Grammaticaster

weight: 142.8
exercise:
    200 pushups
    75 sit-ups
books read: 2666 by Roberto Bolaño (stunning… beautiful… highly recommended!)
blogs written: 0
photographs edited & posted: 0
christmas presents purchased: 0
pig slaughters I can feel directly responsible for: 1

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Hambone, hambone.  Have you heard?  The Crimson Tide is heading to Pasadena, CA to play for its 13th national championship.  Here are three early observations: 1)  while it was satisfying to watch Tim Tebow get knocked down to earth, it wasn’t really necessary to keep showing him crying on the sidelines.  He’s been humbled.  Let’s move on.  2)  there will be hype… do not buy in to it.  The Longhorn team we saw against Nebraska last night will most certainly NOT be the Longhorn team we play at the Rose Bowl.  This is a tough team with tremendous athletes on both sides of the ball – especially at quarterback and receiver.  3)  that being said, I wouldn’t wait until the last minute to start tidying up Coach Saban’s spot on Bryant-Denny’s walk of champions.  Roll Tide Roll!!!

Speaking of hambones, this week I discovered that a small Honeybaked Ham will feed two people for a week – without getting boring!  I bought it on my Monday lunch break.  We rotated different vegetable side dishes for the first three nights: turnip greens, corn, field peas, etcetera.  On Thursday we made ham sandwiches with french fries on the side.  Friday I cut off the rest of the meat and made an always-awesome ham bone soup.  That was more than enough meal for Friday night and Saturday’s lunch and dinner.  Hooray for ham. 

I also didn’t eat as many obviously bad-for-me things this week.  As you can see, that plus the pathetic amount of exercising I have done was enough to stop the ballooning but not enough to reduce any of my extra winter bulk.  It looks like I will need to go to the gym for that.  Good thing we pay for that membership every month!