Are we there yet?

Is it Friday yet? All I can say about September so far on the work end of things, is that it certainly hasn't been boring and there's been a new hidden pitfall around every corner. I keep hoping perhaps it will settle down, I don't think it's going to this entire term again. So, I will just plow on through and try to keep laughing. I tell you, you don't keep laughing then you end up in an unhappy place.

Speaking of laughing, you do know that laughing is contagious? So are smiles. And when you get someone else to smile or laugh, it is paid forward? Also for those of you looking for how to burn more calories than just walking, (I have a coworker who complained about this the other day that walking didn't burn very many calories) Well..... everytime you smile, you burn 3 calories minimum. So you see smiling is good for you too! :o) The only other exercise that truly burns the most calories, more than jogging 5 miles, or riding a bike, or the "h"elliptical, is bedroom aerobics. (hey, didn't want to say doin the nasty or anything like that, that would be crude. LOL LOL) And... we all know that we smile ALOT after the bedroom aerobic exercises. So there you have it. Reason to smile and exercise!

Well yesterday evening I did a real airheaded move. We went to the gym after work for a bit, then on to supper out. Went to one of my favorite local restaurants, and one place that I can eat at actually. It is call the Plaza Cafe Southside. They have an amazing, nontraditional, chile con queso that I personally think is to die for. One of the cheeses they use is Feta. Yum, and I loooove Feta cheese. I love to order their Steakhouse Salad there, and have them use Feta instead of Bleu Cheese crumbles on it, as I cannot have Bleu Cheese because the mold for the cheese is grown on Wheat. Anyhow, I ordered it, and completely forgot to ask for the Feta, and didn't ask for the real vinagrette dressing. I felt soooooo stupid when it arrived and I realized my mistake and then was too embarrassed to ask for another and let hubby take this one home. So, I picked off all the bleu cheese I could, and then added the dressing. WOW, talk about vinegary! The regular dressing was very very tart in the vinegar end of things. Well I ate what I could, and probably shouldn't have, because something gave me stomach cramps and gas/bloat in about 15 minutes from eating. :o( I am still in the process of figuring out what other foods affect me gastrically. Now I know better, that I need to be aware when I am out and not forget to make the much needed changes. Duh....

Hopefully this weekend, I can use up the rest of the buttermilk if it hasn't soured already. Why don't they ever sell it in pints? Buttermilk I do ok with, whole milk (cow's) tends to cause some distress I think. I do think perhaps this weekend, I will go to the Farmer's Market and pick up some Goat's Milk to try that. Sorry, but I love my milk, and cheeses. Goat or Cow. And for me, Goat's milk is usually a treat, I really do love it.

Well back to writing my GF cookbook. I want to do like the old cookbooks did, where you could find lists of substitutions, equivalents, etc, and actually alphabetize the topics. LOL Imagine that, organized! LOL

Does anyone still use OLD cookbooks from the 1800's to early 1900's? You know they used the "gill" as a unit of measure? Do you know how much a gill is? LOL I do. :o) Ah the weird little bits of trivia we pick up during our lifetime. I learned it in the 80's for a recipe that called for 2 gills of sugar into the mix. For that matter, does anyone anymore know what a peck is, and how many pecks make a bushel?

Have fun figuring it out!