (P/T) |
Sarah hope you're okay :) I went to the dentist today and next week I am having a wisdom tooth and the one next to it pulled out. stupid fucking teeth. So today for lunch I had kfc potato and gravy and bread rolls and antibiotics and painkillers. woohoo! |
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they sent me home too early. and sent me home w/ my biohazardous waste -- chunks of bone, cartilagge, and scar tissue. four little incisions, one massive throbbing deep joint pain. from now on im going to stay inside & watch tv and never use my body again. no more injuries unless its carpel tunnel from clicking the remote. |
i'm so excited about my lunch today, i had to eat half my sandwhich for breakfast because i couldn't wait. first, a slice of ezekiel sesame bread. on top of that, a layer of goat cheese. on top of that, boar's head roasted turkey breast. on top of that, sliced cherry tomatoes. on top of that, a spoonful of sundried tomato pesto, spread over the cherry tomoatoes. on top of that, two large fresh basil leaves. on top of that, a large piece of green leaf lettuce. on top of that, another piece of ezekiel sesame bread, with a thin layer of grainy mustard. YUM. last night i baked from scratch a marscapone cheesecake. |
And that sandwich sounds delicious. I think I might get the ingredients at Harvest so that I can make one too. Only I think I want roasted peppers too. |
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oh i know! grilled tofu and cheese? gimme a fuckin break. marscapone cheese cake crust: i pkg graham crackers 1/4 cup ground almonds 1/2 cup melted butter 1/2 tea cinnamon (optional, just gives it a little depth) smash up the crackers to a fine meal. add almonds, cinnamon and butter and mix together. press into the bottom of an 8" springform, and bake for 8 minutes at 350 degrees. remove and cool. cake: 2 8 oz. bricks cream cheese (don't use reduced fat) 1/2 cup sour cream 8 oz marscapone cheese 1 cup plus 1 tbs fine sugar 2 eggs finely grated zest of one lemon 1 tbs vanilla 1 tbs pineapple juice (you could subsitute orange juice, but it won't be as yummy) 2 tbs flour use an electric mixer to beat the cream cheese until it's light and fluffy, about 3-5 minutes. add sugar, sour cream, marscapone, eggs, and zest. beat for another 5 minutes. add vanilla and juice and beat for another minute. fold in flour. pour into crust and bake for 1-1/2 hours at 325 degrees, until it just starts to turn a light golden brown. let it cool for at least 2 hours or chill overnight, wrapped in plastic. don't panic if the center of the cheesecake is a little jiggly, it'll continue to cook after you take it out of the oven. but you don't want it super doop jiggly. if you're worried that it's not baked all the way, you can always cover it w/ aluminum foil so it doesn't get any browner, and stick it back in the oven, checking on it every 5-7 minutes. just don't over bake it because then it won't be as yummy. i think i'm going to buy a double oven and open a home bakery. |
sem, what happened to mavis? |
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vodka sauce pasta and julien carrots and zucchini. while great, i wish i had some of the zucchini blossom risotto we had last week. shit's good yo. |
rye bread. whole milk yogurt with fresh strawberries |
Mavis: got married expecting a daughter in August moving to Marquette Michigan completed a bachelors degree That about sums it up. |
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By moonit on Monday, August 7, 2000 - 11:00 pm: double chicken souvalaki with chilli and stefans oj. and I didnt pay. I thought this was the thread with Trace's JUMBO COKES. But its not. dammit. |
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for Sem. |
Ezekiel and it's the same kind of wholegrain, no flour goodness. |
I had a bagel this morning, which I realize is not lunch. But I'm trying not to think ahead at the moment. |
pita bread, seven layer dip (six for me as I took out the olives...blech), spinach/artichoke dip, tortilla chips, one chicken nugget, and one spring roll. Also a piece of lemon tort and a piece of chocolate tort. It was our department's end-of-the-year celebration. |
those along with Amy's nature burgers....mmmmm butty grain goodness. POOP ON !!!!!!!!!! i havent thought about my lunch. im still thinking about driving my 1979 camaro i traded for my 86 honda accord. a thread and pics to come soon on that. back to food. i wish had left overs of the arromatic indian rice and kale we had for dinner last night. the spoon could not reach the mouth fast enough. i now can make the best aromatic indian rice with all the appropriate spices and ghee. |
i meant "nutty" |
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I am wolfing down barbequed tofu and brown rice so that I can get back to work on time. |
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nelly, you're giving me deja vu. |
*sigh* |
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i'm going to lunch now. |
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i wondered where you were. |
Oh, and a JUMBO COCA-COLA! |
chopped peppers. water. |
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vegetable sticks from Trader Joe's one of Trader Joe's awesome caramel yoghurts water |
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hmm. that doesn't seem to be listed: NYPD EXAM AND EMPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS Requirements to take the written examination: *Applicants must be at least 17˝ years of age by the last day of filing of the exam they are applying for. *Applicants must not have reached their 35th birthday on or before the first day of filing of the exam they are applying for. *Those applicants who are 35 and over and have active United States military service may deduct up to six years from the age requirement. *If by mail: Applications must be submitted/postmarked by the filing deadline of the exam they are applying for. Requirements to be hired: *Candidates must be at least 21 years of age on or before the day of hire. *Candidates must be a United States citizen on or before the day of hire. *On or before the day of hire, candidates must have successfully completed either: **Sixty (60) college credits with a 2.0 G.P.A. from an accredited college or university, or **Two (2) years of full-time, active military service in the United States Armed Forces with an honorable discharge and have a high school's diploma or its equivalent. *Candidates must reside either within one of the five boroughs of New York City or one of the surrounding counties of New York City; Suffolk, Westchester, Orange, Rockland, Nassau or Putnam Counties on the day of hire. *Candidates must possess a valid, unrestricted New York State Drivers License on the day of hire. *Candidates must pay a $75.00 fee for fingerprinting as part of the investigation process. *Candidates must pass a drug/alcohol screening. *Candidates must pass a character and background investigation. The following factors are some of those which would be cause for disqualification: *Any conviction of an offense which is punishable by one or more years imprisonment (felony). *Any repeated convictions of an offense which indicate a disrespect for the law, a lack of good moral character or disposition towards violence and disorder. *Discharge from employment, where such discharge indicates poor behavior and/or an inability adjusting to discipline. *A Dishonorable discharge from the armed forces. *Persons convicted of a petit larceny. *Persons convicted of any domestic violence offense. *Candidates must pass all medical, physical, written psychological and oral psychological examinations. |
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I think I am addicted to the cherries jubilee. It is so fucking good I can't handle it. |
spunk, was it as nasty as the chinese buffets in texas? |
Love the imitation crab meat in the Seafood Delite! |
i thought you were in missouri. |
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plus the undivided attention of the office beagle, hoping i drop something. |
That is hard to find out here, except at Target |
Expecially for the price. |
tuna fish salad peach zucchini |
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that mexican buffet sounds scary. in fact, just the concept, a texan mexican buffet is just wrong on so many levels. today i had leftover pasta which was pasta swimming in olive oil, feta, ceci peas and cooked swiss chard. |
or missouri or oklahoma or arkansas or alabama But I am not so sure I want to try Mexican Mexican either. Most of the mexican restraunts out here are run by actual mexicans. The majority of the people working there dont even speak english. I went to a resteraunt in Alabama and tried to order a picadillo taco, and they looked at me like I had flipped my lid.... |
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just the other night i was the only guero for miles eating off a roseland taco truck. asada on freshly made corn tortillas with mysterious chile sauce and a squeeze of lime. two for $1. |
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buffets sound nasty. made-to-order is wonderful. it's the need for a heat lamp. vege chimis are one of the world's perfect foods. mmmm. |
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Pretty good chinese buffet, to. (General China at Skillman and Live Oak) |
I have not tried the El Fenix, kind of afraid to. PUBLIC SAFETY MESSAGE: STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM PONCHO'S MEXICAN BUFFET Now, there is a place in Addison that rocks. Some Brazillian Steak house. And Fago De Chao. OMG All you can eat meat? Hell Ya! |
I must've gained five pounds, easy, and we were walking a lot, every day. (Including walking all the way to the top of the Pyramid of the Sun, which was a hell of a workout). |
I love the funny pants. |
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Crispy Carnitas Tacos from Chipoltle ROCK |
Hospital Cafeteria Spaghetti and meat sauce. The other option looked like it might be good, but when the lady in front of me asked the server what it was, all the server replied with was "meat". Maybe I should have take my chances with the garden salad, with spinach! Texas de Brazil is the other Cuurrascaria in Dallas. Last night I had Quarter Chicken with beef souvlaki at Yia Yi Marys. |
mmmmmmmmm Live Oak beer..... |
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today i had granola w/ soy milk, two chocolate chip cookies, and some raw almonds. |
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the first time i ate there my piss and shit smelled like meat for days. quite literally. days. |
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right now. |
genetics. <insert your own "Don't Breed" joke here> |
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i had cheese toast and coffee |
I so hate and dread this busy schedule killing me by having to spend so much time driving around everyone else. I want my life back |
http://tacotrucks.net/ |
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caught raw. Today I had, let's see: leftover mac and cheese leftover roasted chicken leg some kind of Ethel M chocolate bar with a layer of peanut butter in it vanilla soymilk |
this is actually the thread i was looking for. today for breakfast i ate a plain turkey burger dipped in ketchup. for lunch i ate a medium size piece of meat lasagna and a side of braised veggies and a small cesar salad. (this turned out to be a mistake.) for dinner i had about a cup of beef ravioli with olive oil and parmesearn. i'm on a ground meat diet. |
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oh god i need cornbread. |
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workers papering the windows, glaring red signs proclaiming the building unsafe. i drove to another place, circled the parking lot, drove home. poop. |
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oh. emergen-c |
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in reality though the cuisine in the carolinas isnt as southern as you might think or as i want...though the bbq in eastern carolina is the shit. you gotta get outta town to really get some good roadside bbq stand stuff. ony my journey home, i will be stopping through NOLA for halloween and intend to pig out while there.....no doubt to cure a massive hangover i intend to acquire on hallows eve |
so droopy, cornbread. i'm going to be home most of the day tomorrow and decided to make cornbread. are you a fan of plain cornbread, or do you like it with cheese and jalapeńos and bits of corn? i can't decide which various to make, though probably jalapeńos are out this time around. |
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ever have salvadorian quesadilla? |
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always in a cast iron skillet. my aunt just sent me for my bday a griswold cast iron waffle maker. i asked seńor to pick up buttermilk today, because buttermilk is located at the very back of the grocery store, and i just couldn't do it. |
I used to work with a guy who drank a quart of buttermilk every day. He'd keep the carton around and just sort of nurse it. |
never had a Spanish tortilla. looks easy to make. I'm not a huge frittata fan. |
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meatballs, and a strawberry limeade. |
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Ham and cheddar on wheat with mustard, water, and some dried mango and pineapple slices. |
Hey, I thought of you a couple of weeks ago -- went to the Fleetwood Mac concert at MSG. It was fun, and they put on a good show. |
today's lunch was two hard-boiled eggs and marbled rye dipped in vinegar. |
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i googled "peanut butter and cheese sandwich", and it turns out this isn't some dr. pepper aberration. maybe one night when i'm drunk.... peanut butter sandwiches (aside from the standard "...and jelly") i have tried: pb&j grilled pb&j french toast style peanut butter mayo and banana peanut butter bacon tomato and mayo |
Thinking about it, there are those flourescent orange cheese and peanut butter crackers that come in vending machines, so pb & cheddar might be ok, although the texture of the cheese along with the pb might be a little weird. |
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what's so funny about peanut butter and chicken? |
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it's good. pollo pad thai, yo. |
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chalupas compuestas. |
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Glad to see you back patrick. |
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i went to a veryniceTM party and stayed up all night and i think my uvula is lacerated. |
Friday morning my son's Volvo got a lacerated headlight and banged up bumper in a slight rear crash...it's like a tank. Hope the hanging thingie heals. Cause? I had WAY too much Bosnian food this week. Lunch Monday, lunch Thursday, Dinner thursday, and then a whole buffet worth for a dinner party on friday night. |
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i had no breakfast or lunch, today. around 5pm i had some fried okra. around 10pm i had corn flakes. there was an arts festival downton from thursday till today. i had fresh-made potato chips, carribean barbecue, a bratwurst plate, and chicken quesadillas. not all at once. |
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half turkey club half lemon chicken soup sweet iced tea unlike my superiors I did not have a beer. this job is causing unwanted weight and its times like that that need to stop. |
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Is there some agreed upon word for that meal? |
I tried to recreate a fantastic sweet potato and spinach soup I once had. About 3/4 through the process, I decided that what this soup needs is bacon. I was also simultaneously making an apple cake. Between making the cake and frying the bacon and checking the cake and cleaning up the kitchen and burning most of the bacon, I let the soup cook for too long and the sweet potatoes turned to mush. |
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tuna fish and a tossed salad including walnuts. definitely not enough. i am so sick and tired of being hungry. |
And...CANDY. |
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tuna fish salad and a whole cantelope. |
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i'm considering having a "fun size" butterfinger. |
I'm contemplating baking another apple cake right now. Torta di mele For the dish: butter granulated sugar For the cake: 3 large apples (1 lb.) 2 TBS unsalted butter 3 TBS heavy cream 2 XL eggs, lightly beaten 3/4 c. flour 1 tsp baking powder 1 tsp baking soda pinch of salt 1/3 c. granulated sugar powdered sugar (for sprinkling) Preheat oven at 350 with the rack set in the middle of the oven. Generously butter the baking dish and sprinkle granulated sugar all over the bottom and sides. Peel, core, and slice the apples into very thin slices (although I used very thick slices last time and I liked it). Put the slices in a bowl, toss with a little lemon juice, and set aside. Melt the butter in the microwave and let cool. Then pour it into a bowl, add in the cream and the eggs, and mix well. In another bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and granulated sugar. Very slowly pour in the liquid mixture and blend with a wooden spoon until all mixed up. Add the apples to the batter and mix well. (Batter will be thick.) Pour the batter into the baking dish and smooth out so that it's all the same thickness all the way to the edges of the pan. Bake for 35 min. or until the top is golden and the batter is done. Cool a little. Remove from pan. Dust with powdered sugar and serve warm. |
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i like it that there are "what should i have...?" and "what did you have...?" threads going simultaneously. nice work, people |
food always tastes better when you're 8 months pregnant. it can't be overstated: i need a cocktail. |
Also, I had bread and cheese for lunch. |
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is there some sorta celery conspiracy? every soup on the planet has way too celery in it. |
i hate the taste of celery i just found an old story of sarah's on a random website. talented girl. |
I don't like ants. |
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i've lost so much of my writing that used to be published on the web. send me the link. |
thai curry tofu and veggies over rice noodles. tons of celery. YUM. |
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an alien reading postcards from the 50's well done! |
flavor wise...when making a nice italian red sauce or a soup sauteed minced celery (and carrot) are essential but they are minced....meaning you don't see big offensive chunks. they disapear. celery - its like your (insert one) retarded/gay/obnoxious/drunk uncle that makes a scene at family gatherings. |
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i think i've had tuna on celery. my mother usually put pimento cheese on celery sticks. i like celery, at least in that it's so innocuous if find little to dislike. i'll eat it raw or as part of a classic mirepoix. right now i'm working on my second martini and eating sliced cucumber. another innocuous vegetable, but i like the freshness of the smell of cucumber. |
So droopy, what have you been up to lately? I have been using pennies to make a purchase on Megamillions lottery tickets, so far no luck on winning 220 million dollars. Someone in Ohio won the jackpot! |
i don't go to walmart much for lunch, but a woman i work with goes there a lot to buy deep fried okra and/or deep fried cheese jalapenos (both battered in cornmeal). all my pennies, rolled or unrolled, lie lonely and unused in a big black scottish deed box, along with all my other coins. the book i ordered came today: the complete novels of flann o'brien. it's been a long time since i've even tried to read a book. |
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scrambled eggs and a bagel for lunch. |
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caesar salad, hold the croutons, with home made dressing. that's pretty much all i've been eating for lunch and dinner for the last 3 weeks. don't know why, just a bizarre craving. |
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A salad with mostly broccoli, chickpeas, and mushrooms. |
Homemade tomato-ginger jam A little pile of homemade do chua (vietnamese carrot & daikon pickle) Baked potato with Vegetarian baked beans A tofurky sausage Sriacha Curry powder Molasses & fried onions from the lao market. |
this summer my fig tree produced 20-30 lbs of figs, most of them huge, the size of plums, pink and sweet. the first harvest, which was in june, i ate them all one by one. i didn't want to, i just couldn't help it. the second harvest i made fig preserves with brandy. bought a canning kit and everything. i put in wayyyy too much sugar, even though is was about half of what was called in the recipe, so it turned out much sweeter than i would have liked. it made three large jars, and i gave it all away. the canning part was super fun and i now i want to can everything. the third harvest i made cookies. a version of italian fig cookies, except i diced up the fresh figs and soaked them in an unfiltered ruby port for a few days. then i added just 1/2 cup of sugar, put it all in a huge pot and reduced it. then i put it in a blender to make it smooth. i added finely chopped walnuts and candied pecans, and rolled the mixture up in a buttery cookie dough. so many figs it made four huge long rolls of cookies which get sliced up into 1 inch parts before baking. it made so many cookies that i had to freeze two of the unbaked rolls. and they were outrageously delicious. |
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tell me about it. |
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that's kinda weird. i guess figs must somehow remind me of what did you have for lunch. today lunch was 3 eggs and a garlic chicken sausage and a lime la croix. i was very very hungry. |
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garden, and carrots. It was pretty fucking tasty. |
ny strip, walnuts, 3 figs, and i gulped down about 5 glasses of water. |
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2 skillet-cooked hamburgers with salsa and avocado. water. |
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Forgot about the curry paste-roasted okra until after we were all overstuffed. |
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the best way to cook okra if you don't like how it feels slimy is to batter and deep fry it. lunch today was a ny strip and homemade palak paneer. minus the paneer. |
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pathetically i ate salmon, japanese sweet potato, half an apple, and steamed broccoli. |
blend. tomorrow will be cafeteria food on a campus where i'm attending an all-day training. |
expression. I am envious of both your lunches. |