Good Humor Premium Ice Cream Bar

I just enjoyed a Good Humor Premium Ice Cream Bar and, while I hate to complain about a tasty, reasonably wholesome treat that was made for my enjoyment -- andsomething I actually did enjoy -- I found some "opportunities for improvement," plus some reasons you might want to go back to Ben & Jerry's. The Good Humor bar was a little too sweet. Americans are older now, and an older palate prefers less sweetness. And as far as kids, go, parents these days are savvy about not over-sugaring them. Polysorbate 60 and 80 made the list of ingredients, and the chocolate coating relies on vegetable oil rather than cocoa butter. Maybe a little vegetable oil is what it takes to make the coating hard? I don't know. But since when did 4 oz of ice cream pack 260 calories? I enjoyed my ice cream bar, but I'm going back to Ben and Jerry's.

Brain Dump

I feel a little down, snowed into the apartment, my volition weak from lack of exercise...

Now, that's something, isn't it? At work you fight to keep ideas of what else you could be doing at bay. So when you can't go to work you find that those ideas don't come back readily. OK, they come back but not with motivation, because the motivation is what you were really keeping in check.

Now I have another flood in the bathroom. The landlord has said he will replace the toilet...

So let's work up a to-do list:

exercise
fix the bathroom
-take up the newspaper
-clean the floor
-empty the tub (of the glass vessel thawing out there)
-plunge the toilet
-rinse the plunger in the now-empty tub

do some laundry
vacuum my room (daytime only)
arrange the plants in my room
do more laundry
file my paper flotsam


And now for a list of what I *have* done this long, snowy weekend (began Thursday)

upgraded my soup with lima beans and rotisserie chicken
worked out twice
posted to my blog (yay!)
ran the dishwasher about three times
did one load of laundry
wrote some email
straightened up the coffee table just a little (needs more)
went to the grocery store -- picked the right lull in the weather!

And how about a calorie count for today?

soup 500 calories
cereal with milk and soy milk 300 calories
bananas 250 calories
1/2 apple 25 calories
jello 70 calories
omelet 200 calories
fruit juice 250 calories
organic peanut butter & dark chocolate 700 calories

Total: 2295 calories

I'd better exercise a lot.

Weekend Update

Sitting in my cubicle waiting for a ride to the transit center, I don't have much time to write, but I will feel better if I write. It seems to me that a few times this week I framed concisely to myself what I wanted to say in this post, but now I'm at a bit of a loss. So much has happened. One future post is sitting in a notebook waiting to be transcribed. And I really want to tell about this commute situation...

It's insane. On weekdays the commute totals about five hours both ways. This coming Sunday I may be looking at seven hours, just so I can put in seven hours of overtime. I'm living on the bus, trying not to eat when I get home because home time is for sleeping, and sleeping is best done on an empty stomach. Time at home is barely enough for sleeping, but God is good to me and I am functional in this matrix.

And Anwar did officially break up with me. He had to do it by email because apparently he's moved back to Egypt! We're just friends now. He has a new girlfriend so I will encounter some boundaries, but I don't know exactly where they are yet. All the questions, thoughts and feelings have to wait until I have time for them.

I will say this: Anwar is a sweet guy. He needs someone to love him just as I would have loved him if he had married me.