Happy Birthday dear Buffy!!
The past few days I have been cringing over things I wrote earlier as Singing Sparrow now that I want to start writing astrology. I will have to work this out perhaps start a new site however I have not practiced character assassination or anything like that. I am simply reacting to the hateful judgment of someone who was once a friend even in the years that I knew she betrayed me more than once all the time demanding perfect allegiance from me. I just loved her mean girl cool and worked out that high school adolescent drama with her-umhh Jupiter in Scorpio in the 7th retrograde?? Yep my own mean girl drawing me to other mean girls.
Back to bed now. Getting better but only bed rest really works.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
04/21/2010
Posting something that I decided not to post on Donna's site as it seems to self involved.
WOW! the continuing conversation here is remarkable.
Nikki-I just recalled that I quit my comfortable civil service job three times and did other things but in the end returned for the financial security offered by the job that I continued to believe in (social work in the welfare system). Now having passed the second Saturn return and moving smoothly through the 60's I am grateful,very grateful for the pension and Social Security that support or at least form a strong foundation for this part of life. HMMM-busy 2nd house including Uranus but Saturn rules the MC!!!
WOW! the continuing conversation here is remarkable.
Nikki-I just recalled that I quit my comfortable civil service job three times and did other things but in the end returned for the financial security offered by the job that I continued to believe in (social work in the welfare system). Now having passed the second Saturn return and moving smoothly through the 60's I am grateful,very grateful for the pension and Social Security that support or at least form a strong foundation for this part of life. HMMM-busy 2nd house including Uranus but Saturn rules the MC!!!
Sunday, April 18, 2010
04/18/2010
So the Chiron/Neptune conjunction is in my native 11th house thus my desire to reach out and connect with people on a higher plane than just that of the subjective personal experiences which are really my home base. That means that this will not be a permanent thing but I can use it as an inspiration to get going on what I have always wanted to do.
04/18/2010
Well laugh my head off!! I was inspired writing about spreading out and leaving Starlight News and the clique behind and commenting on how uplifting Donna Cummingham's site is and the machine did something showing my writing in a really different font and I didn't want to publish and now the words are lost!! Oh dear Mercury retrograde!!
More later but for now I must go and make bread and but the spaghetti sauce on to cook-making the Box family sauce that cooks all day and then gets meatballs-the sauce is almost puple by the end of the cooking. This was taught to my mother by an Italian woman in Long Beach, CA when I was a baby.
So weepy these days in recovery from the shingles. I just started to tear up thinking about all those beautiful women now gone on into history.
Off to bake now. Hope I can find my missing post.
More later but for now I must go and make bread and but the spaghetti sauce on to cook-making the Box family sauce that cooks all day and then gets meatballs-the sauce is almost puple by the end of the cooking. This was taught to my mother by an Italian woman in Long Beach, CA when I was a baby.
So weepy these days in recovery from the shingles. I just started to tear up thinking about all those beautiful women now gone on into history.
Off to bake now. Hope I can find my missing post.
Saturday, April 17, 2010
04/17/2010
Slept all afternoon and then got up to eat the poor mama's minestrone and rolls that I made this morning and wore myself our doing. Still the soup and the bread are comforting now and I was hungry.
Well I wanted to write on astrology but I am too tired.
Well I wanted to write on astrology but I am too tired.
04/17/2010
Mercury travels retrograde starting today-hmmmm!! We will see what all this means. I have been so out of things that I don 't even know where Mercury is ( blessedly I have instant access to this info thanks to the internet.
Well looked this up and WOW-Mercury at 12+ Taurus-lighting up my personality and my love of food and beautiful things-got a foam matress cover yesterday and heavenly comfort. It is that space age foam that is so heavenly (we will get one for Buffy next week). Today I am cooking Madelyne Kamin's garbage soup and some rolls to go along-money is tight but there is always food around if one has the eyes and heart to see it.
Also I plan yo buy the Nourishing Traditions cookbook. I need info on fermenting food. I am abandoning the vegetarian approach: I need to get free of guilt. I hate the way we treat animals and I hate killing them but I also know that my body seems to need meat.
More later I am tired again-shingles are retreating but I am still weak.
Well looked this up and WOW-Mercury at 12+ Taurus-lighting up my personality and my love of food and beautiful things-got a foam matress cover yesterday and heavenly comfort. It is that space age foam that is so heavenly (we will get one for Buffy next week). Today I am cooking Madelyne Kamin's garbage soup and some rolls to go along-money is tight but there is always food around if one has the eyes and heart to see it.
Also I plan yo buy the Nourishing Traditions cookbook. I need info on fermenting food. I am abandoning the vegetarian approach: I need to get free of guilt. I hate the way we treat animals and I hate killing them but I also know that my body seems to need meat.
More later I am tired again-shingles are retreating but I am still weak.
04/17/2010
Do you use Eris in your thoughts and work? I never have and yet AstroGraph Software blog goes into some detail on Eris. I have never used this heavenly body in my thinking or calculations but I am interested in seeing how She plays in the psychology of those whose charts I work with. I know many astrologers ignore these little heavenly bodies because they cannot be seen and yet Chiron makes my entire chart light up with his eternal sorrow and pain and explains (I think) why I worked so hard to make something of my life and to carry the news to my companions ( an almost exact T-square Mars 4 Taurus 1st house oppose Chiron in 5 Scorpio 7th house both square Saturn 5
Leo 4th house) traditional astrologers will go on and on about my cruelty and viciousness but I put all that behind me before I was 12 by seeing it by understanding where the urge to hurt others came from and making a sacred commitment to turn that darkness on myself rather than spread it around the world-I am not making this up this really happened one day when I had an urge to hurt a little one-I believe that this cruel and painful placement of Chiron activated in my consciousness when I was VERY young.
Okay of this enough but I was using my own personal experience to witness to the power of these little unknown because unseen heavenly bodies. I am interested in your experience especially now that Eris is highlighted in this Aries lunation.
And one last detail on my experience of Chiron-hurting of self is the second best option and the best option is to recognize these urges and to learn to forgive and love and to end the suffering of the world even if one must tramp along scarred and hurting.
This was sent to my astrologer friend who lives close to Washington D.C. I want to start writing more astrology and old-fashioned cooking. I have loved getting some of the subjective and personal stuff out but really who wants to read that?
Leo 4th house) traditional astrologers will go on and on about my cruelty and viciousness but I put all that behind me before I was 12 by seeing it by understanding where the urge to hurt others came from and making a sacred commitment to turn that darkness on myself rather than spread it around the world-I am not making this up this really happened one day when I had an urge to hurt a little one-I believe that this cruel and painful placement of Chiron activated in my consciousness when I was VERY young.
Okay of this enough but I was using my own personal experience to witness to the power of these little unknown because unseen heavenly bodies. I am interested in your experience especially now that Eris is highlighted in this Aries lunation.
And one last detail on my experience of Chiron-hurting of self is the second best option and the best option is to recognize these urges and to learn to forgive and love and to end the suffering of the world even if one must tramp along scarred and hurting.
This was sent to my astrologer friend who lives close to Washington D.C. I want to start writing more astrology and old-fashioned cooking. I have loved getting some of the subjective and personal stuff out but really who wants to read that?
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
04/14/2010
Earlier I transferred a post from Starlight News but shut down the computer before I hit "publish post" and now my effort rests in the "edit posts' area and I can't get it out.
Watching Sarah Palin firing up her people and thinking of her 12 million earned since she left the Alaska governors chair. Real common of her.
Why doesn't anyone do a piece on the Teabaggers and the money behind them?? This is such a sham such a perverted expression of fear and anxiety. This is perverted by the likes of Dick Armey and the insurance companies and banks but no one will discuss this. It is as if the media wants to make sure no one understands what is going on.
Why doesn't anyone discuss the fact that the Clinton's now have wealth over $100 million and the fact that Palin is heading in that direction? I bet that the Obama's end up multi-millionaires as well
Watching Sarah Palin firing up her people and thinking of her 12 million earned since she left the Alaska governors chair. Real common of her.
Why doesn't anyone do a piece on the Teabaggers and the money behind them?? This is such a sham such a perverted expression of fear and anxiety. This is perverted by the likes of Dick Armey and the insurance companies and banks but no one will discuss this. It is as if the media wants to make sure no one understands what is going on.
Why doesn't anyone discuss the fact that the Clinton's now have wealth over $100 million and the fact that Palin is heading in that direction? I bet that the Obama's end up multi-millionaires as well
Monday, April 12, 2010
04/12/2010
Tiger Woods still in the news after the scandal of hia private life exposed: a sexual maniac involved with scores of women. The public was shocked we believed the PR,believed that he was so much better than us;i.e.,he was an athletic perfection ,he made a billion dollars,he was married to a perfect blond girl and they had perfect children and then we find that he is living a pornographic film and his life as we knew it was a sham.
Well he just lost the Master's and lost to a man, Mickleson, whose wife has been fighting cancer all year. Tiger reverted to Tiger-devastated that he placed 4th appearing to be shallow.
Someone said recently after the release of a NIKE ad using his deceased father's voice that his father abused Tiger hideously-forcing him to become Tiger Woods,never allowing him to be a child. The woman speaking, whose identity is lost to me, was very emphatic and I saw the Tiger story in a totally different light.
When discussing this with Steve I have said that Tiger is like King Midas: he can't have love in his life because everything he touches turns to gold. I saw even without the wise woman's guidance that the crazy sex/orgies was about trying to "feel" something.
I don't spend a lot of time thinking about Tiger Wood's but I wanted to say something this morning because he was scorned (rightfully scorned?)this AM by the good citizens on Joe Scarborough's show. He didn't wear well against the winner's deep embrace of his wife who has been receiving cancer care for a year. All poor Tiger knows is if he is perfect at golf that is all that seems to live for him.
I pray that a mentor will find a way to Tiger to help him find his soul-the world wants to eat him alive for revealing the truth of his perfection: perfection is unattainable and the appearance of perfection is destructive to real life. Perfection is the desire of ol'beelzabaub itself. Perfection does not exist and could only exist in death. Perfection cannot move,cannot love,cannot create. The appearance of perfection trapped Tiger Woods into falsity.
Well he just lost the Master's and lost to a man, Mickleson, whose wife has been fighting cancer all year. Tiger reverted to Tiger-devastated that he placed 4th appearing to be shallow.
Someone said recently after the release of a NIKE ad using his deceased father's voice that his father abused Tiger hideously-forcing him to become Tiger Woods,never allowing him to be a child. The woman speaking, whose identity is lost to me, was very emphatic and I saw the Tiger story in a totally different light.
When discussing this with Steve I have said that Tiger is like King Midas: he can't have love in his life because everything he touches turns to gold. I saw even without the wise woman's guidance that the crazy sex/orgies was about trying to "feel" something.
I don't spend a lot of time thinking about Tiger Wood's but I wanted to say something this morning because he was scorned (rightfully scorned?)this AM by the good citizens on Joe Scarborough's show. He didn't wear well against the winner's deep embrace of his wife who has been receiving cancer care for a year. All poor Tiger knows is if he is perfect at golf that is all that seems to live for him.
I pray that a mentor will find a way to Tiger to help him find his soul-the world wants to eat him alive for revealing the truth of his perfection: perfection is unattainable and the appearance of perfection is destructive to real life. Perfection is the desire of ol'beelzabaub itself. Perfection does not exist and could only exist in death. Perfection cannot move,cannot love,cannot create. The appearance of perfection trapped Tiger Woods into falsity.
Sunday, April 11, 2010
04/11/2010
shoalsister-oh!! that we could live in a world where the strong and dominant ones did not desire to play pissing contests with other ones of their ilk.
Wouldn't we love to live in a way that draws us together by our natures? Perhaps this type of uber ambition is necessary but god the damage done-the bees are sick and the insects are afraid to eat these days and don't even try to imagine what happens when we can;t breathe easily.
I wish that we could get the news about the earthworms out over our vast communication web-if earth worms work together so can we- no need to shake in fear,no need to take over other fields.
We are all awesome.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8604000/8604584.stm
Earthworms form herds and make “group decisions”, scientists have discovered.
The earthworms use touch to communicate and influence each other’s behaviour, according to research published in the journal Ethology.
By doing so the worms collectively decide to travel in the same direction as part of a single herd.
The striking behaviour, found in the earthworm Eisenia fetida, is the first time that any type of worm, or annelid, has been shown to form active herds.
“Our results modify the current view that earthworms are animals lacking in social behaviour,” says Ms Lara Zirbes, a PhD student at the University of Liege in Gembloux in Belgium.
More at the link….
The first one is a copy of what I was going to post over at Starlight News but it was too long so I posted here where no one but maybe my room mate will ever see it.
Oh God Liz Cheney tearing Obama a new one. What an absolute bitch pig-I truly hate her I think. She is mean a reflection on what I understand is her father's character.
That aside as we say: the second post is something that PatC. found that reduced me to tears. We can now see that earth worms are alive and having fun and are very serious. This touched me on the deepest levels: one with awe at the majesty of creation and two with wonder that we are evolving enough to see this
to see that there is no where to dump anything-all is life itself or god for the fundamentalists (and this daughter of Moscow,Kansas still continues "to believe in God" although I know that god is not a human being sitting somewhere sitting in judgement on creation.)
On the TV a report that a bridge district somewhere in the Bay Area is considering getting rid of toll takers in favor of electronic toll collections which they say will save them 16 million dollars in ten years. HMMM! wonder how much will be lost when working people lose their long held jobs even one as dangerous as toll collection (think of all the chemical fumes those workers live with on their jobs).
I made the most wonderful substitute for cheescake. The recipe is from the Moosewood cookbook although I made some modifications:
1) make a crumb crust with one package of grahams ground into very fine crumbs and i stick of melted unsalted butter pat this into a pie pan ( use a pyrex pan), No need to bake this.
2) beat 8 oz package of cream cheese or the neufschel cheese until light and fluffy and add 1/3 cup of honey,1 /2 cup of yogurt and vanilla to your taste at least 1 teaspoon and beat until everything is lovely and fluffy.
3)pour the cheese/yogurt into the crumb crust and set this into the refrigerator for at least eight hours or at least two days.
I served this in custard cups because there are no eggs and it is not baked so it does take time for all the ingredients to meld. This morning 48 hours later I was able to cut a slice and eat it for breakfast-delicious really and VERY filling. This is very delicious really and takes the place of cheese cake on many levels this is not a l ow calorie treat but it is easy and rich and wonderful.
Chicken breasts on sale so I will cut the breasts in to pieces bones and all the bones please-the bones keep the meat from getting all dry without falvor-and then I will "rub" the pieces down with a "rub" I make myself: 1 cup brown sugar with "lots" of chili powder,garlic powder, thyme,salt and pepper. I can't get more specific on details becuase the taste is so up to one's own tastes and the family's tastes all I can say is that I rub the mix on heavy and let the chicken set up in the refrigerator for at least an hour but all day is better. After this I bake the chicken at 350-425 depending on the day and when I want to eat. I think that the 425 works best. I have family members who love this and I have family members who think this is weird becauase it is so sweet to them say" Americans!! you think that ketchup and barbecue sauce are not sweet?" And I don't even start on the sweet and sour thing so popular in so many languages.
Whoops!! Sister wakes up and my mood changes and there goes the writing until some later point. We were kicking back on this stormy cold and windy Sunday. Really it was a very stormy day to point to Victorian imagination.
I watch way too much TV-crime dramas for the most part. Used to watch cooking shows but now they are all about commercial success and I can't stand the smugness that oozes from people who believe that they will become rich on my interest in fancy cooking.
Wouldn't we love to live in a way that draws us together by our natures? Perhaps this type of uber ambition is necessary but god the damage done-the bees are sick and the insects are afraid to eat these days and don't even try to imagine what happens when we can;t breathe easily.
I wish that we could get the news about the earthworms out over our vast communication web-if earth worms work together so can we- no need to shake in fear,no need to take over other fields.
We are all awesome.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8604000/8604584.stm
Earthworms form herds and make “group decisions”, scientists have discovered.
The earthworms use touch to communicate and influence each other’s behaviour, according to research published in the journal Ethology.
By doing so the worms collectively decide to travel in the same direction as part of a single herd.
The striking behaviour, found in the earthworm Eisenia fetida, is the first time that any type of worm, or annelid, has been shown to form active herds.
“Our results modify the current view that earthworms are animals lacking in social behaviour,” says Ms Lara Zirbes, a PhD student at the University of Liege in Gembloux in Belgium.
More at the link….
The first one is a copy of what I was going to post over at Starlight News but it was too long so I posted here where no one but maybe my room mate will ever see it.
Oh God Liz Cheney tearing Obama a new one. What an absolute bitch pig-I truly hate her I think. She is mean a reflection on what I understand is her father's character.
That aside as we say: the second post is something that PatC. found that reduced me to tears. We can now see that earth worms are alive and having fun and are very serious. This touched me on the deepest levels: one with awe at the majesty of creation and two with wonder that we are evolving enough to see this
to see that there is no where to dump anything-all is life itself or god for the fundamentalists (and this daughter of Moscow,Kansas still continues "to believe in God" although I know that god is not a human being sitting somewhere sitting in judgement on creation.)
On the TV a report that a bridge district somewhere in the Bay Area is considering getting rid of toll takers in favor of electronic toll collections which they say will save them 16 million dollars in ten years. HMMM! wonder how much will be lost when working people lose their long held jobs even one as dangerous as toll collection (think of all the chemical fumes those workers live with on their jobs).
I made the most wonderful substitute for cheescake. The recipe is from the Moosewood cookbook although I made some modifications:
1) make a crumb crust with one package of grahams ground into very fine crumbs and i stick of melted unsalted butter pat this into a pie pan ( use a pyrex pan), No need to bake this.
2) beat 8 oz package of cream cheese or the neufschel cheese until light and fluffy and add 1/3 cup of honey,1 /2 cup of yogurt and vanilla to your taste at least 1 teaspoon and beat until everything is lovely and fluffy.
3)pour the cheese/yogurt into the crumb crust and set this into the refrigerator for at least eight hours or at least two days.
I served this in custard cups because there are no eggs and it is not baked so it does take time for all the ingredients to meld. This morning 48 hours later I was able to cut a slice and eat it for breakfast-delicious really and VERY filling. This is very delicious really and takes the place of cheese cake on many levels this is not a l ow calorie treat but it is easy and rich and wonderful.
Chicken breasts on sale so I will cut the breasts in to pieces bones and all the bones please-the bones keep the meat from getting all dry without falvor-and then I will "rub" the pieces down with a "rub" I make myself: 1 cup brown sugar with "lots" of chili powder,garlic powder, thyme,salt and pepper. I can't get more specific on details becuase the taste is so up to one's own tastes and the family's tastes all I can say is that I rub the mix on heavy and let the chicken set up in the refrigerator for at least an hour but all day is better. After this I bake the chicken at 350-425 depending on the day and when I want to eat. I think that the 425 works best. I have family members who love this and I have family members who think this is weird becauase it is so sweet to them say" Americans!! you think that ketchup and barbecue sauce are not sweet?" And I don't even start on the sweet and sour thing so popular in so many languages.
Whoops!! Sister wakes up and my mood changes and there goes the writing until some later point. We were kicking back on this stormy cold and windy Sunday. Really it was a very stormy day to point to Victorian imagination.
I watch way too much TV-crime dramas for the most part. Used to watch cooking shows but now they are all about commercial success and I can't stand the smugness that oozes from people who believe that they will become rich on my interest in fancy cooking.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
04/10/2010
Haven't been here for days. The shingles really have pushed me around and even though they are drying up now they continue to hurt and now to itch in a strange way that that I cannot relieve but must ask family members to rub and massage. I do believe that this is the first time in my life that I have been so ill and disabled by illness. I have had respiratory and flu illnesses but never something that laid me out and reduced me to helplessness-yuk tired of this.
There was a piece on mothers in prison in Indiana (I think) with a program that allows them to keep their babies with them for the first year. One young mother in prison for stealing car license plates!! Of course most of the mothers are also African-American. What has my blood-pressure up is that the reporter had to point out that "some wonder" why law enforcement would be involved with childcare. And I would ask why are these young women in prison for drug and theft and drugs and why do they not get enough to live on and to go to school? I hate the fact that MSNBC is owned completely by GE and I am sure that the "some"mentioned are the executives of GE making sure that the insurance companies are covered.
I wonder what would happen if there was a report on NBC, ABC,CBS that explained to everyone how much our military movements cost and that we the taxpayers pay for this and the fact is that billionaires are being created because we have private military,private prisons,private everything that used to be provided by civil servants and soldiers.etc.
What could happen if the citizens could be made to see that while their jobs have been disappeared and/or downgraded those creating the business concerns to fill the "gaps"left by this trend are now billionaires and those working for them are working without any of the social protections that some struggled for decades to secure. This is what has been going on since the days of Reagan and why is no one talking about it? OHH!! could it be that now the entire media is owned by these new billionaires? HMMM!!!.
I wonder how we can get through to the Teabaggers. How can we help them see that they are being played by the very forces that are out for their Medicare,Social Security and pensions? No one in the mainstream points out that the entire thing is funded by insurance companies and Dick Armey is their spokesperson. UHM!! much organizing and communication needed and where does it come from?
I write from time to time on these issues but guess what?!! No one reads this stuff-I am one of millions on the internet in English. Why would the people I want to talk to be coming here? I am a spiritual housewife loving retirement, loving the opportunity for slow cooking and urban gardening, trying to make ends meet on the pension and Social Security and the loss of income for my roommate caught up in Schwarzenegger's California and the difficulty in finding other positions.
I remember my mother saying that she was opposed to the MLK holiday because Dr. King "wasn't as moral" as she wanted. My hair stood up (future blood pressure problems)and I said "Mama!! do you really believe that Dr King was less moral than those who planned his murder?" Well I know that my mother got the point because she was like that and I know that her friends "were like that" as well. I think that many of those in the Teabag movement are like my mother and her friends-they know things are wrong AND the only people talking to them are the Teabaggers, Dick Armey, Palin and all these creeps who are promising them a return to a collective life that makes sense.
At any rate I am afraid of what is coming. I know that bad, dark beings are gambling on the outcome-hoping I think for moral and spiritual collpase the easier to rope us in.
There was a piece on mothers in prison in Indiana (I think) with a program that allows them to keep their babies with them for the first year. One young mother in prison for stealing car license plates!! Of course most of the mothers are also African-American. What has my blood-pressure up is that the reporter had to point out that "some wonder" why law enforcement would be involved with childcare. And I would ask why are these young women in prison for drug and theft and drugs and why do they not get enough to live on and to go to school? I hate the fact that MSNBC is owned completely by GE and I am sure that the "some"mentioned are the executives of GE making sure that the insurance companies are covered.
I wonder what would happen if there was a report on NBC, ABC,CBS that explained to everyone how much our military movements cost and that we the taxpayers pay for this and the fact is that billionaires are being created because we have private military,private prisons,private everything that used to be provided by civil servants and soldiers.etc.
What could happen if the citizens could be made to see that while their jobs have been disappeared and/or downgraded those creating the business concerns to fill the "gaps"left by this trend are now billionaires and those working for them are working without any of the social protections that some struggled for decades to secure. This is what has been going on since the days of Reagan and why is no one talking about it? OHH!! could it be that now the entire media is owned by these new billionaires? HMMM!!!.
I wonder how we can get through to the Teabaggers. How can we help them see that they are being played by the very forces that are out for their Medicare,Social Security and pensions? No one in the mainstream points out that the entire thing is funded by insurance companies and Dick Armey is their spokesperson. UHM!! much organizing and communication needed and where does it come from?
I write from time to time on these issues but guess what?!! No one reads this stuff-I am one of millions on the internet in English. Why would the people I want to talk to be coming here? I am a spiritual housewife loving retirement, loving the opportunity for slow cooking and urban gardening, trying to make ends meet on the pension and Social Security and the loss of income for my roommate caught up in Schwarzenegger's California and the difficulty in finding other positions.
I remember my mother saying that she was opposed to the MLK holiday because Dr. King "wasn't as moral" as she wanted. My hair stood up (future blood pressure problems)and I said "Mama!! do you really believe that Dr King was less moral than those who planned his murder?" Well I know that my mother got the point because she was like that and I know that her friends "were like that" as well. I think that many of those in the Teabag movement are like my mother and her friends-they know things are wrong AND the only people talking to them are the Teabaggers, Dick Armey, Palin and all these creeps who are promising them a return to a collective life that makes sense.
At any rate I am afraid of what is coming. I know that bad, dark beings are gambling on the outcome-hoping I think for moral and spiritual collpase the easier to rope us in.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
04/06/2010
Better today but haunted by news of the coal mine explosion. As I said my father and grandfather had some experience of mining to make a living but they both hated it and my father was saved by entering the service and the exptended family moved to So California sort of Grapes of Wrath folk. I heard that one branch of the family had prostitutes which when I was young shocked me but now in my sixties I salute those mothers before me who did what they could to eat. I recognize the orneriness/the wildness in my own character in those women and I am not ashamed anymore.
Leftover chicken from last nights supper. The original meal was baked chicken with dressing made from the left over rolls from Easter dinner. The dressing was very tasty having been made from delicious bread and we ate more dressing than chicken so I was presented with almost all of the breast.
I cubed the breast meat and made a nice gravy from the leftover pan drippings and half a box of broth and when this was made into gravy i added some parsley and steamed vegetables, carrots, celery (sadly no mushrooms) and added them to the gravy. I will make some biscuits and will bake them on top of this chicken hash. I know that this will be very popular.
Everyone in the family is wanting to get thin so there is much less eating between meals and much less desire for junk food. this is so wonderful. Seems as though the push from the Obama White House is having a positive effect. This alone will get me to vote for him again. If my grandkids could get slim and therefore avoid Type 2 diabetes I would stand and cheer. These changes are so exciting because my daughter and her kids tune into the lowest hanging philosophy as it were, very shallow interests mostly in celebrity gossip, reality programs, products presented in the programs they watch. OOH what a bitch-I excuse the kids because they are still young but my beautiful daughter just seems unwilling to do any heavy lifting spiritually.
Enough for today at least for now. Things sound awful re: Afghanistan.
Leftover chicken from last nights supper. The original meal was baked chicken with dressing made from the left over rolls from Easter dinner. The dressing was very tasty having been made from delicious bread and we ate more dressing than chicken so I was presented with almost all of the breast.
I cubed the breast meat and made a nice gravy from the leftover pan drippings and half a box of broth and when this was made into gravy i added some parsley and steamed vegetables, carrots, celery (sadly no mushrooms) and added them to the gravy. I will make some biscuits and will bake them on top of this chicken hash. I know that this will be very popular.
Everyone in the family is wanting to get thin so there is much less eating between meals and much less desire for junk food. this is so wonderful. Seems as though the push from the Obama White House is having a positive effect. This alone will get me to vote for him again. If my grandkids could get slim and therefore avoid Type 2 diabetes I would stand and cheer. These changes are so exciting because my daughter and her kids tune into the lowest hanging philosophy as it were, very shallow interests mostly in celebrity gossip, reality programs, products presented in the programs they watch. OOH what a bitch-I excuse the kids because they are still young but my beautiful daughter just seems unwilling to do any heavy lifting spiritually.
Enough for today at least for now. Things sound awful re: Afghanistan.
Monday, April 5, 2010
04/05/2010
Happy Birthday Sandra. Haven't thought of her for years.
We had a party yesterday. There was heavy rain but we had a houseful with lots of food and drink although we forgot to open the wine. I made ribs and tri-tip and Aimee made potato salad and beans and i also baked rolls and desserts,chocolate cheesecake and carrot cake. We had friends and family and I loved it although my daughter was withdrawn and quiet and I wanted more from her. Buffy was ill with a stomach upset. We all took times going to see her and to bring her ginger ale.
So much the domestic and subjective. Finally getting beyond the shingles. Really knocked me on my butt as it were. Haven't had too much on my mind other than sleeping and staying in bed. I got really sick because i wouldn't kick back. The last straw was cleaning up around Steve's desk here in the bedroom and getting soooo sick while doing it. After that I was forced to stay in bed for about a week or at least five days.
Kitten Pookey( formerly yawaa,Mercy,Mercio-Buffy adopted him and gave him yet another name is meowing to go outside-wun and bird song today after yesterday's storm.
Made the barbecue sauce yesterday: 1 cup ketchup/1cup brown sugar/1 cup water/1/2 cup wortchestershire sauce/1/2 cup cider vinegar/1 tablespoon celery seed: cook the gooey sweet sauce for at least an hour by bringing to a boil and then turning down the heat to a simmer. The sauce is runny but thickens on the chicken/ribs etc-this is VERY popular.
Aimee brought her wonderful potato salad. So different from what I grew up on but I love it because of the care she uses to make it. She makes it plain with mayo only as dressing with eggs and celery and the potatoes some smashed and some still in pieces. Wonderful stuff and it sets off the spicy barbecue and the richness of the beans.
Today I have lots of leftover bread and celery so I imagine I will bake chicken and make dressing for the chicken. I have to avoid bread-just sits in my stomach and runs up the blood glucose. If I make the dressing flavorful and crispy hopefully the family will eat it.
Guess I could just dry out the bread and make bread crumbs.
Opening Day and the President threw the first ball-he is no baseball player but that is okay with me I have my beautiful Lincecum to pitch. We are so happy that baseball is up sick of football and basketball.
We had a party yesterday. There was heavy rain but we had a houseful with lots of food and drink although we forgot to open the wine. I made ribs and tri-tip and Aimee made potato salad and beans and i also baked rolls and desserts,chocolate cheesecake and carrot cake. We had friends and family and I loved it although my daughter was withdrawn and quiet and I wanted more from her. Buffy was ill with a stomach upset. We all took times going to see her and to bring her ginger ale.
So much the domestic and subjective. Finally getting beyond the shingles. Really knocked me on my butt as it were. Haven't had too much on my mind other than sleeping and staying in bed. I got really sick because i wouldn't kick back. The last straw was cleaning up around Steve's desk here in the bedroom and getting soooo sick while doing it. After that I was forced to stay in bed for about a week or at least five days.
Kitten Pookey( formerly yawaa,Mercy,Mercio-Buffy adopted him and gave him yet another name is meowing to go outside-wun and bird song today after yesterday's storm.
Made the barbecue sauce yesterday: 1 cup ketchup/1cup brown sugar/1 cup water/1/2 cup wortchestershire sauce/1/2 cup cider vinegar/1 tablespoon celery seed: cook the gooey sweet sauce for at least an hour by bringing to a boil and then turning down the heat to a simmer. The sauce is runny but thickens on the chicken/ribs etc-this is VERY popular.
Aimee brought her wonderful potato salad. So different from what I grew up on but I love it because of the care she uses to make it. She makes it plain with mayo only as dressing with eggs and celery and the potatoes some smashed and some still in pieces. Wonderful stuff and it sets off the spicy barbecue and the richness of the beans.
Today I have lots of leftover bread and celery so I imagine I will bake chicken and make dressing for the chicken. I have to avoid bread-just sits in my stomach and runs up the blood glucose. If I make the dressing flavorful and crispy hopefully the family will eat it.
Guess I could just dry out the bread and make bread crumbs.
Opening Day and the President threw the first ball-he is no baseball player but that is okay with me I have my beautiful Lincecum to pitch. We are so happy that baseball is up sick of football and basketball.
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Holy Saturday 4/3/2010
Amazing week. The illness and pain and restlessness turned out to be shingles-they shingles broke through last Sunday. I went to Kaiser and saw a very young MD who recognized my condition immediatelt sharing that he had shingles when in med school.
I love Easter and was watching the Easter Vigil from Rome but I just cannot stand watching these rich old men. I cannot accept the memories of friends so poor receiving counsel from the priests to accept their poverty with gratitude and marriage with no birth control this from men whose every human, bodily need is met by a servant.
I think that for me it is better to pray in private and to go to mass over on College at Dwight Hall and just draw away from these rich old men who are facing their own undoing because they lack the courage of their own faith.
I love Easter and was watching the Easter Vigil from Rome but I just cannot stand watching these rich old men. I cannot accept the memories of friends so poor receiving counsel from the priests to accept their poverty with gratitude and marriage with no birth control this from men whose every human, bodily need is met by a servant.
I think that for me it is better to pray in private and to go to mass over on College at Dwight Hall and just draw away from these rich old men who are facing their own undoing because they lack the courage of their own faith.
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