Is it me? Or them?

Is it me or is it them?

Waaaay back when, my standard WW lunch was a sweet potato, roasted in the oven, with either some yogurt on top, maybe goat cheese, or some chopped roasted pumpkin seeds, or some Brummel and Brown spread.

Then WW made carbs so damn expensive and lowered my points with their FreeStyle plan that that lunch was way to point heavy, and I kinda stopped having in.

Over the years since then, the only way I've eaten sweet potatoes was as a purée, which the kids all love (with salt and jerk spices, yum.). That had the same number of points, but it wasn't a quick lunch but part of a meal.

Well, I'm back on WW, trying their Purple plam, in which sweet potatoes aren't points-expensive. So I bought one last week and tossed it in the oven, looking forward to a delish sweet potato with leftover goat-cheese dip for lunch.

It was nasty stringy. I mean, gag-amount of string.

But I tried again and roasted another one today.

Did sweet potatoes get more stringy over the years or is my gag reflex just that much more touchy? Because I couldn't eat either of those. One from Trader Joe's one from Safeway, both orange, neither place had the garnet ones I prefer to purée, maybe I need to look for those.

Blah. Between burning my breakfast this morning (had to toss about half of it), and stringy uneatable sweet potato for lunch, I'm going to be hungry by the time dinner rolls around!

Anne-Chloe's birthday.

24 years and 30 minutes ago, my baby girl was born.

My sweet baby has had a rough year. Her dipshit bf broke up with her in... February, I think. She injured herself at her first power lifting meet. Her knee went to crap, culminating in surgery last week.

OTOH, she's doing great in the classes she's taking (for med school/MCAT prep) and is f.i.n.a.l.l.y. medicated for ADHD again. Funny how college classes aren't as daunting when you can actually focus for more than a nanosecond!

She's still as independent and self-driven as she always was, something that was completely squashed when she was with dipship, but is reasserting itself now. She has A Plan and is following it, after a few years of, well, drifting.

She's truly a fun person to be around, bright, and cynical in a good way.

It's also been wonderful to see how close she is to her siblings. It was hard, because nobody liked the boyfriend, but now there is a true tightness between the three of them that makes me very happy.

I hope this year is a good one for her. She deserves it.

Beautiful Seattle Morning

Perry and Owen.

Perry is in stroke seat, so to the right in this clip. For the curious, that means Owen is in bow. They are sculling, which means they have two oars each.