sara with camera

You're Not Going to Believe This, Carol & Katherine

 

 

Last night I couldn't sleep & so, because I've been feeling old (34 & Not getting younger) & unhealthy lately (fast food for the 3 squares And in-betweens: thank you Kaplan for your grueling study schedule), I downloaded Michael Pollan's Food Rules & read it all (it's a crazy fast read- and that's not just compared to the contract outlines I've been mired in for 3 days now).  What, Mr. Pollan, no cereal that changes the milk another color?  Some of the Other rules won't be so bad: I've never been sucked in by the low fat or low carb diets. Butter is awesome.

No time to take photos lately so I drew a tomato & some peas for you.  You're welcome. 

I had resolved to change my diet once bar study was up, but screw bar study (not altogether, just a little), I'm changing it now.  I could very well fail anyhow, & it's not worth completely neglecting my health.  Because of bar study, it'll be a slower change, but I'm not waiting around for my arteries to do whatever bad things they do when one's diet is primarily fast food.

 

 

The first difficulty is that I hate wheat bread and milk and spinach and lots of other healthy foods.  I like coke, chocolate muffins (hello, breakfast!), and cheeseburgers.  The second difficulty is I like to jump into things head first- no taking it step by step.  As in, if I had my way, & didn't have other concerns (like studying), I would start a garden, begin composting, canning, hunting game, and all that --all at once.  If there was a little failure here & there, no big deal.  A little failure is okay when I know my plan is insanely ambitious because even then I've achieved ambitious, right? 

Anyway, today I quit coke and will buy a healthy cookbook.  Then I'll make a menu & shop properly this weekend.  It's on.  Oh, I need advise: what cookbook & what stores have decent produce here in El Paso?  P.S. It's not the least bit ironic that I began my healthy cookbook search yesterday while I was eating Ruffles & French Onion Dip.  See, this is not going to be easy.  Here's to hating what I eat for a good while, Sara

Lots of Knitting Problems

You may remember the stinky, but beautiful baby blanket (seen here)...well, the Problem Ladies (Kay Gardiner & Ann Shayne of Mason Dixon Knitting) have solutions in the current Twist Collective with the stinky problem illustrated by Franklin Habit over at the Panopticon.  If you don't care about smelly blankets or illustrations of them, but like knitting, check out all the sites anyhow...they're all amazing. p.s. Michaela, if the blanket is still stinky, you know what to do! p.p.s. If you don't care to find out how to get the smell out of newly washed alpaca- there's another Q&A regarding whether it's appropriate to knit during CLE (for all you knitting lawya's out there). 

Sadly, my stinky blanket problem may have been solved (well, that's not the sad part), but I have plenty of current knitting problems (the sad part), like: how to get rid of the hole in the baby blanket I am now knitting (it did NOT get there because I had too much hard cider that night at Elza's party [and knitting at a party is not one of my knitting problems- just sayin]...it's garter stitch for crying out loud), and what to do when I need a knitting something and the yarn shop is closed. 

She's a new yarn shop owner and I really like her...except she's super mellow (and likes wild color over more appropriate ones like gray and brown and blue) which must've led to her thinking she was allowed to close shop on Sundays AND Mondays.  Knitters need knitting things when we need them, and crazy things happen when we can't get our knitting things (like I knit a mitered square last night knowing full well that it wouldn't work out.  All because I ran out of yarn to complete the above mentioned holey blanket [actually I technically had enough, I just accidentally bought 3 blue and 1 green skeins instead of 2 blue and 2 green--yarn shopping apparently canNot be hurried] and didn't have a fat-eyed needle to sew in ends and had loaned out my Mason Dixon Knitting book #1 [containing the mitered square pattern for the next baby blanket on the list]...extra scandalous: I should have the pattern memorized because I've knit like 90 of the squares already [big blanket + baby blanket]).  As if that weren't enough, Sunday is right next to Monday [that's 65 hours or something] and that's a good chunk of prime knitting time completely wasted.  So, dear yarn shop owner, if you absolutely must close shop 2 days a week, could you spread them out so as not to encourage crazy, I really know better than that, desperate knitting?  It might be your duty (you know, like a trustee to a beneficiary- yeah, pretty much like that). 

Love, sara

awhile back

Mostly I like this photo because I took it on a cold weekend morning outing with Auden (otherwise, it really isn't all that spectacular- I just miss blogging).  I wish I could take him (and the camera) out for a downtown walk tomorrow...only it's nose in the books for me (catching up for those nine days Chris was gone- good to have him back).  On that note, back to it!  Have a great weekend, Sara 

bryce

Isnt' he sweet?  I took these Friday (bar study, awol husband [gone for 9 days- great timing], & job or not- babies grow...6 days old, Diantha)?  Speaking of stupid bar study... if it wasn't for that, I'd be monopolizing him with the pretense of making certain his parents got some sleep.  Now though, I'm just holding my breath until Thursday night when Chris returns & I can get some work done.  Love, Sara

Scary Bathrooms

This hotel in Brownwood has been empty for as long as I can remember, and I've loved it for that long too.  How amazing would it be to make it perfect again?  ...except that it's in Brownwood.

Perfect for the kitchen?  Sierra Blanca, TX.

Brownwood, Tx.  Looks kind of silly small.  Click for a larger version if you like.

My hotel again.

Sierra Blanca.  Sometimes, in buildings like these, I'm afraid I'll run into an illegal immigrant taking shelter after just having crossed the desert border...hasn't happened yet, but if it does, I just hope he or she lets me take a photo (and that I don't pee myself).

Another kitchen print?  Sierra Blanca, Tx.

Sierra Blanca.  If bottles & signs aren't exciting enough for you:  there's a border checkpoint right at Sierra Blanca on I-10 & just over a year ago, agents found a little weed on Willie Nelson's bus (I'm sure they were shocked).  As Willie says, "Tax it, regulate it and legalize it...And stop the border wars over drugs….Thousands of lives will be saved."  Agreed.  (p.s. Nellie the dog is really, as Matti sometimes calls her, Willie Nelson Rogness).

Yep, that is a tree growing out of a building and I was standing when I took the photo.  Brownwood again.

These (above & below) are both Sierra Blanca.  Chris loves that I make him stop on long trips to take photos of oddities.  In my defense, I really hate stopping when I'm on a road trip so I have to be super compelled to pull over.

By the way, Congratulations to Diantha- baby Bryce was born Saturday, which means baby photos next post!