Lunch: Wendys: A double hamberger, baked potatoe with sour cream and butter (but they saved me from the horror of butter by not putting any on the baked potatoe) and a Diet Pepsi...
Dinner: 14th Street Dillion's salad and part of a batch of "no sugar, no fat" cooked choclate pudding (to which I'd added some dark choclate chips)
Lunch: Three bar-b-qued hot dogs, some sour kraut, my home made ice cream (vanillla and choclate) with Larry Ruthi's choclate sauce.
Dinner: At Applebees: Beef and Chicken on those Mexican pancakes, red rice, 2 glasses Diet Pepsi and a nice soup before hand.
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Breakfast: Lean Cuisine lemongrass chicken (roasted chicken tenderloins in lemongrass-coconut sauce, brown rice and vegeatbles (I wasn't bothered by the "coconut", which I didn't know about until I typed in this note...)
Snack: Cheese-its and most of a DP.
Lunch: Healthy Choice Chicken Parmigiana Breaded Chicken Breast with Tomato Sauce and Cheese, Fettuccini Pasta and Broccoli Quite good!
Snack: Three banannas (not too ripe), a DP and another cup of coffee.Lunch: At Wendy's: Half pound "classic" hamberger, with baked potatoe, Diet Coke.
Dinner: A salad from 14th Street Dillions and water. My blood sugar was 116 two hours after I finished eating so I guess these salads are good for me. I'm just getting so tired of eatting them...
Lunch: At the Boot Hill Museum dining room: a briskey samwhich, fries and a Diet Pepsi. It was quite good...
Dinner: A "14th Street Dillions" salad my wife made and a bottle of "Miller Genuine Draft" (cold filtered) beer. None of that Pisswiser* or Coors and definitely none of that "lite beer" crap!!!
* How could a company which makes the magnificant Michelob create Pissweister -er- Budweiser and the perverted "Michelob Ultra"???
Snack: A bag of those 50¢ crackers from the machine in the office "kitchen".
Lunch: Chicken Fried Chicken, mashed potatoes with white gravy, roll and cottage cheese. The waitress said they had corn for the veggie so I ordered the CFC; they had green beans. I asked her to replace the green beans with cottage cheese; she gave the plate to another diner and brought me what I wanted. She was a good waitress, who provided Good Service! I told her this in front of Mike Casey's office manager (who was working the till).
Lunch: "Stouffer's LeanCuisine baked chicken chicken tenerloins with cornbread stuffing & whipped potatoes" I liked it. Too bad I was hungry again less than 10 minutes after finishing. I'll just have to distract myself...
Dinner: Three small Pan fried sound steaks (I picked on appearance and the price reduction from just over $8 to just over $5 - my wife said "you got very tender meat". It was an accident...), boiled corn, boiled carrots and here we split: Kathie had the left over rice pilof and I had the left over "store bought" mashed potatoes. We both liked ouor choices. My drink of choice was cold water...
I had bought some melons for desert but neither of us "had enough room" for them. So, we skipped it...
Two hours after finishing eating, I tested my blood sugar level: it was 174. This is high but not too high given I'd eaten corn and mashed potatoes. A confirmaton this wasn't too high is the simple fact I slept through the night without having to get up even once to pea. Since post-bedtime urination is natures way of dumping excess sugar, I can only conclude the carrots and steak trumped the corn and mashed potatoes (if that is possible...)
Ouch!!! On the one hand, this isn't going to help on the November 2006 A1C test but on the other hand, that is five (5!) months from now and plenty of time for me to be good...
I told her I wasn't anger but I guess I still am...
Breakfast: Aunt Jamami pancakes and sausage, some low sugar syrup and margarine and a DP. :(Couldn't have any coffee as we're out; one person who could resupply is in Topeka and the other has today off but will be in tomorrow morning...) Maybe I'll be reduced to stealing a bag of black tea from an old box in the office kitchen...
Snack#2: I'm hungry; I'm going to have a Sunshine CHEEZ-IT Baked Snack Crackers.
Lunch: Applebys where I had the 9 oz sirlon steak, garlic mashed potatoes, somewhat crispy boiled brocolli flowers (with a hint of cheese and crotons on them) and glasses of Diet Pepsi. Since this was a date - and meant to be a pleasant occasion! - I ordered a desert for Kathie and me. She said she didn't want any but I've only known her for 31 years and figured she like it.
She did...
Let's see, how would I compare this "chain" with the "hometown made restraunt owned and operated by a 'local boy'?"
I wrote a bit of a diabribe about the service last time we were there...
Dinner: We went to the Pratt Lions Club 85th Anniversary. The meal was roast beef, bar-b-qued beef, cheedar cheese mashed potatoes with chunks, a hamberger bun and choclate cake with choclate frosting. It was really quite good!
As an aside: I believe it was eating the pieces of "bad" roast beef that gave me a serious case of diarehia (literally the Hershey drips) and I'm going to wait a few days before discretely dumping the left over roast beef under the trees in the neighbor's yard. (It is a vacant house.) It might cause trouble for the neighborhood stray dog's but it seems better than shit canning or dropping it through the sink garbage shredder...
1/4 cup sugar
1/6 cup cocoa
1.5 tablespoons flour (I didn't have any corn starch)
1 cup 2% milk (I didn't have any regular milk or light cream)
1/4 cup chocolate chips (actually I put in a handful of dark
chocolate chips)
½ teaspoon vanilla extract (I actually "measured" this by eye
and don't know how much went in...
______We were seated with no problem. The waitress seemed very young and very new to waiting and didn't seem to know what she was doing. Kathie asked for a wine list and the waitress trundled off to get it. I looked towards where she'd gone and looked at Kathie and said in a wry voice "I guess I'll ask for water when she returns."
I was up nearly all night whilst walking in the 2006 "Relay Walk For Life. An hour or so after drinking the chocklate, I was back home, showered and in bed. Then, I had to get up for painkillers and Ben Gay.
"Long Island Ice Teas” (two recipes): These are stealth drinks by the way!
Achung Bay Marina1 oz Vodka
1 oz Gin
1 oz Light Rum
1 oz Tequila
1 oz Scotch or
1 oz Cuiacoa /Pour over ice and top off with Pepsi or Coke
Trench Room
Naval Air Station, Agana, Guam
1/2 oz Gin
1/2 oz White Rum
1/2 oz Vodka
1/2 oz Triple Sec
1/2 TequilaLemon Twist
Sweet and Sour Mix
Pour over ice and top off with Pepsi or Coke
I forgot to mention! When I wrote those bar tenders, I seem to recall getting their permission to reprint their recipies. (I think...)
......At Arby's I ordered "the Number one, with drink and a large order of moterillo sticks instead of fries. Can you do that?" "Yes, sir." I got the order and took the sacks to Kathie (we were eatting at her office). I had the feeling the kid at Arbys had fucked up my order but I wasn't going to worry about it.
......I was wrong. He'd fucked up Kathie's order.
......She was pissed and insisted that I return to Arbys to get her motzerillo sticks; she wasn't going to wait till I was done with lunch!
......So, taking her car instead of Lumox (my 1984 Suburbon), I went back to Arbys. There was a very large croud of people waiting but I wasn't about to wait in line. I went to the side of the line and stated "I'd like to speak with a manager please!"
......She came over and I explained how I'd ordered the motzerillo sticks but not gotten them. I said I'd like to get them. She asked, "which register did you buy them at?" I pointed to the one closest to me. The kid behind the counter said "it was me". I respect the boy for having the courage to admit that. (He was still working at Arby's on 6 June 2006.)
......Another boy brought over the sticks, plopped them down on the counter in front of me and turned away.
......I said "I'd like some sauce, please."
......He plopped two containers in front of me and started to walk off.
......I said "This is carry out. Could I have a bag?"
......He asked the manager what I was talking about. She said something at amounted to "bag" and pointed him to them. The boy put a bag on the counter in front of me. He made no effort to bag the sticks.
......I did not attempt to get him to come back. (He was not working at Arby's on 6 June 2006.)
.....I was afraid he'd fuck up the sticks!
......So, I looked at the manager, she looked embarrassed and I packaged the sticks myself. She also gave me a $4.31 refund for my having to come back...
......I don't look gift horses in the mouth.
Snack: At the "Relay For Life" Building, after I turned in our team's forms, several cups of orange juice, a cup of coffee and some casserol consisting of a lot of shredded spuds, sausage, cheddar cheese and a sauce.
Lunch: Some low cal lassonia.
Dinner; Healthy Choice, Beef Tips Portobello with Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Vegetables and Apple Cherry Crisp. This was good but I won't repeat buying it. There is the:
A few minuts after writing this, events escallated to a bit of vomiting...
Then, I spent a couple of hours at home sitting on the couch feeling miserable and occasionally trundling into the bathroom for more vomiting and diahria. Twice, I fertalized the lawn - vomit that is - (outside the fence), showered and went to bed with chills. Not a really good way to end the day...
* 1-cup extra virgin olive oil
* 1/4 cup unsalted butter, melted
* 3 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped very fine, or, preferably crushed with a pestle
* 1, 2-oz can flat anchovy fillets packed in oil, drained, chopped very fine
Prepare the vegetables that you choose to serve by slicing them thinly or in strips.
Melt the butter in a deep earthenware bowl or saucepan over very low heat, making sure butter does not bubble - just long enough to get butter hot.
As soon as the butter is melted add the olive oil and let it heat through.
Add the garlic and sauté for an instant or two, (if crushed will cook faster than chopped) Do not let the garlic color at all. Remove.
Add the anchovies, stirring and mashing them with a wooden spoon.
Simmer for 3 or 4 minutes over very low heat, stirring continuously.
Sauce is ready when smooth in texture.
Keep the sauce warm over a spirit flame or canned heat burner.
Dinner: Salad...
Breakfast: Black Bear (restraunt in Beaverton, Oregon): chicken fried steak, hash browned potatoes, 2 eggs over medium and coffee.
For me, this was a shockingly high value. I just knew that it really help fuck up my A1C test in late May (and I rather think that it did!). Alas but it did give me a really strong hint on what I shouldn't eat. Also, I could take comfort in the fact that I go to this restraunt perhaps once a year and almost never go to Chinese elsewhere. Kind of a reassurring thougth, kind of...
Of course, I being a highly intelligent type who takes bad news in stride and knowing that I should do nothing to jack that frigging reading, didn't go out for a walk but had a beer instead...
Ok, I may be fairly intelligent but sometimes I just sigh and do the easy but bad things...
Besides, I felt better after having that beer. (I didn't get around to telling me wife just how bad bad was...)
Events have consequences and so did my "little" binging...
Then, 2 hours and 30 minutes later, I took my "two hours after eatting blood reading" (the above figure of 201!).
For most folks, that might seem too high. But for me, it is quite high and will probably fuck up my A1C test in late May! (28 May 2006: This little binge probably had it's part in my getting an increase in A1c from 6.8 to 7.0! in late May!) However, it was well worth it!
of my being diagnosed as a Type two diabetic.
Since I was in a rather morbid mood, I thought it would be fine to cerebrate. I thought we could to this Champaign Brunch" at this little Mexican restraunt we went to and have the brunch and Champaign. I even thought to have Champaign to toast "My Second Anniversary".
My wife thought it was a bad idea. At the time (7 May 2006), I thought she'd made a bad choice in talking me out of this. Later (28 May 2006), I suspect she may have been correct. Cerebrating such a morbid day probably isn't such a good chioce. But, since I don't expect to be back in Oregon with family on 7 May 2007, I will have champaign that day...
Lunch: not annotated
Dinner: Bar-B-Qued steak, corn on the cob, DP, Henrie's and salad
Lunch: Ham and Turkey samwich, potatoe slices, 2 cans Diet Pepsi and a piece of "the rat" (ok, KFC chicken...)
Dinner: Caesar salad (what little I ate was fine), pieces of Italian bread dipped into olive oil, lasuani (not enough noodles), part of a custard desert I ordered and part of a piece of cake someone else ordered. Also (since I was the designated driver), a couple of glasses of Diet Papei.
Afterward and at Dave and Sheron's house, a bottle of Henries (what else?)
Lunch: Fish and chips and salad at a nice restraunt in Corvallis, Oregon
Dinner fried chicken, mashed potatos, wrteched gravy and all from the Rat!...(That night, Kathie and I both had the trots and I came close to blowing chunks...>
As a Desert, I had a Henries...
Lunch: Moe's in Newport, Oregon: Bowl clam chowder, fish and chips and a Diet Pepsi.
Dinnert: Salad and two cups chicken/wild rice soup, spegetti with meatballs at Galucchi's in Lincoln City, Oregon. (The spegetti was a little too sweet and reminded me of canned stuff and was thus, significanly ordinary; the remainder of the meal and Kathie's pizza was was most definitely adequate!)
Lunch: hamburger, fries, Diet Pepsi at Dairy Queen
Dinner: Steak, baked potato, salad at Maxine's at Lincoln City, Oregon.
Lunch: At Yamhill Grill in Newberg Oregon: Split an order of onion rings, a cup of a wonderful tomatoe brisk{sp} sout, "French Dip" samwhich (actually a piece of prime rib) and Diet Pepsi.
DInner: Slices of broiled London Broil, a little bit of mashed potatoes, brocolli, a Diet Pepsi and a bottle of Henry Weinhart's Private Reserve (still a very nice beer and I don't understand why restraunts in the Portland area refuse to sell it. Sure, a bunch of fucking Cali-fornacators bought Henry's and are making it in Cali-fornia but it is still a very well made beer. It turely beats Pissweiser -er- Budweister...)
A snack: First a gin-and-tonic and then another Henrys...
I figured I'd blown the blood sugar totally and yet, when I did the fasting test the morning of two-de-May-oh, it was only 109!
That is quite low for me...
Two cans of tuna (try for the mammal free...)
Two cans of cream of mushroom soup
a cup or two of sliced sharp cheddar cheese
Mix the ingredients together and place in a large casserol dish. Crumple several (3 to 5 that is) handfulls of potatoe chips on top of the mixure. Bake for perhaps 15 minutes at the standard temperatue: 325 F!
Lunch: An Arby Southwest Chicken club salad and one of their new roast beef "Gyros". It was good but really all I can say is: the genuine Greek restraunts have nothing to fear from this!!!
Dinner: As a joke, I suggested my "tuna noodle casserol". My wife and her Father thought I was serious and we had that tonight. This is basically, boiled noodles, cans of Tuna (Dolphin free?), cream of mushroom soup mixed and cooked and potatoe chips crumpled on top (I've another blog giving this recipie); boiled brocolli; a Henry Weinhart's Private Reserve beer. It was a fine meal; I also had a half slice of bread...
Lunch: A bowl of left over stew (breakfast most definitely did not hold me!
Then, a chicken club salad (from Arbys) and a Diet Pepsi.
Dinner: South Beach Diet™ Asian Inspired"Orange Beef" (beef slices and brown rice in Orange Sauce with Broccoli, Bamboo shnioots & Carrots and a Diet Pepsi...
Aunt Jamima Pancakes with sausage and coffee
Balooney samwhich an dDiet Pepsi...latger some peanut butter
Taco Bell hard tacos (3) and part of a Chulaba{sp} and a Diet Pepsi
TBD
A regretable snack: A piece of Choclate cake, with choclate frosting and a choclate covered donut at work...
Lunch: At Casey's Cowntown: Bar-b-que beef on a Kaiser bun, french fries and Diet Pepsi. (When I asked the waitress"what's the special?" she replied "it's written on the chalk board!" Well, it was but I didn't see it on my way in. This kind ofcurtness may be intended to "straighten me out" and to get me to check the frigging board next Wednesday (when the Lions meetagain but it damn sure was a reduce-her-tip moment!)
Snack: A no sugar choclate covered ice cream bar.
Dinner: Healthy Choice - Flavor Adventures - "Grilled Chicken Marinara Chicken Breast in Marinara Sauce over Pastawith Broccoli and one (1) can Diet Pepsi. Unfortunately, a 1/2 piece of that chocolate cake...
Pre-bed snack: a half piece baloney and most of a coffee cup of white Zin...
Lunch: Salad and Diet Pepsi...
Dinner: I had a "Healthy Choice" Beef Pot Roast (with Gravy, Carrots, Roasted Potatoes adn Apple Raisin Crisp. If there were any raisins there, they were well hidden by the "crisp"...
Snack: half a slice of thick baloney; it was straight from the freezer and had to thaw in my mouth.
Lunch: A Skipper's Fish & Chip's Southwest Chicken salad and a Diet Pepsi
Dinner: A diet dinner of roast beef, potatoes, carrots and an apple cobbler. It sounds like it should jack the Blood Sugar but I had a good morning score the next morning. But, then, I've had horrendously high evening scores and reasonably low morning scores (a score of 119 for a fasting scroe the morning of the 11th, that is). Maybe I'll repeat what I had for dinner tonight (that being the evening of the 11th; I am writing this the morning of the 11th...)
Snack A small piece of left over boneless pork chop. I get very hungry a couple of hours after eatting one of those good-for-you diet type meals...
Lunch: An Arby's chicken salad and Diet Pepsi.
Dinner: Cheap steak, some store bought mashed potatoes, brocolli and water...
Lunch: Kathie's baked boneless/skinned chicken, rice pilof and Diet Pepsi.
Dinner: Sonic breaded chicken samwhich, french fries and water.
This tasted good but was definitely a very bad idea! It gave me way too much fat and a couple of hours after going to bed (I ate two hours before going to be), I ended up vomiting (twice, actually). My standard reacton to eatting too much fat too sone before going to be. (Of course, the popcorn I burnt and ate an hour or so before the Sonic didn't have any effect...
Lunch: Taco Hell -er- Bell for 3 soft tacos and that folded over pastry thingie... Crunch Wrap Supremeaccording to my Wife
Dinner: Betty Crocker Complete Meals Lasagna Pasta Bake with Meat Sauce and a beer...
