Coming back together

Woke up after a good night's sleep, feeling more myself. Cleaning, organizing, running errands -- the kitchen isn't done, but it's reasonable and mostly functional. Probably another week until we dig out and fully organize. Spent the afternoon with a cranky (and then late napping) baby. Spent the evening with a chill baby who got to sleep perfectly fine, then a mostly relaxed wifey who came in just in time to enjoy the fruits of my labor, he he.

AM SNACK: 8:30am, iced green tea
Yay! Finally! Starting to resume my old kitchen habits. Made this batch last night. Used a nice toasted loose tea in my new tea ball, this is a very different tea. Gonna withhold commentary until I have it a few times...

BRUNCH: 11:45am, boiled mixed perogies, water, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Running errands, stopped in on Little Poland for some of the food I used to eat all the time in high school when the East Village had a Polish diner on every block...

PM SNACK: 4:45pm, momma style salad, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
Ahhh, things you can do in a comfortable kitchen. Baby carrots, cucumber, red onion and green pepper, with a little ranch dressing. Starting to unwind a little.

PM SNACK: 5:45pm, chocolate chip cookies, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5
Out doing chores with Edles. Just got hungry.

DINNER: 8:30pm, breaded fish fillets, pasta with homemade sauce, loaf cake, water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

Stressy

Did not feel well today, not sick but not myself. No hunger until the evening. What is going on? Part of it is the stress of the kitchen -- men working all day to finish it up, and in the end after they're gone a lot of little details bothering me. Some of it can be fixed when they come back to do the final detail work for the final check, but some of it is poor craftsmanship which I suspect will be a fight with the contractor to get him to either do some stuff over or knock something off the bill. And, the thing that was the whole reason for the project, the dishwasher, is not powered. WTF? Urg.

Spent the day on two big walks with Edie, and spent a good part of the evening in the bike room tinkering with my cargo bike, definitely a stress reducer.

On the positive side, brewed up new tea for breakfast tomorrow!!


AM SNACK: 10am, handful of goldfish


PM SNACK: 2pm, slice of swiss cheese, a pickle


DINNER: 8pm, shrimp in black bean sauce with rice, dumplings, water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

Heebies & Jeebies

Took Edles to a new program, an Early Learning & Literacy class sponsored by the city. Gave me a certain level of heeby-jeebies: it's more structured, the class doing things as a group. Previously, all her "class time" has been unstructured free play punctuated by a group thing. I guess I felt heebied because it reminded me of when I was a little kid, and dealing with the structure of school, how new and fresh and a bit scary it was. Edie was a champ, tuned in for some, tuned out for other bits, but over all I think she will pick it up nicely.


Stomach wasn't sour, but felt off. Didn't eat much until the evening, until my bestie E took me out to a late b-day dinner. Some fine vittles!


BREAKFAST: 9:45am, 2 donuts, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

SCHOOL EATS: 6-7pm, various slices of student pizza, ginger ale, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5


DINNER: 9:15pm, pasta in meat sauce, sauteed shrimp, bread, 1 glass wine, water, chocolate tart, vanilla gelato, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

In Search Of: a Usable Kitchen

Mildly busy at the resto, enough to keep me from genting antsy. While I was at work, work resumed in the home kitchen -- when I got home, it was like a tease: it looks together from a distance, but nothing is hooked up and everything needs a lot of details taken care of. Hopefully tomorrow we'll be closer to a usable kitchen.

BREAKFAST: 9am, brown rice crispies with organic dead milk, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
LUNCH: 12:30pm, 3 slices, diet coke, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
PM SNACK: 4:15pm, green salad, water. .75 bowl, hunger 4/5


DINNER: 6pm, pasta with shrimp in oil & garlic, bread, water


EVENING SNORT: 9:30pm, 1/2 beer


EVENING SNACK: 11pm, ice cream, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5
No Comment.

Mellow

Weather was off and on rain, killing business at the resto. Mellow.

BREAKFAST: 8am, good yogurt with honey, vanilla and peanuts, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
LUNCH: 12:45pm, 3 slices pizza, Manhattan Special, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
PM SNACK: 4:45pm, green salad, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
PM SNACK: 6:30pm 1 1/2 slice pizza, pomegranate soda, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5


DINNER: 10pm, Singapore Mei Fun, chocolate chips with peanuts & pretzels, water, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

Enervated

It was supposed to rain and be warm today, so I got up in my rain suit and pushed my old commuter bike out to Coney Island, then met L in midtown for lunch, followed by a movie. Got home to a happy baby and a mostly-happy wife, and taking advantage of enervated relaxed feeling, did a round of weights.

Just heard the kitchen may be functional by Friday. Let's hope...


BREAKFAST: 9am, brown rice crispies with organic dead milk, cupcake, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5


LUNCH: 1:30pm, pork tonkatsu with curry rice, pork gyoza, edemame, water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5


DINNER: 8pm, sushi, tempura, salad, water, 1 cupcake, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

Cake followed by cupcakes

Woke up after about 9 solid hours of sleep, body feels good but sore -- my inner thighs seems to have suffered from pretending to give birth to a large square block in yoga a few days ago, he he. Popped out in the morning to the local diner and to Whole Foods for Edie food, as there is no point in buying groceries for a kitchen I can not cook in.

I indulged in cake and TV while Edie napped, and after she rose and ate lunch, we rode over to the local park so she could run around a bit for an hour, then we pedalled up and down the East River Park. It was nice, with Edie waving at all passersby from the front of the bike.

BREAKFAST: 9:30am, BLT on a bagel, home fries, diet coke, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5


PM SNACK: noon, chocolate cake, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 5pm, 2 cupcakes, 3 pickles, Ritz crackers, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5 
Unfortunately, I got home with E really hungry and B confronted me with late birthday cupcakes. Without thinking, they went down. I followed cake by cupcakes. Oy.


DINNER: 9:15pm, shrimp parm with spaghetti, green salad, water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5