My Performing Debut

So the few scenes we filmed this morning went well and seemed amusing. Hopefully, I do not look like a weird-faced freak, but I am generally assured by people that this is not the case, and of course there's no way ever to know for myself (until I see the film, at least). If I can ever get a clip of it to show you my scene, I will, but I don't know if that's even possible. Anyway, it won't be made public until sometime in June.

In honor of my appearing on film ...

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Monica: The camera adds ten pounds, you know.

Chandler: How many cameras were on you?

... I decided to wear the one-size-down jeans that I'd recently gotten in anticipation of a generous weight loss. I haven't lost a great deal more, but a little more, I think, and with the help of sturdy foundation garments, I appear today in size Large as opposed to size Extra-Large. This is what the WW people call a "NSV": non-scale victory. Anyway, I feel good, if a little claustrophobic.

It has been a full and noisy day in the library today. We've had several classes in the main room, as opposed to the separate computer-lab classroom, so it's been pretty much a wall of noise. At one point we had a class in the computer room and two in the main room. I am ready to go home and put my head down.

But I'm heading from here to The Container Store so I can get ... well, containers to re-pack some of the basement stuff, and then to the ShopRite to lay in supplies. It's the easiest way to do it. I know I'll have to go to some supermarket with K on Sunday, but that's okay. I've got nothing to have for lunch tomorrow, so I'd better go today.

And then to light some smelly candles and see what's what. Since I'll be posting from home, I'll finish this there before I do.

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(As we see the hands of a clock spinning madly 'round ...)

Okay, so I'm home. I went to Office Depot instead of The Container Store, and got some stuff, and then the food. Along the way, I made a discovery.

Because the hearing aids don't work as they should and are being replaced, I haven't played around too much with the second and third programs that the audiologist put in. I have tried "crowd" mode a few times while walking through the cafeteria, but I wasn't impressed. It just seemed to make the crowd louder.

But I was out on the highway and couldn't hear my music playing, so in a what-the-hell moment, I flicked on crowd mode. The road noise became incredibly loud for maybe 30 seconds, and then faded out. I could still hear it, but it wasn't overpowering other sounds. Like the music. Oh, could I hear the music! It was wonderful! Everything sounded just like it should. And I didn't change back to normal mode until I got home, so I wasn't overwhelmed by all the noises in the stores, either. I guess you could call this a "NHV." (Non-hearing victory.)

I put everything away when I got home, and I have to tell you, have not gone downstairs to see what it's like today. I don't want to care. I don't think the Hubs has been down there either; he got home early for a Friday, around six, and is just catching up on his email, since he was out of the office all day. I did light a candle. Which turned out to be a good idea, because I made biscuits and burned them a little.

Somewhere in the course of my day, it occurred to me that if I made biscuits with reduced-fat Bisquick, and cut up some strawberries and put a dollop of fat-free Cool Whip on top, it would be like strawberry shortcake. Okay, not exactly like it, but a reasonable facsimile thereof. Okay, maybe not that reasonable, but hey, losing weight is the modus operandi of my life these days, so give me a break. There's nothing easier to cook/bake with than Bisquick, that staple of every junior high school cooking class, so putting them together wasn't a problem. I just couldn't see turning on the oven to make two measly little biscuits (one for me, one for K when she gets home from work), so I made them in the toaster oven. Which is a good plan if you live in a dorm or otherwise don't own an oven, but otherwise, not so much. Anyway, they're a little black on top but hopefully cooked inside. I can't eat it until the Cool Whip thaws, around nine.

Oh, I also got something at the store called "Smart Dogs", which is code for "hot dogs without any actual food product in them." I believe I have tried these before, and may I say, ick, but maybe not, and I've been in a hot dog mood lately. I don't even care about the calories or fat in one hot dog -- I can work that in somehow -- but it's the damn sodium. That stuff kills me, man. Whether the dogs are smart enough not to do that on their own remains to be seen.

So now I am technically "on vacation." It will be good not to be in that den of insanity for a week, anyway. Other than the basement, my big project was going to be changing my closet over, which for me means moving things around, since I have no place to put anything except in the closet. But I can put most of the sweaters away, and make the spring/summer stuff a little more accessible.

Oh, right, I forgot to tell you: it was a beautiful spring day today. Again, ho hum. No, it really was nice, and I left my jacket home and opened the windows when I got in from the shopping, so it really was good. I had the a/c on in the car. My little weather ticker tells me that it's 70 degrees, and will be 76 on Sunday. When I'll be working in the basement. Just can't get away from that one.


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