APPLAUSE & BOO

APPLAUSE

• Made really good Peanut Butter Banana Waffles from September issue of Martha Stewart Living Magazine. Here is the LINK. No sugar, no flour, so yum. I made them vegan for Figgy, using egg replacer powder from the baking aisle instead of real eggs. The powder made the mix kind of gummy; had to whisk a lot to blend it with the mashed bananas. These are packed with protein; Figgy loved. It's really different to have a hard-working, overextended college student living at home. Biology major. Friends. Study groups. Boyfriend. Job at lab on campus and stationery store in town. Baby sitting. Paying for her own education now. Doing art commissions, such as one of plankton for the campus lab and one of brains for Dan's upcoming book. Little sister pleading for her to do her hair. Drinking lots of coffee. Going to gym on campus. Ornithology field trips on many Saturdays [I'm jealous]. Not necessarily in that order. So I was pleased to make a high-protein waffle she liked. I was overextended in college, too, between classes, studying, friends, boyfriend and many hours at The Daily Targum newsroom. But my parents were not privy to my burning the candle on both ends. I was about a 1.5-hour car ride away, not up the attic staircase. They would see me when I came home for the holidays! "Well, luckily, she is 23," Dan said. "You were working at Woman's Day by then."
• Walked almost 20 minutes in the heavy rain. I had dropped Punch at CCD, and it's one hour. Strolled along Norwood, through puddles etc. Then dashed to Whole Foods for a gallon of organic milk, peanut butter, bananas, cashews--and a big bottle of white vinegar, an effective natural household cleaner. It works well with a stiff brush on our ceramic shower tile.
• Healthy parts of dinner I cooked: red and orange peppers and onions sauteed in olive oil, applesauce, salmon. 

BOO  [mindlessly eating junk, my weak link]

• Finished the end of excellent raspberry jelly donut ($3) that Punch got at Montclair Bread Company. She left it on the dining room table and I swooped in. At least it was artfully, carefully made--not an airy impostor injected with ordinary jam. I did not buy a donut for myself, but did not stop myself from eating 1/4 of hers. Sigh. 
• Ate a granola bar.
• Ate a few vegan coconut cookies that were lying around.
• 2 bowls of sugary cereal--Puffins [bought for Punchy] and Special K with almonds.

I do not like going crazy, erratically eating off the grid. I hope for a healthier day tomorrow. Good night to you.