Just rambling

I'm bored. Most of the time I like not having TV anymore, sometimes I hate it. Tonight I hate it. I just want to go sit on my bed and watch something fluffy, and we don't have any new movies in from netflix yet and I've watched everything we own at least half a dozen times. Nothing's going on at any of my boards, Will's not home, and I am BORED. I guess I could go find some good X-Files fanfic to read.

I saw the dietician Wednesday. As I suspected, she didn't really have a whole lot of info to share that I didn't already know. She suggested 1600 calories a day for me, but since I make so much of my stuff from scratch it makes it very hard to keep up with exact numbers, so she said I could try to focus on having no more than 45 grams of carbs per meal plus one snack, and 40 grams of fat or less per day. I've been keeping a food journal to see how close I can get to that. So far (two days of journaling) I've not done too well with the fat (though much of the fat in my meals is from EVOO or canola oil, and nuts for the snacks, which is all good for you so I have a hard time making myself cut that out, kwim?) but the calories and carbs have been pretty good. She wants to see me again in two weeks to "see how I'm doing". That last part makes me bristle because I don't like being made to feel that I have to please someone by what I eat, but if nothing else I can take my daily journal with me so she can see just what kinds of things I normally eat. I find that people have a really hard time believing that someone that looks like me actually knows how to make healthy food choices. She already knows that I refuse to use artificial sweeteners or things that are so chemically altered they no longer resemble anything found in nature, so that battle has already been fought. Heh.

Oh but along those lines, I had to stop at Sonic for breakfast yesterday after my appointment. I got a small strawberry/banana smoothie (thinking fresh fruit and nonfat yogurt would be a good choice, right?) along with a junior breakfast burrito and half a kiddie order of tater tots (Jacob was riding back home with me and wanted something too). I got home and looked up Sonic's nutritional info to journal it and about FELL OUT OF MY CHAIR. The smoothie I got - small size! - was almost 500 calories and 113 g of carbs! Just the smoothie! CRIPES. I'll pick up some plain yogurt and fruit at the store tomorrow and make my own blasted smoothies, it'll probably taste better too.

We still haven't been able to file our federal taxes. I called the local SS office today on the off chance that they would let me correct Will's birthday over the phone, no go. Ah well, he'll make it down there some day soon. I hope.

Oh! We did get to go to Date Night after all, the kids were all feeling fine Saturday. Woo! It was fun. The dinner was pretty good (spaghetti and meatballs, salad, garlic bread, cheesecake) and the movie was great! There were several scenes that had everybody in there howling with laughter, and a few scenes that had everyone either cheering or yelling at the screen. Good times. :) Oh and they had guys come out to the car to escort the ladies in, and people at the front door to usher the kids off to their rooms, and a photographer to take your picture (under an arch with flowers and everything, I felt like I was at the prom! LOLOL). They went to a one hour photo shop and had the pictures developed while we were watching the movie so they could be picked up on the way out, I thought that was really nice. The kids got to have pizza and games and a movie. All in all, a very fun evening.

Then the next day we got to go to my sister's wedding shower, that was fun too. Dana and I conspired to snatch a few new towels and the ladies hosting the shower tried to make off with the stand mixer. Heh. I told Will we need to get married again so we can rake in some loot! She got lots of nice stuff. Dana and Nathan wanted to give her something too, so we bought a couple of azalea plants and tagged them from the kids. I thought that was cute. :)

Since we had to head down there right after church, I was wearing my tiechel. Nobody even commented on it, ha. I figured mom at least would ask about it.

On the radio yesterday they were talking about all the security measures taken while returning the KFC hand-written original recipe to the Kentucky museum, it was so funny. A briefcase handcuffed to a guard with the recipe inside and everything. One of the DJ's was saying it reminded her of Plankton on Spongebob and all the lengths they have to go to, to protect the Krabby Patty secret recipe. HEE.

Hey did ya'll know that the earth originally had a 360-day year? (Go re-read the account of the Flood, and pay attention to the dates given.) And that the shift in the center of gravity because of the Flood is most likely the reason that we now have a 365.xxx-day year? And that according to Revelation, the earth will once again be restored to a 360-day year? Like, before the end of the world? That kind of stuff FASCINATES me, ya'll.

Which reminds me - I literally burst out laughing at a guy on Ben Stein's movie 'Expelled' when he said that he can't think of anything more BORING than the human body being the result of Intelligent Design. I can't think of anything LESS boring. What a dweeb.

Ah, Ben Stein. He was lecturing at a university about an hour from here this week. How we would've loved to have gone!!! Alas.

TTFN!