Thursday, September 27, 2007
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Overdue Post
It has been 10 days since my last posting. I realise I'm getting lazy, or more likely just impatient. I got so spoiled when I had broadband, that I now rarely have enough patience to deal with anything more than checking emails and my bank balance online. It just seems to take forever whenever I try to do much online. My laptop isn't even plugged in when I'm not using it. I always kept it in hibirnation, but turning it on brought it right back. Now I need to take it into the kitchen and set it up every time I use it. Otherwise, I end up using my Aunt's computer.
she also has dial-up, but at least it's plugged in and on stand-by.
I've mentioned before that Fall is my favorite season.Unfortunately, Fallis not perfect. Fall brings the allergic reation to the dreaded chenopods and sage brush. At least this year I didn't start really reacting until mid September. Sometimes I have problems frrom mid August. I've had a sinus headache since Monday afternoon and it's now Thursday afternoon. Fortunately, it waxes and wanes in intensity,sometimes almost disappearing altogether. I've noticed, it's almost gone when I'm in a store with filtered air. It's good that I work in a store. It would help if the south wind would stop blowing, but as there's aslow moving cold front in California trying to get to Utah, I suppose it will be blowing for a few more days. Sadly,my best remedy is a good hard frost. Unfortunately, that can also be the start of winter, though not always. One can only hope I guess
she also has dial-up, but at least it's plugged in and on stand-by.
I've mentioned before that Fall is my favorite season.Unfortunately, Fallis not perfect. Fall brings the allergic reation to the dreaded chenopods and sage brush. At least this year I didn't start really reacting until mid September. Sometimes I have problems frrom mid August. I've had a sinus headache since Monday afternoon and it's now Thursday afternoon. Fortunately, it waxes and wanes in intensity,sometimes almost disappearing altogether. I've noticed, it's almost gone when I'm in a store with filtered air. It's good that I work in a store. It would help if the south wind would stop blowing, but as there's aslow moving cold front in California trying to get to Utah, I suppose it will be blowing for a few more days. Sadly,my best remedy is a good hard frost. Unfortunately, that can also be the start of winter, though not always. One can only hope I guess
Monday, September 10, 2007
This and That
I've actually been chilly today! After one of the hottest summers on record in Utah's Wasatch Front, we're actually getting some cooler days. Today may be only 69 degrees, tomorrow 72 or so and low 8os the rest of the week. I didn't even use my car air conditioner Sunday morning driving to work. I'm enjoying it, but am thinking of dressing a bit warmer. My Aunt wore a sweatshirt golfing last week!
The past 3 Saturdays, I've been acting Chef for our Saturday Chef Event at our Sam's Club. We normally have a wonderful chef named Harry, but he had to go back to Indonesia when his father passed away. The first Saturday was pretty scary, but my supervisors helped out a lot, doing much of the prep work, so all I had to do was cook the pork ribs. The next week, I was more comfortable cooking salmon, which I've done a lot of, so I did my own prep work. In this recipe, I breaded the salmon with a mixture of chopped almonds and seafood seasonings. The pasta dish that went with it was a Bertoli frozen dish that only needed heating. The last Saturday was pretty challenging. I cooked pork loin with mesquite seasoning, and a pasta dish from scratch. The pasta dish is great, with asparagus, onions, garlic, olive oil, parsley and parmesan cheese. Most of the cooking is done in the store proper, just the prep work is done in the kitchen. I was so worried about cooking pasta in the area we have to use. Fortunately, I had co-workers who helped, cooking pasta ahead of when I'd need it. There's 2 of us working the event, one cooking, one serving and both setting up and cleaning up. This Saturday, my server had the extra work of putting olive tappenade on crackers as well as serving the pork and pasta dishes. Of course, we were busy too. I was so delighted to see Harry this recent Saturday that I just had to give him a big hug.
The past several Mondays, my Aunt and I have been working on cleaning up the basement. I must say, it looks much better. There's still work to be done, organising, etc. but at least there are actually places with empty floor space. We threw away and gave away stuff. Of course, we still have lots of stuff anyway, but most of what we have is still usable and hopefully, some of it will actually be used eventually. But that's for another day.
The past 3 Saturdays, I've been acting Chef for our Saturday Chef Event at our Sam's Club. We normally have a wonderful chef named Harry, but he had to go back to Indonesia when his father passed away. The first Saturday was pretty scary, but my supervisors helped out a lot, doing much of the prep work, so all I had to do was cook the pork ribs. The next week, I was more comfortable cooking salmon, which I've done a lot of, so I did my own prep work. In this recipe, I breaded the salmon with a mixture of chopped almonds and seafood seasonings. The pasta dish that went with it was a Bertoli frozen dish that only needed heating. The last Saturday was pretty challenging. I cooked pork loin with mesquite seasoning, and a pasta dish from scratch. The pasta dish is great, with asparagus, onions, garlic, olive oil, parsley and parmesan cheese. Most of the cooking is done in the store proper, just the prep work is done in the kitchen. I was so worried about cooking pasta in the area we have to use. Fortunately, I had co-workers who helped, cooking pasta ahead of when I'd need it. There's 2 of us working the event, one cooking, one serving and both setting up and cleaning up. This Saturday, my server had the extra work of putting olive tappenade on crackers as well as serving the pork and pasta dishes. Of course, we were busy too. I was so delighted to see Harry this recent Saturday that I just had to give him a big hug.
The past several Mondays, my Aunt and I have been working on cleaning up the basement. I must say, it looks much better. There's still work to be done, organising, etc. but at least there are actually places with empty floor space. We threw away and gave away stuff. Of course, we still have lots of stuff anyway, but most of what we have is still usable and hopefully, some of it will actually be used eventually. But that's for another day.
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Choose How You Age
I just recently read an article in Science of Mind about the new frontier of Ageless Living. The point of the article is that since we are living longer lives, we can choose to use our later ages to live in new ways from the first part of our lives. We can develope a new job and livlihood, start new hobbies and interests, try something we've thought about, but were too busy making a living and raising children to do. We can choose to be wise elders or cranky elders. we can blaze new territory, not worrying about being too old, or we can follow the old aging ideas of the pass and retire to our rocking chair on the front porch and complain about our aches and pains and complain about the younger generation and the state of the world. I think I prefer the first idea. I have days, like today, when I am tired and achy and want to take a little break, but the reason for the tiredness is some work days filled with activity and challenge and our usual Monday cleaning projects. At least with challenges you feel more alive, even though stressed. Besides, not all stress is bad for you.
There was a wonderful quote in the article of an e-mail that had been circulating on the web. No one seems to know the author,but it is a great sentiment, so I include it in today's posting. "Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well-preserved body.But rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in hand, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming woo-hoo, what a ride!"
It seems, to me, the trick would be to time it so you're not completely worn out until you're ready to go. Still, I really appreciate the quote's sprit, life is meant to be lived, and living can be messy and sometimes a little hard, but it's much better to live free from too much concern about appearences and opinions. I sometimes catch myself unconsciously limiting myself because I am of an older age, then I see a woman of 95 getting her BA degree and planning on getting her Masters next!
Obviously, getting older often brings some physical changes, but people often let that define them and limit them. Even with arthritic knees and carpel tunnel, you can still live a full life and do much of what you want to. You just need to work around any problems and don't make them reasons to stop living before you're actually dead.
There was a wonderful quote in the article of an e-mail that had been circulating on the web. No one seems to know the author,but it is a great sentiment, so I include it in today's posting. "Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well-preserved body.But rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in hand, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming woo-hoo, what a ride!"
It seems, to me, the trick would be to time it so you're not completely worn out until you're ready to go. Still, I really appreciate the quote's sprit, life is meant to be lived, and living can be messy and sometimes a little hard, but it's much better to live free from too much concern about appearences and opinions. I sometimes catch myself unconsciously limiting myself because I am of an older age, then I see a woman of 95 getting her BA degree and planning on getting her Masters next!
Obviously, getting older often brings some physical changes, but people often let that define them and limit them. Even with arthritic knees and carpel tunnel, you can still live a full life and do much of what you want to. You just need to work around any problems and don't make them reasons to stop living before you're actually dead.
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