A nice Saturday

We woke up early, got on bikes and met a short stack of friends (also on bikes) at the Brooklyn Bridge. Edie & I cruised up to Central Park with B and the gang via the Summer Streets event, and arrived around 9:30 to lay out a nice picnic on the hill overlooking the toy-boat pond north of 72nd. The nice thing about arriving that early is it's sunny and warm, but not crowded so we could get a prime location and just...relax.

After eating too many donuts, we rolled back down casually home. A nap, an errand to restock sundries, then home to wile the day away with the ladies.

BREAKFAST 1: 7am, organic cornflakes with organic dead milk, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5


BREAKFAST 2: 9:45am, 1/2 a bagel with cream cheese, 3 donuts, seltzer, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5


LUNCH: 2:30pm, lobster roll, lame ice cream sandwich, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
I visited the Hester Street Fair in the 'hood while running some chores. They have some interesting, progressive food vendors that I want to support, but they don't have it on lock down yet. The lobster roll was pretty great, but at $14 for 4oz of meat on a meager (but well toasted & buttered) potato roll is a bit pricey. They do a 2oz half for $8, but it's too small. They should have a third, more expensive option that make the first two seem cheap by comparison -- it doesn't need to sell, but it's presence may reduce the sticker shock of the other two options. "Hey, I may be paying $14 for a lobster roll, but at least it ain't $25!) I had an ice cream sandwich of salted caramel ice cream wedged between two thin slabs of brownie -- the brownie was too hard, the ice cream was too soft, and both had nice but under-concentrated flavors.

DINNER: 6:45pm, pakora, shrimp saag with basmanti rice, roti bread, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5

Fresh Friday

B took Lil' E to a swim class in the morning while I tinkered with the entertainment system. I took myself out to lunch, then spent the rest of the day chillin' and tweaking the system. Over all a productive but relaxed Friday.


BREAKFAST: 9:15am, chocolate babka, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5


LUNCH: 1pm, vegetarian dim sum including mashed taro treasure boxes, mixed gluten, mock shrimp in rice paper roll, sticky rice wrapped in taro leaf, spring rolls, water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5
I ordered five dishes, too much for one person as usual. But instead of shoving down as much as possible, I ate until satiated and took about half of the food home. How ingenious of me, thank you very much!


DINNER: 7pm, large green salad, 3 ears of boiled corn, left over veg dim sum, an ounce of good chocolate with peanut butter, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5

Vegetarian for a day!

If your eating day centers around 1 huge meal, I guess it's better that the meal is as far away from sleep time as possible. Today I received delivery of a new entertainment system, Yomomma came over, and between setting up and running out to do chores and food shopping, I kinda forgot about eating until I started feeling that hungry/nauseous thing where you think you may puke if you don't get something down.

Went to an excellent California-style burrito place on 4th Ave between 13th & 14th. Last time I ate there I remembered everything was excellent, except for the stringy meat, so I went and just skipped any meat....and it was amazing. Between that and falafel for a late night snack, this must of been my first vegetarian day in forever...


AM SNACK: 8am, iced green tea


BREAKFAST: 10:45am, chocolate babka, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5


LUNCH: 3pm, blackbean & guac burrito, rootbeer, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5


PM SNACK: 4:30pm, chocolate cheesecake, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER: 11pm, falafel balls with hummus, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

Workworkworkwork pt 3

Slept awfully well last night, out before 12:30 and up after 8. I wonder if it had anything to do with how I ate -- I ate quite heavy, though in smaller amounts in multiple sittings.

Edie said "Papa" a lot clearer and with more enunciation than ever before, it pretty much made my ice cold heart a puddle of warm water this morning. Can't wait for tomorrow, to have some serious Edietime!

BREAKFAST: 8:30am, iced green tea, organic chex with organic dead milk, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
AM SNACK: 10:45am, Manhattan Special
Gave me the jitters, more than usual.

LUNCH: 12:30pm, 1 slice egg & bacon pizza, cranberry lime soda, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
The guys in the kitchen made this pizza, with jalapenos, not to my taste, but nice to see them making what they like, for themselves.

PM SNACK: 3pm, green salad, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
We recently reformulated our house salads, as it was pretty not-good before. We replaced the cheaper escarole with a mix of bib, romaine and green leaf, and replaced the simple olive oil & vinegar mix with basically olive oil, vinegar and industrial "Italian dressing" mix, basically dried herbs, sugar, salt, MSG, guar gum and assorted nastiness. It's annoying that L didn't consult me on this, as we could of easily made our own 'mix', based on salt, sugar & dried herbs, left out all the nastiness, AND would of probably tasted better and more noteworthy than this envelope of chemicals manufactured somewhere in a warehouse out there....

PM SNACK: 6pm, 3 meatballs


PM SNACK: 11pm, 3 special mini tarts


DINNER: 12pm, hamburger, fries, water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5
No comment.

Workworkworkwork pt 2

Could not get to bed last night. Got home around 11:30, yomomma was looking after Edie because B was having a fuzzy-eye checked out late into the night. Between the drama, my energy level cratering to ADD levels and then my body refusing to shut down, not a great night.

But B was loving this morning, despite being cranky, Edie was full of smiles and shouts of joy for the pleasure of being able to waddle around the house, and off to work I went.

BREAKFAST: 8am, iced green tea, waffle, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
LUNCH: noon, 3 slices shrimp & clam cheeseless pizza, water, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
PM SNACK: 2:30pm, green salad, roasted potatoes, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
PM SNACK: 3-4pm, bacon, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5
We were baking bacon in the 'rant, and I could not stop nibbling on it, making me think my body is really craving something fatty and decadent right now...


PM SNACK: 4pm, small cup of chocolate ice cream, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5


PM SNACK: 6:30pm, slice of Sicilian, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5


EVENING DRINK: 10:15pm, bottle of beer


EVENING SNACK: 11:45pm, 7 falafel balls with humus, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

Monday Monday

First night I slept through since first getting sick. I put myself down a little before 11 and woke to the alarm at 7. It's nice to feel normal after feeling like a yo-yo for a solid 9 days.

Edie was all smiles and energy this morning, made it difficult to leave her (and B, who took the day to chill out at home.) Wah!

AM SNACK: 7:30am, iced green tea

BREAKFAST: 8:30am, granola with organic dead milk, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

AM SNACK: 11:30am, Manhattan Special

LUNCH: 12:45pm, 4 slices Sicilian, ginger ale, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 3:15pm, slice of pepperoni and mushroom pizza, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 5:30pm, green salad, apple juice, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5


DINNER: 9pm, meatballs, lemonade, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

Mellow Sunday

After yesterday's ride let me feeling a little bit too beat up, I tried to take today easy. I still woke up at 3am and could not get back to sleep. I did a run to J&R to pick up some pieces for the impending new entertainment system I'm setting up at the end of the week, and did a supermarket run with Edie in mid-afternoon to help her get into her nap. B took off for the third night in a row to go party and go crazy, while I stayed home and fed & bathed the Edie.

Edie, with her big head of curls, unrefined table manners and absolute joy when practicing her running (!) around the house is nothing but wonderful. Part of me is "oy! this is too much!" and part of me is "I need an army of Edies!"


AM SNACK: 5am, handful of chocolate covered coffee beans


BREAKFAST: 9:30am, granola with organic dead milk, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5


PM SNACK: 12:30pm, multigrain tortilla chips with salsa, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5


PM SNACK: 3pm, 7 falafel balls, chocolate babka, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER: 9pm, garden salad, eggplant hero, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5