C'est vrai, je suis allée au club français. J'étais très nerveux de rencontrant beaucoup de gens nouveaux mais il était bon et je me suis amusée bien. Il y avait environs vingt personnes et ils s'ont rencontré chaque mardi pour beaucoup d'années. Je vais apprendre plus de mots et apprendre aussi à écouter depuis beaucoup il y a des francophones natifs. C'est très passionnant!
Il fait chaud aujourd'hui. J'ai de la chance que j'ai la climatisation parce qu'il fait trop chaud pour moi.
Tuesday, July 02, 2013
Je suis allée au Club Français
Monday, July 01, 2013
Commencer encore
Pour les derniers jours j'ai pensé au retour à mon vieux blog ignoré pauvre. Pendant plus de deux ans rien n'est arrivé ici et j'ai oublié comment poster sur un blog - particulièrment mettre une photo sur un blog. Aujourd'hui je commence encore mais je commence en français parce que je vais faire un effort délibéré améliorer ma compréhension et ma capacité de lire et d'écrire et de parler le français. Donc je vais noter un blog avec phrases simples, les mots ordinnaires que je fais, où je vais, qui (ou que) je vois, que je pense, ou que je veux pendant ma journée.
Il y aura des erreurs, beaucoup d'erreurs sans doute. Je dois découvrir si je peux changer le spellcheck au français. Mais pas aujourd'hui, c'est tout pour maintenant.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Sending my prayers
My heart goes out to all those who lost their lives and those who are suffering in the aftermath of the tornadoes that struck in Alabama.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
chore relief
I was working on April's Doodle calendar this evening when I realized that I never took a picture of March. That's the problem with starting to get back in the swing of things - dealing with the nasty little reminders of the things I let slide. Fine. At least I still remember how to crop the picture and get it into Blogger!
and 3 beautiful things:
- Made a Red Lentil Cauliflower Curry for dinner - so good.
- My youngest daughter is going to Rome for the fall - so happy for her.
- Dave cleaned up the kitchen AND vacuumed this evening. Happy to get the help - even happier that he's able to use arm to do simple chores!!!
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
time goes by
I turned 59 on Monday. Just another year, no big deal. I was, however, pleasantly surprised by the cards, gifts, emails, Facebook comments, phone calls, and tweets I received. Life is good!
I successfully survived my 30 Day Vegan Challenge and have continued with vegan program on my own for the last three weeks. I've enjoyed the change - new recipes and a focus on mindful eating. I'm not sure when I'll re-introduce eggs and dairy back into the my cooking but it'll happen.
I've hardly been in the studio. I think the change of habit in the kitchen and the time it took to prepare the dishes used up what little creativity I had during these last couple of months. It took me some time to realize that I was also worrying more than usual and that left me drained. For several weeks, I thought my energy and enthusiasm was just low but it finally occurred to me that with both my husband and my daughter dealing with recovering from their injuries I was consumed with thinking about them - both consciously and subconsciously. My daughter has one more week of physical therapy and Dave's continues through the month of May.
and 3 beautiful things...
- Birthday wishes from friends and loved ones!
- Wicked.
- 52 weeks until I turn 60.
Friday, April 01, 2011
32nd of March
Finishing up Day 26 of my 30 Days Vegan Workshop and most of the time I've enjoyed the challenge. Doing without eggs and dairy has been easier than I thought it would be. The challenge was the grocery shopping, food prep, and cooking - complicated by the fact that I've been head chef, sous chef, wait staff and chauffeur since March 1st. I've been feeling pretty proud of myself but I almost blew it this evening when at Happy Hour the martini I had came with the blue cheese stuffed olive. I gave the garnish to my husband and gave myself a pass on what little "blue cheese" contamination the alcohol may have suffered. I like Rachel Maddow's cocktail philosophy:
"You're never supposed to eat the garnish. The garnish is not a snack. The garnish is there to modify the liquor that is in the glass. It is not there to provide you a tasty treat to go along with your drink. The drink is the treat."Amen.
and three beautiful things:
- Sun, glorious sun today. (I'm pretending not to hear the rain that has already started falling.)
- The house was cleaned today AND the lawn was mowed.
- Been enjoying the blooming hoya carnosa... the sweet smell is tolerable.
Monday, March 14, 2011
rain...
and 3 beautiful things:
- Dave and I worked well together today - shopping, cleaning, cooking... I think we've found our new normal. (Four and a half weeks to go, I can do it!)
- With all the driving around I did this afternoon in the downpour, somehow I managed not to get wet.
- 114k households lost power during the peak of the storm, we didn't.
Saturday, March 12, 2011
spring forward
and 3 beautiful things:
- took the day off - didn't worry about the "should", just did what I wanted to do, when I wanted to do it.
- Played in the kitchen making baked tofu, quinoa tabouli, and pad thai.
- People can make a $10 donation by texting REDCROSS to 90999. Their donation will go to support relief efforts for the earthquake in Japan and tsunami throughout the Pacific.
- Google Crisis Response - list of additional resources
Friday, March 11, 2011
food, sun, sleep - - perfect
and 3 beautiful things:
- Friday morning breakfast out with friends and a delicious vegan scramble with tempeh, broccoli and potatoes.
- Took a clue from the dog today - she went out the backdoor and laid in the sun on the deck. I joined her, but I sat in a chair and read. Luscious warm sun.
- I'm tired, in a good way, and really looking forward to putting my head on my pillow and going to sleep.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
home sweet home
Week 09 and 10 done. All I needed was a little time to finish them, funny how that works, at least I'm back on schedule. Happiness.
and 3 beautiful things:
- A sweet twelve hours, alone in my house... pure joy!
- Played the piano for an hour.
- Four full days of vegan meals and I feel great. I'm not feeling deprived and have made some yummy dishes. A pleasant surprise.
Wednesday, March 09, 2011
time may change me
and 3 beautiful things:
- Change is good. Change all at once has had me a tad ruffled. I'm happy I've recognized that.
- Both my daughter and husband are doing physical therapy and it hurts knowing how they are suffering. But watching how they're taking care to get back to full health makes me so proud, and happy, too!
- Maple roasted root vegetables for dinner. oh, yummy...
Tuesday, March 08, 2011
it might as well be spring
and 3 beautiful things:
- The daffodils in my front yard are just about to open. Just down the hill the daffodils have been open for the last five days. I've been patiently waiting. I brought in three daffodils inside - happiness!
- I've discovered red quinoa and I love it. I made a quinoa tabouli with cucumber, red onion, scallions, chickpeas. Drizzled with a little white balsamic/Dijon dressing, heaven.
- I had a chat with my sister today - always warms my heart! Later I sent her a text/picture of my daffodils using the Ikebana vase that she had sent me for Christmas one year. She quickly replied in a text that she was "copying that tomorrow." I'm so happy I inspired her but I was left wondering if she has daffodils in the front yard of her Texas home.
Monday, March 07, 2011
just this
and 3 beautiful things:
- Sat outside and read a bit. It was a little chilly but lovely.
- Made Aloo Gobi for dinner but didn't want to wait for rice to cook. We had red quinoa instead - good choice.
- Day 1 of the vegan challenge was wonderful. The best part is focusing on self care inside and outside!
Sunday, March 06, 2011
weekend end
I'm driving Dave to work tomorrow at 8am. The house to myself. What ever will I do? I'm sure I'll think of something!
I took some time to straighten up the pantry and label some of the new (cheap, $3 for 10) plastic containers. I shopped and pick up some foods I usually don't have in the house. Luckily, the Co-op has nearly everything but I needed help finding the sucanat and they were out of mint (I'll survive.) Surprisingly, Dave is really looking forward to my 30 day vegan challenge. He figures he'll be able to score lots of side dishes
and 3 beautiful things:
- Wow! Talk about your altered books. Brian Dettmer has sculpted beautiful works of art out of books. I'm in awe. Go there, enjoy! (and read his artist statement.)
- Just finished tomorrow's NYTimes Crossword.
- Did I mention I'm driving Dave to work at 8am tomorrow. I love him but I need a little me time.
Saturday, March 05, 2011
the never ending chores
Busy with household chores and more household chores. Will rest tomorrow.
and 3 beautiful things:
- This is cool. Makes my brain happy just thinking about - a list of 101 Brain blogs! I tried to keep myself from spending hours, I set the timer for 20 minutes read about: the Zeigarnik effect; Brain Awareness Week (March 14-20); various posts here; and here; and here. (Some blogs could not be found list was published Dec'08)
- Called my mom and dad, had lovely talk. They painted their living room yellow and gold, and bought a off-white leather sectional. Mom says they're going for a clean modern look. Made me smile!
- Made chocolate cookie dough for Dave. I still need to roll the dough into balls and freeze. We had a nice day together.
Friday, March 04, 2011
books and more books
After breakfast, I swung by the library to pick up three books I had placed on hold. I wanted to look at Robertson's 1000 Vegan Recipes but it wasn't at the library. Found a copy at Border's and after looking through it for about ten minutes, decided to just buy it. Got home to discover a shipment from Amazon. It's been a very good (book) day!
and 3 beautiful things:
- Duh, the books!
- We were having fish tacos for dinner and I sliced open the most perfect avocado - should have taken a picture - looked beautiful, tasted great. Simple pleasures!
- I'm off now to snuggle up with a book or two... happiness.
Thursday, March 03, 2011
doodle, peaches, and smiles
Finally had a chance to get into the studio and take a picture of February's Doodle Calendar- it nearly felt like a creative intervention. Sigh... Maye I'll get a couple of hours tomorrow.
and 3 beautiful things:
- A friend brought over a peach crisp. Lovely. Happy day.
- I was expecting a call at 3pm. Unbelievably, the cable of the land line phone was cut and impacted phone service to the entire neighbor. I was pleasantly surprised when my cell phone rang at 3:05p - my friend assumed something was wrong and called me on my cell home. Smile. Talked for a couple of hours. Still Smiling.
- Husband doing well, daughter's pain subsiding and she feels confident driving the Mini... life is beautiful.
Wednesday, March 02, 2011
to rant or not to
It's been one of those days. I finally had to take a deep breath and go sit quietly in my room. Alone.
I'm use to having the house to myself during the weekdays and even though I was prepared to be home with Dave while he recovers, the "be with" time got just a little overwhelming. The cooling unit that keeps his shoulder cooled is eating up ice faster than he thought it would. So, off to the store to buy huge bags of ice (and a few bulk items for the pantry). Could he have stayed home? Yes. Did he? Of course not.
Back home, I was starting to reorganize the pantry to accommodate the new foods when I notice that things didn't sound right with the refrigerator. Isn't it ironic that the refrigerator would pick today to stop making ice. Not only stop making ice but the waterline came off the back of the refrigerator and water was leaking for hours. We then worked together to debug the problem and ultimately fixed it.
The whole day felt as if I was taking one step forward and three back. I've got plans to implement several changes this month and have put myself on a fairly aggressive schedule to get things done. Oh, silly me.
"Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied with drawbacks and discomfort." ~ Arnold BennettOkay, moving on.
and 3 beautiful things:
- Watched this TEDtalk - Brene Brown on vulnerability (recommended by Heather.)
- Oops, I did it again. I'm ordering another book. This time, The Artful Bird by Abby Glassenberg. I didn't think I wanted to make soft toys.
- Searched the library looking for vegan cookbooks. Most of the ones I wanted were already checked out, but I did request a hold on a few. Later I came across this recipe for Olive Lentil burgers - cool.
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
waiting... Godot never comes
I had lots of time to sit and wait today. I took Dave to the hospital at 8am and brought him home at 2:45pm (swinging by pharmacy to pick his pain meds.) While he was having surgery on his shoulder, I surfed and surfed the interwebs. It wasn't a total waste of time but, geez, everybody has I blog... I know, I know, I'm also among the hackneyed masses. In general, I limit my computer time to an hour for visiting a few select blogs, reading, commenting and writing my own blog post. Some folks out there must be spending hours and hours and hours - I don't know where they get the time... I hope they've at least found a way to generate some income from it!
and 3BT:
- I thought this was sweet - made me smile - Becky Adams.
- Dave put the trash and recycling out before his surgery - a day early! Even if it wasn't for me, I'm happy he dealt with it.
- It didn't rain on us today!
Monday, February 28, 2011
two months down, ten to go
What did I do today? Really what? I think what happened is that I busied myself with cleaning and organizing the house. It's the type of busy-ness I do when I'm going on vacation - got to get it picked up and cleaned so that when I come back it's picked up and cleaned. Crazy thinking. Also, it must have something to do with Dave going in for shoulder surgery - 8am in the morning! This is NOT going to be a vacation.
and 3BT:
- The NYTimes has started posting an online-only Children's Book Review each week. I'm looking forward to some wonderful illustration and this first one doesn't disappoint! "Snow Rabbit, Spring Rabbit"
- It rained (and rained) today. The temperature was in the forties. I was so happy.
- Sometimes it is the simplest things that give me pleasure - a freshly laundered, warm towel. Heaven.
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