hungry

Stupid LID. Here's what I ate today:

Breakfast: 1 thick slice of pork roast, a pear, cup of tea (black)
Lunch: 3/4 C cooked pasta (Barilla rotini), about 6 oz roast chicken, dressed with olive oil, a splash of vinegar, Kosher salt, pepper; piece of astonishing chocolate cake (scraped off the frosting), cup of coffee with coconut milk and 1 packet Splenda
Dinner: romaine lettuce, 1 medium roma tomato, a chunk of cucumber, 2 thinner slices of pork roast
Snack: cup of tea, Gala apple, handful of pecans

I am STARVING!
I ate way too many carbs today, and probably not enough fat. I will go take my last before-bed supplements with yet another glass of water (there have been about 6 or 7 12 oz glasses already today) and go to bed, hungry.

Grrrrrr.

I'm not even eating that many carbs, it's just that I'm eating more than I'm used to, and I'm not getting enough fat. I can't up the protein any more, either, as then I run into the upper restrictions on the LID.

Other than being hungry all day, I got stuff done. Finally found a single pair of pants that fits DS1, now I have to call around to the other shops and see if anyone has anymore, perhaps I will just order some online, that would be easier, yes? Takes too long, though.

I bought some foam cubes and cylinders for combination seating/foot rests/coffee table duty in the family room and they are awesome. I also got slipcovers but I don't like them, the colors were too drab, so back they go! (That'll save us like $200, whew!)

In the late afternoon, Mom and I trekked up to Trader Joe's and then to Sam's, and laid in the provisions for the week. I'm tempted to make Chicken Masala tomorrow, but it's so much freakin' work, especially as I have to do the tomatoes fresh. But it would be soooo good after all the "plain food" I've been doing.

On the upside, I'm loving all the salads I'm eating with just vinegar and oil, salt and pepper. Yum! And so cheap, and no soybean oil to worry about, either. I think I will be sticking with them forever, now. Hee!

Found DD some great tights at Target, and little red socks with fur cuffs at the ankle that totally match her elf dress that my sister got her last year... she will look so adorable, I can't bear it. She needs black shoes, though.

DH took both boys for a haircut yesterday, and now DS2 looks impossibly grown up. For a 3-year-old he is also impossibly well-spoken. "I enjoy playing ball with you, Daddy," he told DH this afternoon.(!!!) Mom made him a hat and he was wearing it in the house for a while while rough-housing with the new cubes & cylinders. Suddenly he stopped, pulled it off, and announced, "It's too hot in that thing!" and flung it over to the desk. It was just so cute.

Tomorrow bodes more running around in the Great Search for Pants. If I were not such an idiot so distracted by my medical problems, I would have handled all this winter-clothes-shopping business back in August like most sensible parents. However, children do grow in 3 months' time, and I often say to myself, well, if it fits "with room" in August, it might "just fit" in November when they really need it, so there's no harm in waiting, is there? Well, yeah, there is, because in November, no one has any of the school uniform clothes left or even out if they do have them left.

At least DD is set, and DS2 is set as well, once everything comes out of the laundry. And the weather has been back up in the mid-to-high 80s again, so the whole long pants requirement is seeming less dire, anyway. At least for another day or so. Today it was cloudy and rainy and you'd think it'd be cold, but it wasn't; I'm sure it was well into the 70s.

It's quarter past 11 and the air conditioner just kicked on. OK? So I'm not so bad for not having their colder-weather clothes all ready to go. Of course, by morning, the interior temp here will be about 71 degrees (1 degree above where we have the heat thermostat set), and I will be freezing!

Saw the most beautiful coat in the Gap today, but too spendy for me to do anything but look at it and think, Wow!:



On the mannequin, they left off the belt, which is better -- there is no reason to disturb the clean line with that silly waist-cinching. I like the black-and-white tweedy effect, too. Goes with everything. Plus it had a nice weight, not too heavy, which means it could actually work for here in AZ. IOW, if that puppy goes on sale, I may just buy it. Hee!

I did order this from ColdWater Creek to wear with my black drapey pants to the Pops Concert in November (provided I am not too radioactive to attend):



Won't that be pretty? I hope it fits.