That's all, just OY.
My head is killing me, partially sinus pain from the stormy weather and partially because I have this terrible habit of turning off all the lights in my apartment when I'm ready for sleepytime (and not leaving one on in my bedroom) so that when I went to bed last night, I was too lazy to switch on a light and decided to feel my way to the bathroom/bedroom and thought I was at the doorway to the bathroom and walked straight into a wall. HARD. VERY HARD. It was actually very funny and it's times like those that I'm glad I don't live with anyone because I'm sure I would have been made fun of for days if anyone had actually witnessed it. So now I have a little bruise on my forehead above my eyebrow and it's a little sore. Silly rabbit.
Then I woke with a jolt at about 3am because of some major lightning and thunder going on outside, it was all of a sudden pouring rain, cats and dogs as they say, and I was wide awake. And grumpy. ALL I WANTED WAS A GOOD NIGHTS SLEEP.
And now today is crazy crazy, I have all these Things - work and personal - percolating and moving and shaking - and I am only one person so I'm trying to do the juggling act and handle it all gracefully and unstressfully. I try to breathe and I try to laugh. A lot. That helps. Maybe one day, when I'm like 75, I'll learn how to be an adult? Does anyone get to that point? I have a feeling the answer is no.
I do have a singer/songwriter for you to check out - Emily Arin. I found her through Idiot's Delight and Vin Scelsa - who loves her too - please click here: http://www.emilyarin.com/ & listen to "Springtime" and "When You Knew Me When" and "Hidden Flame"- she's quite lovely, don't you think? And lovely lyrics to match:
From "Hidden Flame"
Sleep caught me just before the sunrise
And sent me to my dreams
I saw three mermaids being baptized
And then they sang to me
You are an otherworldly being
Unreachable with meaning
A cousin of the wind
Your body limitless and lightfilled
A golden drop of sun spilled
Into the world of man
Remember this when you're awake if you can
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Friday, June 5, 2009
It was a dark and stormy day...
And night too, the past few nights I've either fallen asleep to open windows (for that lovely fresh air) and rain falling or woken up with a start at 4am to thunder and sudden downpours. And now I feel cozy, even at work, in my office, because its such a gray, chilly, foggy, stormy, raindroppy sort of day. And I love that. It's moody weather and I'm a moody girl so we go well together. And I love the fact that it's June and I'm wearing tights and a sweater.
So this is really a Recipe of the Week post because I finally made the promised cheesecake that turned out so beautiful (and I don't even really like cheesecake) and so scrumdiddlyumptious that I amazed myself. I have the Barefoot Contessa to thank, since I used her recipe, with a few alterations and it was a HIT. It was creamy and not too dense - the only change I would make next time is to increase the crust ingredients so that it's thicker and just MORE of it. It's the best part in my opinion! I freaked out slightly when I added the filling to the pan - it came all the way to the top and then it kept rising and rising in the oven like a souffle but I kept going and as it cooled, it deflated, so at least now I know how the cheesecake chemistry works.
For the Crust
1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs (10 crackers)
1 tablespoon sugar
1 stick salted butter, melted
For the Filling
2 1/2 pounds cream cheese, at room temperature
1 1/2 cups sugar
5 whole extra-large eggs, at room temperature
2 extra-large egg yolks, at room temperature
1/4 cup sour cream
1 tablespoon grated lemon zest (2 lemons)
1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Crust
To make the crust, combine the graham crackers, sugar, and melted butter until moistened. Pour into a 9-inch springform pan. With your hands, press the crumbs into the bottom of the pan and about 1 inch up the sides. Bake for 8 minutes. Cool to room temperature.
Filling
Raise the oven temperature to 450 degrees.
To make the filling, cream the cream cheese and sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Reduce the speed of the mixer to medium and add the eggs and egg yolks, 2 at a time, mixing well. Scrape down the bowl and beater, as necessary. With the mixer on low, add the sour cream, lemon zest, and vanilla. Mix thoroughly and pour into the cooled crust.
Bake for 15 minutes. Turn the oven temperature to 225 degrees and bake for another 1 hour and 15 minutes. Turn the oven off and open the door wide. The cake will not be completely set in the center. Allow the cake to sit in the oven with the door open for 30 minutes. Take the cake out of the oven and allow it to sit at room temperature for another 2 to 3 hours, until completely cooled. Wrap and refrigerate overnight.
For the topping, I took two containers of strawberries (I guess they were 16 oz each), quartered them into a bowl, added 1/4 cup of sugar and let them macerate for 20 minutes or so. Drain out some of the liquid, put about 2/3 of them into a saucepan with a little more sugar if you want it sweeter and stir in some cornstarch (or you could just use confectioner's sugar) and let it come to a boil, then stir stir stir at a medium heat until it all starts to break down. After it's cool, you can add it to the fresh berries or wait until serving so that the fresh berries don't get gloopy. I kept the topping in a separate container so that people could spoon it on top of their slices as they so desired - more or less, however much they wanted or if they wanted a plain slice.
So this is really a Recipe of the Week post because I finally made the promised cheesecake that turned out so beautiful (and I don't even really like cheesecake) and so scrumdiddlyumptious that I amazed myself. I have the Barefoot Contessa to thank, since I used her recipe, with a few alterations and it was a HIT. It was creamy and not too dense - the only change I would make next time is to increase the crust ingredients so that it's thicker and just MORE of it. It's the best part in my opinion! I freaked out slightly when I added the filling to the pan - it came all the way to the top and then it kept rising and rising in the oven like a souffle but I kept going and as it cooled, it deflated, so at least now I know how the cheesecake chemistry works.
For the Crust
1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs (10 crackers)
1 tablespoon sugar
1 stick salted butter, melted
For the Filling
2 1/2 pounds cream cheese, at room temperature
1 1/2 cups sugar
5 whole extra-large eggs, at room temperature
2 extra-large egg yolks, at room temperature
1/4 cup sour cream
1 tablespoon grated lemon zest (2 lemons)
1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Crust
To make the crust, combine the graham crackers, sugar, and melted butter until moistened. Pour into a 9-inch springform pan. With your hands, press the crumbs into the bottom of the pan and about 1 inch up the sides. Bake for 8 minutes. Cool to room temperature.
Filling
Raise the oven temperature to 450 degrees.
To make the filling, cream the cream cheese and sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Reduce the speed of the mixer to medium and add the eggs and egg yolks, 2 at a time, mixing well. Scrape down the bowl and beater, as necessary. With the mixer on low, add the sour cream, lemon zest, and vanilla. Mix thoroughly and pour into the cooled crust.
Bake for 15 minutes. Turn the oven temperature to 225 degrees and bake for another 1 hour and 15 minutes. Turn the oven off and open the door wide. The cake will not be completely set in the center. Allow the cake to sit in the oven with the door open for 30 minutes. Take the cake out of the oven and allow it to sit at room temperature for another 2 to 3 hours, until completely cooled. Wrap and refrigerate overnight.
For the topping, I took two containers of strawberries (I guess they were 16 oz each), quartered them into a bowl, added 1/4 cup of sugar and let them macerate for 20 minutes or so. Drain out some of the liquid, put about 2/3 of them into a saucepan with a little more sugar if you want it sweeter and stir in some cornstarch (or you could just use confectioner's sugar) and let it come to a boil, then stir stir stir at a medium heat until it all starts to break down. After it's cool, you can add it to the fresh berries or wait until serving so that the fresh berries don't get gloopy. I kept the topping in a separate container so that people could spoon it on top of their slices as they so desired - more or less, however much they wanted or if they wanted a plain slice.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Recipes of the Week...
That do not bear repeating, but I want to mention them here so that I still look like I'm on track with my effort to try a new thing each week... so the last two recipes were Potato Leek soup in a mushroom broth - totally HUMDRUM and I would have rather just eaten all the components separately. The second recipe was a fava bean salad with mint and goat cheese. Again - whatever! All the bits apart were good, I love fava beans and the pairing with the mint is perfect, but fava beans are blah if you don't do anything to them, so I think I'd do this again, but instead of just blanching the beans, I'd follow it with some sauteing with garlic and balsamic vinegar to give them some oomph. The goat cheese is always good but it's creamy and the fava beans are creamy so you are left with creamy minty mush.
This week? I'm attempting to make my first cheesecake from scratch, graham cracker crust and all, for a co-workers birthday - I need to go buy the spring pan first though! I'll report back on how that goes!
This week? I'm attempting to make my first cheesecake from scratch, graham cracker crust and all, for a co-workers birthday - I need to go buy the spring pan first though! I'll report back on how that goes!
Hidee Ho, Mes Amies! I know I know, I've been a bad bad girl blogger type person. I have all the excuses prepared, but you know the drill - I get caught up with workstuff, mestuff, reallifestuff, I had the May Megrims and didn't feel like sharing. It's quite catchy, right up there with swine flu - honest! You can get bad vibes just by inhaling the same air as someone surrounded by dirty PigPen Aura.
It's on to June we go and let's see what we can do differently this month. I think I was suffering that let down you get when summer vacation is over - only this time, it was the Texan Adventure. I had looked forward to it for so long, and then it happened and it ROCKED and was over too quickly and I realized there how much I miss my Little Buddy and having the daily fit of giggles and then I came back here and was quickly pulled down into a funk, wondering "what now?" I remember when Snow White and I were little and we all went to Kauai and we drove back to Las Vegas from California, knowing we had to go back to school the next day. As soon as we crossed the stateline into Nevada and saw that sign, we both started sobbing and were inconsolable. My mother took pity on us and so she let us stay home the next day and most likely did something fun with us like build a fort in the living room and watch a movie in it but I'm an adult now so I guess I have to build my own fort, don't I? Unless - Mommy, do you want to fly here and help with the sheets and two chairs? I'll Netflix something for us...
Time to pull oneself up by the bootstraps as they say and stop being such a miserable old cow. Plaster on a fake smile and plow through it until it feels right - fake it til you make it sort of thing. I've had a nice couple of days now and some plans percolating so all of that helps and allows the good thoughts to simmer and take hold. Saw Angels and Demons this Sunday, followed by pulled pork, coleslaw and some bourbon drink (or two) called Backyard Brew at Blue Smoke...yummmm pulled pork, sweet savory tender piggy... sorry, piggy, but you do taste good. Then last night I met the newly crowned "Mrs." Bushwick Bird after work to see Wolverine for a midweek movie night - it was fun and you get to see Hugh Jackman naked and I have a mini crush on Liev Schreiber and we had candy for dinner so all in all - a fantastic Tuesday.
And work has been going super well - I've had a lot to do but it's all stuff I like - my boss and some of the IT dudes call me the Little Termite - I guess I dig in there and make work for them, now don't I? I've also been crowned the Met Killer - one word from me about the Mets and their awesomeness goes south so I've been forbidden by my boss and the other co-worker Met Fans to speak of them...sort of like Harry Potter and He Who Must Not Be Named - yes, it IS that serious...
And a possible Philadelphia day trip in another week or so...and then Family Reunion at the end of July..oh and there's nail polish! How could we forget my new nail polish? See, it's always the little things - bought this superdark, eggplanty nail polish that makes me feel vampy and flapperish:
Not that I'm either of those things but I love it - and I know my mother would hate it, but I don't care - it's FABULOUS. The trick is to do it to short nails - if they get long and you wear it, it looks Elvira-ish and that's not what I'm after. Cool, a bit goth but not ghoulish.
I know this is a pretty humdrum post - I feel like I'm writing a letter sometimes to some random person out there in the ethers and I'm just filling it with all my day to day stuff that isn't really interesting but you need to keep up with me to know where my head's at - I do hope I have some better things to entertain you with soon - I'm keeping my fingers crossed and you should too, if you want better reading material!
It's on to June we go and let's see what we can do differently this month. I think I was suffering that let down you get when summer vacation is over - only this time, it was the Texan Adventure. I had looked forward to it for so long, and then it happened and it ROCKED and was over too quickly and I realized there how much I miss my Little Buddy and having the daily fit of giggles and then I came back here and was quickly pulled down into a funk, wondering "what now?" I remember when Snow White and I were little and we all went to Kauai and we drove back to Las Vegas from California, knowing we had to go back to school the next day. As soon as we crossed the stateline into Nevada and saw that sign, we both started sobbing and were inconsolable. My mother took pity on us and so she let us stay home the next day and most likely did something fun with us like build a fort in the living room and watch a movie in it but I'm an adult now so I guess I have to build my own fort, don't I? Unless - Mommy, do you want to fly here and help with the sheets and two chairs? I'll Netflix something for us...
Time to pull oneself up by the bootstraps as they say and stop being such a miserable old cow. Plaster on a fake smile and plow through it until it feels right - fake it til you make it sort of thing. I've had a nice couple of days now and some plans percolating so all of that helps and allows the good thoughts to simmer and take hold. Saw Angels and Demons this Sunday, followed by pulled pork, coleslaw and some bourbon drink (or two) called Backyard Brew at Blue Smoke...yummmm pulled pork, sweet savory tender piggy... sorry, piggy, but you do taste good. Then last night I met the newly crowned "Mrs." Bushwick Bird after work to see Wolverine for a midweek movie night - it was fun and you get to see Hugh Jackman naked and I have a mini crush on Liev Schreiber and we had candy for dinner so all in all - a fantastic Tuesday.
And work has been going super well - I've had a lot to do but it's all stuff I like - my boss and some of the IT dudes call me the Little Termite - I guess I dig in there and make work for them, now don't I? I've also been crowned the Met Killer - one word from me about the Mets and their awesomeness goes south so I've been forbidden by my boss and the other co-worker Met Fans to speak of them...sort of like Harry Potter and He Who Must Not Be Named - yes, it IS that serious...
And a possible Philadelphia day trip in another week or so...and then Family Reunion at the end of July..oh and there's nail polish! How could we forget my new nail polish? See, it's always the little things - bought this superdark, eggplanty nail polish that makes me feel vampy and flapperish:
Not that I'm either of those things but I love it - and I know my mother would hate it, but I don't care - it's FABULOUS. The trick is to do it to short nails - if they get long and you wear it, it looks Elvira-ish and that's not what I'm after. Cool, a bit goth but not ghoulish.
I know this is a pretty humdrum post - I feel like I'm writing a letter sometimes to some random person out there in the ethers and I'm just filling it with all my day to day stuff that isn't really interesting but you need to keep up with me to know where my head's at - I do hope I have some better things to entertain you with soon - I'm keeping my fingers crossed and you should too, if you want better reading material!
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Howdy Y'All Part Deux
Sunday morning and it was time to check out of San Antonio, but not before breaking for some breakfast tacos and a few hours with the SuperHysterical (it must run in the genes) Little Buddy's Brother Marcos and his lovely family. Something about those darn Delgados that makes my face and stomach hurt from TML syndrome (Too Much Laughter). From there, we changed into swimwear and sunscreened up and headed to the Guadalupe River for inner-tubing. Thankfully - for both you and for me - there are no photos of the next 3 hours in existence. But I kinda wish someone had videotaped us - talk about Lucy and Ethel! The river was a tad low so we kept bottoming out and getting stuck and then I was scared at first to let go of Veronica/Lucy but when faced with getting dragged through a humongous dead white gutspilled fish, I let go and floated away, just like the good Ethel that I am - I did cling to a vine by the side of the river to wait to see if Lucy could escape the gross mess and we were reunited again downstream (FRIEND! You did find me!) I did discover the power, the strength of my butt muscles though because I developed a method of rocking back and forth while clenching them to power us up and away when we got stuck - so HURRAH for my ass!! It made an excellent move or two. The only bad moment came for me when I was using the tube rental restroom before we left, I had a nightmare come true - that I'd one day be sitting on a toilet and the door would fling open for the whole world to see. Except this time, since I was wearing a bathing suit, you need to declothe to go so I'm sitting on it completely naked. And the door flings open. And there is the parking lot. I lept up - naked - and screamed "CLOSE THE DOOR!!!!!!!"
It happened so quickly I don't think much was seen...but still...
We looked like river rats at the end of our adventure, so we headed to Gruen
, a
a historic mill town - complete with grist mill (sounds Dickensian, doesn't it?) which is now a restaurant overlooking the trees and the river and we had supper here. But first we checked into a bed & breakfast, called Oma Gruen's Inn, looked around some of the little shops and had a good night's sleep and the next day, headed back on our way to Dallas.
It happened so quickly I don't think much was seen...but still...
We looked like river rats at the end of our adventure, so we headed to Gruen
, a
a historic mill town - complete with grist mill (sounds Dickensian, doesn't it?) which is now a restaurant overlooking the trees and the river and we had supper here. But first we checked into a bed & breakfast, called Oma Gruen's Inn, looked around some of the little shops and had a good night's sleep and the next day, headed back on our way to Dallas.
Howdy, Y'all! Part 1
So I'm back from the Texan Trip and all was stupendously fabulous! My cheeks hurt from laughing so much and I do believe I acquired more deeply etched laugh lines, ahem CROW'S FEET around my eyes because I was in a constant state of smile. I'd rather be wrinkled and happy then sad and smooth-faced any day.
I flew into Dallas that Thursday morning, Larisa picked me up and we went treasure hunting at a huge thrift store (I just got a few books - of course) and then met Veronica Little Buddy at a yummy Mexican restaurant for dinner - chosen because I was hankering for a margarita. We made our plans for the next week, all scheduled out, and headed home to hit the hay because we were trying to leave Dallas by 6am for our drive to San Antonio. Didn't QUITE happen, but we were out of there early enough to be amazed by a round blazing orange pink circle in the sky - otherwise known as the SUN. Seems it's been awhile since I've been up early enough to see a sunrise!!!
We arrived in San Antonio around noon and our hotel was right on the Riverwalk so we took a quick walk
and then headed to the Alamo - by the way, there really is no basement in the Alamo, I checked!
Then we caught up with Milette and her cousin at their hotel and sat outside by the river, had some fish tacos, chips and salsa, one or two margaritas (those darn things again!!)
and waited for the Bride to join us. Cindy was only able to visit for an hour or so, but I'm so glad she did because we knew she'd be busy the next day at the actual wedding so this was the only "private just us" time that we'd get with her. Then we shopped a bit - I bought some cool El Día de los Muertos stuff at a shop called Casa Salazar - a fuschia tin skeleton to hang, a catrina lady skeleton, a red turquoise ring, a mermaid angel xmas ornament, beaded earrings...oh the shopkeeper LOVED me...she said (do your own Spanish accent) "Layydeee, you are getting dangerous..."
And then we rested for bit before meeting the others for dinner and then - our Ghost Tour! They gave us equipment and everything, just like on Ghost Hunters - heat sensors, EMF detectors, and dowsing rods. Spookily fun - I love the haunted history tours - you get the great stories and I think the guides know more history then the more traditional-type tours. Then we headed back to our hotel lobby with its comfy sofas and reviewed our digital cameras for supernatural evidence and to share our own ghost stories - Milette and Marielle had the best ones.
Saturday was the wedding
but we managed to slip another ghost adventure in there - we had 2 hours to kill so Veronica drove us to the Ghost Tracks where we conducted our own tests of putting your car in neutral and then having it move over the tracks all by itself. I put baby powder all over her car in the hopes we would catch fingerprints (I had seen that on some tv show) but alas, all it did was make a big mess. So we headed off to the reception until 10 or so
and then we felt a final drink before saying farewell was needed so we went to an awesome restaurant called Mi Tierra for - you guessed it - Mexican food and Margaritas!
I flew into Dallas that Thursday morning, Larisa picked me up and we went treasure hunting at a huge thrift store (I just got a few books - of course) and then met Veronica Little Buddy at a yummy Mexican restaurant for dinner - chosen because I was hankering for a margarita. We made our plans for the next week, all scheduled out, and headed home to hit the hay because we were trying to leave Dallas by 6am for our drive to San Antonio. Didn't QUITE happen, but we were out of there early enough to be amazed by a round blazing orange pink circle in the sky - otherwise known as the SUN. Seems it's been awhile since I've been up early enough to see a sunrise!!!
We arrived in San Antonio around noon and our hotel was right on the Riverwalk so we took a quick walk
and then headed to the Alamo - by the way, there really is no basement in the Alamo, I checked!
Then we caught up with Milette and her cousin at their hotel and sat outside by the river, had some fish tacos, chips and salsa, one or two margaritas (those darn things again!!)
and waited for the Bride to join us. Cindy was only able to visit for an hour or so, but I'm so glad she did because we knew she'd be busy the next day at the actual wedding so this was the only "private just us" time that we'd get with her. Then we shopped a bit - I bought some cool El Día de los Muertos stuff at a shop called Casa Salazar - a fuschia tin skeleton to hang, a catrina lady skeleton, a red turquoise ring, a mermaid angel xmas ornament, beaded earrings...oh the shopkeeper LOVED me...she said (do your own Spanish accent) "Layydeee, you are getting dangerous..."
And then we rested for bit before meeting the others for dinner and then - our Ghost Tour! They gave us equipment and everything, just like on Ghost Hunters - heat sensors, EMF detectors, and dowsing rods. Spookily fun - I love the haunted history tours - you get the great stories and I think the guides know more history then the more traditional-type tours. Then we headed back to our hotel lobby with its comfy sofas and reviewed our digital cameras for supernatural evidence and to share our own ghost stories - Milette and Marielle had the best ones.
Saturday was the wedding
but we managed to slip another ghost adventure in there - we had 2 hours to kill so Veronica drove us to the Ghost Tracks where we conducted our own tests of putting your car in neutral and then having it move over the tracks all by itself. I put baby powder all over her car in the hopes we would catch fingerprints (I had seen that on some tv show) but alas, all it did was make a big mess. So we headed off to the reception until 10 or so
and then we felt a final drink before saying farewell was needed so we went to an awesome restaurant called Mi Tierra for - you guessed it - Mexican food and Margaritas!
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Recipe of the Week: Roasted Asparagus!
This ROCKED! And hey, it was easy, I needed something quick for this week's Recipe since I had to rush home to do laundry and I needed to clean out my fridge before my Texan Adventure so this is it for this week, but my, was it stellar! This is the only way to eat asparagus from now on - and you can do the same with green beans, it's just as good. The roasting gives it a smoky aroma and flavor and I also included the rest of the fennel I still had from the salad two weeks ago - that was tasty too, its gets to be like a mellow sweet onion without the oniony taste and smell. I was very pleased with this:
From Mollie Katzen:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Roll the asparagus around an oiled tray until well coated. Roast for only 5 to 10 minutes (checking frequently) until just tender. Length of roasting time will depend on the thickness of the spears. Salt lightly while still hot, and serve at any temperature.
I roasted it a bit longer so that the asparagus got a little dark, it made it a bit crispy which I liked. So I'd let the oven get really hot and then let them blister for 10 minutes. But don't let them burn!!
From Mollie Katzen:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Roll the asparagus around an oiled tray until well coated. Roast for only 5 to 10 minutes (checking frequently) until just tender. Length of roasting time will depend on the thickness of the spears. Salt lightly while still hot, and serve at any temperature.
I roasted it a bit longer so that the asparagus got a little dark, it made it a bit crispy which I liked. So I'd let the oven get really hot and then let them blister for 10 minutes. But don't let them burn!!
Monday, May 4, 2009
Happy 90th Birthday Pete!!
Springsteen brought them to laughter as he introduced Seeger. “He’s gonna look a lot like your granddad that wears flannel shirts and funny hats. He’s gonna look like your granddad if your granddad can kick your ass,” the Boss said.
“At 90, he remains a stealth dagger through the heart of our country’s illusions about itself.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30522406/
My sentiments EXACTLY.
Recipe of Last Week: Avocado,Grapefruit, & Pumpkin-Seed Salad
I'm not bothering to post this one - it's not worth repeating. All the ingredients separately were yummy, but the grapefruit kills the good taste of the avocado and the pumpkin seeds were just crunchy - not a good mixture, this one. Oh well, live and learn...
Friday, May 1, 2009
Mayday! Mayday! Quick, eat some poetry, it's MAY!
The May Magnificat
by Gerard Manly Hopkins
MAY is Mary’s month, and I...
Ask of her, the mighty mother:
Her reply puts this other
Question: What is Spring?—
Growth in every thing—
Flesh and fleece, fur and feather,
Grass and greenworld all together;
Star-eyed strawberry-breasted
Throstle above her nested
Cluster of bugle blue eggs thin
Forms and warms the life within;
And bird and blossom swell
In sod or sheath or shell.
All things rising, all things sizing...
Mary sees, sympathising
With that world of good,
Nature’s motherhood...
Well but there was more than this:
Spring’s universal bliss
Much, had much to say
To offering Mary May....
Oh it's the end of the workweek and I'm a few steps closer to the Texan Adventure so this weekend will be spent Getting Self and Things In Order. I'm also trying to rest and superboost my immune system because of all this Swine Flu hype. So I live in affected cluster - Queens - I take the subway - great way to get germs anyhow - and I'm taking a plane next Thursday which is another great germ spreader. Earlier this week I felt so sick to my stomach in the middle of the day, really vomitous and dizzy but took a Pepcid and drank a ton of water and felt better but you know for a brief interval I thought - OMG SWINE FLU!
And when I looked in the mirror, it didn't help that my nose had turned snout-like and my skin a pinkish hue...OINK OINK OINK...oh wait, swine flu doesn't really turn you into a pig? Then what was going on...oh never mind...
By the way, my earlier post this Monday of thanking the Universe in advance for things and pluses and such that had not yet occurred or come to me - totally works. Try it! I did receive some nice surprises/mini-milagros after all - such as last night, I got a phone call from my supercool, super sweet niece Allie who is so funny and so smart and totally makes me smile - she's AWESOME! So I think I'll repeat this experiment more often - report some results back to me if you feel like testing it out...
by Gerard Manly Hopkins
MAY is Mary’s month, and I...
Ask of her, the mighty mother:
Her reply puts this other
Question: What is Spring?—
Growth in every thing—
Flesh and fleece, fur and feather,
Grass and greenworld all together;
Star-eyed strawberry-breasted
Throstle above her nested
Cluster of bugle blue eggs thin
Forms and warms the life within;
And bird and blossom swell
In sod or sheath or shell.
All things rising, all things sizing...
Mary sees, sympathising
With that world of good,
Nature’s motherhood...
Well but there was more than this:
Spring’s universal bliss
Much, had much to say
To offering Mary May....
Oh it's the end of the workweek and I'm a few steps closer to the Texan Adventure so this weekend will be spent Getting Self and Things In Order. I'm also trying to rest and superboost my immune system because of all this Swine Flu hype. So I live in affected cluster - Queens - I take the subway - great way to get germs anyhow - and I'm taking a plane next Thursday which is another great germ spreader. Earlier this week I felt so sick to my stomach in the middle of the day, really vomitous and dizzy but took a Pepcid and drank a ton of water and felt better but you know for a brief interval I thought - OMG SWINE FLU!
And when I looked in the mirror, it didn't help that my nose had turned snout-like and my skin a pinkish hue...OINK OINK OINK...oh wait, swine flu doesn't really turn you into a pig? Then what was going on...oh never mind...
By the way, my earlier post this Monday of thanking the Universe in advance for things and pluses and such that had not yet occurred or come to me - totally works. Try it! I did receive some nice surprises/mini-milagros after all - such as last night, I got a phone call from my supercool, super sweet niece Allie who is so funny and so smart and totally makes me smile - she's AWESOME! So I think I'll repeat this experiment more often - report some results back to me if you feel like testing it out...
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