Thursday

I know what I'm having for lunch! Yay, leftovers!

I overslept yet again, but at least I slept, unlike Spouse. He's still sick, mainly all congested and snotty. I gave him some Tylenol Sinus this morning and he was amazed.
Spouse: They're pills?
Me: Yes, we have three different decongestants, I think these will be good.
Spouse: And they get rid of snot?
Me: Yes.
Spouse: I should have been taking these since Monday.
Me: Probably. Why didn't you?
Spouse: I never knew such a thing existed!

That's one thing TV ads have going for them that we are missing out on: they make you aware of the existence of products. I can't believe he's never heard of decongestants!

Anyhow, I them mead breakfast of Cream of Wheat with dried strawberries, half a grapefruit (with the other half waiting for Spouse) and Ubiquitous Tea.

Wednesday

I massively overslept as I didn't get to slept until 12:30ish and then woke up at 3:00. But I still managed breakfast of tea and granola.

Lunch was veggie lasagna and salad (and not enough water). I'm sipping a diet Coke in class right now.

Dinner was oh so good "chicken" pot pie! I gave my recipe to Office Mate yesterday as he was looking for something he could make with what he had left in the house before payday and then it just made me crave it. And there's some leftover for lunch!

Tuesday

Spouse offered to prepare my breakfast this morning, which was really sweet! I declined the offer though, since I'm a little muddled in the morning and am just not prepared for that sort of thing. I can't tell him what I want for breakfast if I haven't yet figured that out. When I did decide, I went for an egg, which I wouldn't have him prepare for me anyway since he's allergic. So breakfast was 1 scrambled egg with 2 slices soy bacon and a small bowl of cereal with soymilk. And Ubiquitous Tea.

I had another Smartfood snack, mainly because I wasn't sure when I would get to eat lunch. Fortunately, the event I was taping had food, and they are more than happy for the tech to eat too. I wasn't sure what was in some of the pasta things, so just had salad, peapods, bread and tomato and mozzarella (and three macaroons to finish). Drink was half lemonade, half fizzy water.

Section went really well tonight! I was prepared and the student who knows more than I wasn't there ;P Seriously (although I am seriously embarrassed when that student is there) though, I covered the intended thing on tables and got to forms. The student who came early was really bummed about me doing tables again since no one has really gotten into forms yet (well, I think Rei did, but she didn't go to his section) and they have to do one for this assignment. So I covered all the basic elements, including all the requirements for the assignment, without actually doing the assignment for them.

And then I went out for a salmon salad and beer.

Monday, the start of a new week

And what a fun start it is! I did not have the best sleep and was a bit grump this morning (sorry, Hon!)
Breakfast was granola with soymilk, grapefruit half and Ubiquitous Tea

Snack: Smartfood

Argued with spouse over email and did some emotional eating for lunch. Had veggie sushi and a salad with pasta, cheese and full-fat blue cheese dressing. Later heard that someone else at work has it much worse than I (although, so does much of the world, but I'm a selfish American so it only hits me when it's people I know) and had a minor sob over that.

Dinner will be veggie sausage and noodles. I might even throw a veg in.

Weekend

Saturday:
Strawberries and tea for breakfast, a cider in the afternoon and pea soup with sausage and bread for dinner. Late at night (after midnight when we got home) I had vegetable lomein and a fortune cookie too. Oh, and a small peanut butter bar at friend's birthday party.

Sunday:
Tea, bread and butter were my only food until dinner. Had beer while grading homework and cooking (I stopped grading before there was a chance of it having an impact). Dinner was Quorn roast, roast potatoes, parsnips and carrots, Yorkshire pudding, Brussels spouts au gratin, peas, broccoli, and gravy. Steamed pudding with custard for dessert, plus some wine.

Another day off

Maybe the thing I really need is 10 hours of sleep a day. I feel so much better when I get it.

No breakfast as I've been in bed, but I've got the kettle on for tea and will need to think about lunch.

Lunch was noodle with butter and cheese. I later had a beer while tidying. I hadn't been doing my 56 minutes in the bedroom as I should, so I did 25 minutes while watching 'Dark Shadows.' Dinner is critiqued on the other blog.

Took a Sickie

Mainly I'm just light-headed, but I really didn't fancy walking to the T in the rain this morning when I'm so woozy. A co-worker was out for two days with vertigo, (and it was one of my boss's symptoms too), so I know it's not unusual, it's just weird. It's kind of like when I was super doped up after my surgery, but more lucid.

I had a huge breakfast of two "bacon" sandwiches and tea this morning before napping on the couch. I don't know what to do about lunch since I'm home though. Maybe I'll skip it (or have Spouse make me something.)

I had orange juice for lunch.

Dinner was seitan and carmelized onions in sauce over noodles and garlic sauteed sprouts. And I did a steamed pudding with custard for dessert.

Perpetual State of Embarrassment

Not that I'm actually embarrassed today, I'm just really flushed. I don't feel sick enough to justify staying home (although I might bail on class), but I'm not quite well either.

Breakfast was half of a really huge and juicy grapefruit (getting my C at least), boiled egg with buttered toast, Ubiquitous Tea. And a round of World of Goo, the insanely cute and addictive game I bought last night after watching Martin play it. I could have gotten it for free since he still had an active download link (he bought it for Linux), but I though $20 to support independent game makers (they used to work at EA) who don't put DRM in their games was worth it. But if I can get a free Wii copy, I'm totally going for it!

Lunchie was stuffed shells and diet soda (and water, of course) with a side of Advil. I'm starting to get a bit of a headache, but it's one that feels like I've been grinding my teeth. Perhaps I have been and haven't noticed?

Dinner was toast with jam, water and one beer.

May be coming down with something

Spouse has been feeling run down, headachey and chilled for a few days now. This afternoon, I started to feel like I've been hit with something as well. Yuck! At least I'll get my section over with tonight and not have to worry about that for a week.

Dinner last night:
Vegetable soup and bread

Morning:
Grapefruit
fake bacon sandwich on homemade bread
Ubiquitous Tea

Lunchie:
Veggie lasagna
chocolate pudding
water

Dinner:
soup and grilled cheese and "bacon" sandwiches

Happy Dead President Day!

I slept in again and only had grapefruit and tea for breakfast. Lunch was out at CBC with grilled tomato mozzarella sandwich with fries and mayo (chips I like wt vinegar and brown sauce, and frites with mayonnaise. Ketchup (a Cantonese word, mind you) are reserved for onion rings) and beer. It was my "reward" for going out to Petco on the Cat Food Run.

My dad called yesterday and it seems the hip he broke and had pinned in November is collapsing. He's waiting for surgery to be scheduled to have the whole thing replaced. I asked him to keep me in the loop, but think I'm going to have to call a few times a week until I know the schedule. I want to go up to be there for rthe surgery, but don't know how it will effect the school schedule. I think I'll appeal to the head TA and hope she's traditional enough (she's Indian) that she'll let me beg of for family obligations.

He has no one else, really. I don't blame my sister for her estrangement, I understand it. But that leaves me and I just can't, in spite of everything, leave him to it alone. Perhaps I'm just a sap, but the fact of "Family," attitudes of the individual notwithstanding, means a lot to me.

Now I just need to find out the dates and work out transport. I think I'll see if I can bribe my aunt with a killer meal that I pay for and make.

Day after

Breakfast was leftovers out of the dish and tea. I'm so classy! Now of to buy tarragon to make "chicken" tarragon tonight.

The Tarragon "Chicken" was a hit, although the ginormous amount of butter and cream we've had over the past few days (still less than a quarter of what our class ate in pre-WWII England!) will probably do us in! Spouse had soup and fresh bread as a starter (I just "tasted" bread after it came out of the oven), and I served the main dish over rice. I had some wine while cooking (and dancing around the kitchen like a loon to 'Jesus Christ Superstar') and water with dinner.

Happy Dead Saint Day!

I slept in this morning, but feel a little zonked still (too much sleep, perhaps?) Made the tea this morning and had that with Cream of Wheat with stewed fruit. Spouse didn't like the fruit in it (I could have done with limiting the fruit to just apricots) so next time he'll get his plain.

I watched him exercise before breakfast. Worked up a sweat, I did! Whew! Can I log that as my activity?

Had some cider in the afternoon, then came home to make:
White bean soup (served with champagne cocktail)
Roasted golden beet and turnip served with sprouts in garlic cream sauce
"Beef" Bourguignon with mashed potatoes (served with Bordeaux)
Individual chocolate cakes with bananas and custard (served with champagne)
Strawberries with a port wine reduction sauce

Sleeeeeeeeep

Had beer after work/pre-performance last night and then some naughty cookies during the performance. After we went next door to the pub for food and I had the best fish and chips in the US. It wasn't quite the thing, but seeing it come in real newspaper (with a bit of waxed paper lining it. then adding vinegar and brown sauce was great. the actual quality of the food was really good too. Had two beers with that and felt drunk halfway through the second.

Was not hungry this morning after eating dinner so late, but made myself eat a bowl of granola anyway. Had some juice to wash down the Advil (I quaffed three glasses of water before bed, but was still a little ugh this morning) and tea with more sugar than usual. Just finished a cup of coffee with half and half at my desk in the hopes that I will finally wake up.

The show was awesome though!

Had a HUGE cheese sub and diet soda for hunch. I'm totally clumsy today too and almost fell over TWICE trying to get a key to the student office next door. I think they thought I was drunk.

I was still exhausted when I got home, but for some reason thought it would be a good idea to spend four hours making a sauce (probably from watching all the Posh Nosh episodes), which was tasty. Sauce was on sauteed seitan and buttered noodles with roasted garlic Brussel sprouts and wine.

Busy day ahead

Boss Man is out sick and has throw 4 AV jobs on my calendar. One is at 9:00, so I guess I should get off my ass and get dressed and go. Just finished a bowl of granola with soy milk and am working on my tea and a glass of water.

I managed to wolf down some cucumber and avocado sushi and chocolate pudding between AV jobs and while responding to student questions. One of the other TAs though it was his day to monitor the boards and so has answered half of the questions for me, which has been very helpful. I'm offering to take tomorrow for him if he'll keep doing today for me. Since I'll be unavailable for several hours tonight, that will work much better for me.

It feels like Spring

I know it's going to get cold and snow again (it is only February after all) but it's still a nice change.

Boring breckie of granola with yoghurt, grapefruit, juice and tea this morning. The juice tasked off, but maybe I just keep expecting it to taste like orange juice when it's really orange and tangerine. It will be another late night on campus for me as I'm attending the class tonight. I may eat on campus before going home.

Nothing exciting in the refectory for lunch today. They had macaroni and cheese, but I tried it once and it was HORRIBLE. So I went for green beans and wheat berries from the hot side and salad with a hard boiled egg and some sesame dressing for cold. And more water.

Yup, crap after class. Snacked on veggie sushi before and had a "grilled cheese" (warmed, not melted cheese, cold slab of tomato on bread that had clearly been browned in a panini press) and a couple of fries and a beer while standing up in the PACKED student pub.

First night of section tonight

I hope I don't fuck things up too badly. as it was, my account was set up wrong and the guy who set it up refused to help (in the time it took him to tell me to ask the instructor, he could have given me the three lines of Unix to fix it. Makes me think he didn't know what the fuck was wrong).

Breakfast this morning did not include fruit, only because I was late and lazy (and not all that hungry). Still, I had a perfect egg (buying a kitchen timer has helped too), toast with butter and toast with jam, juice and Ubiquitous Tea. Drinking water now at work.

Lunchies: veggie sushi and salad. Water

Snack: bag of Smartfood between day and night jobs

Section went well. A small amount of students, but some with a lot of questions. I know that would have bothered me as the quick student, and there were a few who seemed frustrated, but I think going slower will help them overall. But I did try to move us along as much as I could (and had a pop quiz on validation a well). Section ran late to answer questions for the last to people, so i decided to eat junk in Cambridge and had fried mozzarella and beer for dinner.

Monday

Sorry for not blogging the weekend. I brunched on Saturday and only nibbled a little Quorn before dinner on Sunday. Dinner at Pho Pasteur Saturday, plus Twizzlers at the movies. Sunday was a household day of granola-making, bread-making, laundry-cleaning and a good dinner of pea soup, "meat" balls and gravy over noodles, broccoli and wine.

Now, for today. I'm about to sit down to my first cold cereal breakfast in a while. It's the homemade granola with Greek yogurt, which promises to be yummy. Plus there is a half grapefruit, juice and the ubiquitous tea.

Lunch was out at John Harvard with the office to celebrate Boss Man's birthday. I had mushroom gnocci and a beer.

Late din-dins of grilled cheese and a glass of wine.

So I'm a bit pished

End of Friday post.

Had some salad with a hard boiled egg as extra lunch ting and also a vending machine bag of Smartfood. Then I got my Drink on.

Friend Ted' 40th wa today o had three AMAZINGLY WONDERFUL cocktails made by the amazing Misty Kalkofen At Drink. Then we went out for food and I went all pescetarian and had schrod with mashed potatoes and a beer. And I am very drunk right now and drinking lots of water before bed.

Friday

Overslept AGAIN but wouldn't leave without breakfast first. I wasn't feeling up for hot cereal, and needed to finished off the old loaf of bread (still one chunk left though) so just had a soy bacon sandwich, orange, juice and tea. By the time I left it was getting so late I had to take a cab to work or risking having to call from the Charles station to say I'd be in late. But I made it in plenty of time.

I wasn't so much hungry as just craving my sandwich I packed for lunch (Quorn and Branston pickle with vegan mayo on last night's bread) so I pulled it out at 11:30. I touch of sharp cheddar would have made it just perfect, but perhaps I have that next week (I still have our whole 4oz cheese ration to buy this week!)

It's Thursday already?

The cat messed up the alarm again, but provided his own alarm by meowing at the bedroom door at 6:20, so I did at least get up. Had two small glasses of juice this morning, one while making breakfast and one with it. Breakfast was a boiled egg (my Tuesday and Thursday thang); two slices of toast, one with butter, one with jam; half grapefruit and the ubiquitous tea.

Lunchies was a nice salad with some pasta and a sesame dressing and two slices of left over "meat" loaf. I've had two bottles of water so far today.

I was really not in to cleaning tonight. Bought some yarn to darn the sweater I was wearing today (I looked like the fattest Dickensian urchin ever) and just wanted to try that (failed, but more on the other blog when I get around to it). Did a few dishes and started some bread and went in to the bedroom armed with more 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents' to just get those damned five minutes over with. Before I started, Spouse came home with flowers for me. Awww! Flowers and smootchies gave me the fortitude to clean for 15 minutes instead of 5.

Finished last night's soup for dinner and there's a Quorn roast and bread in the oven. I'll probably have a small Quorn sandwich on the last of Monday's bread to round out the evening. Also finishing a beer.

So tired

I had weird dreams and overslept this morning, but still managed breakfast. I tried cream of wheat with prunes again, but made the full portion. People have recommended making it with milk to be more filling, but I didn't have any (and it sounds kind of gross to me), so splashed in some soy milk with the water. Maybe I'll get used to the taste, as I did with soy milk in coffee and tea (now cow milk tastes off for those), but it was kind of yucky. The half grapefruit was nice though, and I segmented the other half and left it in the fridge for Spouse. I also, in addition to the ubiquitous tea, had watered-down pineapple juice that I was trying to make into a full serving. Also kind of yucky.

Snacked this morning at a staff meeting on two fortune cookies they handed out. Still hungry.

The hot lunch offerings were not doing it for me today (BLTs or fish) so I hit the salad bar. Greenery with a small scoop of egg salad and some pasta with "lite" ranch and a tad of Russian dressing. The veggie soup today was tomato basil with ravioli, so I had that too. And I'm on my second bottle of water.

Had three bottles of water at work and a large glass at home. After work I went to the grocery store at Porter Square because they have Bisto. Had a hellish time with the self checkout (it doesn't like people who bring their own bags), but managed and got home to chore. Did the dishes, popped a cake in the oven and then set to work in the bedroom while watching 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents.' Did about 10 minutes, which is still unnoticeable, but it will get there eventually. Next I made the custard to go with the cake. Spouse came home to get some network cards and ran out again before I started dinner. Dinner is a red pepper bisque and aloo gobi with Quorn.

Back to the routine

The weekend away was nice, but it's so good to be home! I started my work week off with a perfectly boiled egg (yay!) with buttered toast from last night's bread, a sliced orange and tea with soy milk and sugar. I wish I could have had more tea, but I was running a little late. Still, I am determined to keep up this breakfast thing, so I made the effort to not only prepare everything, but sit down and eat it, rather than snatching bites while running around. Spouse thinks I'm already looking thinner (but I've "fallen to the Communists" so he doesn't want to piss me off.)

This week was going to be the week I brought my lunch in every day, but since I didn't grocery shop after we got in yesterday, I don't really have the food to do that. That goal may have to wait until next week. So I think this week's goal will be a cleaning one (yuck.) I refuse to go whole hog on it right away (and Spouse says he should be cleaning more since he's home), but I think vowing to spend five minutes picking up and/or sorting things in the bedroom every day will help. Our closet is in a hell of a state, but it feels like too much to take one so I just do nothing. If I can manage five minutes, even if it's hardly noticeable, by the tend of one week things should start to look a little more tidy in there.

I gorged myself on a huge lunch today. They had tofu cordon bleu (spinach and swiss on tofu, actually) with brown rice and summer squash. I added a little greener from the salad bar, PLUS a cup of corn chowder. OINK!

Dinner will be (when spouse comes home, or in the next 10 minutes for me, which ever comes first) "meat" loaf, roasted potatoes and carrots, broccoli, gravy. And beer.

I made the bed and picked up clothes in the bedroom for 10 minutes while watching a video tonight. I think I now see a purpose to 'Sabrina the Teenaged Witch' as it was a nice, fluffy background and made what I was doing go faster. I could have done more, but I was afraid I would start on the closet and things would get ugly. I think tomorrow, if I don't have to go to class (I may be a TA again), I'll move the suitcases and grab some of the closet gunk and go through it. So much of this stuff needs to be sorted to get rid of. I'm not going to throw anything in the trash, but I need to see what I will wear, what I can give to the Goodwill and what need to go in a fabric bag. This will be a multi-sorting venture, but I've got to start sometime.

Home again

Breakfast was bread, toasted with some cheese melted on, coffee and soy milk. Lunch was another Subway veggie sandwich. And then 837 more hours on the fucking bus, stopping in every township in New Hampshire.

Dinner was at home, made by me (yay!) Quorn cutlets wrapped in Smart Bacon, sauteed with mushrooms. Side dish (actually taking up most of the plate) was carrot and cabbage sauteed in butter and finished with vegetarian fish sauce and Siracha. I even made a really nice loaf of whole wheat bread as our starch. Hopefully we won't eat the entire loaf before I get a chance to have some for breakfast.

Sunday

Half a bagel with lite cream cheese, coffee with soy milk for breakfast.

Lunch was at a cute bakery cafe in the Old North End (Burlington) and consisted of a BBQ seitan sandwich with cheese on whole wheat bread. It was GORGEOUS! also ate all the crisps and half the pickle that came with and had a cup of tea with milk. Back at my stepmother's we had poundcake that someone brought her and some cookies from the cafe.

Amazing dinner of mom' macaroni and cheese (or, as it's known in the family, Lordaroni), salad and spouts, and wine. Yummers!