So books #17 and #18 are done and over with.
I read another book, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. Yes, more chick lit. It was okay for the first half, and the second half was awesome (it picked up quite a bit when she went to Thailand. that was hilarious).
I also read Northanger Abbey-- YES!!! I'VE READ SOMETHING BY JANE AUSTEN!!! Actually, I haven't actually finished it, because I misplaced it about a week ago. But I'm only a chapter short, and I'll just lug The Complete Works of Jane Austen off the shelf and read it from there. I saw a girl reading Sense and Sensibility on the bus once from an Austen compilation. It looked, um, inconvenient. I breezed past with my 150-gram copy of N. Abbey and felt smug.
Har.
I've been on a baking kick. Within the last week, I've made three batches of cookies (double chocolate chip, white chip chocolate, and vanilla pudding with peanut butter chips) as well as chocolate marbled banana bread (which is really more like cake, but "banana bread" has a nicer ring to it. And "banana loaf" sounds even better, because it rhymes with "oaf"!) and marinated tofu from Sundays at Moosewood Restaurant. Oh, I made granola, too. With cinnamon and applesauce. And nutmeg.
Mmm, chocolate. I've nearly polished off an entire bar of 85% Lindt chocolate. But everybody knows that dark chocolate is somewhat good for you, which means that I can eat as much as I want. Hurrah!
Although I do try to eat no more than two pieces of fruit a day, or they crowd veggies out. And fruit is just sugary veggies.
Speaking of granola, why do people think granola is so healthy? It's bits of oats and seeds stuck together with sugar and oil. Honey, too. People think honey is magical or something... it's sugar syrup (I mean, it's got trace amounts of minerals, too, but that doesn't give one license to smother stuff in honey).
What else? Oatmeal cookies. They're cookies with a few oats mixed in. Oh, and All-Bran: wheat bran stuck together with corn syrup. Seriously! I bought some plain toasted wheat bran the other day, and it's WAY cheaper and tastier (and without the stupid stick shape. Why is All-bran shaped like sticks? They could make it into little rings, like Cheerios!).
I'm way off topic. Well, there was no topic to begin with, but I'm still way off. Now I'm just ranting about stupid things nobody cares about. People can eat oatmeal cookies if they so wish. Cookies!
Perhaps I need a nap. I feel a bit woozy.
It rained today. Unfortunately, it was extremely sunny while I was jogging in the morning and now I'm all caramelized.
I took Reyna, one of our dogs, for a really long walk on Friday. I met a man who told me that I shouldn't let her lead me around, and that I should be the one telling her where we would go. I lied and told him that I lead her for the first half of our walks, and then let her sniff around at will. He nodded and we talked about our dogs for about ten minutes. Reyna tugged around at her leash and got scared of things (like the mans' dogs), and eventually flopped down in the dust, while his dogs sat next to him nicely and payed attention when he spoke to them. They nuzzled his hand and all.
I wonder if this is how mothers with fussy toddlers feel when they see other children who are well-behaved, and their own kids are screaming for candy?
Anyway, I took the guy's advice (his dogs really were lovely... cute bastards) and spoke to Reyna the whole way home. She seemed to be pulling less at the leash, but I think it might be because we had been out for a long time and she was tired. I won't let her pull next time, though. And I can put a bandana on her when we go out so she looks endearingly klutzy instead of fluff-brained.
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