• half cup of raspberry tea
• one apple fritter
• two hot fudge pop tarts
• half a bag of tropical fruit berry trail mix
• bowl of chicken noodle soup (homemade – more noodles than broth)
• a bunch of munchkins (why didn’t I count?)
• more trail mix

Talk about mindless eating…oy vey!

• one Ezekiel English Muffin (two halves) w/ 4 pats of butter (too much – I know – just tastes dry w/o it) and approximately two table spoons of apricot jam
• two table spoons of almond butter
• half a blueberry bagel with creme cheese (the small half)
• glass of tang
• Chipotle black bean burrito
• Dehydrated papaya spears (needed something sweet)
• sesame sticks (too many snacks)

Not enough water today…still thirsty. Too bloated to drink…arggghhhh!

Somebody kindly remind me to NEVER buy the bulk ginger snacks and garlic sesame sticks at Palm Harbor Natural Foods again. Nothing but intestinal distress and bloating. I almost stopped there on my way home from Family Chrisitan Books, but decided against it as I had burritos in the car. One was steak for Devin. Oh yea, and carrying around a bible for a few minutes gave me a migrate. A migraine! It couldn’t have weighed more than two pounds!

Saw the movie, Nanking today on Hulu. I had heard about the incident from a Youtube video when I was researching Nanjng. A college student gave a speech explaining the three sorrows of Nanjing. I had never heard of it prior to listening to her speech.

The movie was done in a very haunting and stirring way. I didn’t like how they showed the bit about the Japanese Nationalists paying homage to the 14 war crime generals outside their shrine at the end. I guess the japanese have their own version of the KKK too. The thing is the Chinese stir up hatred toward the Japanese when the kids are young. (I heard that it is quite common in middle school.) So if everybody is still full of propaganda and hate, when will it end? I fear the future of America. I can see the media lap dogs/fear mongers stirring up hatred towards Iran. It is a very cleaver way to take the attention off of the socialization of America. Very cleaver and unfortunately,  people just aren’t smart enough to see through it. Sigh….

I am surprised, however, that there was no mention of the Nazi like medical experimentation that went on in Harbin during this time. Actually it was pre-Nazi. That’s probably where the Nazi’s got the idea.  Absolutely hideous chapter in history.

Beautiful!

• one huge parsley, pineapple, blueberry smoothie with rice protein powder, walnut oil, a mix of almond milk (mostly) and coconut milk
• sesame garlic snack (too salty)
• crystalized ginger
• dehydrated papya

upset stomach/nausea (skipped the friday night foodie group at LIFE)

• 5 Peanut Butter cups (left over Trick-or-Treats)
• egg sandwich with toasted bun
• water
• big bowl of homemade chicken noodle soup
• too much Halloween candy – what a struggle.

• 
• 7 pieces of (too salty – swollen throat choked on it) turkey bacon
• two eggs
• one slice of whole wheat toast with butter and apricot jam
• 3 glasses of water
• 1 glass of Tang

Never made it to church (ear canals feel swollen and itchy) Is it swine flu or the wind blowing in from the West for four days now? Hard to tell which one. I guess time will tell – ether I’ll get a fever and it will be swine flu or the wind will eventually stop blowing from the West, in which case the symptoms will disappear.

• 1 juicy pear
• more water
• 1 cup of coconut milk with chocolate syrup
• the rest of the mint chocolate chip sandwich cookies (I’m not happy about this, but they were good! Yummo!)
• 8 mini-candy bars from Devin’s Halloween candy stash
• 2 cups of Roobios tea

No dinner, I guess. Boy, now that I’m actually looking at what I eat in black and white, I can see why I’m overweight.

Didn’t make it to Pastor’s class – the last one. Not 100 %. Don’t want to push it, although I very well could, but chose not to. Cancelled hair appointment with Annemarie and meeting with Pastor Marcus Carder too.

• 12 tater tots
• 2 table spoons of organic ketchup

OK. Let’s see how long I can keep a running comentary going about EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHING I put in my mouth.

Now once I get the food issue under reasonable control,

maybe I can work on the stuff that comes out of my mouth!

SAT 10/30/09

wake up 7:17 AM

• big glass of RO water with minerals added (stomach is grumbling)

8:20 AM

• a pack of  ’Smores Pop-Tarts (why did I do that? – too lazy to toast a bagel?)

[Fox & Friends is boring. Clayton - how disappointing! "They" are squelching the dry comic genius that is Clayton.]

• 10:20 egg sandwich on white bun toasted with butter in the iron skillet. The secret is…lots of pepper. Well, that’s not a secret really, but I do love ‘da peppa!
• I’m on my third glass of H2O now.

Looking into getting a blog/website titled Ruby’s English Corner.

Slogan – Relax, listen  & learn English.

Gotta find a reasonably price hosting service that will not be

blocked by the great fire wall of China.

• 3 large goblets of Verner’s Ginger Beer
• a liter of Publix Spring water
• 1 fun size Snickers bar
• white rice and General Tzao’s chicken
• medium vegetarian Firehouse sub on Whole wheat. (too much -cheese, kinda greasy – to hungry too care.)
• approx.. 8 oz of coconut milk
• a bunch of mint chocolate cookies (uncounted – too much)
• 4 mini sushi rolls
• more Vernor’s soda pop

I spent some time fooling around with Audacity today. I need to get a microphone. The one in my laptop makes me sound too tinny. hmmm…let’s see if I can download my first attempt. Well it seems that I have to upgrade to add MP3 audio…I don’t think I’ll be doing that on this blog.

Hmmm…I’ve been in Florida for 3 years now. Long enough to work for the Hernando County School Board and get the sack just before I’m eligible for PSC.

Bitter? Not as much as I was when I got the news on March 19th. But, I’m very relieved that I don’t have to go back. Got my unemployment checks rolling in and we are moving into the condo in August.  All in all, I am looking forward to preparing for my life in China.

There are no coincidences in life, I’m convinced of that.

Running is out of the question now. I have that calcification problem on the left foot. It prevents me from doing anything that requires any type of demands on the feet.

I’ve ordered the T-Tapp DVD’s and I am going to focus on mastering the techniques. Go to www.t-tapp.com for more info.