so did you know, because i did not, that you can actually pay someone to not only wash and massage your feet but also to scrape large pieces of dead skin off of them too?...
i had no idea...but that's exactly what happened this weekend during my first ever pedicure...a friend treated me to one as a late birthday gift...
big scrapes of skin...all dirty and curled up and lying on the towel...i have to say, it was disgusting...and slightly embarrassing...that anyone in the general vicinity could just look over and see my dead ass skin lying there...
despite the dead skin, it was terrific...i was so relaxed and my feet felt so good and my toes look very pretty...i had no idea what having pretty toes can do for one's outlook...it's very therapeutic...like a bottle of wine for the feet...
this week finds us preparing for a camping trip in the san juans...i am a little slow in getting us together but looking forward to it...
also, the boybarians got new bikes and helmets this week so we've been hitting the bike trail every night after dinner...it's been really fun...sometimes the lord of the ring and i walk while they ride and sometimes we ride with them...
the problem is we got rid of our extremely ancient mountain bikes and worn out helmets last year in the big u-haul purge...what we have are our lowrider 8 ball fat tire cruisers made by manny himself in venice beach that we rode at the beach in santa monica...
this is not the beach in santa monica...this is hills and gravel and about gazillion more pounds of fat than santa monica...
plus we don't have helmets...
mostly we walk...and when we walk there's the benefit of picking blackberries and making blackberry piebbler...a pie/cobbler combined...piebbler...
fresh blackberry pie tends to be on the soggy side, and i don't have a good cobbler recipe that doesn't include another fruit in addition to blackberries...and we only had about a quart of blackberries...
so, i did a piebbler...pie shell, blackberries, flour, sugar, and milk mixed up and poured over...very good...very easy...best piebbler ever!
school's going well...though latin is definitely getting more challenging...we're into written and oral translation now which translates into i'm beginning a study course of my own soon...i need to answer questions i have no answers to!...
story of my life.
the only latin i know comes from reading harry potter...and thus far i haven't needed to cast an *eat slugs* spell on anyone...yet...
news on the beast is thankfully mild...there haven't been any diva moments other than having to go across the pond to the big city to have an ac hose custom made because of course she can't have anything ready to wear...
but this means we have our air conditioning back just in time for the weather to turn cold...she does these things on purpose to keep me in my place...but i gotta say, driving that truck is so much damn fun it's definitely worth it!...
it's not unlike a dysfunctional love affair...having had some practice in that particular field event, i at least know what to expect...
but really, if you ever see me with a silly boys, trucks are for girls sticker on my back window just shoot me...
x.
dinner tonight
well, i'm doing a little experiment...it's called let's clean out the freezer, see what's in there, and create meals out of it...and hey, since we'll be gone for four days let's throw in the fridge too!...
i love nothing more than to listen to npr on a sunday afternoon and plan my menu for the week...browsing through cookbooks and recipes i've collected, making a shopping list, going to the grocery store...
that's all coming to a grinding halt lately...form is being replaced by function...my freezer is too damned full!...and it's huge!...beyond the two placentas in the very back, i have no idea what's in there...but whatever it is, there's a LOT of it!...so the challenge is to check out the contents, defrost, and create some meals...
and no, i won't be using the placentas..it's a very long story but they belong to the boybarians...they are waiting to be planted under a beautiful new willow...only willows are expensive and beyond that we are lazy...the thought of digging a hole deep enough (coyotes...enough said) sends me to the couch to rest...preferably with a cocktail...but, i digress.
so there they are...two placentas...and yes even though they aren't marked, i can tell them apart...
the duke's is the one in the target bag.
anyhow last night we had chicken with wild rice and some sliced fresh orange and red peppers...now, it must be said that the chicken with wild rice was an impulsive see sometimes i DO say YES!, dammit! purchase from costco...we go to costco for toilet paper and occasionally wander the aisles looking around...that place scares me...the food there is really big...
anyhow, if you wander the aisles you get tasters...this was one of the tasters...the duke LOVED it!...i think it reminded him of the food at camp...which he LOVED!...four enthusiastic mama, mama, mama, can we get some of this PLEASE!'s later i forced a cheerful SURE! and put it in the cart...
it wasn't bad for a salt lick disguised as food...
tonight there's a bag of peas i generally use for my bum neck that has my eye...there's leftover rice in the fridge from chinese take out this weekend and the last of the eggs from the farm down the road...i'm thinking a fried rice of some sort with some more sliced peppers left over from last night...
and hoping my neck doesn't go out in the meantime...
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