Fannish Re-watch

 Well, the fannish re-watch is a bit sketchier than I remember. 
First up was Pirates of the Caribbean and while I've always enjoyed the movies and the fannish arts and writing, I found my re-watch less than sparkly. I think it's distance from the time and the quality of that distance also. I've been away from it since 2011 and that time was filled with lots of emotionally charged and depressing content which has surely changed my perceptions. 
The Black Pearl stands up as a film though the fight scenes are longer and louder than I remember. Elizabeth is strong but strangely brittle to me and Will is simply milk toast at best. Captain Jack is as entertaining as ever and I would have been happy with a simple period piece travel log of "Captain Jack's Pirates of the Caribbean Tour" complete with vignettes of from the ride. 
I didn't watch more than the first one and I'm a little sad about that. 

I'll be reading some of the fic this weekend. Hippediva I think. 

Next up: Lord of the Rings.

The Low Carb Way

 We've been eating a low carb diet since September. I feel lucky that we were solidly fat adapted by the time of the lock down because our meals and meal planning have become so much simpler and hunger pangs are a thing of the past. We eat mostly protein with a little salad or cooked veg though we've moved away from veggies for the last few weeks. (unquiet tummies) And we're down to one meal a day with a bulletproof coffee in the morning and strawberries (a low carb fruit) with full fat yogurt at night. 
We started out eating all sorts of proteins; chicken, fish, tuna, ham, eggs, beef, but it became pretty obvious to us really fast that beef was what made us feel the best and healthiest. Oh, we still eat other meats just mostly beef; steaks, hamburgers, stroganoff, chili with no beans. It's delicious, filling and simple if a bit boring.
Still, after eight weeks of lock down and all the weirdness of the day we get bored and want to eat something crazy. And we always feel like crap the next day. We're both stress eaters so for me it's salty crunch like chips and I replaced them with peanuts in the shell. A bit more carb than I like and for Mom it's pasta. Needless to say, we've eaten a lot of peanuts.
I think it's variety that's part of the pleasure so I found an italian deli open in Sac and we went over and splurged on mortadella and capra cola and corned beef. We got salmon cakes (to die for) and chicken parmesan. (both eaten way too quickly) And we had a nice deli platter for lunch.
I miss eating someone else's actual cooking. Going to restaurants was big entertainment for me. I'm jonesing for Ruth's Chris or some El Navallero.