I was going to use this title on Day 40, and I forgot to see it through. Perhaps that’s fortunate. Perhaps I don’t really want to compare myself to…well, you know…the one who did the forty days in the desert thing. I didn’t have anything profound to say about it anyway. I just liked the way it sounded to say “in the desert without dessert.” In point of fact, I’ve been in anything but the desert. I think we’ve been experiencing something like 110% humidity around here.<\/p>\n
My mother reminded me of my cool blog title that I forgot to use today when she asked me if I was eating no sugar added ice cream on my diet. She was holding a tub of Blue Bell when she asked.<\/p>\n
I said, “Yes, I’ll have a little.”<\/p>\n
She said, “This isn’t sugar free.”<\/p>\n
Psych!<\/p>\n
I’ve always blamed my older brothers for my warped sense of humor, but sometimes I suspect my mother.<\/p>\n
She did, however, produce some sugar free ice cream a few minutes later, and I had my first taste of dessert since The Diet began…or to be more specific since the first week or so of The Diet when I sampled a sliver of my brother’s birthday cake.<\/p>\n
The sugar free ice cream was sweet. It was very sweet.<\/p>\n
Ever since I read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy<\/em> series, I’ve ascribed deep meaning to the number 42. It is, after all, the answer to life, the universe, and everything. I was really hoping to experience a dieting epiphany today. But no. No such luck. It’s just another day in which I struggle to maintain, which may, come to think of it, be the answer to life, the universe, and everything after all.<\/p>\n Keep up the struggle my friends. And if that fails, maybe go read up on what you’re supposed to do if you find yourself stuck in a desert for 40 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was going to use this title on Day 40,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dieting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}