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So according to my math, I should be aiming to eat around 1400 calories a day with the amount of exercise I am getting from walking. I may need to subscribe to the Scottish tradition of deep frying everything to hit that mark.

Actually if I brought my Elvis Sandwich recipe (grilled peanut butter and banana) to be deep fried at some chippy, that might...
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I think I need to put butter on everything I eat, and do more situps -- something to counteract that I seem to be losing my butt from the amount of walking I'm doing, it's getting sort of flattened (and there was never much of it to begin with.) And then if I do put on any weight it's seeming to want to stick in...
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Edinburgh graveyards I've been to:

Greyfriars
Canongate
Old Calton
New Calton
Grange
Dalry
St. Cuthbert's/St. John's

And today I ate a fried peanut butter and banana sandwich, among other things. Found a 60p loaf of bread, hooray.

Good Lord. I have barely bought anything this month and still have spent $113 on the credit card already. There are three instances of eating out on that card -- one at McDonalds ($5.02 for a sandwich -- McDonalds isn't that good of a bargain in the UK) one at Cafe Truva (very tasty pastries, $11.13) and that piece of fudge I've been eating ($7.56)...
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So the bank had frozen my account for "suspicious activity" (that is, me withdrawing money in Scotland) so, to celebrate getting that lifted and finally being able to pay my rent I got some coffee and pastries at a place called Truva.* It's a little pricy but the stuff was good enough that it might be worth it. Honey-sweetened middle eastern desserts are really really...
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It's not unusual for me to be a slight eater most of the time and then suddenly have a few days where I need to eat everything in sight, I guess to make up for the previous weeks. I think we're hitting it -- the drinking on Friday seems to have set it off. Today I ate a big bowl of stir-fried sweet potatoes (about...
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Pretty good weekend so far. Friday was spent chatting with the flatmate's friend, then to do storytelling at the Waverly with the Burgh Blatherers. I had identified a brand of cheap scotch the bar sells so got some of that -- and weirdly, the bar seems to just make up the prices on the drinks, you can buy the same drink a day apart...
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Today I walked 6.4 miles plus whatever distance the inside of the National Gallery counts for. I ate a steak and onion pie, a can of spaghetti, probably about 2 tablespoons worth of Wensleydale with cranberries, half a demi-baguette, and about half a brick of fudge. And a shot of scotch, which I am discovering I like pretty well,

Cooped up in the house for another day... my feet are mostly feeling better but I also have messed up my knee somehow. I think the first time I injured it, I was crawling around under the bed to get at my phone (the electrical outlets are different in the US and UK, so I need an adaptor to be able to charge up my...
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Kind of cooped up in the house today... my legs and feet are not happy to do anymore walking. I bought Max Strength Deep Heat Lotion at Boots yesterday to assist with the problem. I think I need a foot bath of some kind, however -- I don't have any suitable basins in the house and have yet to locate one.

Today I ate a...
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Went to buy a smallish bottle of Scotch (I am not usually a big drinker and a large bottle of anything usually lasts for years.) Picked out the Famous Grouse, but the clerk asked me what size I wanted... and I stood there all dumb for several seconds because I had a suspicion "a pint" wasn't going to mean anything to him.

But in the...
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Anyone here used Deviant Art? Any success (or failures) with using it for money?

I've been taking some pretty good photos lately and am trying to think of a way to turn them into income... my experiment with Lulu calendars hasn't gone anywhere (though Lulu charges a lot and gives a really small portion in royalty for its printed items.)