Terry's 3M's

4:40 AM and I am bright-eyed and bushy tailed. [See last night's entry.]

I've even got a cup of coffee here and have checked my Juno mail already.

I did wake up after a dream about Linda McCartney. Probably a lot of people are dreaming of Linda McCartney this week. Mine didn't have to do with anything about her death--it was just some cooking advice which became ephemral as the dream disapated.

I've read her cookbook, Linda's Kitchen. [And not just because she was Paul's wife--I often read cookbooks, and I've read lots of vegetarian cookbooks.] I found that some of the recipes called for things (mostly meat substitues) that you'd have to go to a health food store to get. But, the only health food store that I've been able to get to with any degree of regularity, I don't buy anything in anymore.

It's a GNC in the Boulevard Mall. I remember ordering from GNC when I was a college student. But, the one here seems to be a store for body-builders these days. Concentrating on supplements and items that will build muscle, I no longer see the store that used to carry specialty pastas, flours, teas, and other things that I can't find in many grocery stores.

Not that I could afford all that stuff anyway. But, like I said an earlier entry== I really would like to try out this eating for your blood type diet. The only problem is--Stephanie and I are the only ones in this house that are type A. Everyone else has the more common O blood type.

How do I know what everyone's blood type is? Easy. Delton knows because he was in the service and your blood type gets put on your dog tags. Faye and I know because we're mothers who have RH negative blood. And that means that we find out the blood type of each child because they had to be tested right after birth to determine whether or not we needed a Rhogam shot.

Anyway, the best type of diet for A's is a basically vegetarian diet that avoids whole wheat, members of the nightshade family [potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant], most dairy products, most tropical fruits, and pepper--ground, red, sweet peppers and chili peppers. I'm supposed to avoid black teas (green teas are ok), but, coffee is fine. I can also have sugar. But I'm not supposed to have anything artificial--and no sodas.

It's a switch-to-a-healthier-lifestyle-for-life diet and it's a good thing that the health benefits are there if you follow the diet about 80-90%, because I'm not sure that I could give up diet Pepsi and all that other stuff at the same time. But, it does make sense. That's why I want to give it a try. I did read the book, Eat Right 4 Your Type. And Dr. D'Adamo does have a website with message boards for each blood type and an ambitious person put together a website that has the food lists for each blood type. A's can use eggs--but, she forgot to list that.

I've been going through my cookbooks and marking the recipes that I can use. In some cases, I've marked off recipes that I can use if I modify them a little bit. The results are less than I would want--most cookbooks have less than 10% of the recipes that are useable for this diet. That includes the vegetarian cookbooks. [My cookbook collection is rather small--maybe 20 cookbooks] So, I'm glad that there's a recipe bulletin board at the D'Adamo site as well as a message board.

What am I cooking for dinner tonight? Something is fine for the rest of the family and bad for me. I took a sirloin roast out of the freezer yesterday, so, I guess tonight's menu starts with roast beef.

But, who knows. Even if I do everything right, it might all be for naught.

Linda McCartney did everything right to avoid cancer. She had children before the age of 30, she ate a vegetarian diet high in cancer-preventing food content, she didn't smoke cigarettes. But, she got cancer just as if she hadn't done any of it the right way.

Maybe there will be pictures of the Aladdin implosion. I forgot about it last night. I think that Bryan said that it was supposed to be on TV at 6 last night. But, at 6 I was cooking dinner, so, I forgot.

When the Dunes and the Hacienda were imploded, we got it on video. New York, New York now stands where the Dunes was.

It's been a looooong time since I've been on the Strip. Maybe as long as 5 years. There's just no reason for me to go anywhere on the Strip.

Not that I gamble much, but, even if I gambled regularly, it wouldn't be on the Strip. Payoffs are better downtown and at the casinos that aren't on the Strip. That is for slot machine players.

The only Royal Flush that I ever hit in my life, I hit playing a quarter machine in a 7-11. I had 3 quarters in change and played them one at a time. I got $60 for my quarter.

What? A Christian gambling? Gambling per se isn't a sin. It's not listed anywhere in the Bible as a sin. However, gambling away the rent money is a sin because that's really poor stewardship--and if you're gambling away that much money, it means that something other than the Lord is your first priority. I sometimes put a quarter in a machine on the way out of a grocery store--if the quarter is part of my change. But, most of the time, I don't even do that. I used to spend maybe $20 a year gambling. This year I've spent 50 cents in nickels in a slot machine and got most of it back. [The bingo game was paid for by my sister]. Last year I may have spent $1 gambling. I'm such a big spender!

I'm hoping that we have a decent connection today. It seems that whenever the wind is blowing really hard, our isp either runs very slow or keeps disconnecting. It's kind of hard to upload journal entries at 10 bytes per second.

Thanks to for the border background set.