Aunt Sue: My confinement

   I'm sorry that I haven't posted at all this week. It has been a strange week - I feel like I've been trapped in my house by a mountain of snow. I wasn't fabulous as far as my eating went this week but no bingeing, which is an improvement for me.

   I made some fairly terrible Navy bean soup. The beans were still crunchy after cooking for 12 hours! And it was pretty flavorless. That didn't stop me, of course, from bringing a container over to my friends Bucky and Billy. Billy is a great cook and he's always sending over wonderful food. I wanted to reciprocate, losing sight of the fact that I'm not a very good cook.

   I actually really like to bake but I'm terrible at it. I always make one tragic mistake. For example, one Christmas I was going to make a rainbow cake - white cake with swirls of red and green. Well, I didn't red and green food coloring but I had blue and yellow and thought that would be pretty. The cake actually tasted pretty good but it was Herman Munster green.

   Anyway, I'm going to keep trying to cook some decent, fairly healthful things and hope I don't poison myself in the process - or my friends.