Posted on March 28, 2010 - by Ashley Jackson

P.S.

I have a pretty eclectic taste in music, but it’s pretty firmly anchored in tunes from the 90s. Which is why I’m very annoyed that my Toad the Wet Sprocket CD (P.S.: A Toad Retrospective) is nowhere to be found. In fact, it’s been missing for months, and probably at least a year. Where could it be? I misplace things left and right, but very rarely actually lose something. Fortunately, I’d ripped the CD to my computer at some point after I bought it, so I still have the music, and tonight I finally gave up the CD for lost and burned a new one for jammin’ in my car.

I’ll probably find the actual CD sometime this week.

This post is pretty much a testament to how little I eat on the weekends. Friday I had peanut M&Ms for breakfast, peanut butter M&Ms for lunch, strawberries and whipped cream for a snack at a meeting, and this for dinner:

A hot Italian sausage I found in my freezer and some grilled onions. Cooked on the George Foreman Grill. Don’t marvel at my cooking skills or anything.

Saturday I slept in–ahhhh!–and when I got up  I decided to eat the last of my wheat-free lemon poppyseed muffins. Taaasty.

And then I pretty much didn’t eat anything else until dinnertime. I did take Heath on a short run–my first run in weeks! We jogged for about 15 minutes probably, which tuckered the poor doggle out and set him sleeping the rest of the evening.

I made some sausage, spinach, and lentil soup for dinner, except instead of sausage I used ground pork and seasoned it myself.

It was different than last time–I didn’t have any onion left, and the lentils were different than the kind I used last time. But still good.

Something about springtime makes me crave Cook-Out milkshakes, and since I really hadn’t had much to eat, I took Heath with me and got a Reese’s milkshake. Mmmmm…

This morning–oh, this is bad–I didn’t get out of bed until a totally unreasonable time (I went to bed laaate and then got up at 5AM and did my state taxes and goofed off for two hours). Then I went to Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, and Harris Teeter–remind me to NEVER do that again on a weekend. Oy vey. When I came home at 4PM, I had my first food of the day. Seriously. Some peanut butter M&Ms I picked up at Harris Teeter. I could live off M&Ms. But I won’t.

Hey, while I was at Trader Joe’s, I bought me a potato! Since I am a potato hog, I stopped eating them on January 1 and pledged not to have them again until April 1. Well, that’s this Thursday, and there’s gonna be a baked potato with Greek yogurt and butter and bacon and salt and it’s gonna be freakin’ awesome, baby.

I did eat real food today, promise.

I had a little steak, some hummus and carrots, and some grapes.

Also, to encourage myself to eat actual food instead of M&Ms for lunch (I’m sure you’ve noticed my tendency to eat them for at least two meals a day during the past two weeks), I went ahead and prepped my lunch for all four days that I’m working this week. Awesomesauce! Plus, I bought a box of Pure bars and lots of Liberte yogurt, so there’s breakfast for the next couple of weeks, and I bought some grapes and washed them and put them in the fridge for easy access. Cleaned out the fridge so I can see what’s in there, too.

Less than an hour until bedtime…yikes…