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I make the best chicken green Chile, curious about your Chile verde chicken soup receipe.
HW: 306 SW: 282 GW: 145 (reached 2/6/19) CW:150
Jen
Have you read the Hannah Morrisey Black Harbor books? The first one is Hello, Transcriber. I just read the 4th book, via the Netgalley advance readers copy. I liked Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family. It was very sobering and enraging but good. My last 5* was The Berry Pickers which Sheila recommended. I also like the Ava Glass Alias Emma spy series and Yasmin Angoe's Knight series.
HW: 306 SW: 282 GW: 145 (reached 2/6/19) CW:150
Jen
It?s still overcast/ rainy ( I guess the storm got STUCK grrr) but I?m hoping for a productive day inside .
Desk, bed, dishes , kitchen counters , washing stud tail on little Persian male, cleaning ears and vacuuming/ washing living room rug .
Need a trip to IKEA for plastic bins to corral exotic food items now occupying shelters ( paper bags ) in living room ? living rooms are not collecting baskets for the ? waiting to be filed ?
Also need four long "invisibly mounted" shelves for above desk . Will hold not just mail n files but geraniums overwintering ( and giving me winter blooms hopefully)
Labels , hanging folders and filing frame from Staples , hole punch.
Items to properly hang mirrors and paintings after a YEAR living here .
Frankly I?m scared to put even a nail in the wall my lease says I can?t and landlords in NYC love evicting tenants for the smallest things. ( and the super has a KEY and lets himself in without any notice 
)
But spackle an a touch of paint will fix any nail holes if I move out and I?m thoroughly sick of living with my mirror on the radiator and my painting on the back of the couch . Ridiculous!
Letter ( and email - for the legal record !) to landlord not to raise my rent ( despite the slum like conditions he refuses to fix he?s trying for ten percent on a one year lease !!! 
Only in NY kids !
Need to notify Brooklyn post office to forward mail also because every bad actor is sending notices to old apartment deliberately so I never receive them grrr .
B - ff egg beaters/ cheese omelet ,homemade ff small cornbread w fresh corn, chili beans , chai tea latte
s- pastry, Yemeni coffee latte
L - Chile verde chicken soup , seared marinated eye round w chimichurri n avocado, salad
s - monkfish chowder
D - tbd but hopefully homemade Chinese w lots of fresh veggies.
Good morning ~ We had such a nice day yesterday, but nothing really got done like I wanted. I've been in lazy mode all weekend, except at 5 am when I don't want to make noise. Today is taking care of business, no excuses. I need to tackle my dressing room and get it organized it's driving me crazy.
QOTD - Book round up - what are you reading/listening to? I have been devouring Charlie Donlea for the last few weeks (several free on audible). Sheila recommended him and I was hooked. I've read his whole library now and highly recommend except his very first book that left me with more questions than answers but still worth the read. Matt Haig - the Life Impossible - what can I say, he is a great writer - he sucks you in! It will never be Midnight Library level again though I will keep chasing that dragon. Now I have to read Elin Hildebrand's the Perfect Couple - which I really though I already read. Others on the list are more Lisa Jewell and Stephen King right now. All recommendations welcome - please!!
Accountability - Meals were perfect, snacks were not. I ate a whole donut and I don't even like donuts. I barely moved. Today I'm 167.8 and just hope to stay off my ass more than not today.
B- coffee, ham and cheese omelette
l - pork chop leftovers in zero tortillas
d - stuffed shells, salad
s - legendary chips, nectarine, watermelon
Have a great day!
RNY 11/21/16 - HW/SW 309 LW 150
REVISION 4/10/23 - HW 240 SW 225 CW 164 GW 155
lol !! My Mother felt the same way - and she too has her ears pierced now .
Of course my Dad had to do the piercing using an ice cube and a needle to save ten dollars over the mall's piercing gun 
w free studs included.
it was the same with me. Very few people had tattoos back then besides military people and biker types. Or maybe like Jen said, they were just hidden. Probably the main reason I've never gotten one, even though they're commonplace now. I remember when I got my ears pierced at age 15. Practically every girl in my school had her ears pierced. My mother was mortified - but then back when she was a teen, only "cheap" (as she called them) girls had their ears pierced. "Good" girls did not. For my generation, just swap in tattoos for pierced ears. (I should add that my mother finally got her ears pierced about 30 years ago, because it's next to impossible to find regular earrings now - and has been for the last 30 or 40 years...)
RNY 06/03/15 by Michael Garren (Madison, WI)
HW: 373 SW: 316 GW: 150 LW: 138 CW: 163
the dishes were pretty good, but the curried chicken salad needed more curry powder and salt - and the nutty oat bars I made could have used more sweetening. So if I make either again, I'll do that - but I wasn't surprised by any of that (well, at least the salt and sweetener part) since she's a dietitian!
the farro/chickpea stew was excellent! apple muffins were pretty good, too.
RNY 06/03/15 by Michael Garren (Madison, WI)
HW: 373 SW: 316 GW: 150 LW: 138 CW: 163
I am sure that is correct. I was just around very conservative people and if they had tattoos they were hidden. I was amazed the first time I was at a swimming pool and saw a girl with a tramp stamp.
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
I think more people had tattoos than you realize. They were just able to be hidden in the appropriate audience. All of mine can be as well if I choose but I am glad to see some of those old rules going away.
HW: 306 SW: 282 GW: 145 (reached 2/6/19) CW:150
Jen
I gifted my son a tattoo for his 18th birthday. It just had to be something personal and important that he could live with for the rest of his life. Now he has about 5 and has always kept to what I told him.
RNY 11/21/16 - HW/SW 309 LW 150
REVISION 4/10/23 - HW 240 SW 225 CW 164 GW 155
