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Monday Me

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 I believe the saying goes, "You are what you eat."  I am cool, raw, and mostly orange.  (Except for the hot green part.) Which reminds me of a story. Once upon a time, I was a professional woman flying across the country to attend a veterinary conference.  I was seated in the back row of the plane and across the aisle sat a young girl traveling alone.  I must make a good impression, I thought.  Give her a role model that she might want to emulate as she chooses a life-course.  The plane took off.  I grabbed the clam-shell of sushi I had bought before boarding and began to eat my lunch.  The wasabi began to irritate my throat.  My soft palate burned and try as I might, I could not stop the cough...which splattered rice ALL OVER the seatback in front of me.  I drank water.  Laid off the wasabi AND ginger, just in case, and hoped she hadn't noticed.   After eating, and only coughing a couple more times, I busied myself ...
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Me Monday

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  This morning I woke to find (yet again) my hair cursed by its "too long-ness".  Bed-head.  Great.  I wanted to bike to work but do I want to do that with a wet head?   Zupe asked why I was looking in the mirror and sighing.  I told him I thought my hair looked silly.  "What do you think, Zupe?  Is my hair silly?  Nope.  In Zupe, he told me I look fine because he sees me "in his heart".   I'm now wondering if I can start each exam appointment this morning with a suggestion that we each look at the other with our hearts.   This has the potential to become the fourth pillar of my philosophy.  
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The Day that Never Comes

 It was like a scene from a nature documentary, one where wolves hunted down besuited bastards of the wild frontier. Gotta love the alliteration......  This is the second book of the (at current count) nine book Dublin Trilogy.  Second, unless you count some shorter story that details how Bunny met Maggie which I didn't read so don't know.  I believe, however, that not knowing does not make one bit of difference in appreciating this tale.  What I do recommend and I'll be doing it next book is making a list on paper of ALL the damned surnames that begin with M.  Fuck.  I was definitely lost somewhere around page 200. But, I made it through.  And, unsurprisingly, so did Bunny and Paul and Bridgit .... and Maggie.
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Friday's Love Song

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  Just to mix up the Friday love song tradition, let us reach not back to oldie's pop but to another of my loves, celtic music.  Beautiful tune. And lyrics that really speaks to me of the commitment of young love.  He is the young man that I love best...  This one is dedicated to you. Plus - there are language structures like this:   And up he came and he pulls a gold ring And when she saw it, she damn did fall she damn did fall - wonderful. 
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Picture me Thursday

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  Crab apple blossoms.  Spring on Harrison 3.   (Actually, I'm almost a week late here.  This crab apple has finished blooming. The one below is some sort form honeysuckle bush that I remember my grandparents planting in our yard.  It is now gnarly and split but every spring blesses us with these sweet smelling blossoms.
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Wednesday Zoop!

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Chhole  (Chickpea Curry) This is what I've been lunching on for the month of April.  The first time I made it with a jalapeno pepper and thought it was pretty uninspiring.  After that, I tried it with a serrano pepper, as the recipe called for.   Mince  1 serrano pepper 4 large garlic cloves 2 inch piece of ginger then add and chop 1 medium onion Cook the above in 6 T of oil for 3-5 minutes.   (The original recipe suggests grapeseed oil.  I have coconut.  It works.) Add to this 2 t corriander 2 t cumin 1/2 t tumeric Cook for 2 minutes. Add 28 oz can diced tomatoes 3/4 t kosher salt Cook for 4 minutes. Add 2 cans of chickpeas (drained and rinsed) 2 t Garam Masala Cook for 5 minutes - or, you know, until you finish folding the laundry or reach page 175 in your book.
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Tuesday - Take me Away!

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  Indianapolis Children's Museum.  Looking down upon the dinosaur exhibit.  August 2025.  While Zupe might have preferred the sports activities or the Black Panther exhibit, I have a soft spot for dinosaurs.  If you feel the same way, I can recommend the oppotunity to watch and speak with the volunteers who are cleaning fossils.  NOW, I have a future goal.
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