Diets, Food and Everyday Life!

THE 4-YEAR-OLD’S
WORKDAY.
BY ROSS MURRAY

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8:55 a.m. Arrive at office. Hang jacket on sunshine-shaped hook with name on it. Put snack in cubbyhole. Sing “Good Morning” song with co-workers.

9:04 a.m. Forward hilarious e-mail to everyone in address book. Subject line: “Poo-poo.”

9:10 a.m. Take spreadsheets out of Star Wars backpack. Stretch out on floor and begin making notations with crayon.

9:15 a.m. Drink juice box.

9:25 a.m. Spend hour lining up office supplies on desk in perfect straight line. Toy with idea of sorting them by color but get distracted by imaginary conversation between stapler and three-hole punch. Complicated scenario ensues involving a lion, a puppy, and the mommy Hi-Liter kissing the daddy Hi-Liter.

10:40 a.m. Randy from accounting drops by and “borrows” pen with the springy pink feather on top. Grab pen back. Scream in each other’s faces until Randy takes a swing with copy of Needs-Assessment Analysis. Supervisor intervenes and sends Randy to the smoke room for a time-out.

11:05 a.m. Intend to begin debugging online program for cross-referencing customer demographics. Get caught up in Polly Pocket website instead.

12:00 p.m. Lunch. Trade PB & J for tuna with Jerry from human resources. Friendly banter about who could take who in a fight: the Poky Little Puppy or the Cat in the Hat. Notice Donna is wearing Finding Nemo T-shirt for fourth straight day.

1:00 p.m. Write up statistical profile of user satisfaction based on regional trends. Entitle report “I Like Flowers.”

1:30 p.m. Naptime.

2:12 p.m. Staff meeting proves unproductive due to constant requests to go pee.

2:40 p.m. Telephone headquarters to discuss department budget for upcoming fiscal year. While talking, draw picture of house. Feel special pride in the way the smoke spirals out of chimney. Tape picture to wall next to trophy for company T-ball championship.

3:00 p.m. Attend mandatory Employees’ Committee workshop entitled “Ear Infections Are EVERYBODY’S Business.” Session comes to abrupt halt when VP of finance jams eraser up nose.

3:30 p.m. E-mail from director of marketing: “I’m not accusing anyone but my blanky was in the copy room and now it’s not. I hope whoever ‘accidentally’ took it will please return it, no questions asked. Otherwise I’m telling.”

4:05 p.m. Ask Marco in adjoining cubicle to stop making “vroom-vroom” noises when he moves the mouse.

4:45 p.m. Try to duck out early, thus avoiding mandatory singing of “Cleanup” song with co-workers. Busted by supervisor, who announces that no one is leaving until everyone is sitting quietly.

4:55 p.m. Retrieve jacket from hook. Supervisor helps with zipper. Wave bye-bye to Cheryl at the front desk. Step into elevator. Press all the buttons

I did really good most of the weekend, except for Sunday it was my dad’s birthday party and it was like an all day food fest. We just ate and ate, I really need to up the amount of vegetables I have been eating for the last couple of days. Although I have been drinking all my water for the last two days. I am back to eating phase one of the south beach diet, once again I cannot stress how great it has been very easy to stick to and I get to eat a lot of different things.

South Beach, boy oh boy, I had the best dinner yesterday!

I put about a tbs of olive oil in the bottom of my favorite caste iron pan and then sauted a half of onion and about four cloves of garlic, remember that if you eat lots of garlic all winter long you will never get sick. Once the garlic and onions were just turning translucent I added two partially frozen chicken breast and a can of chicken broth, covered it tightly with a lid and then turned it up to medium high and stirred very occasionally. In a second pan I heated up some French cut green beans, in about 15 minutes my chicken was done and my onions and garlic had caramelized in the broth so I added them to the green beans after i drained the beans. And WOW, it was a fantastic mean one to make you mouth water at just the thought of it.

I hope that if you make it yourselves you will enjoy it!

Plus I totally stayed on track yesterday.

So I started phase one yesterday and I can never do anything the right way, I am almost out of food in my house.

But with the exception of some brown rice in my chicken soup,
Everything I ate yesterday was on phase one!

No candy, no starches, no fruit!

So I am going to do that all over again today and stick to it, tonight I think I am going to make chicken and vegetables with beans ( I will have to go shopping for the beans)

So I hope everyone out their has a very beachy day and sticks too it