NOTE: You will freak out totally when you read what actually is in “food.” They will list salt. Then I cut that number in half and went all OCPD on reading labels and researching the calories of everything that was going to be entering my mouth… Then I found out how many calories I needed to maintain that weight. I found out how much I should weigh for my height. I’d actually been anorexic since my teen years, a walking skeleton with skin, so it was kind of exciting when breasts sprouted-Wow! What are those things?-but then everything else sprouted too. I had stopped smoking and had gained 80 pounds. (Think about that one, eh? Yikes!) And this, too, would program us to associate food with “love” even though it wasn’t love at all, it was Mom’s inexperience (bless her heart).īack in… I think it was 2008, I was way over my recommended weight. Back in my New Age days, someone told me that when we are babies if, every time we cried, no matter what was going on-a pin stuck in us, actual hunger, boredom, fear, etc.-our mothers just popped a bottle into our mouths, we would forever reach for food (or drink) when anything bothered us. We need only so many calories per day to sustain life. Making things from scratch eliminates aaaalllll that toxic crap “they” put into food now to addict us to their brands.īy the way, food does NOT equal love! Food equals calories. ( NOT the cans that have been pre-flavored (= salted all to hell!) but the plain ones.) I used to grow my own tomatoes when I lived in the country. I make my own pasta sauce from canned tomatoes. (Tahini is sesame seed paste.) Toasting sesame seeds is one of the most exciting (read, stressful) things I’ve ever done in the kitchen. I also make my own tahini that goes in it. When I say different recipes, I mean from scratch. If it turns out that you don’t like it, you’ll be the only one complaining. One new hobby might be to try making different recipes from different cultures. When you have a to-do list set up, do the sh*ttiest thing first.Īnother hint along those lines is, when you have several things to do that are similar, like shelling peas or snapping beans, organize these into “length of time required” and do them from longest time required to shortest. Only the “couple of things” you definitely WILL get at “today.” If you have several things to do-and I cut up used paper into handy-sized bits and write on the backs-make a list. Don’t say, “Oh, I’ll wait until dusting day.” Screw that! Get ’er done! I not only use it on my keyboard but also on my computer screen, desk, printer(s)… Oh, look! I’m passing by the coffee table to go look out the window-remember taking those breaks for our eyes?-I might as well bring the frilly duster with me and get the coffee table and the window sill and… See what I mean? Tada. Beside my keyboard is one of those “frilly duster” things.
Ex-typesetter Smart Move!) On this, I keep my keyboard. My computer desk has a shelf under the main desktop.
Which I have been saying all along not to do that we must put aside the idea of having to always do everything the same way. Or perhaps to be annoying to readers who insist on order. This is to keep you awake and alert while you go through them. If I keep going, I will only start re-waxing the same tables you guys probably have been doing since you were kids. I mean, you could give me ten times as many ideas. I could carry on and on and on with household tips but there’s no point in overlapping what most of you have mastered since your arrival on Planet Earth. I’ve written other blogs (mostly about writing and now in book format) as every now and again, a blog idea strikes me and away I go spending weekends sharing what I’ve learned on my journey and blah-blah-ing away about this and that. Not my final-forever post, I hope, just my final post for Live Lazy, Live Large: Tips for Making Life Fun for Us Ol’ Ladies.