Fried brains
Forget drugs, that egg in a frying pan? That is your brain after walking across mid-town Manhattan in this heat. Why is it, that somehow this company seems to only pick 90 plus degree days to call me into the city for meetings?
Of course if they extend my stay (which looks likely right now), I will be longing for these days during that same walk during the middle of winter when they will probably pick the sub zero days to request my presence at the big dogs office.
Finally
It was with great joy that LatteGirl was finally able to announce last night that, “My tooth fell out!”
Yes, last evening the Tooth Fairy after several false starts finally made an appearance. As expected, this morning LatteGirl found 2 Gold Dollar Coins under her pillow, and couldn’t wait to tell me this morning about the treasure she got from the tooth fairy.
She has continued inmittently today continued to sing, “My tooth fell oooout, My tooth fell ooooout!”
I don’t remember that long ago if every tooth was as big a deal as the first… but I certainly hope not.
Criminey… what does it take to get a sponsor?
We are now under 24 hours from the Start of Blogathon 2006. I will be “Primary Host” from 9am to 3pm (we will all be blogging throughout, but each of us has a “primary” timeslot to ensure out posting every 1/2 hour). During that slot I will be almost exclusively pinned in front of my computer, to (as best I can) provide a “live” Blogathon experience during that time. So be sure to come by Fresh Food, Fresh Blog and taunt me… (psst… you should be sure to come and taunt, Cathy, Doug and Barry as well… but I am not authorize to offer taunting on their behalf so shhhhhhhh).
And now in an effort to help raise money for Farm Aid, I am going to put it bluntly… what do I have to do to get You… yes you in the back… with the cute ears, trying to hide behind the guy with the big head. What do I have to do to get you to become a sponsor? (And remember this is a Family rated event… I’m just sayin’) What? Stand on my head? Do a belly flop into my pool live on webcam? Become a sponsor… make a request… and if there is anyway I can fulfill your request (meaning not going to cause bodily harm, causing me to be arrested, or not of a family nature) I will do it. The cause is worth it.
Next week, after a week of rants of various sorts and the begging for sponsors for the two or so readers I have left, we will return to the regularly scheduled life of Latte Man.
It is all Quality Time
When I read the post, Time Romance and a dryer over at Dadbloggers, I was reminded of something LatteGirl said, and it really took on some new meaning for me.
I was doing some work around the house. I suggested that she may be bored and would perhaps rather play with her toys in the yard or inside the house. She responsed by telling me that, “I would rather spend time doing nothing with you than playing and having fun when you are not around”
Sometimes we concern ourselves too much with what we consider quality time, and need to remember that to a child, almost any time can be seen a quality time together.
This diet is freaking me out
OK, so before I even bought the book, based on the information I was able to find on websites, blogs etc., as I mentioned before I decided to give the Shangri-La diet a try. Before I finally got around to ordering the book and getting it shipped to me, I had lost 10 lbs in about 5 weeks. Nice. Not earth shattering, but nice. Some of this could also be attributed to an improving view towards food. More organic fruits and vegetable, more home cooked food, less eat out junk, etc.
When I finally got the book (about 10 days ago), I found that according to it, I was actually taking probably too little oil for my size and the amount of weight I wanted to lose, and adjusted upward accordingly.
The results? I lost 3 pounds the first week at the new level. I definitely felt less hungry and therefore was eating less. But the real freakout came last night. Wednesday is Pizza Night. Being the big guy that I am I have always eaten 3 (and somtimes 4 if it is a really thin pie) slices. Ok, I knew I had been eating less, and getting full sooner, so I figured, I would only be eating two slices. This is where I started to freak out. My mouth and stomach were in disagreement. My MOUTH wanted that second slice. My stomach said, “No Way.”
This diet has received publicity, both good and bad. The folks at Calorielab love to trash it at every opportunity, because based on “traditional thinking”, it makes no sense. I have to agree that without trying it, even with the explainations of the science behind the diet, my inital thoughts about it were to consider it “speculative” at best, but since it was easy and cheap to try. But I am quickly becoming a believer in what the book has to say.
Is it fad? Well, I am not an expert enough to say definitely. And you need to do more than just follow the steps in the book (although that is a good start), such as trying to clean up your diet from too much junk, etc. But so far this has made it so much easier, that it just freaking me out.
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