Lauren

I just finished reading French Women Don’t Get Fat.  I’d seen the author on t.v. a while ago and was curious, plus I thought it might have some healthy low-salt ideas.  Her basic premise is that France has a culture that encourages eating smaller portions of fresh foods (rather than giant portions of crap), drinking more water and moving your body a little everyday.  I can get on board with all that, it’s pretty common sense.  The part I liked best, though, was how you should drink a glass or two of wine every day.  It has health benefits, blah blah blah.  She drinks champagne because 1) she likes it, 2) she says it makes every day into a party and 3) she’s the CEO for a champagne company.

Ok!  I can do this!  At my next trip to Wally World I bought some – the cheapest they have, as is my custom.  I have a nifty top/collar/cork-thing that preserves the bubbles so I was prepared to have this bottle last a week.  No, no, no – the good people who bottled my champagne had the good sense to put a screw-top on it!  Yep, my beer is Miller High Life – the Champagne of Beers, now my bubbly is Andre – the Beer of Champagnes.

Going along with the superpowers theme, anytime I’m around glazed doughnuts I say, “Doughnuts are my Kryptonite.”  I can usually do without sweets, but a fresh-made doughnut is hard to pass up.  (Brad and I used to share a doughnut-making job at a bakery here in college.   I would snitch doughnut holes and drink Pepsi all night long – no sleeping for me!)

Anyway, I’ve found a new love, and it’s actually ‘healthy’!  Nutella on Healthy Choice Seven-Grain bread. Nutella has 0% sodium, in case you’re curious.  (And they’re not even paying me to say this.)  Just typing this, I remember when my dad would occasionally bring home a chocolate long john on Saturday mornings – he started the addiction!  Thanks, Dad!  (Really – thanks!!)

You may not know it, but you have a superpower.  Lloyd’s is that when he comes home from school, his shirt smells as fresh as line-dried laundry. It infuriates me, since I’m always rather stinky.  Give him a hug, smell his shirt – ahhhhh… spring fresh.  My superpower/curse is that every single time I sing in the car with another person, they turn up the radio.  No joke – I first discovered it back in college in the car with Kris Kiester, I believe.  So, take a little time, ask your family, and tell us yours.

By the way, Pfennig’s is that she is radioactive.

Some people have a green thumb, but we have a slave friend who does our gardening for us!  Brad is the one who makes our outsides look like somebody gives a rip.  Personally, I think it would be really, really funny to fill a garden with fake plants.   Brad knows the wiser path, though.  Thanks, The Gardener!