Smufferlishious!

I'll explain my inspiraiton for blog title later.

Meanwhile! Just got my lunch wrapped, sooo delicious! have a snap for you later, but just quickie:

From squash casserole extracted all available shrimp and fried it a bit with olive oil, kept it over the fire while I grabbed my bread laid half a cheese slice on it, and then placed the shrim pdirectly from the pan to one of the pieces of bread. Placed the other half of cheese slice on hot hot shrimp and toasted both slices till cheese melted. Then added leaves and another half slice of cheese and wrapped.

Gotta take a shower yyummm on the road lunchi s good!

*Glares at Firefox*

Ch'know, the Fox did it!! I had been typing for a while, paragraphs really, and my fingers working extra fast stumble over some side keys from the letter- keys and -suddenly!- Firefox shuts down. -_- And down goes also any inspirations I wanted to share with you about.

Its tedious trying to remember all i wanted to talk about. Meh.

But I've got an interview with someone at Catholic Charities in Newark, NJ, and its at 11 which is my one and only problem to solve. I really dont want a boring sandwhich, so I thiought of spicing it up a little and maybe make myself a calamari/ shrimp variation of a meat sandwhich, you know? Preferably calamari. Only problem is the bag of calamari is big and frozen and the bag says "do not refreeze", and ya know i have to refreeze since I dont have the appetite for 20 servings of calamari, really. But the shrimp is frozen toooo *pout*

Aha! I can use the shrimp from the casserole Mom made! Just...refine a little, maybe fry it a bit in some olive oil package it in multigrain bread along with a slice of American cheese and a touch of melted peanut butter, grab a bottle of papaya juice, and maybe I'm set to go! I wonder how many calories that is. Oh, yes, I should throw in my healthy leaves. What do you think of my menu?

It ought to work, I cant quite think of another way atm (at the moment)...Hmm. Let me know what you think!

"The Add Video button" at the top  of the WSIYG screen is tempting. I really would like to link to a recipe and a food video for fun. Hmm...

*searches again after the post-Firefox accidental close-up*

Yay! I found this and this .

Oops. 8: 12 am, must go shower, edit my resume and get out by 9:30. TTYL, folks!

My 4th (or 5th?..Didnt really count) Post of the Day, and The Breast Self- Exam

Most especially due to Saturday evening's visit to the visiting tour of the BODIES Exhibition at the Port in NYC, I've been thinking of health lately, especially as given the examples of disease on real life flesh. *Winces* Its a fascinating exhibit- one I did not want to go to because a) it struck me wrong that 30 bodies were donated for science when it could have gone to the organ wait listers b) well, I admit this is selfish, but I was, waiting for my boyfriend that night, heh -- and later on, I also found out that the Chinese government had donated these bodies ....30 from all stages of life (from emybryo to thirty something), un-claimed bodies. Sigh. Anyway....it did cause me to want to eat healthier and be healthier.

Which brings me to The Breast Exam. I was taught at an early age to get to know my breasts, especially in the shower, to examine them for irregularities. I was, until now, not very good at doing this. And it was not until  I just got out of the shower today and was patting myself dry  that I remembered to do it, of course the texture of the skin isnt the same and the intimacy isnt so duplicated well.  With cervical and lung cancer in my family's history, and my mother being tested thoroughly for breast cancer about two years ago, I know I should watch. But...I dont know. Most of the time during the school year I'd be rushing my shower, and I'd forget about the breast exam ...and then I would fall out of habit and remain out of habit, until something reminded me. What do lumps look like? When I got out of the shower I discovered an angry looking blister on my left one, which I vaguely remember scratching. I have a habit of scratching myself.

But how did that get there in the first place?

I need to schedule a physical anyway, my doctor will know. And its time I went to the gyn/o. My periods are irregular and prior to it I'd get discharge for a week or so before that was not clear.

Also my last class hasnt gotten in a grade yet, I will have to try to see her and ask why it wasn't submitted. I am worried:(

My boyfriend has been texting me all day from work, from various locations as he works. He is so sweet (Saying things like "My beautiful Trin", "I love you" , and so forth, siiiiiigh).

Anyway, off to call my Mom.

Lunch.

Hm.

I am in the mood to cook today, just for a quickie.

I want noodles in the mix though. Must-- have-- noodles

/me logs onto RecipeZaar

 UPDATE

Great recipes but all look like they'll take time. Here's what I think I'll do then:

1) Boil my pasta

2) boil my shrimp

3) Dry fry my pasta with some tomotoe sauce (almost: gotta have some olive oil!)

4) At the end toss in some cooking wine

5) Garnish plate with leaves, leaves leaves galore...and some of Mommy's cooking:)

Maybe I'll grab some crannie juice too...

I got carried away while freebie-shopping in Second LIfe today, only about made one phone call and didnt make a dent on my part time job search yet.  Wanted to examine some reportedly awesome  skins on certain freebie blogs, but as one of my avatars TP'd into the store, I saw that the creator had just rezzed in ("born" in-world, or the term of 'when you signed up', rezz days are like birthdays in Second Life, don' ch' know?) back in...March....Hmmm. And hooow did their skins look as good as someone say, like, Tuli or Starley?? Skins that kind of quality take a loooong time. Unless they were rezzed under a different avatar before hand. People do that too, switch accounts. I, personally, have 5 and am very fond of two that I use.

 But as usual taht took time:/, and its 1:34 and i've just recovered from "computer" headache enough to prep me some late lunch. Again past the 3- hour mark. Oh wells.

Update-Update

I'm going to make it a habit to resize my pics so that my favorite photo server, Village Photos  permits me to post up pics. I should probably get a Flikr account to, but eeeeeveryone uses it, and i'm not very fond of the Google ads.

Update en Finale

Well!

At 2 pm EST, I had in a simmering bowl my creation....which is yet to be named. But maybe you can name it for me. Anyhooo.....

Prep time: 30 minutes. Calories: No clue really but I think it is under my 400 Cal limit

Ingredients: estimate one serving of pasta, 3 full spoons of spaghetti sauce, about 6-7 pieces of raw, thawed out shrimp,  left- over fried heavily seasoned salmon (I know :( I shoul dhave left that out but oh wells), about a sprinkle of sea salt, estimate of Holland White Wine with a touch of Lemon .

1) Boiled the pasta.

2) Spoon out pasta onto the bowl, using same water toss in the 6-7 pieces of raw shrimp, 4-5 at a time. Took me about 7 minutes.  I then tossed the pasta back into the boiling pot and switched burners so that I could keep the pasta and shrimp hot and not-dry.

3) Took frying pan where the fish was left over night (it was cool donwstairs so dont worry), heated it up, added a little olive oil and shimmied the olive oil with the re-heated fish around.  Next,  I toss in the shrimp and let it fry for a minute with just the oil I had added.

4) added pasta, also a little of the water from the boil, to the frying pan; I let that simmer. Then tossed in the 3 spoonfuls of tomatoe sauce and then "fried"/tossed the pasta and shrimp around with that

5) I then took the wine and while critically eyeing the pan, I guess I liberally sprinkled the dish with the wine...but it must have been maybe a half cup. I didnt really measure...not the way I cook these days:/ .

Then I just tossed it around in the wine for a minute or two, then quickly shut off the stove and poured it immediately into the bowl. The thing looked soo good, that I ran up the stairs to grab my cam and I took a photo. I'll show it here asap as soon asi can find my connecting cord.

Took the first taste. MMMM! I had cranberry juice, with some left over Green Tea (which I had with my breakfast) and had some organic leaves on top. I made it a game with the leaves; I'd cover the top of the bowl with them and eat through, when the leaves were gone I'd cover it again. At least for the most part, some times I'd forget. But wow, I'm happy with this dish.

Did it help? I dont know, it certainly i think is better htan what I have had by myself and I admit it was nice to cook differently than the past few days. Per serving teh wine was 20 calories, the tomatoe sauce (i think at 2 teaspoons?) was at 80 calories, the pasta alone was definitely 140 calories.  Fish and shrimp combined I think accounted for the rest. I admit I think there was a high sodium count. :(  The fish probably exasberated the sodium count I shoul dwatch it next time. I would rather not need a transplant organ, as first off the waiting lists are too long,and ...well I dont want to gross anyone out.

I'm off to take my first shower of the day. its about 2:55 am.

Oh. You say what about my breakfast?

1) Green tea, first time in a while

2) toasted multigrain bread with a spread of Cheez-Whizz

3) Dannon Light & Fit strawberry yogurt, which was 60 calories and has Splenda. That's actually a family favorite.

And...i think that was it. Not bad really. Though I suppose full bodied yogurt with its natural sugar woudl have been better for me.

Right, off I go.

Grr

Balancing between what's blog-safe and what's not is going to be hard fo rme, as my health balances on my pschology as well. And a lot of pressure comes from unsaid expectactions of my Valedictorian mother (and it doesnt help that my siblings have 4.0s and I only graduated with a 3. 45 .... )

I just got off the phone with my dear mother, after getting off the phone from the a Director of Catholic Social Services, where I am seeking to volunteer time with for the summer.

Now, its a long story, but the reason why I am trying to get any volunteer work is so that, hopefully, I update my references so I can get to take a year with AmeriCorps, or similar volunteer organization. And then get my foot in the door in non profit work...and the reason why the above declaration is soo important because, well, my mother's relationship with  me is somewhat....well, let us say that I wish I am not the eldest and having to be the guinea pig for all the parenting exercises :(. And at 21 I really ought to have her off my back!

Sorry, that was explosive I know. And probably half of you dont want to hear this rant, as I know probably most of you are mothers yourselves.

 But....little snippets of conversation:

Me: Hi, Mom, do [siblings] have a delayed opening tomorrow?

Mom: No not realy, only today.

Me: Ok, thanks, i have an interview of sorts with a non profit at 11 am tomorrow.

Mom: Oh, ok, where?

Me: East Orange.

Mom: Oh...that is a shady place [in my head: here we go....]

(back and forth we go about it...I complain about her hovering over me, she replies back that even adults are not exempt from being harmed from)

Me: MOM! I hope you dont expect that I have to stay away from those [shady] places in the type of work I'm getting into?!!!

Mom: Well...no....but still you have to be careful ....

(We hang up and then she calls back 2 seconds later)

Mom: Is this paid?

Me: (in my head: AGGGH!) No. [curt-like...i hang up without saying goodbye]

I guess I need to back track and expliain the whole steam that i'm having, as probably to most of you i'm overreacting. But I have to think of what to say as i dont want to say too much, even though my Mom will never read this blog. I do love her after all.

Sigh. Why oh why do we have the same personality?!!!

Also...

I admit I'll have some difficulty usinjg EVERYTHING that's on this site. What draws me to Extra Pounds really is the fact that it seems to demonstrate some sense of community-- the blog features and the blog ITSSELF being the main attractions. How do I work the rest in?

Hm.

Well, for one thing I coudl stop taking humonguous photos.  But then again my digi cam makes giant photos by default.

Have to clean up this desk (while tryin not to be hungry as i've eaten only about an hour ago) and go make some phone calls.

Well....

Things COULD have been better-- I ended up starting today and instead of Saturday. But, hey, its a good start, right?

I am going ot have to start getting used to confiding to you guys. Not un-worthy blog material, of course, but to the extent that this blog will help me. There. I said it: to get my scruples  ironted out.

What an emotional weekend! I must say, maybe I am too emotional some times. Or maybe its because I have gotten my period-- strangely I believe only 2 weeks from my last one, well my periods were irregular anyway:/ (no, i havent seen a gyn/o yet....i should, hm i need to schedule my physical)-- that I think I've been especially cranky.  And then, again, I really get wired out if I dont hear from my boyfriend in a couple of days. This is a new phase of life for us, we're both doing new things so its a little hard:/, and his and my family keeps us busy. THis is a problem and I've told him in a text- we are going ot have a couples' chat about it.  But I do feel bad in the end as I wasnt as available for my poor overworked mother, due to my crankiness.  Tried avoiding her and everything.

Well, today, I logged about again on my bed after waking up --which was nice and late because my siblings had a delayed opening which means my 4 am bedtime (yes, I know!) didnt really affect my body at all, I was feeling refreshed when i woke up at 9:30ish am. At that point I still didnt feel like getting up, heh, but I forced myself to, and did a routine out of  one of the JOrge Cruise's "8 Minutes in the Morning".

And I had just paused in typing this to scrape the bottom of my Dannon(c) Light&Fit Strawberry Yogurt cup, and somehow my spoon fell to the floor. Shows how clumsy I am.

The way (almost said weight) the Jorge Cruise plan works is....Eat every 3 hours, in different portions....200 Cal for Breakfast 400 Cal for lunch and dinner, 100 Call for (tries to remember).... midmorning snack midafternoon snack....rule is , between the major meals every 3 hours you consume a healthy 100 Calories. And at the end of the day you treat yourself to a 50-Calorie treat, which can be literally anything.

The Excercise part comes out of his book, or books. I am totally not wanting to shell out cash right now for another as I admit the idea of just having one, and therefore just a handful of  his routines,of his books bores me and I wish I had more but at the moment I really am trying not to spend money:/. Midn you, I'm also trying t oget a part time job here, but I have a feeling that, according to the Wall Street Journal, summer jobs are scarce (though if I designed in Second Life, Entropia, or IMVU I probably would be speaking of different figures).

Anyway, Exercise is RIGHT AWAY when you get up, just 8 minutes of it,daily working on a different muscle set..and then afterwards make sure you eat your first meal precisely one hour after you wake up. Todya of course that did not happen as i actually first woke up at 8:30 am  but did not want to wake up permanently till 9:30 am. I woke up periodically of course to answer some texts that my boyfriend sent me but went back and dozed out.

Speaking of Second Life, I admit that and IMVu.com is my latest addictions. Mind you, I have no time to do textures or study fashion so I could become a popular designer in these, but I do admit I enjoy being in it and seeing the builds. As soon, also, tha tI can find my connecting cord -_-, I will share you some pictures of a previosu dinner that I admit probably should not have stayed on the fire for very long....anyhoo, let me share you some other things....

Oh. My pictures are too big to share:/.

Well, perhaps next time. But I do insist you take a look at this link

Para tu informacion that is the site of my alter ego, make sure to visit photos and realize how addicted (and addicting!) Second Life is...which, btw, is no longer just a game.

Another Start

Well, I am going to start exercising tomorrow. Been better about my sleeping, on my diet..well, i'm going to try harder. I've been on and off about that. Right admittedly I think I've tired myself out so that I cant think, but I know I wont sleep because i have that type of restless mind and I know myself....I do not have the imagination to entertain myself with stories to fall asleep, anymore:(.

How am I going to exercise? by just doing it. I already have the routines..just start, start, start start. Hopefuly it works.

I also hope my boyfriend will get on tonight, as i havent seen him in a while with RL getting in the way for the both of us. Meh.

Good night!:)

Phew

Well.

Lol, i'm back!

:) More updates a little later. Atm i spent too much time on the computer so its nappy time for me.

Beautiful morning!

Well, today is a beautiful day to start off. Its 8:11 am, I have just eaten breakfast after dropping my siblings off. Did I exercise? no, I admit:(. Nor I admit I do not feel like doing anything now. That's how offI feel, though I feel well-rested, despite the fact that I talked to my boyfriend for almost two hours yesterday while I was in bed. I think that helped my sleep actually:). Talking to him always helps.

Off I go....ttyl!