Weblog 259
January 30, 2011~ 12:00 am
Week of snow and more snow. Every day a dusting of and inch or so, enough to keep the world frosted and one's eye on the weather report.
Do I mind it? Other than the fear of driving while it's 'changing' in that first hour before the salt trucks and the plows -that bothers me, but over all I like the mute comfort of snowfall with its white coverlet pulled up over life's sharp or ugly edges.
That..... and of course the fact that snowy Saturdays put the kibosh on our once-a-week 'movie night'. (Oh well, Michael Moore's 'Capitalism' will have to wait another week...I doubt the underlying truths in that documentary are gonna change while we wait to see it. LOL!)
I've been participating in the 'Denture/New Smile' forum and enjoying new friends- and currently reading a book borrowed from my daughter: Patti Smith's charming "Just Kids", memories of her early days spent with Robert Mapplethorpe in New York City. She's a sensitive and poetic writer and her memories bring the 60's alive for me again. It's just the thing for a chilly night snuggled up in covers with my omnipresent hot water bottle.
This quiet time of year allows every type of fancy to float through my head......
(Isn't that a WONDERFUL IMAGE? I found it somewhere on the net) a photo of an art display featuring cloth jelly fish-- it soothes me.... looks quiet and graceful. (Those could even be MUSHROOMS floating there, surreal and charming.) The larger version of that photo is now my computer wallpaper.... I like having that pop up when I'm still half asleep in the morning when I fire up my computer. Makes me feel like I'm still dreaming.
And speaking of dreaming, how about THIS creature, created by my daughter Holly, now on sale in her Etsy shop.
His name is CREEPYHEAD. LOL!!! Go on..... have a look/see. Battygirl Enterprises Check out her other hand-sewn nightmare, "The Infant". Shades of 'Alien' there- a human playing host to an internal, pushy guest. (I wish she'd list her spider purses again....even though it's past Halloween, those thing are GORGEOUS!)
When Wayne and I visited on Friday evening, the family shared some of their Wii programs with us. I tried to throw a virtual frisbee, the control thing-a-ma-jig strapped around my wrist, and after eight throws my score was a big ZERO. LOL! I'm a bust at Wii, that's for sure-- but it definitely makes the grandkids hoot and holler with laughter so it's worth it.
Here's an image that perks me right up.......it's so very weird, but also funny.
Such a little Eloise, that blonde child with her burning teddy bear (and you just know that she's the one who LIT IT. lol) [*MAYBE NOT! I just had an insight! Perhaps it's this culture that has destroyed innocence and by extension, childhood. WE burned her bear!] For more intriguing and psychologically provocative artwork, visit the home site of artist Karen Ann Myers. She's got her finger on a cultural pulse, alright- digging into and mirroring the way we strive so hard to look attractive- how ultimately shallow such things make us... how hypersexualized we've become with all the media stimuli... the way we internalize and eat it up....the way it shapes us. (Her page of 'mixed media' has overtones of Klimpt, I think. Wonderful.) *And my favorite TITLE? 'U.S. of Ass'. LOL!)
On Friday I read an article I normally would never have bothered with... I mean, it's a car appraisal feature and I usually skip right over such commerical flotsam... but man o man, if your're looking for some chuckles and delight, click on the jester below
to read the author's final word on the Chevy 'Volt'. (He test-drove it for a while as research for his written piece for the Washington Post.) I laughed, yes of course, it was funny.... (but if I had a 'spare 40,000.00' I'd be queuing up to buy one of those suckers! As always, humor is more winning that boring bald facts.)
I've completed week two of being a new denture wearer, and Wayne and I ate out at Calabria's on Saturday. I hestitated for a moment, then went with the SALAD instead of the soup I thought I'd have to eat, and I DID FINE!! Even bit into Italian bread with no problems. What a feeling! - the entree, homemade ravioli with alfredo sauce (I think a toothless baby could have handled that) but olives, plum tomatoes and lettuce.... chewing robustly? Now that was an ACCOMPLISHMENT. Onward and upward. (Someday I'll bite into a crusty foot-long Italian sub and fireworks will go off, the angels will sing.... I'll hear the kettle drum and the cymbal clash of VICTORY! It's comin'.... you BETCHA!)
January 31, 2011~ 7:00 pm
ICE!
Here's the National Weather Service report for this evening through tomorrow night:
I have prepared....I am taking tomorrow off. I don't intend to go out in that nastiness, not even to CHECK THE MAIL. lol Tomorrow it'll be me and my bed and hot coffee and a BOOK. Holed up. The world icing over, but me.....snug as a bug.
In fact, I'm heading upstairs right now with a nice glass of ice cold milk, a couple of bologna sandwiches and chocolate pudding. Gonna prop my knees up, shove the hot water bottle under my bare feet, pull the comforter up and play my little hand-held Poker game... then dive back into the Jim Carroll's posthumous book, "The Petting Zoo". (Finished the Patti Smith....on to other punk-rockers of that time. I may gel my hair into a Mohawk and play air-guitar....who knows? With all those hours my own, anything can happen.)
February 1, 2011~ 5:00 pm
Well.....the ice didn't show up. LOL!!! I have, in effect, wasted one of my days off this year by being cautious- (but given the predictions for today, I'd have to say I'd do it over again in making the decision to stay 'put'.) The outlook was too dire to ignore.
I read, and slept (and slept and slept some more)- thats's about it. Wrote a couple of poems, and will pretty soon be cutting my hair and getting a nice hot bath.
(So often when I'm staying home instead of going to work, I end up cutting my hair. Don't know why. Maybe looking for a fresh start, who knows?)
Just now walking into the kitchen to pour another cup of coffee, I was struck by how strange my kitchen is. Dark and hobbit-like. A place from Middle Earth. Just needs some mushrooms growing on the walls......
(My ceiling fixture shorted out a while back and I never got it fixed. Never use it. I just put two lamps in there, which my very kind friend from California calls: European lighting.) It's cozy, I will say that, if a challenge to the eyes. No stove. (Not much gets eaten in this house that requires anything other than the quickest and most rudimentary heating-up in the microwave.) Betty Crocker- I am not. I'm more like a survivalist on short rations but it suits my solitary life style. My buttery-yellow cave. My home-sweet-home.
February 3, 2011~ 7:00 pm
TOMORROW IS OUR SUPER BOWL PARTY AT WORK! Everyone's bringing food. (I stopped and bought a 20-piece barrel of famous FRISCH'S BROASTED CHICKEN, which I'll heat up in my crock pot.)
And just what is 'broasted chicken'?
It's DELICIOUS! Everyone will be wearing their black and gold- (I have a wooden HUGE beaded necklace I'll wear with my Steeler 'Division Champions 2011' long-sleeved t-shirt. Comes with dangle earrings. LOL!!!) VIVA LA FOOD!! We'll eat all day long......kielbasa, tacos, lasagna, beef barbeque, pulled pork.....and a ton of desserts and salads. YIPPEEE! (And how about THIS for the perfect '2 in 1' combination?)
Hines Ward clowning around in a Polamalu wig for a press conference. LOL!!! BOTH my favorite players rolled into one! Hines is a scrapper and Polamalu some strange force of nature- both of these guys superb players and gentleman to boot.
I worked my tail off today to get all my charges in for the month. Had to catch up after taking Tuesday off- the day the ice never showed. Dog-tired I was when I got home, but looking forward now to a RELAXING, GLUTTONOUS DAY tomorrow- *whatever these new choppers can handle at the 3-week point, that is. But I'll be GRINNING and stuffing my face, that's for sure. GO STEELERS!!!!!!!!!!!
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Week of snow and more snow. Every day a dusting of and inch or so, enough to keep the world frosted and one's eye on the weather report.
Do I mind it? Other than the fear of driving while it's 'changing' in that first hour before the salt trucks and the plows -that bothers me, but over all I like the mute comfort of snowfall with its white coverlet pulled up over life's sharp or ugly edges.
That..... and of course the fact that snowy Saturdays put the kibosh on our once-a-week 'movie night'. (Oh well, Michael Moore's 'Capitalism' will have to wait another week...I doubt the underlying truths in that documentary are gonna change while we wait to see it. LOL!)
I've been participating in the 'Denture/New Smile' forum and enjoying new friends- and currently reading a book borrowed from my daughter: Patti Smith's charming "Just Kids", memories of her early days spent with Robert Mapplethorpe in New York City. She's a sensitive and poetic writer and her memories bring the 60's alive for me again. It's just the thing for a chilly night snuggled up in covers with my omnipresent hot water bottle.
This quiet time of year allows every type of fancy to float through my head......
(Isn't that a WONDERFUL IMAGE? I found it somewhere on the net) a photo of an art display featuring cloth jelly fish-- it soothes me.... looks quiet and graceful. (Those could even be MUSHROOMS floating there, surreal and charming.) The larger version of that photo is now my computer wallpaper.... I like having that pop up when I'm still half asleep in the morning when I fire up my computer. Makes me feel like I'm still dreaming.
And speaking of dreaming, how about THIS creature, created by my daughter Holly, now on sale in her Etsy shop.
His name is CREEPYHEAD. LOL!!! Go on..... have a look/see. Battygirl Enterprises Check out her other hand-sewn nightmare, "The Infant". Shades of 'Alien' there- a human playing host to an internal, pushy guest. (I wish she'd list her spider purses again....even though it's past Halloween, those thing are GORGEOUS!)
When Wayne and I visited on Friday evening, the family shared some of their Wii programs with us. I tried to throw a virtual frisbee, the control thing-a-ma-jig strapped around my wrist, and after eight throws my score was a big ZERO. LOL! I'm a bust at Wii, that's for sure-- but it definitely makes the grandkids hoot and holler with laughter so it's worth it.
Here's an image that perks me right up.......it's so very weird, but also funny.
Such a little Eloise, that blonde child with her burning teddy bear (and you just know that she's the one who LIT IT. lol) [*MAYBE NOT! I just had an insight! Perhaps it's this culture that has destroyed innocence and by extension, childhood. WE burned her bear!] For more intriguing and psychologically provocative artwork, visit the home site of artist Karen Ann Myers. She's got her finger on a cultural pulse, alright- digging into and mirroring the way we strive so hard to look attractive- how ultimately shallow such things make us... how hypersexualized we've become with all the media stimuli... the way we internalize and eat it up....the way it shapes us. (Her page of 'mixed media' has overtones of Klimpt, I think. Wonderful.) *And my favorite TITLE? 'U.S. of Ass'. LOL!)
On Friday I read an article I normally would never have bothered with... I mean, it's a car appraisal feature and I usually skip right over such commerical flotsam... but man o man, if your're looking for some chuckles and delight, click on the jester below
to read the author's final word on the Chevy 'Volt'. (He test-drove it for a while as research for his written piece for the Washington Post.) I laughed, yes of course, it was funny.... (but if I had a 'spare 40,000.00' I'd be queuing up to buy one of those suckers! As always, humor is more winning that boring bald facts.)
I've completed week two of being a new denture wearer, and Wayne and I ate out at Calabria's on Saturday. I hestitated for a moment, then went with the SALAD instead of the soup I thought I'd have to eat, and I DID FINE!! Even bit into Italian bread with no problems. What a feeling! - the entree, homemade ravioli with alfredo sauce (I think a toothless baby could have handled that) but olives, plum tomatoes and lettuce.... chewing robustly? Now that was an ACCOMPLISHMENT. Onward and upward. (Someday I'll bite into a crusty foot-long Italian sub and fireworks will go off, the angels will sing.... I'll hear the kettle drum and the cymbal clash of VICTORY! It's comin'.... you BETCHA!)
January 31, 2011~ 7:00 pm
Here's the National Weather Service report for this evening through tomorrow night:
A WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 5 PM EST TUESDAY.
* ACCUMULATION: ONE QUARTER TO ONE HALF INCH OF ICE. 1 TO 3 INCHES OF SNOW.
* TIMING: LIGHT SNOW WILL BEGIN TONIGHT...MIX TO SLEET AND THEN FREEZING RAIN BY TUESDAY MORNING. FREEZING RAIN IS EXPECTED TUESDAY. A CHANGEOVER TO RAIN IS EXPECTED LATE TUESDAY...BUT MAY MIX BACK TO FREEZING RAIN BRIEFLY TUESDAY NIGHT.
I have prepared....I am taking tomorrow off. I don't intend to go out in that nastiness, not even to CHECK THE MAIL. lol Tomorrow it'll be me and my bed and hot coffee and a BOOK. Holed up. The world icing over, but me.....snug as a bug.
In fact, I'm heading upstairs right now with a nice glass of ice cold milk, a couple of bologna sandwiches and chocolate pudding. Gonna prop my knees up, shove the hot water bottle under my bare feet, pull the comforter up and play my little hand-held Poker game... then dive back into the Jim Carroll's posthumous book, "The Petting Zoo". (Finished the Patti Smith....on to other punk-rockers of that time. I may gel my hair into a Mohawk and play air-guitar....who knows? With all those hours my own, anything can happen.)
February 1, 2011~ 5:00 pm
Well.....the ice didn't show up. LOL!!! I have, in effect, wasted one of my days off this year by being cautious- (but given the predictions for today, I'd have to say I'd do it over again in making the decision to stay 'put'.) The outlook was too dire to ignore.
I read, and slept (and slept and slept some more)- thats's about it. Wrote a couple of poems, and will pretty soon be cutting my hair and getting a nice hot bath.
(So often when I'm staying home instead of going to work, I end up cutting my hair. Don't know why. Maybe looking for a fresh start, who knows?)
Just now walking into the kitchen to pour another cup of coffee, I was struck by how strange my kitchen is. Dark and hobbit-like. A place from Middle Earth. Just needs some mushrooms growing on the walls......
(My ceiling fixture shorted out a while back and I never got it fixed. Never use it. I just put two lamps in there, which my very kind friend from California calls: European lighting.) It's cozy, I will say that, if a challenge to the eyes. No stove. (Not much gets eaten in this house that requires anything other than the quickest and most rudimentary heating-up in the microwave.) Betty Crocker- I am not. I'm more like a survivalist on short rations but it suits my solitary life style. My buttery-yellow cave. My home-sweet-home.
February 3, 2011~ 7:00 pm
TOMORROW IS OUR SUPER BOWL PARTY AT WORK! Everyone's bringing food. (I stopped and bought a 20-piece barrel of famous FRISCH'S BROASTED CHICKEN, which I'll heat up in my crock pot.)
A cooking process trademarked by the Broaster Company of Beloit, Wis. in 1954. It requires the use of the Broaster, a large commercial stainless steel pressure fryer made for the restaurant industry and not available for home use. The Company-produces marinade, seasonings, coatings and condiments. Broasting is a high-pressure cooking method that is supposed to make chicken moist and juicy on the inside and crispy on the outside, i.e., not unlike plain fried chicken, but not as greasy, either. Broasting is not only the process of frying chickens under pressure, but includes a special marinating process, and it is NOT available to home cooks.
Broaster Chicken has "a crispy, nutty golden_brown coating,? tender and juicy deep down to the bone." The company says its pressure-fried chicken has up to 44 percent more moisture than the leading brand of "open" fried chicken, and 40 percent to 70 percent less fat and fewer calories."
It's DELICIOUS! Everyone will be wearing their black and gold- (I have a wooden HUGE beaded necklace I'll wear with my Steeler 'Division Champions 2011' long-sleeved t-shirt. Comes with dangle earrings. LOL!!!) VIVA LA FOOD!! We'll eat all day long......kielbasa, tacos, lasagna, beef barbeque, pulled pork.....and a ton of desserts and salads. YIPPEEE! (And how about THIS for the perfect '2 in 1' combination?)
Hines Ward clowning around in a Polamalu wig for a press conference. LOL!!! BOTH my favorite players rolled into one! Hines is a scrapper and Polamalu some strange force of nature- both of these guys superb players and gentleman to boot.
I worked my tail off today to get all my charges in for the month. Had to catch up after taking Tuesday off- the day the ice never showed. Dog-tired I was when I got home, but looking forward now to a RELAXING, GLUTTONOUS DAY tomorrow- *whatever these new choppers can handle at the 3-week point, that is. But I'll be GRINNING and stuffing my face, that's for sure. GO STEELERS!!!!!!!!!!!
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