January 16, 2011 - Kill the snooze button

At the moment I have six different alarms set in my phone and they each have 15 minutes of snooze. Today I pressed the snooze button a total of five times. I really need to just get up, yes? I've taken to wearing my gym clothes to bed so I do not have the its-too-cold-too-get-dressed excuse.

I have set my snooze time to one minute because I cannot turn it off altogether.

The bed-making resolution is really not working out. I have decided that the rumpled sheets and excess of pillows add an insouciant, devil-may-care ambiance to the room, in the manner of an overstyled magazine shoot.

More successful has been the decision to eat more plants. This is what showed up in my home-delivered produce box this week:

3 days on the wagon.

January 2, 2011 - Une annee sans chocolat

A whole gosh-darn year without chocolate. Or cocoa. Or carob. Not that I eat carob. Carob is the decaf-chicory-dandelion-coffee of the chocolate world. I don't even feed it to my dog. You shouldn't either, because it's nasty.

Still on the menu: gummi bears. Rice pudding. Pavlova. Pavlova is really more like a salad I feel, what with all that fruit. The cream is important too for calcium. And protein. Really it's mostly egg whites too, pure protein. It's really a health food. Much more so than those creepy faux-chocolate-low-carb-power-muscle-fuel-burn things they sell at the supermarket.

I'm not sure why more weight-loss books don't advocate adding more pavlova to one's diet.

Instead of chocolate we made pasta.