Tuesday feels strangely like Monday
Thank you all for the kind words and commiseration. I’m feeling tons better and the rash is just about gone. Terrified to eat a shrimp again, but that’s how it goes. It was a bummer to toss that entire pot of soup out, because it was delicious—I highly recommend making your own dashi to use in soups. It’s super easy and oh, so tasty. I wonder if it freezes well?
This week will likely bring a bit of overtime at work, so posting will still be light, but I’m getting ready to blog the Great Basement Clean-Up 2008, as well as the winter sowing of perennials, the living room, dining room and kitchen painting and the dining room chair re-upholstery. I’ve only had the fabric and foam since May and have decided that I’m simply going to do the seats for now because the wood is in very decent condition. That can come later some day when I don’t work outside the home a full 40 hours a week.
In other news, I’m gagging and fuming and wishing I could bitch-slap the FDA for saying it’s safe to eat cloned meat. Factory farm at its finest, people. I don’t think I’ll be able to eat meat in a public food setting ever again. A whole new layer of “from whence came this meat” is added to the already mysterious game of eating. Will they put on the menu “Chicken-Thrice-Removed Marsala”? Chew on that.
"In summer we live out of doors, and have only impulses and feelings, which are all for action, and must wait commonly for the stillness and longer nights of autumn and winter before any thought will subside; we are sensible that behind the rustling leaves, and the stacks of grain, and the bare clusters of the grape, there is the field of a wholly new life, which no man has lived; that even this earth was made for more mysterious and nobler inhabitants than men and women. In the hues of October sunsets, we see the portals to other mansions than those which we occupy."
~Henry David Thoreau
January 8th, 2008 at 6:56 am
Eager to hear the re-upholstery saga. I have two chairs sitting in the basement awaiting my ministrations. One was a fantastic trash pick find. Woo hoo, trash pick!
January 12th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
I’m not surprised that the FDA has said it’s safe to eat cloned meat. They think everything is safe as long as they can benefit from it being “safe”. I don’t eat meat but it makes me angry too because it’s just awful to care so little for the well being of millions of people.