Day 15 On The Island With No Peanut Butter Cups

Did you know?
The South African clawed frog used to be used as a pregnancy test? The frog would be injected with urine from a pregnant woman, and within 12 hours, if the woman was pregnant, the frog would lay eggs.

This has me imagining a "nature gone wild" scenario where a frog lays eggs that hatch into frogs with human skin or something.

The clawed frog is just one of a number of frog species currently threatened by a dangerous fungus. You can read about it in the link above.

In other news, ever since my health scare*, I've been trying to eat better. And with the exception of a few moments of extreme yumminess, I'm doing pretty well. But I'm really proud that I seem to have licked my afternoon peanut butter cup habit.

I told my co-worker Erin about my accomplishment, and she was like, "I've never even SEEN you eat a peanut butter cup." And I'm like, "That's probably because I inhale the freaking things." And then we got on a subject of favorite desserts, and I came up with this list. Since I'm not EATING any of this stuff, at least I can organize and rank it.

So,
1. Birthday cake. Preferably yellow cake, chocolate pudding filling, chocolate frosting, refrigerated, with a giant glass of skim milk.

2. Cheesecake. (See below post.) I don't usually like my cheesecake compromised by a bunch of other flavors, but sometimes I like that gooey fruit topping they throw on.

3. Cannolis. Preferably NOT coated in chocolate. As I said to Erin, I'm not the biggest chocolate fan in the world. It compromises the taste of the sugar.

4. Fruit pies. Yeah, I'm cheating a little and listing all fruit pies. Hot, with ice cream. If I HAD to choose favorites, I'd say apple, and cherry. Lattice top. My autobiography might be called "My Mother Never Made a Lattice-Top Pie For Me." She's baked me a lot of other stuff, including some very tasty Hamantaschen. And she also gave me the recipe this weekend, but I took one look at it and realized I did not have the counter space nor the patience to try it.

5. Pumpkin pie. Pumpkin. Is that a fruit? If it is, its pie is still not a "traditional" fruit pie. And I love it so much, it gets its own category.

I originally had cookies at #5, but that's more of a snack food. And that is another list for another time. But if I had to make it right now, it'd look something like this:

1. Peanut butter cups.
2. Candy cigarettes (now called "candy sticks")
3. chocolate chip cookies straight from the oven
4. Fruit (which have their own ranking)
5. Pretzel rods I can pretend are cigars.

*I thought I was having a heart attack. I called my insurance company, and they thought I was having a heart attack. I went to the ER, and they gave me a blood test that said I had a heart attack. But after two days in the hospital, an echocardiagram, a stress test (which I passed), more blood tests, a CT scan, and a couple of physical exams by actual human beings, plus those aforementioned shots of blood thinner in my stomach in case I was having a pulmonary embolism (I wasn't)--almost all while I refused to take off my jeans--it was determined I did not have a heart attack. I hope they were right, because I'm taking a long-ass walk today. That is, if I can motivate myself to get up.