Wednesday 4/21/10

Good day.  Not happy to be back at work buried under a mountain of paper but I left at 7:30 and it didn't look too bad.

Ate the food I brought.  Went for a long walk with Alisa around Uptown.  Stopped for some Red Mango frozen yogurt. If you have never been to Red Mango?  You need to go now!  It's delicious. I get the POM with black berries and raspberries.  We sit outside and watch the strange people and cute dogs walk by.

I cooked a sweet potato and spinach dish for dinner.  Lots of onions (for me at least) and spices and my apartment kinda stinks. It was good though.

Tuesday 4/20/10

Last day of my staycation.  Back to work tomorrow.  I need to figure out the food thing for work.  It's easy to eat good when I don't have to lug a bunch of crap around, you know?

I haven't had a Diet Coke since Saturday night.  It wasn't bad until this morning.  I got up at 6:30 to meet Alisa for my free Starbucks.  The coffee and an aspirin got rid of the nasty caffeine headache and i have been drinking water all day.

Also got my car worked on.  Ouch.  Another $200 and it should be done for the year.

Off to watch the Madonna episode of Glee.

Also, Ian Somerhalder is in the May GQ,   Take a peek.  He looks yummy.  Plus Jake Gyllenhaal is on the cover and there is a big article.

Saturday 4/17/10

Lovely spring rain coming down.  It meant for some fun at Central Market this evening with Alisa and her niece.  I love Central Market on Saturday night.  There are very few people there and the ones who are?  Weird.  Like the couple that was putting 1 new potato on the scale at a time, WTF?  Or the dude that kept yelling at his girlfriend/wife that he was going "over to the salmon" like it was calling him home or something.

So I spent too much money so I am going to have to eat all this stuff.  I had a yummy salad for dinner and I am going to make my own salad dressings tomorrow.  Cook chicken and this other sweet potato and spinach thing.

I have one Diet Coke left in the fridge.  I didn't' buy any more so my home supply is gone.  Hopefully, Lesley will have downed the stash in my work fridge by the time I get back on Wednesday.

Tomorrow is lunch with mom and dad.  I am going to try and get by Goodwill in the morning before I head over there and drop off stuff.  It's nice to have a couple of extra days off.  I am not feeling the pressure to do my laundry and get everything done by Monday.  I have my list and I'll get to it.

Setting Up House

So nobody is reading this yet but I am going to try and get started.

Here is what will happen.  Next week, I am joining Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution.  It's been awhile coming but an ugly birthday is coming up in a couple of weeks so it's time.

This is what is going to happen.  Before pictures (yuck) so I can actually SEE what's happening to me as I go though the process. That's the bad part.  The fun part will be food.  Pictures of food.  And probably shoes. And possibly some TV talk.  All my favorite things.

It has been years since I have blogged with any regularity.  Before Facebook. I used to do a little on My Space but really?  My Space?  Before that it was another place that nobody uses anymore in a dark, twisted time of my life.  It's all still there but I am not that person anymore.

So I have been reading Jaime's new cookbook and getting kind of excited.  I am going to be eating lots of salads and making my own soups and salad dressing.  And not drinking Diet Coke. Which make me sad.  But I will still have my coffee.  Because, hell no, I am not giving that up.This weekend, it's cleaning out my fridge and doing some grocery shopping.  Setting the stage.

We'll see how that goes.