THURS. APRIL 27

I am a walking zombie, up all night trying to finish the script -- about 4 more hours of work to go -- I hope , if it's longer we won't get to give it to our agent today.

Breakfast yesterday was a Lean Cuisine pizza.

Lee went to Quiznos for lunch. regular-sized tuna sandwich w/ swiss cheese.

Dinner was appx 6 oz. of broiled orange roughy, salad w/ blue cheese and cranberries and peanuts, and 3 reduced fat crescent rolls. Somewhere in there also had a Girl scout cookie.

Gotta get kids to school get back to work, make it thru a Girl Scout meeting today and finish the script. And sleep.

WED. APRIL 26

I had to go out to an appointment this morning and got there quite early, so I stopped for some breakfast. I had potato pancakes with sour cream and applesauce.

When I got home, we got to work -- I wanted to finish the script today, and we're close. About 3 scenes left to tweak.

I skipped lunch to work.

For dinner, we had a tuna noodle broccoli casseroley thing. I didn't make nearly enough. Had half a grilled cheese sandwich later, plus 2 Girl Scout cookies.

And then back to work, with a brief break to see the results show for American Idol. So glad Kellie was the one voted off and that Catherine was in the top 2!

Tomorrow we FINISH the script. (I mean it this time.) Home all day.

TUES. APRIL 25

This was an all-writing day.

I skipped breakfast.

I broke around lunchtime and made some vegetarian spaghetti w/ parmesan.

Later in the afternoon I had the last of the pineapple meringue torte we had for Passover. There wasn't much left, but it was just as good 10 days later as it was when we first had it.

My kids had been begging for a hamburger-based dinner for several days (lots of chicken around here for some reason recently). So dinner was a stovetop melange of hamburger, cheese, chili sauce, pasta and sour cream. I also had a small bowl of orange sherbet while we watched American Idol. I have to say, we thought Catherine was marvelous -- we can't figure the judge's bad comments, except to say that they must be trying to stack the deck so they don't have another white female winner.

And my bet is that Kellie is going home. Or at least should go home.

But we'll see tonight.

MON. APRIL 24

I skipped breakfast today.

Lee and I got to work late in the morning, and since we had a lot of discussing to do, we decided to go out to lunch (less yelling at each other that way). We had a coupon for a local Mexican chain restaurant, so went there. But when we got there, it turned out it had been taken over by another, pricier Mexican chain. Oops. We stayed anyway.

It turned out the best deal they had was their lunch buffet, which was cheaper than anything on the menu, so that's what we had. I had a salad w/ cilantro dressing and pepitas, a small chicken soft taco, a cheese enchilada, appx 1/3 c. of Mexican rice w/ cilantro sauce, some carrots, and appx 1/3 c. cornbread. It was actually quite good. Oh, and about 1/2 a small basket of chips and salsa (a very small basket -- they had extra small ones for parties of two, I noticed).

Late in the afternoon I had a decent-sized bowl of orange sherbet. And Cory offered me the tiniest possible bite of a chocolate easter egg. And I had 1 Hershey's kiss (Also leftover from Easter) while we were writing.

For dinner, we had leftovers from the Girl Scout campout Friday night. The moms planning the food *way* overbought (including making 18 cups of rice for 24 girls!), so we divvied up all the leftover food Saturday morning, and some of it just needed to be cooked. So that's what we had, even though I wasn't in the mood for it. I had appx 1/3 c. of rice, and appx 3 oz. of teriyaki chicken with a couple of bites of pineapple. Eh.

Tomorrow we are writing all day. With any luck, we will finish our script. Boy, would that be nice!

THE LAST FEW DAYS

Between the Girl Scout campout and our church's 50th anniversary and all the writing, I haven't been posting, and haven't done such a good job of mentally tracking what I've been eating over the last few days. And I find that when days back up, I tend to miss things, which sort of defeats the purpose of this blog. So I think I have to give myself a do-over, and start from scratch. My apologies to anyone who might actually be reading.

WED. APRIL 19

Yesterday I had leftovers for breakfast -- a soft taco, tortilla, rice, chicken peppers, onions, tomatoes, sour cream.

Then we wrote all morning, and somewhere in there I had about 3 doughnut holes (they're all gone now, I sent the last in Cory's lunch today) and 2 white chocolate raspberry brownies, a few slices of leftover roasted potatoes, a couple of asparagus spears, and 1 foil-wrapped chocolate egg from Easter . I don't think I ever ate anything that would actually qualify as "lunch," because we just kept working till it was time to get the kids.

Then we went back to work, and I forgot to get dinner started. We had our last Lenten small group -- everyone was talking about how wonderful it was to have this group, and I have to say, I guess it was all about them this year, because I could barely keep my eyes open most of the weeks. But because of the group I had an extremely late dinner -- Lee and the kids got to eat earlier, but I didn't.

We had chicken defrosted that had to be cooked, so I just threw together what we call 'cheater's chicken.' This is our favorite takes-3-minutes-prep-and-is-good-enough-for-company dish. I will give you the recipe (if anyone is actually reading this!) -- You take one jar of apricot preserves, 1 bottle of Kraft Catalina dressing (the fat-free is fine), and 1 packet of Lipton onion soup mix. You mix them together and pour over chicken and bake. The sauce is fabulous with white rice.

So, for dinner I had 1 chicken breast with the apricot/onion sauce, and white rice.

Today we are writing our tails off again. Cory has a soccer game I have to go to this afternoon -- hopefully he won't be too embarrassing (he is just not a jock). Then I have to go to a meeting tonight. So we have to get a lot done today in a little time.

TUES. APRIL 18

I admit to snitching about 4 doughnut holes while making the kids breakfast (which consisted of the aforementioned doughnut holes, plus some fruit).

Lee and I had a meeting at Act One this morning. I sort of resented giving up our writing time, but it was probably good for us to take a break and think about someone else for a while. We stopped briefly at McDonald's on the way home -- I had a crispy chicken salad and about half a serving of fries.

Later in the afternoon, I made a soft taco from the leftover fajitas -- chicken, peppers, onions, tomatoes, rice, flour tortilla, sour cream. I think I also had a few more doughnut holes -- fortunately the glazed ones are now all gone and I don't like the chocolate ones (many of which went to school in the kids' lunch today). And while writing I had another of those white chocolate raspberry brownies leftover from Easter. (Can you tell we're in a big leftover mode here?)

For dinner, we had soup -- I had a bowl of baked potato soup, plus what Sabrina didn't eat, probably 1/4 of a bowl, plus 2 crescent rolls. I also had a small bowl of orange sherbet.

Today (Wed.) is an all writing day. We have our last Lenten small group tonight (held over from last week, when we didn't meet), and I will be glad to have it over and done with -- just not the best mix of people.

And now I am hearing some disturbing sounds from the kitchen, where it sounds like the kittens have jumped up on the kitchen island (not really kittens anymore if they can jump that high). See you tomorrow.

MON. APRIL 17

Okay, I'm back in writing mode, which makes it hard to post here for some reason. My bad.

Monday, we had to clean up from Easter and get ready for our writers group coming over for dinner.

I skipped breakfast, but Lee and I went out for an early lunch while we were running all our errands. I had chicken Caesar salad, pita bread, and fries. Later while getting everything ready, I had a leftover white chocolate raspberry brownie.

We made fajitas for dinner for everyone. I had 1 flour tortilla, 1 serving of chicken fajitas, about 1/2 of Mexican rice, about 1 T. of sour cream, and some spinach salad w/ cranberries and pecans.. Because of our writers group's doughnut tradition, we served doughnut holes for dessert, and I had about 4 glazed doughnut holes.

Then I stayed up late transcribing the incredibly detailed notes from our group. A lot of work to do.

EASTER SUNDAY, APRIL 16

What a lovely Easter we had!...

I will probably blog about it on my *real* blog, so will confine myself to food here.

Lee insisted on stopping for doughnuts on the way to the Hollywood Bowl. Fortunately the donut shop where we stop on our way to our writers group was open -- and only one block off the freeway.

We made it to the Bowl, where one of our friends was already waiting, and passed out the doughnuts. I had a maple bar.

We had a sumptuous Easter brunch, courtesy of many friends who pitched in! I had several slices of home-smoked ham (don't really know how many because I was nibbling before we officially started eating), 5 or 6 pieces of asparagus w/ dill sauce, a handful of glazed carrots, half a croissant, a big serving of potatoes au gratin, a big serving of spinach salad w/ cranberries, blue cheese, and pecans, a white-chocolate-raspberry brownie, half a piece of chocolate mousse cake, and 2 or 3 little foil-wrapped chocolate eggs. Outstanding!

We sort of nibbled leftovers for dinner. I had half a leftover tuna sandwich from Quiznos, and another maple bar.

Tonight (Mon.) our writers group comes over for dinners. I am thinking I will make fajitas if I can find them ready-to-cook at the store.....

SAT. APRIL 15

We had a day off between parties today, so it was all about cleaning up from Passover and prepping for Easter...

I fasted through breakfast.

In the afternoon, I went shopping with Sabrina. We had to go to Nordstrom, since I still have Christmas gift cards from my stepbrother's family, so we stopped for lunch first at The Apple Pan across the street. I had a cheeseburger w/ grilled onions, relish and mayo, and about 2/3 of an order of fries.

Our Easter-dress shopping was quite blessed. I told Sabrina she couldn't try on anything over $50, which was quite limiting, as many of the dresses were $88 to $162. She tried on a few, nothing worked or fit right. As I was telling her we would just have to put together an Easter outfit from her closet, if anything still fit, she insisted we go out and look at the racks again. So we did. And while we were in the dressing room, someone returned a dress (tags torn off) in Sabrina's size, that was perfect, and on sale because it was the only one like it. Whew!

We also had a mother-daughter manicure (something I had promised Sabrina back in October). While waiting for our spots, we stopped at See's candy for a treat. I had 2 pieces of candy, the bordeaux I ordered and the chocolate buttercream that was my free sample.

We stopped at Quiznos on the way home, because no way was I going to get anything dirty when Lee had spent the whole day washing dishes! I had a smoked turkey on parmesan bread sandwich, w/ onions, red pepper sauce, and tomatoes, and a bag of black-papper-and-line potato chips. We watched "The Ten Commandments" up to the Passover (with the kids laughing to hear the words they had just said the night before -- "Why is this night different from all other nights?" -- then went to bed -- sorry, but the parting of the Red Sea was just too late for people who had to get up for Easter!

FRI. APRIL 14

Although the first night of Passover was actually Wednesday, whenever Passover coincides with Holy Week, we usually celebrate it on Good Friday, because it's simply so much easier for our friends to get to us, given that they probably got at least half a day off.

I fasted through breakfast.

I had to do a big (big!) Costco run, so had a hot dog there. Also, in the free sample department, I had a piece of spinach ravioli, a couple of bites of a Philly cheesesteak sandwich, and some salmon.

Then I came home and started getting Passover ready. For me, the day I prepare Passover is almost an act of worship. I slice horseradish and set the table and snip parsley and it's all a calm, lovely, domestic afternoon. And the kids helped this year, voluntarily even, which was wonderful. Sabrina made the charoset, Cory did most of the place settings... But they still insisted I slice the dreaded horseradish.

The way we work it, I take care of the main course (as those redeemed by the Lamb, we have lamb at Passover -- non-traditional, I know), and all the Seder plate stuff, and we have friends who bring everything else. And boy, did those friends surpass themselves this year! Food-wise, I'd have to say this is probably the best Passover we've had.

For dinner I had a hard-boiled egg, a very small bowl of incredibly delicious chicken/matzo ball soup (we ran out, or I would have had more!), 2 slices of roast lamb, about a dozen slices of roasted rosemary potatoes, about 1/2 c. of glazed baby carrots, a serving of pineapple meringue, and about half a dozen tiny macaroons. Not to mention a sprig of parsley, about 1/2 a matzo, a slice of horseradish, and a couple of spoonfuls of charoset (apples/pears/honey/almonds), and 4 good-sized swigs of cabernet.

Last year's Passover broke my heart, as we were already well into the process of moving to we-knew-not-where (just like the original Passover). This year, it was good to see that, no matter what happens, no matter where we are, the tradition continues.

Today (Sat.) will be a calm day, basically getting ready for Easter. We are hosting a brunch for anywhere from 5 to 9 families. I am supremely unconcerned, and know it will all be lovely. (As long as it doesn't rain!)

THURS. APRIL 13

Thursday was all about getting caught up on things we hadn't gotten done over the past 2 weeks, and about getting our script delivered. For me, it was about finishing my kids' vacation scrapbooks, to give them on Easter (I find if I have non-chocolate presents to give, it allows me to minimize the chocolate -- and just how did Easter -- Resurrection Sunday! -- get to be about bunnies and chocolate anyway?!).

Lee brought home breakfast -- I had a sesame bagel w/ cream cheese, and a small mango-a-go-go from Jamba Juice.

In the afternoon, Lee joined me for a ton of pre-Passover/pre-Easter errands. We got them all done way faster than expected, so stopped at El Pollo Loco for lunch. I had a grilled fiesta burrito -- chicken, rice, corn, tortilla strips, salsa, chipotle sauce -- it was actually a bit bigger than I wanted, as it turned out. And I had about 4 chips but mostly gave Lee my chips.

That evening I was simply not hungry, after that huge burrito. Somewhere later in the evening, I had a mini-pizza (what the kids had for dinner, as I was simply not going to get anything dirty the night before our Passover Seder) and a small bowl of orange sherbet.

WED. APRIL 12

Oh, what a bad girl am I -- I can't believe I let 3 days go by w/o posting. Okay, let's dredge up the memories.

Wednesday... Hm...

Wednesday, I fasted through breakfast, and got right to work on our script at about 7:30, as we knew we had to finish that day.

We were going bonkers by noon, with the end tantalizingly in sight. I hadn't been out of the house for a couple of days (Lee had even been doing the school drives), so we went to grab some lunch at Islands, taking my computer w/ us. I had 2 soft chicken tacos w/ salsa, sour cream, lettuce, tomato, and half a basket of fries w/ about 1/4 c. low-cal ranch dressing.

We finished the script around 11:00 Wed. night. Somewhere in there, Lee made me a frozen dinner of something that was supposed to be meat loaf, something that was supposed to be mashed potatoes, and corn and carrots. I have no idea what the kids ate for dinner.

TUES. APRIL 11

We had a business breakfast this morning, so I actually ate breakfast. I had 2 scrambled eggs w/ grilled onions and about 1/4 c. of cottage cheese mixed in, plus half a sesame bagel w/ cream cheese. (Have you gotten the idea that I like grilled onions?

I fasted through lunch, as we were working. Hopefully we will finish (this draft of) our script tomorrow. Actually, we must finish it tomorrow.

For dinner, because we were working and didn't want to take time to cook, I made a Stouffers family-sized lasagna. I had 1 1/2 servings of lasagna. Later I had a very tiny serving of Moose Tracks ice cream -- basically all that was left.

I then pondered the huge "wish list" of candy that Sabrina had presented me, having found a See's candy flyer in the paper. At least it was a good math lesson for her, as she spent time adding up the totals of everything she wanted. (Next time around, I'll make her calculate the sales tax!) I have since informed her that, no, she may not have $87.40 worth of chocolate for Easter (plus tax).

Tomorrow we finish the script. Yippee.

MON. APRIL 10

Yesterday was an all-writing day. We got a lot done.

I fasted through breakfast.

I had a very late, very light lunch. Just a small salad w/ hard-boiled egg and ranch dressing.

For dinner, I made tuna melts, to the great delight of my kids. I had 1 tuna melt on rye. To my amazement, Sabrina and Cory both finished theirs and demanded seconds. I guess they're growing.

Later, I had a small bowl of chocolate chip ice cream.

And that was it for Monday. Back to writing now.

SUN. APRIL 10-

Well, Blogger tells me that this is my 100th post on this blog, so this must be day 100 of 2006. For what that's worth.

I am dealing with that can't-sleep, always-full-of-energy stress that comes with having too many deadlines and too many uncertainties. Lee and I have to finish the first polish of our script by Wed., I have to prep my taxes (filing an extension), I have to do my mom's taxes, I have to do a scrapbook from scratch by Friday (so it can be bound by Easter, so it can be an Easter basket gift, so I can avoid buying tons of candy), I have Girl Scout stuff to do this week, and we have Passover to prep for on Friday, an Easter brunch for 2 dozen people on Sunday, and dinner for our writers group on Monday.

All of which has nothing to do with yesterday's food. Okay. Back to yesterday.

I fasted through breakfast.

After church, I thought Lee had the choice of where to eat for lunch. I was planning on a salad and a baked potato -- but then Cory insisted he had the choice, and I looked it up, and he was right. So we ended up at Fatburger instead. I had a 'Baby Fat' (i.e., kids' size) cheeseburger and 'fat' fries. Plus I had several swigs of Sabrina's chocolate shake.

I had to work all afternoon, something I don't like to do on Sundays. (Especially when we covered the Ten Commandments in church, with the Sabbath staring me right in the face.) I had to write a sort of treatment on the life of Paul, all while Lee and the kids were playing croquet outside. Oh well. It got done, and it's good, so that's good. Then Lee and I worked for a couple of hours, quite amicably for a change.

Lee made dinner -- a chicken, pasta, broccoli and carrots stir-fry. There wasn't very much of it, so I really only had a half-serving. We got the kids to bed, worked a couple more hours. Then I was all wound-up, too wound-up to sleep (I need some winding-down time at night, and working into the evening is not good for me). I pulled out the Sunday paper, and had to go through the See's Candy flyer of Easter candy. (Grandma traditionally buys an Easter basket at See's for the kids, but this year I doubt she's even aware Easter is coming. So I will have to do it. Oh good. Just as we get the Girl Scout cookies out of the house, in comes the chocolate!)

All of which made me crave chocolate. Lee dug around and found me a couple of Halloween-sized Kit-Kat bars, which I ate while reading the paper. I actually slept okay, despite the stress and the caffeine right at bedtime. God is gracious.

Today (Monday) is an all-writing day. Also an all-scrapbook day, an all-taxes day... Oy.

SAT. APRIL 8

I fasted through breakfast -- fortunately Sabrina still had leftover pancakes.

For lunch, I had a club sandwich and fries. Then raced off to teach my last pitching class for Act One. The Force was with me, traffic-wise, for a change.

For dinner, I made honey-mustard chicken and ricearoni. I had seconds on the rice, and so didn't have any ice cream when Lee offered, while we were watching "Napoleon Dynamite," which the kids wanted to see.

That was it for Saturday.

I'll be better at posting. Promise.

FRI. APRIL 7

Oh dear. I am really falling behind here, aren't I? I'm sorry.

Okay, Friday.

We had our meeting on "Paul," which went remarkably well. We stopped for a late breakfast -- call it brunch. I had 9 silver-dollar-sized potato pancakes, w/ appx 3 T. of sour cream and 1/2 c. of applesauce. I gave all my sausages to Lee.

Sabrina and I stopped on the way home from her playdate to pick up some things at Ralphs, and picked up dinner too. I had a ham, cheese, mustard sauce, red pepper panini. I also bought a salad, but was too full to eat it.

That was Friday.

THURS. APRIL 6

An astonishingly successful writing day. We basically finished our script today. Yes, we still disagree over a couple of key scenes -- but not over the content, only over the words. And we have to cut about 4 or 5 pages. But still. A good day.

I fasted through breakfast.

Lee went out to pick up some prescriptions and cat food, and he stopped at California Chicken Cafe, a little 4-shop healthy fast food place that we used to eat at all the time. The kids are crazy about their butternut squash, which I never make because Lee hates squash of all kinds -- so he got them some as a treat. I had a vegetarian rice wrap -- rice, carrots, tomatoes, ranch dressing, in pita bread and a side order of chicken pasta salad.

I was going to cook honey-mustard chicken for dinner, but Sabrina had a long playdate here today, and the dad picked up her friend late, so I didn't get started cooking till 7, and didn't want to take time to bake chicken. At Lee's request, we had crunchy taco hamburger helper (hamburger, rice, cheese sauce, taco chips). Later, Lee made me a tiny chocolate chip ice cream sundae. I really do mean tiny, btw -- the ice cream wouldn't fill one scoop. Sometimes that is just the right size.

Tomorrow we do something that would be frowned on by many moms at school. We leave our kids alone while we go to a meeting. Normally, not an issue -- I mean, at 11 (Cory's age), I was a latchkey kid, letting myself in after school every day. But tomorrow Sabrina has another playdate, this time w/ the mom picking her up while we are out at our meeting. Cory has practiced asking "Who's there?" when the doorbell rings, then opening the door and saying, "Hi, my mom and dad are at a brief meeting, and I'm in charge while they're gone. Sabrina is all ready for her playdate. Here's my mom's cell phone number, and may I please have your cell phone number." I told the mom we would be out and Cory would be in charge but I think she really thinks there'll be a nanny or housekeeper or something here. Hope I don't find myself a pariah for this one! (But honestly. They're 9 and 11. It's daytime. The door is locked. Give me a break.)

Btw, if anyone is reading this, feel free to pray for our meeting tomorrow. We're meeting w/ non-believing producers about the life of the apostle Paul. Our job is to go in and tell them they must have Christian writers or they're wasting their money. Hey, what have we got to lose?! 11:00 a.m. PDT. I will definitely fast through breakfast, and we will probably stop for a quick lunch (or pick something up to bring back to Cory).

WED. APRIL 5

I went to post today's food and realized I forgot to do yesterday's. The problem is, all these home-to-write days just blur together.

Yesterday, Sabrina (on spring break) begged for pancakes for breakfast. I couldn't think of a reason why not, so sure, why not. I made pancakes. I had 1 small pancake w/ butter and syrup. I only made half a recipe, but we had leftovers for this morning, so that worked out.

I fasted through lunch. Writing, don't you know.

I had promised to go see "She's the Man" with the kids, and it looked like yesterday was the only day it would remotely work out, so off we went in the late afternoon. What a delightful movie! I had about 1/4 of a large popcorn w/ butter and way too much salt (Lee prepared the popcorn), plus 2 bites of Lee's hot dog.

We had our Lenten home group last night (well, I did -- since it's on the kids' night up at church, Lee gets stuck on driving duty while the group meets). I had about 5 Lemon Cooler Girl Scout cookies.

The kids were at church for dinner, so Lee and I had leftovers after the home group went home. I had some leftover chicken curry w/ sticky rice.

Btw, we hit the end of another month, so I'd really love to hear from any of you who are actually reading this rather odd blog. Are you out there?

TUES. APRIL 4

Yesterday was an all-writing day, which was a good thing. Cory ended up having an impromptu playdate w/ his best friend from school, which was great. Theoretically they were supposed to practice the Beatles' song "Help" for the school talent show this month (Cory on drums, Casey on guitar), but they spent, oh, five minutes on that. The rest of the time was spent playing videogames, playing frisbee outside in the pouring rain, and tormenting Sabrina.

Before the rain episode, while everyone was still warm and dry, Lee made ice cream sundaes for one and all. (Oy. I send her son home soaking wet and full of ice cream -- his mom must love me.) I had a small chocolate chip sundae w/ chocolate sauce. I also had a piece of Cory's leftover pepperoni pizza.

For dinner, I made yet another of my recipes which is a hit w/ Lee and not so much w/ the kids (though Cory's best friend has scarfed down many servings). We had chicken curry, w/ apples, coconut and dried cranberries, over sticky rice. I then spent most of my evening helping friends in need over the phone. I hung up, asked Lee, "When do I get to dump all my problems on everyone else, like they do on me?" and promptly had a Girl Scout cookie and a leftover breadstick. Maybe I should just hand out Girl Scout cookies over the phone, and then everyone would feel better.

Today (Wed.) is another all writing day. Plus I have to take the kids to the movies, as I promised (spring break this week).

MON. APRIL 3

I fasted through breakfast yesterday. In part because I slept in, in part because I knew it would be a heavyish food day.

We drove down to Orange County to deal with my increasingly wacked-out mother. We spent two nice hours with her, for which I have already paid with a good 3 hours of her screaming at me on the phone over things she agreed to but doesn't remember. And she wonders why she doesn't have any friends left.

We went to the Olive Garden for lunch, and had absolutely wonderful service. I had about 2/3 of a large Caesar salad, 2 breadsticks, and fettucine w/ shrimp and scallops -- although frankly, I think that should be "with shrimp and scallop" because I'm pretty sure they took 1 normal sized scallop and cut it up into 4 microscopic bites. But it tasted good and it was all quite pleasant -- at least for the time being.

Lee had an extensive doctor's appointment (a specialty cough center down near grandma's, to deal w/ the cough he's had on-and-off for almost 2 years). Turned out he has extremely badly inflamed sinuses, causing post-nasal drip onto larynx, causing the coughing and hoarseness. While he was there, me and the kids hung out at a mall.

We stopped for dinner at Cocos on the way home. I was very happy to see that Cocos is no longer insisting that all burgers be cooked well done. I had a burger that I haven't had in years because of that, so it was a treat: a cheeseburger on sourdough bread, w/ a sweet/spicy mustard sauce and grilled onions. And fries.

And then blessedly home. Only to deal w/ wacked-out grandma some more.

Oy.

SUN. APRIL 2

Sorry I failed to post on Sunday. Or yesterday.

Sabrina and I got up to church on Sunday just early enough to have a doughnut. I had a glazed doughnut.

For lunch, I got to celebrate a friend's birthday w/ an all-girls lunch at a nice little cafe in Santa Monica. For some reason I really really wanted eggs. Since I am not really an egg fan, I figure this means my body was in need of something -- protein, sulphur, whatever. I hadscrambled eggs w/ salmon and onions, the potato-and-onion conglomeration that some restaurants call 'home fries' for some unfathomable reason, and 2 tiny cranberry-bran muffins.

For dinner, we set up a taco bar in the house, and I made tacos. I had 3 tacos.

That was it for Sunday.

SAT. APRIL 1

Yesterday (Sat.) we had our writers group, so that meant a stop for doughnuts. I had a jelly doughnut and a glazed doughnut.

I stopped with a friend to grab fast lunch while racing off to teach my pitching class. We stopped at In-n-Out, and I had a cheeseburger, about 2/3 of an order of fries.

Came home, got to work transcribing the notes from our writers group, which took almost 4 hours, so Lee made dinner. He made Italian sausage and rigatoni - and later I had a very small chocolate chip ice cream.

FRI. MARCH 31

How did it get to be the end of March already?

Okay, yesterday. Dead on my feet. I shared b'fast w/ the kids, ate their leftovers: almost half a bagel w/ cream cheese. Lee took them to school because I felt too yucky. He came home with some hashed brown nuggets from Carls' Jr..

A fairly aimless day, not much accomplished. Some scrapbooking, as I have to have the kids' scrapbooks finished for Easter (to avoid packing Easter baskets w/ candy). Leftovers for lunch: a chicken enchilada, half a chicken taco, rice, sour cream.

Kids on an overnight, so no cooking for dinner. Still feeling not so great. We got dinner from a place that basically serves comfort food. I had 2 small crab cakes w/ tartar sauce, hashed browns w/ onions and sour cream. Comforting, indeed.

Sat. is an on-the-road day, like it or not. Much as I might want/need to be coiled up in bed all day, our writers group is meeting, and we are on the docket. So off I go to doughnut land (kleenex box in hand). Then I have to teach my pitching class for Act One. Home tonight -- thank the Lord.