Day 11: Eat What You Want Day!

NOTE: This was originally published the day of, but due to Blogger being down for about 12 hours yesterday and today (Friday), this published post seems to have disappeared. It showed up in draft form in my dashboard, so I've had to re-write the last half of it. *Sigh* Enjoy.

Now this is a day I can get behind.

I am going to eat anything I damn well please. This will be hard while I'm at work and options are limited; I am the only employee and I can't really close the library to go get lunch. And even then, where would I go? I was heavily warned against eating at the Little Corner Cafe, Atglen's only such establishment. So I'll start with my packed lunch, and see what happens from there. I'll record as I go:

8:50 a.m. : Two (small) bowls of Mom's Best mini-wheats, glass of orange juice.
11:50 a.m.:  leftover bake sale cupcake: vanilla with chocolate frosting and Mickey Mouse sprinkles. That's what I'm talking about.
1:15 p.m. Leftovers from last night's dinner: stir fry of kielbasa, penne, corn, carrots and green beans, with olive oil, garlic, and parmesano reggiano. Mmmmmm
1:30 p.m. Peach yogurt
3:00 p.m. Apple. Would have eaten this sooner, but was interrupted by actual work.
4:33 p.m. Butterscotch "dum dum" lollipop. In my opinion, the best flavor, which may make me a secret elderly man. One of a half-dozen lollipops donated by a kindly patron. Said patron also bought me a cupcake on Saturday, the day of the actual bake sale. Maybe she thinks I'm too skinny.
5:38 p.m.: The last peanut butter egg of my Easter stash.
6:35 pm: Fish sticks with ketchup, broccoli and cauliflower, and fresh carrot sticks and cucumbers, courtesy of my dad.
8:45 pm: A handful of herr's bite-sized pretzel nubs. I am powerless to resist pretzels when they come in this form. Dear lord. There must be cocaine in that salt. They exercise the same kind of influence over my mother and sister, which is why we hardly ever have them in the house.
10:45 pm: 9/10 of a Lindt chocolate bunny. By the time I got to the end I started to feel sick. I never eat this much candy in a day, not even Halloween.

Well, candy aside, everything else I ate was typical of me on any given day. A balanced lunch and dinner, a decent breakfast, some overzealous snacking at least once after dinner. But next year, look out; I am booking a table at some restaurant and going to town: appetizer, dinner, decadent dessert; it's going to be sickening and I will want to puke, but at least I can say at the end of it that I have truly celebrated "Eat What You Want Day."

To help you plan for next year, AOL has a helpful link, which was pointed out to me by darling Dee, who is almost equally enthusiastic about food.

Did anyone else celebrate??