very animated dreams of using a machete on a jungle hike. Steamy, verdant, thick landscape.. somewhere in South America I think. My sweetie, my brother and a few friends were all there.. we were going to set up camp once we found a river, but we couldn’t seem to find it. Something moving in the bushes, and we shot at it for a reason that now escapes me.
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My sweetheart is hitting the sack early tonight… the poor dear is plumb tuckered out after coming back to a healthy mountain of work to do… a side effect of taking a week off, and being a remarkable talent. By now, I imagine she’s already tucked in, comfy in bed, hopefully, dreaming pleasantly. I still have about 10 minutes here at work, then I’ll toddle home, make dinner, unpack at least 3 more boxes, and play with Newtie.
Plans for supper – Mac & Cheese with peas, an orange or two, a tasty iced tea, and maybe a lime ice-pop for dessert. (as close as I can get to key lime pie) 🙂 I’m hungry…time to call for my ride so I can be heading home.
I’ll be going to bed with loving thoughts of my darling, I hope her dreams are of frolic and happiness. She was upset for being a sourpuss, but I adore her, and saw no sour-grumpies. To everyone else, sweet dreams, too.
Protected: Sweetheart only post.
Up and at ’em!
Morning-time is here once again.
Rough dreams last night… not sure what the rhyme or reason was… What I remember was that it was storming outside, bright lightening and thunder, high winds…I was at a mall, and it was flooding with about ankle deep water on the floor. Not sure if I was supposed to be buying supplies, or what… it was the mall of the dead, and nobody was there.
My poor sweetie is working so hard to catch up with her work that we’ve only been able to chat a bit (as her mind needed to be on her project). I hope that we have an opportunity to gab at some depth soon. Maybe play a little AOK, snuggle, too. ICQ was weird last night…I hope that’s a one-time thing.
So many things to do…time to hop in the shower and then straighten up the house some.
I miss her. It’s only been hours since we’ve talked, but I miss her a lot.
There, I’m home, after mailing off some belated letters to my then-vacationing sweetheart.
July 1-3, anyhow. As soon as I unearth 4-6, another packet! 🙂
Settled in… lime freezerpop in hand, and reading the daily news at last… Newt has a lovely ice cube in his water, which he is digging, quite a lot.
I wonder where my sweetheart is… I’ve not seen her all evening!
note to self – make this sometime this week
Corn Chowder
Ingredients:
1 chopped onion
6 cups fresh or frozen corn kernels
3 cups veggie broth
1/2 cup chopped red bell pepper
1/2 teaspoon chopped fresh rosemary
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
1/8 teaspoon black pepper
1 tablespoon chopped basil
cayenne to taste
Instructions:
Saute onion for 5 minutes or until tender.
Add 4 cups of corn kernels and saute for 4-5 minutes until translucent.
Add 2 cups of veggie broth and cook until corn can be mashed easily with a fork about 20 minutes.
Transfer the contents of the pan to a blender and puree until smooth.
Return the puree to the saucepan over medium-low heat.
Add bell pepper, rosemary, thyme, black pepper, cayenne and remaining 1 cup veggie broth and 2 cups of corn.
Stir, cooking for 10 minutes or more until thick and creamy.
Garnish with chopped basil.
Makes 6-8 servings
Prep time:5 minutes
Cook time:35-40 minutes
Ahhh….
My Sweetie’s back in town. It’s like a great pressure has been released…I’m so glad that she made it home safe and sound. She Surprised me last night at about 10pm, and we got to catch up about our respective weeks. (She had a far more interesting one than I did… I look forward to pictures, and more elaborate descriptions as time goes by.) I look forward to spending some time with her today, but she’s also got to do chores, for being gone a week, and I need to continue unpacking. No spongebob today to watch with her, No Cable at all. I’m thinking about going satellite. In other packing news, I’ve been kicking up a *lot* of dust…I have to buy a broom and mop today (I’m silly traditional that way… don’t bring an old broom into a new house)
Anyhow, I’m awake after spending the first night in the new place. I’m going to take things easy today, because, heck… that’s what Sundays are for.
Cool beans… got a phone call at 1pm today, looks like tomorrow night I’ll be getting the key to the new place. Hopefully, Saturday I’ll move in, and be settled in time for my sweetheart’s return on Sunday.
Whatever will Newt do with all that space? 🙂
*stamps foot like a little kid
Halfway there!
3 days left.
Hurry back… I love you.
Sunset today was lovely, a soft orange and pink deal, with very vivid clouds. If I’d had a digital cam, I’d have snapped a few dozen images.
I’m back… I walked to the beach, and spent some time contemplating life, the universe and everything.
My conclusions? Think in smaller bits.
Wrote another note to my sweetpea today… Now I’m debating mailing them off one at a time, or as one bundle. I’m leaning to two bundles, one mailed Thursday, so she is sure to get some, and the others to be mailed on Saturday, so she’ll get ’em as a treat when back. I’m thinking of firing off some chocolates, too. *note to self – only send mail via the post office… far more reliable. I love her… she’s not really far away… I have her with me… but I yearn for her to laugh with me anew, and to come home soon.
The beach was beautiful, solitary. I could hear my love’s laughter in the waves, and it made me smile. The music in my mind was and is a curious mix of B-52s, DMB, and Rusted Root.
I’m getting a bit off on my AOK script design. 999 wild horses running around isn’t funny, just chaotic. Can’t seem to make furious george aggressive enough… I’ll work on it more…but there are some neat ‘moat’ river ideas…
Off to catch up and see if I have any evil news for you all.
No call about the apartment. Ack, I’m a little disappointed, but not too unhappy about it yet.
GRRR.
Mumble, Grumble…. If I was a cartoon character, I’d have a big, black, tornado-shaped scribble and non-alpha ASCII over my head right now.
Classic Monday…. lots of work, and lots of interruptions.
Time for a perspective switch. Would I –
Rather work in roofing? Nah.
Be Jobless – MMMM, Nah. (sounded good at first, but I’d go crazy.)
Rather be a mule? 🙂 Noperooney. I’m going to put some moonbeams in a jar tonight.
Okie, I’m feeling better. Sundown is in another few hours, and I can focus on my sweetie telling her nieces stories of the golf ball-kneed varmint, and bigfoot sightings. I bet she’s having quite a nice time at this point., and envisioning her smile brings me right out of any funk. I still haven’t heard back from Ray, and his apartment… I hope that no news is good news. If I don’t hear from him by noon tomorrow, I’ll ring him up, and find out what the deal is. I have the 4th off… I’d love to get moved in there by this weekend.
Day one of My sweetie being away.
It hasn’t sunk in completely yet. (I’m going to feel it especially hard tomorrow morning, though… our wake up chats, and gabbing through work is what gets me through the day. I miss her being online, but I’m thinking about her being on the road… I’m writing her a letter tonight after I finish my break.
Hooked up my brother’s machine with the Internet, and a few games, although he hasn’t got a sound card, so the fun factor is a lot lower than it might be. I’m going to see if I can find him a nice little sound blaster from the stockpile at work. He needed a few little other bits of hardware, a mouse, long phone cable, etc… Next time I head over there, I’ll get him an AIM account, and such… (he’s a slow typist, but the voice chat’ll be nice).
I left about 3ish, and got home… and promptly took a nice nap. (I only slept 4 hours last night.) I was rudely awakened by my landlord at 5pm… (I can’t blame him for that, who’s asleep at 5, usually?) Where he gave me nonsense about the front of my apartment. (I forgot to set out my trash last night, and his gf griped to him that my full can will be in front for another 3 days, before the following pickup. Oh, the humanity..[sarcasm].. Hey, I wasn’t the one baker acted for wielding a firearm in a homicidal/suicidal fun, and had to be baker acted for 3 days at the local pokey. I’ll welcome blowing this Pepsi stand.)
Since I was awake, I went to do my long overdue laundry… and dined alfresco at the next door Italian restaurant. They have a wickedly good eggplant parm sub, and they deliver. Somebody new to add to the menu! 🙂 (They also have a buffet table set up, I might hit that next laundry day…lots of tasty pizza, pasta, salad and desserts. The key lime pie looked really good, but I abstained (This time…) Anyhoo, I watched the sun go down, and I imagined holding hands with my sweetheart…that brought me a great peace. I returned to the ‘mat, just in time to move the clothes to the dryer. I had my palmtop with me, so I read my copy of leaves of grass. Dang, Ol’ Walt knew his stuff.
Good Morning.
Hope all you kids are bright-eyed and bushy-tailed this morning too!
Saw My darling off for her week-long sabbatical. Man… this is going to be rough. I have a full-ish schedule today, to take my mind off of separation anxiety. We didn’t say goodbye, just “until Sunday!”. 🙂
10- be at brothers, and show him how to use his new computer. (hook him up with net zero, and such, make sure all his poop hardware is in order.)
Not sure how long that’ll take… bringing him old software (it’s an old computer he’s got) Quake, Doom, rise of the Triad, Hellcab, drowned god, civ, age of empires, simcity classic, and a few other oldies but goodies.
I’m hoping that by the time I get back home, I’ll have heard back from the apartment regarding my acceptance, and moving in schedules. I have to transfer my phone over there, and get power set up… plus arrange for a uhaul truck to take all my stuff… not to mention pack all my gear. I really hope that everything comes together smoothly.
Other things to do in the works – Laundry!!!
Good Morning!
Goodness… My sweetheart greeted me this morning with quite a hungry bit of amorous hello. What a great way to start the day! Thank you, darling. 🙂
Quite a pleasant surprise… I look forward to that happening again sometime soon.
what’s in the kitchen?
Attempted reconstruction of earlier entry, lost to some sort of sunspot activity.
back to writing in notepad, beofre posting… at least on the more unstable systems.
My Sweetie’s doing pretty well, good news on what’s been distressing her lately, and she got my prezzies in the mail. 🙂 (A Newtie-baby form of a Furby, and a copy of Cider House Rules. I hope the subject matter isn’t too rough for her delicate sensitivites, but the writing is quite good.)
Got some tasty food this weekend. (a lot of semi-healthy foodles)
Currently in stock, in my larder, cupboard and fridge – (I’ve got to stop eating out all the time)
croissants (bakery fresh. yum. I’ll miss living as close as I do)
loaf of french bread
1/2 jar of peanut butter
lots of natural orange blossom honey
lots of natural clover honey
a few fresh Bananners
a frozen bag of raspberries (sheesh, can you tell I have a sweet tooth yet?)
a bag of freezerpops
bag of rice, designed to last for eternity (it’s crazy big, but dry rice lasts for ages, right?)
canned sweet peas
canned beans (not as good as dried, and soaked, but I’m a lazy-boy)
fresh broccoli (going to polish those guys off tonight, with dip)
olive oil
garlic tobasco
regular tobasco
hawaiian hot sauce
canned corn
flax (to sprinkle on everything)
veggie dogs
dog buns
mustard
katsup
sweet relish
soy sauce
cinnamin life cereal
cookie crisp ceral
rice dream (better tasting on cereal than milk, really.)
mozzarella cheese
saltines
A nearly demolished gallon of OJ (I drink it like water)
2 gallons of water
Diet Rite orange soda
Cran-apple
4 bottles of hard lemonade
bean & cheese freezer-to-nuke burritos (that have been ther forever… eep)
a pint of Ben & Jerry’s Cherry Garcia. (that won’t live very long)