Monthly Archives: September 2009

Faturday

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Yep, I’m going to throw all caution (and diet restrictions) to the wind tonight at my feast. Fun is the destination, and calories will be along for the ride. I’ll deal with the fallout tomorrow, if there is any. All I know is I am going to enjoy the menu I requested (everyone gets their choice of dinner for their birthday in our family): Chili/chips/cheese, corn bread, five-cup salad, and chock-lick cake. Yummy.

Now I suppose I could have done worse (refer to my “comfort food” reference from yesterday). Lots worse, to wit:

Behold the “Worst Food in America,” according to Men’s Health magazine. The Baskin-Robbins Oreo Shake. According to the Boston Globe report on it, this 2600-calorie monster contains “more calories than 49 Oreo cookies, more sugar than 20 bowls of Froot Loops cereal and the saturated fat equivalent of 59 strips of bacon.”

[In their defense, and probably because of massive negative press, they’re now hawking a reduced fat version on their website.]

Nice calorie/fat count there. But there are awesome runners-up.

How about a 7-lb. burrito at Jack-n-Grill? Clicky:

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Or a 72-ounce steak at the Big Texan Steak Ranch? Only 5,760 calories and 480 grams of fat. And free, if you can choke down all four-and-a-half pounds of it.

Then there’s the pièce de résistance in my book for eye appeal. Click on the photo for the full effect. Maybe I should have asked for Peach Glazed Pig Cheeks from the Minnesota State Fair for my feast tonight. Mmm, now them’s good eats.

Happy Faturday, fiends!

GastroFink

Crabby.

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I admit, I am off my feed today. I don’t know why. Usually, I’m pretty much an “up” type person. Always something nice to say, you know? So why so serious? I mean, it’s Finkday, fuh cryin out loud. My birthday feast is tomorrow. All things in my life are good (except for that 71-page reading assignment). Hmmm. Let’s see here. What’s bugging me this morning?

  • My high school singers are successfully plowing their way through Mozart and (Michael) Haydn, while struggling hopelessly with 8 measures of a standard SATB arrangement of “O Christmas Tree.” Somebody explain this to me.
  • Last night, I read a tragic, heartbreaking story about a former hero of mine: Bernie Kosar.
  • This cold is making me mad — like my being mad about it is going to make it go away. As if.
  • BFF Kay is leaving in a week. She’ll be gone till November.
  • When I’ve got a cold, I crave comfort food. I have visions of macaroni & cheese, pancakes, cinnamon toast, cheesy scrambled eggs, fettucine Alfredo, and warm chocolate cake with extra, extra frosting, all dancing in my head. Rats.

But hey, look at the bright side.

  • My high school choir loves to sing Mozart and Haydn. I’ll take that over “Tannenbaum” any day.
  • Bernie says he will pull through this, like thousands of other people who go through hard times. I think he’ll do it.
  • BFF Kay will be back in November — just in time for opening night of Bye Bye Birdie.
  • I will go to bed tonight knowing I’ll feel better tomorrow having not eaten fettucine Alfredo.

And, Bando got me this for my birthday. Oh, yeah.

:-)

Happy weekend!

FussyFink

And so it begins – and ends.

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Yep. This is it. It’s over.

Today I begin the last post-graduate class I will ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever take.

Ever.

Fourteen weeks from now, I will be done. Expect a hue and cry heard round the world. Come January, it will be the first time in three years that I will begin Dinner Theatre rehearsals without having to go home afterward and work for two hours. I won’t know how to handle myself.

I will be winding down just as the Thriller starts up. Nice to just proofread research papers instead of compose them. Huzzah. Can’t wait.

Here are some other things I can’t wait for. Notice how we always say, “I can’t wait.” Why is that? We have no choice but to wait. “I can’t wait for tomorrow!” Well, you have to. But I still like to say “I can’t wait” for stuff.

The “Can’t Wait” List


I can’t wait for:

  • this class to be over
  • BoomR’s visit in October (W0000ty hoo)
  • my cast members to learn their music (sidelong glance at Samuel & Meg)
  • today at 3:30 when Bando comes to visit
  • Saturday, when I will see the entire family for my birthday feast (yippity!)
  • this cold to get overwith — ick
  • my Saturday morning cluck with Mavis
  • my two vacations next summer: one to Florida and the other to Texas with the Thriller
  • this Sunday morning, when I will sleep in and generally act lazy

Everyone has a “can’t wait” list. What’s on yours? As always, I covet your….

Fink OUT the door