heather's Food bLog: Happy New Year!

Happy 2013!!!!

It's a new year and a new you!! Or, new me? Or, rather, a new four-legged member of my household...I'm fostering a little baby girl kitten, Sabrina, A.K.A. Curiosity. Ella, my cat, seems to be doing OK with his new roommate...he's not happy, but he's not violently angry. This is a much better response than was expected.

Of course, a new kitten isn't the only development in my life that happened at the end of 2012. I managed to finish the apartment cleaning and have a giant enormous mountain of things to go to Goodwill! This year's Possession Purge included much glassware from my kitchen, many old videotapes, some sports equipment, a few books (shocker!!), and much other stuff. I know this probably doesn't sound like a big deal to most people, but for me, getting rid of stuff, especially books, is HUGE!! In the purge, I found some interesting things...especially in the kitchen.

The horror show found in my kitchen cabinet

Now, even though I've been sooooooooo far away from what I should be eating and haven't made it to the gym as often as I should have this week, there's no excuse for this. No excuse what-so-ever for having corn syrup in my cabinet...and two different kinds at that!! Ugh. I'm embarrassed. Luckily, it's existence was as much of a surprise to me as it is to you and it is no longer in my home. The corn syrup went in the dumpster. Please know that I would never inflict this type of torture on Goodwill.

OK, so tomorrow is going to be my first day back at the office. I'm happy to re-introduce structure to my life, but I'm sorry that I'm doing it by returning to work. I hate to admit it, but going to work in the daytime makes going to the gym in the evening a whole lot easier...I already have plans to go to fightclub on Thursday. Structure makes life a little bit easier because it removes the decision. You make a plan and then follow it because all the decisions have already been made. Pretty simple.