Keeping my fingers crossed that the double Ch13 payment last month gives me a month's wiggle room. I made a payment for this month anyway but just on principle. I exchanged vague and unmanageable worries for concrete and manageable ones, but worries nonetheless. breakfast: scramble dog wrap with pepper jack instead of cheddar. Be still my heart! lunch: Date with April to sample a Nick's sub. Good thing I brought antacids, sausage parm may not be the healthiest choice. A sandwich wasn't enough for... (...more)

Getting down to the point where I can actually see my hips. And my arms, shoulders and chest never looked like this before. Teh gym is closed probably through Friday due to an electrical fire, so I can't get an apples:apples weight check but pants are fitting better and better and my fat jeans are hanging pretty loose. Breakfast: cappucino swirl ice cream. Yes. Dinner: a couple slices of ww bread with PB Supper: chx tenderloins, spinach, broccoli, blk olives all pan-cooked in a few dollops of Classico... (...more)

I retired my investment in Photoshop 5.0 (ahem) when I discovered the "GIMPshop" package. But it turns out the Windows port of GIMP has become polished enough to use without the "shop" skin, so I quickly went straight to the real GIMP. Adapting from other graphics-manipulation software is not seamless. For example, if you opened an image file in MS Photo Editor or P'shop, and you wanted to make a new file with just a select portion, you'd use the rectangle select tool, select your selection, find the "C... (...more)

So much to do, and so little will to do anything.

Chicken tenderloins pan-cooked with sliced black olive, frz spinach and broccoli, and Classico jarred cabernet marinara sauce, all over whole wheat thin spaghetti

zomg stuffed

I broke the old blender on great northern bean paste on SAT 7/27. Evidently 26 days exceeded the fridge life of that mix; it did not pass the sniff test. Not terribly far gone, but def' gone nonetheless. Two weeks is probably a safe max fridge life. I was going to make a scramble dog wrap for breakfast, but I was out of wraps. Also need to resupply frz spinach and broccoli. I had almost exactly 1 cup of Iberia brown rice to get rid of, which was 45 minutes of cooking. That mixed up with some canned salm... (...more)