I’ve just read the most interesting diet plan online. According to Dr. Liz Applegate of Runner’s World, all you have to do is mix delicious unhealthy food with healthy food. Her examples include a bowl of half fun and delicious cereal and half boring and disgusting healthy cereal and cutting regular ground meat with fake ground hippie meat. Now I will never approve of distilling meat, but she might be on to something.
My suggestions:
- Half Champagne, Half Orange Juice (can be found for $1 here)
- Half Pizza, Half Pineapple
- Half Chocolate, Half Strawberry hiding underneath that chocolate
- Half Cheese, Half Spinach (eat with delicious triscuits, which healthy, double diet points!!!)
- Half Cookie, Half Brownie (the brownie is made with applesauce, so it’s fat free)
I’m excited to begin this new regiment. I can’t wait to stop dropping the LBs.
Friday, August 17, 2007
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Product of the Night
Tonight I gave in to the ever growing mysterious (possibly soap scum caused) stains of my bathtub. Tonight, however, was no ordinary cleaning. Having run out of the usual soft scrub with bleach as well as a few other house hold necessities, I turned to the local grocery store.
The trip to the grocery store (the particular store will not be named as my wishes are to neither favor nor oppose the unmentioned establishment) was adventuresome alone. I don’t have the energy to recount the fives upon tens of children under the age of three that were screaming the entire time I was there or the fact that there were only 2 cashiers open during one of the busiest grocery shopping times of the day. Let’s just say I got some food (though nutritional value is questionable) and a new cleaning product. I’m not sure why, but the Lysol section caught my eye.
I picked up Lysol’s “Disinfectant Bathroom Spray” in aerosol form. Yes, aerosol. I hear that’s good for the environment – with today’s technology and all. Also, I’m tired of wasting my limited grip strength on pumping and pumping. According to the directions, all I have to do with this new product is spray then wipe. No scrubbing. Phenom-enal. If there’s a stubborn stain, I just wait a little longer!
I raced home from the store, parked right on my corner (score!), dashed up the stairs, changed, made and ate dinner, ran some laundry, pretended like I was working, then finally got off my butt to start cleaning. Let me tell you, internet public, the directions were right. The lack of effort on my part encouraged me to clean not only the entire shower (well, aside from behind where my shampoo is, I’m not moving things here) but also clean my sink and vanity!
I highly recommend this product to everyone. Maybe not children. They should have to learn to scrub like the rest of us. Once they’ve adequately paid their dues, we can share this modern marvel.
The trip to the grocery store (the particular store will not be named as my wishes are to neither favor nor oppose the unmentioned establishment) was adventuresome alone. I don’t have the energy to recount the fives upon tens of children under the age of three that were screaming the entire time I was there or the fact that there were only 2 cashiers open during one of the busiest grocery shopping times of the day. Let’s just say I got some food (though nutritional value is questionable) and a new cleaning product. I’m not sure why, but the Lysol section caught my eye.
I picked up Lysol’s “Disinfectant Bathroom Spray” in aerosol form. Yes, aerosol. I hear that’s good for the environment – with today’s technology and all. Also, I’m tired of wasting my limited grip strength on pumping and pumping. According to the directions, all I have to do with this new product is spray then wipe. No scrubbing. Phenom-enal. If there’s a stubborn stain, I just wait a little longer!
I raced home from the store, parked right on my corner (score!), dashed up the stairs, changed, made and ate dinner, ran some laundry, pretended like I was working, then finally got off my butt to start cleaning. Let me tell you, internet public, the directions were right. The lack of effort on my part encouraged me to clean not only the entire shower (well, aside from behind where my shampoo is, I’m not moving things here) but also clean my sink and vanity!
I highly recommend this product to everyone. Maybe not children. They should have to learn to scrub like the rest of us. Once they’ve adequately paid their dues, we can share this modern marvel.
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Captain's Blog, Day 1
So, here’s the first blog. Congratulations on finding me on the information super highway. You might be wondering what catapulted me into the world of web logging. Well, it all started not too long ago with a little person known as “me.”
Lately I’ve been struggling inside. I feel myself cracking up at everything that I say, do and think. Yet, strangely enough, the people closest to me do not seem to be suffering from uncontrollable fits of laughter. Worried that maybe I’m out of tune with today’s comedy I took a good look at myself. The answer was clear. I’m just not voicing my point of view loud enough or to nearly enough people.
I asked myself, “Self, what’s the easiest way to reach a vast amount of people in a little bit of time.”
Myself, obviously caught of guard, stumbled around “umms and hmm” before blurting out the first logical answer that came to mind, “The Pony Express.”
“Self, that’s a horrible idea. That doesn’t even exist any more. I’ll just use the internet. Gosh, you’re helpless.”
So, here I am. I had a lot of plans for the inaugural blog, but I didn’t realize how long it would take to set up this thing. I had to even create a new email address. Well, it’s not that I had to do that, but I’d like to keep my personal email address off the web. Also, my new blogger email address will be used exclusively for fan mail. This frees up my other 6 accounts for business as usual (which is divided up as follows: band mailing lists, online shopping receipts, online banking accounts, online banking accounts backup accounts, local news letters, and general correspondence).
After all of this, the only thing I have time to comment on is Yone Minagawa. At the age of 114, she passed away today. Congratulations to Edna Parker, who is now the oldest person alive in the entire world. I’m sure Edna is having a rocking time tonight! And thank you, Edna for bringing the pride back to America and giving millions of us young American girls something to strive for - Thank you! Interested in reading more about Yone and Edna? Check this out this and this.
Lately I’ve been struggling inside. I feel myself cracking up at everything that I say, do and think. Yet, strangely enough, the people closest to me do not seem to be suffering from uncontrollable fits of laughter. Worried that maybe I’m out of tune with today’s comedy I took a good look at myself. The answer was clear. I’m just not voicing my point of view loud enough or to nearly enough people.
I asked myself, “Self, what’s the easiest way to reach a vast amount of people in a little bit of time.”
Myself, obviously caught of guard, stumbled around “umms and hmm” before blurting out the first logical answer that came to mind, “The Pony Express.”
“Self, that’s a horrible idea. That doesn’t even exist any more. I’ll just use the internet. Gosh, you’re helpless.”
So, here I am. I had a lot of plans for the inaugural blog, but I didn’t realize how long it would take to set up this thing. I had to even create a new email address. Well, it’s not that I had to do that, but I’d like to keep my personal email address off the web. Also, my new blogger email address will be used exclusively for fan mail. This frees up my other 6 accounts for business as usual (which is divided up as follows: band mailing lists, online shopping receipts, online banking accounts, online banking accounts backup accounts, local news letters, and general correspondence).
After all of this, the only thing I have time to comment on is Yone Minagawa. At the age of 114, she passed away today. Congratulations to Edna Parker, who is now the oldest person alive in the entire world. I’m sure Edna is having a rocking time tonight! And thank you, Edna for bringing the pride back to America and giving millions of us young American girls something to strive for - Thank you! Interested in reading more about Yone and Edna? Check this out this and this.
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