Rosco's MindSay Blog

How to Cope With Barney the Dinosaur

roscohatten — 2007-12-22T06:12:43-05:00

You swear that when you have a kid, you won't bring Barney anywhere near your house. Then you have a kid and try to dodge his demands for Barney dvds. Then, like everyone else, you succumb. And you...

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153.5

roscohatten — 2007-08-05T01:08:09-05:00

I've lost five pounds now on my diet, probably directly attributable to the eight or so pints of ice cream and three or four containers of cookies that have been in our house in the past four weeks that I didn't partake...

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The Virgin Mary in my Cats' Litter Box?

roscohatten — 2007-08-04T08:08:26-05:00

I gripe a lot about our two cats in general and having to scoop their litter box in particular. Do you think, the following, seen late this afternoon, is a message to me that I should be more appreciative or...

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Dropping Le Ball

roscohatten — 2007-07-22T09:07:38-05:00

One autumn day in Paris in the last century, when I was on junior-year-abroad, I was wandering down the Boulevarde Montparnasse and saw a billboard ad featuring an abstract painting of a baseball mitt, largely in...

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155.5

roscohatten — 2007-07-22T09:07:52-05:00

I am posting my dieting successes and the lack thereof in hope that my own public humiliation serves as motivation. This weekend, resting on my laurels (four pounds dropped in two weeks) I succumbed to chocolate...

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You'll Be Seeing Less Of Me

roscohatten — 2007-07-15T05:07:19-05:00

Nearly two percent less: I am down to 156 pounds from 158.5 at this time last week.

If I maintain this pace of eliminating a few hundred calories worth of crap per day, and exercising once more per...

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Does Anxiety Have Calories?

roscohatten — 2007-07-11T09:07:03-05:00

Although I've never dieted before, twice I have lost ten or so pounds within a two-week stretch that didn't involve illness. Each time was during a vacation to Asia, to a place either where there wasn't much to...

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Revenge of the Cheese

roscohatten — 2007-07-09T09:07:46-05:00

I've never been on a diet before. I've also never before had crazy afternoon hunger like I did today.

Was it simply because, in the interest of cutting 250 calories, I elected not to have the...

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Rosco Fatten

roscohatten — 2007-07-08T10:07:29-05:00

Yesterday my wife baked her singular toll house cookie bars. I always try to eat them fresh out at the oven just at the temperature a human can tolerate them; they're wonderful that way with cold milk. ...

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Help Me With My Morning Piracy Problem

roscohatten — 2007-06-07T09:06:07-05:00

I have a kid not who is not yet old enough to use a remote control. He likes to watch a "Dora the Explorer" dvd.

Early every morning, while I am rushing to get showered and stuff like that, I...

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