Miso Happy

Happy belated Valentine's day! Adam and I had the best Valentine's this year. We engaged in our usual 'weekend sabotage', or WS as I like to call it. WS is all the junk we eat over the weekend and all of the hours we spend NOT working out. Basically we undo all the good things we do during the week and over Valentine's weekend I think we undid about 3 months worth of good doing.

We started the weekend with dinner at Zorba's on Friday with Shari. Zorba's is a local Greek restaurant that has awesome food and BYOB so you totally cannot go wrong. I think I ate my weight in pita bread.

Saturday started with homemade popovers and v-day chocolates. Adam gave me a popover pan for Christmas because I love the popovers at the Zodiac Room at Neiman Marcus so much. It is worth eating there just for the popover. So since Christmas I have been perfecting my popover making...apparently it's all about having a good pan, right Adam?

Adam loves white chocolate and I was sick of giving him the same box from Godiva each year so I ordered him sweet slopes from chocolate.com. Sweet slopes are almond toffee, dipped in white chocolate, then the edge is dipped in dark chocolate and crushed pecans. I don't like white chocolate or nuts in candy and I thought they were awesome! It's a good thing because some how I ordered 2 boxes of 36. I don't know if I submitted the order twice or they screwed up and shipped it twice but we received 64 for them. I see a whole lot more WS in our future. Adam brought me all my favorites: Godiva peanut butter cups, chocolate covered strawberries, and truffles, beautiful red tulips and irises, a teddy bear, and a v-day balloon. I was so surprised!  

We tell each other every year that we are not getting real gifts just candy.  Against my better judgement, I got Adam Shawn White Snowboarding for the Wii and he got me W.  I must say he must love me a lot because he has never been the biggest George Bush fan and he knows that I love him and think he is one of our best president's ever so he bought me the DVD.  I may end up watching it by myself but at least he bought it.

Saturday night we had made plans to go out to dinner but realized it was a limited menu most of which I did not like so we ended up cancelling. Adam decided we would try to make sushi and butter fish at home. After a trip to the Asian market (yes, Plano has one), Central Market, and William Sonoma for a sushi knife, we were ready to get started. I had no idea so much effort went into making sushi. I see now why it costs so much. First, you have to make the rice which takes like an hour, then you have to aerate the rice which takes like 30 min for it to be cool enough to make sushi rolls, then you have to figure out how to pile in your fish and veggies and be able to roll the whole thing up with out it going everywhere and ensuring it is small enough to even fit in your mouth. Not an easy feat.

Since the sushi was going to take forever, Adam made edamame, dumplings, and miso butter fish that was awesome...almost as good as Roy's! By the time he finished the sushi I think were both already full but we ate it anyway. Here is our first attempt of a tuna avocado tower and spicy tuna avocado rolls.

         

I'm honestly still full and it's been almost a week!

I'm a coke addict

The title for this posting could have been numerous things..."I'm turning into my mother", "Making a deal with the devil", "Drinking yourself to fabulosity", and the one I chose "I'm a coke addict"...only because it was the most dramatic and drama is my thing.

I'm a coke addict:
I know all addicts have a 12 step program and I'm not really sure what the steps are but I'm pretty sure one is admitting you have a problem. So here is the description of my problem: I have to have a 44 oz diet coke every day from Race Trac. It must be from Race Trac because they use filtered water so you don't get the weird metal/garlic taste from our great "Plano water". They also have crushed ice and thick straws which are both key to a good coke. Not to mention that Race Track is on the corner of Plano Pkwy and Independence which happens to be on my way to work and literally a block from my office. I have yet to get to the point where I stop on the way to work but I do leave to get one over lunch or at some point during the day if I'm too busy for lunch. I'm on a first name basis with my dealers "Chris" and "Tammy" and we have agreed to a set price of $1.07 including tax. Who knew there was tax on coke???

I'm turning into my mother:
My mother was an addict FOR YEARS. Isn't there something in the 12 steps about inheriting your parents bad habits? I don't remember my mom ever not being a coke addict. She has a slightly different addiction. Her cokes have to come from McDonald's and must be real coke not diet. She even drinks cokes for breakfast and has since she was a child. I vaguely remember doing this as a child as well. Maybe coke addicts were more accepted in the 70s??? She has completed rehab and claims she has been clean for awhile...though she falls off the wagon every now and then. The verdict is still out on this one.

Making a deal with the devil:
Since my mom is a recoving addict I discussed my problem with her. I told her I could cut back and ONLY get a coke if I had gotten up early to workout. That way the coke was a NEED as I would NEED it to get through the day since I had gotten up so early and physically exhausted myself first thing. She politely informed me that I was just 'making a deal with the devil'. I could justify it anyway I wanted but it was still an addiction. Ok, so maybe she learned something in rehab...

Drinking yourself to fabulosity:
I get really busy at work and can't make it out for lunch so I just eat something I brought from home and drink about 3 liters of water and my huge diet coke. I think I get so full on liquids that I don't eat as much as I usually would. Not to mention if you drink a gallon of coke a day you pretty much can just go, go, go to the point that you can't stop. I sometimes need red wine at night to calm myself down ;o) Since I've been on this water/coke/wine 'liquid diet' I have lost about 5% of my body weight. I think I'm on to something here...this could be the next fad diet. I have just enough 'scientific proof' to write a diet book so if you see a book entitled "Drinking Yourself to Fabulosity" on the shelves at B&N you'll know where it came from. The book might have a disclaimer that states "Diet works best coupled with a stressful job and lots of hours at the gym"

So I'm not really sure where to go from here...do I keep my addiction and stay on my liquid diet? Do I contact Dr. Drew to spend some time in Sober House...do you think Dr. Drew could help me?