I thought it'd be interesting to look at my blog from last January to see if I had any big ambitions for 2011 and how I did. It turns out that I actually wrote the words, "I just want to do an Ironman and that's all."
WHAT?!
I kept my New Year's resolution?!
I am totally on a roll.
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Friday, December 30, 2011
Calendar quagmire
Friday, December 30. As my husband so wisely asked before getting out of bed, "What is the point of today?"
It's not the last day of the year, when I'll go watch some football, cook some more goodies, and spend all night playing games with family. But it's also not the first day of the year, when I'll (over)enthusiastically get to work on my 2012 goals and the Whole30 challenge.
It feels a little too late to be just chilling out and reveling in the Christmas afterglow but a little too early to go into hyperdrive and start taking down the decorations.
What is the point of today?
It's not the last day of the year, when I'll go watch some football, cook some more goodies, and spend all night playing games with family. But it's also not the first day of the year, when I'll (over)enthusiastically get to work on my 2012 goals and the Whole30 challenge.
It feels a little too late to be just chilling out and reveling in the Christmas afterglow but a little too early to go into hyperdrive and start taking down the decorations.
What is the point of today?
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Factors of 10
I've been toying with an idea for my New Year's resolutions…or maybe I should think of them as a set of stretch goals for 2012, since they're pretty ambitious. See what you think:
Some of these seem rather…challenging all by themselves, let alone in combination, but I like the fancy round numbers. And I like challenges. Anybody want to try any of these with me? Walk 1,000 miles??
- Memorize 10,000 words (approximately the final 14 chapters of the book of Romans).
- Walk 1,000 miles (any running miles would count, too).
- Sell 100 items on eBay (yes, I probably do have that much junk, and if I run out, my parents have plenty that they want me to sell for them).
- Lose 10 more pounds (from my low of 169 in November, not from whatever nonsense I weigh now).
- Write 1 children's book and try to get it published.
Some of these seem rather…challenging all by themselves, let alone in combination, but I like the fancy round numbers. And I like challenges. Anybody want to try any of these with me? Walk 1,000 miles??
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Total and utter meltdown
My husband and I are playing cooking chicken. No, no one is cooking chicken. We're playing chicken to see which one of us breaks down and actually cooks something first (besides eggs).
Until I give up and admit defeat—and it will almost certainly be me who does—we've all been subsisting on the holiday leftovers. Mainly mashed potatoes, rolls, cookies, sugared pecans, a giant cookie, a popcorn cake, chocolate-covered pretzels, pie, and chocolate-covered macadamia nuts.
If I'm not back here to blog about my next Paleo challenge on January 1, it's because I'm dead.
Until I give up and admit defeat—and it will almost certainly be me who does—we've all been subsisting on the holiday leftovers. Mainly mashed potatoes, rolls, cookies, sugared pecans, a giant cookie, a popcorn cake, chocolate-covered pretzels, pie, and chocolate-covered macadamia nuts.
If I'm not back here to blog about my next Paleo challenge on January 1, it's because I'm dead.
Friday, December 23, 2011
End-of-year unraveling
I had the other half of the jicama for breakfast, cooked pretty much the same way. I had leftover chili for lunch. Now I have a problem. I'm starving again, and there are no more Paleo leftovers. Anything healthy I want to eat, I'm going to have to cook.
I must be backsliding, because a month ago, "If you want to eat, you have to cook" was pretty much my motto. Now it is, "But I don't waaaaaaaant to cook." There's too much other stuff to do, and the sugar addiction has taken hold—which is actually why I'm starving in the first place. I never got this hungry when I was good about eating Paleo.
Plus, I'm suddenly being flooded with work. Don't people realize it's December 23??
I must be backsliding, because a month ago, "If you want to eat, you have to cook" was pretty much my motto. Now it is, "But I don't waaaaaaaant to cook." There's too much other stuff to do, and the sugar addiction has taken hold—which is actually why I'm starving in the first place. I never got this hungry when I was good about eating Paleo.
Plus, I'm suddenly being flooded with work. Don't people realize it's December 23??
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Jicama hash
After reading about them somewhere, I bought a jicama. It looked like this:
It sat on my counter for six days. This morning, my husband referred to it as the "jicama of shame."
So this afternoon, even though I would have rather had chocolate-covered macadamias for lunch, I cut it open, peeled it (with some difficulty), and tried it. I had heard the taste described as "a cross between an apple and a potato," and that was pretty accurate. It also reminded me of a water chestnut.
The thing seemed too sweet to be treated like a potato, but I've been having good luck with hashes. I first fried some bacon in order to cook it in the grease. (I wanted this jicama to get the message loud and clear that it should be savory, not sweet.) When the bacon was done, I took it out and added to the pan about a quarter of a chopped onion, a clove of minced garlic, and half the jicama (grated), plus salt and pepper. When I had deemed that all more or less cooked, I cracked in an egg and stirred it around to coat everything and let that cook. Then I crumbled the bacon over it.
It was fairly yummy. I think I like it better than sweet potatoes, anyway. The true test will be what happens to the other half-jicama sitting in the fridge.
So this afternoon, even though I would have rather had chocolate-covered macadamias for lunch, I cut it open, peeled it (with some difficulty), and tried it. I had heard the taste described as "a cross between an apple and a potato," and that was pretty accurate. It also reminded me of a water chestnut.
The thing seemed too sweet to be treated like a potato, but I've been having good luck with hashes. I first fried some bacon in order to cook it in the grease. (I wanted this jicama to get the message loud and clear that it should be savory, not sweet.) When the bacon was done, I took it out and added to the pan about a quarter of a chopped onion, a clove of minced garlic, and half the jicama (grated), plus salt and pepper. When I had deemed that all more or less cooked, I cracked in an egg and stirred it around to coat everything and let that cook. Then I crumbled the bacon over it.
It was fairly yummy. I think I like it better than sweet potatoes, anyway. The true test will be what happens to the other half-jicama sitting in the fridge.
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