August 26, 2005
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FRIDAY FIVEAppetizer – Did you sleep good last night?
Actually I slept a bit better than usual but I had a couple of dreams this morning that I can vaguely remember and that’s unusual. One was that I thought I had MS and kept thinking I should wake up and go check on the computer about the symptoms of it. I think this is because I’ve been feeling some stiffness and soreness in my hips and legs lately that is pissing me off. I sent off for a yoga tape yesterday to deal with it. Thought about trying out Bikram’s yoga where you exercise in a heated room so your muscles are their most relaxed but then I read someone’s experience with it that it practically made them sick the first time, plus it smelled like a sweaty gym. The other dream had to do with my grandchhildren’s stepfather, which is a whole can of worms. Since his advent into the family, it seems like they live in this mysterious world that he dominates like some foreign country. I suppose I could barge into that world, but I’m so not the barging type.
Soup – What is your current computer desktop image?
A photograph of my children when they were still young enough to hold onto each other.
Salad – When was the last time you planted something, what was it and where did it go?
I planted some purple asters in my front yard night before last just as the sun was going down. Purple is my favorite color.
Main Course – What’s your favorite condiment?
Condiments are evil, you know. They pretty much all have sugar in them. I guess the taste of mustard on a really good hotdog would have to be it. Hotdogs are evil, too. Sigh.
Dessert – Share a quote that you like, for whatever reason.
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” – Thich Nhat Hanh.
Deep Thought: “The first time I ever tried to milk a cow at Grandpa’s farm, I didn’t even know which end of the cow to milk! Then I guess I got even dumber, because the next time I couldn’t even find the barn. Then the last time, I just went out in the woods and lived, with no clothes.”
Today I am grateful for: Tender hearts
Guess the Movie: “What do you think of farmers? You think they’re saints? Hah! They’re foxy beasts! They say, “We’ve got no rice, we’ve no wheat. We’ve got nothing!” But they have! They have everything! Dig under the floors! Or search the barns! You’ll find plenty! Beans, salt, rice, sake! Look in the valleys, they’ve got hidden warehouses! They pose as saints but are full of lies! If they smell a battle, they hunt the defeated! They’re nothing but stingy, greedy, blubbering, foxy, and mean! God damn it all!” Answer: Seven Samurai, 1954.
Winner: Blind_Rooster.
Coming Back to Crawford
by Cindy Sheehan
I’m coming back to Crawford for my son. As long as the president, who sent him to die in a senseless war, is in Crawford, that is where I belong. I came here two and a half weeks ago for one reason, to try and see the president and get an answer to a very simple question: What is the noble cause that he says my son died for?
The answer to that question will not bring my son back. But it may stop more meaningless deaths. Because every death is now a meaningless one. And the vast majority of our country knows this. So why do more young men and women have to die? And why do more parents have to lose their children and live the rest of their lives with this unbearable grief? (Rest of article here.)
End of Day: 8:44 pm
+ = Sun came up.
- = Sun went down.
The Count
Comments (17)
i slept pretty good until about 4 am………..then i started getting restless
my desktop has a picture of the sunset on mars
i planted some speckled butterbeans at my father in laws garden…….and picked some of them just last week…………yummy
my fav condiment is probably……….miracle whip
Quote: …..um……..”folks, you ain’t gotta go home, but ya can’t stay here”
I have no clue about the movie quote, i’ll be back later to find out
hey, I’m looking around at random xanga’s and stumbled upon yours. I just got this thing.
oh, and the movie’s Seven Samurai
good stuff!
Very good! That was a hard one. Yes, the original Seven Samurai.
That’s a great picture of your kids.
My desktop image is a picture of my parents, my brothers and me from about 1979 or 1980.
That’s a great quote!
Happy Friday!
I slept horribly. No dreams , just kept waking off and on. You had some strange dreams but seems you analyzed them. I need to do some yoga. And eat more yogurt, I love yogurt. So does my Grandson he calls it ‘ ogrit’.
I love the color purple , all things beautiful , purple .
I have a Grandaughter with a physocotic father who has her a in his ‘ care’ as her Mom had to leave town to excapse his threats of killing her , my daughter,… the police? No help.
I have no idea what movies that is from .
Do you think Bush is going to speak to her, Ms. Sheehan?
I mean he is on vaction , again, whats stopping him from a short talk with her?
Hope you have a great weekend.
Peace and Love:)
Cute pic of the kids….
RYC: Because I live on an acre and a half of horrid clay I am a container gardener. I arrange pots in different areas of the yard. We do water my son David’s pumpkin patch with a couple of hoses linked up and a sprinkler but I’d need a few more hoses to get to my farthest container at the back of my yard.
I’m not sure if the kids and I would rather drag a few hundred feet of hoses around the yard and then have to wind them all up or walk the watering cans around the yard. Maybe next summer we’ll see if it could be done differently.
Thanks for the idea!
GREAT pic of the kiddos. Was that the late 1970s or early 1980s?
Hello and thanks for your comments and input. You have a valid point, if all couples were alloted just a little time alone to be themselves, without infidleity involved of course, many people may still be married today. I felt cloistered in my last relationship. I was put down for being ‘me’.. no dancing silly if a certain song struck me, no laughing at things others may not find amusing, no time to set in front of my stereo and get lost in my music or to be a woman for a few minutes without thinking of others wants and need.s You make much sense. I like your way of thinking .Hope youhave a nice weekend.
That is a sweet picture of your children.
Peace and Love:)
Hi and thanks so much for subscribing to my site. It looks like you have some interesting stuff going on yourself. I like the dinner menu theme of some of your posts. It adds character!!! Have a great weekend!!!
Oh, I forgot. You comment on condiments being bad and full of sugar was cute. I’ve decided that all the things I like the best are full of fat and sugar. Once interesting thing I have recently figured out, since I started reading labels more closely is that all the lite things, where they take out half the fat and half the calories all seem to end up replacing them with sugar. One of my downfalls is mayo. I love mayo. I keep teasing my girlfriend, who is trying and succeeding in getting me to live healthier that I’m going to get a Costco 5 gallon bucket of mayo and a spoon and eat the whole thing. Anyway, I’ve started using light mayo with half the fat but upon reading the label I found out that it has an enormous amount of sugar/corn syrup in it. I’m diabetic so that won’t fly. Now I just have to make do by smelling the mayo and making a sandwich without it.
But I guess it is necessary in the name of better health… and to avoid being beaten by my girlfriend (just kidding of course). Have a great day and thanks again for stopping by.
Darn it! Sorry about all they typos. Next time I’ll try to be more careful!
Good sleep, always wake up once or twice-to go to the bathroom (at that age ;-}). No desktop image–need to work on that-I have a newborn photo of my 3rd grandson! Plantings? My daughter planted a few seeds in pots–some small purple(!) bachelor buttons, some white flowers that remind me of milkweed. She even planted some sunflower seeds, but don’t think they’ve come up-lol. Condiment? Umm, Will black olives work?! Many, many quotes I love-most of them by Buddhists, Thoreau, Whitman, Yeats. Yay for Cindy Sheehan!! This has turned into a war protest–something I’m familiar with. bush seems he’s too ‘good’ to talk to her.
Hi ! I am reading your biograhy slowly , and its amazing . I am enjoying it. I like your style with a pen ,or typewriter/ keypad.
Ramones have always been one of my favorite bands, real true punk music and lots of energy so faster I go lol
Have a good Sunday
Peace and Love:)
Dear Lionne,
1.It’s 4am on a Sunday, and I’m on the puter cause I woke up with a coughing fit. I haven’t been well for two weeks, and hope whatever malady I have disappears before the cataract surgery in two weeks. My coughing fits can go on until my throat and chest are in great pain. I see my doctor for a preop on the surgery next week, so I will be asking him about the cough as well. 2. I use webshots, which circulates as many images (theirs and my own photography) as I want it too. Right now there is an image of a castle in Slovenia. 3.Even though I worked in the nursery business for years, I have never had a garden, owing to the fact that I have lived in rentals most of my life. I guess it would have been a repotting of a house plant about 20 years ago, when I grew houseplants that I got from the nursery when they got too overgrown to sell. I stopped when I once went on vacation and my roommate didn’t care for them, causing a particularly beautiful Pothos among others to die, and killing my wish to maintain any more plants. 3.Since I began my “low cholesterol” diet two years ago, I don’t use “condiments” much. I wouldn’t eat a hot dog. I don’t even eat burgers anymore. I still use pepper but not salt. So I guess pepper. 4. My favorite quote is from one of Shakespeare’s plays, I think it’s either “The Tempest” or “Love’s Labour’s Lost” but I can’t remember now, and I’ve “used” it many times. “The fool may thinketh himself wise, but only the wise man knoweth himself to be a fool.” It sort of explains the third word in my signature.
Michael F. Nyiri, poet, philosopher, fool
A great editorial was written the other day by Larry Johnson. You’ll like it. And there’s a link to it at my blog today.
That’s a lovely photo of your kids.