I found a recipe for some kind of vegetarian “meat” loaf, and decided to try it out. This is how most of the recipes sounded, I’m not sure why they are going so far to try to imitate meat, the thing they hate. It also took me quite a while at the store since I didn’t know where all the fake meat was as I had never looked for it before. The vegetables weren’t very expensive though, so I could get behind that.

April had already eaten, so it was just for me. The “meat”-loaf was pretty to put together, and didn’t LOOK too bad, as shown in my in-no-way-horrible-or-staged photo below:

Spoiler alert: It was disgusting.

I forgot to weigh myself last night, too. I was too busy fighting off ants and disposing of wasted food.

Lunchtime is fast approaching, and I have no idea what to get, as I usually eat a sandwich or get something out that involves meat. I am welcome to suggestions. Perhaps I will try that gross looking veggie patty sub at Subway.

Maybe I’ll weigh myself later and post that to try to track this better.

I bet if we saw something else that wasn’t human or an identifiable animal we’d think it was ridiculous too. Like Cookie Monster.  That just looks bizarre when he chows down on those cookies!  Okay, so he’s not really eating them so much as he is breaking them in his mouth and letting them fall to the floor, making a horrible mess.

Mmm, I want cookies now.

I’m sorry, this post really sucks.  I’m a little depressed about it.

Sometime later, after a trip to Putt Putt and the arcade afterwards, I noticed the great prizes you could win after accumulating many tickets from games of chance and/or dumb luck, like Skee Ball, or that one where you drop your token in onto the mass of coins and hope that they tip over into the hole and come out, or something. I never understood that one so I never bothered. I figured, “hey, these tickets are worthless on their own, but if I get good enough at these games, I can get enough tickets to cash them in for great prizes, then I will sell those for real money!” There were many fatal flaws with this plan. For one thing, I wasn’t any good at these games. Another, it was like 20 tickets for a piece of old gum. I never came close to the 450,000 needed for that sweet mini-stereo.

Now I am working on my “Get Rich Very Slowly” scheme, which entails exchanging programming work for a monthly paycheck at reasonable rates of pay. It’s not going as fast as I would like.

Anyway, since I’m tired and don’t feel like whipping up a rant:  what are you guys doing this weekend?

Last week, it was unavoidable as Dr. Mario was turned on when she wanted people to play Monkey Ball, or something.  I suffered a devastating defeat.  It wasn’t even close.  I didn’t even know you could press up to make the pills drop instantly.  I wanted to die.  It didn’t help that immediately after Matt crushed me in similar fashion.  Had April not been with me on the way home, I probably would have driven my car into a tree.

I just thought I would man up to my loss and admit on the world wide web that Lauren Franza is great at Dr. Mario, and I am in turn, not great.

However, this music is still awesome:

I will train harder for next time!

The waste in question refers to my refusal to eat the bottom sixth of a box of cereal, because by this point it is inedible.  It’s all crumbs at that point.  If I were to pour it into my bowl and fill it up with some milk, it would just form a disgusting crumby paste that is hardly appetizing.  Cereals that consist of uniform shapes or pieces such as Cheerios or Coooooookie Crisp are usually spared from this fate, but for more flimsy cereals like Corn Flakes?  Forget it!

Because of this, the box usually ends up thrown away, much to the shagrin of any onlookers.  I must assure you that this amount is fairly trivial, though it is greatly exaggerated at every retelling of the complaint, with “bottom half of the box” being the largest, and most ludicrous, claim.  Dear friends, this is not true!  People make it sound like I am throwing away whole, delicious, cooked turkeys in front of starving African orphans.  It’s really more like when you are eating a banana, and sometimes there’s that little bit at the bottom of it that you don’t quite pry loose from the peel, so you just toss it rather than getting banana peel gunk on your face going in for the kill.

I can’t be the only one who does this.  Is there anyone out there who enjoys eating that cornflake mush?   I can’t bring myself to do it, but I should not be vilified for it.