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Friday Wrap Up
It’s been a busy week…I didn’t do much posting this week, did I? The Thursday 13 took me forever, because I couldn’t find the time to scan pictures. And even then, I had some pictures for some of the places that I didn’t post, because I couldn’t be bothered. OK, I could be bothered, but not much. More interested in napping and cooking dinner in my free time. And I didn’t have a lot of free time this week…Monday is exercise day…long walk, then video work out, then yoga, and by the time I get home at noon, I’m ready for a nap, and then it’s time to pick up…
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Thursday 13 ~ Places I’ve Seen
Michelle at Scribbit has had two posts recently, one of places she would like to see, and one of places she has already seen. What a fun idea! So I’m ripping her off, and trying this one too. Several of my selections are here in California. Born in Berkeley, raised for a few years in Alaska and then the Central Valley of California, college in San Francisco, and now raising our daughter in the Bay Area suburbs. I’ve seen a few places outside of the United States, but for now, I’ll stick stateside. Though not only lower 48, as it were. 1. Monterey, California. If I could afford it, I’d…
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Cowboy Junkies ~ Sun Comes Up, It’s Tuesday Morning
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6k4ZYjW-cA[/youtube] Some music hits you with its beat, or the melody, or the way the guitar and the bass work together…and sometimes a song hits you because of the absolute poetry of the lyrics. I’m not talking “Jump” here. But there are a handful, at least, of artists who can truly paint a picture, a beautiful picture of real life and honesty and pain and loss and love, something that touches your heart. A few examples, for me, are Simon and Garfunkel, Aimee Mann, Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello, and Texas. Another is The Cowboy Junkies. This song, especially, evokes a certain feeling. The bittersweet feeling of loss at the end…
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the Cure ~ Boys Don’t Cry
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBCmmEt6a3o[/youtube] I was a late adapter to The Cure, discovering them 6 years after they released their first album, Boys Don’t Cry (Three Imaginary Boys in England, but Boys Don’t Cry had several different, superior, tracks.) My first Cure album was The Head on the Door, which I loved loved loved. After playing the hell out of that album (casette tape in the boom box in my VW Bug), over and over and over, I started looking at their older work. My favorite was Boys Don’t Cry. I loved “10:15 Saturday Night”, “Fire In Cairo”, “Killing an Arab”. I don’t think there’s a single song on that album that I…
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Friday Post…
Casey from Live Your Art has a post of things that are making her happy right now. They’re good things, simple and true. I’m taking the idea and using it here, though I’m too lazy to take pictures. Sorry. 1. My book, which I’ve been sort of ignoring for a few weeks now, though I have had this niggling feeling that I would really get into it once I started…well, I’m finally starting, and yes, I’m finally getting into it. Yay! 2. Spring is in full bloom, though the worst of the allergies have passed for now. So it’s about baby ducks in our swimming pool (sorry, they never seem…
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Pasta Ponza
A week or so ago, Maya and I were watching Giada at Home, and she made a delicious and simple looking pasta recipe that we had to try. With the tomatoes and breadcrumbs going in the oven first, it reminded me of this recipe. But it was different enough that it looked like it would be worth a try…melty Romano cheese, capers, parsley…OK, I’m in. So we tried it for dinner the other night, and it was delicious. Really, truly good. Choosing between the two recipes? Nope. I would just say if you’re in a basil and Parm mood, make the spaghetti. If you’re in a melty Romano mood, make…
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What’s In The Bottle?
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Dang
Thanks everyone, for your wishes and crossed fingers. Didn’t get the job. Sigh.
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French Chicken in a Pot
(cartoon found here) There’s a show I like on our local PBS station, America’s Test Kitchen. The premise is that they get some talented cooks, and they take recipes that we might already know, and they figure out what works and what doesn’t, and they try to perfect them. So you might see them working on the perfect chocolate chip cookie, or the perfect macaroni and cheese, etc. They’ll tell you a few of the options that they tried, and what worked vs. what didn’t. Well, I recently saw an episode where they said they were trying to duplicate a chicken dish one of the people had in Paris. He…
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Belly – Feed The Tree
Belly – New Music – More Music Videos Anybody else remember when MTV used to play actual videos, and some of them were actually cool, and maybe, just maybe, they had songs on them that you hadn’t heard before but actually liked? Yeah, me too. Sigh. Now you have to subscribe to super premium expensive cable to see videos that aren’t “I LOVE THE X’s”, and full of really annoying people commenting on the songs. Hate that crap. Anyway, way back in 1993, MTV used to play some music sometimes, and a group that got into semi-heavy rotation, that I really liked, was Belly. Liked Belly. Liked Blake Babies. The…
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Happy Birthday, Darling!
Happy Birthday to my wonderful and amazing husband, Ted! I hope this is a wonderful year for you, and that all of your dreams come true! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZmGzFD-k8c[/youtube] I wonder if anyone has missed what an amazing weekend this has been for Calvin Borel? First he won the Kentucky Oaks on Rachel Alexandra by over 20 lengths on Friday. The Kentucky Oaks is like the Kentucky Derby, but it’s for fillies only. People have been saying that Rachel Alexandra outclassed the horses in Saturday’s Derby by a mile, and if she had run, she probably would have wiped up the field with them. They say she’s the best 3 year old…
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Since You Asked…
The interview went…so-so. I did my best, I tried my best to convey my passion for this job, for the idea of it all. I think they heard me. But in the end it’s a sales job, and I don’t know sales. I have zero experience in it. But I think I could do it, and do it well, if I believe in the product, which in this case I very much do. We’ll see if they value enthusiasm over experience, or not. Word comes early next week. Sigh. (I used to read Cary Tennis’ column, Since You Asked, in Salon. Loved it. I think I should get back to…
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Thirteen Things I’ve Been Doing Instead of Blogging
Sorry for the bloggy silence this week. I guess I just haven’t been motivated. I have had a few ideas, but couldn’t be bothered to suss them out enough to write about them. Swine flu? Torture prosecution? Pirates? Obama’s first 100 days? Yawn to all of it. I suspect that no one cares what I think about any of these things, and there is plenty written in the news media on the subjects, so why bother, right? But, so you don’t think I’ve been hit by swine flu myself, or am being held hostage by Somali pirates, here’s what I have been doing, rather than blogging. Walking the dog around…
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ABCs of Music
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tgFVltYVfM[/youtube] New feature here at Thinking About. I did an ABC Meme last week, which got me somehow to thinking about Gina’s Music Monday feature, and then somebody put peanut butter in my chocolate, and the next thing you know, I decided that for the next 26 weeks, I’ll post videos. I’m going to go through the alphabet, and I think I’ll stick with the name of the band/artist, but I can’t promise to be consistent on that. So, Happy ABC Music Monday! Our first group, of course, is ABC, with their fabulous song, “All of my Heart”. I love this song. It’s about eleventy billion times better than their…
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Happy Friday!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syqOKjQiOsU[/youtube] Who likes to rock the party? I like to rock the party! OK, I’m a bit giddy right now because I just had a rockin’ good interview for a job that I REALLY want. At one point, I told the recruiter that she was making me drool, that’s how much I like the idea of this job. And you know what? It’s nothing I would have ever seen myself doing before, nothing I had ever thought about, and I have no real-life experience in it. So what? I’m totally qualified for the job, and I would go out and make it my OWN. I’m excited by the idea of…