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September 4, 2005
Purple Eggwhites
Wow, what a week!!!
Sixteen hour days at work, followed by moving my furniture out of my old apartment on Friday, followed by a whirlwind trip to New York to hear a lecture on Saturday evening (we got home at about 11 pm, way past our bedtime!) concluding at last in a peaceful, restful day at home with my Orange Angel. We got up at regular time (5:40 -- MR gets up at the same time every day as a way to control his insomnia, and when I don't have to be up at 4 or 5 for work, I enjoy sleeping in till he brings me my supplements in bed at 6) and he made our "Sunday breakfast" - low carb, protein fortified organic pancakes, along with an eggwhite and veggie scramble. Delicious! I love Sunday breakfast. It always takes me back to the first weekend I spent with MR in Calgary. CR Zoned pizzas... stir fry with Quorn... Sunday breakfast... fancy Chai tea... no wonder I decided that spending the rest of my radically extended life with this man would be a good idea!
Today I made MR a very simple lunch of frozen veggies with eggwhites in vegetable broth, all Trader Joe's, along with some blueberries in hazelnut oil and hazelnuts. For dinner I made a delicious pot of fresh veggies, with 300 g zucchini, 200 g green pepper, a can of Muir Glen Organic Fire Roasted tomatoes, teaspoon olive oil, teaspoon flax oil, 4 g garlic minced, 20 g onion chopped. I sauteed the onion and garlic in 3 oz red wine, then added 150 calories of eggwhites (cooked in the microwaved and cut into cubes), which made the eggwhites turn purple! They were a truly magestic shade. Then I added the veggies and the tomatoes and simmered for about half an hour. I just ate my regular brewers yeast and broth soup with veggies... I eat so many tomatoes on a regular basis that I often reserve the fire roasted ones for the Orange One.
Tomorrow I am back to my crazy work schedule, leaving for my first morning meeting at 6 am. MR leaves for SENS tomorrow evening, and will be gone for six days! I'll be working solid 16 hour days for almost the entire time, so I won't have much time to sit around lamenting the absence of my Orange Angel, but I will miss him. My cat, however, will enjoy reclaiming her side of the bed.
Great news... Laura is alive and well!!! I got email from her. Sounds like she's displaced for awhile, but her company is making sure she can work, and she's safe! I am so happy. I had these horrible visions of our CR'd bloggiefriend starving to death, literally, as she tried to escape New Orleans. We continue to keep all the hurricane victims in our prayers, even as we're happy to get the news that our friend is safe.
Posted by april at September 4, 2005 8:32 PM