This weekend was tons of yardwork. I moved 4 cubic yards of woodchips and 2 cubic yards of loam (that's expensive dirt for my urban readers). I planted grass seed in the areas where I used the dirt... Then it was Pizza Time! Unfortunately I'm kinda burnt out on pizza since we have it every Friday, mostly because the kids will ALWAYS eat it without complaining. Unfortunately for my wife I won't ;-) Since I didn't want pizza I had a dilemma. Like a true overeater who is hiding his habit I can't just go grab a bucket of KFC and show my wife and kids what an addict I am (I don't really like KFC but you get the point). I remembered a place that had a mean spinach salad. Now spinach salad is deceptively bad for you even though it is a salad so I thought I could get away with it. I mean a salad of spinach drowned in bacon grease and hard boiled eggs... everybody salivate! Anyway the place I was thinking of was OUT OF BUSINESS! I had no time left and no where else in mind to go at that point so I just went nextdoor to D'Angelos and grabbed a large BLT with Cheese. Hey it had bacon and lettuce. That's almost the same. Well it was good and it didn't get me in trouble with my family.
I realized the other night (as I was drinking a beer) that I had had quite a bit of beer over the last week. I think I had 4 pints of beer on 3 different nights and probably a single beer or two on each of the other nights. This realization caused me to abstain on Friday night to give my liver and gut a rest... but I had a family wedding party to go to on Saturday so that was a 4 beer night once again. I need to take it easy this week.
The other a totally-NOT-poor-and-homless guy came up to me and begged me for money that he needed "to take the train". Not only was I sure - mostly from the way he asked - that this was a total lie, but something about this guy not being dressed in rags and clearly hurting made it downright scary. 10 years ago I would have said anything I wanted to this guy and not thought twice about it. But lately for some reason - especially when the beggars are younger kids or well dressed older folks - I wonder if I'm going to get my ass kicked and my wallet stolen if I turn these people down. I think this is probably not likely since the place the begging occurs is pretty public but still. Things change I guess.
Workout update for last week - 1 day. How useless am I? And the only reason for the one day that DID happen is that I found out my grandfather has advanced cancer and I couldn't concentrate at work without blowing off some steam. I NEED to do better this week.
In terms of eating, it wasn't a great week but it certainly wasn't one of the worst. I had a burrito for lunch one day. I had a pastry for breakfast another day. I had a couple of bagels for breakfast at various points - with creamcheese. Oh by the way Finagle a Bagle kicks the pants off of Breuggers in terms of straight up bagel texture and flavor. They have pretty kickass coffee too but they make it in a goddamn blast furnace. I have a permanent birth mark looking red spotch on my hand to proove it. Here's a story of my cheapness. Bagles at Finagle are $.93 or something. A bagle with cream cheese is $2.10-ish. "This is crazy!" I'm thinking. So I turn around and buy a small tub of cream cheese from the fridge and get the bagels plain. I also buy the aforementioned coffee which is also kinda pricey - a large is 2.10-ish. What's with these wierd prices 93 cents? I'm surprised coffee isn't like 2.13 or something. Anyway the whole deal: 2 bagles, cream cheese, coffee is like 7 dollars and change. Doesn't sound like my scheme worked. The cream cheese was 3.19 i think (there's those prices again). I used it for approximately 5 bagles over the course of the week. It was a pretty small tub (my local bagel shop's are larger and less money but that's not in the city). Plus I had to haul it around with me in order to take advantage of having it (or eat my bagles in work which I eventually smartened up to doing). Anyway I'm a loser who doesnt want to pay 2 bucks for a bagel with cream cheese but would gladly spent almost 8 dollars and inconvenience himself as well as probably eat more instead. Loser.
I also had a Starbucks DoubleShot on Ice which as far as I can tell is just an iced Americano with some sort of substance that looks like cocaine mixed in and some frothy milk on top. Since I don't know what's in the pixie dust, AND I like iced Americano, AND it's 30 cents more, I think I'll stick with the standard octane. Americanos, hot or iced, are sublime by the way. There's no reason to drink anything else at Starbucks unless you want one of their dessert type beveredges. Also I think you get the most caffeine ounce for ounce in a grande Americano which is great if you want to wolf down a bucket of Original Recipe KFC on the ride home from work. Just remember to keep some of those wet napkiny things in the center console so your drumstick greasy ass hands dont result in a tragic accident. On second thought maybe you should just eat that chicken at the rest stop.
Go be big in Japan,
Wontpower
Sunday, June 1, 2008
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