Make your own Han Solo in carbonite chocolate bars.

Don't tell anyone, but I'm wearing pink gingham socks.

Three more meetings today. Well, four, really, hopefully. Oh, god, oh, god, I'm going to die.

I'm currently a marketing sucker. I'm drinking a beverage called Hint. It says it's pomegranate tangerine, but who the fuck knows? It tastes like water and something. But it doesn't have sugar or sweeteners or calories, so I paid a buck plus for it. Or, you know, I could have had water.

I'm also likely to buy a phone on the way home from work.

This conversation about diet and such comes at just the right time for me.

I wish I could say that I don't know what to do to lose the 20lbs I would like to drop and keep it off. I do. I just haven't wanted to do it.

You'd think, given I've just come back from the brink, that I'd have enough motivation. Not so. And I'm not sure why.

No. That isn't totally right. I've been so long in a static mode, nga...nothing changing for the better in my financial life...just stagnant, that I have taken my satisfaction in food and tv.

It really does seem time to buck up and DO it, just because. The external motivation sure doesn't seem to be showing up.

I prefer diet soda to corn syrup soda, but soda with sugar to either. I mostly just drink water, though.

I have started some turkey/chicken/leek broth and begun Hec's stuffing into bread pudding recipe, though I cut the custard component in half because I've never cared much for custard. Lunch will be some not approved for any healthy diet mashed potatoes smothered in turkey and gravy.

Eat food; not too much; mostly plants.

This. I need to get back to eating almost everything on a bed of spinach or mache.

Who was asking about the nutritional properties of V8? According to my nutritionist friend, no, you don't really get 2 servings of vegetables from V8. But it's better for you than soda!

I still sneak around with Dr. Pepper, despite what I said about kicking that bum to the curb...but I'm SO glad to have my SodaStream. I really do prefer it over juices and commercial sodas.

I'm really only interested in soda if there's alcohol in it.

so...i've been considering "putting myself back out there", but the only way i see to feasibly do that is to join a dating website. any recommendations or success stories? i'm terrible at these things because i'm terrible at "selling" myself.

I've met a lot of people off OK Cupid over the past year... It's free, so there's that. It also attracts a slightly more interesting crowd than other sites (although there is plenty of overlap).

I prefer diet soda to corn syrup soda, but soda with sugar to either.

Which is why I drink so many soft drinks when we're overseas. They use real sugar, and still have fewer calories than American corn syrup drinks. (I'm very, very thankful that we've found a British foods store fairly near home. I can get Lilt on a semi-regular basis!)

Bear in mind that Jesse has some sort of OK Cupid superpower--or I do. In the opposite direction. Because I can't make that shit work.

I just got back 1/2 an hour. I don't know what to do with it. I want a nap. But I need to copy and paste instead. And then search and replace. And convert to tables.