Showing posts with label The Year Without Cheese. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Year Without Cheese. Show all posts

Sunday, January 10, 2010

The Year Without Cheese - Week 1

I successfully made it through my first week without cheese.  Only a mere 2 days into my month without cheese, I walked into Moose's kitchen and brought a box of Cheez-its back to the couch.  Moose just looked at me and said "Dude you can't eat those".  Needless to say, it's been a long week.

The work week was fine, filled with cheeseless sandwiches, etcetera.  I successfully avoided going out for lunch at a Mexican restaurant with some co-workers.  Imagine a Burrito without cheese [seriously, imagine it].

That ain't right.



The weekend, well that was a whole different ball game.  We went out for lunch for Beej aka Bonalyn's birthday and of course my ever-so-kind sisters ordered nachos.  The waiter came up to the table and cleared plates and glasses only to place the most ginormous plate of nachos I'd ever seen directly in front of me.  I'll tell ya, hot cheese never looked so good.

 "No sir these are for the bitches at the other end of the table", I wanted to say. 

I slide the plate down to Moose and Beef and wallowed with my loaf of bread and butter.  The rest of the outing consisted of several hours of drinking during the daylight, and by nightfall, after a 2 block limo ride to our 4th bar, the crowd was ready to refuel.  I bopped over to see what they'd ordered, and to my dismay, I saw Beef pulling a chip with cheesy goodness from yet another pile of the January-forbidden nachos. 

I resisted,  and instead grabbed what was probably bud light number 9 11.

To make matters worse, today my roommates decided to munch on some cheese fries from the comfort of the couch directly across from me.  Really?   "Hey, I didn't give up Cheese." said Vickie. 


So, I ask what is rarely uttered from a single girls lips, Where are you February???

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

The Year Without Cheese

The year without CHEESE? What are you THINKING? Ahem, Say Whaaaat???


You're right I think it's physically and mentally impossible for a woman to go an entire 365 days without cheese.

The Year Without Cheese is more of a mantra than a full calendar year without a food most people can't live without.

During The Year Without Cheese I will have a different task each month, whether it be giving something up or trying something new. 



Can you guess what the year without cheese starts out with? Nothing? That's right the month of January will be the month without cheese (read: the hardest month of my entire life). 

Over the weekend I was discussing my plan for the month with TACO:

Popprincess: I mean, it's going to be so hard, no pizza, mozarella sticks, Nachos??
TACO:  Wow, I really like your hierarchy of cheese.

Me too TACO, me too.  Unfortunately I did have some cheese on New Year's day (I just wasn't ready) so I will not be able to have Cheese until February 2nd. EFF. 

Whoever wants to join me at the local bar on 2/2 I will be ordering every single item on the menu that has cheese in it. 

Obvi I'll be blogging about how this whole shabang goes...

Here are the ideas I have for the coming months:

Ordering take-out, going to new bars/restaurants (aka not allowed to go to the beer garden for a whole month), no texting/bbm-ing, no internet & facebook (except internet for work), read a book a week, no chocolate or sweets, no complaining (okay that one might actually be impossible, but maybe I could try it for a week). 
  

Maybe it's a death sentence, maybe I'll fail, but it's better than giving up ONE thing for an entire year, getting to March giving up and saying "Welp guess I'll wait til 2011".  HELLO the world will end in 2012, if I'm giving things up/trying new things i've got to do it now. 


So wish me luck, Godspeed, etcetera etcetera cuz this year's gonna be a doozy!

xoxo
Popprincess