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sweet ceramic knifei weep as you lie in twosnapped by metal knife (sob) -x-aarti

The other night, I had to throw something together quickly before Bren got home from improv class. Cue this delicious pasta which I’m calling “Cheater Cheater Pasta” because it involves using a jar of (gasp!) Classico pasta sauce. The one with caramelized onions and garlic if you must know. I don’t make a lot of [...]

I am not looking at facebook again today. I looked at it once this morning, and that’s it. I don’t have anything against Facebook. In fact that’s the problem: I love it. Too much. In the mornings, when I’m catching up on emails and blogs and news headlines, I’ll find that 40 whole minutes has [...]

Bren is such a conundrum: a fighter and a peace-maker. A warrior and a huggy-buggy. And this week, a Krav Maga specialist and a wedding officiant! Bren went for his Level 3 belt test on Saturday, in Krav Maga (the martial art practiced by the Israeli special forces). This is a pretty bad-ass form of [...]

This is by far, my most favorite character that Bren has conjured up. He’s a cross between Timothy Treadwell (of Werner Herzog’s “Grizzly Man”) and Grizzly Adams… a man who has decided that his true calling is to be with “the animals” because of his disdain for human kind. Only, this guy isn’t really all [...]

Feeling kinda pensive this morning, perhaps because the marine layer has returned (thank Goodness!) so it is grey outside. Lots of thoughts tumbling around the noggin. Yesterday at church, Brad was preaching about faith (in Christ), love (for others) and hope (in God) as being the bastions of a liberated spirituality. But that wasn’t the [...]

Found a great site called Playing for Change today, where sound recordists go around the world capturing different musicians playing the same song. What a wonderful result! They have a number of songs up, but this one is my favorite so far. Let it load completely before you hit play, so it doesn’t stop and [...]

I was excited about this time off from posting recipes, so that I could experiment. So far, the two things I’ve made have been a bust. Trying not to get discouraged. Ugh! -x-aarti

Oh thank Goodness. The PMS has broken and I’m starting to feel like myself again. I know that phrase is over-used but I really did not feel like myself this time around. I was so pessimistic, so blue, so mentally/physically/emotionally tired all the time. Bren’s excitement over seeing me smile again yesterday made me realise [...]

Last week, Bren and I were on a speakerphone chat with our friend Andy, using my cellphone. Resorting to the cellphone was actually the punchline to an hour-long joke, in which we tried to talk to Andy via ichat, ichat-video and skype, all to no avail. I was trying to talk him into getting Oovoo, [...]