05-19-2016, 06:45 AM
Good morning everyone, it's getting close to another weekend, a hot one for us unless you go up north where they were showing pictures of snow on the TV news yesterday.
Just a note, but I'm thinking that I grumble and complain a lot, I guess that comes from being retired with too much time on my hands and remembering how things used to be. One thing about being retired is that you get to watch daytime TV more than you would like. One complaint there is that these "news" and "talk" shows all push us to exercise a lot and to eat healthy. Well, I'm sitting in front of the TV because I'm tired and don't feel the need to exercise. I'm so much more happier eating things that please me as well, so get off my back with those fancy exercises and "great tasting" healthy foods. One thing that got me yesterday was this person was showing the host how to use healthy substitute foods on common "non-healthy" recipes. She was making "rice pudding", but substituted cauliflower for the rice. My question was, why isn't it called, "cauliflower pudding" rather than "rice pudding" since there wasn't a trace of rice in it? And how about her using black beans instead of flour in her chocolate brownies, should they be "chocolate bean thingys"? Come on, these things can't taste like the real thing, regardless of how the host of the show reacts..."wow, I could eat a dozen of these things they're soooooo goooood".... then he spits them out off camera....
Enough complaining for today, but sometimes retirement can be a joy to behold....
Just a note, but I'm thinking that I grumble and complain a lot, I guess that comes from being retired with too much time on my hands and remembering how things used to be. One thing about being retired is that you get to watch daytime TV more than you would like. One complaint there is that these "news" and "talk" shows all push us to exercise a lot and to eat healthy. Well, I'm sitting in front of the TV because I'm tired and don't feel the need to exercise. I'm so much more happier eating things that please me as well, so get off my back with those fancy exercises and "great tasting" healthy foods. One thing that got me yesterday was this person was showing the host how to use healthy substitute foods on common "non-healthy" recipes. She was making "rice pudding", but substituted cauliflower for the rice. My question was, why isn't it called, "cauliflower pudding" rather than "rice pudding" since there wasn't a trace of rice in it? And how about her using black beans instead of flour in her chocolate brownies, should they be "chocolate bean thingys"? Come on, these things can't taste like the real thing, regardless of how the host of the show reacts..."wow, I could eat a dozen of these things they're soooooo goooood".... then he spits them out off camera....
Enough complaining for today, but sometimes retirement can be a joy to behold....
Don (ezdays) Day
Board administrator and
founder of the CANYON STATE RAILROAD
Board administrator and
founder of the CANYON STATE RAILROAD