Giles: I jump out of the circle, jump back in, and, and, shake my gourd. Buffy: Hey, I think I know this ritual. The ancient shamans were next called upon to do the Hokey-Pokey and to turn themselves around.

'Dirty Girls'


Natter 58: Let's call Venezuela!  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


sarameg - Apr 30, 2008 4:36:09 pm PDT #4409 of 10001

The medically supervised diet I've been on has been between 600-900 calories pretty consistently and I'm neither hungry nor happy.

According to the site, that's about what I ate yesterday. And the day before. (I'm a little dubious about the numbers.) And I'm not doing it on purpose, just what I want. I don't eat breakfast beyond a couple glasses of V8 Fusion and coffee because actual food makes me queasy that early. I have half a ham and cheese sandwich and a banana over the course of the work day. Dinner was a chicken thigh and some cabbage with a teeny bit of dressing of some sort or a frozen veg lasagna and maybe a piece of toast. Lots of water and some diet ginger ale (because the fully loaded stuff is too sweet.)

I've realized my meals are so very boring. I was reading someone's blog where they blogged about the bento lunchboxes they made every day. And I was all that's so much work! but they had so much more variety than me. I just can't be arsed. I like good food. I just don't care enough to make a serious effort.


Kat - Apr 30, 2008 4:43:13 pm PDT #4410 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I love the bento posts. They inspire me (and freak me out as I am lazy). Though, I realize I cook, really cook, for Noah. And meanwhile, I eat salad for almost every lunch and dinner. It's sad.


beth b - Apr 30, 2008 5:01:45 pm PDT #4411 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

I want to buy a bento box


sarameg - Apr 30, 2008 5:02:56 pm PDT #4412 of 10001

They make me seriously want a personal cook the way posts about regular meals don't. I really don't vary much. If I make something, I eat it for a week and then back to chicken and salad. If I had kids, the poor things would probably have to survive on cereal, pb&j, fruit and ...chicken and salad.


Atropa - Apr 30, 2008 5:11:00 pm PDT #4413 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Bento boxes are a lot of work. And I "cheated" by making large-ish batches of something and portioning it out into multiple boxes. One section of rice and some sort of meat, one section of fruit (with a wrapped-up cookie), two sections of veggies. I fell out of the bento box habit when I discovered that the cafeteria close to my office has a stand for good Mexican food.


beth b - Apr 30, 2008 5:16:17 pm PDT #4414 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

I sort of pack my lunches that way anyway -- left overs with fruit , veggies, and nuts on the side. But getting all the containers to work together is a pain. -- and I go through way to many baggies for my wishing to be more green


Sue - Apr 30, 2008 5:49:08 pm PDT #4415 of 10001
hip deep in pie

Yay me, I have finished my taxes with 15 minutes to spare. Not that I am running out the post office. (They owe me money, so they won't care when it comes.)

I would like to say that I did my taxes while lying down on my couch, in pen, with no calculator. And now checking them on the PCs calculator, I can't find any math errors. Yay me.

It probably means that I forgot to deduct something somewhere.


sarameg - Apr 30, 2008 5:53:43 pm PDT #4416 of 10001

Hey, money!

I'm watching CARRIER again and am on the hating. Sigh. t eta To clarify, one of the dudes freaked out over fucking some australian girl, unloaded on her and then found "forgiveness" within his religion. His seeking of forgiveness isn't at issue. That's between him and his god. My issue is with his unloading and casting her as the devil temptress. You thought with your dick, you ass. You fucked with it. Own it. Don't put it on her.

Goddamn, I hate people attributing their own issues and failures to others.


Cashmere - Apr 30, 2008 6:19:45 pm PDT #4417 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.

sara, DH watches that. It's like a floating $100 million high school.


§ ita § - Apr 30, 2008 6:25:23 pm PDT #4418 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Urgh. I need to get my Powerbook back from the repair shop. They've had it for about two weeks, and who knows what they're doing to it. They've not called me once with status--despite telling me they would, and me insisting they should. Apparently it will be done by tomorrow--they're just restoring my hard drive data. Except I took it in for a bad keyboard. The guy on the phone was very mumbley about why they needed to restore data, and assured me it was all within the original quoted price, but still.

I registered for yelp so I can leave a bitter review as soon as it's in my desperate little hands again.

Got a copy of Cook's Country magazine in the mail. I'm not sure what its mission statement is, as opposed to Cook's Illustrated. So far "more colour pictures" is all I'm noticing.