Flynn's Paws: My Thoughts, My Gripes

Tag: food

  • Eating Snacks

    I know I’m going to get fat at this workplace. Today I’ve gotten my `paws` on a raisin bagel and eaten that one in an hour. The temptation was to the smear the insides with cheese. But I resisted.

    Yesterday, I ate a chocolate-glazed donuts. Charissa was so kind to pass the pink box around. John, the V.P., bought that for us. Wow! So we are be fattened up for working hard for quarter end, which is fine.

    I like the non-skilled, stress-free workload and the location is near my home and within the same zip-code. So that makes for more exercise around the block full of shady trees and a few minutes of drive from my house.

    If they hire us full-time, I’ll be happy. But only if payback comes first. At least I’m earning just about right, which is TWICE as less than what I used to make years ago.

  • 20100810-Weathery Ways

    Today is sunny with clear blue skies. This had been the weather for the past few weeks. I managed to walk around from Orchard Pkwy to First Street and down Component Drive, where I saw the tall, gray-colored electrical grid. The buzzing noise was obvious and I felt a slight head pressure. No wonder there are large empty lots for two to three buildings because there is an ugly headache making right in front, which is bad `feng shui`.

    Anyway, last night’s orange-colored sunset signaled that summer is almost over. The winds over the weekend blew cold. And the nice soft blue horizon of Sunday evening was very nice. Overall, telling the truth is like a box of chocolate. Right now, there’s some bite-sized chocolate on my desk – one Twix Minis, and three Hershey’s Special Dark of Mildly Sweet Chocolate, one with Crisp Rice and one with Peanuts.

    I’m allergic sorry. I might get a reaction while at work.

  • Powerful Milkrun

    Do you remember that televised commercial about cow juice?

    “It does a body good”

    Well, tonight I had several bowel movements after drinking, say about two glasses of organic, WHOLE milk (with Vitamin D and other fortified stuff in it). With the aide of some shredded wheat, I was able to make four trips to the toilet. And after several flushes later, I feel light. My belly is tighter against my body and all the food I’ve eaten seem to have just left rather rudely. I was stuck for awhile but the milk helped.

  • Nice Lunch

    Today’s lunch was the usual leftover. This time the pusshead left for lunch at around 12:13pm and went downstairs because it’s less stuffy than the one upstairs. J#n!k@ left around 12:20pm and I had my lunch upstairs with Allen and his friend Joe. That went on for about thirty minutes and I had my usual thirty minutes walk around the block twice. The weather was MUCH cooler and the wind blew stronger, cooling me as I walked under my black, Tote umbrella. The air conditioner is not as freezing cold either. I guess Emily took note of my complaint and let her client know about that issue. Hehe!

  • Chocolate chips always soothes me when I’m stressed

    Topic #37: What comfort food do you reach for when things get stressful? Nothing beats drowning your sorrows in a little pint-sized tub of Ben & Jerry’s. Except maybe a pint-sized glass of Bartles & Jaymes Melon Splash.

    (More) Chocolate Chip Cookies

    I reach for whatever snacks is available at home and anything chocolate would make me feel better – chocolate chips cookie, chocolate chips ice cream, chocolate cakes, a box of chocolate, cereal, crackers, cold cuts, etc.

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  • This year, I’m thankful for

    Topic # 4: Happy Thanksgiving. What are you most thankful for this year? Elaborate on your gratitude. Do you have a lot to be thankful for? Or are you more thankful the year’s almost over and you can start fresh in a few weeks?

    Whole Foods Union Square turkey cupcake

    I’m thankful for being alive! Without life, there is nothing.

    Without money, too, there is no life either. It’s the way of this current lifetime — working hard just to put food on the table.

    With home cooking done by Mom, I’m healthy and somewhat overweight. And to share my joy from eating well, I too am grateful for being able to feed those in the most need. Call it `food for thought`.

    I’m thankful for my parents for giving me a home while being unemployed after leaving my job during the downturn of the economy. I cannot believe finding a descent-paying job would be so difficult.

    As a result, my temporary job agency located a job nearby to my home. The position pays better than a data entry job and it is full-time (for forty hours a week) but only for six months.

    With prosperity rising, I am thankful to get out of debt for a few more months. With hope, I wish to START OVER and forget about the past and look forward to better times.

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  • Lunch Outings

    So yesterday from 1:00pm to 1:30pm, I walked around the eBay headquarters. I was using the black-colored Tote umbrella as a sun shield. It was moderately hot because Jenika P. asked if I went walking. I probably smelled to high heavens. Using an email print-out didn’t help cool my stink down. Haha!

    Today for lunch, Theresa D. and I went to the Vietnamese Pho shop on the corner of Trimble and First Street (I think). The Starbucks coffee shop was around the bend.

    She paid for my meal and coffee. That was nice of her considering I drove the both of us to the place.

  • Hating Stuff

    Besides today being MUCH cooler than yesterday and DEFINITELY the day before, I hate blogging! There’s nothing to blog about! The end! It’s nothing but useless data to kill the time.

    Thanks TPTB and pals, I’m friggin’ working for money that should have been in my greasy palms by now! WTF? I’m stuck in front of the computer AGAIN. And when I get home, it’s the same thing – controversy then rants!

    Today’s lunch was a waste! I wanted to spend only $7.95 for my meal but the fools decided to split it for $23.00. WTF? I hate people! I hate company outings! I hate idle conversation about life and nonsense! I hate what you f^ck#rs done!

  • 20091120-Only Once

    While praying the usual evening rosary with my bio-units, I was creating in my mind again. I recall how a dedicated blogger mentioned sharing his books, only knowing all too well that it’s good reading and only once, never to be picked up again: So good that some readers remember the details well but some don’t apply the teachings in their lives or for others.

    Anyway, I could imagine why he seemed to put down his books: – it’s because like any primate, such as humans, the species get easily bored to the point that once is enough and finding other distractions to keep their interest is necessary for sanity.

    For example, a gorilla eats mostly fruits as so should humans, who were deceived into believing that obtain a source of protein from foodstuff via animals is `normal`. And after taking a few bites, chewing off the outer hull or husk or skin of the fruits, the gorilla leaves some uneaten, letting some of the fruit and its seed fall to the ground.

    That’s how I compare humans reading a book to gorillas eating a fruit: some stuff is more easily digestible; otherwise the stuff is either fully eaten or not touched at all and metaphorically sometimes half-eaten.

  • 20091118-Nice Day

    Today’s is beautiful (unlike fat people who need to take frequent showers so as to avoid stinking up the air we breath). Lots of sunny, clear blue skies. The airs was somewhat warm but not warm enough; for Pimon the parakeet shivered a bit.

    However, Pimon is more alert and alive! He has actually went down to eat with the other birds late yesterday and the whole of today. He liked the Avi-Cakes and the conveniently located millet seed spray, which is wedged in between two mirrors and secure from falling down.

    We ate at McDonald’s for breakfast, picked-up Maw’s doctor’s prescription and Paw’s Mazda Protogé from the Capital Expressway dealership, which is typically expensive as far as repairs are concerned!

  • 20091117-Green Beans

    During elementary school, we ate lunch which included protein, dairy (sometimes goat milk), dessert and veggies. I remember loving the taste of green beans, salty and soft. But because I wanted to fit in with my other class mates, who didn’t eat green beans, I threw away my share. I felt bad about wasting good food.

    Today, I enjoy fresh green beans whenever given the chance, either frozen or fresh.

    Here is a recipe to make your green beans taste good:

    • 1 tablespoon Rufina patis (a type of Filipino fish sauce)
    • 1/8 wedge of onion (separating the wedges)
    • one inch of ginger (SMASH it (with a mortar and pestel) until somewhat pulp)
    • pot full of water
    • boil to preference

  • 20091113-Ate Pork

    Slow die-t! Ate ‘bulaklak’ & tripe. Have eaten chicarones, snout, ears & feet, too! Guess not Muslim ideal. Want to be thin & healthy like Barry & pals. Wilbur, forgive me.