2016-01-10

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2016-01-10 06:28 am

eating things

Over the last several months, maybe more, I've been pre' horrible at taking care of myself, especially my eating. I've been eating a ton of junk. Because junk tastes yummy to me, even if it makes me feel kindof sick later.

When I was a kid, I had at least three servings of fruits and veggies a day, usually one fruit and two veg. I think I literally ate an apple a day for 3/4 of my tweens and teens. Right now, I can't remember the last time I ate an apple. I had an orange last week, I think. I had a salad a couple of months ago. Yeah.

It's not like I'm getting no veggies -- I had leftover shepherd's pie the day before yesterday, and that was packed with veggies. But I'm still feeling a little bilious from last night's quarter pounder with cheese.

Bleh.

Food diaries work for me, so I'm going to be doing that here. I'll put it under a cut with the tag "food diary." I also have a program called Diet Power that keeps track of nutrition. (it's sold as a weight loss thing, but it works pretty well for keeping track of nutrition)

Classes start on Wednesday and I'm working around 30 hrs/wk, so scheduling is gonna be a challenge all around. I need to plan my food.
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2016-01-10 06:55 pm

Snowmobiles (The Worries of Patrick Lunquist)




written and performed by Susan Werner


Summer's hot but the winter's cold
That's when the snowmobiles get sold
That's what we got up here
Snowmobiles and beer.

How it is when you live up north
Winter lasts 'till July fourth
So we snowmobile 'till April, maybe longer
And my wife she says the cold it makes us stronger

And we're strong up here

Strong as six point beer
Come to the weather,
Weather is what it is.

Summer's hot but the winter's cool
They just closed the swimming pool
On Columbus day,
It's getting late I'd say

'Course the kids They think it's cool
Swim all winter if they could
And my wife says it's only temporary
It'll still be cold as hell come January

And I live for that,
I Got an Arctic Cat
Comes to the weather,
The weather is what it is.

Or so I thought until a couple years ago
Now anymore, we get a lot more rain than snow
I mean it really rains a lot
And any snow we got, it just melts away
In just a day.

So strange.

My wife, she says that nothing's changed
She says, "Patrick, don't worry."
She says, "Look outside, now there's a flurry."

Summer's hot but the winter's warm
We just had a thunderstorm
On New Year's Eve
A first I believe.

All the farmer's up and gone
Moved up to Saskatchewan.
So we sit indoors around the kitchen table
Drinking too much beer and watching too much cable
Missing how it feels
Riding a snowmobile
Back when the weather
Was what it was.