My Vacation Home

So I know I said I was working on something exciting, and no sooner had I posted it then I wanted to print all kinds of retractions.  Because while it is very exciting for Moi, it may seem sort of “meh” to you. 
I am finally taking my passion for food and cooking and turning it into [...]

Down the Aisles

I know you have been busy too so I will dispense with a long list of excuses for why I haven’t updated recently and just say all is well and I promise to do better.  Oh, and I am working on something new and exciting (for me) and I will tell you about it soon. 
So [...]

But the BEST thing was FREE!

We spent Saturday morning doing one of my top three favorite things in the world. 
Please don’t ask me what the other two are because I do tend to exaggerate and if I had to actually nail down the other two I would panic and have to issue a retraction and  say it was actually more [...]

WW Week 8 (9?) Weigh In, and the Antithesis

I am down another 1.2 pounds, which gives me the nice tidy total of 22 pounds.  I like how my fat likes to round off to the nearest whole number.
And going in completely the other direction, I have found the website of my dreams.
http://www.tastespotting.com/
It is totally food porn.  The only reason I have torn myself [...]

This Is My Brain On Ostrich

Wordsworth wrote a sonnet entitled “The World is Too Much With Us”.  It has to do with how we let material things take our focus away from the natural world, but it’s not the sonnet itself that is resonating with me right now as much as the title.
The world is too much with me. 
I work [...]

So Now They Know

I am very close to my parents.  I always have been.  I work in the same town where they live so I even have lunch with them a few times a week.  But until Saturday I had not told them about this blog. 
Oh, they knew.  She won’t own up to it but i think my [...]

Handsome Males Seek Links of Love

I love gmail but lately their spam filter has more leaks than the Clinton White House.  Ba Dum Bump. Anyway that title, which does actually relate here, is exactly the kind of spam I am getting these days.
So this past weekend we went to Pittsburgh to see the my lovely niece Tessa make her First [...]

Kiss My Shrinking Ass

 
WW Week 7 Weigh In -
Last week I was so bummed because I thought I would hit the 15 lb mark and I missed it by 0.4 lousy pounds.  So this week, it was with great anticipation that I went for my weigh in.
Drum Roll Please…
I lost 5.6 pounds this week.  So I hit the [...]