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New Poll: I’m cookin’ you breakfast. How do you like your eggs?

Diet Update
Well, it’s been a week and as near as I can tell, I’ve lost over 8 pounds. That sounds like a lot but I’ve still got a long way to go. I am noticing that some of my jeans feel looser, though. I’ve started taking a vitamin supplement (as Atkins recommends) but I haven’t noticed any effect from that yet. I also harnessed some of this new-found energy yesterday and headed back to the gym for the first time in a week. I did my entire weightlifting workout PLUS two miles on the treadmill. Surprised even me! And what’s more – I think I’m going to go run again today… outside! Y’all have convinced me to give it a try. I’ve got a little two-mile route planned out through the neighborhood. I’ll let you know how it goes. Later: It didn’t go so well. I wore way too much clothing, and within 10 minutes I was sweating bullets. Next time I’ll forgo the sweat pants and long-sleeve T-shirt in favor of cooler attire.

On the food front, meals are getting less boring as I figure out how to cook more stuff with the limited carbs I’m allowed. I’ve become the Queen of Eggs. I fry ’em, I boil ’em, I make omelettes. Yesterday alone I made deviled eggs AND a chicken-egg salad. I’ve also decided that as I’m not drinking or eating sugar, I am allowed a new vice – Diet Coke. I always hated the stuff before, but somehow now that I’ve kicked the sugar habit it tastes a lot better. I think I prefer the Lemon version, even though it originally reminded me of Pledge. But I drink a can or two of that everyday and pretend that I’m getting lots of sugary goodness. It helps.

Gah. Too much new Apple coolness! Brain suffering overload. 20GB iPods that come with belt clip, remote, new headphones, and work on PCs! iTunes 3 with smart playlists and audiobook support! 17-inch iMacs with SuperDrives and 80GB hard drives! And finally, the piéce de resistance, Mac OSX 10.2 (codename “Jaguar” – I love that!). And I’m spent.

Do Tara D a favor and go vote for her blog in the Bloggys Humorous category. Thanks.

Once again I found myself debating a book on somebody’s blog today. It gave me a small idea: would any of you be interested in participating in a little online book group? I’m sure there are similar things already in existence, but I figured it would be more fun if the group all knew each other. We could pick one book a month (maybe via a poll to be democratic) and then discuss it at the end, either in normal weblog format or even via a group chat. What do you think? Anybody interested or have ideas?

There was no Friday Five last week! That sucks. Since my meme-propagation urge is unfulfilled, here’s a new one I picked up from madalog:

10 bands/artists you’ve seen live
REM, They Might Be Giants, Ani Difranco, Reel Big Fish, Indigo Girls, Violent Femmes, The Bangles, Huey Lewis and the News, Dave Matthews Band, and Ben Folds.

9 things you’re looking forward to
Our housewarming party, Snookums’s birthday, the start of summer, getting a full-time job, finishing my quilt top, getting down to my target weight, picking out a new dining room set, the Buffy Season 4 DVD, and the next release of Mac OSX.

8 things you wear every day
My glasses, my contacts, my watch, my ND class ring, two silver hoop earrings in my earlobes and one at the top of my right ear. (Altogether that makes 8 things, right?)

7 things that annoy you
Inappropriate children, guys who wear hiking boots at the gym, my inability to own a Tivo in Australia, the fact that IKEA never has anything we want in stock, insulting commercials for “feminine products”, George W. Bush, and Mac-bashers.

6 things you touch daily
My eyeballs (to put my contacts in!), my iBook, my mobile phone, my wallet, the TV remote, and Snookums.

5 things you do every day
Check my e-mail, visit my list of daily blog reads, watch Days of Our Lives, feel guilty about not going to the gym more often, and look for jobs.

4 people you spend the most time with
Ouch. The Snook. That’s pretty much it. I suppose you could count the three fish too. We do have friends, but a lot of them are outside the country for various reasons right now. And I don’t know anybody else!

3 movies you could watch again and again
Pride and Prejudice, Office Space, and anything from the Star Wars series.

2 favourite songs of the moment
Based on what I woke up singing this morning, “Dr. Worm” by They Might Be Giants and “A Thousand Miles” by Vanessa Carlton. Embarrassing.

1 person you could spend the rest of your life with
You know the answer. My Snook. Awww…

Pacey’s thinking about getting married… and not to Joey! I really need to kick the Dawson’s Creek habit. (Link courtesy of Kim.)

Bill alerted me to the fact that a musical adaptation of Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West is in the works. Cool. I just read it a few months ago and I think it would be a fascinating topic for a show. It doesn’t have as much in common with the Judy Garland movie as you’d think, though, which makes me wonder if deluded Manhattan parents will end up dragging their kids along to a musical about politics, culture, feminism, and fate. Oh, and there’s sex too. 🙂

CouchCam is back! You’ll note that our new living room setup looks a hell of a lot like the old one. You probably won’t see me on it as much right now, since we have an actual office and I don’t have to do my web surfing on the couch. (Although I’ve asked the Snook to put in a network access point down there, so I may revert to the old way if I get bored working without the telly.) Once we get ADSL installed, you should see us more often since it’ll be on 24/7 and uploading more frequently. Enjoy!

You might have noticed (yet again) that my server time is incorrect. It keeps resetting itself back to, like, July for some reason. They usually fix it pretty quickly, so just bear with me.