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Menu For Hope
I read over at Bleeding Espresso about a wonderful fundraiser called Menu For Hope. This fundraiser is a raffle, with the money going to support a school lunch program in Lesotho, a tiny country completely surrounded by South Africa. What can you win? Looks like there is a lot of stuff out there to win, and a lot of it looks pretty great. I’ll donate my $10, and regardless of whether I win or not, I hope the kids in Lesotho receive nourishment and hope from this program. The money is donated to the U.N. World Food Programme, via a third party donation organization named first giving. I came upon…
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Twitter Post
Just a quick post in case anyone for some stupid reason cares what I’m doing. I don’t twitter, so this is what I’ve got. YAY! The Washer/Dryer just fit. And when I say just, I mean JUST. It’s really, really tight. But boy, I love having a full sized washing machine for the first time in I don’t know how long. At least the 10 years we’ve lived here, perhaps at our old places as well. I don’t remember. Anyway, I LOVE it. I sometimes hug it. Yesterday we washed the dog bed, Maya’s sheets, her comforter, and two loads of laundry. Today is our sheets, and anything else I…
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Weekend Wrap Up
Our washer/dryer combo has been slowly dying for awhile now. It’s a combo washer/dryer all in one condo unit that looks like this. The washing machine basket is tiny, and won’t hold much. And over the years, it’s been slowly pushed out of whack, until now, if you try to wash two pairs of jeans at once, it sounds like it is going to try to force its way through the laundry room door, down the hall, and out our bedroom window. Our bed is right in front of the window, so we’re against this prospect. We had someone come out a few months ago to service it, but he…
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Healing
(picture found here) In yoga class last night, we were supposed to think of an intention for ourselves, and for those we love, and mindfully practice our poses with this intention in mind. The idea is that if you keep your intention present in your mind, you internalize it, and you project it into the world. The first word that came to my mind was ‘healing’. Thinking back over this year, there are so many friends and family who need to heal. Some physically, some emotionally, but all have suffered and are working back towards normal. Then I wondered, what is normal now? What is normal with my mom gone? …
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Wordless Wednesday
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Friday Randomness, now with Waffles!
OK, this started out to be a review of a waffle mix I recently tried, but it’s fallen completely apart, and really, I should have separated this into two posts, but I didn’t. So what? My blog, my rules, even if they’re stupid. So. Here’s the waffle part I recently found myself trolling Williams-Sonoma for some of their yummy pumpkin pecan waffle mix, which I’ve pushed on you before. I didn’t see any on the floor, but they did have this Caramel Apple waffle mix, so I decided to try it. I mean, the pumpkin waffles are awesome, and I love apples, and I love caramel, so I bought some. …
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Blog Comment Day ~ Results
(monkeys found here) Yesterday was Blog Comment Day, and the assignment was to leave at least 5 comments throughout your blogging day (I always do anyway), and that two of these comments should be to blogs where you have never commented before. Rather than doing a random ‘next blog’ type thing, I decided to mine the blogrolls of some bloggy friends. I popped over to Red Stapler, and picked two blogs from her blogroll with tantalizing names. I visited Godammit, I’m Mad!, and commiserated with her frustration at people feeling pretty high and mighty about buying the Starbucks coffee that donated $.05 to AIDS relief on December first. I also…
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Wordless Wednesday
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Life As We Knew It/The Dead and The Gone
Life As We Knew It and The Dead and The Gone are companion young adult/science fiction novels covering the same events from the points of view of two different characters. In both stories, the moon is struck by a very large meteor, pushing the moon off its axis and closer to Earth, resulting in tsunamis, violent storms, droughts, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes. These natural disasters result in power shortages, food shortages, crop failures, widespread death and disease, and the failure of communication systems worldwide. Life As We Knew It centers on 16-year-old Miranda and her family, who live in rural Pennsylvania. It is written in the form of Miranda’s diary,…
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I’m participating in Blog Comment Day
On December 3, 2008, leave one comment on at least 5 different blogs. Out of the 5 blogs you comment on, at least 2 of them will be blogs you haven’t commented on previously. Sound like fun? I’ll be snooping around your blogrolls for something new to read, so I can comment there on Wednesday. 🙂 If you participate, go tell John you’re doing it as well.
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Charming Billy
Billy Lynch, alcoholic, romantic, kind and loving man, has died. His friends and family come together to comfort his widow, and to celebrate his life. And Billy’s life seems to have two stories to it. The sad story of his alcoholism, which his friends and family tried again and again to guide him away from, with no success. And the sad story of his first love, an Irish girl whom he intended to marry, but who goes back to Ireland and dies. At least, that’s what Billy is told. The truth is, she took the money he sent her for her passage to America, bought a gas station…
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Saturday Stupidness
(I’d like to go on the record and say, I scored an 80%, not a 80%. Sorry. I know that makes me really, really anal.) ~DoSoEvAyMo 1. Call my sisters…it’s their birthday today! Happy Birthday, Maya and Melissa! Wish I could be there to have some cake and ice cream with you. 2. Go to Stockton for a funeral. My brother’s wife’s father passed away last week. He was a wonderful man, and will be dearly missed by many people. We liked him an awful lot.
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100 Foods Meme
(photo found here) Thanksgiving is known, not only as a day to share our thanks, but also as a day to feast. In the spirit of feasting, I thought I would take on this meme that RelaxedDad tried (he did it in two parts). Some of the foods are clearly European, as I didn’t even know what the heck they were. Here are the rules: Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions. Bold all the items you’ve eaten. Cross out any items that you would never consider eating. Optional extra: Post a comment here at www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results. So now to the foodstuffs! 1.…
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Thankful
My plan for today’s blog was to make a Thursday 13, and list 13 things for which I am thankful. Family, friends, our health, having a job, good elections, etc. etc. As so often happens, though, life got in the way. Let me tell you what happened. Ted and I use WordPress to maintain our blogs. Ted’s really good about updating his blog to the most current version of WordPress, but often the update comes with a small hand full of problems. There will be something new that he has to tweak, and it takes time, and blah blah blah. Me? I’m more the “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix…
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Champagne Turkey Recipe
When I moved to San Francisco in 1987, I worked at a big hotel as a front desk clerk. Since I had no seniority, I had to work both Thanksgiving and Christmas days. My roommate, Troy, worked at another hotel (though he later left and came to work at the same hotel as me). He had the pleasure of working the ‘graveyard’ shift, so he was usually asleep while I was at school or work, and I was asleep while he was at work. Troy was a pretty darned good cook, and on Thanksgiving Day, while I was working, he cooked a delicious Thanksgiving meal for me and some of…