Not Bad

I said quinoa isn't bad three times in one paragraph.

So perhaps it's bad.

All I know is:  it is a Weight Watcher 'free' food - you can eat as much as you want any time you want.  Which makes it a good food.

It's just teeny tiny bits, though, so it's hard to feel satisfied eating teeny tiny bits of anything.

So 'bad' or not, we'll be eating a lot of it around here.  Except H. 'cuz he's not watching what he eats.

Only today is a total cheat day 'cuz for the football games, we made the Pioneer Woman's cheese dip and biscuits and gravy.  Three bad things out of the fridge.

There are 21 meals and 14 snacks in a week and a cheat now and then will happen.  Even if we average a 50% 'bad' ratio of 'clean' meals to not, we will be far ahead of where we've been. And for me, I won't want to cheat much once I get past the crazy first days of craving everything in sight.

B. texted 'I just made myself some coffee!' - excited about his new $7.99 coffee maker.  4 cup.  He was thinking about buying the same one we have here at home but I told him it's way more expensive and if Dad and I were to buy another coffee maker today, we would not choose that same model.  We'd go back to a drip with a coffee carafe or pot vs. the single cup drip we have.  Or a Keurig.  We'd love a Keurig.

First, though, we have to use all the coffee beans we have - and that will take awhile 'cuz we stocked up when the organic whole bean was on coupon at Costco a few months back.

J. is enjoying football and I'm starting to watch House of Cards on Netflix.  These Netflix series are really crazy good - and I love that they can be watched anywhere courtesy of the iPad.

J.'s going to call The Dish this week to see what our options are re: paring down the expense of our monthly cable.  We love The Dish - but we pay a fortune for a lot of channels we never watch and every month, the payment amount 'for TV' irritates me.  Sure, I love the DVR's that help us record a ton of stuff to watch at our leisure but there are a zillion movie channels we pay for that we don't watch.  We watch if we see a movie we're interested in as we channel surf but we never see if a movie is on via a search.  We just 'happen' upon them. And with Netflix, we can pretty much see any movie we want whenever we want - so why keep paying?

We'll see - we've tried to pare it down before with little success.  All their crazy 'packages' tied to each other.  Still, I love The Dish more than any cable company we've ever had - they have great service and we've never had any issues.

H. headed off to work - his schedule changing this week to 4 days in a row (poor baby).  He's excited about the great checks and so far (knock on wood) has managed to actually put money in savings and leave it there.

I want to drive to Walnut Grove tomorrow to check out the little house - so will probably try to get up pretty early and head to work.  I have a couple 'must do' items that can't wait until Tuesday - 'cuz Tuesday is meetings pretty much all day long.

At least it's a four day work week....