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averygoodun42This diet is so much easier to follow when the only other person around is Babe. I don't know why it should be so difficult with Geoff around (he got back Wednesday night), seeing as he's rather supportive, or at least voices being supportive, but being around him makes me really, really crave desserts.
And it's not like we've been a dessert type of family. Usually, when I make a dessert, he ends up eating too much of the main meal and has no room left for the sweets. It's trained me away from desserts except as special occasions.
I think, what it is, is that today I've eaten many more vegetables than usual, with not so much meat as the previous days this week. I think also the quinoa mixed into the meat mixture for breakfast this morning messed me up. Geoff said my breath smelled sweet this afternoon (about two hours after breakfast), as in a hypoglycemic sweet.
I've also been tired today, though that may just be from my sedentary activities.
Bah. But, my skin is looking tons better! In fact, I only have a few inflamed spots and after my shower this morning, when my face is usually at its red, scaly worst, it was only slightly pink! Yay! Perhaps in a week or so, even the inflamed areas will be gone! And that is what's keeping me from cheating at the moment. Cuz let me tell you, that quinoa is callin' out to me. Although it's a little muffled what with being in the fridge and all.
Two other things I've figured out. One, tomatoes are way too sweet and set off cravings, and two, I have to stop making bread. That's the only other serious temptation I've experienced. I can overlook the store-bought stuff with no problem, but having the smell of homemade bread in the house along with the loaves... Nope. I'm setting myself up for failure if I keep baking it.
But it's been five days now, and I've only cheated with a little bit of cheese. Oh, and salt in the soup, but I'm not giving up salt in my soup. All other salt can go but that little bit.
Today I figured out how to work my exchange fic to keep it from being too clunky. I killed off an entire chapter, and it's much better for it. Hopefully this way I can get all the pertinent info across while retaining some tension and movement. Now I just need to actually start writing it again.
whee.
Thank you for all of your feedback on my little sketches! I appreciate it so very much, and it's all been super useful for me. I've ordered most of the supplies necessary, so, in about a week, I shall be starting the printing process! Very exciting, if a bit nerve wracking. I have a lot of work to do in the next seven weeks.
Speaking of which, I got permission from the neighbor to get a sprig of holly from his bush. I ended up with more than one sprig, as I decided I might as well trim off the dead stuff more attractively (and healthily) while I had succateurs in hand. So, now I have plenty of material to draw cards of a more holiday-ish theme. Yay.
So... perhaps when the neighbors' burning bush starts turning, I'll ask to get a sprig of that, as well.
Oh, and I've decided I must find a good paper shop in Boston. There has to be one somewhere! It's a big city with at least one major art school, not to mention a good deal of the hoi paloi of the US population. I can't believe that Bostonians would settle for having to trek down to NYC just to get their hands on some nice paper. (And by nice, I mean handmade Japanese rice papers and scrolls and such. Like this store in Chicago (which I won't order from because I want to actually see and touch the paper before buying it, even though I know the quality is superb having been there before! I meant "hands on" very literally).
I was thinking that a very nice way of displaying image #1 would be to print it on a delicately patterned, beautiful paper. I don't think that design would work on the rice paper I currently have... oh, but I do have more than just the lace paper, don't I? Oh, and it would be beautiful on that golden sheen... And oh... The blueish paper would work beautifully with one of the water designs, wouldn't it... And oh...
*shakes head and returns to earth*
Well, anyway. I want a paper shop to browse. And, of course, it has everything to do with printmaking, and nothing at all to do with my being a sensualist.
And it's not like we've been a dessert type of family. Usually, when I make a dessert, he ends up eating too much of the main meal and has no room left for the sweets. It's trained me away from desserts except as special occasions.
I think, what it is, is that today I've eaten many more vegetables than usual, with not so much meat as the previous days this week. I think also the quinoa mixed into the meat mixture for breakfast this morning messed me up. Geoff said my breath smelled sweet this afternoon (about two hours after breakfast), as in a hypoglycemic sweet.
I've also been tired today, though that may just be from my sedentary activities.
Bah. But, my skin is looking tons better! In fact, I only have a few inflamed spots and after my shower this morning, when my face is usually at its red, scaly worst, it was only slightly pink! Yay! Perhaps in a week or so, even the inflamed areas will be gone! And that is what's keeping me from cheating at the moment. Cuz let me tell you, that quinoa is callin' out to me. Although it's a little muffled what with being in the fridge and all.
Two other things I've figured out. One, tomatoes are way too sweet and set off cravings, and two, I have to stop making bread. That's the only other serious temptation I've experienced. I can overlook the store-bought stuff with no problem, but having the smell of homemade bread in the house along with the loaves... Nope. I'm setting myself up for failure if I keep baking it.
But it's been five days now, and I've only cheated with a little bit of cheese. Oh, and salt in the soup, but I'm not giving up salt in my soup. All other salt can go but that little bit.
Today I figured out how to work my exchange fic to keep it from being too clunky. I killed off an entire chapter, and it's much better for it. Hopefully this way I can get all the pertinent info across while retaining some tension and movement. Now I just need to actually start writing it again.
whee.
Thank you for all of your feedback on my little sketches! I appreciate it so very much, and it's all been super useful for me. I've ordered most of the supplies necessary, so, in about a week, I shall be starting the printing process! Very exciting, if a bit nerve wracking. I have a lot of work to do in the next seven weeks.
Speaking of which, I got permission from the neighbor to get a sprig of holly from his bush. I ended up with more than one sprig, as I decided I might as well trim off the dead stuff more attractively (and healthily) while I had succateurs in hand. So, now I have plenty of material to draw cards of a more holiday-ish theme. Yay.
So... perhaps when the neighbors' burning bush starts turning, I'll ask to get a sprig of that, as well.
Oh, and I've decided I must find a good paper shop in Boston. There has to be one somewhere! It's a big city with at least one major art school, not to mention a good deal of the hoi paloi of the US population. I can't believe that Bostonians would settle for having to trek down to NYC just to get their hands on some nice paper. (And by nice, I mean handmade Japanese rice papers and scrolls and such. Like this store in Chicago (which I won't order from because I want to actually see and touch the paper before buying it, even though I know the quality is superb having been there before! I meant "hands on" very literally).
I was thinking that a very nice way of displaying image #1 would be to print it on a delicately patterned, beautiful paper. I don't think that design would work on the rice paper I currently have... oh, but I do have more than just the lace paper, don't I? Oh, and it would be beautiful on that golden sheen... And oh... The blueish paper would work beautifully with one of the water designs, wouldn't it... And oh...
*shakes head and returns to earth*
Well, anyway. I want a paper shop to browse. And, of course, it has everything to do with printmaking, and nothing at all to do with my being a sensualist.
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