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1) Unexpectedly not having to work yesterday and enjoying the heck out of it.
2) Prozac.
3) Farmers’ market and church festival (woohoo Dora gone wild!)
4) Nope.
5) Cowbell.
6) I’m so much about TMI that this is a VERY difficult question. In that spirit this is the one thing that heretofore I’ve kept a very closely guarded secret (even my ex, who I was with for 12 years doesn’t know this) — I’m wildly ticklish on my feet and it’s probably one of my biggest erogenous zones but I’m too embarassed to tell anyone that. So now, having told the whole entire internets, I will run away and hide in embarassment.
okay, since i never do these things, i thought i’d give it a go:
1. the current heat wave has defined my entire week because i can’t cook, i stay up too late (since i can’t sleep in the heat), plus i get too grouchy.
2. what got me thru is running thru the sprinklers to beat the heat.
3. my son’s 7th birthday party is tomorrow! sunday will be spent recuperating from a backyard full of kids eating sugar.
4. um, yeah, trader joe’s has a great one in a box that you just microwave.
5. color
6. that there is a half open box of mike & ike’s in my office drawer.
1. Finishing my seminar final yesterday morning and starting summer immediately afterward.
2. What got me through? Knowing summer started as soon as I finished.
3. This weekend I’ll be in St. Pete for three Devil Rays games at Tropicana Field.
4. No risotto, sorry.
5. [edited for decency] more crazy photos
6. The people I live with, their dryer sucks.
1. Seeing a friend who’s in the middle of a very contested divorce, sitting w. her by the ocean, downing Mojito after Mojito (Mojito is a delicious Cuban drink made w. rum, lime juice, water and peppermint on ice!)
2. The Mojitos
3. I need to fullfill my pledge to go see “An Inconvenient Truth” which opened yesterday here in San Juan, Puerto Rico
4. Meg, would you believe, I don’t cook! You’d have to ask my second sister who inherited the cooking skills of my maternal nona.
5. Ads for vegan lipgloss?
6. I’m also going to be in the midst of a divorce not too long from now.
1. Having a panic attack about the state of my bank account one night, so that I couldn’t sleep, and waking up to three new orders that paid the day’s bills.
2. Umm. Irrational optimism?
3. Saturday: work. Sunday: sleep in.
4. Who needs recipes? Just cook your favorite short-grain rice in your favorite broth and stir in some yummy cheezes and such, a handful of whatever is in the fridge.
5. You, with a clown nose. In a business suit. looking stern.
6. I have a mole *inside* of my left nostril. It looks like a permanent booger.
1. Probably getting two more newborn puppies to bottlefeed.
2. air conditioning
3. surprise birthday party on Sunday; figuring out how (if) we celebrate our 41st anniversary.
4. The last time I made risotto, my guest got ill and has never let me forget it.
5. Video.
6. I never turn my TV off. Ever.
1. my boyfriend got down on one knee and asked me to be his wife…it was an especially nice gesture since we had already set a wedding date
2. lunchdates with friends…even through the week wasn’t difficult at all
3. running, running, and more running
4. i make it with fresh parmesan, sundried tomatos, and a bit of pesto…i don’t follow any specific recipe however
5. joke of the day, perhaps? … and, for Frances who commented above, I have connections for vegan lipgloss…pass it along…
6. i pull my hair out…not as in the metaphorical expression to connote exasperation, but rather in the impulse control disorder, classified in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders sort of way
1. I was able to get into my hammock and out of it. 10 weeks after gall bladder surgery it means I can do things without fear of tearing something loose.
2.I just returned from a vation on the Outer Banks. That helped me through.
3.I’ll spend this weekend in my garden.
4. I don’t even know what Risotto is.
5.A quote per day by someone you consider a guru.
6. I am happy, and becoming more so as the days pass.
1. I got a raise and my boss said that he is very pleased with my work.
2. See #2.
3. It’s a holiday here in Sweden, midsummer, but we have nothing planned as we are boring and teetotlers and 95% of everyone else in the country is probably drinking schnaps as I type.
4. No, sorry.
5. Can’t think of anything, I like what I see.
6. I lived in So. Cal. for 11 years.
1. Spending an entire day with my kids on Sunday.
2. Knowing that I’d be driving up to Banff this weekend.
3. Taking a road trip up into Canada to take some pictures with my brother.
4. I’m with Wally on this one. Sorry.
5. More colour (note the u) maybe.
6. I speak fluent Frisian (yippee!)
1. Getting my van’s A/C fixed.
2. Not more difficult than usual, but I wouldn’t make it through without God!
3. Child-proofing! The boy is about to start walking!
4. No recipe, sorry.
5. I couldn’t think of anything, but I liked the “color” response.
6. Pandora, the foot thing? I’m there with you. Um, I suppose I have to come up with something original, too, huh? I once cut my own hair until it was only a couple of inches long and spiky all over. Yes, it was as lovely as it sounds. And I was at least 21 when this happened.
1. Defining = wings and beer, 2nd night out EVER with manfriend since Nolan was born.
2. Last week wasn’t particularly difficult. Just monotonous. Kozy Shack gets me through.
3. Plans = writing, buying new earrings, renting movie, running. Maybe giving myself a facial if I’m feeling particularly wild.
4. I have never eaten risotto.
5. Maybe Flickr pictures/link?
6. I can stick my tongue all the way up to my left nostril but not my right. Also am the speediest speedreader this side of Peru.
1. The thunderstorm that kept Ouzo (and me) up until 2am last night.
2. The World Cup
3. Watching The World Cup
4. Marekeesh Express Sun Dired Tomato Rissoto in a box.
5. Meg kicking a soccer ball
6. I was a DJ for a ballroom dancing competition for 3 years.
1. A conversation about the value of the work I do.
2. Pseudoephedrine and ibuprofin
3. A visit with my niece, if I can shake this cold.
4. Um. No.
5. A link to my blog? :-o
6. I secretly wish I was more like David Niven.
1. I got the house clean, the bills paid (eep), and all the laundry done.
2. Paper towels and Spot Shot (my dog is having poop troubles)
3. I hope to catch up on my friggin sleep. Run a few errands, put off pulling the weeds in my garden for another week.
4. Not a fan of the rissoto
5. Maybe a bit more color, though I usually read you through a feed, so no biggie.
6. It’s way past my bedtime.
1. having the equivalent of a garden hose shoved up my nose and down into my esophagus… (can i just say, ICK!)
2. looking forward to going to austin next saturday with notsoccer mom and her son to see another friend.
3. i am on balloon duty at notsoccer mom’s for the party tomorrow.
4.
Wild Mushroom Risotto
Serves two as a main course.
3 cups chicken stock; more if needed
1 oz. dried porcini soaked for 30 minutes in 1 cup warm water; mushrooms chopped, soaking liquid strained and reserved
4 Tbs. butter
3/4 cup arborio rice
2 cups assorted fresh wild mushrooms, cleaned, trimmed, and coarsely chopped
2/3 cup dry white wine
Salt to taste
1/4 cup chopped flat-leaf parsley
2 Tbs. freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano
Heat the chicken stock along with the reserved strained porcini soaking liquid; lower the heat to a simmer. In a medium, heavy-gauge saucepan over medium-high heat, melt 2 Tbs. of the butter. Stir in the rice, toasting just until it starts to sizzle and pop, about 1 min. It should not color. Stir the porcini and the fresh mushrooms into the rice. Stir in the wine.
When almost all the liquid has disappeared, after about 2 min., add just enough hot stock to cover the rice. Lower the heat to maintain a vigorous simmer; stir occasionally. When the stock is almost gone, add enough to cover the rice, along with a pinch of salt. Check on the risotto every 3 or 4 min., giving it an occasional stir to make sure it isn’t sticking to the bottom of the pan and adding just enough stock to cover the rice when the liquid has almost disappeared.
Continue this way until the rice is just al dente, about 20 min. total cooking time. Bite into a grain; you should see a white pin-dot in the center. Take the risotto off the heat. Add the remaining 2 Tbs. butter; stir vigorously for a few seconds. Add the parsley, cheese, and more salt, if needed. The risotto should be moist and creamy, not runny. Stir in more stock to loosen the risotto, if you like. Serve immediately.
5. i have to go with the majority here… COLOR!
6. i am a lunatic about my breath and have 7 different kinds of gum in my desk drawer at work.
Am I still fun if I answer a day late? It was Midsummer Eve here yesterday and we were busy being good little pagan Swedes.
1. Midsummer Eve! Dancing round a maypole, eating strawberries, singing schnaps songs.
2. The thought of the 3-day weekend coming up.
3. Today is for vegging, after yesterday’s celebrations and tomorrow we are going to see an outdoor sculpture park at a castle and then a hands-on children’s museum.
4. Nope. Risotto requires way more patience than I possess.
5. A wedding announcement. :)
6. I once rode down the elevator of the Eiffel Tower with Don Rickles and Bob Newhart.
Look at me, with the late commenting. Yeesh!
1) I bought a plane ticket. I’m fleeing the country!
2) Friends. Absolutely. If not for friends, this normally nonviolent man would have killed this week.
3) Working. Of course.
4) When you find this recipe, call up that Australian chef and demand that he comes to your house and make it.
5) I kind of like it as it is. But maybe a million-dollar giveaway would drive readership?
6) In high school, I was in a production of “Grease”. I sang and danced in it. The tape exists of this, if you can find it. But I will never tell where it is.
1. My 26th wedding anniversary was Wednesday. 2. It was a good week, so that got me through.
3. Juggling Club on Friday night. Helpin’ my ma Saturday. Painting the study on Sunday.
4. Good risotto recipe: 1) Go to a good Italian restaurant. 2) Order the risotto.
5. Um. No, it’s too bold of a request.
6. I once danced naked in the woods during a thunderstorm. Only one other person knew that before now.
1)Seeing two friends after not being in touch with them for over 6 years.
2)TiVo and wine
3)To clean, eat, drink, watch tv and spend time with my dogs.
4)I don’t really like risotto. Then again, I’ve only had it twice so I would give it another chance, especially if Curtis Stone was making it.
5)A link to my website, http://www.chollyson.com!
6)I have a crush on Dave Attell.