MOON OVER METRO K

There's a moon over the Metro K Supermarket

DAY 15

IT'S JANUARY IN JANUARY

No, we can't say it's June in January. We got about four inches of snow last night, about a foot in southern Maryland. Some days it feels like spring here, other days it feels like fall.

SATURDAY NIGHT VIDEOS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-t7crRl5Qg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV0lACQdbxM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHiZ15x6Vt4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOhzydhezEs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v-sBPki0Ys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCeqdpo4IZU&feature=related

OLD VINES NEVER DIE

Yesterday I was at Best Cellars discussing the age of grape vines and speculating at my age if I were a vine I'd be dead. Then a wise older woman said no, I'd be sending out shoots. I like that.

DAY 14 -- THERE'S A MOON OUT TONIGHT

And it's supposed to be the brightest of the whole year.

WEEK FIVE

They say one day in January (some say the 19th, others say the 25th,) is the most depressing day of the year. Why? Weather, generic winter holiday bills, broken new year’s resolutions, no holidays coming up. Add the economy this year.
Things are going pretty well this week – downing huge amounts of beans, cooked cereal and orange juice to stave off a relapse and anæmia.

Hint: if you add hot water to instant oatmeal then microwave it as opposed to just adding water, it becomes nice and fluffy.

A GREAT BLOG TITLE

"On Frozen Pond" http://miamiherald.typepad.com/flapanthers/

DAY 13 -- BELIEVE IT OR NOT

I am taking a blogging class.

DOCTOR, DOCTOR

Boss had a doctor guess who told him he needed to eat healthier. Bossman didn't let the doctor see what I was eating.

DAY TWELVE -- SALINGER DEAD

JD Salinger is dead. I thought he was already dead. Years ago the Deja Vu made a sandwich called "Holden Caulfield's Catcher in the Rye." It had corned beef on it. Yum.

MASSAGE MEETS FOOD

1) If you can’t afford transportation, parking, etc, you can’t afford a night out at a restaurant.
2) If you can’t afford to pay the babysitter, you can’t afford a night out in a restaurant.
3) If you can’t afford to tip the waitstaff, you can’t afford a night out in a restaurant.

Now, substitute the words “night out in a restaurant” with “massage” and “waitstaff” with “therapist.”

DAY ELEVEN -- MAC'S IN THE 'HOOD

You can now get WiFi at Mac's in Adams Morgan. The manager sez you can surf all you want. However, the Mac's in our 'hood is so nastay who would want to spend much time there?

MISS CONGENIALITY

Rented "Miss Congeniality" at Mom's suggestion -- Mom thought Sandra Bullock tucking into her steak lunch was all-too-familiar. I liked it a lot more than I thought I would -- for one thing, a woman in a man's world, and that being nice and sweet will get you something. Also, I want the person who did Sandra's hair and make up to do mine.

SUN IN AQUARIUS

The sun is in Aquarius, an air sign. For a kickass reading see www.spiritinmatters.com

DAY TEN

Lambda Rising is officially closed. Where am I gonna take my dates now?

DAY NINE

BS

And with that I mean "broccoli soup." I had that at Potbelly's. Tried not to think of what colour it was, especially after I sneezed.

ST. FRANCIS DE SALES

Today is the feast of St. Francis de Sales: Today is the feast of St. Francis De Sales: http://catholicexchange.com/2010/01/24/96962/

DAY EIGHT

And on the eighth day...By now some of you may be wondering "who is this woman?" Okay, maybe not. At any rate, I am white, female, middle-aged, overweight, Catholic, Master's degreed, a licensed massage therapist, owner of two beautiful guinea pigs (sows).

At this point, nothing is working out in my life -- not radio, not public relations, not massage, not teaching...And one of my high school friends noted that a lot of my Facebook posts are about food. So I am following the path of least resistance and posting about food, blogging about it, Twittering about it.....

SATURDAY NIGHT VIDEOS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INFrqvLtMNI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYMQDg4mqG8

http://www.youtube.com/donjojohannes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CxM7a6CbyI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo8qPMhkf6k

GOT PRICKS?

"You should do what you do well. Be a prick...but come with us and be a prick. Fight city hall.”

Sean Penn

Not sure whether Harvey Milk ever said that. I rented the DVD again -- bossman says I should run for office.

WEEK FOUR

Three things of this week: the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti, the senatorial election in Massachusetts, and my new food blog.

METER MAID?

Some kid at Mayflower Chinese restaurant asked if I were a meter maid. Is it even politically correct to say "meter maid?"

NOT FEELING WELL

Think I'm getting a relapse, will try to type more tomorrow.

JULIE AND JULIA III

As I wrote yesterday, this blog is a blatant rip-off of the movie. While I am not as cute as the Amy Adams character, I feel a real affinity to Julia Child. She was a woman, she was tall, she was American and she was about 50 years old when she got her first TV show.

And the book portrays her as such as a remarkably positive person, even towards peeps who were assholes to her.

DARN

Best Cellars on DuPont Circle is moving.

JULIE AND JULIA II

Ok, I admit my new food blog is a ripofff of "Julia and Julia." Except I am not as cute and perky as Amy Adams and not as talented as Meryl Streep. And I do NOT intend to cook every recipe in "Mastering the Art of French Cooking."

I will be lucky if I can master the art of Hope's chicken ball. Right now the extent of my cooking is microwaving a 7-11 Burrito and adding taco sauce and sour cream. Still, Susie refers to that as cooking and says she doesn't even cook that much.

IT HAPPENED AT STARBUCKS

So I'm on my way to Starbucks in Adams Morgan and I see two emergency vehicles outside. Uh-oh. I go in and see a homeless-looking guy carted away by paramedics. I feel guilty about taking my favourite spot on the couch immediately after he was removed, so I move to one of the bigger tables.

Next to us at the smaller, wheelchair-accessible table are three handicapped-looking guys with a caretaker who appears to be my age. After a while I hear an incredible flatulent sound. All of us pretend not to hear it. It becomes progressively louder and more frequent as the afternoon wears on.

By the time I am ready to leave so are the four guys so I try to ask the caretaker as politely as I can what that sound is. The caretaker explains that it is something neurological and that the one guy does this when he is feeling happy. I told the caretaker I was glad his charge was happy and praised G-d that my job does not require me to chaperon flatulent-sounding guys at Starbucks.

WHAT MY NEW BLOG IS:

Food and my relationship to it, healthy or unhealthy.

What it is not:

1) A food diary (how boring!), although I may post things about the foods I eat/ate.

2) A recipe blog, although I may post any recipes I think readers might find appealing.

3) A book/restaurant review, although if I particularly like or dislike a book/restaurant/store/event I may post about it.

4) A diet blog. If either you or I lose or gain the weight we want to, more power to us.

I look forward to sharing this journey with any and all of you -- let's make it a good year!

I GOT HUNGRY

So I went and used my McDonald's Coupons.

STARTED A NEW BLOG

Which has very little or nothing to do with massage. But will continue with this one.

SATURDAY NIGHT VIDEOS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SDutjtOgC4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT2OWigvQjY

http://www.youtube.com/blackeyedpeas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyeROG0oMAc&feature=PlayList&p=CEC878B8E5D3098B&index=10

TIDINGS OF COMFORT AND FOOD

Fruit and cream oatmeal is so comforting. Mmmmm.

WEEK THREE

Getting settled back into things, trying to keep my new year’s resolution to beef up my computer skills and trying NOT to feel guilty about the recession.

JULIE AND JULIA

I am blogging while watching a movie about a woman blogging about another woman.

FEELING GOOD MENTALLY

But physically tired. Mom sez the cat is tired, too.

28 YEARS AGO TODAY...

Air Florida Flight 90 crashed into the 14th St. Bridge. I was in the subway at the time. Two people were killed there, too.

REUNITED...

"...and it feels so good."

Peaches and Herb.

GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS

A conversation between Mom and me:

ME: It's hot. She was having sex with a different girl every night.

MOM: Aren't you afraid what people will say if they find this porn in your computer?

ME: What, we're talking about "House."

I HAD A DREAM...

...in which I beat the shit out of some girls with whom I went to undergraduate school, possibly to death. Fortuntely it was only a dream and when I woke up someone Mom and I thought was dead was alive so that was a good thing.

ASK THE PSYCHIC

Years ago a psychic suggested I get DSL. Shoulda listened to her then.

SATURDAY NIGHT VIDEOS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx6tvNJV0TA

http://www.youtube.com/ladygaga

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wptBNA_4z4Y&feature=PlayList&p=CEC878B8E5D3098B&index=9

WEEK TWO

Spent most of the week at mom's with a bad cold and worse dial-up.

SCHOOL OF HARD ROCKS

Went to the Hard Rock Cafe with peeps from Mom's church.

Strange to be saying things like "good afternoon, Sister," "yes, Sister," "no, Sister" and "thank you, Sister" again.

THIRTEENTH NIGHT

Mom and I exchanged gifts yesterday.

I AM A GOOD PERSON

At least that's what the cab driver told me on the way to the airport.

SWEET HOME SARASOTA

Arrived at Mom's by way of Cincinnati.

PACKING

Too busy to blog.

"EVEN YOUR DARKEST NIGHT"

Carole King

Not only does it get dark earlier, although it gets dark one minute later each day, but when it gets dark it gets REALLY dark. But it also makes the moon look really cool.

COULDN'T HAVE SAID IT ANY BETTER MYSELF

From www.dcrtv.com :

"Pulling the plug on WAMD to improve a NY stations signal? Fuck YOU Salem and you sellout morons at the FCC too!!!!!! Someone should castrate those Salem execs to better improve chances of conception by the real men thier wives are sleeping with. Improvement by sacrifice my ass. Try actually using engineering methods you suit wearing sloths."

THE GOLDEN TAROT

Used my Borders Bonus Bucks to buy a Golden Tarot deck, as I liked it and couldn't get a better deal elsewhere. The people in it look so unhappy, even in the positive cards.

Maybe that's what the creator wanted to bring out -- that people are unhappy even about positive situations.

SATURDAY NIGHT VIDEOS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NoCtHNQNy4

http://www.youtube.com/user/donjojohannes#p/u/12/1miH4mKaOL0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWGBeADI_8E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpFudDAYqxY

http://www.youtube.com/user/Nicecatholicgirl#p/f/11/mkK6hCcmynU

http://www.youtube.com/user/Nicecatholicgirl#p/f/13/Up3TIPoVh-M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alAKHGeEBw0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaipQV_lHwc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hq716roaQk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTb2UpZd_Tg&feature=PlayList&p=CEC878B8E5D3098B&index=8

"IT'S A STUPID, POINTLESS JOB...

... but at least it keeps me away from Iceland, all right?"

Graham Chapman.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z62ikGqIuUY

I could say the same about my job, the only difference being I don't work in Iceland.

WEEK ONE

Only one day in this week. Not much to say other than I am feeling coldish but trying to be a team player. Tarot and astrology readings confirm this is the thing to do.

MY NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION

To improve my computer skills. That's one of the main things holding me back. Even while I'm paying back my student loan on massage school.

While it doesn't look like an easy task, I think of Abraham Lincoln splitting rails and working in a store by day and studying by firelight at night. And Marie Curie studying in the library to save coal and oil at home and starving meanwhile. And...

NEW YEAR

Happy New Year!