Salad (mostly white or off-white colored ingredients, except lettuce):
2 heads Boston Lettuce, washed, drained and torn
1 cuke, peeled, halved and sliced
1 Anjou pear, quartered and slices
1 c. garlic seasoned almond slices
1/2 chick peas
optional white onion slices
Dressing:
1 tbs raspberry infused vinegar
1 tbs red wine vinegar
1 tbs olive oil
1 tsp dill weed
dash cinnamon
salt and pepper
In a large bowl, add all the dressing ingredients and whisk together. When well blended, add salad ingredients and toss until everything is goodly mixed and whatnot.
Serve and enjoy. Tasty, healthy, fresh and different.
25 Random Things about Me (as requested to know by Linda S)
Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged . You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you.
___________________________________________________
1. I once got dumped on Valentine's Day.
2. Maddie's breath almost makes me vomit.
3. I like to drink champagne for no particular reason
4. I don't know how to share a bedroom.
5. I can't wait for Tuesday. It will be magical.
6. Rene is sleeping on my right arm right now. We're on the couch and she's snoring.
7. I love spiders because I think spider webs are the most fascinating things.
8. Don't you worry, my friend. You will get that gift back. You will indeed.
9. I'm very happy with the twist and turns of my life, however treacherous they seemed at the time.
10. I played trombone in three high school bands
11. I want to be in a play again; I miss acting and directing.
12. Doesn't have a crush on that guy from college anymore. I'm really over it.
13. Got a little jealous when I saw romantic photos of my crush from high school and his wife on their wedding day.
14. Got an F in the 4th term of chemistry.
15. This lowered my class rank to 34.
16. 33 was Rene, my roommate.
17. Is fascinated with the abstract expressionists.
18. I wonder about soulmates, the term "in love" and being made for each other.
19. Throwing parties is fun.
20. I wish went to more parties like that one last week in my hotel room, or the one back in September, or the one from March, or those Thursday night back in college...
21. Could really go for a peanutbutter and fluff.
22. I feel guilty sometimes that I'm not still teaching.
23. I love playing tetris on my phone.
24. Loves putting the kids to bed - bed times stories, pajamas, kisses goodnight. Then I drive back home to my apartment...
25. I love my new carousel magnets! Who wouldn't???
___________________________________________________
1. I once got dumped on Valentine's Day.
2. Maddie's breath almost makes me vomit.
3. I like to drink champagne for no particular reason
4. I don't know how to share a bedroom.
5. I can't wait for Tuesday. It will be magical.
6. Rene is sleeping on my right arm right now. We're on the couch and she's snoring.
7. I love spiders because I think spider webs are the most fascinating things.
8. Don't you worry, my friend. You will get that gift back. You will indeed.
9. I'm very happy with the twist and turns of my life, however treacherous they seemed at the time.
10. I played trombone in three high school bands
11. I want to be in a play again; I miss acting and directing.
12. Doesn't have a crush on that guy from college anymore. I'm really over it.
13. Got a little jealous when I saw romantic photos of my crush from high school and his wife on their wedding day.
14. Got an F in the 4th term of chemistry.
15. This lowered my class rank to 34.
16. 33 was Rene, my roommate.
17. Is fascinated with the abstract expressionists.
18. I wonder about soulmates, the term "in love" and being made for each other.
19. Throwing parties is fun.
20. I wish went to more parties like that one last week in my hotel room, or the one back in September, or the one from March, or those Thursday night back in college...
21. Could really go for a peanutbutter and fluff.
22. I feel guilty sometimes that I'm not still teaching.
23. I love playing tetris on my phone.
24. Loves putting the kids to bed - bed times stories, pajamas, kisses goodnight. Then I drive back home to my apartment...
25. I love my new carousel magnets! Who wouldn't???
Andrew Wyeth, the Portland Museum of Art and Lynne Drexler
Andrew Wyeth died today. He has a lot of work at the Portland Museum of Art, where I happened to be this past Tuesday. He's one of the featured artists there, actually. There's a significant N. C. Wyeth and Andrew Wyeth collection on the third floor. I am someone who quite loves those "huh?" inducing paintings -- the abstract expressionists. However, I love Andrew Wyeth because he captured the quiet, the beauty, the sometimes grotesqueness, the harsh but still comforting aspects of my beloved Maine in his work.
On the other end of the spectrum, 
the museum had an exhibit about the artist Lynne Drexler, one of the Monhegan artists. Her, I loved. She is an abstract expressionist but also, as someone in the feature DVD about her that was playing as part of the exhibit put it, she was a colorist (not the hair care kind!). Her play, her invention and her "juxtaposition" to use one of those AWESOME words that always sound so pretentiously silly, however apt they may be, of color I loved a lot.
the museum had an exhibit about the artist Lynne Drexler, one of the Monhegan artists. Her, I loved. She is an abstract expressionist but also, as someone in the feature DVD about her that was playing as part of the exhibit put it, she was a colorist (not the hair care kind!). Her play, her invention and her "juxtaposition" to use one of those AWESOME words that always sound so pretentiously silly, however apt they may be, of color I loved a lot. NYT Andrew Wyeth obit:
United States of Tara
I watched the premiere of this episode tonight, On Demand. It officially premieres on Showtime this Sunday.
On New Year's Eve this guy I went to high school with, Nate Corddry, sent me a short, puzzling little email over Facebook -- completely out of the blue. I haven't talked to him since he graduated back in 1995, though I have seen him on the TV and movies from time to time. That made me see what he was up to lately, since the show he was on back in 2006 (Studio 60) got canceled. The newest thing, according to IMDB, is this TV show. Though, he wasn't in the premiere, as far as I can tell.
Aside from the personal aspect, what did I think? The first half was too over the top at trying to set the story up. This tends to happen in pilots. The second half seems to rest easily in its premise (Toni Collette is a mother of two teenagers, married to John Corbett and has multiple personality disorder) and just incorporates it more naturally. I quite liked it by the end.
The show is written and produced by the same woman who wrote "Juno," Diablo Cody.
I will be watching, and not just to see what Nate's role is but because I like it.
On New Year's Eve this guy I went to high school with, Nate Corddry, sent me a short, puzzling little email over Facebook -- completely out of the blue. I haven't talked to him since he graduated back in 1995, though I have seen him on the TV and movies from time to time. That made me see what he was up to lately, since the show he was on back in 2006 (Studio 60) got canceled. The newest thing, according to IMDB, is this TV show. Though, he wasn't in the premiere, as far as I can tell.
Aside from the personal aspect, what did I think? The first half was too over the top at trying to set the story up. This tends to happen in pilots. The second half seems to rest easily in its premise (Toni Collette is a mother of two teenagers, married to John Corbett and has multiple personality disorder) and just incorporates it more naturally. I quite liked it by the end.
The show is written and produced by the same woman who wrote "Juno," Diablo Cody.
I will be watching, and not just to see what Nate's role is but because I like it.
Recipe: Filling Salty Snack complete with heat, salt and fat
Bagel chip spread with hummus and a little bit of bleu cheese crumbles, topped as a little snack sandwich with three pepper pita chip.
I'm not even high on marijuana or anything like that. Just New Year's Day night hungry (so a smidge hungover hungry.)
Enjoy!
I'm not even high on marijuana or anything like that. Just New Year's Day night hungry (so a smidge hungover hungry.)
Enjoy!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)