Too Good To Be True

Have you ever seen or heard about something so good, it simply cannot be true? I recently received an email from Dr. Godfrey Ugo in Nigeria who is offering me a share in the fortune of "a foreign customer who died along with his entire family in a Concord plane crash in the year 2000 in Paris." I'm thinking it sounds a little too good to be true. Well, last week I also heard about something so amazingly good, it can't possibly be true, but it is!

How sweet is that? No pun intended! What I especially like about this is the fact that, according to the Los Angeles times, this is no regular cookie. Isn't that slightly disappointing? I apparently am not smart enough to eat a cookie (a special one) and skip a meal without paying "less than $5 a day" to the Hollywood diet people.

On a somewhat lighter note, I was working at a client's home today hooking up a wireless router for her, and I mentioned the wf-wf.com blog you are now reading. I pointed her browser to the URL, which by the way, is when I noticed that Vince had once again decided to grace us with his post of the month (nudge, nudge, wink, wink), and I showed her my introductory post. She was commenting on how I didn't look fat in the first picture and I only looked fat with my green shirt on because of the way I was standing.

 

Well, that's nice of you to mention, but the cold, hard truth is, I am fat. The lady was very nice, and this has nothing to do with anything, but I wanted to show off this lady's pets: 4-5 cats, 2 dogs, and Neo, the pot-bellied pig. He's "the one," she said. She had a pig door so Neo could come and go as he pleased. When the pig rests in the sun, the lady says he is "bakin'." (or bacon, one of the two). Here he is:

Anyway, the good news is, that I have lost a few pounds. Sound too good to be true? It is. I got all the way down to 206lbs. before my wife invited me after work to a get-together with some friends out at Henry's Louisiana Grill in Acworth, GA. It was raining this past Friday and I was working later than I wanted.  I found a parking spot in downtown Acworth, and since I got turned around circling the block for parking, I walked the wrong way down the block to get to the restaurant where the party was waiting to be seated. A woman was exiting her car with an umbrella and as she mounted the curb, I inquired of her if she knew the way to Henry's.  She smiled and said I could follow her. We chit-chatted a bit as we walked, and before we parted, her last words to me were, be sure to get the Chicken Ooh La La. I mentioned this as we were being seated at the table, and I didn't have to persuade anyone, as they already knew about the apparently famous dish.

According to Henry's website, the Ooh La La is: Named one of the top 50 dishes to drive for by the Atlanta Journal Constitution! Succulent oysters, shrimp or crawfish - flash fried and tossed with Tasso, spinach and roasted garlic in Henry's spicy cream sauce. Served over angel hair pasta ... OOH LA LA!! To shorten this story a bit, when I arrived home, I think I weighed about 213lbs. It was an extremely heavy dinner.  I like the part about it being "flash fried." Awesome! In this case, it was too good to be good for ya.  

I haven't forgotten about the P90X, but this pesky laziness keeps interrupting my otherwise productive day. Oh well. I'll keep trying.