Thursday, September 19, 2002 :::
 

My neighbor pal, who is 10, ran over to my house in the rain today.
We were just chatting and eating Fudgsicles when I finally caught my breath. "I think this has been the fastest summer in my entire life...zippppppppppppp...gone."
"Your fastest? It feels like I already had another birthday!"
I plan to slow down for the fall or I will end up spending away my life. One more show on Saturday, then drink tea, read, go for long walks, and just sit around talking to people.
Has it been fast for the rest of you too?

::: posted by bite me, kick me, make me scream at 9:19 PM

 

Have you seen the new Axe body spray commercials? A puny guy is ravished by a beautiful model. If I smell a guy wearing AXE I will stay away. Too cheesy. BUT I do like one thing about that guy...his weird hair! I want to touch it. It looks like a raccoon pelt.

::: posted by bite me, kick me, make me scream at 10:06 AM

Wednesday, September 18, 2002 :::
 

The local cemeteries are being stripped of the flowers. Since West Nile affects the elderly and the elderly go to the cemetery every day to visit their dead spouses, someone had the idea that flowers may harbor the mosquitoes. It doesn't sound logical to me. Mosquitoes hatch in water. The tiny amount held in the cup of a flower is minisquile. And we have have little rain.
The mosquitoes are rampant in my yard. That's because I have a huge amount of foliage. I want to trim my shrubs. Maybe I should just let it go this year.
It's down in the 70s now. Great sleeping weather. I throw open all of my windows. I survive on fresh air...even in winter, on certain occasions.
The painters come on Sunday and Monday! I hope they will be okay.

::: posted by bite me, kick me, make me scream at 10:46 PM

 

More fights are erupting on my "I Love Bob Dylan" site. The Dave Matthews fans and the Adam Duritz fans go neck and neck on voting. Now I am receiving anonymus emails. Someone called Ryan Adams pathetic and that he shouldn't even be on my voting poll. Another told me that Adam Duritz is a "genious."
This is getting fun.
I wonder what would happen if I added Local H to the list?

::: posted by bite me, kick me, make me scream at 10:30 PM

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 :::
 

He came into my studio and looked at my latest painting. "I see you are doing prom queens...caskethead, horsehead, spinning top and brick wall head."
hahahahaha! It is a chessboard...bishop, king, knight, pawn, queen, rook!
He must not know chess.
But he did give me a new idea..prom queens! Now there's rich material.
See how good men are?!!!!!!!!!!!

::: posted by bite me, kick me, make me scream at 10:12 PM

 

I do like Daniel. He is funny. Last night he called saying he couldn't fall asleep, so I went over to his house and slipped into his bed. He woke up and said, "I like having a naked girl in my bed, even if I don't get to do anything." then he fell asleep and snored like an apeman!

::: posted by bite me, kick me, make me scream at 10:08 PM

 

How to Live on Soup

I live on soup and you can too. Here are my secret recipes. All of them start out with a can of Campbell’s. (I have tried to make soup from scratch but it ends up tasting like water and veggies. I mean REALLY bland. Yes, I do add herbs. Still they are failures.)
Now to the good stuff…
* Chicken Noodle: I make this three ways…either add a clove of crushed garlic or do it Greek-style and add a big squeeze of lemon or I sprinkle on crushed red peppers. Sometimes I do all three! These miraculous broths are what I call my healing soups and everyone I feed them to believes they work like magic…because they do!
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*Cream of Celery: Do this one the morning after you had bacon and eggs or pancakes for dinner. Reserve two strips of bacon. Then make up your celery soup as usual and crumble the leftover bacon into the simmering soup. Tasty!
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* Vegetable Beef: This is a really good idea for those days when you were so busy doing stuff that you forgot to eat. Put your soup on. Oh, add a quarter can more water than usual. Meanwhile make dumplings right off the Bisquick box. Well, actually half the recipe: 1 cup Bisquick, 1/3 cup water. When the soup comes to a boil, drop spoonfuls of dumpling dough into the saucepan. Cook as it says on the box: 10 minutes uncovered, 10 minutes covered. This is hearty and delicious.
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*Cream of Mushroom: Slice up 5 mushrooms and sauté them in butter. Add the soup and the milk. Heat. This is deluxe. Good enough for a party. Use the rest of the mushrooms with the rib eyes you will make for dinner.
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*Cream of Chicken: This is actually a brunch thing I do. Crack open a can of flaky biscuits. Bake. Cook soup using only half of the milk recommended. Place biscuits on plate. Pour on some of the chicky soup. Viola! I think this might be my Northern Girl version of biscuits and gravy. Try it. You will like it.
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Get well soon.

::: posted by bite me, kick me, make me scream at 11:49 AM