Dear Global Warming,
Please come to Minnesota soon. We will welcome you with love & kisses. I will even leave the light on.
Sincerely,
Swami
Friday, May 30, 2008
Thursday, May 29, 2008
More Update-y Stuff
Because this is as close to coherent thought as I can manage this morning.
1. I miss milk. Once or twice a week I like to drink a small glass of milk but lately Mr. Swami has switched over to soy milk and it is just not the same. It has a slimey and faintly sweet taste to me.
2. Later today I may become the proud owner of two Russian Tortoises. We'll see. I like turtles & tortoises & frogs & toads & such. I really want some Poison Dart Frogs but I can't figure out how to protect them from the cats.
3. Speaking of frogs, I would like a moment of silence for my late, great frog hose guard which Mr. Swami ran over with the lawn tractor yesterday and smashed to smithereens. Froggie was dark green, very regal and did a good job of keeping the garden hose out of my Omphaloidies all last summer.
4. I am totally craving guacamole again. Guacamole is good. And it's better when I can make it while the DD is not here because then I can put some red onions into it. DD likes her guac way bland.
5. I am still battling the version of Outlook that is loaded onto my new computer. It is really fussy and sometimes refuses to hook up with other computers! What good is an email program that is so picky about who it will talk to? Hopefully I can email those soup recipes today.
Boo ended a list on 5 yesterday, so I can too. Because Boo is the queen of lists.
1. I miss milk. Once or twice a week I like to drink a small glass of milk but lately Mr. Swami has switched over to soy milk and it is just not the same. It has a slimey and faintly sweet taste to me.
2. Later today I may become the proud owner of two Russian Tortoises. We'll see. I like turtles & tortoises & frogs & toads & such. I really want some Poison Dart Frogs but I can't figure out how to protect them from the cats.
3. Speaking of frogs, I would like a moment of silence for my late, great frog hose guard which Mr. Swami ran over with the lawn tractor yesterday and smashed to smithereens. Froggie was dark green, very regal and did a good job of keeping the garden hose out of my Omphaloidies all last summer.
4. I am totally craving guacamole again. Guacamole is good. And it's better when I can make it while the DD is not here because then I can put some red onions into it. DD likes her guac way bland.
5. I am still battling the version of Outlook that is loaded onto my new computer. It is really fussy and sometimes refuses to hook up with other computers! What good is an email program that is so picky about who it will talk to? Hopefully I can email those soup recipes today.
Boo ended a list on 5 yesterday, so I can too. Because Boo is the queen of lists.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Memorial Day Weekend Update-y
1. I had no workity-work over Memorial Day weekend. Yay!
2. Saturday I did a little laundry and put some of my houseplants outside. Really, it's still too cold at night to put them out but I am into tough love these days - so out they went. Even the crotons. Live or die you guys, I don't care.
3. I made my world famous chicken & avocado soup which no one ever makes from the recipe because it looks dumb, but when they eat the soup they love it! (With a couple of leftover avocado I made some nice guacamole so I will have blue corn chips and guacamole for lunch today.)
4. Sunday DS and I saw Prince Caspian. The movie was not the exceptional Narnia story that The Lion The Witch & The Wardrobe was, but it was okay. They had some gorgeous horses; I wanted to see more of the un-cgi treated horses.
5. Sunday late afternoon Mr. Swami and I had the house to ourselves for a while so we ran around being silly and doing things you shouldn't ought to on the kitchen table, lol.
6. While I was in the shower later on Sunday our house was attacked by aliens with baseball bats! At leaat that's what it seemed like. BAM! BAM!! BAM!!! What a racket! Huge banging all over the ceiling and walls while I was wet, naked & vulnerable in the shower. Turns out we aere having tennis ball sized hail. The biggest hail I have ever seen! HUGE!!! TG our vehicles were safely garaged at the time!
7. Mr. Swami and I decided to go see Indiana Jones on Monday but instead we wound up driving around the Cities and had lunch in a little restaurant on the Mississippi River in Minneapolis where we used to go pretty often 25 years ago - Pracna on Main. I had their Sidewalk Salad - field greens with radacchio & carrot slivers, roast chicken, mandarin oranges,dried cranberries and walnuts served with a warm cranberry vinaigrette. Very delicious.
8. We walked out onto a newly opened park/walkway area over nearby St Anthony Falls. Mr. Swami likes to make me walk for knee therapy.
9. My latest Reality TV show craze is a show called Groomer Has It on Animal Planet. It's the usual format & drill: 12 groomers, a weekly challenge and once a week a potential Groomer of the Year is kicked out of the Dog House. It's just unexpected fun.
10. Mr Swami forgot his briefcase this morning so before I had even a sip of coffee I was loading the poor, forgotten thing into my car and driving into St Paul. Fortunately it was just after the morning rush. For my reward I got a Sausage Biscuit from McD's. That's my second time for a McDonald's breakfast this year!
2. Saturday I did a little laundry and put some of my houseplants outside. Really, it's still too cold at night to put them out but I am into tough love these days - so out they went. Even the crotons. Live or die you guys, I don't care.
3. I made my world famous chicken & avocado soup which no one ever makes from the recipe because it looks dumb, but when they eat the soup they love it! (With a couple of leftover avocado I made some nice guacamole so I will have blue corn chips and guacamole for lunch today.)
4. Sunday DS and I saw Prince Caspian. The movie was not the exceptional Narnia story that The Lion The Witch & The Wardrobe was, but it was okay. They had some gorgeous horses; I wanted to see more of the un-cgi treated horses.
5. Sunday late afternoon Mr. Swami and I had the house to ourselves for a while so we ran around being silly and doing things you shouldn't ought to on the kitchen table, lol.
6. While I was in the shower later on Sunday our house was attacked by aliens with baseball bats! At leaat that's what it seemed like. BAM! BAM!! BAM!!! What a racket! Huge banging all over the ceiling and walls while I was wet, naked & vulnerable in the shower. Turns out we aere having tennis ball sized hail. The biggest hail I have ever seen! HUGE!!! TG our vehicles were safely garaged at the time!
7. Mr. Swami and I decided to go see Indiana Jones on Monday but instead we wound up driving around the Cities and had lunch in a little restaurant on the Mississippi River in Minneapolis where we used to go pretty often 25 years ago - Pracna on Main. I had their Sidewalk Salad - field greens with radacchio & carrot slivers, roast chicken, mandarin oranges,dried cranberries and walnuts served with a warm cranberry vinaigrette. Very delicious.
8. We walked out onto a newly opened park/walkway area over nearby St Anthony Falls. Mr. Swami likes to make me walk for knee therapy.
9. My latest Reality TV show craze is a show called Groomer Has It on Animal Planet. It's the usual format & drill: 12 groomers, a weekly challenge and once a week a potential Groomer of the Year is kicked out of the Dog House. It's just unexpected fun.
10. Mr Swami forgot his briefcase this morning so before I had even a sip of coffee I was loading the poor, forgotten thing into my car and driving into St Paul. Fortunately it was just after the morning rush. For my reward I got a Sausage Biscuit from McD's. That's my second time for a McDonald's breakfast this year!
Friday, May 23, 2008
Six Things
Tagged by MM
The rules:
a. Link to the person who tagged you.
b. Post the rules on your blog.
c. Write six random things about yourself.
d. Tag six random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs.
e. Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment at their blog.
f. Let your tagger know when your entry is up.
This seems like a good post to leave up over Memorial Day weekend, jic I don't get back until Tuesday. I probably will be back before then, but you never know.
1. I don't like to follow rules. (Notice how many of the above 6 rules I am following, lol.)
2. The only musical instrument I have ever had lessons on is... the accordian. I don't even like accordian music, but my Evil Sister's first fiance taught accordian part time and Evil Sis convinced my parents to support his financial needs by having me take lessons! Stupid Evil Sister!
3. I buy at least one new kind of hosta every year. This year I want to get a T. Rex.
4. I need a hair cut.
5. My mom put me up on figure skates when I was 2 years old (almost 3) and I had 10 years of formal lessons. I am not a good skater - no musicality and this white girl can't jump.
6. I have a whole drawer full of nice jewelery I rarely wear. What I do almost always wear is a pewter medallion on a thin leather strap that I found laying on the sidewalk back when Tom and I were first dating. This medallion feels "lucky" to me - so I wear it. It is a 3D cut-out of two Celtic-style fish and some seaweed, set in a circle.
I nominate whoever says "Me! Me!" in the comment section. (I don't like to linky people without asking and I feel too disorganized to go through a whole formal asking thing just now.)
Have a great Memorial Day weekend! Tom and I are going on a long, pointless drive to nowhere just for the fun of burning fossil fuel. How will those nice oil companies and commodity traders continue to rake in the Big Bucks without people like us going for long, meaningless drives?
The rules:
a. Link to the person who tagged you.
b. Post the rules on your blog.
c. Write six random things about yourself.
d. Tag six random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs.
e. Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment at their blog.
f. Let your tagger know when your entry is up.
This seems like a good post to leave up over Memorial Day weekend, jic I don't get back until Tuesday. I probably will be back before then, but you never know.
1. I don't like to follow rules. (Notice how many of the above 6 rules I am following, lol.)
2. The only musical instrument I have ever had lessons on is... the accordian. I don't even like accordian music, but my Evil Sister's first fiance taught accordian part time and Evil Sis convinced my parents to support his financial needs by having me take lessons! Stupid Evil Sister!
3. I buy at least one new kind of hosta every year. This year I want to get a T. Rex.
4. I need a hair cut.
5. My mom put me up on figure skates when I was 2 years old (almost 3) and I had 10 years of formal lessons. I am not a good skater - no musicality and this white girl can't jump.
6. I have a whole drawer full of nice jewelery I rarely wear. What I do almost always wear is a pewter medallion on a thin leather strap that I found laying on the sidewalk back when Tom and I were first dating. This medallion feels "lucky" to me - so I wear it. It is a 3D cut-out of two Celtic-style fish and some seaweed, set in a circle.
I nominate whoever says "Me! Me!" in the comment section. (I don't like to linky people without asking and I feel too disorganized to go through a whole formal asking thing just now.)
Have a great Memorial Day weekend! Tom and I are going on a long, pointless drive to nowhere just for the fun of burning fossil fuel. How will those nice oil companies and commodity traders continue to rake in the Big Bucks without people like us going for long, meaningless drives?
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Three Brilliant Blog Entries
That's how many good ideas I have thought of and then forgotten since yesterday. Instead I will report my most recent typo.
When you are summarizing expenses on a form that a bunch of firemen will read (this is a work-related thing I do once a month) and you want to list a "swingout inline 2 inch valve"? Do not under any circumstances enter "swingout inline 2 inch vulva". Sometimes using the correct vowels is very important.
And? Firemen can be so immature!
When you are summarizing expenses on a form that a bunch of firemen will read (this is a work-related thing I do once a month) and you want to list a "swingout inline 2 inch valve"? Do not under any circumstances enter "swingout inline 2 inch vulva". Sometimes using the correct vowels is very important.
And? Firemen can be so immature!
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Splish Splash
Mr. Swami decided to disassemble his Norelco shaver because he thought it needed a bit more than the usual blow, rinse and go cleaning. And of course he promptly dropped the shaving head assembly into the toilet. Bwahaha:(
Now the head is totally dissembled and drying on a washcloth. Boy there are a lot of parts when you completely take apart those three floating heads!
So I'm wondering, what's been in YOUR toilet?
Now the head is totally dissembled and drying on a washcloth. Boy there are a lot of parts when you completely take apart those three floating heads!
So I'm wondering, what's been in YOUR toilet?
Monday, May 19, 2008
My Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Grocery List
Eat your heart out, Boo.
Yeah. I know. It's sideways and too small to read; you'll have to zoom in and crane your neck. You have no idea how long it took me to figure out posting the darn thing! Plus I thought I had saved it rotated correctly, but somewhere on the long and winding path to my blog it re-rotated itself back to sideways. Crap! Anyway...
Ta Da!!! My master grocery list. I print it, highlight the stuff I need each trip with a BIC highlighter, and then away I go.
Yeah. I know. It's sideways and too small to read; you'll have to zoom in and crane your neck. You have no idea how long it took me to figure out posting the darn thing! Plus I thought I had saved it rotated correctly, but somewhere on the long and winding path to my blog it re-rotated itself back to sideways. Crap! Anyway...
Ta Da!!! My master grocery list. I print it, highlight the stuff I need each trip with a BIC highlighter, and then away I go.
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