junk food junkie

With my husband coaching baseball, we have been eating the most horrible diet. On game nights, he doesn't get home until about 8:00pm or later. I don't want to cook when I get home since it will be 3 hours before he will get to eat it. Plus, I like to wait for him and eat dinner with my husband. But by the time he is home, I don't want to cook, and neither does he.

In addition, this week I have been kind of busy, not getting home until later a couple times this week. And, I have also been neglectful in defrosting anything.

So this week, we have had chinese food, bagels, Wendy's, and pork chops (ok, I cooked one night - when he didn't have a game, just practice).
Not the best diet in the world.

Tomorrow night, we are going to go to the movies - so most likely we will have popcorn for dinner. So gross.

to market, to market

I finally got to make it to the public market this morning. It is one of my favorite places to be. I have been going to the market since I was a little kid. In fact, my mother had a newspaper article with a picture of me sitting on my dad's shoulders buying eggs at the market when i was a toddler. Anyway, it was nice and packed this morning. It is the only place I don't mind the crowd. It means that the market is prospering. I got myself some empenadas for breakfast from Juan & Maria. I got an oatmeal cookie and a cupcake bigger than my face from Jon John's, and some of the sweetest shrimp from Coastal. And lots of fruits and veggies. The best part was that it was a nice, easy Saturday morning trip. Some weeks it is get in and get out shopping. This week it was all about leisure.

i lied

so i lied.

we ended up in a crappy horrible chain restaurant that I cant stand, where I watched a child sneeze on the salad bar and the mother make a joke out of it.

Ruby Tuesdays. Other than the fact that it is a chain restaurant, and the food isn't good, I have a disgusted feeling every time I go in there because I once worked at that restaurant for 2 weeks. My only ever attempt at waitressing. 2 weeks I lasted. I think I made 15 bucks total in those 2 weeks. It ranks up there on the worst job ever list.

I did feed the kitties. And I did go to the book store and get some new books. The one I am reading is one that I wanted to read, and I bought it at full price rather than on the bargain bookshelf. However, so far, it is a lot of name dropping and not a lot of plot. I think when I am done I will sell it on Amazon.

Normally, I cant part with books. I have bookshelves in almost every room in my house. I love books - a whole lot. But this one cost $23 bucks, and it isn't good. So alas, we will have to part ways.

Today - it's sunny, but way to cold for this delicate little flower to go to the market, so that's out.Which is disappointing because I love the market. I may try to brave it a little later, but I doubt it. I've already made coffee and turned on the computer. I think it's all over.

low carb is hard

So I have been trying to eat a lower carb diet for a little while now.
And no, I don't mean Atkins. How anyone can eat that much sausage is beyond me.

And I am not going to lie - it is really difficult. Flour, Sugar and I...we go way back.

I can usually last about 2 weeks before I cave, and then I have to start over. And though this may seem counter productive, it is all I can do.

Last night - I only made it a week. You see, winter is back. And we were going to go out to dinner and I had a nice little plan. But instead, we decided to stay in and get take out - Chinese of course from Lin's Palace. Instead of getting my usual staples (chicken satay, happy family with sauce on the side, or egg drop soup), I decided I needed noodles.

I ate less than 1/3rd of the container, and I picked out all the shrimp and chicken first. But this morning, up 4 pounds. It's kind of sick.

Oh yeah, maybe it was the piece of chocolate cake too that did it.

Whatever, back on today, lets see if I can make it two more weeks this time.

B.O.

Ever go to an Indian restaurant and leave smelling like B.O? Food's good, smells bad.

I went to lunch today with my mom, and we went to the India Palace in Rochester. I haven’t been in years, but I used to work 2 doors down, so we used to go all the time. So we arrive, and no one is there. And we wait 5 minutes, and no one come out from the kitchen, so my mother goes in the back and calls hello through the doorway, to no avail. She sticks her head in a little further, and calls out again, and a hostess comes out (with fingernails about 4 inches long – disgusting!) and says “we don’t allow people in the kitchen”, to which my mother responded “We’ve been waiting for like 5 minutes”. The hostess/waitress, she didn’t care.

We sit, it’s a buffet, and the food kind of is not great. I wouldn’t go as far as bad, but I will say it was not nearly close to good. I used to go all the time and it was good. Not so. I asked for more water once, she never came back. She came with the check, I asked for more water, she came, refilled my glass and not my mother's.

Then we tried to pay the bill. My mother pulls out her debit card, and the hostess/waitress says “I’m sorry, but it appears that our lines are down, you’ll have to pay with cash”. My mom, who never carries cash says “Well, I don’t have any” and the girl tells her she can now patronize one of the few ATMs in the plaza. So I stay in the restaurant, and my mom goes to get cash, and has to spend an extra 2 bucks on ATM fees just to pay the stupid bill. While I am waiting, the waitress gets a bill for the ONLY OTHER PERSON in the restaurant, and neglects to tell them that they wont be able to use their credit cards either. Our bill was $19.33 and originally due to poor service was only going to leave a 20– it was a buffet after all. But after the whole debacle, my mother waited for her change. Because of the 4 inch long fingernails, we waited another 5minutes for the change to be counted.

Until further notice, avoid the India Palace in Brighton.