I figured a public mea culpa was in order as the final step in my guilt.

Go forth and annoy your cats no more. Which I know is impossible, but what can you do. I get the housemate's cat going "Why are you wearing that CPAP mask! I want to lay on your fa-a-ace! All right, I'll chew on your fingers instead."

My humours are all out of balance.

There's nothing worse than when you have more black bile than spleen.

Lean a little to the right, it might help.

I have the following things to say:

1) Congrats to Juliana and M! Welcome, Peanut.

2) I stinking love you people. Smart, funny people. Yes.

3) Hibernation brain is fully upon me, where all I want to do is sleep and eat. Why can't those be the things that are good for me and earn me money? Why do I have to work and exercise and eat healthy and stuff? Whyyyyyyyy?

That's enough numbers. brenda, I'm so sorry. I have an uncle who has serious heart problems because of Agent Orange. The ill effects of war go on forever, it seems.

Why do I have to work and exercise and eat healthy and stuff? Whyyyyyyyy?

YES. And why do I not just want to eat healthy? Why do I go "mmmm" to all the things that are not healthy?? Other than maybe clementines, which I could eat my body weight in.

And, I just worked out with a trainer, and "Bulgarian split squats" are about as evil as they sound. I wonder if they're named just to sound evil. They're probably not Bulgarian at all. Someone just came up with that shit during the cold war to torture folks in gyms.

In the "eat healthy" vein, I am looking for tools to combat the dreaded middle-aged metabolism slowdown and seek recommendations for a food tracker/calorie counter app for iphone, ideally one that lets me put in recipes, too. Did people see this article in the New York Times about the guy who tracks his eating and has done for like 5 years and lost over 150 pounds? That sort of inspired me, although the way that guy eats would not work for me at all (he's sort of paleo with ridiculous sweets binges - it was fascinating to see a detailed diary of everything someone else eats.)

Brenda, I'm sorry to hear about your uncle.

If they eat black widows I will make friends with them.

flea, I rather like My Fitness Pal [link] for their food tracking, recipe putting-in, capacity.

Welcome Alexandra D! So happy for the whole family!

I went ahead and googled your spidey friend, bt. I am on board with extermination, would not want that by my front door. Daddy long legs, on the other hand, I have always held a soft spot for them. First spider to get me over my considerable fear of them (although I should note that I still hold firmly onto my fear of *some* of them!).

Due to moving, I fell off the healthy eating wagon and have not yet managed to climb back on it fully, which really needs to happen.

Rationally, I know that if I get more sleep, my cravings for bad things are greatly reduced and therefore the best thing I can do for me health is sleep more.

Edit: "Me health". Me Cookie Monster?

On the healthy eating front, I find I eat better overall if I don't worry about calories and just try to be mindful of what I eat. Which, since I keep reading about the studies that suggest middle aged adults should eat less protein and animal fats, means that my meals end up vegetarian or vegan by default.