Necessary Mutilation

Weight: 223.5 lbs.

I’m not gonna get any thinner eating like I have the last few days and foregoing my exercises as I have been lately. I definitely need to move MY butt, and figure on resuming a better routine come tomorrow when the insanity of our schedule dies down some.

Today we were out of the house at 7:30 am, and arrived at Seneca Alleghany casino in time for the 10:00 am free shopping spree that we couldn’t resist. We were given $750 (!!!) shopping “dollars” to use in the makeshift stores they had set up, and came away with $753 worth of products, including the latest and greatest Garmin Nuvi with features galore! We were thrilled about this, as we have been pricing these for a while, and eager to get another one as our Tom Tom is quite antiquated and doesn’t even have text to speech capacity.

Anyway, we still had nearly $250 more dollars to spend even after the Garmin, so also grabbed some great knick knacks, candles, candy platters for the many Thanksgiving and Xmas gatherings we will be at, and assorted other stuff. What fun!!

And, we only lost a little playing the machines afterwards (after not surprisingly deciding to play after all). Also, Tom’s nephew and his girlfriend and her 8 year old met us for lunch there, and then Tom followed them back to Jamestown to visit there for a while, while I stayed and played and lost our money all by myself.

Then, we flew out of there in the knick of time to make it nearly 2 hours back, to our Sunday night metal detecting meeting. Phew! And I had no choice but to eat a fig newton and drink a cup of regular coffee while there, as I was thirsty and starving and this was all they had. Bad!

And now I am still so hungry that I could gnaw my own arms off. I am munching on some nuts as I write this, because its been about 7 or 8 hours since I last ate real food, and I can’t go much longer without something. Especially after eating such a carby and “bad” buffet lunch. I had my usual shrimp (not bad) and some broiled chicken (ok!) and some bites of a ham steak (protein). But, then I had some chicken corn chowder (full of starch but mmm mmm good!) and a few bites of some pasta dish (delish!). Oh, and my favorite, tomatoes vinigette, plus some grilled veggies and cheese cubes and a salad. And I fit it all!

This reminds me that I also forgot to rat myself out from the other night (Friday) when we went out to dinner at a place called Jack’s Place, with 7 of my co-workers/friends. Strangely, I felt like slurping my dinner, so ordered their famous chicken cheddar chowder, and their chili. (Say this ten times fast!)

What an odd and fattening choice of foods, and I ate nearly every spoonful! And this was before going to see Neil Berg’s 101 Years of Broadway wth everyone, which required effort to stifle any emissions expected after such an indulgence!

Then last night, I did eat pizza with Tom, and although I left the crusts and an inch or so of the dough leading up to the crust, I did eat 3 pieces AND they had pepperoni and hot peppers on them.  I have been very bad lately and can only chalk this up to the hurried, indulgent lifestyle we have been living. Thank god that tomorrow all we have is the usual Monday casino run through on our plate - and that the work week actually sounds like a welcome relief from our social calendar!