My goodness am I whiney today!

I bought My Weight Loss Coach for my Nintendo DS, and it's done bupkiss. Even though it tells me I should be losing weight based on what I'm telling it (and I'm trying very hard to over-estimate my food and under-estimate my activity!) I have not. I know it's only been a week and a half, but... nothing? Really? I even went all vegetable-y for a week! I did, at least, find that a plate full of veggies can be surprisingly filling, sprinkled with a little Balsamic vinegar and a copious amount of salt...

So that's depressing. Then I get to work today and the cleaning people threw away my paper recycling box. After how many years of it sitting there?! It was the perfect sized box, too, I loved it. Bah.

I've also decided to take all of tomorrow off - we have a baseball game in the afternoon and really, why bother coming it to work for half a day? That's assuming the game is played, it's supposed to rain. But then, they've been predicting rain for days and still nothing. We could use a good soaking - my poor plants are all wilty.

And do we really even want to go to the game? Last night they lost... I think it was 19-4. And one of our best pitchers for the night was our back-up shortstop. Seriously. Just when you think they can't sink to new depths... But then, things can always get worse, I know. But really? 19-4?! They need the mercy rule.

So I'll get *lots* of stuff done tomorrow morning, I just know it! Like... okay, like sleeping in, most likely. Haven't been sleeping well. Grrrr

Oh, and I pulled out my peach and white striped scarf - that double knit with that boucle yarn was just too much of a pain. I'm knitting it right now with a peach and white strand held together, but it's not as drapey as I'd like. I'd hate to pull it out again, though, especially since I have a good 14" done. We'll see.

I wonder how long my cell phone has been dead...

Quiz time! I'm cleaning up the inside of my purse and (side note: Price Chopper now prints double-sided receipts? Half on the front, half on the back! How cool and paper-saving) spent a few moments trying to decipher the shorthand and figure out what the heck I bought. Here are a few of the best ones:

HML APL BOR PK TND ($7.99)
KR AM STACK PK ($12.39)

Off to go stuff my face with crap fast food and go shopping for a couch I certainly can't afford but want to buy anyway!

There's a fine line between creative and crazy

So Mr. Smeddley took out chicken to thaw for dinner. I started cooking it with some garlic and onions before I thought it through - I had nothing to make sauce with. No cheese and cream for alfredo, no crushed tomatoes to make a red sauce.

So I did what any good (crazy) cook would do, and dragged half-remembered ideas fromt he back of my head and randomly dumped crap in the pan. Specifically, mandarin orange slices and vanilla yogurt. I thought it wasn't half-bad. Mr. Smeddley might think differently... but he's two floors away, so it's not like I have to watch his face as he eats... or feeds it to the dog... (but not the onions, they're not good for her!).

ALSO: RSTN? Shore Tires? I have a message for you. Seriously, I'm amazed glad you have someone still willing to sponsor you. But could you get the volume even *slightly* close? Every time a Shore Tire commercial blasts out at 10x the volume of the game I jump. And it's really, really annoying.