And the Results Are In
Who's eaten the fruitcake so far:
Chris = thought it was pretty good and even ate a second piece, lol. He did pick out one of the large chunks of candied fruit, but that's more than forgiveable.
Liz = thought it was okay
Nicole = liked the bread part, but couldn't handle the fruit. not a fan, haha.
He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named (hereafter referred to as Kevin, just cuz I think that nickname suits him v_v) = after refusing and saying "I really don't like fruitcake" he took a big piece and basically said it was awful. then he threw the rest away. to be fair, I *did* give people permission to tell me it sucked :p
Rich = thought it was okay?
Rob = I don't think he was too pleased, haha. hey, I'm not the culinary student here, so nyah. ;)
A handful of people at work still need to have some, including the girl who originally dared me and Lora. That should be interesting, haha.
Food log, cuz I feel like I ate a ton today and I probably didn't
a slice of fruitcake and then a piece later, at work
soyrizo, veggies, salsa, rice cheese
a small handful of BBQ soynuts
a blueberry bagel
a container of yogurt
black bean soup with a small can of veggies added in
I am clearly delusional. :/
I also ran/walked for 30 minutes today.
Today was a good day at work, overall. "Kevin" still pisses me off, but I have to say that he's not *always* a bad manager. For example, he tries to be fair with letting everyone have some time away from the register, but I still don't understand why every other girl at Brooks practically throw themselves at him. Their choice, I suppose. I try to keep things. . .cordial between us, but as I've said, prior attempts to converse or to joke around always failed badly, so I consider him strictly a coworker, and not a friend. At all. I think he realizes this too, but that's fine by me. That's why what happened today was a tiny bit strange.
"Kevin," Chris and Nicole were talking about another get-together at some point today, when I went up into the office. Very awkwardly, "Kevin" asked if I'd want to go to a party at his girlfriend's house later in the month. I said something about the date sounding familiar, so I'd have to see but that there was a good chance I wouldn't be able to. Well I wasn't going to be rude about it. :p Besides, I'm quite positive the ONLY reason he asked was because they were talking about who should be invited while I was standing there. And it would have been even more awkward for me to blatantly NOT be mentioned while I was around. Chris knows I don't care for "Kevin" so he was probably surprised too, heh.
Then my break at DD was semi-interesting. I was openly "looked at" by two frat-type guys as they passed by my table (which only garnered them a death glare/eye roll, haha) and then this chick that came in and was standing in line kept looking at me eat my bagel. There was NOTHING else near where I was, so she had to be looking at me. Why do people find me so interesting? :p
I must admit that the way I've been eating my bagels is kinda weird. I break it into four sections; strip off the bottom layer and eat it slowly, usually putting each peeled off strip down between bites for a sip of coffee; then I pull out the fluffy inside part and eat that; finally I eat the outer "shell", starting near what used to be the bottom. I do this section by section, so it takes the full 30 minutes to eat the damn thing. I know that's highly "ritualistic" and thus frowned upon by every ED specialist in the world, but if it's helping me stop purging at work, that's all that matters. A bagel with cream cheese will probably be the next step, and maybe someday I'll be okay having sandwiches again, but for now a plain blueberry bagel is just fine.
Oh, and speaking of coffee, I certainly won't be using Splenda anymore. I was reading some articles online that referred to a large number of experiments the company that produces it has done on animals-- really horrific things, including vivisection (ie. dissection while the animal's still alive :( ). I don't agree with all aspects of the animal rights movement, but I do try to only buy products from cruelty free companies. I did a whole project on animal experimentation back in high school and the things that get done to them(lots of dogs were used in the Splenda studies) are awful-- and just because something affects an animal one way doesn't mean it would affect a human the same way. Grrr.
Really the only other thing I highly disagree with is hunting for sport. if you're going to eat the meat and use other parts of the carcass, fine. if the animal's population is out of control, fine. but hunting to get your picture taken with some poor downed buck just to say "look what I done shot!" is pathetic. >:(
Well, that's about it. Oh, wait! No it's not!
Rich and Rob and I might be going to NYC *this* Saturday. We are definitely going to the Natural History Museum, right near Central Park. They have tons of exhibits, including a large collection of dinosaur bones and taxidermy (which creeps me the freak out, haha). Naturally I'm extending the invitation to you all, so you know what to do if you think you can survive a day with us, haha.
Chris = thought it was pretty good and even ate a second piece, lol. He did pick out one of the large chunks of candied fruit, but that's more than forgiveable.
Liz = thought it was okay
Nicole = liked the bread part, but couldn't handle the fruit. not a fan, haha.
He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named (hereafter referred to as Kevin, just cuz I think that nickname suits him v_v) = after refusing and saying "I really don't like fruitcake" he took a big piece and basically said it was awful. then he threw the rest away. to be fair, I *did* give people permission to tell me it sucked :p
Rich = thought it was okay?
Rob = I don't think he was too pleased, haha. hey, I'm not the culinary student here, so nyah. ;)
A handful of people at work still need to have some, including the girl who originally dared me and Lora. That should be interesting, haha.
Food log, cuz I feel like I ate a ton today and I probably didn't
a slice of fruitcake and then a piece later, at work
soyrizo, veggies, salsa, rice cheese
a small handful of BBQ soynuts
a blueberry bagel
a container of yogurt
black bean soup with a small can of veggies added in
I am clearly delusional. :/
I also ran/walked for 30 minutes today.
Today was a good day at work, overall. "Kevin" still pisses me off, but I have to say that he's not *always* a bad manager. For example, he tries to be fair with letting everyone have some time away from the register, but I still don't understand why every other girl at Brooks practically throw themselves at him. Their choice, I suppose. I try to keep things. . .cordial between us, but as I've said, prior attempts to converse or to joke around always failed badly, so I consider him strictly a coworker, and not a friend. At all. I think he realizes this too, but that's fine by me. That's why what happened today was a tiny bit strange.
"Kevin," Chris and Nicole were talking about another get-together at some point today, when I went up into the office. Very awkwardly, "Kevin" asked if I'd want to go to a party at his girlfriend's house later in the month. I said something about the date sounding familiar, so I'd have to see but that there was a good chance I wouldn't be able to. Well I wasn't going to be rude about it. :p Besides, I'm quite positive the ONLY reason he asked was because they were talking about who should be invited while I was standing there. And it would have been even more awkward for me to blatantly NOT be mentioned while I was around. Chris knows I don't care for "Kevin" so he was probably surprised too, heh.
Then my break at DD was semi-interesting. I was openly "looked at" by two frat-type guys as they passed by my table (which only garnered them a death glare/eye roll, haha) and then this chick that came in and was standing in line kept looking at me eat my bagel. There was NOTHING else near where I was, so she had to be looking at me. Why do people find me so interesting? :p
I must admit that the way I've been eating my bagels is kinda weird. I break it into four sections; strip off the bottom layer and eat it slowly, usually putting each peeled off strip down between bites for a sip of coffee; then I pull out the fluffy inside part and eat that; finally I eat the outer "shell", starting near what used to be the bottom. I do this section by section, so it takes the full 30 minutes to eat the damn thing. I know that's highly "ritualistic" and thus frowned upon by every ED specialist in the world, but if it's helping me stop purging at work, that's all that matters. A bagel with cream cheese will probably be the next step, and maybe someday I'll be okay having sandwiches again, but for now a plain blueberry bagel is just fine.
Oh, and speaking of coffee, I certainly won't be using Splenda anymore. I was reading some articles online that referred to a large number of experiments the company that produces it has done on animals-- really horrific things, including vivisection (ie. dissection while the animal's still alive :( ). I don't agree with all aspects of the animal rights movement, but I do try to only buy products from cruelty free companies. I did a whole project on animal experimentation back in high school and the things that get done to them(lots of dogs were used in the Splenda studies) are awful-- and just because something affects an animal one way doesn't mean it would affect a human the same way. Grrr.
Really the only other thing I highly disagree with is hunting for sport. if you're going to eat the meat and use other parts of the carcass, fine. if the animal's population is out of control, fine. but hunting to get your picture taken with some poor downed buck just to say "look what I done shot!" is pathetic. >:(
Well, that's about it. Oh, wait! No it's not!
Rich and Rob and I might be going to NYC *this* Saturday. We are definitely going to the Natural History Museum, right near Central Park. They have tons of exhibits, including a large collection of dinosaur bones and taxidermy (which creeps me the freak out, haha). Naturally I'm extending the invitation to you all, so you know what to do if you think you can survive a day with us, haha.
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