Also from the BBC… FOX has cancelled another of our favorite shows. Malcolm in the Middle will finish this year after seven seasons. (I’m praying for a Dewey spin-off.) More intriguing is the quote in that article from some Fox boofhead stating that they’re considering offers from two other networks to pick up Arrested Development. *crosses fingers*

It looks like Prince Caspian is going to be the next Narnia movie, and all four kids are returning. I’m really happy about that; it’s actually one of my favorite books in the whole series. I wonder how they’ll do the dryad bits though, since they sorta took them out of the first movie. (Or rather, they turned them into lame “blowing leaves.”) I want to see a full-on bacchanalian dirt feast at the end!

I thought I was gonna rock this Winnie the Pooh quiz, but then it turned out to be all about the history and economics of it so I sucked. I got, like, four out of ten.

The stitches on my wisdom teeth came out last night. (I had one in each “hole.”) I was brushing my teeth and when I spat, out came a little piece of string with a clearly-identifiable knot at one end. The gross part is that I remember them being black when he put them in, but after two weeks being digested in my mouth they’d turned white. I told you it was gross!

Not that I want to give the bastards any money, but Sony have at last joined the Australian iTunes Music Store. I wonder why they caved.

Trivia Update: We sucked the big one tonight. We had a good first round – coming in second by one point – but then the wheels really came off in the second. It was our largest team yet and we were doing the thing I hate, the thing where we all talk each other out of correct answers. I missed out on two free jugs by virtue of sending up the boys instead (like they’re going to know “Dracula” or “Jennifer Garner”??). Anyway, here are a few practice ones for you guys:

• Name the members of Led Zeppelin in the 70’s.
• Who played Mace Windu, Bail Organa, and Count Dooku?
• What recreational activity did both Al Jolson and Buster Keaton die while doing?
• How many tires are on a 747?
• Which two “Jessicas” won Best Actress Oscars in 1989 and 1994?
• Which two countries have the most Jewish people?

(We got the Star Wars one, of course, and I managed to remember the Jessicas… but we flubbed all the rest in one way or another.)

Bookmark: wwcalculator.blogspot.com. (I promise I’ll get off the diet topic as soon as possible.)

The new menu at Sumo Salad is turning into a total Seinfeld non-fat yogurt situation for me. To recap, they “revamped” their salad menu a few months ago and added/removed a bunch of items. Fair enough. The problem is that the few salads that they kept are now MUCH less healthy, but they haven’t advertised that fact at all. (Nor have they updated their listing in the new WW Points Guides, all of which still list the old Points values.) I sent in a complaint before but I haven’t heard anything back. At the very least, I’m going to post the current menu Points here in the hopes that future WW Googlers will know what they’re in for:

• BBQ Prawn – 2.5 Points
• Smoked Salmon and Goats Cheese – 4 Points
• Tandoori Chicken – 4 Points
• Pumpkin and Pinenut – 5.5 Points
• Malaysian Beef – 5.5 Points
• Moroccan Lamb – 5.5 Points
• Lemon and Herb Chicken – 6.5 Points
• Grilled Chicken Caesar – 9 Points

It’s the Pumpkin and Pinenut that still galls me. How it went up from 2.5 to 5.5 is baffling, unless they started using new super fatty feta or something.

The Invasion of Iraq as a Text Adventure. Brilliant!

I’m happy to say I’m back on track. I hadn’t officially weighed in since before Christmas – though I did attend meetings, since I was subbing for our weigher, Jonathan – but I did hop on the scales briefly last week just to check whether I had put on a couple kilos over the Christmas holiday. I had. So I decided to get down to business. I signed up for the free trial of “eTools” at the WW site and the novelty of tracking my food and exercise online has gotten me doing it again. Last Friday I walked all the way from our place in Chippendale through the city and across the bridge to North Sydney, which took me over an hour. Last night I went back to kickboxing for the first time in ages, and it Kicked. My. Ass. The upshot? I’m officially back to 85.6 kilos… which is exactly what I weighed before the holiday madness. Sweet!

I think some of the weight was brain cells, though. I distinctly remember telling the Snook last week that there was something I wanted, but I was holding off buying it til I’d managed to stick to the plan for a week. Today was the big reward day… but I’ve forgotten what it is I wanted! Forgetfulness begets frugality, I guess.

This week’s meeting was really good, by the way. Gaye finished Maintenance and officially became a Lifetime Member, and she gave us a great speech about hanging in there. (It took her 16 months to lost 23 kilos.) I seriously got a little choked up. It was like an Oprah episode, and I mean that in the best way possible. I also came away with a task for this week: I’m going to go through my wardrobe and throw out everything – EVERYTHING – that is too big for me. No more hanging on to my “just in case” clothes. (Those of you who see me on a regular basis will soon observe that I only have four pieces of clothing left.)