I just won’t give up. I almost feel sorry for my small number of readers, who’ve followed me through diet plan after diet plan. And now? The non-diet diet. The idea with this is to shooot for healthy choices and small portions — using WW online as a guide — but not to freak out when I go a bit overboard.

I’ve just determined that being on a diet just doesn’t work for me. It just freaks me out, mentally, and I get in this all-or-nothing mindset, where I’m either on the diet, or off the diet. When I’m 100% perfect, I am on the diet. And when I’m off, even a little bit, I just start to have a blow-out and eat anything and everything. So, now, I’m not on a diet at all. Love it!
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Things now are generally pretty insane, as usual. My husband is back in NYC, so the single parenthood adventure continues. *sigh*  Things are just so up in the air right now, which is driving me a little mad. Like there’s still a chance that we will move back to NYC, and I’m trying to get accustomed to the idea. It would probably be the best thing for us as a family, in the end, but, given we’ve lived in 4 different places in 4 years of being married, I’m ready to settle down, like… yesterday.

I love our neighborhood. I love our house. I love the weather in California. But part of it, I think, is that I really just can’t picture any alternative. I can’t imagine a great life in some suburb of NYC. But I know there are plenty of lovely places, and I really enjoyed living in the area for around 8 years. I still have good friends there. So I’m thinking maybe we should take a week to go to NYC and try on that life — with visits to neighborhoods with realtors and such, to get a sense of where we might live and, very importantly, what housing costs. But to do that, I need to figure out some kind of child care solution, too. Hmm…

1. I actually LIKE to cook. I mean, I knew this before, but I’m discovering I actually really like to cook. Like enough to miss it when I don’t have to do it. I find myself fantasizing about roasting chicken, or idly leafing through AllRecipes.com. Hmm…

2. The boy really likes vegetables… if I give them to him when he’s hungry. You should have seen him wolfing down the broccoli and cauliflower at dinner tonight. Amazing stuff. He likes those tree-like veggies much more than carrots and green beans, which I always liked more.

3. Single parenting is hard. We are going on week 3, with just a weekend respite (visit from hubby/dad). T-giving week should be back to normal, save for travel to visit family. Until then, we muddle through.