My 'diet' dinner consisted of uber-yummy stirfry - shrimp, bell pepper, mushrooms, broccolini, and cashews in a Thai-seasonings, curry powder, and peanut butter sauce- cooked for me by my sweet Adam.  We ate it without rice because we're doing Phase 1 of the South Beach Diet, but it was still delicious.  Tomorrow we will eat  frittata with ( Read more... )

My blood sugar is better on the SB diet, except when I fail to eat a snack before dinner.  Silly Jen.  Sweet Adam cooked yummy salmon and broccolini, which probably is spelled wrong, for dinner.  It took me 37 years to learn to spell broccoli, which is funny because my spelling generally is very gud ( Read more... )

Started South Beach Diet today.  Technically, I started last week, but I didn't want to subject my houseguest to my dietary restrictions, so I skipped it this weekend.  Blood sugar (hypoglycemia) tends to be much more stable on the SBD.  I ordered two new cookbooks, so it will be fun to try new recipes.  Last time I tried this diet, we really ( Read more... )

I'm feeling much better about my class for university.  After the class schedule came out, the first two people who told me they were enrolled in my class (both of whom are awesome) made me a bit nervous because I was then afraid of teaching a beginner/intermediate class on a topic that is relatively new to me and having it be full of costuming ( Read more... )

So I'm working on a Viking Women's Clothes 101 class, but am thinking of adding ":CSI" to the title.  There was some incredible sleuthing that these researchers did in putting together a Viking woman's outfit out of tiny bits of thousand year old fabric, the metal bits in the graves, and the notes from the archaeologists in 1873 who dug everything ( Read more... )