I did not sleep well last night 😦 I woke up a lot for various reasons, but at least after I got up I didn’t feel tired at all today.
I wolfed down my oats as I prepped lunch. That was the last of my oats until I go to the store, so a change is in order tomorrow. I had a bigger than usual bowl of steel cut oats with more raisins than normal, Barney Butter, almond milk, water, and cinnamon. I figured out that this cinnamon tastes almost floral; guess that’s what I get for buying the cheap stuff 😦
(side bar: FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK. When I insert pics it deletes a paragraph! Ahhhh. Just had to insert all pics and write afterward. WordPress, fix this shit!)
I started my day with a rep from Calvert Investments, one of the oldest and largest socially responsible fund companies in the world. It dawned on me that I should probably put my money where my mouth is and support socially reponsible companies around the world. Duh! I like their new approach, too, called the SAGE Strategies, that strive to push currently non-socially responsible companies to become more socially reponsible.Â
My lunch was the same as yesterday. I left 1/2 of the apple, a few chips, and most of the cc.
The afternoon went quickly, and I think I finally solved the damn computer problem!! Yayayayayaya! Finally. I read more data on the item McAfee kept removing (it was called StealthMBR!rootkit), found out it was embedded in my registry, that I was not letting the fix stick b/c I kept undoing the changes at startup, blah blah blah, I think it is fixed now. Microsoft Security Center was helpful, as that’s where I learned what the program was and how it could have affected me. Turns out it was a nasty bug that could potentially steal info off of my computer, passwords, have remote control, etc. Not kosher! But, supposedly Microsoft doesn’t think it has hurt anyone yet.
Anywho. Eventually I ate my last two chips, and not too long after had two pieces of taffy, one peppermint and one butter.
We left work a little early so I could prepare dinner before heading to Master Recycler class. I made stuffed peppers, and found a way to save water while doing it–nuke the peppers instead of boil them! I totally forgot the rice until the last minute and ended up nuking it until par-cooked. Thankfully it did end up cooking mostly while in the oven.Â
All in all, this recipe was: 3 green bell peppers halved lengthwise & nuked 5 minutes, 1lb 93% lean ground beef sauteed with 1/2 a chopped onion, I then stirred in 1 can tomatoes with green chiles, 1/2 can tomato sauce, Nature’s Seasoning, Italian herbs, Jerk seasoning and ~1 cup cooked brown rice, then stuffed the peppers, poured a little more tomato sauce on top, and added a little shredded medium cheddar after baking. I baked them for about 30 minutes, and all was well! I also had the rest of my apple from lunch since I only had one portion of pepper.
Tonight’s MR class was about the recycling process and curbside recycling. Not much new stuff, but some great tidbits. I know I said I’d post under my new page, but I’ve been bad about doing that. Sorry….I’ll get there 😉
Around 8:30 we had a break, and I had a little snack of 2 wedges pita bread, ~2 T hummus, 2 small celery sticks, 2 baby carrots, and 1/2 of a small slice of poppyseed bread. Good stuff!
During class we passed around this pie plate showing what usually happens to glass at a paper mill:
Not pretty, eh? The glass hurts their machines, and then gets bound up with paper fibers and staples/paper clips, which then cannot be sorted out and scrapped. That’s one ugly mess! Here in the Portland area we recycle glass separately from our big bin of mixed stuff, and that reduces the glass contamination drastically. Paper mills still get tons of glass mixed in, tho, so until our population is more diligent it will still be a problem.
Well, I’m tired, it’s 11:15, and I think I’ll go to bed a little earlier than I have lately. Tomorrow will be a bit long again, and no oats to start me off! What will I ever do?
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