Tasty sweet!

Patient gave me some Halloween candy today. Awesome.

It's all fun and games

Until someone loses a finger!

Cookies started off fun to make, until I lost my whole evening! 

If I see one more freakin finger, I swear I'll ....

Grapefruit

....can last almost forever!

I think I'm on to something.

Yum

The day is nigh....

The mixed feeling day is coming....

I should try to enjoy it and the present time, as I always look back and say I should've. 

I just won't think about it. 

In other thoughts, this is a bad one I'm guilty of......sometimes I secretly pause and hope people in dt T.O can't parallel park and give up, just so I can take that spot. Sorry! 

Ran errands all afternoon, more yet to do!

Look up, soak up the sun today!

I duno about y'all but the people who actually post about being some sort of martyr for the sake of helping people and getting hurt in return, maybe arent really helping people to help the actual people they claim to be helping (too many helps there).
When they cry martyrdom from the tops of the streets - then its most likely they helped people more for the praise and adulation to begin with.....
Help the person without expecting anything back in return....you get nothing back, who cares? You helped someone. gez. get over it.
JMHO.


My rant.....Counteracted by how wonderful the sun is today - illuminating the leaves with still partly greens all about.  Can't help but look up when I was out and out the window all day when I am in....

Bike ride snaps..

This year I finally caught some nice reds along the path before they fall away. I like the Reds so much more than the rust. 

I missed the glorious sun though, twas overcast by the time I got off work and took my bike out. 

And I snapped some pretty graffiti along the way...

Oh baby...

I've decided:

PC's strained baby food is not an adult snack I prefer. Sorry. 

I'm sure it's healthy, no sugar added, organic and no BPA (?!) and a good go to for a quick snack.

But, while I was eating it I pictured babies eating it too (I'm visual) - the whole toothless mush-mush they do with it partially making it into their mouths and on to their lips and cheeks. I've seen it, I've experienced it. 

It made me feel like I should also be eating it that way... Mush-mush messy style.

And other thoughts ran through my head, like when babies regurg that stuff back up cause they are full, or they regurg that stuff back up only to take it back in, in attempt to try again, because they are unsure of how this whole new method of eating works. 

It made me also feel like I should be regurg'in this way too. 

Mush- mush, messy, regurgitate, repeat. 

Then for a few seconds it made me feel like I was eating baby regurgitated food!!!

Ahhhhhhh!

I tried not to think while I finished it. It tasted ok. Just the texture and my thoughts and the squeeze container. 

It seems pretty good for babies, and maybe a good healthy adult snack (thanks for the suggestion ;) - I did finish it - didn't waste) and handy. Just not my thing. Maybe its good to spread on a cracker or toast or as cupcake stuffing....

That Rusty colour season again...

The crisp air that shakes you a bit in the morning, the feel of your blood searching for warmth, that smell of the earth contracting and, of course, the rustiness that takes over the green....

This time of year makes me sad - only since I've started to cozy up to summer, the feeling of its loss just surrounds me. 

It's strange though how it also tends to come with memories - just the smell of the cool crisp air or how the sun shines through the orange and red leaves. And these memories, despite my sadness with the loss of summer, are good ones. AND even despite last year's most horrible fall ( likened to the Queens quote of Annus horribilis), I find it strange how these memories are of good times. 

 

Hopefully part of that healing process crap ppl talk about. Well, I guess I'm starting to be thankful of those fleeting moments in time, despite the outcome, and simply am thankful for that. More thankful for how far I've come. 

This doesn't really relate, and it's kinda sad, but still nice. It was my late (Steph.T) friend's fav poem: 

Nothing Gold can Stay

Nature's first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to Hold.

Her early leaf's a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay.

Robert Frost 1874-1963

Happy belated Thanks giving ! 

Roasted red pepper soup

Was pretty tasty even with the cumin... I'd probably use a tsp less o the cumin but over all yum. Never had red pepper soup before.

Oh and replaced tortilla with chicharron from Bernard's. 

Recipe from here http://cookieandkate.com/2014/roasted-red-pepper-tortilla-soup/

Accountability

Word of the day.

Business dictionary definition:

"The obligation of an individual or organization to account for its activities, accept responsibility for them, and to disclose the results in a transparent manner. It also includes the responsibility for money or other entrusted property."

Simple cause and effect people. It's pretty basic, and yet so foreign to those that look at money as their right to have, not something that is earned. 

I cannot imagine being hungry. I am Truely very thankful for that. I even get quite grumpy if I miss lunch - hangry as they call it. So when someone asks me for food I'm definitely up to help. A few weeks ago when I decided to help a man get some dinner, when I was ordering his food he said "you know to be honest I just really need the money to get to ...(wherever)". Funny, he just told me that he was really hungry and needed money for food.... 

If I'm hungry I would munch on the plain croutons left over in their pouch from yesterday's lunch. I wasn't giving him that. I was getting this man whatever he wanted at this sandwich joint. Snack and drink along with it. 

It makes me so sad (and yes mad) when people are dishonest in their intentions and take advantage of well meaning intentions. Yet this is the case in North America. I really don't get how to help people sometimes. There is a fine line between helping and enabling here. 

Unfortunately, because of instances like these, it has made me more weary of what is given out. You cannot throw something into the air and hope the wind places it where it is intended to go.... 

Just feeling fed up today. 

At least tomorrow is a new day ! (seriously, this blog was meant to be full of light hearted posts.... ugh)

11 herbs and spices

Apparently the secret is out. I doubt it since this batch has an extra spice and it turned out much better. Yumm and thank you to the expert chicken fryer ! I'm hoping that maybe one day they will say fried chicken is good for you....

Oh and something fabulous to add to my Jossipedia files:

"aggressive B.O" - something about this sounds so funny to me.... I got that from the article below. 

Something else to read on this here. 

CC is for cookie....