Well…I’ve kind of been bitching for a while now that I am really bored with the food I’ve been cooking since I stopped eating red meat and I didn’t know what to do to keep chicken from being so boring that I just couldn’t eat it anymore. So, today…I was looking at a jar of alfredo sauce that I picked up a couple of weeks back for a buck at Meijers, and started looking at the label as I have been doing since I have been trying to eat healthier and my only thought was yow! While the calories per serving were okay at 70 ( but that was for a 7th of a small jar), the sodium per serving was off the charts at 400 milligrams along with a huge amount of saturated fat…so, I decided to go out to the internet to find a recipe for alfredo that didn’t have the heavy cream and salt that was in the jar sauce. I found a really good one that just uses milk…but still uses butter to make the roue that thickens it, but to be able to control the bad stuff and make something that tastes great is a win. Of course it still has Parmesan cheese in it so it’s not the most healthy thing to eat but I was surprised at how easy it was to make and how good it tasted…and making it with non-fat milk does take the calories down to an acceptable level…oh, the chicken….I baked, cut up, and added a boneless skinless chicken breast to the sauce and that was just about perfect…and it makes enough for three meals for me over fettucine. There was a suggestion on the website that the sauce would go great over veggies like broccoli and cauliflower and I think I’ll get some to try Thursday…yummy….
Another mistake…
Well….with the ice covering everything outside, it looks like a day off the bike so I thought I’d do a shoulder update just because I’m bored…yesterday, when I got up there was no pain in my shoulder so, like an idiot, I decided to give the weight machine a try since I had been off it for 3 weeks…as the title says, that was another mistake since it started hurting on the machine and still hurts right now. The pain made me realize that I was right in speculating that I cracked a bone up there and must have re-injured it on the machine yesterday…so I guess that puts me back to almost square one and need to rest it to make sure the crack heals before I load it up again…darn….
Getting rid of federal workers is the point…
Well…I think one of the things that people are missing with the misdirection that the government shutdown is all about the wall is that repubs hate the federal government and workers in general…and this is their way of permanently getting rid of these workers to help pay for the tax cuts they lavished on the rich and business. They don’t care if the government works and they don’t care if they hurt the people who make it work…and their base is all on board with it since they are hurting the people they hate…and believe trump’s lies that all of the people who work for the government are dems so making them work or go without pay is perfectly fine and what they deserve. I wonder if this country can survive until 2020 when we can rid ourselves of these assholes? If they think that shutting down the government is just fine and there will be no economic fallout from it, they are just the dumbest people on the face of the Earth…but the political fallout will be much, much worse for the repubs when every ad in the 2020 campaign will hang this shutdown around their necks…and maybe, just maybe, this will be the thing that cuts through the right wing bubble and starts people moving back into the reality based world….for their sake, I hope it is…impeach….
January 15th
Well….just noticed that yesterday’s post got me to 6,800 of these and that seems to be a lot…my shoulder is hurting again and I think I shouldn’t have used the weight machine yesterday….think I’ll wait a couple of days before I do that again…might even have to take something for it this morning…and my stomach has been giving me fits the past few days and I’m not sure what that is about….I wonder if I should just stop eating entirely? Need to get some more zantac at the store Thursday just in case it gets worse…haven’t needed any of that for a long time…I did have nice day yesterday and I won at pool for the first time in a couple of weeks so that was cool…and I got a bike ride in but it was 23 when I went out and that is just a little too cold…paid for that the rest of the day trying to get warm…it’s warmer than that now so I am going to try to get out before the freezing rain hits in a while…we have a winter weather advisory on until Friday morning so it looks like a couple of days of hunkering down here and taking it easy…and, with the wind supposed to blow around 35, that just way to windy to get out no matter what the rest of the weather does….more later…
January 14th
Well…I wonder if I’ll jinx it if I say that my shoulder doesn’t hurt this morning? Haven’t felt anything but stiffness since I got up, other than in my collar bone, and I even slept on it without pain so maybe I can stop talking about it…I was down to about 6 hours in bed last night so that means about 4 1/2 hours of sleep and I’m not sure if that is sustainable but it has been going on for quite a while now…getting up at 5 or 5:30 is starting to get old especially since I have to wait so long to get on the bike with the cold… and it is going to get colder over the next week with the temps in the 20′s for highs so I think there will be quite a few days off…I am going to try the weight machine for the first time in 3 weeks this morning and I hope it doesn’t re-injure the shoulder… I do need to have some exercise without the bike…didn’t get much done yesterday and today will be the same with pool this aft…although, with not riding the bike, I do have time to do something this morning…will have to think about that…more later…
I’m not surprised…
Well…with the revelations from the NYT article Friday night that the idiot trump has been under counter intelligence investigation since there is ample evidence that he is a Russian plant being given orders by Putin, we now have the additional facts that trump has been trying to keep secret what was said in the 5 meetings he has had with Putin since he was installed…going so far as to rip the notes out of his interpreters hands and threatening her not to talk to anyone in his own administration what was said in those meetings. Now, I’m not surprised…trump is so damn corrupt and is clearly being controlled by Putin that he had to do this or Putin wouldn’t have been able to give him his orders…and this is in addition with what was reported just yesterday about the WH meeting with the Russians after trump fired Comey…that Putin TOLD trump to meet with his people in no uncertain terms. I have lost hope that the repubs will do anything about trump even though he is destroying this country since they are all guilty of taking Russian money for their campaigns laundered through the NRA…so it’s up to us to rid this country of all of them in 2020…and to resist every damn one of them until then….impeach…
January 13th
Well…it’s a typical Sunday so I’m running a little late after reading the paper before coming here…slept okay last night and my shoulder is better with barely any pain, just a little stiffness and that is a welcome change…but, it took three weeks to get here from the crash and that seems to be a long time…it looks like the workouts on the weight machine will start again tomorrow and I am kind of looking forward to it….feel like I’ve lost half my muscle mass and need to get that fixed…I did get a nice ride in yesterday but my toes got pretty cold and I may need to splurge on some wind proof socks to help that with the cold weather that is coming next weekend…highs only in the teens but I won’t be going out when it’s that cold…just no reason for it….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but didn’t have to and today looks the same with no cleaning necessary again after the big clean last week…so, how bored will I be? Soccer doesn’t start for another 2 hours and Man U doesn’t play til 11:30 so it will be a chore to fill that time….maybe I will clean a little….more later….
Is this enough?
Well…how big of a damn bombshell do the repubs need before they remove the Russian plant from the White House? It was revealed yesterday that the FBI has had a counter-intelligence investigation going on the idiot trump since he fired Comey and has spent the first two years of his term basically doing everything that Putin and Russia want…and the NYT laid out the reasons for the probe yesterday in a piece that speculates and seemingly proves that trump was installed by Russia and continues to do their bidding. The scary part of this whole story is that is shows that trump is owned by Russia, but that’s not all…the former FBI agents that commented on the news yesterday stressed that what the NYT reported is just the tip of the iceberg and there is much, much more to this story than the information they have…and Mueller has all of it….the ball is in your court, repubs…what the hell are you going to do about this traitor….you freaked out and wanted to impeach Obama for bowing to the Japanese PM, how about trump giving away the country and the world to Putin? This is why we have to throw every damn one of these traitors out in 2020…they are just as bad as trump…impeach…
January 12th
Well…didn’t get up til after 6 this morning and, for the first time in 3 weeks, I was able to sleep almost pain free and do my normal flipping and flopping from right to left side all night…and my shoulder is almost pain free right now so I may try to do the bike ride without ibuprofen today….I have been waiting for this since the crash and I was wondering if it would ever happen…had an okay day yesterday and got a bike ride in but it was pretty cold going out at 27 degrees…I think that is the bottom edge of temp for me…made the ride uncomfortable but it is already over that right now so I can go out as soon as it gets light…the trails were dry and should be today, too, and it makes it more fun when I can zone out a little and not pay so much attention…didn’t get much done yesterday but didn’t have to with getting the place cleaned Thursday but I will have to cook today…have to look for a new recipe for chicken thighs since I am getting bored with the normal baked with potatoes and veggies…but that is pretty easy so I may just say the heck with it and go with what I know…more later…
Politics is killing me…
Well….finally got a bike ride in this week and it was cold but it felt good…but, it didn’t help fix my problem that politics is killing me and turning my brain to mush so I think I’ll take today off from writing about the idiot boy and his cronies and just noodle around a bit to see what happens. Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the release of Led Zeppelin’s first album…and yes, I said album, and that is hard to imagine since it still sounds fresh and I listen to songs off it every day….it’s depth and longevity is still inspiring people today and even millennial rockers are trying to copy the sound…and getting good press for doing it but there will never be any more than a pale imitation of Zep. It was Donald Fagen’s birthday yesterday and if you’ve been here at all, you know how much his music means to me so I won’t go on about that again…just let me say happy birthday, Donald. Okay, that’s enough for now…I promise to come back to politics tomorrow…or try to anyway…