Posted on February 1, 2010 - by Ashley Jackson

Not Slip Slidin’ Away

You get extra points today if for you “Slip Slidin’ Away” is the title of a level of Super Mario 64 and not a song.

I did no slip slidin’ away today, although I did watch a few more cars slip around the parking lot. I didn’t sleep well last night (maybe it was that Diet Coke I drank after having no caffeine for days?) so Heath and I took a nap in the late morning/early afternoon, to the sound of snow sheeting off the roof. When I woke up, the parking lot looked a lot better, although it’s just going to refreeze again tonight…

Lunch was the last of my pizza leftovers and the final two bowls of veggie beef soup.

I really liked how the soup turned out, especially with so little beef in it. I cooked the beef in the pot with some olive oil, then took it out and cooked some of the veggies in some more olive oil, then dumped the beef and the rest of the veggies and some water into the pot. That basically deglazed the pan, so while the major flavor in the soup’s broth was tomato, I could definitely taste beef as well. I think next time I may use even less beef and shred it to disperse the beefy flavor even more.

After spending part of the day curled up next to me in bed, Heath spent the rest of the day curled up in various places on the floor.

He’s not a fan of the camera. If you couldn’t tell.

Dinner was a late affair–I ate it while watching House! I made spinach pasta with pesto sauce, then topped it with broccoli and shrimp that I’d sauteed in olive oil with lemon garlic seasoning.

Man, that broccoli’s green! I swear there’s pasta under there.

See?

It was tasty.  I have leftovers if I remember to eat them.

After dinner I had some more of these vanilla wafers from Trader Joe’s.

They are crazy good.

You’d never know from the amount of wheat-based foods that I’ve eaten today that I’m considering avoiding wheat/gluten for a couple of weeks in the near future. Preferably after I get my boxes of Girl Scout Cookies. (I’ve got two boxes of lemonades coming, mmm.) And definitely after I eat the brownies that are currently baking…

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Eh? What’s that? You want to see  Heath eat some cake? Okay.

He’s barking (though it’s more like wuffing) intermittently because there were two people in the parking lot screaming. After he was done I discovered it was two 20-somethings (bah! peer-aged whippersnappers!) sliding around on the ice. Interrupting my dog’s close-up! Psh!