Well, that was fun! I certainly enjoyed the glimpse into long ago and far away. It's difficult to remember when I was a princess and reigned the world. What happened? Well when you have 4 children in 6 years there is not nearly as much time to sit in front of the mirror and consider whether your eyes or lips are your best facial feature. You become Cinderella rather than the princess. It's really a cruel twist :) Nothing in all my years of princess training prepared me for it - certainly not 6 years of ballet lessons. Still, oh so worth it. You are still the center of some very special little peoples universe... you just have to do all the work. My children would tell you however, that I gave birth to them all just because I wanted slaves. If only they had learned how to clean the house... :) Fast forward 25 years and now the queen mum is chubby but happy in her own little paradise built by a loving husband who is the king of everything. Really he is more like a court jester :) And now I am beginning to enjoy watching my babies raise babies of their own. Ha ha! :) I have no idea where this is going... I think I have left the hair dye in too long and the fumes are affecting my brain. But again... so worth it... when I am done I will look about 3 days younger. :)
So... 157.3 and glucose 99. I have bounced around this past week beating 157 to death but over all I have made some progress - about 12 pounds in what... 6 weeks. I just took a break to wash that hair dye out and upon fixing my hair and getting dressed in my skinniest jeans... (sure I had to jump up and down a little to button up those size 8 jeans) and a pretty green shirt that perfectly matches my pendant (yes... I still like jewels) I was briefly very satisfied with my appearance. I say briefly because as I stood in front of the mirror turning from side to side - a skill I perfected long ago and far away, admiring my thinner form I remembered that I was at some point going to have to breathe. (Insert huge sigh here) Now that I have cleaned up the shattered mirror I am going to take a trip to visit Beto in Zumbaville. If I am a very good girl and keep my hands out of the cashew jar I just might be able to report 156. something tomorrow.
Happy Wednesday and Ciao!
Food is my passion! I love my kitchen, my garden my cookbooks and magazines. What I hate is the threat of diabetes wrecking a beautiful relationship. Can I use my love of food and basic knowledge of nutrition to create a healthy body and lifestyle. Yes, I can. I'm sure of it. The real question is... Will I? Let's find out :)
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
The Princess... I can't believe I am doing this :)
It has been suggested that I take a day off and allow this guest writer to amuse us with the following story. If you are closely related to the princess you will be familiar with this tale. It has been said that beloved fairy tales begin with an element of truth and over time take on the character of those telling the tale. It is certainly true in this case. If any of the "band of brothers" are reading this... best not to enjoy too much as I believe there is also a fable named... Little Blue Sambo. Enjoy :)
THE PRINCESS
A short story by her father, Wally Taylor of Bear Spring, Tennessee
There once lived a beautiful young princess in a far off city called Birmingham, Alabama. She had long curls, and was fair, freckled and very fast on her toes. She held total dominion over her subjects, her brothers, two older and one younger, with an iron hand. One fine day, her brothers, who suffered mightily under her iron discipline, decided that they would try to discover the source of her power, and by so doing, be able to increase their strength and reduce the might of their sovereign princess. Their plans were formulated with great cunning and considerable trepidation, for should they be discovered, the full wrath of the fiery princess would descend upon their wretched heads. In the fullness of time, a day came when our fair lady was attending to her personal needs, in the sanctuary of her bathing room. A great hue and cry arose, with the accompanying din of a clanging bell, while three noble citizens named Genus, Patricus and Jeffro cried out--”FIRE!, FIRE!, FIRE“. Her majesty, who had been firmly ensconced upon her throne, deep in thought about the weighty affairs affecting her domain, upon hearing the terrified cries of the poor citizenry, leaped up from her throne, without the help of any attendants, and fled into the hallway of her palace. Her very deeply concerned brothers rushed to her aid and excitedly advised her that she might suffer grave harm in running, if she did not retrieve her royal panties, which being around her ankles, could be a great hindrance to flight. Instead of being gracious and thankful for their kind thoughts and solicitations, she raged and roared at them as they fled shrieking out of the palace. It was later revealed that a false alarm had been raised, and that a certain trio of oppressed brothers had, indeed, seen the source of the fair princess’s power. The conspiracy was discovered and the rebellion was short lived, for the princess soon gathered her reins and swiftly punished the foolish knaves. For years, thereafter, however, in humble homes and around cheerful hearths, the story of the valiant band of brothers would be told and retold, uplifting the hearts of countless oppressed kin, giving hope and optimism to all who aspire to rise above the meanness of their circumstances. The end.
Now how am I supposed to follow that? :) I won't. I'll just report that the fat princess is having some trouble with cashews and seems to be bouncing back and forth rather than losing weight. The fatometer measures her girth this morning as 159.7 and glucose 98.
If you enjoyed this tale please comment and thank my guest writer as he will be waiting with great anticipation to see how this was received by my four readers :)
Ciao!
Monday, June 28, 2010
The People of Walmart...
You've seen them! Seems like I get a new updated list of the tackiest people in the world about once a month in my email in box. I'm getting to where I don't even open them any more. Up until we moved to Chewbaccaville I would not even step foot in Walmart. Yuk! Why would you go to Walmart when you could go to Nordstrom for clothing or Central Market for food??? Things have a way of changing. Now a trip to Walmart is the big event of the week - and if we go to Big R too we know we have really been to town. I had planned to go to Walmart on Saturday with little Aubrey but we got about 5 miles down the road and I realized that I just did not have the energy to chase a little not quite two year old around the store so after dropping her off I went in to do some quick shopping. Here's where I must confess... although I don't open the emails anymore... I do play I spy in the store. I always find one candidate who could be the Walmart poster child for the day. I know... I'm really a very bad person! :) Anyway... I was finishing up in the food section and remembered I needed some tooth paste so I headed across the store to find that. I was just passing the ladies clothing department when bam! There she was! No make up... hair sticking out at strange angles from tacky clips. Shirt and shorts that looked horrible together and legs the color that ought to have made God ashamed that he created people that color! You can imagine my mortification to discover that I had caught my reflection in one of those full length mirrors! Oh man! I looked around to see if anyone was watching :) then decided to just leave... did not even get the toothpaste. I just wanted to get out of there. I headed for the shortest line possible and checked the next mirror to see if I still had all my teeth. I finally got all my stuff loaded onto the check out conveyor belt and ran my bank card through the machine. As I waited for the scan pad to produce the screen for me to sign the cashier looked up and said, I'm sorry ma'am but your card was declined! What!!!! How embarrassing! I wrote a check (why would they let you write a check after having a declined card?) and left the store completely humiliated! Of course I called the bank and discovered that they put a stop on the card because of some unusual transactions in FLORIDA! Dave! Well one can only live with so much ugly for one day so I went home and mowed and planted flowers so my yard would be all pretty... I really wanted to get that whole Walmart experience out of my head. Here's what I planted.
I guess there is no hope... I'm a confirmed Walmart shopper...
Well... after all that I guess I better go ahead and report the stats which are 157.6 and glucose 103 so I'm back on track. Have a great Monday!
Ciao!
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Turn Around! You are going the wrong way!
158.4 and glucose 116. :( I guess popcorn is off the list. At least the whole bag anyway. I was just testing... yeah... that's it. Just testing. It was good! :) Well tonight I doubt there will be munching. I have to take Aubrey home today and when I get back I have to mow all the lawns and down by the creek (because the enormous dandelions are about to bloom) and catch up on some house work such as washing little tiny hand prints off the windows :) I'm going to miss my little fairy munchkin. When she falls asleep she squishes her face right up to mine and keeps inching closer so that I have to pick her up and scoot her ooooover! The chicks will think they have been abandoned too. Nobody will feed them every 15 minutes. Guess I better dust too. Before Dave for Florida left he had a 20 item list of things to do and the only thing he didn't get around to was dusting. He also said, "don't you just love coming home to a clean house?" :) I'll dust really well and then fill his side of the bed with sand so he will feel like he is still on VACATION IN FLORIDA. What a brat! He keeps reminding me of the time I went without him on a class trip with Michele's 5th grade class to Washington DC. Granny I hope you are reading this cause you would really enjoy what I'm about to say next... Can you say SINGAPORE???? Here's a nice pic of Dave enjoying his Florida vacation... Thank you Amberlyn... this makes it all worth while :) I love you both!
Saturday, June 26, 2010
It's Saturday!!!
This will have to be really fast! Since Aubrey woke up at 5:45 she is already taking a nap. This morning we have already fed the chicks, chased the little calf back in the pasture, we ran through the sprinklers, had breakfast and a bubble bath :) Whew! What a busy girl!
After nap time we are going to Colville.
Yesterday I ate bad stuff! I didn't really go crazy on the calories but I had a soft shell taco. The healthy kind but still... bread. That would have been ok except for the fish sticks I made for Aubrey. She loved them but did not eat them all so... yeah... breading. Then there was the cheese nachos I made before going to bed. :( I didn't use too much cheese but... tortilla chips. It should be no big shock that my glucose want from 80 yesterday to 105 this morning. Plus... the sodium in the chips probably caused some water retention so I am back to 158.3. Waaahhhhh! There you have it. Well... we are going to the market to make sure I have some healthier options. I'm thinking about making a chicken pistachio salad for lunch :) yum! Dinner? Hmm... my cuz posted a link to a cool food website: allrecipes.com showing some seriously tasty bruschetta. I think I will make that - only I'll switch out the grilled baguette for some rounds of grilled zucchini. I'll let you know how that works out. Check out the website though. I've never heard of it and was really glad he posted it.
Well... gotta fly... ciao!
Friday, June 25, 2010
Florida Friday...
But not for me... boo hoo! Dave is off to Florida with Amberlyn for a little daddy/daughter time. It was so kind of her to uninvite her fiancé just so she could spend some quality time with her good ole dad. :) Poor Dave is crushed though. He really loves Wes and would have loved to have him come along. :) I'm sure they will have fun. I will stay home and shoo the calf back under the fence whenever she gets out... and hope there is no serious cow emergency while he is gone. It's nice to know if there is that Carol is just down the road. Like how I sign you up without even asking Carol? :) This weekend instead of accomplishing anything at all I will have my beautiful little granddaughter Aubrey. :) I didn't want to do anything anyway! I can't wait. I'm sure she will want to feed the "chicks" and step on some veggies in the garden. She will throw the stick for Lucy and yell at Tank for licking her face. She will chase the "meow" around the house and want to go outside lots. I'll burn off calories just watching her... not to mention following around after her to make sure she has not gone down to the creek for a swim. It will be a fabulous girls weekend :) We might go to the farmers market and maybe if I'm brave even Walmart! We will under no circumstances get one of those carts with the little play cars attached! Whoever dreamed that up needs to have a lobotomy. I did that once at Safeway. We got through two isles and then she escaped and slipped getting out then would not get back in and I was stuck driving a bus that was a big pain to maneuver around the store :( Oh well... live and learn.
This morning the fatometer registered 157.6 and glucose of 80. It's gratifying to see that I am making progress. I'm actually looking forward to my next visit to Dr. Z to check my new blood work. She will be amazed and pat me on the head and say, "Good Job! Hope you can keep it up... this time." :) And that will indeed be the trick. This time I will know exactly how quickly the weight and elevated glucose levels will come back. Sure doesn't take long. Good thing I like veggies!
Speaking of veggies... I made some asparagus soup yesterday. I didn't even know I liked it until my Aunt Netta made it for me when we visited in her in Germany in early May. It was yummy. I like the thought of getting the most out of food by using those tougher end pieces. I went a slightly different direction with it though. I caramelized a large sweet onion and added a little cumin to the pot along with the asparagus and chicken stock and then pureed it then added some diced Canadian bacon and about a cup of the left over wild rice in the fridge. A little red pepper flakes added just a kick to it. It was good... but you do have to like asparagus. If you don't just keep moving :) To go with it I grilled some prawns marinated in black bean garlic sauce. Yum! That was very simple. I enjoy having different bottles of the prepared Asian sauces in the fridge. Sometimes they do have quite a bit of sugar or maybe even MSG in them... I really didn't investigate too closely I just dumped it on. Since my glucose level was only 80 this morning I guess it was not too terribly harmful.
Well... I can see Dave through the window out visiting the cows and telling them goodbye and to not be too much trouble for me. He is also checking the bird netting to make sure no magpies get into the chicken coup and break the eggs. He's doing a last minute check on the electric fence and running the weed wacker. I'm sure he will relax when he gets in the car to go to the airport. I was a brat this morning and told him that next time I go to Seattle (without him) that I was going to go visit Pike Place Market and have seafood dinner on the pier without oil all over it! That was very mean. I don't think they will run into oil where they are going. I am so sickened by the oil spill in the gulf that I almost can't watch it on the news anymore. One more reason I love driving past the big wind turbans along I-90 in Ellensburg. Dave thinks they are ugly and detract from the beauty of the hills. I think they are sort of majestic and fascinating and way prettier than dead oil soaked birds.
Have a great weekend everyone... ciao!
This morning the fatometer registered 157.6 and glucose of 80. It's gratifying to see that I am making progress. I'm actually looking forward to my next visit to Dr. Z to check my new blood work. She will be amazed and pat me on the head and say, "Good Job! Hope you can keep it up... this time." :) And that will indeed be the trick. This time I will know exactly how quickly the weight and elevated glucose levels will come back. Sure doesn't take long. Good thing I like veggies!
Speaking of veggies... I made some asparagus soup yesterday. I didn't even know I liked it until my Aunt Netta made it for me when we visited in her in Germany in early May. It was yummy. I like the thought of getting the most out of food by using those tougher end pieces. I went a slightly different direction with it though. I caramelized a large sweet onion and added a little cumin to the pot along with the asparagus and chicken stock and then pureed it then added some diced Canadian bacon and about a cup of the left over wild rice in the fridge. A little red pepper flakes added just a kick to it. It was good... but you do have to like asparagus. If you don't just keep moving :) To go with it I grilled some prawns marinated in black bean garlic sauce. Yum! That was very simple. I enjoy having different bottles of the prepared Asian sauces in the fridge. Sometimes they do have quite a bit of sugar or maybe even MSG in them... I really didn't investigate too closely I just dumped it on. Since my glucose level was only 80 this morning I guess it was not too terribly harmful.
Well... I can see Dave through the window out visiting the cows and telling them goodbye and to not be too much trouble for me. He is also checking the bird netting to make sure no magpies get into the chicken coup and break the eggs. He's doing a last minute check on the electric fence and running the weed wacker. I'm sure he will relax when he gets in the car to go to the airport. I was a brat this morning and told him that next time I go to Seattle (without him) that I was going to go visit Pike Place Market and have seafood dinner on the pier without oil all over it! That was very mean. I don't think they will run into oil where they are going. I am so sickened by the oil spill in the gulf that I almost can't watch it on the news anymore. One more reason I love driving past the big wind turbans along I-90 in Ellensburg. Dave thinks they are ugly and detract from the beauty of the hills. I think they are sort of majestic and fascinating and way prettier than dead oil soaked birds.
Have a great weekend everyone... ciao!
Thursday, June 24, 2010
After the storm...
Last night we had a great little storm. It was awesome! I was a little freaked out because I saw on the news that it was coming and that it had just dumped 6 inches of hail the size of half dollars on another little farm town. I thought how my poor tomatoes had already been frozen and soggy and now they would finally be pelted to death. I just went out and checked though and they were fine. No hail for us! It rained buckets and the lightning & thunder was pretty spectacular but all is well in the garden. It's beautiful and sunny, everything is fresh. Yay! I just picked a nice little wad of cilantro so I want to make some salsa but I only have ONE tomato and... what to put it on... I'm not going to wreck my progress by inhaling a bunch of chips. I almost went on a big binge last night. First I shelled some peanuts and ate them then I migrated to the kitchen and grazed around in the pantry. I opened a can of almonds and ate two... then I moved on to the bag of chips and ate one... then I decided I was being an idiot and went back to the couch. The storm started and I ran and jumped into bed to watch it safely from there. I curled up to Dave figuring if the lightning was going to get me he was going too :) you know... revenge for letting the chickens into my garden!
So... this morning... 158.0000 Sweet! Glucose 93. Yippy skippy! Oh! I also checked my waistometer and saw that another inch had disappeared. Very cool!
You know the FatSecret website I have been mentioning... well... it lets you create your own recipes and calculates the nutritional value. I jammed this one in yesterday. I have it all the time so I thought I would enter it... then I can just click on it to add it to my "food diary". I'll do more later... but there is only so much time for dorking around on the computer in any given day. Anyway... check it out... It's kind of fun. Apparently they will review the recipe to see if it makes sense... as you can see mine is waiting approval so it may be kicked outta there. In that case I think I can still have it in my personal cookbook but they would not publish it to the "community". Well... I can't figure out how to escape the border at the end of the recipe so I'll just say it from here... Ciao! :) Have a great day!
p.s. The little ads that pop up in my blog just informed me that the Zumba DVDs that I just spent $80. bucks on - I know... I'm a sucker... are now HALF PRICE. Man that irritates me! But if you click on it you can be only half a sucker :) They really are pretty fun and I think they are working... so there you go!
So... this morning... 158.0000 Sweet! Glucose 93. Yippy skippy! Oh! I also checked my waistometer and saw that another inch had disappeared. Very cool!
You know the FatSecret website I have been mentioning... well... it lets you create your own recipes and calculates the nutritional value. I jammed this one in yesterday. I have it all the time so I thought I would enter it... then I can just click on it to add it to my "food diary". I'll do more later... but there is only so much time for dorking around on the computer in any given day. Anyway... check it out... It's kind of fun. Apparently they will review the recipe to see if it makes sense... as you can see mine is waiting approval so it may be kicked outta there. In that case I think I can still have it in my personal cookbook but they would not publish it to the "community". Well... I can't figure out how to escape the border at the end of the recipe so I'll just say it from here... Ciao! :) Have a great day!
p.s. The little ads that pop up in my blog just informed me that the Zumba DVDs that I just spent $80. bucks on - I know... I'm a sucker... are now HALF PRICE. Man that irritates me! But if you click on it you can be only half a sucker :) They really are pretty fun and I think they are working... so there you go!
 Recipe is awaiting approval. Servings: 1 Prep Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 4 mins Meal Type: Breakfast Rating: not yet rated. fatsecret members overall average rating | by Kathy O  Simple FritattaOne egg with Canadian bacon, spinach and cheese IngredientsDirections
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| Nutrition Facts | |||||
| Serving Size 1 serving | |||||
| Amount Per Serving | |||||
Calories from Fat 82 Calories 180 | |||||
| % Daily Values* | |||||
| Total Fat 9.13g | 14% | ||||
| Saturated Fat 3.428g | 17% | ||||
| Polyunsaturated Fat 0.955g | |||||
| Monounsaturated Fat 3.419g | |||||
| Cholesterol 232mg | 77% | ||||
| Sodium 624mg | 26% | ||||
| Potassium 259mg | |||||
| Total Carbohydrate 3.26g | 1% | ||||
| Dietary Fiber 0.3g | 1% | ||||
| Sugars 2.09g | |||||
| Protein 20.12g | |||||
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9% | of RDI* (180 calories) |  |
Calorie Breakdown: Carbohydrate (7%) Fat (47%) Protein (46%) |  |
* Based on your RDI of 1900 calories (13 Jun 10)
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