Sugar Blues

Blog silence these last few days has been because I am preparing to give a presentation on sugar and it's effects on the body. I had thought I was all ready to do that, but it seems I'm not actually prepared, however much bravado I might have about speaking in public. So I'm doing a lot of listening to a pre-recorded lecture, taking notes and re-writing them to sound more like me, and designing and printing flyers for handouts. There will even be some cookie baking in preparation - using natural sweeteners rather than cane sugar -- so it's keeping me occupied. The lecture is tomorrow evening.

Following that I'm off to New York again this weekend for my fifth class. We'll be hearing from representatives of both the Atkins camp and the Zone diet camp this weekend, among other speakers. It should work itself out into an interesting time. It usually is. And I'm usually the owner of a worn-out brain at the end of each class.

We didn't go to Cliveden yesterday because it was a holiday and we decided to take advantage of it. So we painted the kitchen a dark yellow. Not as dark as I was expecting - not dark dark, which is fine, but golden -- because Clyde asked for a satin finish. So we have an unexpectedly shiny kitchen. And it's an oil based paint, so pricey and difficult to repaint. I'm not really complaining, but i think it's sort of odd. In daylight it isn't as shiny because the light doesn't reflect. Anyway, you'd have to see it to appreciate our humour about the situation.

Now we're thinking about cabinets and cabinet footprints and whether I'd prefer a few wide, deep shelves along one wall.