Relive my first (really earned) Cheat Meal!

What does "really earned" mean? Really earned means I ate clean the entire week; not one morsel passed these lips that I was not supposed to be eating. For some reason, it was not that hard this week either. Not sure why that is but hey, I'm not going to spend brain power trying to analyze it. I'll just accept it and hope that whatever it was stays with me.

But back to my cheat meal - I've been wondering all week what I would eat. The only thing I've been wanting this week that I kept telling myself I could have on Saturday night is ice cream. Well, that can be part of my cheat meal but I'm entitled to way more than that! What sinful food have I been depriving myself of that I can pig out on Saturday night?

I'm very happy to say that not a lot of things came to mind which means that my normal diet has indeed become my "normal" diet. I'm not depriving myself of anything! Well, that's just great! I have a cheat meal coming and don't know what to eat! Jeez!

I did find out however that it's not really a particular food I crave, it's the convenience of certain foods that I struggle with. For example, Friday night at the end of the work week, I wanted to order chinese rather than cook. I don't particularly love Chinese but the only other "delivery" food is pizza and I just won't go there anymore. So the urge to order Chinese last night was pretty strong but I decided that Chinese was not worth losing that cheat meal, even though I had no idea what that would be. I did know that it would include ice cream though!

So I survived last night and then there was Saturday. I was alone which meant I didn't have to cook but I still had to eat! "No cook" food is not usually healthy or "clean" so I refused to go there this morning. I made it through breakfast and lunch eating clean so I was now down to figuring out what my cheat meal would be. I needed to figure this out so I could "plan" it with DBF, or we'd end up at the Mexican joint. No way was I going to blow my cheat meal at a mexican joint!

Where to go? What to eat? It needed to be good enough to sustain me for another week and to reward myself for my clean eating this week. What could it be? Really! I had this much trouble figuring it out! But then it came to me; Bar-B-Q Chicken Nacho's from Bugaboo Creek Restaurant. I conveniently found a $5 off coupon to convince DBF to go there and off we went. Before we ordered however, they placed bread on the table. Now I'm not normally a big bread eater but tonight was a different story. I enjoyed bread w/butter slathered all over it. It was some type of brown bread so it could have been whole wheat but I really didn't care for a change. I would have eaten it if it had been white with purple polk-a-dots. It was my cheat meal after all.

Then came the nacho's. There was a huge plate of them covered in Bar-B-Q chicken, sauce and cheese. There was a cup of salsa and a cup of sour cream. Salsa! I eat that all the time but sour cream? Now, that's something worthy enough to be part of a cheat meal! So was the second cup of sour cream I asked for. Mmm...Mmm Good!

I boxed the remainder up and brought it home but I will trash it tomorrow. Although I should have left it at the restaurant, I just couldn't bring myself to do it. But tomorrow is not my cheat meal. Tomorrow it's back to clean eating so in the trash it goes.

But wait! I know what you're thinking; "she's forgotten about the ice cream!" Oh no, that ice cream is calling my name right this very minute! So please excuse me while I go enjoy every bite!

very calmly discuss the STUPID PEOPLE!!!!!

He said, she said!
He did, she did!

Who gives a flying flip who did what or why, just get it done!

A famous quote concerning stupid people from Brainy Quote.com:

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid. John Wayne

In my workplace, we have our share of stupid people. You know the ones; the ones who really stand out, the ones who give you the impression they know it all until they open their mouths and normally don't know when to shut it again. The ones who have all the ideas until it's time to get to work. (Wait, they may be kind of smart there!)

Then we also have the ones who are not really stupid, they just don't think. I'll call these people idiots because they really do have the smarts to know better, they just choose not to. Yes, these people are idiots.

Then there are the smart people who have temporary lapses of sanity and go over to the stupid side. These are the hardest to deal with because normally it is these smart people who help to manage all the stupid people and the idiots on a daily basis. When one of these people go over, it's major crisis time. The stupid vultures, I mean people, swarm all over the smart person like they are trying to suck the smart out of him. Even if the smart person realizes he's gone over to the stupid side, he's enjoying the sucking up so much that he can't seem to pull himself away. And by the way, I am not using "he" here as a generic term. Usually it is a "he" who goes over to the stupid side and falls for this lavish attention every time.

So what is a relatively normal person to do when this happens? Well, a good employee, manager or team leader will dig in and fight until she pulls that smart person back onto the other side and then give him a piece of her mind until he wakes up from his daze and understands he has indeed been wallowing on the stupid side of the office.

However, there are times when enough is enough. During those times, a good team leader will just let them have it, have their way I mean. Let them have their way with the idea, the task, the project, the office, the whole damn town really. Who cares? Just leave and let them have it.

But yes, I will care when I go back and have to help clean up the mess but for now, let them have fun. My enjoyment will come when the smart guy realizes he messed up and asks for help. Will I help him? Oh yes, because I am one of the smart ones. Will I do it for him? Hell no, because I am one of the smart ones. Will he learn from it? Hell no, because he is a man!

Oh wait! I must go now. I see an IM coming in from a certain smart/stupid/idiot coworker who has already realized the error of his ways. This is gonna be fun!

Prove I can do it myself!

In my past, I've been known to act on impulse. Well I don't have a reputation or anything like that. I just know myself that sometimes I do things on impulse rather than thinking them through. Usually this involves purchasing something. Most of the time, purchases made on impulse are not really needed and end up in Goodwill or given to a child or grandchild. IPods, Game Boys, Nintendo DS...these are just some of the items that come to mind that are currently being enjoyed by my grandchildren.

As I mentioned above, I've been working on this impulse thing. Now, when I see something I "think" I want, I wait 24 hours. If I still want it then, I may go buy it, or I will at least start researching it. I figure by the time I've researched to find the best model, price, etc., I'll either not want it anymore or I'll have found the best deal. After all that, if I still want it, I get it. That's one of the wonderful things about being 52 years old and 29 years into a career. I can afford what I want, when I want it; within reason anyway.

Anyway, I've been debating the purchase of a Satellite radio for many months now. I really wanted one and knew I would get one, but I will also be purchasing a new car before too much longer. A lot of the new cars have one installed so I didn't want to purchase one now and then not need it in the new car. And then there's the whole XM vs Sirius thing to consider! Which one? DBF's car came with Sirius so we already have an account with them, and I can add another radio for next to nothing. But our Surround Sound System in the house has an XM tuner so I could activate that one and then my car to that account. Decisions! Decisions!

What's my point you say? I'm getting there! Sirius in their very smart marketing minds, put their radios on sale for Father's Day. The very next day after I saw that ad, I purchased (on an impulse after researching it for six months or more) a Sirius radio for the car, but this one can also be used in the home! I bought it in time for my trip to S. Ga. on Fathers Day so I could listen to it on the way down. The one thing I forgot however, was that it needed to be installed!

I didn't have time to get it installed before I left on Father's Day so I quickly read the "Getting Started" booklet and temporarily installed the radio and all associated antenna's in the truck I was driving to S. Ga. Wires were covering the dash, running from the back window to the front dash, from the power outlet to the dash, everywhere! That was fine on a temporary basis but I couldn't install it that way in my Mustang, the car I drive everyday.

I thought about going back to Best Buy to have it installed but then I thought, why? You can do this! So I did! I installed the antenna on the trunk lid and ran (and hid) the wires all the way to the front. I installed the FM Antenna and hid those wires! I did it all and it looks like my son did it for me. And best of all, it works!

You've got to love the power of a woman!