Tuesday Morning Roundup
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neadodsI have got to give myself an LJ intervention. First I posted about once a month, then thought it was getting bad at once a day, and now I'm expecting to post at least links twice a day...
This is a great deal like knowing me in real life, as I Do. Not. Shut. Up! But attempt to make up for it by being entertaining and/or occasionally thought-provoking.
Exercise
At least I've finally gotten enough sleep. Having accomplished everything on the mental checklist, I can finally relax. That got me in bed early, which meant I got out of bed early with the energy to do the Dancin' on the Treadmill II mix, although not enough to dance to it. I think the first "Dancing" mix is the only one that really inspires me to flail like an idiot, but this is at least brisk enough to keep the feet moving.
1 - Everybody Wants the Same Thing (Scissor Sisters)
2 - On & On & On (Abba)
3 - Birdhouse in Your Soul (They Might be Giants)
4 - Nickajack (River Road) I didn't even try to keep up with this beat; it's the fastest thing in my iPod.
5 - Goody Two Shoes (Adam Ant)
6 - Seven Seas of Rhye (Queen)
7 - Little Bitty Pretty One (Billy Gilman)
8 - I Can't Decide (Scissor Sisters)
26 minutes, 1.40 miles.
Links
I found this a bit tl;dr, but it was recommended by Slacktivist and I have a lot of language geeks and political wonks on the f-list. George Orwell on Politics and the English Language
An extremely disturbing article called Super Slim Me about a reporter who dieted from size 12 to size 0 to see what it was like. She becomes depressed, obsessed with food, exhausted, the only date she has tells her she was annoying and boring because all she did was talk diets and food and was grumpy, the doctors tell her if she stays on the starvation diet she'll soon do permanent damage to her body... and all the women tell her she looks fantastic.
*amused snort* Chore Wars treats housework like D&D.
Bento
A side note on bentos - I'm not doing well on the "five items, five different colors," but at least I'm not eating completely beige food all the time either. It is becoming easier to fill the boxes now that I have leftovers all the time from the *other* boxes - last night I whipped together half a can of tomato soup (last dinner's leftovers), some cold chicken breast (leftovers from parents on Sunday), a portion of cherries (leftovers from groceries a week ago), and a chocolate pudding (because I have chocolate in the house always, why do you ask?) and ta-da! Last-second bento. (That needs a catchier title) It ain't pretty, but it's fast and cheap.
It seems to help me organize these sort of things if they're already divvied up in the refrigerator in small containers. Also, I'm discovering the amazing wasted space involved in using tupperware vs the compact snap-lid stuff from the Korean market
1/2 cup tupperware container - 3.25 inches in diameter with a tab that sticks out another .5 inch, 2 inches high, circular.
1/2 cup Bento container - 3.25 inch by 2.5 inch rectangle, 1.5 inches high.
I think over time I'm going to slowly replace all the tupperware, on the basis that it's going to be simply more space efficient to store in the cupboards and the refrigerator. Not to mention that once I've got the system really going, I can open up the fridge, reach into a basket, pull six different containers out, and really have bento-in-a-second!
This is a great deal like knowing me in real life, as I Do. Not. Shut. Up! But attempt to make up for it by being entertaining and/or occasionally thought-provoking.
Exercise
At least I've finally gotten enough sleep. Having accomplished everything on the mental checklist, I can finally relax. That got me in bed early, which meant I got out of bed early with the energy to do the Dancin' on the Treadmill II mix, although not enough to dance to it. I think the first "Dancing" mix is the only one that really inspires me to flail like an idiot, but this is at least brisk enough to keep the feet moving.
1 - Everybody Wants the Same Thing (Scissor Sisters)
2 - On & On & On (Abba)
3 - Birdhouse in Your Soul (They Might be Giants)
4 - Nickajack (River Road) I didn't even try to keep up with this beat; it's the fastest thing in my iPod.
5 - Goody Two Shoes (Adam Ant)
6 - Seven Seas of Rhye (Queen)
7 - Little Bitty Pretty One (Billy Gilman)
8 - I Can't Decide (Scissor Sisters)
26 minutes, 1.40 miles.
Links
I found this a bit tl;dr, but it was recommended by Slacktivist and I have a lot of language geeks and political wonks on the f-list. George Orwell on Politics and the English Language
An extremely disturbing article called Super Slim Me about a reporter who dieted from size 12 to size 0 to see what it was like. She becomes depressed, obsessed with food, exhausted, the only date she has tells her she was annoying and boring because all she did was talk diets and food and was grumpy, the doctors tell her if she stays on the starvation diet she'll soon do permanent damage to her body... and all the women tell her she looks fantastic.
*amused snort* Chore Wars treats housework like D&D.
Bento
A side note on bentos - I'm not doing well on the "five items, five different colors," but at least I'm not eating completely beige food all the time either. It is becoming easier to fill the boxes now that I have leftovers all the time from the *other* boxes - last night I whipped together half a can of tomato soup (last dinner's leftovers), some cold chicken breast (leftovers from parents on Sunday), a portion of cherries (leftovers from groceries a week ago), and a chocolate pudding (because I have chocolate in the house always, why do you ask?) and ta-da! Last-second bento. (That needs a catchier title) It ain't pretty, but it's fast and cheap.
It seems to help me organize these sort of things if they're already divvied up in the refrigerator in small containers. Also, I'm discovering the amazing wasted space involved in using tupperware vs the compact snap-lid stuff from the Korean market
1/2 cup tupperware container - 3.25 inches in diameter with a tab that sticks out another .5 inch, 2 inches high, circular.
1/2 cup Bento container - 3.25 inch by 2.5 inch rectangle, 1.5 inches high.
I think over time I'm going to slowly replace all the tupperware, on the basis that it's going to be simply more space efficient to store in the cupboards and the refrigerator. Not to mention that once I've got the system really going, I can open up the fridge, reach into a basket, pull six different containers out, and really have bento-in-a-second!
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Date: 2007-07-24 03:58 pm (UTC)...so until the chocolate, I was thinking this was a single dish; the chicken worked with the soup (with a mental assumption of chopping it up), the cherries were a bit odd, but I seriously don't think th pudding would make a very good combinatiob ;)
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Date: 2007-07-24 04:51 pm (UTC)Have just come home from Lotte Plaza with a bagload of rectangular containers in a variety of sizes. I'm learning that what I see one time won't be there the next, so I went a bit nuts. But now that I've got them in 4 different sizes, I may end up not just using them for refrigerator storage but (I'm going to test this in my insulated bag) not doing a lot of the fancy-fancy bento boxes after all - just grabbing x number of these containers and sticking them in my insulated bag.
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Date: 2007-07-24 05:26 pm (UTC)"Molto Benne Minute Bento?"
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Date: 2007-07-24 07:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-25 10:36 am (UTC)You can tell when a person has gone from healthy slimness to fragile unhealthiness from their face, their skin and yes their attitude. I'm glad that Europe got a bit of a clue for the runways. I wonder how long it will last.
They now have foldable tupperwear...
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Date: 2007-07-25 02:22 pm (UTC)Not to mention their hair. No shampoo will put back the bounce of nutrition.
They now have foldable tupperwear...
I wouldn't trust it not to leak. I've been up at Lotte Plaza in Ellicot City, buying a bunch of things called "proo." Not as pretty as full bento boxes, but mix-and-match rectangular containers that are watertight and microwaveable.