Random Notes from the Sandwich Life
1. This rain is really helping my mood thank you very much. Itdoes look pretty on the plants though....my kale.....oh my beautifulkale....
2. It's amazing how adding in a visit to thenursing home everyday throws things off. It's not that much time----itshouldn't make that much of a difference but it does....gotta get intothe rhythm of things.... My mother seems.....well....o.k.....o.k. Iguess.
3. So I got my period for the first time in a year anda half and well....HELLO HORMONES! Just what I fucking needed thankyou very much body. I guess you take a year and a half off and it hitsyou like a ton of bricks or a cyclone or some other cliched descriptionthat means WHAM WHAM WHAM.....here it comes again WHAM WHAM WHAM. Geesh. Come on life.....cut me a fucking break andgive me something to feel BETTER not worse....
4. Given theabove whining (o.k., except for the kale) this song seems quite appropriate. I must say Daddy (Will Kimbrough and Tommy Womack) is on my list ofbands I REALLY REALLY want to see. Don't you want to come to Champaign guys?
5. I seem to be losing my cooking abilities. Last night I was tired soinstead of putting the shrimp dipped in egg white and cornstarch in thepan one by one what did I do? I dumped the whole bowl in. You knowwhat happens when you do that? Shrimp pancake. Ernie sent me awayfrom the kitchen and salvaged things. It would have been a good recipeif I had actually followed the directions and used the correctingredients. This is just where I seem to be at these days....
6. Owen has asked if we have chicken as well as turkey for Thanksgiving. NOOOOO. I give in and put macaroni and cheese on the table because Ifigure if I'm thankful for ANYTHING in life it's those guys but I'm notmaking chicken. Then we told him how much white meat a turkey has andhis eyes got big so I think it will be all right. Thanksgiving willmost likely just be the four of us with my mother. My mother eatsvirtually nothing, Leo eats virtually nothing and then there's the restof us. Despite the fact that there will only be three real eaters Istill insist on a turkey at least 18 pounds....it just doesn't seemlike turkey if it's smaller. I read these articles that say a 12 poundturkey will feed like a million people and I just think....turkeys canbe 12 pounds?....and a million people you say? I don't get it, as Leolikes to say when confronted with anything he doesn't like.....I don'tget it.
7. Owen has discovered the joys of leaving comments onyoutube. The other day he asked me to spell some word for him and whenI asked him what he was doing he said he was leaving somebody a commentsaying that it wasn't nice for him to put his middle finger up in hisvideo and why was he doing that anyway. I can't wait to hear theresponse.
8. I had a terrible dream that BOTH my sisters weredying of cancer and I was trying to take care of both of them. Iwonder where that came from, huh?
8. Might I note that this mayhave been one of the longest weeks in the history of my life and I getto end things with a appointment with my mother's nephrologist tomorrowafternoon. Think good kidney thoughts people. Good LORD let the weekendcome.......where I can curl up with food magazines and readThanksgiving recipes obsessively and think about making French meat pieon Thanksgiving eve....
9. Have we even DISCUSSED the Great Waffle Shortage of 2009? You have no idea what this means to our household......swine flu,pandemics, who CARES! THE WAFFLE SHORTAGE WILL LAST INTO 2010 ANDWAFFLES ARE BEING RATIONED..... Poor, poor Leo....