Whats on Your Tuesday , Post-Long Weekend Menu?

Honestly Im very reluctant 2 post because noone ever answered my posts in d past . Made m feel isolated and even shunned 4 absolutely no reason.

Where did everyone go from here btw ? Not that I really care ... jes curiosity . ( Im guessing the self-styled wegovy scarfing " Queen" was finally censored and she was " outraged " and her lemmings followed her to another site )

Guilty Confession - Rest of king cream donut and 1/3 bag plaintain chips w lime n chili.

Surprisingly not that calorie dense ( say compared to Doritos my other guilty snack favorite ) - six grams of fat per serving in a totally stuffed medium sized bag w five servings - 30 grams of fat total - 1/2 a big mac.

Yep I still measure fat by number of big macs ( 64 grams each lol) not counting the fries !

Yesterday's ambitions turned into a wash - realized I would get NOTHING done rushing out to inspect the storm damage / flooding so I enjoyed a relax- a-cat day despite banging headache which I havent suffered since the nineties I swear !

Flooding level will still be at its highest point today since theres no sump pump working ... and I can finally deal w nasty neighbor stealing land , running illegal business out of a $ 60,000 BOATHOUSE in a million plus neighborhood ! etc and illegally adding on a bathroom and even living quarters .. ( thats a whole other ball of wax lol I havent mentioned to U yet ) On the large scale a small annoyance but Im happy even Eager 2 finally b dealing w it!

If this apartment's really trying to kill m Im not dumb enuf to sign a lease ...

so I made appointments to inspect three others w large terraces this morning - one again I saw and applied for last year only to get rejected.

Whats up w that ? THREE of my favorite apartments I applied for last year all vacant ?!

OF COURSE the greedy unregulated landlords R demanding crazy rents but ... the agents are telling me renters sign up for a year with significant concessions ( my two months free rent gets me from $5200 to $3900 per month) then when the years lease is up they MOVE !!!!

Im so old school I think a NYC apartment is a forever home because the effective rent reduces dramatically over the years w rent stabilization .

Unfortunately almost none of the new buildings are rent regulated . ( But theyre starting to be - theres already new laws in place to prevent the - get this - AVERAGE 29% rent hike on unregulated apartments last year !!!! )

Cooked D last nite then didnt eat it thanks to headache -

Lobster n fish buttery fat free fish milky stew thickened w mashed potatoes n zucchini.

Tabouleh salad

roasted brussels sprouts n mushrooms in fat free cheese sauce

Fat free alternative dipping sauce for fish and veg - hollandaise

herbal tea

B - small Hungarian open face sandwich - toasted garlic clove bread , ff hollandaise , corned beef w fat removed , maple smoked ham slice, pepper jack cheese all melted in the oven

spoonfools of ff sf yogurt

L & D dk

Chai tea latte ff sf of course

Coffee latte ditto

perhaps that apple/ pear pastry or fruit n yogurt

What R Ur plans this week ? Whats the best book you've read lately ?

Ive been devouring New York by Edward Rutherfurd who I believe is British writer . Fascinating super well researched historical fiction !

hugs Eva

My gosh my grandma would love, love, love those cartoons! She had one she kept in the early 70's of one of those old women in a mini skirt and her husband was saying something like 'Dangit, Ethel! I told you no mini skirts!' And of course her boobs were hanging out the front. She showed it to EVERYBODY who came to visit, lol. I miss that woman so much.

Yikes your rental situation sounds so stressful! I'm not a fan of being around big crowds but I would face them in New York to be able to go to Mood Fabrics or the Fabric District. But I hear you need to go there with several thousands of dollars because it makes a sewist want to buy all the pretties. And I'm sorry not to have been following the news in this cleaning frenzy, didn't even know about your flooding. How awful and the situation with the boat house neighbor too.

My weekend through to Tuesday morning was full of full-on stress cleaning and organizing just to be able to have a dear friend come visit. She'd never, ever be judgy about my mess but with three families' worth of furniture and belongings (inheritances) it looks like a hoarder house here and makes me ashamed. You'd never know I've been steadily decluttering bit by bit for the last three years.

So sorry you get such bad headaches, I did for decades and know how it disrupts your life. Don't miss those suckers now since my hysterectomy. Hope yours will ease up once you get a new apartment and finish up with the old house.

Monday's meals were:

B: my choc/protein/collagen shake

L: 10 cashews (does that count as the Guilty Confession?)

D: a egg-bite style concoction of Egg Beaters, 1 Amylu breakfast sausage, 1 lite cheese stick and 1/2 a zucchini sauteed in 1 tsp real butter.

S: a Magic Spoon mini bar that is similar to a Rice Krispie Treat, not bad and almost satisfied the habit of wanting something sweet in the evening. I can tell the Contrave isn't working as well because I didn't have even that amount of craving for months.

So now that there was a fabulous visit with my friend and my house hasn't recrappified itself yet and I can actually see my dining room table I'm ready to dig into a sewing marathon for new clothes. Not allowing myself to read but when I do the next up is a vintage book called 'The Window at the White Cat' by Mary Roberts Rinehart. Published in 1910. It will be fun to imagine everybody in clothing of that era that was so glorious on Downton Abbey. It seems to be a crime novel.

Going to try to get caught up here on the forum and keep caught up! Hope you had a great Tuesday.