Just two of my favorite things

I thought a nice way to go into the three-day weekend would be to share some of the things I enjoy the most. I have mentioned before that I am overweight, much of which I gained after my daughter turned 6 months old. By the time she was 8 months old last August I was truly huge. The constant stress and complete lack of exercise contributed much to this. But there is also my eating habits: I love chocolate. If I don't literally talk myself out of it, I'll eat it every single day, which is what I was doing at one point.

But these days I am more in control, thanks in part to the most delicious yogurt in the universe: chocolate flavor Brown Cow Cream Top. I can have one or two of these a day because they are a healthy, nutritious snack and satisfy my need for chocolate. The cream top part of it is just an added benefit. (Click here for nutritional information)

Next to the yogurt is a Vosges Mo's Bacon Bar. That's right. Chocolate and bacon together in a delicious bar. Since it costs $7.50 and it is a gourmet chocolate I can have one every couple of months and be content. And I actually nibble on it instead of inhaling it as I used to do with my previous favorite bars, a milk chocolate 365 Whole Foods bar and a Joseph Schmidt Belgian milk chocolate bar (which isn't sold anywhere any more, I don't know why.) It is an amazing marriage of sweet and salty. It is perfect. Sadly, I've had my quota for this month. Maybe I'll give myself one for father's day... is that cheating?

What do you enjoy?

High school all over again...

For about a month now I have been reading a few blogs daily and following the same bloggers on twitter, when the damn thing is not down. So far what I have learned is that there are cliques. There are the popular girls, the less popular but more intelligent girls, the fuck the world girls, and so on and so forth. Even on twitter they talk to each other but completely ignore anyone else... and it is not that I want "in." I just hate the hypocrisy of it all. The internet is supposed to be this endlessly open and democratic space that welcomes us all. Bullshit. If people gang up on someone or decide to collectively ignore someone there is nothing you can do about it. And I am not saying that this is happening to me or anything like that. I don't think I am on anyone's radar yet. It is just what I have observed in the very short time that I have been blogging and generally paying attention to it all. It's sad. I had hoped for something else but I am not sure that it is out there. I will keep writing because I love it but I won't do it in the hopes of making friends or getting to know interesting people. I will do it for me.

I am such an idiot!

This whole time, probably for a year or so, I have been telling people, believing actually, that I was 37 and would be turning 38 in July. Not so. I just realized I am now 36 and will turn 37 in July, not 38. Now you might be thinking that there is no real difference and c'mon, who the hell cares, right? Wrong, people, wrong! It makes a huge difference. It means that I'm just a little bit farther from 40 than I thought. It means that I still could possibly have a second kid. Since I am fifty lbs overweight it would be quite irresponsible for me to try now, but since I am not turning 38 I still have time to get back in shape, get healthy and give it a try. This is purely fantasy at the moment but I can't tell you how happy it makes me to dream about it...