What the hell happened to Tuesday?

Yesterday, was a pain in the butt, an actual pain in the butt. My boyfriend thinks I have Sciatica, which sounds reasonable. Plus, I came in early, worked that same pained-butt off and got all my grading caught up. Which is why, I can write on my blog while at work. So, my excuse for not writing anything yesterday was that I was tired, and my butt hurt. Not much of an excuse.

It was also another difficult dieting day. I think I've mentioned before that I have difficulty distinguishing tired from hungry. I kept picking at this and that and adding it to my calorie count for the day....Maybe I would have been better off just making and eating a heaping pile of mashed potatoes with butter and simply gotten it over with. I didn't do any special cooking yesterday at all. I just warmed up what left overs I had on hand. I will have to cook tonight.

I've been especially cold lately. I'll have to find a very warming dish. I have plenty of soups. Or maybe I'll make a baked sweet potato after school.

When I was a kid, my mom would bake us potatoes for after school. We'd scoop out the potato and add plenty of butter and then we'd put more butter in the potato skins and eat them too. It was probably the Irish coming out of her. :) That was always a treat, and I suspect that it was an excuse to have the oven on to warm up the kitchen on those cold winter afternoons. Well, I've found that sweet potatoes make a great substitute. No you really don't want to eat the skins, but the flesh of the sweet potato is moist enough that butter or whatever you might add to a regular baked potato isn't necessary. I just add salt and pepper. And it's sweet enough that it feels like a special treat. Sweet potatoes are VERY nutritious. You bake it just like you would a regular potato. I think that's what I'll do this afternoon. And maybe I'll make some more pork tenderloin with spinach...that was good.