The bad beginning
Posted by mofembot Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:57:00 GMT
(With apologies to Lemony Snicket.)
So I am back in Germany for a few days, and as I told my landlady here in Heidelberg, I really would like to drop 20 kilos (more like 30, actually). If tonight is any indication, this weight loss is not going to happen while I’m here: it being a holiday and all, with everything (including most restaurants) closed, the von R’s invited me to have dinner with them and two of their sons and their sons’ respective girlfriends. And then proceeded not just to heap my plate high, but to re-heap, and attempt to re-heap yet again. Mercifully, there was no dessert. But Gerald & Gisela had already served me lady fingers with coffee in the mid-to-late afternoon, so I was “pre-desserted.” Gack.
This all said, I am going to try hard not to overdo things at the employee cafeteria while I’m here. If I do take extra food for an evening meal, I hope to confine myself to salad (and not of the potato or macaroni variety, either).
I’m beat, so it’s off to bed for me. (Yes, at this early hour. And yes, this is my second blog post for today and that makes up for the lack thereof yesterday.)