Bustling away. Off to my favorite coffeehouse to catch up with Joani. We were going to catch up at the Summer Fun Run, but it didn't quite happen. My team and her team never crossed paths, and it was only 3 miles so not like there was any lag time. It is kind of nice having the boyfriend out of town, not that I don't love our nighttimes, ummm yes what was How Naught Are You Score? ...Very Naughty, but it is nice to have girlfriend time too. So tonight Bustle with Joani, then tomorrow the Magnolia Seafair Parade with Margie and her son. I have not experienced this before, and sense it will be somewhat hometownish-Clarkston parade style. Should be nostalgic. Hope to get a work out in. Yes, I think it was good to stay home today as I don't sleep so much when I am healthy, but think the body was recovering from the sinus infection. Well am thoroughly excited about Bustle - I love this place it just has such a good energy to it. All you Reike people out there will know what I mean. You got to check it out. If you need to fly out to Seattle and go to 5th and McGraw (across from Ken's Market in case I have the street wrong). Oh well, must get my shoes on and contemplate french wine or a mocha...either one horrible for my sugar level, but you know one of them will be chosen, which will it be?

Oh to Breath

This quick weather change gave me a sinus infection. Just a small one. Not like the year I had a sinus infection 10 months of the year. That was no fun. Especially when they got bad enough for me to lose my voice. So stayed home yesterday. Aaron and I had gone to Golden Gardens Wed night so I could totally feel it coming on. Then he stayed over and gave me water on Thursday. Lots and lots of water. Tired of the 4 walls we went and saw the latest Harry Potter movie and it was good. Quite possibly my favorite of them so far. And I didn't sneeze and blow too much in the movie, must have been the cool air. Switched over to Benadryl and my fever broke last night. Still stuffed up and afraid of sinus infections past so staying home and benadryling again today. Which basically means sleeping, because that stuff knocks me out. I even bought an irragator that is what I started using after the 10 that one year. I used for about 5 years in a row, and quit when I moved here. Guess I need to start again. The bad thing was is that somehow I have no Arm and Hammer in my cupboard to mix with the salt so can't irrigate. Ugh. I will have to go buy some today.

Feeling like I want to start working out again. My stomach is feeling heavy/weighty. Gross. Definately need to hit the gym or the streets again. Or both. Probably best to have a combination. Hopefully depending on my breathing and the benedryl sleeping can start today. At least the gym is air conditioned.

oh breath
how I love thee
thoust make me live

and speaketh and cryeth
oh breath
give me life

clear mine sinus cavities
and I whilst inhale deeply
breath cometh backeth to me

Oh sprinkler of life drizzle mist and moisten my world.

Hot Mama

What a wonderful weekend. Stuffed with tamales on Friday. A little hustle at the Bustle Friday night and Saturday morning. Swim swim swim at Luther Burbank ewww seaweed...wonder when my gills will come in. Greenlake bake Frappucinno chill. Waiting for my mister sitting on my keister, walk walk walk until the ovarian dis ease goes bye bye for good. Alias Smith and Jones greets me at the door, leftover pizza, tides me over the grass we crushed at Magnolia Park. Saluted General Tso at Rickshaw in an unexpected dining delight, fortunes spark interest in bed, Greenlake Chocolate chill groceries then this, now bed!!!

Boozy Punch

I hope Bustle has a grand grand opening, I am still recovering from Boozy Punch, as coined by Shannon. It was a very fun night.

Boozy Punch aka Sangria

Necessities: A big pitcher, large wine glasses

1 lime
1 lemon
1 orange
1 cup strawberries or raspberries or a mix
1 small can of pineapple
2T sugar
2 shots triple sec
1 bottle red wine
splash of oj
4 cups ginger ale

Slice or wedge citrus fruit and put in pitcher, add pineapple, sugar, wine triple sec and orange
Chill overnight
Before serving add berries and ginger ale

Drink, and laugh.

Serve often

Legend

waves crash
we sit in our respective seats
and watch the sky
turn from blue to rose
until it matches the sea
opposite the whitecaps

leaving before the water
reaches our tires
we miss the turn
and backtrack cautious
of the elk crossing
and dear leaping signage

we find our way
to our one room with two beds
one big one and one little one
grab the extra pillow
and hunker in losing
each other in each other

Marta Sanchez

senseless

The murder in Southpark, the molested seven year old... I need to go read 3 cups of tea

Sad

Been rather sad this summer. I just don't seem to have the energy I normally have in the summertime. Actually since the surgery. But I press on. Having a couple friends over for some "Sanchez tamales" courtesy of my brother, but unfortunately A and Jenn's D can't make it. Bummer. It is the little things like that bumming me out. Oh well am still looking forward to Shannon and Jenn's company.

Bustle

Grand opening this Friday the 23rd, free wine, cheese, and "artisan" meats.

I wonder if they will be bold and serve sangria?

Take me back

I want to know all the relatively clean local lakes to swim in. I want to go on a waterfall expedition, and am torn over whether to mark them or leave them unmarked. I want to go back to the barn and hear more music. I want to lay in my man's arms and let each other know that no matter what we have each other and it is all right. I want to dine at the Fountain Cafe until I have tried everything and am sick of the gingerbread (which I have yet to try). I want to eat Dove bars until I sprout white feathers. I want to get in tickle fights and laugh until the neighbors complain from the noise. I want to listen to the waves crash against the rocks as the sun sets. I want to go back on vacation again and again and again.

mmmm

We went to a Storm game tonight. What an amazing game. We lost by 3 points in the last minute and a half. It was sad. One of our key players got hurt, and our 2nd string so to speak caught us up and had us ahead. Then of course I interacted with the cutest mascot, Doppler. And all night long I had my Aaron to myself. It was wonderful.

Tomorrow I go to look for a cheap bathing suit. I can't find a box that had my bathing suits, shorts and two really cute summer tops. I think perhaps it fell off the moving truck in September. Oh well. Sad.

Anyway, I hope I find something reasonably priced they can be so expensive. Oh well, if I knew there were not going to be people around we would go skinny dipping, but I don't want to flash anyone.

Ok, going to go to sleep and dream on being all alone with my man for 3 whole days.

It's Total Surrender

"It's total surrender." "Grab the book nearest to you. Right now. Turn to page 56. Find the 5th sentence. Post the sentence as your Facebook status/on your web/on your business card, etc. etc. etc.

Finally

It is almost here. One more day of work. Then I have Thursday off. And Friday. And Saturday. And Sunday. And Monday. I am trying really hard not to think about Tuesday yet.

Mozart here we come. Quilcene here we come. A cute little non-luxury motel room where I get to have my A all to myself, here we come (interpret as you will).

I wish there was a snowstorm (ok and it was winter) and Aaron and I were trapped in my house and all we could do was snuggle.

You know I completely figured out that this personal coach through my union and webMD really fucked up my mindset. Here I was doing better on my walks and eating and this woman basically tells me or at least what I heard was I was not doing enough. This really fucked up my mindset and helps me understand why my walking took a dive. No fat person wants to hear what they are supposed to be doing to lose weight. I mean unless it is a fat person who lives in a mountaintop cave and chances are that person isn't going to care! I definately need to schedule an appt. with my doctor as my hands are tingly and I guess that is a diabetic thing. My sugar levels are still good, but I don't completely understand this disease so better to be safe than sorry. I would hate to have to go on medication as I have managed my sugar well without it, but I don't like the tingly hand thing. Maybe it is carpal tunnel? I don't know enough about that to know.

Back to reading, I am getting closer to how the sisters die and what happens afterwards. Julia Alvarez can definately tell a story. Just like my brother Tony. Man he could tell a story with the best of them. I miss him. Unfortunately the boys still won't tell about building and igloo and having it collapse on one of them and the other grabbing a shovel ready to dig out the other brother. Still too sad for them. But God how we would laugh at those stories. Tony, I love you brother. I miss you too.

Yakisoba

I don't know why, but I want to put this recipe on my blog. I found it on some website where someone was looking for an authentic Yakisoba recipe. And it is fantastic. I assume it can be made vegetarian as I tend to use a full small cabbage (instead of a half of a cabbage), zucchini, and broccoli in addition to the rest of the stuff.

Yakisoba
1 /2 tsp. sesame oil
1T.peanut oil
2 T. chile paste
3 cloves garlic
4 boneless skinless chicken breasts/thighs
½ c. reduced sodium soy sauce
1 onion sliced lengthwise
½ medium cabbage, coarsely chopped
2 carrots coarsely chopped
8 ounces soba noodles, cooked and drained

Large skillet.
Combine oils and paste, stir fry 30 seconds add the garlic and stir fry 30 more seconds.
Add the chicken and ¼ of the soy sauce. Stir fry until the chicken is cooked through.
Remove from pan and set aside.

Empty the pan. Combine onion cabbage and carrots until the cabbage begins to wilt.
Add remaining soy sauce, cooked noodles and chicken. Mix.

I hope you enjoy, this weather seems to warrant it. It tends to make a lot so I did not make as am going out of town this weekend. Oh and yes it is better the 2nd day mmm yummy all that flavor marinating.

Must see

The Hunting Party on DVD
Wow! Ok it isn't a documentary, and was a tiny bit slow, but boy do they nail it. When 3 reporters (4 in reality) find a war criminal in 3 days that the U.S. supposedly had been looking for supposedly being the key word for months. It is amazing especially the end clips where they show want ads in the Bosnia/Serbia papers with a toll free number that only worked in the states. What a joke. A bad joke. And a sad statement on our powers that be.

The right foot was so much dirtier than the left. It must have had so much more fun than the left!

Delicious

Aaron is in P.A. this weekend helping out his mom. I took Friday off and really just have had a leisurely couple of days cleaning, doing laundry, reading and yes watching TV. What can I say I am a TV baby, it is comforting and mindless. Today was wonderful I cleaned and watched TV way too early in the morning to actually be watching TV. Moved from the TV to listening to Ella Fitzgerald and Louie Armstrong and emailing my niece. Then walked up to the community center and had a free lunch as it is their little BBQ/fun run/sidewalk sale kind of day. I ran into a few people there had some wonderful conversations. Then I hit the sales, I found a Christmas present for $3. another cuz I know you would like this gift for cheap and a marvelous bag for $19.00.

Shopping til I dropped (or had to go to the bathroom) I walked home piddled around with laundry and what not made a marvy sandwich and had leftover salad (yes mostly stuff from the garden) then went and weeded. I also moved my basil and replanted my winter squash. One pack of seeds I tried planting twice and nothing so hopefully this other type will come up.

Watched a bit more TV and now am ready to go back to In The Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez. It is quite good and when I think about it am drawn in. But yes I washed my sheets and after wearing my garden clogs in the garden, um, my feet need a bath before they enter my sheets. They remind me of being a little kid and my mom coming in when my sister and I took a bath and she made us show her our feet. We were banshees growing up. Running around all barefoot all day. How marvelous. On that thought I will go clean my feet and then read!!!

Good Night Aaron, I miss you boyfriend. I love you! (next time remember your charger : )

The Orangest of the Orange

Ellyn Maybe http://www.poetry.la/
listen to Ellyn Maybe

Rebecca Loudon
read Cadaver Dogs

Naomi Shihab Nye
read Fuel

Naomi Wolf
Watch End of America

Sustainability
See at the Benham Gallery before the show ends 7/11

Deception Pass
Sit on a worn log and kiss until your lips fall off