can of catfood.....

ok, so.....i followed a state trooper car with full sirens/lights in the main road, and off to the right down my little circle as i headed home this afternoon.....thankfully the car kept going.....oy!...i have enough drama in my life right now without inviting more.....and when i got into the house, those present had not bothered to feed the cat or dog......and i proceeded to slice open my thumb on the catfood can lid......and the blood loss from such a cut is horrifying and persistent.....the bandaid did not hold back the tide...which i discovered as strolled out to the curb to get the mail and paper that had not been brought in.....my dripping thumb left a bit of a trail that i saw only after i turned to walk back to the house.....thankfully my clothing was spared from the carnage.....if i had a lick of sense i would go to bed right now....perchance to sleep more soundly than i have for a few days.....i ran out of hormones a few days ago....and wrongly assumed that i could handle the withdrawal...gentle readers....there are few things more annoying than waking up in a pool of sweat and knowing full well that hormone withdrawal was to blame......not ready to part with the little white pills just yet.....so...to wrap up this rant.....i have catfood can cut and hormone withdrawal to blame for my current state....

amen to all of that.....

ok, so...the best thing that can be said about today is that it is friday......there is so much going on that i briefly considered going back to bed and pretending that i have no further obligations on this day....but tomorrow promises a trip to the food coop in lexington....and that is something to look forward to.....

songs in drag.....

ok, so....in my dreams i was at some sort of festival..one that required a costume.....and mine was white and billowy to the point that i could barely get around....my flowing robes would get caught up and or snagged and i would stumble .....but this mobility issue did not dampen my desire to sing out loud......i made an effort to tell myself in my sleep to remember the lyrics.....ah well.....i do remember coming by the caterers van as a giant bowl of plain marinated beets was being unloaded....and i recall asking myself why there was no crumbled goat cheese and minced spring onions and/or chopped walnuts as a garnish.......

a tear-jerker photo op....

ok, so for my money, this photo of mama sotomayor said it all......what a glorious day for free-thinking americans....

stunned...

ok, so...i went to an end-of-term party this afternoon....and met an instructor who plans to teach the break of day in the fall..... gentle readers....this is a novel that i have read...and read...and..read....more times than i have been to paris...and that adds on to more than 12 times......ah....the part that stills my beating heart is when she mentions that her mother waits the blooming of a plant that blooms infrequently......i remember being awakening to see the bloom of cup of gold in 1976.....assured that this plant would never bloom again....maybe it did and maybe it did not,,,,,ah well....

hard work ain't what it used to be...

ok, so...there was a time when a spurt of hard work could take my mind off of just about anything....seems those days are gone....

yippee....

ok, so the only thing better than making it til the friday before a 3-day weekend would have been taking the day off......sadly, had i taken the day off i'd have had to drag myself on into work anyway.....given the circumstances.....the best i can hope for is not having to work the weekend....

spearmint

ok, so......during the summers of my youth it was customary to spend a week with each grandmother....on such an occasion i doubled up with my cousin john down on my crown grandparent's farm.....the upstairs bedroom had 2 doubled beds...and room for 2 more.....we entertained ourselves before bed with stories.....i clearly recall john retelling a story he had already told our cousin janet.....a story he had named spearment...i have no recollection what the story had to do with mint, or the mint family.....just that the story was named after a natural flavor......

cold feet.....

ok, so the overnight temperature dipped for a second day in a row......we closed the window but neglected to put on that extra blanket.....and so i woke up at some ungodly hour ....and it took me awhile to figure out that my discomfort was due to the chill and even longer to get my brain wrapped around the notion of the blanket at the foot of the bed.....

Ghandi's Diet

ok, so for the record.....

Diet and brahmacharya

Brahmacharya is also observed to contain one's sensual desires for food and taste, as well as materialism. Most brahmacharis prescribe to avoiding the consumption of meat, spices and cooked foods, said to cultivate the taste buds and pleasure senses of the mind. Gandhi, one of the most known brahmacharis, besides being an adherent of simple living and nonresistance, also devoted himself trying to create what he believed to be a perfect diet. The diet, later named the "Gandhi-diet" meant a diet which was environmentally acceptable, based on economical (low-cost) products and healthy (allowing the body to perform at its best capabilities; thus keeping digestion in mind). The diet, on which he worked for 35 years, constantly re-evaluating and improving it for himself, consisted of [1] [2] :

* 1 litre of goat's or cow's milk
* 170 g cereals
* 85 g leafy vegetables
* 140 g other vegetables
* 30 g raw vegetables
* 40 g ghee
* 60 g butter
* and 40 g jaggery or sugar
* fruits according to one's taste and purse
* 2 sour limes (juice taken with vegetables or in water, cold or hot)
* salt according to taste

Gandhi also kept his weight low, with a Body Mass Index of 17.7. Today, the Gandhi diet is again becoming more popular, and experts as Dr. P.P. Bose [1] state the diet to be very healthy and to fit perfectly with the (USDA) food-pyramid.[3]

red and taupe curtains...

ok, so in my dreams i was in my old bedroom.....i almost said my bedroom at home, but that house is no longer in the family and therefore it is a home to somebody else...but i digress.....i pulled down the covers to get into my side and there was a woman there......a woman i know....and my husband escorted her out of the house....and we discovered that she had gotten into the house through one of the bedroom windows....one of the arts had been put in backwards so it could not be locked....and we had to take down the red and taupe window treatments in order to fix the problem....curtains as a descriptive doesn't quite cover a combination of 4 different rods and over/under panels.....that was the most fascinating part of this dream...not the woman on my side of the bed, but the cleverly crafted window treatment...in colors i have never used for room decor up to this point......maybe next time i take a wild notion to redecorate.....at my current pace that could happen sometime in the next 20 years....

the loveliest hour of sleep....

ok, so alarm went off at 6:30 am...as per usual....not exactly an alarm.....basically npr interrupts my sleep with local and global news....but on the weekends i quickly shut off the radio and turn back over for an extra bit of shuteye.....assuming that my spouse responds to the cat, who comes rushing in from her overnight sleeping location with her feed-me-now meow...meow....meow's....which wake the dog.....who starts to whine in his crate......he wants out to stretch and to dash out the front door in search of a perfect spot to raise his leg before he also wants to be fed......i deal with these antics m-f......so on s-su i kinda pretend that i hear none of this clamor....and if i am very, very lucky i will doze back into where my dreams left off...at least for an hour give or take a few minutes....ah.....life is good.....

princess cruise lines

ok, so.....in my dreams i was looking through the titles in a bookshelf i presume to be in my cousin's house in cleveland.....in a room i used when my grandmother lived there.....and several of the volumes on the shelf were binders, stuffed full of papers and pamphlets...for princess cruise lines.....someone in the family had recently taken a job with the company and was studying the official manuals.....for the record...the manuals in my dream were pink and white and black graphics...have not bothered to check this color scheme out for accuracy....i am amused to dream of cruises....as i have no desire to be stuck on a very large boat with the kind of people i imagine to value cruises......i could be persuaded onto a sailboat that is big enough to accommodate a book-club sized group....i suppose....

snowbilly grifter

ok, so...wonkette used that term to describe the governor of alaska this morning in reference to news that she may have gotten a huge advance on her soon-to-be written memoirs which could be published just in time for the 2012 race.......i wish i had thought of that.....

mix tape....

ok, so yesterday i downloaded a mix tape created by one i love dearly.....which sounds like a far simpler task than it turned out to be.....my pc lacked the previously downloaded program necessary to unzip the downloaded collection of music.....and my attempts to download something compatible were complicated by the assumption that i would actually pay for software i would use once.....and when i finally figured out all of those details, i was able to place the music in a folder.....and then to burn them onto a disc......here is where i screwed up.....i failed to place the songs in the original order.....tainting the intention of the mixer...who knew?!.....i did enjoy listening to the songs.....but i now understand the difference between a mix and a random collection of tunes.....and i hereby promise that when the novel is published i will read it front to back......

cold front.....

ok, so.....i got really cold in the night......with the just the sheet and the duvet cover......and not the blanket that for some reason my spouse deemed too much for the warming temperatures we must have had when he decided to remove the blanket....and so i made every attempt to curl up small enough to conserve some body heat....but finally gave up just before dawn and hunted up that blanket.......the final hour or so of my sleep was marvelously cozy...

in honor of mother's day

ok, so this from mcsweeney...

RESPECTFUL
YO MAMA
JOKES.
BY LUCAS KLAUSS

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Yo mama is so healthy her BMI is probably exactly within the ideal range for a woman her age.

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Yo mama is so well respected within her profession that I bet she'll get another raise and promotion this year despite the downward trajectory of the economy.

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Yo mama is so good at cooking she should open her own restaurant. I'd be the first customer.

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Yo mama is so attractive she could be on the cover of Prevention.

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Yo mama is so Internet-savvy she should start her own social-networking site designed specifically for moms. It would be really popular.

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Yo mama is so well read she could teach a course on literature at an accredited university.

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Yo mama is so good at listening she makes you feel like she's put everything aside to focus all her attention on you. That's a really great trait to have.

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Yo mama is so skilled at coaching basketball she should apply for a job in the WNBA.

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Yo mama is so generous she just paid for everyone's meal at Applebee's.

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Yo mama is so supportive of you and your efforts that I wouldn't be surprised if you were incredibly successful as a result.

tales of woe....

ok, so....my eku final was this evening.....and 4 hours after the whining began...only 1 of 5 students has emailed the promised goods (assignments dating back to january).....so i will feel no guilt for the unsavory scores that follow failure to turn in required projects......

spicy mustard?

ok, so the president dashed out across the potomac to a virginia burger place, and ordered spicy mustard rather than ketchup...as is the chicago tradition.....and the right wing-nuts made a huge deal of this uppity food choice....for the record...my spouse always orders mustard rather than ketchup on any sandwich offered.....so sean hannity is now attacking across the board middle-america sandwich preferences......must be a really slow news day for this to make national news.....

GOP clowns

ok, so wonkette has been offering a humerous series of GOP clowns in clown makeup.....just too funny...

looking for a silver lining

ok,so.....i have put off blogging about our impromptu trip to new jersey.... because this blog is mostly about recording the highlights of my life to help me remember when my memory starts to fade.....and so far there are few details that i will want to relive at a later date...i will surely remember that in my rush to pack i neglected to bring any sort of jacket or sweatshirt.....expecting the forecasted heatwave rather that a cold rain.....i will surely not forget the kindness of people who helped us tie up loose ends and/or connect the dots.....yes....there are many events, conversations and emotions that i will be able to evoke at some less harried date without this blog as reference...and that which i allow myself to forget will be worth the forgetting...