'Dude food'

Check out this AOL quiz about food usually related to dudes. (Burgers and such.) A male co-worker who, shall we say, fits at least the burger stereotype just walked by and said he eats tofu all the time. Right.

Comforting comfort foods

Check out this list from the Today Show's Joy Bauer. It's how to indulge in your comfort foods without getting too uncomfortable around the waistline.
To find a recipe, simply click on the category on the left, such as "hamburger."
I'm thinking of this on two counts: One, we went to Fuddrucker's today (not real heart-smart, at least not what we had); and two, the past few days I've had day dreams of swimming in a vat of macaroni and cheese.

'Best abs EVER!'

So today my boss Pork Chop handed me a copy of Fitness magazine. The abs (abdominals) thing is one of the promos on the cover, which rather screams out at you like the supermarket tabloids. (And I've always thought, If people really did accomplish what was on these magazine covers, don't you think the magazines would eventually go out of business? Because wouldn't we be so completely satisfied with our body, mind, soul, sex life, shape of our calves and metabolism that we could merely scoff at the idea of someone offering instruction?)
All in all, this appears to be a pretty good magazine. Pork Chop and I found this one article on toning certain parts of one's body, to burn fat.
Stay tuned.

Strong II

"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places."
--Ernest Hemingway

Some days ago on this blog, I wrote about a new book out called "Strong at the Broken Places" by one Richard Cohen. He has MS and is married to Meredith Vieira, the newscaster. I just bought the book, and here's a sampling from the intro: "Chronic conditions do not resolve themselves. Unlike terminal illnesses, there is no high drama with these diseases. They are not sexy, and are little noticed or understood by an unknowing public that would prefer not to think about them. ... Hemingway had it right. If the world is not the enemy, neither is it our friend. In the end, no matter who surrounds us, we travel alone. Our friends and loved ones are there, providing an infrastructure of love and support. But courage must be drawn from within. Let the world see us as we see ourselves and have the faith to permit us to do it our way."
I don't necessarily see it as he does (the part about the world not being our friend), but I'm also very aware I'm not in his shoes.
The book's powerful so far. Cohen spent time with five people who suffer from the following: ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease); bi-polar disorder; non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; Chrohn's disease; and muscular dystrophy. It's so far clear that each person's--what? soul?--comes through, in the midst of chronic pain and struggle.
Photo by DePauw University

OMG!

Click here to read this newsflash about what Starbucks stores in the U.S. are doing tomorrow.
As of 5:30 p.m. local time Tuesday, where will the customers go? What will they do? They might actually have to go home to: Drink coffee, study, smoke (outside, of course), tap on the computer keyboard or read.
Or, shock! Converse with family members!
Let me know how you plan to fill your time tomorrow, if you are a Starbucks junkie.

Ready to type

Bisquick: Always ready to blog.
Also, an update: His aforementioned problem appears to have worked itself out, so to speak.

A touchy subject

I asked Bisquick's permission to share this and he said, OK. He is suffering from this.
Pretty sure it's because of some surgery he had last Tuesday. Not that I have completely inspected his box, but I think it's true.
Does anyone have any experience with a post-op constipated cat?