Asymptomatic

I had a little talk with Abby at breakfast this morning, which usually consists of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and milk, about the organic food that seems prevalent in the kids' lives these days.

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I can't take the credit for this one. One of my co-workers, Greg, ordered something like this when we were out for lunch one day, and I ordered one too.

It's a pretty simple construction, and I've made a couple of slight changes to the original wrap due to the materials available and the calorie content. Anyway, it starts with a whole wheat and cheddar wrap shell. I put a bit of horseradish dijon mustard on the shell, then laid a single piece of green leaf lettuce on top. For meat, today I used turkey and ham, but I'd consider all turkey like yesterday's. I'm not a ham fan.

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I haven't mentioned to many people that I've started a fitness program. Ok fine, it's a "diet", but I dislike the word, and not just because it doesn't incorporate the fitness aspect, but because there's a stigma attached to it. It's weird how "fitness" sounds great in my head, but "diet" sounds like I've got a problem that I should be ashamed of.

I started out on the "Special K Diet", which simply involves replacing two meals a day with bowls of Special K. Oddly enough, that works. I have since become more interested in what I'm eating and what energy I'm expending, and I signed up for Weight Watchers Online to start tracking these things. (There's another name that sucks, "Weight Watchers". They might as well call it "Fat Club". There's got to be a better name they could brand it as.)

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Abby's in second grade this year. On the refrigerator we have her school lunch schedule posted, in a December-festive black toner on red paper.

The lunch menu is in the form of a calendar, with each day's lunch options listed in the date blocks. There is always a choice of different food options that would satisfy any 2nd-grader.

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It's no secret that we like to grill food and that people like to eat food that we've grilled. That's why the slow and ultimate demise of our grill over the past year was a bit upsetting.

The grill didn't survive the move very well. I think it's also possible that something broke inside it, but every time we used it after the move it essentially caught on fire. The insides would flame long after the gas was off, and it would happen every time we cooked with it. The flames were high and uncontrollable, and we just couldn't use it any more.

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