No studying? Damn! Next thing they'll tell me is I'll have to eat jelly doughnuts or sleep with a supermodel to get things done around here. I ask you, how much can one man give?

Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'


Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served  

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


Steph L. - May 13, 2018 5:20:55 pm PDT #25195 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Although we can probably all agree that none of us needs to eat 5,000 potato chips, which is what I like to do!

I am prettttty sure I actually do need 5,000 potato chips.

I definitely need 5,000 potato chips, as long as they're kettle-cooked.

It sounds to me like it would be really hard to maintain, since my regular breakfast is either toast with pb or oatmeal.

I'm basically not paying attention to carbs, but I still eat an egg for breakfast every day.

I hard-boil a bunch of eggs on Sunday so I can eat an egg with my breakfast every morning. I just really do better with a good serving of protein with my oatmeal in the morning, and protein powder (for some reason) wasn't cutting it.


billytea - May 13, 2018 5:39:32 pm PDT #25196 of 30002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

I definitely need 5,000 potato chips, as long as they're kettle-cooked.

We have a brand over here that's currently doing limited-edition lime and chilli. I usually manage to avoid the crisps for my noms, but clearly that's just a thoroughly unreasonable expectation at the moment.


-t - May 13, 2018 7:03:59 pm PDT #25197 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Mmmm, chile and lime.


Burrell - May 13, 2018 8:40:25 pm PDT #25198 of 30002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Oh wow, I have never heard of roasting radishes but that sounds delicious. Now I must try!


meara - May 13, 2018 9:24:24 pm PDT #25199 of 30002

Yum, potato chips.

Earlier I went to the store to buy something to drink and ended up getting a few other things, including deciding to make black rice pudding with coconut milk. Delicious but now I have like, a VAT of it.

Also problematic: felt so awful I tried to go to bed at 7pm. Managed to sleep a bit, feel a bit better...but now I'm wide awake at this hour. Oops.


Calli - May 14, 2018 1:10:29 am PDT #25200 of 30002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Although we can probably all agree that none of us needs to eat 5,000 potato chips, which is what I like to do!

I refuse to judge people's potatotarian life choices.


Laura - May 14, 2018 2:20:23 am PDT #25201 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.

black rice pudding with coconut milk

Yet another reason to be sad you are thousands of miles away.

I bought the air fryer with the notion that it wouldn't heat up the kitchen as much as alternate means of roasting stuff. That would probably be true if I used it more. I have a batch of broccoli to air fry for lunch. I tossed it with a little bit of olive oil and orange zest so we'll see how it goes. DH has agreed that eating the main meal around 1-2 would be better than in the evening because it so often ends up being later than I would like to eat by the time we finish work. So dinner today around 1:30 will be the swordfish stuffed with sauteed spinach and broccoli described above, both of which I prepped last night but never cooked because it was too late by the time he finished work. See a pattern here!

Walked in the rain for about 3/4 mile with Zoe this morning because she flat out refuses to go out by herself in the rain. There were a surprising number of people with dogs out at 6:30 in the morning. I suspect I was not the only one that couldn't get their doggo to do their business yesterday in the rain.

My oatmeal requirement this morning was met with the leftover pumpkin muffins from yesterday. For the no flour people: 1-1/2 cps oats, 1/2 cp pumpkin, 1/4 cp maple syrup, 1 tsp cinnamon, 1/4 tsp ginger, 1/4 tsp nutmeg, 1/2 cp craisins. Mix it all together and bake for 10 min at 350 in muffin tins. Makes 12 that the recipe claims will last a couple weeks in the fridge, but that won't happen here.

Okay, enough putting off getting to work. Good Monday to all!


Laura - May 14, 2018 2:23:03 am PDT #25202 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.

Separately from the mememe.

Matt, you and your mom were on my mind and in my heart yesterday. How are you doing, and how is your mother?


Jessica - May 14, 2018 5:43:43 am PDT #25203 of 30002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

There was an episode of Science Vs. recently that went deep into the keto diet, and the conclusion was that it wasn't really any better for weight loss than any other diet

Most of what I've read concludes that, for weight loss, the important thing is to pay attention to what you're eating and how much of it, and so any diet that forces you to do that will be effective mostly regardless of the actual kinds of food the diet allows/denys.

Right now I am on a diet of everything hurts because I have shingles so I may as well eat nachos for lunch. I ...probably can't recommend it for weight loss.


Amy - May 14, 2018 6:29:06 am PDT #25204 of 30002
Because books.

Shingles suck. You deserve nachos and whatever else your heart (or belly) desires, Jessica. Chicken pox's nastiest gift with purchase, right there.