Pulp Kitchen

It was quite a day.  Had the pleasure of watching the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre outdoors with the house they filmed the movie in just a few feet away.  Also, some of the actors and the writer were at the event to answer questions and such.  We had a blast, as you can imagine.  I just saw this movie for the first time some months back and was blown away by 1. how creepy and artful the movie was, and 2. the fact that I had not watched it sooner.  Definitely in my top 5 favorite horror movies, and it makes it even better that they filmed it just outside of Austin.  They just don’t make movies like that anymore. 

Yesterday was a good food day.  I didn’t disappoint.  Today was basically a vacation (we did leave town!) so I didn’t care if I was a little bad, and besides, I had a great workout this morning.  Per Priscilla’s brilliant suggestion, we went to the famed Blue Bonnet Cafe in Marble Falls and had some amazing comfort food.  I just had to have the country-fried steak sandwich with fries and a small salad.  The cafe is famous for their pies, so we made sure the indulge properly.  I had the peach and Derek had the banana cream.  Mine was good but his was ridiculously good, and I was jealously glancing over at it while he ate.  I wanted to take one of his “man bites” in which he’ll take a bite of something of mine and damn near eat half the item in one fell swoop, but I resisted the urge.  The place was more like a diner, and you could just tell it has been there forever.  So much charm.  Other than that I ate a couple eggs and half a whole grain english muffin, smoked salmon avocado toast, pistachios, a handful of Ross’ corn nuts, a brisket taco with pickled onions and jicama slaw, half a pbj, and a couple beers at the show.  Not too shabby.  And now I’m about to go into a Benadryl coma and wake up tomorrow to do some serious school reading. 

Check out my new school shoes!  New Balance’s True Balance Toning Shoe.  It’s going to be much nicer walking in these, as opposed to the flats I’ve been trying to trek the hills and stairs with.  Plus, supposedly, it’s also going to help me have an amazing ass.  We’ll see about that.  Derek found this great deal online for only half of what they’re selling these, even on Amazon.  He’s good like that.  I feel like I’m in grade school, getting new shoes for school.  I love it.

I had a good food day.  Cereal, avocado salmon toast, a couple Cuban crackers, another one of those amazing spinach salads (minus the turkey bacon and egg), and this kick-ass swordfish sandwich on a pretzel bun with tomato, avo, and herb lemon aioli with just a couple of leftover skillet potatoes.  I’m officially a huge swordfish fan.  So damn meaty, no wonder it’s called a swordfish steak.  Plus, it’s at a good price at Central Market so I see much more swordfish in our future.  Derek had a show tonight also, which went really well by the way, so I had a couple (3) vodka rocks.  Keeping it low-cal.  And finally I’m about to have some pistachios for a midnight (1am) snack. 

And again, I’m so beat.  I hope by next week I get used to waking up early, because right now it’s killing me.  By the way, GO MAVS!

Which would you like first?  The bad news or the good news?

Let’s get the bad news over with.  I fell off the wagon tonight.  Despite what I’ve been eating lately, I feel I’ve been very conscious of it, and haven’t done frivolous eating on the side.  Until today.  It started with my Mom “surprising” me with Cuban crackers last night.  I grew up with Cuban crackers and haven’t had any for, oh, say 10 years.  They’re nothing really special, just these plain large crunchy crackers, but it reminds me of Vegas and being young, and I love them.  As you would guess it, they are not health food.  And I have a huge bag of them on the counter.  There is a reason why we don’t buy snack food.  So, that’s one thing.  And tonight at work I definitely let myself down by diving into some mac and cheese and later on a couple blue cheese chips and then after that some homemade German chocolate cake.  Ugh.  See, this is what makes me feel guilty, I wasn’t hungry, I just wanted to eat these sinful things.  And I didn’t talk myself out of it.  Oh well.  Lesson learned.

Good news:  I had my first day at school!  It went very well, considering it was 11 or so years ago I roamed the halls of a university.  I like my teachers and their enthusiasm for Political Science and Communication, respectively.  But the work load will be a lot, considering they’re 6 week courses.  And if tonight is any indication of how I’m going to feel after being at school all day and work all night, well, I’m in for a helluva ride… a very exhausting ride.  Oh, and let me mention that with the current political climate and how education funds are up in the air in Texas, they don’t know how much or when I’ll be getting my financial aid… for this term!  That’s already started!  As in they “hope” they’ll get to it within the month.  So I basically gotta wing it til then and do some “hoping” myself.  But like Derek told me earlier, “we will figure it out.”  Yes we will.  And back to being healthy, Texas State is situated on a giant hill and inundated with endless stairs to climb.  I think I may have lost 5 pounds just walking around today.  So this is definitely a good thing, as every week I’ll be walking miles and climbing a billion stairs.  Oh I can see the pounds shedding already!  :)