Amazon'd

I'm trying to cool the impetuous shopping and have been successful. The Wish List on Amazon is analogous to putting your credit cards in an ice tray. I've got stuff in there I HAVE to HAVE and haven't bought it yet. But @taz_39 set off the alarm with a really nice bamboo bread slicer that I've lived without while baking bread for about 25 years but, well, you know..  So it was on my wish list and I got the Amazon alert this morning that it was on sale.  I normally think of those alerts as manipulative and I hate being manipulated and typically delete them immediately.  But I did not delete this one.  It was about 30% off and now the price of four loaves of that bread I returned earlier this week.  So I ordered it.  And, in true Amazon fashion, will have it today.   I'm thinking they had an overstock in the local storage facility.

Meanwhile, back at my huge money making job, I signed up for a fun Prolific study.  They give you a sign in to Duolingo and pay a daily rate for seven days if you do a minimum amount of work.  So sign up and learn a new language for seven days.  Pick one.  I chose Ukrainian.  I do not know even how to order beer or bathroom in Ukrainian (or Russian or even know a Cyrillic character).  Should be fun for a week.  It would be even more fun should I run into a refugee ("I see you take your beer to the bathroom").

Other than that, all quiet on the Western Front.  Toby is recovering well.  Looking for babies to bite.  I encourage it.

It took FOREVER

My slicing equipment got here.  I don't have any bread to slice but figure I'll fix that in a day or so.  It is a great concept well executed.  I ordered it at 9:15 and got it at 15:15.  Six hours.  Not much longer than it would have taken me to make the bread.

Which I'm not eating much of at the moment.  Yesterday, I weighed in about 2 pounds over the maximum I will allow myself.  It is just water and has gone down a couple of pounds today but I thought I'd take the opportunity to shoot for my real goal which is 13 pounds less than I was yesterday.  It is way less than the WW 10% so it should be doable.  But I plateaued at 210 and never went much below that.  So we'll see what happens now.  

I've never gotten any good with My Fitness Pal and Noom removes their most useful tools when you don't pay.  So I'm testing Lose It.  I just really need a good calorie counter with a solid database that is easy for me to use.  If it integrates Google Fit, then fine.  Lose It does that.  And gets all kind of points for already having my Dinnerly meal from last night in its database so I just cut and pasted it and voila! it was there.  I haven't checked today's meal yet.  But I will go back to what I was doing on Noom.  I eat breakfast and enter it into the counter.  Then I enter what is on the Dinnerly menu for the evening.  The result is what I can consume during the day.  Makes life so much easier.  We'll do that tomorrow.  And throw in a bike ride.