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October 19, 2005

Was that me talkin’ smack yesterday?

The first half of this week so far has been rough on me. I’m not doing too well with my kitchen out of commission, having to do all the work, and starting my new job (part time from home until next week). I’m also exhausted because I didn’t sleep last night.

We’ve gone out to eat every night since we parked the stove in the living room. The daily compounded guilt exceeded my maximum capacity and I blew today. It was from dinner on. We went to eat dinner at the mall and I had falafel and french fries. I can’t remember the last time I had french fries. After devouring them and enjoying every minute of it, which is good because normally I black out and can’t even remember it, I decided to get gelato.

Our mall got this new gelato place and I’ve never seen a more appealing display of anything my whole life. I don’t like ice-cream, sugar, or eat dairy yet this gelato haunted me. They have the usual metal containers but the gelato is piled about five inches above the rim and holds its shape, not because it’s frozen (it looks really soft) but because it is loaded with solid ingredients like cheesecake, fudge, pistachios, espresso beans. I had two scoops. One scoop was mascarpone, pistachio, and caramel swirl and one was espresso. Holy cow it was good.

My husband created a monster when he exposed my daughter to Doritos. As I caved to her pressure I caved to my own and had a few when we got home from the Mall. Now I’m sitting here stewing in my grossness. This was a far cry from the binges of old, but I haven’t felt this out of control in a really long while. Or this gross.

I’m about 10 minutes from going bed. I’m hoping to sleep it off and feel more rejuvenated tomorrow.

Posted by hopeful @ October 19, 2005 11:00 PM