Whether the Weather be: Partly Cloudy (52 F/12C)
In the News: Boy survives 16 floor fall from apartment building in New Zealand (Source: NZH)
Events of Note: Unit 3: Project work. Responses to peers in DB.
* Time, time, time... Sometimes, it's a matter of time moving from one extreme to another. Passing by too fast or too slow. Too little or not enough. Well, I took Dr Oz's RealAge test online again, recently. I take it once a year, just to where I'm at with my health. My chronological age is 37. My RealAge is 27. Within some scope of probability and reality, I am thereby reasonably healthy. Not a whole lot is too seriously out of whack with me. It's all in the numbers, apparently. I gained some weight when I relocated to the U.S. Still, I also happened to be pregnant with who would eventually emerge as a healthy 9lbs, 10.2 oz baby girl. From about the six month mark in my pregnancy, I was consuming two gallons of blue top milk per day, and eating 6 rashers of Canadian bacon, a day, too. Oink!. I gained a stunning 75lbs!. However, I also suffered with horrible 'morning' sickness throughout my entire pregnancy, right up until the night before my emergency C-section birth!.
* While we're on the related subject of of motherhood/parenthood, I'm just amazed and a little peturbed with the proliferation of Mommy-blogging on this site!. I read a stunningly astute blog post written by a former, Kiwi, college room-mate of mine on that very subject. Her observations were in line with mine. I read a of different blogs, but they are usually blogs with an underlying point to emphasize, or with some kind of a deeper story to share. I read a lot each day, but have a limited time window for doing so. So, I tend to be picky, that way.
* As I've discovered, here in the U.S., corn in various manifestations is in most everything that is consumable in the typical American diet. I was raised on grass-fed meat. Corn-fed beef in my opinion, does not taste the same at all. Some of the better beef can be had in Nebraska, but a few thousand miles is a bit far to travel from here for the purposes of enjoying a good steak. Granted, in my country of origin, meat can be something of a cautionary tale. Yet, dairy products in the European style is also one aspect that New Zealand has mastered particularly well. I really, really miss that!. Chocolate, too. Some of the U.S. variants of what are euphemiistically called chocolate (not to be confused with chocolate-flavored anything) are just nasty One dairy-related substitute that I do like here is the increasing availability of Greek yoghurt. Very rich and creamy, especially when it's compared with the watery, high sugar, low-fat yoghurts that are here en-masse.
* Another surprisingly sunny day outside again. Once again, I'll be concentrating on my college studies for the majority of what's left of today. Tomorrow, it's the start of my daughter's ballet camp, which means an early start for our little household.
See you on the boards and/or blogs!.
