Look What The Nice Man in the Plow Left Me This Morning……………..
Both Cars Plowed In BIG TIME
Snowmaggedon – Caption This
February 10th, 2010
Shovelling the Roof during Snowmageddon 2010
- Shovelling the Roof
Caption these………………………..
A few suggestions, if I may:
- Why oh why did I not call the roofer last week??? (FYI – our roof had an ice dam and leaked last month when it snowed)
- Winter Wonderland MY ASS!
- I wonder if I could pull a Brian and jump off the roof after shovelling?
- I SO better lose some weight this week after all this roof shovelling!!!
- Pingback to my future blog post entitled “How I Got Pneumonia”
WW Update – Week 35 (and a Crumbs review!)
February 8th, 2010
Pounds lost in Week 35: -2.2 pound
Total weight lost so far : 23.8 pounds
OK, I’m so with my dear friend Chris when I say WTF? Ok, yes – I went out for Valentine’s Day dinner a bit early this weekend. Yes, we had dessert. Yes, we visited Crumbs bakery afterwards and sampled. But, I did not eat 2.2 pounds of fat this weekend. Oh, did I mention it is that horrible time of the month? Can PMS add 2.2 pounds to my ass? I guess we’ll find out next Monday. More likely it was this:
Cupcakes from Crumbs
Crumbs, one of the more famous New York City bakeries, just opened a location not far from me. Like any good food blog reader, I had to check it out and do some tasting. I purchased 5 cupcakes and 1 cookie to the tune of $22. Yes, $22. And I totally regret it. 1) the cupcakes were nothing special. 2) I gained 2.2 pounds this week. We tried the coconut, the caramel apple, the cappuccino, the tiramisu and the red velvet cupcakes. The coconut cupcake was a yellow cake with plain white frosting and coconut on top. You could barely taste the coconut. The caramel apple was the best of the 5. The cake was very spicy, there was an apple pie-like filling in the middle, and it was drizzled with caramel. I’m not a frosting person, but the frosting on the cappuccino was great. Like drinking some sugar with your coffee. The tiramisu was ok. It tasted like tiramisu minus the strong coffee flavor. The red velvet, by far, was the most disappointing. The cake itself was good, however, the frosting was plain and white. Cardinal sin #1 on a red velvet cake is too leave off the cream cheese icing. And thus ended my disappointment….well almost…..right until I got on the scale today. Needless to say, I’m done with Crumbs. I have made my first and last visit there. $22 worth of mediocre cupcakes was SO NOT worth the 2.2 pounds. Were was Kate Moss when I needed her???
Crappy Desserts
January 14th, 2010
OK Weight Watchers – listen up and listen good: When you are on a diet weight management plan all you want is dessert (ok – well that maybe that is just me). It doesn’t have to be decadent, but it does have to taste good. No one wants to eat dessert that looks like animal terd or tastes like it.
Yesterday, I made 2 Weight Watcher cookie recipes. One went straight in the garbage after the first batch finished baking (note to readers – that would be the angel food cake mix and jelly recipe given to me by my WW leader – if you get it – RUN, as fast as you can away from it!). The second cookie I made was this chocolate cookie. I printed my recipe directly from the WW website, so I know this is definitely one of theirs. The saving grace of this cookie was the fact that I used a very deep, very expensive cocoa. Otherwise it tasted like a weak ass, wannabe brownie. Last night, probably because I was SOridiculously in need of something sweet, I thought they tasted AWESOME. Today – not so much. I now understand why Cheezwaster took one bite and threw the rest of the cookie in the garbage. Is there no one at Weight Watchers that can design a dessert recipe that actually tastes like dessert? Previously, I had also made a “muffin” recipe from their cookbook, which 1) was not sweet at all and 2) was nothing like a muffin (more like a biscuit). Another disappointment. I think from now on, I’m just going to stop wasting ingredients in my pantry and just save points and go for the good/real stuff. A small piece of REAL brownie would satify me a million times more than the whole batch of chocolate cookies I made yesterday. Another Lesson Learned.
Holiday Stress
December 22nd, 2009
Merry Christmas!
I apologize for the lack of posts this past week. I’m suffering from full on holiday stress. While my shopping was pretty much done a long time ago, I just haven’t had time to do wrapping, cleaning, etc. lately. And my company is coming TOMORROW (well today actually since I’ve already passed the midnight mark). At least the bathroom & guest room are clean and the gifts for Xmas eve have been wrapped. Actually, I’ve wrapped all of the gifts with the exception of the kids’ gifts. I’m dreading undoing all of the little wires, screws and tape, not to mention other ridiculous packing tricks to prevent stealing. My poor fingers are already in a state of shock between the paper cuts, the dry winter skin and the cracks. I’m about to take stock in whatever company makes the best lotion for sandpaper like skin. Needless to say, the posts will again be slow this week. So, in case I don’t make it back to the world of Holiday Sanity before Christmas Day – Have a Wonderful Christmas and hopefully I’ll be back in time, fully destressed, to wish you a Joyous New Year!
