Thanks everybody for the words of encouragement. I've been clean and on-plan since Monday and feel SOOO much better. Helps so much to have most of the temptation out of the house.
We had a family friend die over the weekend. He is responsible for introducing my Sister to the man who became her husband. My Sister met him when she was in college, he was an amazingly talented actor and could get just about any lead role he wished in college productions despite being 6' and 350 Lbs. He also served as the lead singer in a couple of rock bands. He had a brilliant mind and eventually became a professor at that same college. As the years went on, his weight increased and his health declined. He quit working at some point and eventually just stopped leaving the house. I'm told that not many people had seen him in the past couple of years. They are guessing he weighed over 500 pounds at the time of his death, he was 46.
My Sister's husband has been having gall bladder problems for the past couple of years. He knows it only flares up when he eats high fat meals, yet he has opted for surgery to remove it over diet change. I will say that they probably eat healthier than most people, no fast food, very little processed food, lots of veggies, but still pretty rich in meat, cheese, butter, dairy and oils. His surgery is scheduled for Monday.
#1 Son informed us this morning that him and DiL are getting divorced...again. Yes they have been divorced before and gotten remarried.
Enough with the gloomy stuff...
The Saturday before Christmas, when we had out party, my wife, SIL, DIL and DIL friend (We'll call her Brit), all went shopping. They came back to the house well before the party was supposed to start. I was in the kitchen talking to DIL and Brit was with her. I walked over to Brit and shook her hand and asked how she was doing. I haven't seen her for a while, my wife and I actually catered her wedding three year ago, but I probably haven't seen her or her husband for 1 1/2 years. She seemed a little cold and distant.
A while later we are all sitting around and Brit looks and me and says, "Oh! you're Dis!" Everyone laughed. A Couple of hours later her husband (Fred) gets there I shake his hand and greet him. About 15 minutes later he says, "Oh! you're Dis!" It happened again later on with a third person. I guess I do look a lot different.
The other day we were shipping a box to my BiL (the one who visited for Christmas) the wife asked me to check to see if I had any more shirts that were too big (to send to him), I was pulling them out of the closet when I found a pair of my old Khaki's with a 54" waist. I remember buying them, I remember not being able to buy clothes at normal stores. Seems like a lifetime ago.
We did something different for New Years day. We had two families invite over and each individual person was required to make a dish. The food would then be tasted and judged by everybody. Kind of a cooking competition. We had three categories, Entree, Side and Dessert. All dishes were judged on a scale of 1 to 5 and a section for comments. At the end all score tabulated and winners announced. Some of the funnier comments were read aloud.
This turned out really well. Everybody had a lot of fun. We had 25 different dishes made by 25 different people. Although I suspect the 6 year old had some help. I made red beans and rice, I had a couple of people comment that they could have used more salt. The only other dishes I could eat were vegetarian baked habanero beans, fruit compote and sugar-free, gluten-free, non-fat, vegan cookies. I've got to be honest. I love my DiL, but those cookies were just wrong. I really appreciate the effort, and I let her know and I ate a few of the cookies, but they were horrible. Tasted like sour congealed oatmeal. Uuuugh. #4's GF was going to make something I could eat, but was too hungover from New Years eve to go to town to get ingredients.
Speaking of New Years Eve. A bunch of us were sitting around drinking, having a good time. The wife (who was not drinking) made chili and buffalo wings for everyone. I was hungry and asked the wife to chop up a small head of red cabbage, because I was too intoxicated to safely use a knife. Then I made a rough approximation of
http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/2009/01/red-cabbage-and-peas-with-cumin-and.html.So I'm sitting there eating with everybody else and #4 looks into my serving bowl of food and says, "It looks like you're eating death." I assured him it was good, and asked if anybody wanted to taste. #4'sGF wanted to try, she liked it so much I had to get her, her own bowl of it. I think my SiL tried it, but didn't like it. She only ever eats snack foods anyways.
Weather is supposed to be nice this weekend, so might get some golf in. I hope everybody has a good weekend.
by jewagar » Fri Dec 14, 2012 8:17 pm 
