Dorie’s Different Reality

If you have a child, or a grandchild, you’ve probably read The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. It’s a classic! “In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf…” So the cutie hatches and eats his way through a week. He starts on Sunday with one red apple. By Saturday he eats an ice cream cone, a pickle, a lollipop, a muffin and a piece of cherry pie- then he got a stomach ache. So the next day he ate a single bright green leaf.
Anyhow, I’m feeling like that today. Too much holiday feasting. The good news is I’ve got some nice tuna steak thawing and there will be fish tacos tonight!

Happy New Year! Would you believe I went to bed at 9:30? I was nodding off!  Tesla the Fraidy Dog rang in the new year by barking at midnight. Some of the neighbors shot off some fireworks and he decided to raise hell and wake us up. Welcome 2008!
The Rose Parade is on TV now. I have to confess that I lived the first 22 years of my life in California and I never went to the parade. Now, I think it’s another casuality of Global Warming.  In the 40’s, early 50’s back when the USA still got COLD in the winter, it was probably a bigger deal to see sunshine and pretty flowers in bloom on television. Today it’s 49 degrees outside; hardly the Yukon. And this is the jet age- I can buy red roses by the dozen (from South America) in the supermarket. So the Rose Parade doesn’t seem that big a deal to me. Maybe next year, with HDTV, it might be more interesting.  Smellovision would help too!

I have to amuse myself today. I’m not into college football and there’s lots of that to watch. I can flip over to the public television station which seems to be having an Andre Rieu marathon- at least three “specials” What the heck is up with that? I’ve blogged about Andre before…do not get it

>>If you haven’t met me in real life, I should clarify that Mike and I kind of put the N is Nuclear Family. It’s okay- I get broody about it, but it’s just the way our cards came up. We moved to Maryland years ago for a job, but we don’t have a single relative here. Our grown married daughter lives in upstate New York where it really gets cold, and they get serious ice on the roads. So instead of driving up for the holidays, we decided to visit in the Spring- maybe Easter, which is March 30 this year. It’s not easy for 50-somethings to change jobs and the housing market is in a slump, so we’ll be here a few more years and then we’ll head North. Or buy a condo at the beach (yeah right) but someplace with more community. I’d settle for an actual town with sidewalks!

Don’t need no Resolutions! I’m going for hopeful aspirations this year. I hope to expand the garden. It gives me a lot of pleasure seeing how everything comes out. Some things do well and other things just “peter out”.   We’re totally growing more heirloom tomatoes! I made fresh salsa by the big bowlful. Mike paid me the best compliment: he went out to lunch with his co-workers for Mexican and came home and told me our salsa was much better. Ole! In the next couple of weeks, the seed catalogs will arrive and I can plan. Lots more salad goodies. We’re also lucky to have a few nice “pick your own” places where I can get berries and such. I make “real” jam without all that corn syrup muck!
More (and better) Knitting! I’m going to try some of the “knitalong” events to expand my horizons. Also planning to take up amiguruimi crochet and make some cute animals. My oldest sister is a professional crafter and I have visions of being like her and coming up with something cute and marketable.
Reading- well yeah always but this year I want to revisit old favorites and perhaps read some classics I never read before. There’s a group, “Knit the Classics” that reads a book and shares the knitted things they’ve made inspired by the characters. The next one coming up is The Count of Monte Cristo, which I know I’ve never read. So why not?

 A lot of people had a crappy 2007- we had sort of a lame year. I’m hoping for good changes in 2008.
Thanks for hanging with me!

This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 1st, 2008 at 1:53 pm and is filed under Baby Boomers, Books, Culture, Dogs. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.