Martha Stewart and Oprah Freakin Winfrey
2001-11-15 8:03 a.m.

I watched six episodes of "In Martha's Kitchen" last night and got so excited I made brownies for my team today. Of course, one guy on my team is a vegan and can't eat them because I used egg substitute and butter. I haven't found any very good fat or egg substitutes for baking. Apple sauce can only do so much. Oh well, you can't please everyone (and my boss isn't a vegan!)

I admit I'm a raging carnivore. I've cut my red meat consumption way back and have added many meatless meals to my repitoire. The problem is protein. I love chicken and eat a ton of it. Every time I've tried to make something tofu it has met with disaster. If you have a good tofu recipe, e-mail it to me. I don't like seafood. I know, I know. I grew up on the puget sound and I don't like seafood. What's up with that?

Some people at work want me to join a book club. People think because I'm artsy and smart that I must read alot. Which I do, just not books that other people read. Here's an embarassing story. I was in a small book club at work with a few intellectual types that all wished they were back in college rather than working at an insurance company. It was my month to pick a book (we were slow readers) so I chose an obscure southern woman writer that no one had heard of. I bought my book the week before and was happy with my pick. The day after I announced the book for the book club, OPRAH FREAKIN WINFREY picks the exact same book for her club. I am still trying to live that down and haven't regained my title as indie hipster. Instead I'm known as an Oprah minion.

My NaNoWriMo word count is in the 17,000s and I'm half way done with the book. Hmmm, that's going to leave me about 10,000 words short by the endof the month. And today is the half way point. ~screams~

During some research I discovered my Chinese Name is Er Shouyan which means to bestow words. Kind of cool. Does anyone know what the Chinese word for Tiger is? I think I want the Mandarin word. I need to do more research but may save that until the book is done so I can revamp in December.

1 People have tried to sell me Viagra

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