No ant casserole for me. Just a coke so for today. I'll by hungry by din din.

also had half a tuna sandwich with some Pringles, and two bowls of Lucky Charms...

What are they? The Lucky Charms, I mean - they won't give you some sort of -oxide poisoning, will they?

Junky kids' cereal ('fess up, wer, you know it's Zoe's) with little marshmallows shaped liked stars, diamonds, shamrocks, hearts, etc. Pure sugar. Delicious! Riette, I am MAD for peanut butter, smooth or crunchy, plain or in ice cream, etc. I had an overripe banana and tossed it in a blender w/some p.b., yogurt, and vanilla, and voila!--a yummy shake. I remember having a delicious hazelnut yogurt while in Switzerland (not available here)--do you know what I'm talking about?

Oh, I know, I know. Don't talk to me about yoghurt - totally addicted! M�venpick now sells home-made yoghurt from a stand outside their restaurants. And boy, do I know that very hazelnut flavour!!!! Stupendous! And then they have mocca, vodka, peanut, pestachio (yes, like the ice cream flavour), caramel - it's decadent, I tell you. But those lucky charms sound pretty good too. I'll remember those when I go to visit my sister . . .

Oh, by the way, I hear you've invited Jim on holiday, Autumn. How christian you must be! To put up with than man, I mean. Just don't let him drive, okay? Because he'll probably manage to get himself arrested for looking at the road ahead of him while driving.

leftover pizza (mushrooms and black olives) yakisoba noodles w/ shrimp and veggies Slurpee (pina colada/coke/blue raspberry) more leftover pizza slurp of OJ about 100 fresh raspberries (in my weeding adventure of the new house's side yard, I have discovered seven raspberry bushes!!!)

Gee, no wonder you've been so silent; you remind me more and more of a panda, Stacey - they too feed about 16 hours a day, according to my three year-old who knows EVERYTHING about animals . . . I'm proud to announce that I'm orgy-less at the moment. But only because I'm ill - once the antibiotics start to kick in properly, I'll be back on that sweet road of self-stuffing . . . baah!! - swear I didn't mean to sound vulgar!

a panda, huh? i think they're a bit more picky w/ what they ingest but the 16 hours a day thing sounds right. thankful not to be furry and round though!! today... bagel/cream cheese coffee!!!!!!! pizza pear pizza and more pizza (think I'll go for another pear though, and keep on the lookout for more ripe raspberries!)

Wow! Strange things happening on my screen - wooden strips of objects popping up all over the place! Happy to report that my appetite has picked up again as well. Vetkoek Sosatie rice curried vegetables grilled banana mango juice - litres of it The african market is on in Z�rich at the moment . . .

re: thankful not to be furry and round though!! (at least not all over, huh?)

robflmnaahao! (rolling on basement floor laughing my not at all hairy arse off!)

bagel rigamorol... (sp?) red beans and rice very old chocolate honey mustard pretzels I AM STARVING!!! (we are supposed to be going out for dinner... Cajun (in Colorado?!?!?!) but I may have to dive into the yogurt, bananas and OJ to whip up a smoothy of galatic proportions!

You're makin' me honger, gal-active! I'm headin' out!

ate at Hyde Park Bar & Grill for the first time tonight...

Wer, when you eat out, don't you tend to be very critical of the food? I mean, with being a cook yourself, you must get really annoyed if, say, a steak isn't done the way you like it. Or not?

Nice ambience at Hyde Park Grill.

yes, Riette, I am...

I had an interesting, almost existential, experience there once.

Terry, it's bad manners to tell someone you had an interesting, almost existential experience somewhere, and then NOT tell them what the experience was. Some people around here (not me of course) suffer from over-curiosity, and will not sleep unless they know what this mysterious experience was. So be nice to those people, and tell us what it was. Oh, almost forgot: Please.

Well, I wish I could, but I only have a vague memory of the time I went in there and ate at the bar and had several extraordinary conversations with several people that I didn't know before. I wish I had a clearer recollection so I could give you more juicy details. A more clearly remembered experiencing occurred in St. Louis while I was in high school. A friend of mine, Pat Luppens, and I were walking around the Washinton Univ. campus, a scenic, archtypal area, and were discussing, Camus, Sartre and the various other existential writers that we had been reading. We went into the art museum and got on the elevator, all the while continuing our conversation. And then I swear this happened! The elevator stopped in between floors and the door opened to a graffitied concrete wall, and the following was spray painted in big letters: "I think therefore I am." - Sartre The door closed quickly and took us to the next floor. It stunned our pubescent minds, totally.

That is totally amazing. Must say that surpasses any existential experience I might have had in my past.

Did'ya like Hyde Park Grill WER?!?! (right now I am having a near seizure just thinking about the battered fries.... YUMMY!) My fave dishes (beyond the quintessential fries): veggie lasanga stirfry w/ Hosin sauce Salmon burger ooh! the salads are delicious too!

oh forgot to try and make Paul hungry again... bagel and coffee as usual donut handful o semisweet chocolate chips red beans and rice hot chocolate (cool front!!!!) Spicy Black bean burger with mustard and extra sharp cheddar on jalapeno cheese bread. (getting ready for Ultimate Frisbee beer fest -- every Thurs after the games!)

first place in town to impress me since Eastside Cafe... actually tipped the kitchen...

Wow. Big compliment to them coming from you.

Terry, my husband's uncle Jacques just retired from the French dept. at Washington Univ. I will have to ask him if he ever got stuck between floors on the art museum elevator!!

That incident really stunned us. I recently just took up correspondence with Pat Luppens again via email.

Why don't things like that ever happen to me?

It could happen to you.

Perhaps it is happening right now. Perhaps the spring is my existential experience. Sure feels like it at times.

Kristen fixed some awesome spaghetti last night. It's Sunday morning and I'm debating which brunch to take part in today. Mothers or El Sol y la Luna.

El Sol y la Luna sounds the more exotic option.

It is. Mothers is the local, tried and true for the last 10 years, natural foods restaurant. My friends at Body Choir all go to El Sol y La Luna after we dance.

After you dance? What do you dance - the Lambada? I thought Mothers was Mothers in the sense of Mum's.

Everyone at Body Choir just let's it rip for a couple of hours on Sunday mornings and Wednesday nights. There's no real structure except some lineage to the dance work of Gabrielle Roth.

Sounds like great fun. I think I'm addicted to cold tomato and cucumber soup. I'm even starting to look like a tomato!

two eggs over medium, hash browns, toast with butter COFFEE two dumdum pops Lipton Lemon Iced Tea in a can watermelon jalapeno cheese bread shrimp sashimi crackers and cheese (Wheat and sharp cheddar) chocolate chips more jalapeno cheese bread apple more of the yummy bread OJ lots of water

I love a good gazpacho, Riette!! Sometimes I buy a can of really good tomato/roasted red pepper soup (Shari's Bistro) and stick it in the fridge. Mmmmm! I'll eat it right out of the can (with croutons floating in it).

what flavor of dumdums, Stace?

chocolate probably! Glad to hear my tomato/cucumber soup has a fancy name too, Autumn! HAd it again all of yesterday. How foul the place smells.

I had the first two lines of what Stacey had for breakfast today.

I didn't...

Green Mesquite for lunch, a salad and beans, veggies.

Coffee peach coke TBs tostadas (2) coke (not doing so well in that whole nutritional realm today)

yeah, but you look good...

where you hiding that camera, WER?

if I told, it would no longer be hidden...

Maybe he tapped in to a spy satellite?

how's the resolution?!?!

almost good enough to taste...

didja catch my trip to the ladies room?

that ONE? yeah, amongst others...

oh... my trip to the locker room during and after lunch?

yes, but I have to review those later...

oh... the locker rooms are always the best... that's when I rub myself down (and around)

(and inside and out, apparently...)

maybe...

depends on the circumstances, right? I mean, it's not like THAT always happens...

you are SO in touch with the female condition! *giggle*

got in touch with some Thai food today... but before that, I had some wonton soup and some crab puffs, then at Satay, I(we) had Crystal noodle soup Fried wonton skins Fried tofu Dumpling sampler plate Bangkok honey roasted pork Pork satay Siam ruby rice pudding Banana fritters and various condiments, sauces, and jasmine rice

sounds delicious! had another four star restaurant dinner last night but it was not nearly as good as the Rialto Cafe on Monday night!

These tofu Indian pockets I got from my co-op are fantastic! I'll have to get another case later this month at the rate I'm going. Also had oatmeal, an apple, lentil soup, and (*cough*) Little Debbie Swiss Cake rolls.

"Little Debbie Swiss Cake rolls" now THAT's eating!!! What are your dietary restrictions, Autumn?

Tofu Indian pockets, sound great! What brand?

Ken & Robert's. They're delicious! I think I'm gonna split a case of the pizza ones and pot pie ones with some of the other gals this time, they sound like winners for my kids. I don't eat red meat, poultry, excess dairy or fat, or anything that is not in a food group (except Little Debbie cakes at my mom's house!!) How about you? Anything stricken from your diet?

Why yes, and I'm rather pleased you asked. My favorite busboy, who's really not a boy because she's a woman, anyway she's put me on a very strict food intake stratagem. I'm not to touch mush or gruel, I can't have baba ghanouj anymore, she took me off polio vaccines, I'm not allowed cucumbers if they're served with ossobuco, she slapped me twice when I asked permission to put hummus on my codfish balls or any other balls for that matter, chimichangas are out, can't even have lobster Newburg if I apply any mascara to it. My good god, I put a glass of water to my lips and she even took that from me and threw it into the kitchen. She's got me like this for the next 4 years, by which time she says I will be fit to swim into the heart of duckness and come out alive like Joseph Conrad and Dweedo the Little Big Mouth.

but how about the Little Debbie cakes?!?!

She had some in her apron pockets when I mentioned Little Debbie cakes, and she took 'em out with a look of disdain and smeared them into my ears. Then she started gettin' jiggy with it, and I said, "But Anoop, what about...uh.... what about Little Stacey Italian Cake rolls?" She started feelin' nice and squoosie and says this, "Jim, go right ahead, eat as many of those as you like. I shoulda told you to anyway." Have you ever heard of people using Little Debbie cakes as some kind of weaponry? That stuff is messy. Oh, uhmm, by the way, I just found out a couple hours ago that both Ken and Robert love Little Stacey Italian Cake rolls.

Personally, I find them a little too bitter.

Who, Ken and Robert?

hey WER! where ya been hiding out? were you and ree-head on holiday?

Hiya, toots! In the vast confusion that's inside my head. Not that I know of.

have you emerged from the black hole? Or are you merely taking a break?

hmmm...probably best described as having bobbed to the surface again...

take the damn lead chip off of your shoulder and you might spend more time at the surface!

teasing of course. same old shit, different day? have you stumbled upon a whole new realm of woes?

of course... yeah, more or less, getting stronger though... hard to explain electronically, not to mention not being in the mood for lecturing on how to "cure" one's self...I'm sure you understand

pizza and grapefruit juice for lunch.

potato salad and half a roast beef sandwich from Little Deli

Sonja here: My sister made some fabulous steak rolls tonight - God, that girl can eat when she's depressed!! And the way she attacks her food makes you thankful it's not you lying there on her plate! I think she ate about half a kilo of meat tonight - yug! (Annoyance is the miracle cure against her state of limbo, so please excuse the disgusting details...)

you'll have to excuse us, Sonja, as the more disgusting around here the better...

GIRL! You can't tell people stuff like that! If you do it again, I'll tell them about your toe nail-biting habit....

should I open a topic?

Absolutely!

That's it, she's dead!

Yeah? And how you gonna manage that?? You and what army?

Me and myself - have you forgotten what I did to you last night already?? I'll have to teach you another lesson or two before I go; it's high time you got a bit of discipline!

ha-ha! No, I remember - I'll be good now, I promise.

See? Threats and harball - that's the way to deal with Ri�tte.

Hardball, ya mean?

LOL! Sorry about that! yep, hardball. One has to be very strict with her ALL the time, otherwise she gets completely out of hand.

I think I shall have to stop feeding you.

Uh oh, two can play hardball!

That's true. It's just that with Ri�tte it's so much more satisfying!

Look who's talking!

Hi Sonja! Welcome back Ree-head!

Hi, Stacey. Have you been here long?

since 1995, off and on again.

"off and on again" ooh, how those words make me tremble...