Breakfast:

• 1 egg, 2 egg whites, 1 cup spinach;
• 5 strawberries; and
• coffee and water.

Mid-morning Snack:

• Small helping of non-fat greek yogurt. This is the best thing I eat all day. It’s exceptional.

Lunch:

• 3 cups greens, carrots, beans, peppers, 3 oz. tuna (i.e., a salad); and
• 1 Tbs oil, 2 Tbs balsamic vinegar.

Mid-afternoon Snack:

• 1 red delicious apple.

Dinner:

• 4 oz. fish or chicken;
• vegetables;
• brown rice; and
• 1 oz. dark chocolate.

Pre-bedtime:

• 1 cup caffeine-free green tea.

I did this exact diet for the first time yesterday. I felt fine, although I was hungry going to bed. I don’t completely mind that, as you’re not supposed to be stuffed right before bedtime. Or at any time. Further, I’ve reduced my coffee intake to the morning and 1 cup in the afternoon. I was drinking so much that I was feeling shaky and getting indigestion. I’m looking to have a healthier diet, whether or not it remains the same as outlined above. This is a good start and will hopefully reset my body from the cookies and junk I’ve been eating lately.

Fortunately, my body doesn’t show the effects of my poor diet. However, I believe I was feeling the effects. And I can’t eat junk and stay skinny forever. It’ll catch up at some point.

Most important is you can spend three, four, four-and-a-half hours with good company, with friends, with family. Spending time with friends, family, that’s great. That makes the round good.

He makes a great point that is opposite the standard complaint that “golf takes too long.” We are only here on this earth for so long, and we might as well enjoy our time, surroundings, and friends while we can. Let’s just hope I’m playing well!

• vacancy in men’s bathroom at work;
• potato bread in stock at Meijer; and
• televised golf.

Boil a big pot of water and peel a few potatoes and then boil the potatoes for about 15 minutes

Pour a little olive oil in a pan and saute a whole chopped up onion and a few garlic cloves, also chopped.

Add spinach (I had un froze a frozen kind), and then add chunks of sausage (I had cut up sausage links) .

Drain the water and mash the potatoes with a dash of nutmeg, a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar, 1/3 cup of skim milk and 1/2 cup of swiss cheese.

Mix it all together with the onion/sausage/spinach combo and place in an 8×8 baking dish. Cover with a 1/2 cup more of shredded swiss cheese and cook at 400 for 20 minutes or until cheese is bubbly!

ENJOY!

Chris’s Rating – 8…I think, he said “add it to the rotation”, which is a good sign.

Lindsey’s Rating - 9…I initially gave it a lower grade, but after having it for lunch the next day, it was even more amazing so it gets bonus points for left over ability.

The bow tie is as much functional as it is an identifier. It does not dangle in my work the way ties did for my first year of practice and most anyone that sees me wearing it is somewhat amused. I’m happy to amuse the masses and also to be able to go to sleep at night and not worry that my tie did or ever will dip in my bowl of soup – at least not until the day I die face down on my desk!

The cuff links and requisite French cuffs are borderline not worth the hassle and extra time they require throughout my day – flipping the cuffs back, finagling the prong of the link through four shifting holes of fabric, my habitual pressing down of the link against my arm, and their snagging on the edge of my laptop computer. They don’t have the practical appeal that the bow tie does, and for that they may be retired or phased out at some point. I haven’t yet decided, as they make for a good gift and I enjoy wearing the variety of cuff links I’ve acquired to this point.

Going forward, I’d like to develop more of a uniform and I’d like it to be a well-fitted navy suit and white shirt. As it stands, I have four or five very different suits, which I have to switch between burgundy and black belt and shoe combinations. I don’t appreciate having to have both colors and would rather eliminate the black belt and shoes.

And finally, what initially got me onto this subject was the following sock selection advice that I read this morning in Valet Magazine: “As a rule, match your socks to the clothes, not the shoes. Meaning you should wear socks just a shade darker than your pants, but not as dark as your shoes.”

Ingredients – chicken, 12 oz jar of apricot preserves, 1 onion chopped up, little bit of crushed red pepper flakes, 1 tsp soy sauce, and a little squeeze of dijon mustard. It was wonderful, flavorful and a little spicy.

Super easy to make and we heated it up the next day and it tasted just as amazing.

Chris’ Rating – 9

Lindsey’s Rating – 8

One Word. Yuck.

Ingredients – 2 lbs stew meat, 1 can whole cranberries, 1 onion chopped, 2 table spoons soy sauce.

I think I overcooked the crap out of this…10 hours on low in the crockpot. The flavor was great but the meat was chewy. It was so disappointing because the house smelled out of this world when we got home from work.

In the future I would use less soy sauce, another can of cranberries and maybe some chopped up celery.

Lindsey’s Rating – 4

Chris’ Rating – 6 (I think he was being generous).