2 posts tagged “salad”

Wulf the Younger, aka Daysaver, status report:
Job? No.
School? No.
Moving out? Sort of.
Girlfriend? Still, shockingly, yes.

Whichever genius rap artist coined the phrase "Mo' money, mo' problems" failed to recognize that having no money is a big fucking set of problems. But I'm working through it while I work on it. I helped my friend Kurt's family move a bunch of boxes today. This had a twofold benefit: one, I made 50 bucks, and two, it assisted the process of getting Kurt's parents out of their townhouse in Columbia, which happens to be the place I sort of plan on habitating for quite possiby up until spring of '09.

Yeah, the situation is mildly shady. Not quite sketchy, though. I'm trying to stay away from sketchy. Here's how it is. Kurt has been wanting to get the hell away from his parents ever since he left Towson. I've wanted to get the hell away from my parents for as long as I can remember. So it made sense that we'd go be roommates somewhere. Somewhere gradually evolved into his house, sans the actual owners. Those folks are going to Hershey due to new employment of Kurt's father. The plan was for me to move in and we'd split a modest rent. But said plan kept changing until eventually Kurt's dad decided to not charge rent and not allow roommates.

So I'm not technically moving in. I'm just going to sleep there a lot. And, you know, avoid the hell out of my parents. (By the way, spring of '09 is when they think the housing market will be just right to sell. I sure am glad they think that.)

In other news, I'm up to two salads a day. Three, if you count fruit salad. Home-made bread-turned-toast and lemon curd for breakfast, BK's tengergrill garden salad for lunch (no creamy dressings! went with lite italian), fruit salad and chicken with peanuts for dinner, and a girlfriend-made salad for holy-shit-it-takes-so-much-vegetable-matter-to-fill-me meal.

And just so you don't think I'm some sort of horrid significant other whom demands bowls of green leafy things from his lady, I did in fact make her a real dinner. Mashed potatoes and spicy chicken. "Spicy" involved olive oil, rosemary, sriracha, powdered chipotle, and a jamaican scotch bonnet hot sauce. I took a couple bites, and I honestly think it was rather impressive for a total throw-together dish.

I really, really need to catch up on all my WIF blogs. I haven't been a very good WIF. Hopefully I can get to that tomorrow. Have a great night, everyone.

I'm not the healthiest guy around, if you catch my drift.

Certain statistics involving my blood and weight are, ahem, excessive. So I've been trying to cut down on my meat and cheese intake. (The Taco Bell I had last night was a sweaty, orgasmic diversion after two days of no meat and very little cheese.)

So today, since my roommate's vegetarian girlfriend was coming to visit, I went shopping with my roommate for salad stuff. I tend to work on a large scale when it comes to food, so we picked up a bunch of things and came back to throw it together in a big bowl. (Some stuff we already had.)

Greens with carrot, peapods, soy nuts, and sunflower seeds.
Cherry tomatoes
A gala apple
A package of assorted sprouts
A packet of almonds
A block of tofu
Some cheddar cheese (unlike everything else, I didn't use the whole package. Less than a cup, and this was for 3 people.)
A can of black olives
A can of mandarin oranges
Olive oil and balsamic vinegar.

This was not my prettiest culinary work, but I did enjoy the taste.

My dinner companions ate maybe 5 small bowls of the stuff and I ate the rest. It seems to take about 3 times the volume of vegetable matter to fill me up, as compared to meat. I would love to hand that list to a nutritionist and ask just how many different nutrients I just stuffed into my body.