Walking Shanie is the cutest thing ever! Thanks for posting those, GC.
I found out they decided to have a memorial for D after all. Unfortunately it's tomorrow at the same time that I had a doctors appointment that it took me three months to get. So, I'm not going, but I'm feeling awful about not going. They're also saying they found him dead of an apparent heart attack, no mention of the suicide.
In better news, my appointment with the nutritionist went well yesterday. She didn't chastise me about anything, which I was worried about. For now she wants me to have 3 meals a day and two snacks. The snacks shouldn't have more than 170 calories and every meal and snack needs to have a minimum of 5 grams of protein in them. No other restrictions so far.
sj, nuts are a great snack, and fit the protein requirement. I buy them at Trader Joes, you can get a huge bag of almonds or cashews for $5 or less. If you get bored with the taste, you can always add spices to switch it up to sweet or salty.
Trader Joes also has the almonds prepacked into snack size for only a little more per ounce.
Trader Joes sells nitrate free low fat lunchmeants (roast beef, pastrami, ham, turkey). Not cheap though some of them are actually no pricer than regular lunch meats. Put them on crackers. Or put them on bread for lunch :)
Thanks for all the sweet comments. We are enjoying the newly walking stage very much. So cute!
Continued ~ma as it looks like the universe is being unkind to my Buffistae. {{{}}}
Shane is remarkably cute. He can also make some remarkable noises.
~ma to The Girl's father, Seska.
Nora, I get in Friday around midnight. It's killing me not to be there already. I'm so jealous of the fb posts that are popping up. How long will L be in town? I don't think I signed up to volunteer Saturday, though I might go in for a bit anyway.
Also, I am massively, disproportionately bitter that they changed the boil to tonight from Sunday. GRUMP.
I can't temember if I sent any ~ma for The Girl's father, so ~ma to him.
I actually have plenty of high protein snacks at home, including Trader Joe's nuts. The bigger problem for me is remembering to eat before I am omg starving and remembering to take something with me when I am going to be out so that I don't start making bad choices. I currently have a kashi bar in my purse and I had greek yogurt and fruit for breakfast.
Speedy recovery ~ma to The Girl's father, Seska.
Burrell, I really loved that Emily Dickinson poem you posted. I haven't read much Dickinson, but after visiting her home in Amherst a couple of years ago, I'm much more interested in her poetry and I'd like to read more of it.
In terms of the sentiment, that poem is atypical of Dickinson, but the meter and tone is very much hers.
