Saturday Nearly Over

Stephanotis.  Fragrant member of the milkweed family.  Found in wedding bouquets.  Now being sold along with Easter Lilies at my place of employment and at the local grocery store.

Speaking of the local grocery store:  Finally got to buy some yogurt.  I purchased 6 Chobani pineapple for myself and the last four peach Dannon yogurts for G.  I had wanted peach Chobani but there was none to be had.  They aren't on sale starting tomorrow--guess what?  Plenty on the shelves tomorrow.

I was reading the NYT this morning regarding SUGAR.  Which linked to the Atkins Diet.  I bookmarked the Atkins diet and it is the EXACT opposite of what I am eating.  Fruit, Vegetables and Grains vs Meat, Fats and Salad.  All the bacon, egg and cheese that I want minus the bagels or blueberry pancakes. Salad with bacon, cheese and full fat salad dressing. There is also a Paleo Diet of meat, fish, eggs, nuts, vegetables and fruit.  No fats, dairy or grains.  Paleo.  Do they mean Caveman? I guess they would eat the animals but wouldn't milk them.  What sort of eggs would cavemen have eaten?

Have any of you "done" Atkins?  My son lost all the post college (I have a job and can buy junk food) weight one winter by eating beef chili made with the Adkins recipe.  Every meal @ home was chili.  My son likes to keep diet choices very simple.  Lunch out was fajitas without the tortillas. He lost 30 pounds in no time at all. Oh, and he switched from Classic Coke to plain water.  Men.  Really. Not. Fair.

I switched yesterday from diet coke to water with lemon.  I feel fat today but it could be the jeans I am wearing and the belt around my waist.  I feel tightly packed.

I baked a second loaf of Irish soda bread this morning and ate one small quarter  for breakfast with coffee and drove to work with the still warm larger half of the loaf for that Irish lad.  I had promised it to him on Thursday and his sad face when he asked and I had to say "no, I didn't bake yesterday" has been bothering me.  So, I baked and delivered and he was radiantly happy.  And surprised.  A good surprise is worth everything on a cold windy day when you've been outside working all morning.

I have to decide by tomorrow if I want to have my house cleaned every other Tuesday.  My house cleaner from the old days is available again.  She does a very good job.  I'm sure it's more expensive now.  My dilemma is cleaning up this mess before she comes or just limiting her to cleaning ONE room at a time.  If she comes this Tuesday, I will have her spend the entire time on the kitchen. I absolutely love a clean house.  The cleaning will cost more than I make at work on Tuesdays.  More like two Tuesdays of work.  See, this is my dilemma.  Why not just stay home and clean the damned house myself.  Why am I working?

Riley is eating his new dog food.  He has even started to remind us of his mealtimes, like he did when he was a puppy.  We are correctly measuring his portions (after checking what G was giving him) and serving him a skimpy lunch as not many dogs eat lunch.  He never gave it up while growing out of puppy food into adult.  Riley would continue to come get me at exactly 12 noon and let me know he needed "lunch" served.  Now he takes his lunch to doggie day care in a little dog lunchbox.  We just continue to divide the daily food into thirds.  Breakfast, lunch and dinner.  How often do you feed your dog?

I am going to put the white wash in the dryer now, change into my jammies and read my new Icelandic mystery.  I finally finished the Jo Nesbo and it was quite a ride.  About eleven endings and each time it would just start up again and go roaring off to the next conclusion.  I was exhausted, confused and finally just wanted it to end.  And Harry wasn't as delightfully flawed, drunk or suicidal.  He has decided opium is better than Jim Beam.  Harry without the death wish is not as good a read.  No more books for 24 months when the Ghost comes out in 2014.  I can wait.