GOOD STUFF I've read recently:
Yes, running can make you high at the NYT.
The real cost of financial clutter at Unclutterer.
Be a great friend, DIY hair removal, whether you need to duck getting out of a helicopter: another great list from Not Martha.
YOGURT, CONT'D
So I've been exploring ways to eat plain yogurt since it has so much less sugar than flavored yogurts. Bananas and blueberries have been tasty, but when out of both I tried (don't gag) peanut butter and it's surprisingly good. I'd never buy peanut butter yogurt at a store, but it's yummy mixed in--small bits of smooth salty/sweet peanut butter alongside the tart cool yogurt.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Yogurt
After four years I've finally figured out how to have yogurt for breakfast with a minimal amount of waste and mess.
PROBLEM:
Individual yogurts = convenient BUT more expensive and lots of packaging and more difficult to transport as need 5 each week
Big yogurt tubs = messy to eat out of OR wasteful to put in disposable cups OR messy to wash out of cup every day (also requires trip to sink two floors down).
SOLUTION:
Big yogurt + small yogurt container to refill each day. I transfer a day's portion into the small container, eat it, spoon in the next day's portion, and put it back in the fridge. I periodically wash it out to prevent long term germ/old yogurt build up.
Now, if Old Home would only do something about their packaging. Seriously, it's horrendous. They should take a cue from competitor Schroeder, whose packaging makes me s w o o n.
The perfect accompaniment? Bittersweet granola from the Kitchn, via Not Martha. I am only allowed to eat it on yogurt otherwise it gets out of hand [i.e. into mouth].
PROBLEM:
Individual yogurts = convenient BUT more expensive and lots of packaging and more difficult to transport as need 5 each week
Big yogurt tubs = messy to eat out of OR wasteful to put in disposable cups OR messy to wash out of cup every day (also requires trip to sink two floors down).
SOLUTION:
Big yogurt + small yogurt container to refill each day. I transfer a day's portion into the small container, eat it, spoon in the next day's portion, and put it back in the fridge. I periodically wash it out to prevent long term germ/old yogurt build up.
Now, if Old Home would only do something about their packaging. Seriously, it's horrendous. They should take a cue from competitor Schroeder, whose packaging makes me s w o o n.
The perfect accompaniment? Bittersweet granola from the Kitchn, via Not Martha. I am only allowed to eat it on yogurt otherwise it gets out of hand [i.e. into mouth].
Monday, March 10, 2008
Excuses
Disclaimer: I'm not sure why I write so much about my thoughts about having children here. It is disproportionate to how much I really think about it. But you know how you have that friend who talk with about fashion and that other friend you consult on gardening? Well, besides talking with Husband (of course) and a few friends, this blog is where I go to with my thoughts about having children. Why, I don't know. But here it is.
In the last few years when I've imagined having children, I've had these ideas about what I thought I would want or need before trying to have kids.
At one point I swore I'd join a fancy gym and get in really good shape first. At another, I decided that I'd finally indulge and get really good bed linens (? I'm not sure quite what I was thinking here... because I'd be spending a lot of time in bed before and during being pregnant? I think I also had some idea that a child should be conceived amid proper linens, which probably tells you more about me than you wanted to know).
I realized lately with bemusement that these things that once sounded so important and far-away had now been achieved. Marathon running has put me in decent shape. Our bed is cloaked in pleasing and respectable linens. Despite these accomplishments, neither seems very important to me anymore as a precursor to children. Or maybe, it's that having these things doesn't make me feel any more ready.
But I do have one good excuse left... when we got married at 23 I said then that it was one thing to get married first, but quite another to be the first to have children. In the last year or two some family friends and distant friends have had kids, but still none of my good friends have taken the step.
As good as this excuse is, I'm not sure how many more years I can hang onto it, because among my good friends, very few are even married. But maybe I'll find that like the physical fitness and bed linens, this excuse doesn't matter either, in the end.
In the last few years when I've imagined having children, I've had these ideas about what I thought I would want or need before trying to have kids.
At one point I swore I'd join a fancy gym and get in really good shape first. At another, I decided that I'd finally indulge and get really good bed linens (? I'm not sure quite what I was thinking here... because I'd be spending a lot of time in bed before and during being pregnant? I think I also had some idea that a child should be conceived amid proper linens, which probably tells you more about me than you wanted to know).
I realized lately with bemusement that these things that once sounded so important and far-away had now been achieved. Marathon running has put me in decent shape. Our bed is cloaked in pleasing and respectable linens. Despite these accomplishments, neither seems very important to me anymore as a precursor to children. Or maybe, it's that having these things doesn't make me feel any more ready.
But I do have one good excuse left... when we got married at 23 I said then that it was one thing to get married first, but quite another to be the first to have children. In the last year or two some family friends and distant friends have had kids, but still none of my good friends have taken the step.
As good as this excuse is, I'm not sure how many more years I can hang onto it, because among my good friends, very few are even married. But maybe I'll find that like the physical fitness and bed linens, this excuse doesn't matter either, in the end.
There comes a time
in every March, when it becomes imperative that I spend a hour perusing the spa menu at the upcoming beach resort. When I must confirm that yes, yoga on the beach is offered twice a day, and yes, a mojito may be obtained by merely raising the flag on one's beach chair.
I am done with double-layer running tights and windburn cheeks. Done with shoveling! Done with shivering! Bring on spring and more immediately, spring break!
I am done with double-layer running tights and windburn cheeks. Done with shoveling! Done with shivering! Bring on spring and more immediately, spring break!
Monday, March 03, 2008
Monthly book post: February
February books
Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter by Phoebe Damrosch. A Kitchen Confidential of the front room, Damrosch reveals what it's like to serve at a four-star restaurant. More about restaurant industry secrets than the secrets of its clientele, the book will make you rethink the way you eat and order in restaurants.
Also read
The five love languages by Gary Chapman
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
Postcards from the Edge by Anderson Cooper
Still revisiting some of my favorite children's books--more Judy Blume, the Snipp, Snapp, and Snurr and Flicka, Dicka, and Ricka books by Maj Lindman, and Number the Stars by Lois Lowry.
Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter by Phoebe Damrosch. A Kitchen Confidential of the front room, Damrosch reveals what it's like to serve at a four-star restaurant. More about restaurant industry secrets than the secrets of its clientele, the book will make you rethink the way you eat and order in restaurants.
Also read
The five love languages by Gary Chapman
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
Postcards from the Edge by Anderson Cooper
Still revisiting some of my favorite children's books--more Judy Blume, the Snipp, Snapp, and Snurr and Flicka, Dicka, and Ricka books by Maj Lindman, and Number the Stars by Lois Lowry.
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