I was watching the latest episode of Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution on Hulu this morning. The show continues to tell me things I already know about how badly Americans eat and how badly we feed our youth, but in a way that's genuinely moving. In any case, the commercials were... angering. They were clearly geared at people who are watching this ( Read more... )

We got upwards of ten inches of snow Friday night into Saturday. It didn't interfere with our Friday night run (started late), but as of this writing our neighborhood still hasn't been plowed. Micah and I spent an hour or so this afternoon shoveling snow and putting down icy-melt (okay, he did most of the shoveling), and when we were done, he ( Read more... )

This was the plan: Drink heavily, purchase tickets to see New Moon, and spend the entire length of the movie mocking it. We even snuck in some spiked sodas to prevent anything disasterous like sobering up partway through. Someone suggested that we play a drinking game, in which you take a drink every time someone makes an inappropriate facial ( Read more... )

Where Does Bacon Come From? Many of you are friends with sairisse and will already have seen this, but I thought it might be of interest to those of you who don't. She's been kind enough to unlock the entry for your benefit, so make with the clicky.

I'm a sassy girl, I'm a pop machine.
--Ontogeny, Jason Webley

Birthday festivities began around 12:15 a.m. when it came up in conversation that it was my birthday. An impromptu chorus of Happy Birthday was sung, and when I jokingly demanded my cake, baronmind took off like a shot. Which frightened me. He returned shortly thereafter with a ( giant sugar cookie )

but something in baronmind's last post made me think of this, and now I need to get it off my chest.

Pizza Pie. Pizza, freaking pieIf the name of your business has the word "Pizza" in it, and I call to order a "pie," that means I want a pizza. So go hire somebody from NJ or NY or the gods damned North End who knows how to make one, and then deliver it ( Read more... )

Since leaving work on Monday afternoon I've had two cups of tea, both Adiago green teas of different types. The first was cocomint green on Christmas morning, and then a cup of kukicha yesterday morning. I also had a sip of dewy cherry herbal tea (from my stocking), which I made for baronmind using one of the tea bags that also came with my Tea Snob Kit ( Read more... )

When buying my supply of granola for the next week or two, I picked up a bunch of Nature Valley granola bars. I usually get Kashi, but money's tight this month, what with the holidays and all, and Nature Valley is generally cheaper and--in this particular case--on sale (and therefore a lot cheaper). Each serving is about half a point more (on ( Read more... )

SparkPeople just sent me an email linking to this article about the dangers of HFCS. It's an interesting article and well worth the read--especially if you're not already aware of how freakishly all-pervasive HFCS is in processed foods, and haven't already begun to weed it out of your diet ( Read more... )

Hannah and I made brownies. I like brownies.