vudukungfu: I made mayonaise in my hand.

It's good for you

here to help: valar_morghulis: here to help: valar_morghulis: I'm remaining calorie deficient, hungry, and hateful in an attempt to drop 20 pounds. 8 pounds down. 12 hateful pounds to go.

Starving yourself isn't a very good way to lose weight.

I'm not starving myself. I'm simply burning more than I take in. It sucks, I'm always hungry, but hey.

Have you tried keeping fruits and veggies that are mostly water around to snack on? I think the current school of thought on weight loss is that outright hunger = bad.

Gotta keep the engine going so you can keep burning calories.

My raw veggie/fruit drinks are largely cucumber and celery, with other stuff thrown in (kale, ginger, lemon, etc). My appetite is quite prodigious, so it doesn't matter if I eat a few stalks of celery here and there. I always crave X or Y; it's just willpower at this point. When that isn't enough, caffeine helps. I've been looking into green tea extract to help curb the appetite as well.

Butter subby?

Hi I'm Lauren: middleoftheday: I made honest-to-God French toast with eggs... I usually use Egg Beaters, see. It was sooo good.

I'm thinking about making French toast using pumpkin bread. I fear it may be a little too zany for me.

It's exactly the right amount zany!

Edited the audio track for a boring industrial video about plastic thingies.....

Cyclometh: I just returned from donating platelets to someone. My blood is a match for a young woman with leukemia and who probably had a bone marrow transplant. This was the third time I've donated to this person. I don't schedule appointments any more, I just wait for them to call me.

So, in answer to subby's question, I saved a life this morning.

/maybe just a wee bit smug

You've earned your smugness. Platelets don't keep very long; frequent donors really make a dent in the demand.

Breaking in a cast iron skillet I found...after re-seasoning of course.

/at work now

I just took a big freakin' dump.

Marysue: If you don't know the names of the cows the cream came from, it's not fresh.

knowing TF, the cow's name is probably Ron (new window)

Pants full of macaroni!!: I just took a big freakin' dump.

I miss those.

I learned to play The Cult's "She Sells Sanctuary" on the banjo.

Not great, but I'm not really a banjo picker.

Rincewind53: I'm about to make baked cheddar cheese crackers (basically home-made goldfish).

They're delicious and easy to make

3/4 cup flour
3/4 butter
1 teaspoon salt
3-4 oz extra sharp (the sharper the better) cheddar cheese

and for flavoring:
white pepper
smoked paprika

Put ingredients into a food processor, process on low until everything combines into a dough, stick the dough in the fridge for 30 minutes or until cold, and then roll out, cut into strips or pieces (a pizza cutter works great to slice them up) and bake at 400 for 10 minutes.

I....did several loads of laundry. A load of dishes. Cleaned out cat boxes and took out all the trash. Laid out more cardboard for the pathways I'm building in the garden and in the process figured out a way to get even more beds in the yard, thus getting rid of more grass, which I hate with the heat of a thousand suns. Trying to figure out whether I want those fish tacos I bought the ingredients for, some French toast made with a sourdough a friend sent me, or save the French toast for tomorrow to have with eggs, and go ahead and make the tacos today. Trying to figure out why I'm indulging in shiatty boxed wine when I have perfectly excellent, homemade lemon lime & pear ciders sitting in the fridge from a swap I went to earlier this week. Oh, and watching Four Rooms and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.

And apparently, making crackers!

I'm also being amazed at what an absolutely wonderful and talented crew of misfits are here on Fark. I like these threads!

festus: Today:

However am worried about Dex the Wonder Cat. Haven't seen him in two days. Should go look around the estate.

I hope you find Dex too! A missing kitty is the worst thing.

I also am worried about my baby. She's 21 and I think she's on her last legs. But she's had a full and exceedingly happy life.

Mixed 15 gallons of paint during my three hour shift at a store.

I just woke up, so I'm getting a blast out of this thread.

Helped record a concert, set up a house for a party, got keg shells and I will soon fill said shells.


Now I just need to eat something...

Cyclometh: valar_morghulis: Cyclometh: I just returned from donating platelets to someone. My blood is a match for a young woman with leukemia and who probably had a bone marrow transplant. This was the third time I've donated to this person. I don't schedule appointments any more, I just wait for them to call me.

So, in answer to subby's question, I saved a life this morning.

/maybe just a wee bit smug

You've earned your smugness. Platelets don't keep very long; frequent donors really make a dent in the demand.

Thanks. :) I normally go in every two weeks like clockwork but then they said I was some kind of (insert acronym here) match to two or three people, at least one of whom was getting a LOT of platelets. So now they call me every week or so and I head in for an hour on the machine and some V-8. :)

Here in Sarasota frequent donors get gift certificates to various things; are you compensated apart from free cookies and juice?

I fixed a really devious bug in a critical piece of software. Also, I ate really bad leftover Chinese food.

Went to the grocery store, saw the Bloodmobile there, went in to donate blood, was actually able to (hemoglobin was a 15.4 today, woohoo!), came home and made kimchi and bacon fried rice. Now I get to work for the rest of the day.

Took dog for his Advanced Obedience final exam. He passed.

Rev. Skarekroe: Sex. With a human female.

POIDH

/oblig

I am lounging in bed while I reading fark, ignore schoolwork and have the occasional snooze due to the purring fur ball tucked under my arm.

Making delicious spicy beef stew for my husband who's getting over whatever bug is going around campus at the moment. Then I will play Aion until three hours past when I should have gone to bed while blatantly ignoring the studying I should be doing for my art history test on Monday.

here to help: valar_morghulis: My raw veggie/fruit drinks are largely cucumber and celery, with other stuff thrown in (kale, ginger, lemon, etc). My appetite is quite prodigious, so it doesn't matter if I eat a few stalks of celery here and there. I always crave X or Y; it's just willpower at this point. When that isn't enough, caffeine helps. I've been looking into green tea extract to help curb the appetite as well.

Well, keep trying hopefully your body adjusts. If not it may be hard to keep it off. Might want to ask your doc about it in case there's something else going on that's robbing you of nutrition. But yeah... sounds like you're doing all the right things. Good luck.

Appreciate the advice. I put on the weight through booze and poor eating; HUGE portions once or twice a day, skipping breakfast, not drinking water; basically eating the reverse of the food pyramid. I'm only 24; I have a lot of energy, am generally healthy. I just can't maintain a -great- physique while maintaining my old bad habits.

While I read fark.

Yay, first correction post.

Coobies?

chuckled at the redundancies in subby's headline and...well that's it and I'm done for the day

CygnusDarius: Deathray187: I brewed beer.

Wonderful, life-purpose giving beer.

I thought mead gave purpose.

Meads do too, but I'm not patient enough, nor do I have the room to store an extra carboy as they age.

Cooked a stir fry for the family. Fresh ingredients, except a tin of water chestnuts.

/Son arrived as I finishing so had both my children here for a meal. First time since Xmas. :-)

let's see.

Bullet points so far: Yummy, clean, shiatty, clean, clean, informative, got snarky, got poorer, got fuzzy.

Details
Cooked bacon and eggs. Bacon slow, in the pan. Eggs over easy and runny with fresh pepper
Took a shower, shaved and brushed teeth.
Cleared a backup from the septic in the laundry tub. Now I gotta call a plumber or something.
Cleaned my self up again
Load of laundry. (no more backup)
Browsed the news
got 3 greenlights
paid a couple bills
Heated lunch from leftover roast beef and brussels sprouts, polished off half a bottle of wine with and after lunch. (warming up for tonight)

Now to change my jeans and head out to meet friends.

Had that happen by accident once. Was doing whipped up cream with the kitchen aid (for coffee and maybe fruits during week); got distracted for three minutes or so; returned to find...butter. Lots of unsalted butter. /meh

I used it for cooking later.

/heavy cream was from grocery store, the ones in cartons; so nothing spectacular.

Cleaned my bathroom with chemical fire. I think I washed off my fingerprints.

Hi I'm Lauren: middleoftheday: I made honest-to-God French toast with eggs... I usually use Egg Beaters, see. It was sooo good.

I'm thinking about making French toast using pumpkin bread. I fear it may be a little too zany for me.

I did that two days ago, with homemade pumpkin bread. Trust me, it's delicious. Real maple syrup would have been better, but it was good even with the imitation stuff.

Pre-spring cleaning, wherein I start the process of getting rid of the crap that will otherwise make me say "Why do I have so much crap?" when spring cleaning actually starts.

/ Actually got a lot done.

here to help: valar_morghulis: booze

Oooh. That might be your problem. When heavy drinkers quit or cut back their body can't handle the sudden loss of the quick energy fixes and they become ravenous. You really should ask your doctor about this. Your sugars might be all out of whack amongst other potential issues.

/boozehound
//barely eats
///when I'm forced to quit I can't get enough grub

I will. My stepdad's a doctor, might as well give him a ring today. I wasn't, you know, an alcoholic in consumption; I just really enjoy my beer. Fall seasonals especially -- that' when I really stacked on the weight, and then winter came along with egg nog and bacon-wrapped scallops. Mmmm. If I have a beer now it's lite, and only followed by one or two more.

Cyclometh: valar_morghulis:

Here in Sarasota frequent donors get gift certificates to various things; are you compensated apart from free cookies and juice?

Nope. If I donate 100 units my name goes on a little plaque thingy and pit on the wall with other large-volume donors. I've only been donating regularly for a few months so I'm not anywhere near that.

They do know me there, though. The blood center is a regional one and runs out of Seattle, about 75 miles from here. I go to a local office just down the street, but all scheduling is dome via the main office, I believe. I once called them to confirm an appointment and the lady I spoke with said something like "oh, it's you!" and when I was obviously confused she said my name had come up a couple of times, so I guess that I was a very strong match or have good donor characteristics.

In any case I'm happy to do it; it's not that much time, the people there are very nice and I can read Fark while the machine runs. :)

Yeah. Ultimately the greatest reward is knowing someone is going on breathing because of your actions. Kudos.

I haven't barfed in 12 hours, so I have that going it me.
/stupid stomach bug

Took my 12-y/o daughter to Karate, then picked up lunch at the best Mexican take-out place in town. Now I'm drinking a couple beers before we go drop off some used books at the library and try to find some old book about unicorns that she's after. Then bring her home for band practice & try not to interfere too much. I haven't thought about dinner yet, but I have some chicken breasts that are going to go bad if I don't do something with them.

This is pretty typical of what "libtards" like me do everyday to undermine American Family Values™ (when we're not hammering welfare checks and forcing our wimmen-folk to have abortions).

missmez: I made butter in second grade by shaking a baby food jar full of heavy cream. You're over equipped.

I used to do that with kindergartners I was taking care of. Then we made biscuits served with their self-made butter. They liked it, mostly.

I cut out the skirt panels (in both satin and muslin) for the wedding dress I am making. The first fitting is in 8 days. I already finished the bodice (including the lining and stays) so I just have to sew the satin to the muslin underlining, sew the skirt panels together, make the pleats, and sew the skirt to the bodice. After that I just have to baste in the zipper and we'll be ready for the first fitting.

/wedding is 8 weeks away
//thankful the bride chose a simple style

plewis: Cleaned my bathroom with chemical fire. I think I washed off my fingerprints.

Time for the bank job you've been planning - leaving no dabs

Built a new desk that was sent to me by someone who is in my opinion one of the coolest women in the world.