Life's too short....

....to carefully fold fitted sheets into the same sized bundle as a flat sheet.

I'm taking J to the zoo with his cousins instead.

Dieting

I have never dieted before. Ever. I recently joined Ben in a diet experiment. My mom and her husband have had good success with the South Beach diet. So we tried it.

After the first week of phase one, Ben was down 3 pounds. I was up the same 3. So the second week, Ben stuck to the diet and I did what I wanted - which, since I was at a conference in Portland, involved pupusas, sopes, Lebanese food, beef chow mein, and curry over rice. (Note the preponderance of rice and cornmeal there)

He continued to lose, I lost what I had gained.

Conclusion: eliminating sugars was good. I'll keep that. And Ben is happy with what South Beach is doing for him, so he's gonna stick with it a while longer.

Apparently, though, I'm a carb-processing machine. Turns out that by choosing whole foods and grains and generally not eating huge portions (with the occasional exception for corn tortillas and chocolate cake), I feed my body in away that's healthier for it than a diet.

Funny how that works.

Grrrrrrrrr

So apparently Romney thinks that producing a film that mocks Muslims is something that deserves support as being part of "our values"? Grow up, quit using a man's death to further your own agenda, and focus on issues that are actually important...like where to get the money we need to keep ourselves afloat, how to deal with crop shortages and the food prices that will result, and how to keep QUALIFIED teachers in the classroom when all we do is complain about things they can't control. Also, early flight departures are wonderful. Late ones not so much. That's all.