Aunt Sue: A reclusive day

It's the end of the day and I'm watching a very cool documentary about the very cool Patti Smith on TV. She's my hero. She's had such an amazing life. Right now she's singing a duet with Sam Shepard.

I have a bad cold and have spent the day kind of hunkered down. But it's been a good day even so. I usually feel entitled to eat lots of ice cream when I'm not feeling well and I didn't do that. I made Genevieve's pasta recipe from earlier in the week and it was really good. I made one-fourth of the recipe, which was probably too much for one person but I actually dumped the box of penne out on the table, counted them and divided by four. If I had eyeballed it, I probably would have eaten half the box.

I watched some food shows on TV. One was You Are What You Eat on BBC America. This fairly unpleasant nutritionist orders people about, including demanding a poop specimen, about which she always has some unflattering observations. But there are generally some good suggestions, like today she had the "tubby twosome," as the narrator called the mother and daughter on the show, make sandwhiches in whole wheat pitas that had hummus and lots of other interesting ingredients. Seems like a good lunch option.

Then I watched Jacque Pepin's fast-food show and he made a couscous dish that I think I could make myself. Both of these shows have web sites - the BBC America site and KQED for Pepin.

Made the mistake of taking a nap after watching an episode of Sponge Bob and had dreams of Sponge, Patrick and I being chased around the ocean floor. But that's a small complaint in an otherwise peaceful day. We're starting to get comments and followers, for which I'm very grateful. We weigh ourselves tomorrow and I hope I'm down at least a little. But even if I'm not, it's been a good week.