What? Musing...

Today is sooooo Monday. I slept in over the weekend like it was summer already. We had sunshine in the Northwest and it just improves the general mood everywhere, sleeping in is perfect. But this morning is Monday and everyone must get to school on that early bus. Ugh.



Book Journey hosts a great Meme although it's called "It's Monday" which is just... well, too bad. (Monday, I mean. Book Journey's awesome.)


I am finishing Replication and starting The Giver - I'm starting the review for one in my head and thinking of the next one already, which means 3/4 way thru-ish.


It is Monday, so I have a LOT to do today, so we'll see how much "fun" progress I actually make.





As for Musing (by Should Be Reading)...


Did you do any reading in lieu of watching the football game, yesterday, or were you foregoing reading to watch the game?


I didn't read too much yesterday. I watched the Superbowl and boo-ed the Patriots* and caught every commercial.  Of course!!  jajajajajaja


Which commercial was your favorite?  (if you watched)

As a family, our vote was the M&M commercial...  Did you see it?  We were laughing so hard and everyone had to try out the naked chocolate dance. Hilarious.

(Here's the video - go ahead, try out the Naked M&M dance this Monday morning!)

We liked the Apocolyptic Chevy one as a close second. The Twinkies were totally perfect.**


I didn't read so much, but I found a cool Ap for my Nook called Lose It!

I punch in what I eat and it tallies my calorie count. I got tired of counting our calorie count on the handy paper at least two weeks ago***.  This Lose It! remembers my food choices, too, so as I get bored again with keeping track all my snacking, it'll make it easier to keep going.

It's very helpful. I guess I'm not maintaining that 500 cal/day goal, which explains the slower weight loss of the past week.

SuperBowl snack spread - healthy style!

On the bright side... I whipped up a SuperBowl snack spread that didn't toss the diet out the window!! Tell me this isn't totally cute and delicious lookin'!!  Plus I had "hot wings" (not shown) made with chicken breast and blended tomatoes with my special blend of hot spices and stevia sweetener. Yum!!

Strawberry Sorbet in the ice cream maker
Strawberries + frozen Banana + Sweetener

I had to run to the store for more strawberries, the Sorbet was such a big hit. It was 1/2 hour before the game started and the WHOLE WORLD was running to the store for last minute snacks. I could hardly find parking. At least all the check stands were open!^


* Because the Patriots beat my team, the Rams.#  So logically I had to cheer on the Giants, which irritated Cool, Man, whose team forever is the Packers## who lost to the Giants a few weeks back causing us to have a Very Bad Weekend. The game is always funner if we're picking opposite sides, anyway.

# As a new wife, I had to pick a team in my enthusiastic support of all things husbandy and I watched the pre-season games carefully and decided the Rams would make it to the Superbowl, which they won that year###, and per my Cool, Man, I must stick with my team forever and the Patriots beat them so I don't like 'em forever. 

## He is "cool".

### I am good!

** Wait a minute... do I sense a FOOD theme?!?!

*** Anything very systematic gets boring to me quickly and I "forget" to keep it up.

^ It makes me feel like one of a flock of birds to be doing the same thing as everyone else at the same time, you know?  Tweet - Tweet!!