{"id":3956,"date":"2015-04-22T15:47:14","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T20:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/?p=3956"},"modified":"2015-04-24T09:52:10","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T14:52:10","slug":"surviving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/?p=3956","title":{"rendered":"Surviving"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was really busy so I had to really focus and buckle down. For 5 months. Not that I could do anything from home to make work easier. Mostly, I was focusing on sleeping and eating enough. Eating enough entails grocery shopping enough. Then cooking enough. Then not poisoning myself with under cooked food. Then<\/em> not poisoning myself with trans fats.<\/p>\n

And I have to do all this around about 3 16-hr work days per week (as well as a couple of shorter 9-ish hr work days). I would gladly trade it all for 5 8.5-hr work days in a row as opposed to working long shifts every other day. The place is only open for 12 hours, but I come an hour early (because that’s when the electronic inbox starts filling) and stay an hour or 3 late (because I don’t want to leave 50 things to do for the next morning). So my days are somewhere between 14 and 16 hrs. I know I can leave anytime after close. But I don’t because I come back in 32 hours and the more stuff I leave for the next day, the more stuff they leave for me. So really, I’m just watching my own ass… recursively. <\/p>\n

On the plus side, I save so much money by not eating lunch or dinner. Just blowing it on sugar-free Monster Energy drinks and Cliff bars. On my days off, I’m trying my hand at new recipes. I spent about $45 on spices. I made a chicken pot pie casserole. <\/p>\n

It was awful. (So dry. Not enough sauce.)<\/p>\n

I tried chicken soup. <\/p>\n

It was awful. (Waaay too salty.)<\/p>\n

I tried a Mexican rice crockpot recipe. <\/p>\n

It was awful. (Way too watery.)<\/p>\n

I tried chili.<\/p>\n

It was alright. (Even I can’t screw that up.)<\/p>\n

Also, BLTs, oatmeal and cereal. My old accidental weight-loss diet. Only now it’s steel-cut oatmeal for a lower glycemic index. And kale because it doesn’t go limp. It just goes rotten. But it’s a dark leafy green and I like it. <\/p>\n

And danville. Ah, danville. There is no Starbucks. I don’t even like Starbucks, but I like having them around. It stands as a watermark for how civilised a society is. It’s a sign you’re in a “nicer” neighborhood. Something a Steak’n’Shake doesn’t quite live up to. It’s the retail operation equivalent of a seeing someone driving a Prius. Thank Zeus then for the Mad Goat Coffee Shop, an independent outfit that makes banging lattes. Now if only they would install a bike rack.<\/p>\n

*I will capitalize danville when it starts acting like a real freaking town. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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