Monthly Archive for February, 2006

*gnaw*

I am hungry.

So very, very hungry.

I’m considering licking the sides of that bottle of hot sauce over there.

Why am I so hungry?

I am on a diet. The first real diet I have been on in I can’t tell you HOW long. This diet is designed by Curves. I signed up for a six-week class that meets on Thursday evenings. We get a book that outlines the diet, provides recipes, shopping lists, and a day by day meal plan.

I can eat 5 times a day. 6 if you count the optional Curves protein shake. This sounds like a lot. It is not.

Not the first week, anyway. The first week is a 1200 calorie a day, 45% protein, 30% carb, 25% fat diet. 3 meals plus snacks. After the first week, the caloric intake is bumped to 1600 a day, and you stay on that until you reach your goal, or your weight “plateaus,” in which case you move to stage 3, which isn’t really dictated on a meal by meal basis, but just an “eat health and maintain” in order to get your metabolism back up to speed. Then you can start the process all over again.

Today was day 1 for me. I was going to start last week, but with my mom being here, and some already planned meals out with out of town friends, I decided it wasn’t ideal to start a strict diet with all those temptations.

Then yesterday Kev made a delicious venison stew, served over brown rice. Healthy, but I wasn’t sure how to fit that into my little diet spreadsheet. So I officially started today.

I’ve eaten 4 of my 5 meals.

I am hungry.

Is it time for my snack yet?

now?

ugh. all WEEK with this. and tomorrow is valentine’s day! bleah!

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last snack of the day: a couple slices of deli turky and a string cheese.

result: STILL HUNGRY!

may need my chocolate protein/vitamin shake thingy before bed. stuff is not bad, really.

cache my ass **updated**

I had a big long post, about how I decided on a wedding dress and bridesmaid dresses…how my pastor at church rocks…my feelings on the winter olympics (including the phrase “the summer olympics can go suck a fish”), and my feelings on Michelle Kwan.

all

gone

for some reason, even though blogger SAID it was saving or caching, or whatever…it didn’t. There was no “recover post” for me. Nothin’ happened.

Damn.

I will leave you instead with a view of an almost done sock.

side view socksock

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jumping the tax refund gun slightly…But it went on sale, and I had a gift certificate.

My baby should arrive in 3-7 days.

My…my…precccccciousssssssss

been put off long enough

get yourself a clean pair of undies, because ESC ANSWERS YOUR QUESTIONS!!!!

sideshow bob asks:
Why are they called fingers when they don’t “fing”?

And do you think that public schools, in addition to teaching the theory of gravity, should give time to teaching intelligent falling?

because they needed to call them somefing.

I think that schools should start putting the word “theory” after EVERYTHING they teach. “class, today we’re going to to read ‘Moby Dick’ which is theorized to be written by Herman Melville, but which may have been also written by Jesus!” “Today we’re going to learn about sentence diagraming theory, but sentences can also be organized by God!”

see how much less controversial that is? MUCH better!

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Kennneth asks:
What are your thoughts on open relationships? Can people have deep love form more than one person at a time? Do you think humans are monogamous by nature?

I have no problem with open relationships. I’m not sure that I myself can handle one…but for those people out there that can have them…kudos! And I don’t believe on putting limitations on love - there is not one kind, so therefore, you can have love for more than one person. Just make sure that both of those people are willing to share you!

As for the nature of humans…I know just enough about human evolution to know that we are NOT monogamous by nature. that being said…using “it’s not in our nature, honey!” to explain why you just cheated on your wife. As human beings, we are also able to rise above our nature. we can choose to be monogamous, and we can choose NOT to be. It’s a conscious decision we make, not some animal instinct we can’t control.

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Vince asks:
So, my question to the Evils is now that you guys are soon to be properly wed and no longer living “in sin” as it were, when can we expect the little Evils?

OK, first:*THWACK!*

Christ, people, we just got ENGAGED!

But yeah, I was expecting this. We are NOT planning on having kids right away. For our entire relationship, we’ve been pretty much poor. Making crap money, or no money, and our lives have kind of rotated around scraping by every month. We don’t get to go out for fancy dinners, take exotic weekend getaways, spoil ourselves with indulgences. So really, it’s almost like we already HAVE kids…only without the dirty diapers and soccer practices.

When I graduate, and we (most likely) leave atlanta, it will hopefully be for better jobs and lower cost of living. I’m hoping then we can enjoy some of the things that many couples take for granted…until they have kids, that is. I WANT THAT OPPORTUNITY!

THEN we’ll have kids. OK?

and….*THWACK!!!*

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Sloth asks:
Who is your pick for Pwoject Wunway winner? Top three? I know mine!

How do you feel about censored Google?

I’m sorry…you must have me confused with someone who LIKE reality TV…especially TV about pampered stupid anorexic models.

and censored google SUCKS. Yahoo is sucking right now for putting outspoken Chinese activists in jail, and for threatening to charge for emails. And ISPs are sucking for trying to extort money from websites to give them preferential loading treatment.

the internet sucks right now.

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Nanner asks:
So, what are your feelings on Federal wiretapping?

I think the president is a royal fuckup, and that this wiretapping think is all a bunch of bull…

ummm…

I mean…I…think…that…wiretapping…is……neccessary….to…
protect….us….from…terr’ists…and…it’s great!

yeah…great!

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Gooch asks:
Are there any rules in place regarding what Kevin can and cannot do at his bachelor party?

He can’t have sex with anyone. Unless it’s with me. Orrrr….I’m in the room.

that’s all.

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Mikey asks:
What are your thoughts on the Hamas Palestinian gov’t? Any hot bridesmaids gonna be at your wedding? What kind of hors deourves will you have? Have you seen Wedding Crashers? Those last three questions are unrelated.

1. Fuck Hamas. SUCK IT, HAMAS!

2. ALL my bridesmaids are hot. Unfortunately for you, two of them are happily married, and one has been with her boyfriends for…9 years now? So…you’re SOL there.

3. I don’t know…cheesey things…stuff on skewers…cookies.

4. nope.

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The Scoot asks:
What do you think about using switch grass to make ethanol?

what of Ron Michaelson, the frustrated banker on the Ditech commercials?

Mmmmm…switch grass cocktails…

And didn’t I just read somewhere that he was interviewed on “inside the actor’s studio?” That is creepy and wrong. That guy annoys the fuck out of me. the actor’s studio guy annoys me, too.

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Anon asks:
Whose are your favorite blogs like as in top 3? When did you lose your virginity? What size shoe do you wear?

all conveniently linked on my sidebar:
1. Dooce
2. Mimi Smartypants
3. Erosblog

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Z asks:
Wedding Cake? chocolate? fondant? creme fraiche? armadillo cake á-la-Steel Magnolias?

Cake. With a selection of fruity sorbets on the side.

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Mark asks:
My girlfriend and I once tried a golden shower, she peed on me and I peed on her — we only tried it one time just to experiment and it was kind of erotic! I just wish we had done it in the bathtub rather than on the bed — the mattress still smells of urine! Any one else ever tried it?

Ummmmm….no.

no.

NO! IN THE BED????

at least pee in the SHOWER!

(true story - conversation in the shower the other night, right after kev got in to join me

Kev is facing away from me, towards the drain.

Me: *sniff sniff* do I smell…ASPARAGUS????

Kev: ummm…yeah.

Me: DAMMIT!

Now I must hide, because when he reads that I put that on my blog, he WILL kill me.)

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Tracy asks:
If you and Kev both were offered your dream jobs, but at opposite ends of the country, which one of you would end up making the sacrifice of not taking the job. Or would neither of you take the job offered to make it fair?

Neither of us wants to move that far away, so I think we’d probably reject both jobs. We want to stay EAST SIIIEEEEEDE!

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Dan asks:
1. Was Beaker a boy or a girl, and how do you know?
2. What’s the worst movie you ever saw in the theater?
3. If money was no object, what would you drive?
4. What of donuts?

1. A boy. And there are some things I’ve done in my life that I am not proud of, and will not speak of here. I will just tell you that foam tastes TERRIBLE, and faux hair is really difficult to get out one’s teeth.

2. Lawnmower man

3. me, DRIVE? I would have someone ELSE drive me around. In something obnoxiously sleek and expensive. But environmentally friendly.

4. Back in high school my best friend and I had this whole “philosophy of the donut” idea, brought on by sleep deprivation and too much caffeine. It was very silly, and only funny to the two of us…and I forget a lot of it, so I won’t repeat it here. I will only say…

I am pro-donut.

hand waving

Soon I will bring you the answers to your questions (still time to ask anything, though), horrifying tales of engulfing, suffocating satin and lace monsters at bridal stores, and other people’s mothers that make me glad my mother is my mom…

but I am stupid tired right now.

So instead, click the pic below and enjoy the pictures from our visit to the Georgia aquarium on sunday.

oceanvoyage tunnel

w00t!

ONE FOR THE THUMB, BABY!