Jan 21, 2010
Today I received awesome gifts! Alisa’s son, Patrick, rolled in the back door today with two pieces of the yummiest bread ever, and one bag of goo. The goo-baggie was labeled 1/21. Patrick proclaimed the goodies were called ‘friendship bread’, and the goo was called the ‘starter’. He promised me his Mom would be sending instructions by email soon on how I too could create this awesome treat.
Well, I got the email and I wish I hadn’t enjoyed the bread quite so much because now I have a list of crap to buy before I can even make the stuff. I’m not Betty Crocker, Alisa — you should know that by now! I can do the mush, mush, mush the bag and I might even be able to rustle up some flour, sugar and milk. I don’t own 2 large loaf pans and I’m pretty sure a pizza pan won’t work — but I can probably figure out how to grease and dust these loaf pans after I buy them.
The last thing I read in my email is that if I don’t keep this goo going, only the Amish know how to make it. If I don’t take on this serious mushing project, my goo will be gone! That’s why it’s called friendship bread. You hope one of your friends keeps the goo going if you don’t, and you hope if their goo is gone, they have an Amish friend with the goo clue.
But now I’m seriously thinking about this ‘starter’ goo and realize that it’s nothing more than a portion of what Alisa didn’t bake that has part of what Leslie didn’t bake, and so on and so on… Amish secret starter? Bah! If there WAS a secret starter goo bag, it’s been diluted to the point of no return and Perry and I just ate bread that includes milk that’s way past expiration and eggs that are like 50 years-old!
Jan 20, 2010
Not that long ago I had the pleasure of sailing to Key West and Nassau on a Carnival Cruise Ship. I absolutely love a cruise and have sailed on various cruise lines throughout the years. I gotta’ tell you though — I agree with speaker, Larry Winget’s FaceBook post:
“I find cruise ships going to Haiti and partying/gambling/eating right off shore to be despicable. Who could do that? How can you sit right off shore and know that a quarter of a million people are dead and you decide to vacation there? Send that cruise ship down there with food and medicine and move the sick, dying and the orphans!”
So you have a Royal Caribbean cruise ship frolicking in the waves just three days after a quake struck the capital Port-au-Prince, with three more ships scheduled to stop at Labadee this week. Royal Caribbean says it’s proud — the vacationers spend money at the straw markets, and that stimulates the already poor economy of the earthquake victims. I don’t get it — dead people are being piled up on the streets and survivors of the quake are looking for food and water. So how about we cruise vacationers all head on over and buy a fake Gucci purse at the straw market, catch some rays and have an awesome picnic lunch and a few alcoholic beverages on the beach.
I really don’t care if it’s a private resort leased by Royal Caribbean from the Haitian government. I too think it’s despicable!
Jan 19, 2010
“Never give up!” People say it all the time and others wear it as a badge of courage. There are times that you simply must give up and remember that the battle is not the war.
I read a really awesome BLOG post about unrealized projects (wish I could remember where!). It talked about Tim Burton (Sweany Todd — gotta LOVE Johnny Depp!!) who devoted a ton of time to projects that never made it. A dude responsible for some seriously fabulous movies also spent a huge amount of his efforts failing.
Dream big – fail often.
Jan 18, 2010
This morning I got up at my regular time and starting doing regular work. Perry made a couple of calls and no one answered. Odd for larger companies to not have someone to take calls. I then tried to call my g/f at the Town Hall, and there was no answer there either. It was almost 11:00 AM before we realized that today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day!
So in fitting with the National holiday that I worked through, below is a timeless quote to live by — every day:
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.’”
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Libby’s job is sleeping. She’s the best…
