Discovery and Cooking Classes? Gotta love it.

I was watching a show on Hulu today. (I would disclose the show, but it would just prove that I am a real nerd at heart.) I, of course, chose the watch something for 2 minutes and then watch your show commercial free. I assumed I could just doze off for a couple of minutes, but I was wrong. I learned that Kikkoman owns a plant in Wisconsin! I was mesmerized by the commercial and the people working there with what they had to say. As a matter of fact this year they will be making an entire movie about this unusual plant - which just happens to be the largest soy sauce manufacturing plant in the world. Yes. The world!

So, I started searching about the plant and landed on this sweepstakes for $1,000 in cooking classes if you win. (One of the entries was to write about it on your blog, so yes, this is my entry blurb.)

Of course reading the blog and about the sweepstakes I learned even more about this amazing plant and company. Such as it is run by a woman. I find this intriguing, because it is a Japanese company and a woman has been running it when women weren't even considered contenders in the wide world of business.

Anyway, having grown up on food with soy sauce (being raised by a Korean mom,) I now want to see if they have an outlet store - like the bread factories. I would so be up for a road trip!

Weight Watchers and Me

Yes, I have decided to join the masses in an effort to shed pounds and increase my health. In my quest for a better body I have joined Weight Watchers online. I couldn't bring myself to go to weekly meetings and sit with other people that have the same idea of weight loss mania. I just find it to be a rather private endeavor I've embarked upon. Maybe it's because if I fail I don't want to face others and see them as they try and avoid eye contact or give me a smile that says, "Hey, you failed, baby. Do something."

But my one great motivation, besides wanting to live longer and avoid a heart attack, has been music. I've discovered some really cool people like Ingrid Michaelson, The Plain White T's, the Pierces, and Lenka to name a few. They get me moving and grooving to the point of where I have been swinging around and dancing with my two boys in the kitchen or living room or wherever else I can terrorize them. Actually the younger one is more than eager to dance with Mom, it's the older one that wonders if it's actually safe or if he should call someone to come and take me away. But that creates a whole new dilemma. Who will cook his dinner or bake him cookies?

You can always count on the stomach outruling the head on a male, regardless of his age.

Life is sweet.