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So, I had the best of intentions to go on The Diet today. I wonder if there is a diet called The Diet. That would be kind of funny. You know, Japan's legislative branch is the Diet of Japan...hmm.

Anyway, my diet was going fairly well until I was walking to the store and got derailed by a cafe I'd been meaning to visit. I bravely walked in (going to a new restaurant alone is a bit daunting), sat down, and wound up having a delicious dinner and making a new friend! It was a wonderful experience! And my new friend, the cafe owner, may possibly speak less English than I speak Japanese (I know, difficult to believe). But talking to her is definitely good for my language skills, though not so good for my waistline.

Things weren't really too bad at that point - dinner was a hamburger steak thing, a salad, some soup, and a few potato wedges. Well, and some tasty small pieces of crusty baguette with butter and jam. Oh, and oolong tea and coffee. I didn't actually order coffee, as I generally can't handle caffeine past 3:00 or so, but she was so sweet and made it for me, so I drank it. But really it doesn't seem tooooooooooo beeeeee affectinggggggg me AT all I am pleeased to report!!!!!!!!!!!

The trouble happened when I got home and was catching up on Facebook/email/all that stuff. I had accidentally left some cookies near my computer workstation (ok, a plastic tote on the floor). Well, the cookies started calling me. So I ate one. Then, the cookie was lonely, so I sent down some of its friends.

Well, I thought I'd do a quick blog about my failed attempt at dieting, so I headed to Blogger and got this message:

https://www.blogger.com/app/nocookies.html

How did it KNOW? OK Blogger, I will try to obey you as closely as possible in the near future.