Especially when you share space with four cats and one dog. The house is more or less clean. The bathroom is clean, and smells fresh. Ahhhh!
Today's tally: 1223 calories. 136g protein, 123g carbs (40g fibre), 25g fat.
Meal three was a salad with a can of tuna. Meal four was all about the Lots of Food for Little Calories: a package of shiratake, a quarter cup of edamame, and a cup of frozen broccoli, with teriyaki sauce, followed by half an oatcake with Quark, Jello pudding powder and instant coffee frosting. The new batch of oatcakes is nicely spiced with German honeycake spices, and coffee is often used as an ingredient in honeycakes, so... Meal five, currently being eaten, is a third of a cup of cottage cheese, a package of chocolate protein powder, and half a tablespoon of peanut butter.
I must speak to my butcher. I cooked up my second batch of chicken breasts -- and they wizzled up into nothing, just like the very cheap chicken breasts one can buy at the supermarket, all pumped up with water solutions, rather than the plump, juicy (expensive!) grain-fed chicken breasts I have come to love. I thought when I bought them that these ones didn't look as fine as they customarily do.
The other day I was in a bookstore, and I spotted a new paperback by Ellen Kushner -- Thomas the Rhymer. I was so excited -- Ellen Kushner! I restrained myself from buying it, simply because I've been feeling very poor lately, and there have been a lot of other goodies -- CDs and tarot cards and whatnots, and paperbacks are so stupidly expensive now -- this particular slender volume was $10.99.
Well, as it turns out, lucky I didn't. Further book pruning, today, and as I was going through the F/SF shelves, what to my wondering eye should appear -- but a copy of Thomas the Rhymer, with one of those lovely cover illustrations by Thomas Canty. It's been reprinted, it would appear... So I am re-reading it.
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