Depression Era Meals - 2/27/09

I just love Clara!  There is a whole series of these on YouTube you can watch.  I think I'll make this tonight for my Granddaughter and myself.

Did I Imagine This? - 2/24/09

Last night I was watching television and a commercial came on for the show "Medium".  They showed a picture of Ms. Arquette who plays Allison Dubrois the psychic medium.  Then someone said "You too can have an exciting new career talking to the dead."  Did they actually say that, or did I imagine that they said that?  That is just so weird.  I have been told that I could do that if I so choose.

Sometimes you just get messages that are buried in the mass media.

At Nine Months - Resilience - 2/21/09

Optimism

by Jane Hirshfield

More and more I have come to admire resilience.
Not the simple resistance of a pillow, whose foam returns over and
over to the same shape, but the sinuous tenacity of a tree: finding the
light newly blocked on one side,
it turns in another.
A blind intelligence, true.
But out of such persistence arose turtles, rivers, mitochondria, figs—
all this resinous, unretractable earth.

"Optimism" by Jane Hirshfield, from Given Sugar, Given Salt. © Harper Collins, 2002.

Musical Cars - 2/16/09

We are playing musical cars in my family this week.  How do you play you ask?  Well first off Mom (me) buys a new car which I did the weekend before last.  I bought a Honda CR-V because its dependable and I guess dependable is something I value at this point in my life.



The second step is that my Jeep Liberty is going to live with daughter Jenny and the last step in musical cars is that Jenny's Hyundai is going to live with Dave and Jen so that Jen has a car to use during the day.

(not really her car...found this image on the web.)
 

10 Top Trivia Tips About Cheryl

I borrowed this from my friend Jesa's page because it was just so darned funny.  Try it and post your results here!

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Cheryl!

1. Pacman was originally called Cherylman.
2. More people are killed by Cheryl each year than die in aeroplane accidents.
3. Early thermometers were filled with Cheryl instead of mercury.
4. Contrary to popular belief, Cheryl is not successful at sobering up a drunk person, and in many cases she may actually increase the adverse effects of alcohol.
5. Cheryl was the first Tsar of Russia.
6. The state nickname of Iowa is 'The Cheryl state'.
7. It took Cheryl 22 years to build the Taj Mahal.
8. Banging your head against Cheryl uses 150 calories an hour!
9. Cheryl can sleep with one eye open.
10. The first Cheryl was made in 1853, and had no pedals!

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