Have you SEEN me?

Formerly Not So Much. . .the daily musings of a 26-year-old PYT whose self-love is superceded only by her obnoxiously endearing ability to remind you at all times just how fabulous she is. Guys too stupid to realize how lucky they are to be graced with her presence? Woman with 4-pack abs climbs onto the elliptical trainer next to her? Arrives at Chick-Fil-A at 10:37, only to learn she has missed her opportunity for a chicken biscuit? She throws all these setbacks off with disdain. . .after all, have you SEEN her??

Tuesday, June 22, 2004

Peanut Butter and the Women Who Love It (on their thighs)

Food items I genuinely love:
1) ice cream
2) cheese
3) sweet potato casserole (a recent addition to the favorites, courtesy of Mrs. Wilkes', a family style Southern "kitchen" in Savannah that has the best sweet potatoe casserole ever! I don't even know what else they serve).

Food items with which I am obsessed:
1) peanut butter.

Seriously, I've eaten an entire jar in like a week. Ok, maybe 2 weeks. And a cup of it went into a recipe for Peanut Butter BBQ chicken, but that only speaks to the level of affection I have for this gift from God, Peanut Butter. Once, in Spain, this Italian guy told me he didn't know what that was. They don't have it apparently. I said a quick prayer thanking God for Jimmy Carter. And we're not talking I've been shoveling back PBJ sandwiches. PB is the only of the three ingredients South Beach Diet approved (although probably not in the quantities I consume it!). But I do routinely eat it out of the jar. Back before South Beach, I would eat it and jelly together RIGHT OFF THE SPOON. Or (yum, try this) with chocolate chips. . .again, right off the spoon. I'm eating it with raisins now. It could be the sole source of my recent weight gain, come to think of it!! Whatever. I will not give it up. But I've forbidden myself from buying another jar for a few weeks, I obviously have no self-control.

What offsets the peanut butter consumption:

I do go to the gym mostly every day, in my constant struggle to peel off pounds (it's been about 3 weeks and I'm about 4 1/2 pounds down. . .which isn't amazing, but it's good, and slow and steady weight loss wins the race, right?). And here is my current favorite list of Powerful, Independent, Booty Shaking Chick Songs. . .they pump me up, and you know what? It's good not only to kick start your workout, but to blow off steam about confused and confusing boys (read the Parachute post). (They're not all "chick" songs, but they're all good self esteem pumping songs.)

The Middle Jimmy Eats World (reminds you to "be yourself! It doesn't matter if it's good enough for someone else.")
It's Raining Men Slutty Spice a la Bridget Jones' "fight scene" or the Weather Girls (reminds you that there are plenty more where the last one came from)
I'm a Slave for You or Boys (or both) Brit (reminds me how easy it is to get boys to leave clubs with you cause you're hot) (some of you Britney fans may have noticed this is really the same song, two tracks apart)
Overprotected Brit again (reminds me that well, I can't say it any better than her: I don't need nobody; Tellin me just what I wanna; What I what what I'm gonna; Do about; my destiny; I Say No, No; Nobody tell me just what what what I wanna do, do; I'm so fed up with people telling me to be; Someone else but me)
Independent Women, Part 1 Destiny's Child, Charlies' Angels Soundtrack (shoes on my feet, I bought 'em)
Extraordinary Liz Phair (Have you ever thought it's you who's boring? Who the hell are you?)

Will be posting more Chica Rock, workout songs for chicks as I work my way down on the old Ipod.






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