Well, looking back on the year, I will think positively and say, "Wow, 19 pounds, that's great - they came off early, but stayed off, which is a good thing." If I had lost, say 10 pounds or so every month, like I did back in July, I would now be 120 pounds lighter, and with my luck, most of that would have come off my brain, so I will consider myself happy. Because weighing 51 pounds probably wouldn't be a good thing, especially if we got a good gust of wind.
Well, if I had written a list for today, I hope it would have looked like this:
- walk Chris to school
- sweep, tidy, and do dishes
- clean litter boxes
- do 2 laundries, wash, dry, fold and put away clean stuff
- put clean sheets and pillow cases on the bed
- make Apple Muffins and Peanut Butter Cookies
- do Meat Loaf, Mashed Potatoes (for me), French Fries (for Howard), and veggies for dinner
- stuff an Elephant (and no, we are NOT having Stuffed Elephant for a bedtime snack)
You'd think I would have learned by now to check a recipe for ingredients before I started to make it. When I saw the recipe for Apple Muffins, I knew what I could do with the apples before they started to attract members of the Fruit Fly Club. I started mixing up the dry ingredients and realized the recipe called for Lemon Rind - come on, now, lemon rind in an apple recipe? - and then the wet - and saw the recipe called for Apple Juice - which was a bit more understandable. No apple juice, but I did have applesauce, so I used some of that instead, and to make it a bit more liquidy I added some milk. Applesauce is a lot thicker than apple juice. I didn't know what to put instead of the lemon rind - if I had oranges I would have used orange rind - so I just drizzled some pancake syrup over the muffins before I put them in the oven. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
And I'm happy to tell you - they turned out quite fine, for a dozen needy muffins. I'm glad to say I still have an active role on the Taste Test Team.
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