Snow (hey oh)

Come to believe that I better not leave
Before I get my chance to ride
When it's killing me, what do I really need
All that I need to look inside

The Vegetarian and Raw Food Diet

If you are on a diet that does not include meat, butter, sugar, chocolate, any other delicious ingredients and is made with only raw, uncooked food... and you invite me to dinner....please kindly obey the following rules:

*Do not discuss how you squeezed the salmon vertebrae so that they “pop” and how you then put the vertebrae juice into the salmon loaf that I am trying desperately to choke down at the very moment that you are describing all this spinal popping action.

*If you plan to serve salmon loaf (made with vertebrae juice), please have a pet available, hovering under the table, so that I can slip it my dinner when you are not watching.

*Do not call it pumpkin pie if it is not baked. Pureed pumpkin mixed with pureed carrots and squash is not pumpkin pie. If it does not have sugar and whipped cream (or a cream substitute such as cool whip), it is not pumpkin pie. Putting it in a pie plate does not fool me.

*Unbaked beets that are pressed into cardboard-like squares are not crackers. Even if you put cheese on them---still not crackers.

*Please let me know 5 minutes in advance as to when dinner will be ready so that I can rush to the table to beat everyone there in order to ensure that I get the plate with the smallest portions. (Dallas beat me to the table last time which meant that he got the smallest slice of salmon loaf. I cannot tolerate this mistake a second time.)

Yin and Yang

hmm...well that's strange. Just noticed that my favorite dark burgundy eyeliner pencil (the one I have been using for a year) is marked "LIPLINER PENCIL" in small print down the side. That might explain the extra creamy texture & hint-of-berry color. oops. Well I guess it's only fair. I once had a nice cocoa-colored lip pencil that I later discovered was an EYELINER. See..all things in life do balance out in the end~