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Me the Foodie

I’ve been getting bored with protein shakes and Lean Cuisine, So after watching Julie & Julia (I couldn’t sleep and that was the only movie I haven’t watched on Ninja Video yet) I became inspired.  I et online to look for high-protein recipes and found a website called  http://www.recipezaar.com/recipes/high-protein. Being a Foodie can be pretty expensive I’ve learned. In the past 3 days I’ve spent over $60 in groceries alone. $7 just for a dash of spice. It was worth it though, here are my creations:

On Monday I made Chicken Breast Stuffed with Avocado, Sun-dried Tomato, Basil and Parmesan Cheese. I was delicious and tarty, but it was also a bit dry. I didn’t make a vegetable and instead took French bread slices that I cooked in the leftover olive oil from searing the chicken and served it with a bruschetta that was pretty bland. When I looked at the recipe again, the author of it served the chicken atop asparagus with holindase sauce. Holindase sauce would have been perfect.

On Tuesday I made Chicken in Provencal Sauce with Garlic Red Smashed Potatoes. This dish was yummie!!! The recipe called for a reduced-sodium chicken broth, which I didn’t use, and the sauce was very salty, but I still loved it. I also bought some bread that I crisped in the oven and was awesome for dipping into the sauce.  I was so pleased with myself when I made this dish. Wow was it good!

Last night I made Chicken Parmesan. It’s an easy dish to make and is pretty hard to get wrong. I was watching College Basketball all evening and just wanted some comfort food to watch the games with. Plus I bought an 8-pack of chicken breasts on Monday so I had to make another chicken recipe. Thank God I got no calls last night because Chicken Parm sits heavy in the stomach. I did sleep like a baby, though.

I don’t know what I’m going to make tonight. Probably fresh pizza with dough you can but at Fresh and Easy. Wish I had a wood stove to make it in. Oh well, we’ll see what happens.

P.S. I’m now getting advice from my friend Yoram Ravid, who is a Celebrity Chef in Los Angeles. Under Yoram’s tutelage, maybe soon movie stars will call me to cook for them, too!

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Picture Time

Everybody knows I love taking pictures by the pool. Now that the weather is starting to break it’s time to shed the clothes and show the muscles. We have a new friend on the website, Escort Tony and he was limited in the number of images he had available, so we went off to our favorite spot with a camera to have some fun.

Unfortunately when we got there the sun went away and the temperature mysteriously dropped considerably. SO we were limited on the number of images we could take before we caught pneumonia. Here is a quick sample of my images, hopefully I’ll have more photos later.

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So What Now?

First I’d like to give a huge shout-out to the USA Men’s Hockey Team. That last second 3^rd period goal got my heart racing like I haven’t felt since Ohio State winning the Rose Bowl. Sure, we ended up losing in Overtime, but those 10 between goals was the most excited I’ve been in a long time.

So now that my disastrous month is finally over (Good Riddance) and shitty canceling clients have cataloged into the bad news database, I want to tell you what my main goal is for the month of March. I thought long and hard about it. There are so many things I need to get done, so many things I want to do and have to do, but it struck me this afternoon exactly what my goal should be.

The Goal is this: Have No Goal and Enjoy Myself. I haven’t had this goal in a long time and the last time I made this my goal not only did I reach it, but so many good things happened for me. Why not make that happen again.

Here is the way I see it. In the Fool’s Journey there is a cycle everyone goes through when venturing through life. This cycle repeats itself constantly and at every stage in your journey a new challenge rises to greet you. There are 22 different challenges. If you ever got a Tarot Card reading, the numbered cards represent the fool’s journey; books like Red Wall and the Lord of the Rings are based on the Fool’s Journey as well.

During the final leg of the journey, one of the challenges is called the ‘Tower. On tarot cards the Tower is represented by a lightning bolt blasting the top of the tower with you falling… no… crashing to the ground. It represents an unforeseen catastrophe that knocks you off your pedestal.

Then the next challenge (card ) is the ‘Star.’ The Star is represented by a person, naked, at a stream washing themselves of all the dust and rubble from their fall. In the water they see their reflection and begin to realize that there was no ending because of their plunge from the Tower, but a new beginning and a new freedom, a freedom this person never had while locked in their Tower. This person decides to go forth with their new found inspiration, but there is a problem… It’s still dark. Illuminating the path before them is the next challenge (card): The Moon.

The moon lights only half of a winding path surrounded by dangers and other people’s Towers. The path leads to the mountains where there is only darkness. Your creative Imagination gets coupled with your darkest fears as you traverse this moon light path and you become bewildered and afraid. You want to stop and call out for ‘Mommy!’ But if you keep moving forward something that always happens will happen and that’s the next challenge (card): The Sun.

The Sun rises and illuminates all of the hidden places. It provides clarity to the areas where the Moon provided confusion and fear. You begin to feel and understand all the good this world has to offer you. You are given a new Zest for life after being struck down by lightning, left in the dark with your fears and forced to trudge path you cannot see. Greatness finds you as you ride through life with new hope and optimism. You’ve traveled so far, learned so much and overcame debilitating obstacles. You can’t help but shine like the sun.

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Gratitude

This was a disastrous month and I was going to use this blog entry to cry and complain about how crappy it was. Where is complaining going to get me? So here are the good things.

First, despite all the cancelations, I did have some good clients and thanks to them I am able to pay my bills and put a few bucks away for savings. Second, I am much more organized now financially. I have all my bank accounts in order and haven’t had an overdraft since I began my new financial plan. Third, I’m the hottest I’ve ever been. Thanks to my client from last Thursday who wanted to help me out with a new video then canceled at the last second, I put in so much time at the gym that my body is amazing. I haven’t looked this good since college. I love it.

Finally, I feel better about my future. Before my mid-month debacle I was smashing my way to my goal, but now I am sailing towards it. It’s going to take longer than I expected, but at least I know I can make it.

February of 2010 will go down as the biggest blunder in my Vegas career, but like I’ve heard said time and time again: It Gets worse before it gets better. Man am I excited to see March roll around.

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Fixing my Cosmic Balance

For some reason this has been a very troubling month in regards to client cancellations. Actually, even my friends are canceling on me. This afternoon I was supposed to do a job with a friend, then my friend canceled. I scrambled to find another partner, then the client canceled. And the client canceled specifically because he wanted to be mean and hurt my feelings; and it did hurt my feelings. I was totally about to cry. 5 times this month clients have canceled on me at the last second. This has never happened before.

I remember talking to my friend Tyler a while back during one of these ‘Bad Months.’ He said that sometimes you get months that are incredibly amazing and sometimes you get months that are a complete disaster. Well, this month has been a complete disaster. And the madder I get at the clients who make you free up your schedule, seek out other parties for them, require you to email and call them on a constant basis then pull the rug in an abrupt manner from under you; the more I realize that the anger isn’t helping.

I feel like the cosmos is punishing me for something I once did. Time to figure what I need to fix in my spiritual make-up so I can get back to life as usual.

I choose to be the winner that I know I am.

2 hours no Technology starts now. I’m going for a run at Sunset Park. Who wants to join me?