Almost through here...not quite yet...

These pretty babies are

whats left of a larger plate that I shared in down sizing. In less than a week-end I was addicted and withdrawing from the high amounts of sugar over loaded holiday snacking. Good thing this is only a once a year overdose on pretty things.

How about a Waffle?

The waffle is just an amazing mix of flour and stuff. And just think of the fruit toppings and things you can dress it up on top! Strawberries for example fresh, chilled, canned, with whip cream and a dabble of butter.

Mom adds walnuts to the batter and a waffle is born when its on your plate and in your mouth. Try sliced bananas and syrup or a la mode. Pecans are nice to add also. Apple butter topping and or raspberry sauce even.

Chipping Away at Life

As 2010 comes to an end and I collect all the busy things I've done I cannot write at all the results or feelings of anything I've completed or started. At the beginning of the year I just wanted to get my mind off of things that were going over and over without any change and just one of those hundreds and hundreds of things was just enough to drive me crazy. You say prioritize right? Wrong. When so many things had such equal importance to me the only thing I could do was work on them all at once. Crazy? No. Eventually I was able to make small nudges to the areas that needed change and that is what I did. But then I would fall back again and again and over and over I'd go again. Dizzy yet?

Well when I began to figure things out and what was working and what wasn't working that didn't do anything either and I began to miss and long again for the repetition of things that went in circles because it was comfortable. I felt content with that same cup of joe and the same talk group for weeks. I felt good spending only this much on this and that only and found solace in things like pumpkin coffee and questionaires, articles, pictures, and then when the year was coming to an end I turned off the radio, the hot shower water, the nonsense talk of this and that and concentrated on on thing only.

That one thing lead all the change in the world that I needed in everything else. Maybe it was the right time, maybe it was the right place that it takes inside someone to budge from a state of comfortable circles to challenge theirselves even just a little. And so at the end of the year so much is only chipped and nicked at like the very things that surround my thinking and everything else mostly the things that involved alot of non thinking and submission and surrender and abandoning self to completely are the things that consume me and I just hope they are the things I do with love.

Trader Joe Gifts from Sunny

1. Lemon Pepper Pappardelle Pasta
2. Ital. Fusilli (corkscrew)
3. Ital. Tortellini with Pesto Filling
4. Ital. Farfalle (bowtie)
5. Mediterranean Pasta Salad Kit
6. Mushroom and Herb Risotto
7. Masstri Pastai (little ears)
8. Shells and White Cheddar (Mac)
9. Wine Crackers/or Coffee Crackers
10.Roasted Gorgonzola Crackers
11.17 Bean and Barley Mix
12.Veg Broth
13. Tom. Roasted Red Pepper Soup
14. Sweet Potato Bisque
15. Carrot Ginger Soup
16. Tomoato Basil Marinara
17. Roasted Garlic Marinara
18. Pecan Praline Granola
19. Blueberries freeze dried
20. Shredded Oats
21. Whole Grain Wheat Bran Cereal (raisin)
22. Pesto
23. Chocolate with Sea Salt
24. Risuto