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Unwittingly, I have embarked on a new diet (results as yet unknown).
With four day weekends, I rarely leave the house. When I do, it's usually to procure a single food item that strikes me. The result: for 3 days now I've eaten only one thing per day.
Day one: plain rice (I was so hungry I ate a lot... then I didn't feel like eating anything else all day)
Day two: a large tub of yogurt.
Day three: a pot of hummus.
So far, no ill effects. Though I may break my diet tonight and spice things up with a tomato.
With four day weekends, I rarely leave the house. When I do, it's usually to procure a single food item that strikes me. The result: for 3 days now I've eaten only one thing per day.
Day one: plain rice (I was so hungry I ate a lot... then I didn't feel like eating anything else all day)
Day two: a large tub of yogurt.
Day three: a pot of hummus.
So far, no ill effects. Though I may break my diet tonight and spice things up with a tomato.
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Re: One thing a day.
Mon, March 29, 2010 - 3:10 PMFirst off - JM - are you a fem? If not, please correct me.
I'm an onvivoure and not ashamed.
Ok, we spend countless thousnad of years evolving and did a pretty god job.
We ate what ever was handy.
If you can catch it or pick it and it doesn't kill you. eat it.
Did you know that wheat, as we know it, is an abberation?
Check it out.
And we are able to eat anything most anything we can chew and swallow except for the fibers in certain plants and a few nasty critters.
Omnivoures. You can eat fruit, veggies, meat, fungi, bugs and damned near anything except for Crayons. They won't digest and makes our poop funny colored.
My diet. I eat solid food once a day. Usually that means meat and bulk - taters or rice or pasta. and I'll munch on a chunch of cabbage - i like the heart. Or a salad with lots of pasta and spicey suces.
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Mon, March 29, 2010 - 3:20 PMActually (if you want to get down to it) hominids have spent almost 2 million years evolving our digestive systems.
Your diet is very interesting (did you know that the reason we have molars and leather shoes is because our ancestors spent thousands of years chewing animal skins to soften them for practical uses?).
I am not trying to shame you. I am simply saying that for the past three consecutive days, I ate rice, hummus and yogurt.
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Mon, March 29, 2010 - 7:21 PMJM, I would assume, a fem must be a female. ; )
And I think you are headed down the fast lane to true dullness now. One way to make your life truly uninteresting, with all that great Turkish food outside your window, and music, colours and liveliness passing you by. I hope you have some truly tedious secondary literature on interpretation of obscure modern authors and odd linguisitc phenomena to entertain you.
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Tue, March 30, 2010 - 1:18 AMGoodness you are truly a model D&U eater lately, it makes me downright ashamed to admit that this mornings breakfast consisted of smoked salmon,spinach,toast,melon and pineapple with juice and coffee,it seem a sinful orgy of food in comparision.I think though, that perhaps having spinach at breakfast is a boring thing to do and slightly redeems me.......
Once I got some of that Turkish bread that is pretty flat with random dimples on the top and only ate that and some hummus all day, the same with pita bread, so see, I can be quite boring in my eating habits, i assure you. Tomatoes can be a little racy,so best to approach incorporating them in a careful deliberate way........ -
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Tue, March 30, 2010 - 2:40 AMThere is an order to those "random" dimples in the bread, if you look for it long enough. -
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Tue, March 30, 2010 - 2:48 AMOh, my word, why didn't I think of this before? I will go inspect the loaf of Italian bread we have to see if there is a pattern, then after a long while, I shall move onto the oranges and zuchinnis,really the possibilites are endless, now it seems that perhaps I'll be quite busy today detecting patterns in various foods. -
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Tue, March 30, 2010 - 11:05 AMYes, 'fem' means female.
We spent countless hours on the savana figuring out how to keep them bastards from stealing all we had, raping anybody they caught and enslaving the survivours while trying to get a life..
Anything non-fatal and digestable was fair game.
And everything from the animals we caught was used, except for the noises they made, for something.
Hides - clothing, blankets and shelters.
Bones - tools, weapons or decorations .
Sinews were our sewing threads.
Tubular innards, well cleaned, made canteens and knapsacks.
And you can tan an animals hide, if you know how, with it's brains. Ok, you can tan my hide but wait until I'm done with it.
The oldest known human artifact is NOT an arrow head, it's a pot shard, a container!.
Mother gave us all these rocks, weeds and fur plated critters so we could harmonize with her.
Life is awesome and I ain't talking about iPods and the internet type shit, I mean HOW we came to be too damned ignornt/smart for our own good.
All you need is out side that door. One problem here - there's too damned many of us. We step all over everybody trying to follow our own path or we get stepped on by somebody doing the same thing. HEY YOU, get off'a my cloud!
I'll re-iterate - we out bred and out fought all the other human specie on this big ol' blue marble.
But we don't realize we've won.
I apoligize for taking up all this space, but I meant what I said and said what I meant.
Agree, disagree or ignore, your choice.
Maybe, next time, I'll blog my discourse or post it in mine very own Tribe so y'all don't have to listen to me go on and on and.... But. maybe not.
One last blast - The books by Jean Eaul - the Earth's Children series, are worth reading over and over.
And everthing she describes is possible and a lot of it is stil valid. In The Mammoth Hunters, people built shelters out of mammath bones. Try that today - but the principle stands, use the abundence - y'know what I mean..
I've started fires with flints and fools gold just to see if I could.
Aspirins - willow bark tea!
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Tue, March 30, 2010 - 11:59 AM"Maybe, next time, I'll blog my discourse or post it in mine very own Tribe so y'all don't have to listen to me go on and on and...."
Oh, no.
Please don't.
That would be a terrible waste of potential disinterest on the part of your readers here. Could you please post something longer? The thing about your cats was wonderful, but perhaps something even longer?
Perhaps a complete history of our species up to the present day, with just a short line or two summarizing each century of our development since the evolution of the earliest hominids, with special attention to developments in bone structure, housing and tax systems? -
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Wed, March 31, 2010 - 9:37 AMOh, Jean Auel. Now there is something to keep you stuck in bed all day long whether it be raining or not. I believe I read "The clan of the cave bear" within a very short time as a newlywed when I did not have to work and could spend all day snuggled up under the feathers and read away on all the details how to sit around the hearth and gnaw on bones and relish the fat and the grizzly bits. And the description of how the apemen just had to "give the sign" and the cave woman would have to bend over and be humped. That was the part that caused me a certain amount of ennui but not enough to stop me from reading the other 450 pages too. And then the second sequel of this one by which it had turned into a bestseller, and more, and finally the last one, "The valley of the horses" when you could tell how her publisher had gotten real greedy and obviously told her:"Put in some juicy, racy bits so that we can rope in the soft porn crowd too!" So the last sequel significantly lost in substance and quality since it suddenly contained all these lengthy descriptions of prehistorical blowjobs given by Ayla to Jondalar inside a cave while the horses winnied outside and the mountain lion prowled the mountains. And the prehistorical blowjobs were just the same like any other blowjob, so nothing earth moving or inspiring, completely devoid of novelty, and as a woman, it just meant that I had to read through paragraph after tedious paragraph of run-of-the-mill porn, because her publisher now wanted more money and did not give a damn any longer about all the research Jean Auel had done on neanderthal life style and mammoth catching and such. And after a good 380 pages or so of that stuff you get to the last page of the cheap and now dog eared technicolour paperback where it says:"Jean Auel is happily married and lives with her husband and five children on a ranch in Oregon" or something, as though this fact would serve as a qualifier for an author of repute. Duh, duh. No wonder that series went over the Jordan after that one.
But back to you, Snert and a brief history of time. Yeah, rattle on, darling, I am ready with slippers in place and the heater is running. -
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Wed, March 31, 2010 - 10:30 AMClan of the Cave Bear!
I skipped al the racy parts in all her books and reread the good stuff. Really really!
Who cares about porn? It's just public sex. It's all the same. Cave men and women had sex, we do to, and I'll bet you $1,000 there hasn't been a new sexual position invented in the passed 5000 years, if not longer. So, let's get on with the good stuff, shall we? Describe how to turn a log into a boat. Or about humongous Sister River sturgeons.
If I want porn, there's a lot better out there than what Jean Auel writes.
She's done some serious research on prehistory, from what I can gather. Ok, I can understand making bucks but whoring ones self for a few hundred thousand dollars?
Yeah, and I can see me in a bar, playing my guitar and doing it my best - to be the backgound music for a bunch of rowdy drunks that just want to get laid.
How much are we talking here?
Artists have to eat.
But I see your point. And well taken.
Art for arts sake is wonderful. A full belly is nice, too.
Selling out to the highest bidder seems inevitable anymore, y'know?
It's all about the bucks.
I think back to when I was scrambling to survive with little or no income; I had a lot more fun than I do now with a steady paycheck.
And I knew who my friends were.
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Wed, March 31, 2010 - 10:01 AMThe tax systems, an epic undertaking I shall strive to attempt.
But first, a pause fo a cause.
I'm back and I'm proud to say - my plumbing still works.
I need to do some research and contact Ooglem through my channeler to see how the troglodytes treated their version of the IRS.
Somebody, I don't remember who, maybe the Phonesians taxed any and everything, chickens included.
Then I'd have a whole 'nother discourse about chickens as a method of payment, but we can do that later.
First we check out Ooglem's strory and compare it to all the tax syatems that follow, up to today with a well thought out projection of future taxes and methods of collecting them. Sound good?
But first, some Tonsil Cleaner.
Cats paying taxes. Ok, that's not something you hear everday.
Should those furry freeloaders have to pay taxes? And, if so, what currency?
Shed hair or furballs won't work but would dead mice? How fresh? Still squirming?
Ok, what do you do with a cat that's a tax deliquent?
That's a ball of fur that need investigation at a later date.
UPDATE - Suzie Supercutie, my channeler, tells me Ooglem is off-line and will be for several days due to some mushroom soup.
That's what she thought. Hard to tell with all the babbling.
Sorry, folks.
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Wed, March 31, 2010 - 7:19 PM"If you can catch it or pick it and it doesn't kill you..."
Or if you run it over with your car, of course. ;)
"... except for Crayons. They won't digest and makes our poop funny colored."
And you've tried this experiment?
"Or Twinkies with a bit of - dare I say it - Karen sprinkled on."
Huh? Am I good when sprinkled on twinkies then?
Distracted minds need to know. ;)
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Wed, March 31, 2010 - 11:17 PM"Your bartender is Blind Bob."
Sounds to me like I should bring a sleepin' bag, my favorite titty bare and move in under one of them pool tables.
If I 'won't' bite yer ankle, will you buy me a beer?
Yeehaw!
Road Kill Lives!
(How 'bout some more squashed possum soup? You don't look like yer full, yet.)
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Wed, March 31, 2010 - 11:50 PMHow in heehaw am I supposed to know if you're good sprinkled on anything when I can't get any of you as a sprinkler?
I looked up several of them hoolioho's dresses, pried around in glove boxes, and bothered bored strange lookin' people, that shot back, all the time looking for some sprinkly you.
Where can I get some of that and does it twinkle too, also?
Hey, when the last time you tickled a sprinkiepoo?
You should try the 'crayon poop' experiment, at least once, just so you can brag. Make a salad sort of a type.
"Hey, y'all, come see this! It's somethin' for the record books."
I might be unsane, but I'm not... umm.. whatever.
I forgot. what I wasn't or might-have-been; too damned busy learning to fly. -
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Thu, April 1, 2010 - 1:52 AMYeshes Dawa, your "roadkill cafe" menu is truly dreadful, esp. the "chunk of skunk", lol. What a find. I have a friend who browses for that kind of stuff all day long when she has nothing else to do, and when she gets tired plays "intermission games" with some kind of software that sends silly looking birds across her screen for shooting an killing. I wonder if someone will invent some "how to hit a skunk with your car" computer game software after seeing that menu. Run up points depending on what you run over with your car?
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As far as eating crayons is concerned- how can I put this in a ladylike text form? Uh, so my bellydance teacher goes on these cleansing and fasting and purging holidays in Thailand, recently. Some kind of classy new age resort where you pay 1000$ or so for not being given any food except a few supplement drinks, and guests get enemas on a regular basis during fasting. When she came back last time (as skinny as a reed, with glowing skin and all) she told me this story of a woman, as an illustration of the miraculous cleansing powers of these fastig and enema cures, who had had some hard lump inside her belly during all her adult life. After so many days of fasting and cleansing, one day that lump left her body (which, in hindsight, must be been the highlight of her holiday and the peak of success with that cure). Everybody wondered what it might be and finally her husband, brave and full of curiosity, took a knife and cut it open. And lo and behold, inside thagt lump it was all some brightly multicoloured mass and then the woman remembered that over 20 or whatever years ago, in her childhood, she had once eaten anm entire box of crayons. And these had obstructed her gut ever since and given her a considerable amount of discomfort, it seems. Now she was free, and her 1000some dollars well spent! Victory over an ancient lump of mashed up crayons! Hurray!
For some reason, I still do not feel like flying to Thailand for that. Somehow I feel that eating nothing could be done more cheaply at home, and I dunno about the rest of that cure... I do know three or four people in Tokyo by now, however, who are kind of addicted to that stuff. Fly to Thailand, fast and purge for 2 weeks or so. come back slender and purified, put the weight back on within a couple of months, fly back to Thailand...and so on. They all rave about it how well it works.
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Thu, April 1, 2010 - 10:40 AMGetting back to the main, JM, I highly commend you on your dull eating. Being a very lazy cook, I have often gone days eating nothing but cottage cheese on toast, or been on a tortilla.
May I recommend some traditional Jewish deli food for added dullness. A friend and I were commenting on how Passover food is really quite bland. Try a day of mazoball soup, or noodle kugel. -
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Thu, April 1, 2010 - 11:27 AMNu-uh. You are making me miss my mom's matzoh ball soup and noodle kugel. Authentic yiddish comfort food -- not exciting, of course, but wholesome and homey. And best made when possible by authentic grandmothers, too, as they add a secret ingredient to all their cooking. I think that secret ingredient is what is commonly known as "love."
Es, es mein kind! ;)
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Thu, April 1, 2010 - 11:28 AMNu-uh. You are making me miss my mom's matzoh ball soup and noodle kugel. Authentic yiddish comfort food -- not exciting, of course, but wholesome and homey. And best made when possible by authentic grandmothers, too, as they add a secret ingredient to all their cooking. I think that secret ingredient is what is commonly known as "love."
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Thu, April 1, 2010 - 12:52 PMYeah, they don't use as much love at the deli as they did at my grandmother's house. -
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Thu, April 1, 2010 - 8:37 PMDid you say nudel kugel? This is going to dullify my day, I already have that sinking feeling in my stomach.
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Fri, April 2, 2010 - 10:23 AMThey damned sure don't. Not at any delis I've ever been to.
But I've never been to your grandmothere's house so I can't say for sure..
I've been to MY grandma's house and she loved to cook.
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Fri, April 2, 2010 - 4:20 PMI'd invite you to my oma's house, only she's not there, on account of being dead. Also, the house was burned down by squatters a few years after my grandparents passed on, so we can't even visit it. Such a shame.
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Sat, April 3, 2010 - 3:34 AM"I'd invite you to my oma's house, only she's not there, on account of being dead."
Yeah, that usually puts a damper on most parties, save perhaps for wakes. Being dead... I've heard that condition tends to be fatal. And about as dull as it gets, too.
"Pray for the dead, and the dead will pray for you. Simply because there's nothing else to do."
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Sat, April 3, 2010 - 4:15 AMWhen I get all too lonely and depressed, I take to "retort pouch food" in a fit of self destructive nihilism. For lack of someone to lovingly cook for me, I peddle my bicycle through the rain and pick up something in a paper box with a few painted chili peppers and a bowl of green stuff with things swimming in it on the front, chuck the aluminium pouch that is inside into boiling water, then fish it out with a pair of oversized chop sticks or even my finger tips, take some household scissors, cut it open and slosh the contents into a bowl. At this moment what I am going to be having for lunch at last reveals itself- retort pouch green curry.
This is what you end up doing when you cannot get your own wife to wait on you, nor any family members who are all overseas. Duh. -
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Sat, April 3, 2010 - 5:32 AMAh, like me, you too then believe in the notion that everyone, regardless of gender, needs a wife?
As for me, when I get serious spouts of self destructive nihilism I go to McDonalds. Yeah, it can't get much worse than that. -
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Sat, April 3, 2010 - 5:37 AMExcept in Seattle, where I could go to Dicks. Even saltier and greasier than McDonalds, if you can imagine that. -
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Sat, April 3, 2010 - 6:17 AMI believe in the notion that everyone, regardless of gender, needs a wife, to have her do all the tedious stuff that he or she does not want to do him- or herself. Which, self-explanatory, means, that I don't want to be the one nor can I have one, I don't even think I could afford one if I tried (though modern Japanese are into pimping their wives into working while insisting that they, in their function as a man, by right of birth have no obligation to really seriously help with the housework. Well, as are a lot of other men, too, so what is the point of becoming a wife?) But yes, there I days when I would like to have a wife, as I just can't make myself do certain things myself when I am fed up.
So, yours truly has crawled out of bed and is off to Segafredo, for some wine and brooding over the Lonelhy Planet's section of "How to go and get away" for the mountain road by taxi to Lebanon. Escapism, here I come.
Lemme know how the egg cartons are coming along.
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