Photos from the Past

3:45pm
These are photos from October 21, 2004. I believe they must have been the first snowfall for that year. They are of the studio and the back yard..which was just sold.

The little dog is Cuddles from the Dog Jog of 2005. This year she was dressed as a bee. She is such a sweety.

I will try to concentrate on 'positive' things here. I will not go into the disappointing morning and disappointing 'interactions'..especially the ones regarding the Housing Corporation. The very word..I am reminded of that excellent documentary on TV the other night..which interjected the assessments used by psychologists to demonstrate like what is insanity anyway and certainly what certain corporations (if not all of them) are doing was demonstrated to fit the definitions presented perfectly.

As seems to be my want lately...when I am totally stressed I start cooking..so I was very happy with myself that I had divided up the remaining vegetables in the fridge from my over-shopping last week and made three dishes out of them (before they get not edible)..so the organic greens which were probably not that fresh when I bought them partly went into the West African Ground Nut Stew (after I made a salad for lunch) along with the lonely little yam, 2 potatoes, 4 inches of celery, one small onion, one stalk of broccoli and what remained of the ginger, garlic. With peanut butter, the small V8 juice saved for this recipe and guram masala and chili powder and red chilis. But...as would also be my want lately...I got distracted into making a file of the photos that will be included in this entry. So I am not perfect in this process. And I have learned again that I MUST do only one thing at a time. I cannot multi-task. Maybe I could in my youth. But those days are gone. So the vegetables were more cooked than I wanted them to be. I am disappointed in myself.

The other recipes are going to be a stir-fry with the remaining mushrooms, the other stalk of broccoli, the large stalk of celery and the bean sprouts.

And I will make a bean and corn salad and add the remaining piece of the red pepper and some of the red onion.

So I might not have to shop this week at all.
The other resolve is to not eat any bread. Or carbs. So I see I have let myself down already by making the stew. But I am revising the resolve to be mostly bread. I will cut it out. I know that I do very badly with bread and the like.