Jude the Cheating Dude

Jude Law is much too handsome for his own good.   I recently watched the movie "The Holiday" in which he falls for a character played by Cameron Diaz.  I'm sorry to say that between the two of them, Jude is the more beautiful one.  It's difficult to believe his character, though, after hearing about his cheating habits.  He should endeavor to be less good looking and not cheat on his women.

I think my quince is more beautiful than Jude Law.  I need to cook it.  A worm crawled out of the core yesterday.  There are moments when this kind of thing makes me a little reluctant to eat but often times the worms don't do any worse damage than hang out in the core which I never eat anyway.  I got only one of these beauties, I need to cook it today.

I have recently started watching "Burn Notice" (the first season) and I love it!  Jeffrey Donovan, while not as cursed with the same beauty that Jude Law suffers from, is handsome in an unconventional way.  Half the time I think he's really strange looking but then the rest of the time I think he's got so much charm (his character does) that if I was a fictional character in a story I would much rather be going out with Donovan than Law.  Gabrielle Anwar gets to play a great character but she is bone thin and it makes her look stringy and rangy.  She needs to put on about 15 pounds at least.

But speaking of not being a porker like me...HA!...I have been talking to a professional nutritionist and fitness trainer who happens to be the wife of my Kung Fu instructor.  I think she's actually retired from her profession and mostly teaches Kung Fu to the little kids (she's a black belt!) and homesteads.  She has been generously giving me her time and so I offered to teach her daughter to sew in exchange.  Yesterday, after looking at a diary of my diet she had some suggestions to make:

1.  I need more polyunsaturated fats and so she suggested more olive oil for one.

2.  I need more protein in the early part of the day, instead of waiting to eat it for lunch.  Nut butters, eggs, soy, beans.  Along these same lines she suggested eating more diary proteins later in the day and not eating them or limiting them early in the day.  She said it's better to have really good protein in the morning and diary derived proteins for either afternoon snacks or dessert.

3.  Suggested adding quinoi to my grain circulation because it provides a complete protein.

4.  If I eat cheese for a snack I should eat it with whole grain bread to make it a more complete protein.

5.  Suggested I take in a brisk walk before sitting down to work to get my metabolism going in the morning.

6.  Should get a total of 30 minutes exercise every single day.  In addition to this, my Kung Fu teacher says that all people should be doing a minimum of 15 minutes stretches a day with the ideal being more like 30 minutes a day.

I'm going to be working on all of this. 

For those of you wondering about the progress of my disease...which is such a weird thing to say...the prescription ointment is working.  Though it doesn't please me that my own home made salve didn't work in this instance, at least something is because I'm pretty much sick to death of having something going on on my face.

We have finally figured out that we can plant a walnut tree in our front yard provided they are self fertile or that the distance another walnut tree has to be isn't too restrictive (there are other walnut trees in the neighborhood but I don't know which kinds).  This makes me so happy!  A source of nut that I actually like growing in my own yard is fantastic!  In case you didn't know this, our front "yard" is concrete.  We're all set up to park three cars and a scooter or two cars and a scooter and a camper or one car, an RV, and a scooter.  But as you all know we have no RV, just one "car" and one scooter.  That's a lot of concrete.

A walnut tree, for those of you not in the know, has a chemical in it's roots and leaves that prevent most other plants from growing around them.  A totally natural and effective herbicide.  (Should I attempt to make a solution to try on the pathways of my medicinal garden?)  So not having much else planted in the front makes it a great spot.  In addition to that there's the orientation of the sun in that spot: It's the northernmost part of our lot so a tree growing large there won't cast shade on the rest of my garden but it will get large enough itself to get all the sunshine it needs.  The downside?  Yes, there's a downside but I don't feel like being negative about it right now. 

Walnut sauce for pasta....walnuts on pear salad...spiced walnuts...

I still haven't harvested my rose hips.  I will do that today. 

That concludes my notes for today.  I've got to ride my bike to run a few errands before the kid gets home and then I've got to cook some really super food (today I'm making home made pasta with a butternut squash sauce seasoned with thyme and cream and white beans.)

I hope you all have a fungus free day/face!!!!!


*I think our car is kind of lame.  It is still dragging its axis around with us in it so I'm not going to complain, but calling it a car is a stretch, it's much more of a money-sucker or a deep pocket with wheels or a black hole in which money disappears and nothing else changes much.  At the moment we have a cracked windshield, a constantly lighting up something or other that is apparently meaningless and yet stressful when it beeps for our attention, at least one window that won't stay up, and then there's the tons of money we spent to "degunk" the engine.  $4000 that degunking cost us.  Which could have bought us a whole different used car.  Enough.  The thing still drives and we don't drive much anyway.