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Post 200? I think so…
OK, another Meme. Got this one from Wendy. I’ve gotta cut back on these things, and I swear I will. I’ll also stop drinking wine on school nights, staying up too late reading, watching crap TV, and letting the clothes-to-be-ironed pile up to the rafters. Yeah, right. The rules are: List three CDs, books, movies, and people you would take if you were stranded on a deserted island. For the people, you cannot choose your spouse or relatives. CD’s: Californication, by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Way too much fun. The White Album, by the Beatles. Wendy chose this one, too, so we’d be OK if for some reason we…
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I Saved a Life Today
Maybe most of you wouldn’t be tooting your own horn about it, but I’m going to, for two reasons. The first is, I want to encourage those of you who CAN donate blood, but don’t, to get out there and do it. Honestly, it’s not often that we can say we saved someone’s life, that someone may have died on the operating table if it weren’t for us and the time we took out of our life to get stuck in the arm with a needle. And, I only recently learned, your blood is divided up into different componants, so it goes to several people who desperately need it. It’s…
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I’ve got a bad feeling about this…
I’m at the point in my book where they are in the trial, and the woman has taken the stand against her supposed attacker…and as I was drifting off to sleep last night, the thought occurred to me…I’ll bet he’s innocent…I’ll bet they’re going to find him innocent…and he’ll get strung up just the same. Damn it. I may be wrong, and I hope I am, but the whole thing about killing a mockingbird being a sin, because they’re innocent? I think I just got it. Don’t tell me if I’m right or wrong. And I gotta say, this book is WAY more interesting than American Idol. 😉 Best quote…
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Yeah, that will work….
Well, Wisconsin is pretty and green, I’ve heard they have some mighty nice cheese, and you can probably find a condo there for under 500K, but this is crazy. For those of you (and you know who you are!) getting your news from this site, the governor of Wisconsin has decided that it should be LAW that sex ed teachers need to emphasize abstinence over all other forms of birth control. …teachers must emphasize that refraining from sex before marriage is the most effective way to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. A spokesman for the governor, a Democrat, said most Wisconsin school districts already take that approach. I wonder…
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What’s Wrong With These Glasses?
If you’re saying that there are no frames holding the lenses onto the face, you’re correct…almost. They are attached through the bridge of her nose…you pierce the bridge of your nose and put a tiny wire through and that holds them. I can’t imagine much more disgusting than that. If you want to read more about this horrid (wonderful?) idea, click here. (The part of me that remembers people complaining about the pain of glasses and earrings in 30 below weather wonders what a piercing right there would feel like, too…ugh.) I’ve thought about getting the surgery on my eyes, so I won’t need my contacts anymore…I get so tired…
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Places I’ve “Visited”
Create your own personalized map of the USA I got this one from Ally Bean…she often has fun things like this on her site! I confess…I only drove through the little corner of Arizona between Las Vegas and southern Utah…I’ve only been in the airport in St. Louis…I’ve only driven through a lot of these states on Interstate 80 between CA and PA, and Maryland and Virginia were just about getting to and around DC. But still…it LOOKS like I’ve been quite a few places, doesn’t it?
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Much More Disturbing….
My mother-in-law and I went to see a movie this weekend, Water, that was the saddest movie I have ever seen. I came home wanting to see something cheerful and uplifting, like maybe, Romeo and Juliet. Madame Butterfly. You know, comedy. Water takes place in India in 1938, and is about the 2,000 year old custom of how widows are discarded after their husbands die. The main character is an 8 year old girl, Chuyia, who doesn’t even remember getting married. She is brought to an ashram and left there by her father. She is scared and confused, and convinced that her mother will be coming to get her soon.…
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Disturbing Thoughts…
Friday I went into the office to do some work, and I was going through some client files, and I discovered that one of our old, inactive clients was Enron. That got me thinking…I wonder if I would have felt differently about them back in 2001, when I was sweating in the dark, unwilling to turn on the a/c or a light, trying to keep my electric bill under control, worried about rolling power outs, while they were raping California for money, laughing all of the way to the bank. Would I have hated them less if they had been a current client? Somehow I doubt it. Another disturbing thing…
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Welcome to the Blogosphere!
My darling husband, Ted, started a blog today. I can’t wait to see what he’ll come up with. 🙂
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Why?
Last Friday, I was in a meeting at work, and someone brought ice cream. I was full, having had pizza already, and you all know what else I was full of at that point, so not too much appitite. There were a couple of different kinds of ice cream bars, and what I want to know is, WHY did I want one so badly? There were no nuts involved. No coffee flavored ice cream involved. Just basic vanilla with dark chocolate, vanilla with milk chocolate, or dulce le leche. Nothing I really like that much. And still, I WANTED one. WANTED IT. And my stomach said, uh, no thanks. And…
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Guyanese Proverbs…
After yesterday’s recipe, I started thinking about the culture of Guyana. I’ve never been there, and I cannot claim to be any sort of authority on it at all. BUT, I can say that there are some pretty interesting expressions/proverbs. My personal favorite, especially when Ted says it while doing his best Bill Clinton impression (Don’t forget the little gesture with your hand, like you’re putting your ATM card into the machine), is this one: “When mattie’s house afire, trow watah upon you’un” Literally translated: “When your neighbor’s house is on fire, throw water upon your own” I love that in Bill’s voice. I think Bill should go down to…
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Recipe Thursday
I’ve never seen ‘recipe Thursday’ anywhere before, so I just made it up. I don’t want to talk about poop anymore, or God, and I haven’t thought of anything else exciting, so I thought I would just give away the store here, and share one of our family’s favorite recipes. This picture is what I got when I googled “Curried Butternut Squash”, but it doesn’t look exactly like the dish I’m describing. Similar though, and tasty looking. Ted’s parents were born and raised in Guyana, which is in South America. If you don’t know much about Guyana, it was a British Colony. After Great Britian abolished slavery, they still needed…
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Five Things
I got this one from Hope, who did not tag me, but tagged Gina in the comments to her paper plate post, and I read it and liked it, so here we go: Five Things In my fridge: Leftover ingredients from softshell chicken tacos we had for dinner last night. Old film for Ted’s broken camera. (I used it much more than he did, but since it was a gift from me to him, I will still call it Ted’s camera. He prefers the digital, though.) Berries – Strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries. Eggs – with Omega 3 added, since we don’t eat a lot of fish or flax around here.…
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Grateful Today
This morning I am feeling very grateful. Yesterday, while getting ready to start my day, I received a phone call that my father-in-law was in the hospital. We weren’t sure what was wrong with him, but he had gone in because of extreme pain and very high blood pressure. On our way out to the hospital, we found out that he needed surgery right away, to remove his gallbladder. So, there we are. He had his gallbladder removed, which had ALREADY started to turn gangrene (I had no idea it could happen that quickly!). We didn’t get to see him after the surgery, because it was later in the day,…
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Anybody left to offend after the poop talk?
I was walking the dog the other day (She’s spoiled…she gets two walks a day), and I was listening to my beloved iPod (I’m spoiled, because Ted got me an iPod for no reason except he knew I wanted one), and I was listening to Joan Osborn’s Relish. That album always takes me back to 1995, because that’s when I first heard it, and I pretty much listened to it every day in my office at work. Ah, the days before I joined the cube dwellers, when I actually had an office…but I digress. So, I was walking along, and One of Us came on…that’s the song that made me…