31 October 2013

_____Breakfast: We went to IHOP and I had

• 2 eggs over medium
• sirloin tips
• hash browns
• 2 buttermilk pancakes
• coffee
• iced water

________Lunch: I made

• homemade bread
• homemade beef stew and we had
  • cold water
  • dark chocolate

               Snack: I donated at a Red Cross blood drive and afterwards, had some canned orange juice and cookies
:
_______Dinner: Healthy Choice chicken, noodles, cooked tomatoes, a chunk of the home made bread and cold water

Pre-Bed Snack:  a slice of home made bread and honey

AM  103  PM  148  U0 V0

30 October 2013

_____Breakfast: Jimmy Dean sausage, egg and potatoe breakfast bowl and coffee
________Lunch: pizza at work and four donuts over the course of the day
_______Dinner: Healthy Choice Meatloaf dinner and later, strawberry jam on a slice of sour dough bread
Pre-Bed Snack: gin-n-tonic


U2 V0  (left ankle cramped)

30 October 2013 - Day 0

I had a nightmare that wasn't,on the face of it, soo horrible. I dreamed I was in a room with a number of men and someone told me "you'll need to learn German". I  said "fine". Then Kathie said "wake up, you made a strange sound". I said "oh, thanks, I'm fine." Then it occurred to me that I was not fine and that I would have died of a heart attack if she had not woke me up." Later, I told her to wake me up every time she heard me make a strange noise. I did not tell her the content and meaning of the dream!

I resolved to make today the first day of my new life and to save both of us. I "heard" a voice in my head say  I would live for another twelve years.  I had better exercise  and life better to make this prophecy come true...

29 October 2013

_____Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee
________Lunch: can of Healthy Choice chicken noodle soup and later, at home, a minute steak sandwich
_______Dinner: Healthy Choice chicken, tomatoe and noodle meal
Pre-Bed Snack: gin-n-tonic and peanuts

AM:  97  PM  105  U1  V0

28 October 2013

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

 

Snack: a small amount of dark chocolate and some chips

 

Lunch: a can of Healthy Choice chicken noodle soup, a 1.5 oz bag of Cheeze-Its and a can of Pepsi Zero.

 

Snack:

 

Dinner:

27 October 2013

_____Breakfast: at the same place as yesterday but with a pancake, link sausage, peanut butter and grape jelly on a biscuit and coffee

________Lunch: at the Hutchinson Kansas "Olive Garden" for salad, speghetie with meat sauce and meatballs, split a nice chocolate cake (a slice) with Kathie and some "Diet Coke"

_______Dinner: Healthy Choice Meatloa dinner and a beer

26 October 2013

Breakfast: at the McPherson Holiday Inn dining room for scrambled eggs, well cooked bacon, SOS on a biscuit, orange juice and coffee

Lunch: at a quick food place called "Freddies" and I had:

• steak burger
• fries
• medium "Diet Pepsi"
• a "custard with chocolate sauce"

One of the workers went by and I asked "do we have to go to the counter to get the custard". She said "yes" and then probably figured that since I was on the inside, it would be hard for me to get to the counter. She said "I'll get it for you".

It is a heck of a note when some of the best service I've gotten at a restaurant is from someone who isn't paid to provide waitress service. There are a number of sit down places "back home" who could learn serious lessons from this young woman...

Dinner: Since we were at the Kansas Lions State Council meeting in McPherson, our Saturday evening meal was catered by Montana Mikes. This is a buffet and I had my usual:

• roast beef
• mashed potatoes
• mixed boiled broccoli florets and carrots
• a roll with butter
• lots of that seductive gravy
• cold water and
• apple crisp for desert

After dinner, several of us went to the Montana Mikes bar and I had two bottles of Corona.

_____"Babylon 5: Meditations on the Abyss (#5.14)" (1998)

______Londo Mollari: "Vir, we are not biologically equipped to handle fast food." 
______Vir Cotto: "I know. I know. But it tastes so great going down. Coming up again, it's not so terrific, but-"

As anticipated, I was sick as a dog about an hour and a half after going to bed. It was probably the fat in the gravy and the fatty meat, made worst by the two beers aftger dinner.

I barfed several times and went back to bed. Then, I had to get up and garble to try getting the acid out of my throat. I also ate four Tums.

I went back to  bed and had to get up as I  was coughing up pheum. I stood over the hotel room sink coughing up chunks of yellow and white crap and didn't go back to bed until much later than I wanted to!

This Saturday night meal has been a regular feature twice a year for years and I have blown chunks afterwards since 2004 or 2005. (I suspect diabetes has severely damaged my stomach.) The next time I queue up, I'll skip the gravy and maybe have a very small amount of meat - a taste really!

I'll have to discuss all of this with  my family MD again. Maybe I've finally gotten cause to see the Endocrinology MD (which we don't have in town...)

U2 V1

This was a night were my usual motto of "micturition ergo sum" had to be supplemented with "vomito ergo sum".

"micturition ergo sum"

"v"

25 October 2013

Breakfast: oatmeal and three banannas and coffee

 

Lunch: a homemade mix of boiled boneless skinned chicken, a McDonald's breakfast potatoe slab (which dissolved in the water the chicken was boiled in), an extra half potatoe and way too much onion flakes boiled with the rest of a can of Pepsi Zero.

24 October 2013

Breakfast: McDonald's "Big Breakfast"

• scrambled eggs
• sausage disk
• bisquit with grape jelly
• coffee and
• iced water

Lunch: We went to "Tres Amigos" and I have a buretto, taco, rice and beans and an order of Flan for desert; I washed it down with two glasses of "Diet Pepsi"

 

Snack; ice creamms on a stick dipped in dark chocolate

 

Dinner: a Healthy Choice Meatloaf Dinner and iced water. After checking my blood sugar, I had a gin-n-tonic and several potatoe chips

 

AM  92   PM 132  U2  V0

23 October 2013

_____Breakfast: creamme of wheat, 2 slices sour dough bread and cofffee

________Lunch: At DCCC,meat soup, potatoes and desert and glass "Diet Pepsi"
 
_______Dinner: chicken and potatoe fried in my favourite cast iron fry pan

Pre-Bed Snack: gin-n-tonic

22 October 2013

Breakfast: a bacon sandwich and coffee

 

Snack: a small chunk of dark chocolate

 

Lunch: tuna fish sandwich and cup of coffee

 

Snack: an ice creamme bar with dark chocolate coating

 

Dinner: Marie Callender's Fettuccini with Chicken and Broccoli

 

Being at work and hungry, several little Oreos...

 

AM 81 PM 132  U1 V1

 

 

 

21 October 2013

Breakfast: cherios and a bananna and coffee

 

Lunch: two brats, some chips, cold water and a cup of coffee

 

Snack: a couple of chunks of dark chocolate and a teaspoon or two of that homemade cheese (the rest of which I washed down the disposal) and yet another ½ cup of bad coffee )

 

Snack: a bag of microwave popcorn and a glass of iced water...

 

Dinner: a Healthy Choice "Classic Meat Loaf" dinner and iced water

 

There are only  nights till Holloween

 

It is so nice to not be in a place with (tropical cyclones, typhoons or hurricanes)

 

 

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20 October 2013

Breakfast: two scrambled eggs, a ¼ of the new coffee cake (the last of this coffee cake actually) and coffee

 

Lunch: a Rubean sandwich, bowl of creamme of chicken soup and bottle of Diet Pepsi

 

Snack: small chunk of dark chocolate

 

Dinner: Marie Callende4r's Swedish Meatballs, some little Oreos and iced water

 

U1  V0

19 October 2013

Breakfast: Kathie's Big Breakfast with:

• scrambled eggs
• bacon (most in a sandwich)
• new version of coffee cake as the Serra Lee Cinammon Coffee Cake is no longer being made; the new stuff is OK but not a true replacement
• coffee and
• cold water

Lunch; went to Applebys and

• split an order of deep fat fried onions
• had a steak with sauteed onions over chunks of potatoes
• "Diet Pepsi" and
• definitely no desert!

Snack: a couple of chunks of dark chocolate

 

Dinner: Healthy Choice Chicken Pesto Alfredo and iced water

 

Desert: several little Oreos (probably bad for me but I am still hungry...)

 

U1  V0

 

 micturition ergo sum

18 October 2013

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Snack: a couple of little chunks of the fudgeI made a couple of days ago.

Lunch: a minute steak sandwich

Dinner: We went to "Prime on the Nine" and I had:

• salad with French Dorthy Lynch dressing
• 12 oz sirloin
• mashed potatoes
• fancy chocolate cake
• two glasses of "Diet Pepsi"

 Main Course

 Same pre-dining view of steak, broccoli and mashed potatoe

Desert

The food was excellent, the service  excellent and the view unparalleled in town. Every time we go here, we always ask for a table with a nice view. I'm amazed that many people do not seem to care about the view. It this is the case, there are other steak houses in town that have fine food, adequate service and absolutely no view!

The view of the putting green

U0 V0

17 October 2013

---------- Forwarded message ----------

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Snack: a couple of little chunks of the fudgeI made a couple of days ago.

Lunch: I stewed some left over steak and cooked it with sliced potatoes and baby carrots and a can of Pepsi Zero.  (I know that I should not drink "diet" but there is a limit to the amount of cold water I can drink!)

Dinner:  Healthy Choice Meatloaf and iced water

AM 125  PM 165  U1  V0

16 October 2013

Breakfast: cherios and coffee

 

Snack: a piece of the home made fudge I brought in.

 

Lunch: a sandwich of minute steak between two slices of sour dough bread and cold water

 

Dinner: Healthy Choick chicken and noodle and a peanut butter and honey sandiwch on a single slice of sour dough bread.

 

Thus endith the 16th day of the Government Shutdown. (Thanks a lot House.)

15 October 2013

Breakfast: Burger King SOS and coffee

Lunch: various items from a local Oriential place and "Diet Pepsi"

Snack: a couple of little chunks of dark chocolate

Dinner: Healthy Choice Meatloaf Dinner and cold water

AM: 99  PM  121  U1 V0

test of blogging

Tests of blogging from the new address...

14 October 2013

Breakfast: spoon sized shredded wheat and coffee

Lunch: ramon with chicken and cold water

Dinner: steak, baked potatoe, broccoli, beer

Snack: I made a "Depth Charge"/"Boilermaker" by putting a plastic shot
glass of whiskey into a large glass of beer (just over a bottle of
LandShark). The shot glass did not drop to the bottom of the beer glass.
Instead, it tilted over on it's side and spilled the "Maker's Mark" out.
I chugged this and it was LandShark and then a shot of Marker's Mark. It
was a waste of two types of booze! I finished the 2nd bottle of beer.
When I went to bed, I was fairly tipsy...

13 October 2013

Breakfast: fried bacon in a sandwich, two eggs "boiled" in bacon fat, and coffee

 

Lunch: asparagus, baked chicken with dressing and cold water. Later, I had a ½ cup of coffee and went to a local ice creamme place for an inferior tasting small vanilla ice creamme cone with vanilla "ice creamme" dipped in chocolate. It was not worth the $2.17 I paid for it; I paid 18¢ in state, county and city sales tax and once again I wonder: what am I getting for this money???

 

I felt ill after eatting this "ice creamme" so I know what I got. I got ill!

 

Dinner: Hungry-Man Boneless Fried Chicken, mashed potatoes, corn and brownie and iced water

 

This is day 13 of the Republician shutdown of the government and the 10th day I have worked without pay.

 

U0 V0

Sunday test

Test to see which blogs can receive and post email.

12 October 2013

Breakfast: Kathie's Big Breakfast of:

• scrambled eggs
• bacon (most of it in a sandwich)\
• Serri Lee Coffee cake
• coffee

Lunch: about a half of a double hamberger pizza and a bottle of Diet Pepsi

 

Dinner: Healthy Choice Chicken Pesto Alfredo, 6 little Oreos and iced water

 

U0 V0

 

Thanks be to the Republician Shutdown of the Fed Gov, we didn't go out to breakfast at IHOP or Inn Pancake House as we normally would on a Saturday. It was rather nice having fast service from a good waiter (me) and knowing how the food was prepared!

 

This was also the 9th day this month that I have had to work for free!Thanks so very bloody much, Congress!

11 October 2013

Breakfast: cherios and coffee

 

Lunch: bowl of chicken noodle soup and balona sandwich on sour dough bread and a bottle of Diet Pepsi.

 

Snack: small piece of cake and a cup of coffee

 

Dinner: a small Jimmy Johns sandwich and then Healthy Choice Chicken Margherita and iced water and a chunk of dark chocolate.

 

 

This is day 11 of the House reminding me of what it was like to have very little income. Thanks ever so much for "letting" me work eight (8) days without pay.

 

On the "plus" side, we'll be having breakfast at home tomorrow and won't have to decide whether to go to IHOP or the Inn Pancake House for our weekly breakfast out...

10 October 2013

Breakfast: creamme of wheat, two slices of sour dough toast and coffee

 

Lunch: at Mike Casey's for the October Lions Club board of directors meeting where I had:

• steak sandwich
• french fries
• two and a half glasses of "Diet Pepsi"

The service was a bit spotty but the food was "spot on".

 

Snack: a small amount of chocolate ice creamme

 

Dinner:  A Marie Callender's Chicken Fried Chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, a glass of iced water and a small piece of dark chocolate.

 

 It had to have been the chocolate since it could not possibly have been the mashed potatoes and gravy!

 

 

AM 101  PM  157  U1  V0 

9 October 2013 (day 9 of the House's Vacation From Reality)

Breakfast: scrambled eggs with sauteed onion flakes and chunks of summer sausage and coffee

 

Lunch: at the DCCC for a fancy sandwich, potatoes, cottage cheese, chocolate cake and vanilla ice creamme and a glass of "Diet Pepsi"

 

Snack: piece of dark chocolate and a coffee cup of a chicken stew a fellow at work asked me to try and a can of Pepsi Zero; it was good...

 

Dinner: Healthy Choice meatloaf and iced water and then a couple of chocolate chip cookies a bit later.

 

 

8 October 2013

Breakfast: spoon sized shredded wheat and coffee

Snack: two chocolate chip cookies

Lunch:  homemade soup (a rouet) with chopped up summer sausage

Snack: open face hamburger broiled in the oven

Dinner: The rest of the homemade potatoe soup with sliced Tillamock Extra Sharp cheddar cheese.

 I forgot to take my pills until about 4 minutes before I had to text my blood. It was not as bad as it coudl have been, I suppose...

AM 101  PM 156 U0  V0

7 October 2013

Breakfast: McDonald's for the big breakfast of scrambled eggs, sausage diskette, potatoe thingee with grape jelly and coffee

 

Lunch: tuna sandwich and coffee

 

Dinner: salmon, rice pilof, "baby" carrots and a bottle of LandShark

 

U 1

34th Anniversary Celebration (6 October 2013)

_____Breakfast: At the Hampton Inn in Dodge City and had:

• a waffle
• bacon
• small amount of oatmeal
• coffee 
• orange juice 

________Lunch: We went to a fairly new place called "Prime on the Nine"(i.e. Prime Rib at a restaurant at the city owned golf course).  The food was truly outstanding and the service excellent!

potatoe/broccoli soup

This is sort of like a "Michigan Salad", in that iit id a chunk of lettuce, with dressing on the side. There was a small tomatoe sliced in half and two cucumber slices.

The Main Course! A very flavourable and outstanding 8 oz fillet, mashed potatoes broccoli

Our waitress asked if I wanted steak sauce I said "no, that would be a desecration of the steak". After eating this steak, this believe was confirmed!

I told our waitress that it probably seemed strange for someone to take pictures of the food but it looked so beautiful. She said she'd seen a number of other customers take out their cell phones and photograph their meals.

  _______Dinner:  We were going to have salmon, rice pilaf and boiled carrots but will too full. So, I had boiled spaghetti noodles with catchup and then the rest of the homemade bread and grape jelly and gin-n-tonic.

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5 October 2013 or Day Five of Congress Not Doing Their Fucking Jobs!

_____Breakfast:  I cooked:

• two stripes of bacon
• two eggs boiled in bacon fat
• two slices of sour dough toast
• coffee

________Lunch: large hamburger and bottle of Diet Pepsi
                            a big slice of home made bread made with homemade cheese whey
                            a homemade soup of potatoe, whey, milk and flour

Crusty Bread (simplysogood) found on Facebook

3 cups unbleached all purpose flour
1 3/4 teaspoons salt
1/2 teaspoon Instant or Rapid-rise yeast
1 1/2 cups water

In a large mixing bowl, whisk together flour, salt and yeast. Add water and mix until a shaggy mixture forms. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and set aside for 12 - 18 hours. Overnight works great. Heat oven to 450 degrees. When the oven has reached 450 degrees place a cast iron pot with a lid in the oven and heat the pot for 30 minutes. Meanwhile, pour dough onto a heavily floured surface and shape into a ball. Cover with plastic wrap and let set while the pot is heating. Remove hot pot from the oven and drop in the dough. Cover and return to oven for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes remove the lid and bake an additional 15 minutes. Remove bread from oven and place on a cooling rack to cool.

_______Dinner: Being the day before our Anniversary, we went to the Boot Hill Casino Restaurant for dinner and had:

• salad (they brought the salad plates to the table)
• soup (they brought the soup bowl to the table but it took a while)
• excellent prime rib
• good baked potatoe
• 2 bottles of Corina beer

The food was good and the service was simply poor. We had to wait several minutes before a waitress wondered over (actually, Kathie flagged her down) and the service during the meal was spotty at best). Sure, our waitress eventually came by to see if we wanted another round of drinks but it took too long.)

This is a Saturday that I have the morning off. Before the bullshit shutdown, we would have decided to go to Inn Pancake House or IHOP for  breakfast. Instead, we are husbanding our money and Kathie had a couple of English Muffins and I cooked my breakfast.

This is day 5 of Congress fucking off not working to solve the Nation's Problems!

Congress! Start doing your damned jobs!

I stand corrected. According to the TV, they are working but are they getting any work done? A rodent running on a wheel is in motion but it isn't going anywhere...

4 October 2013 - 4 day, no pay

Breakfast: spoon sized shredded wheat and coffee

Lunch: At King's Buffet for some chicken and pork dishs, rice, desert and "Diet Pepsi"

Snack: dark chocolate, a couple of chunks

Dinner: Marie Callender's Country Fried Chicken & Gravy, iced water and a chunk or two of dark chocolate

Pre-bed snack: hot dog and bottle LandShark

This is my fourth day of working without pay.  Thanks a hell of a lot for fucking us Federal Employees Congress; actually, thanks a lot House Republicans for refusing to work with the House Democrats.

3 October 2013 (3rd day of working without pay)

This is my third day of working without pay as an exempted Federal Employee.

Breakfast: Oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: at Wendy's for a

• ½ pound hamburger
• baked potatoe with sour creamme and butter
• small "Diet Coke"
• desert: a small chocolate smoothie (or whatever it is called...

Snack: piece of dark chocolate

Snack #2: some more dark chocolate as I was losing concentration and feeling "out ot it..."

Dinner: Healthy Choice Meatloaf dinner and iced water

AM 100  PM 100.  U-1  Cramp right foot

moverrs

2 October 2013

Breakfast: cheerios and coffee

 

Lunch: at the DCCC cafeteria for some mystery meat, french fries, chocolate cake and vanilla ice creamme and a glass of "Diet Pepsi"

 

Snack: a piece of dark chocolate

 

Dinner: Healthy Choice Top Chef Cafe Steamers Chicken Margarita with Balsamic (Chicken Tenderloins with Angel Hair Pasta, Roasted Garlic & Tomatoes in a Balsamic Vinaigrette Sauce) and iced water

 

Snack: some little Oreos...

 

 

 

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1 October 2013

Breakfast: creamme of wheat, 2 slices of sour dough toast and coffee

 

Lunch:  a ham sandwich, potatoe chips, cup of coffee and cold water

 

Snack: piece of dark chocolate...

 

Snack 2: a chicken leg left over from the office luncheon (I hope it stays down...

 

Dinner:  Instead of my Healthy Choice, I had a piece of fried chicken and some mashed potatoes and a smal piece of chocolate cake left over from the office luncheon.

 

 

AM  120   PM  154  U-2 Cramp of left ankle

Lorraine Stockwell's roast recipe

This is a KEEPER!!! : ) You won't belive how easy and delicious this is!
I was asked to post this again because it is soooo popular!!Remember to
save it to your timeline for future reference, hit the share button so
you'll always have the recipe available!!!

3 Envelope Roast

Ingredients:
3 pound beef roast such as chuck roast
1 envelope of dry Italian salad dressing mix
1 envelope of dry ranch salad dressing mix
1 envelope of dry brown gravy mix
2 cups water

Instructions :
Put the water in a measuring cup that is larger then the amount of water
you are using. Now add and mix all three envelopes to the water. Mix
until blended completely.
Brown the roast (if desired). Add the meat to your cooker. Pour the
water, salad dressing mixture over the roast. In the slow cooker cook it
on high for about 4 hours on low about 8 hours.