Yesterday while on the way to the pool, Mary asked me, "Who was that statue of the big lady with the cookbook?"
"The Statue of Liberty," I answered.
"What does that mean? What's liberty and what is she for?" She asked.
So I told her that in "those days," there were people who had no money and would never had money no matter how hard they worked. And some people were treated badly just because of the church they went to or because the color of their skin may have been different. "Back then" I told her, American was a place where people could come to have a chance to make a place for themselves in the world. They could have liberty and freedom. The statue represents that, I said.
"Oh she said. Liberty and people can have a chance to be free and to do what they want to do. That must be why they have that saying if you can make it there you'll make it anywhere."
More kid storeis: Jude took a bite of my rice cake and said, "that tastes nothing like cake."
Kids are funny. Except when babies have to sleep right ON you. Or when you are feeding a baby and powerless to stop the toddler throwing food all over the place, exclaiming, "Uh Oh sgettio!" as if it was all by accident.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ERIN!!!!!! you are sooooooo beautiful.
CONGRATULATIONS OSCAR, you are soooo mobile.
here's my kid story: we got free all access passes to LOLLAPALOOZA on sunday. we were in the same food tent as SNOOP DOG and his huge entourage. my band mate, who had too many free redbulls, kept following them and yelling "INNOCENT!" then i saw FLEA and DAVE NAVARO very briefly.
and here's a related: I just got a colonic yesterday (ED told me to post when i got it) and interestingly enough, the dude told me to stop eating rice cakes because they're super high on the glycemic index and "gum up the works". And they don't taste anything like cake.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ERIN!!!!!! you are sooooooo beautiful.
CONGRATULATIONS OSCAR, you are soooo mobile.
here's my kid story: we got free all access passes to LOLLAPALOOZA on sunday. we were in the same food tent as SNOOP DOG and his huge entourage. my band mate, who had too many free redbulls, kept following them and yelling "INNOCENT!" then i saw FLEA and DAVE NAVARO very briefly.
and here's a related: I just got a colonic yesterday (ED told me to post when i got it) and interestingly enough, the dude told me to stop eating rice cakes because they're super high on the glycemic index and "gum up the works". And they don't taste anything like cake.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ERIN!!!!!! you are sooooooo beautiful.
CONGRATULATIONS OSCAR, you are soooo mobile.
here's my kid story: we got free all access passes to LOLLAPALOOZA on sunday. we were in the same food tent as SNOOP DOG and his huge entourage. my band mate, who had too many free redbulls, kept following them and yelling "INNOCENT!" then i saw FLEA and DAVE NAVARO very briefly.
and here's a related: I just got a colonic yesterday (ED told me to post when i got it) and interestingly enough, the dude told me to stop eating rice cakes because they're super high on the glycemic index and "gum up the works". And they don't taste anything like cake.
I also recently have become aware of my gluten intolerance. I was thinking like "a clean slate" or "a new leaf". it was good. the dude was an ayurvedic dietician and he told me all about my pitta dosha and that i shouldnt eat pickles or yogurt.
What!? No pickles or yogurt? Here's why you shouldn't eat rice cakes: BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT REAL FOOD. If it tastes like styrofoam, don't eat it. Eat what makes you happy.
Here's what we had for dinner last night: leftover meat loaf. And - all from my garden - red and yellow-striped tomato slices, a cucumber, french filet beans and broccoli. We were happy and thought we were awesomely wholesome and nutritious.
MINNEAPOLIS - A Minnesota study using frozen blood samples taken from Air Force recruits 50 years ago has found that intolerance to wheat gluten, a debilitating digestive condition, is four times more common today than it was in the 1950s.
The Mayo Clinic research team tested blood samples gathered at Warren Air Force Base (AFB) in Wyoming between 1948 and 1954 for the antibody that people with celiac disease produce in reaction to gluten. They compared those blood test results with those from two recently collected sets from Olmsted County, Minn. Researchers found that young people today are 4.5 times more likely to have celiac disease than young people were in the 1950s.
Erin! Happy Birthday to you. I've been trying to cut out the gluten from my diet lately as an experiment. I found (you probably already know about this) a gluten free beer called Redbridge. It's not bad. It's made with sorghum instead of wheat or barley. There's a locator of where to find it in your area on their website. AB makes it.
www.redbridgebeer.com
Phelan, you are absolutely right. Rice cakes do not taste like cake.
Hi, I found this poem on the last page of the Ireland of the Welcomes magazine that came today:
'Twas an evening in November, And I very well remember, I was walking down the street in drunken pride. My feet were all a-flutter, So I landed in the gutter, And a pig came up and lay down at my side. Yes, I lay there in the gutter, Thinking thoughts I could not utter When a colleen passing by did softly say, "Ye can tell a man who boozes By the company he chooses." At that the pig got up and walked away.
Their phone's disconnected. The casino isn't answering theirs. The website's owned by a party in Canada who is unavailable. I hope nobody in Algona invested too much up front. Don't return any deposits yet....
yes! ostensibly everyone has a place in the AYURVEDIC METHOD. there are 3 DOSHAS. PITTA, KAPHA, AND VATA. dr. colonic diagnosed me as a PITTA. you shd go to this thing and check it out:
yes! ostensibly everyone has a place in the AYURVEDIC METHOD. there are 3 DOSHAS. PITTA, KAPHA, AND VATA. dr. colonic diagnosed me as a PITTA. you shd go to this thing and check it out:
So a little while ago I bought some new headphones to wear so I can jam out while walking to work. The ones I bought were the ones that don't just rest inside the ear but are pushed further in and have a rubbery tip.
I have found out that my right ear produces much much more wax than my left. I guess that is because I am right handed?
I think it's definitely connected with the huge increase of industrial chemicals in our bodies. A 3-year-old today has more than 4 times the amount of chemicals in his blood than his grandparents (that's people my age) did at the same age. Our carpeting, detergents, furniture, packaging, air fresheners, siding, cosmetics, and food all have stuff nobody even dreamed of forty years ago. You have at least 87 different non-natural chemicals floating around in your blood right now. Besides the fact that there is a corn product in almost everything we eat now - couldn't that have an effect?
Back to pickled beet talk from last week- I love pickled beets too, and even though we are pickling some things, I decided against the beets because I'm the only one that eats them in my house. But I just looked at the jar I got from the store and the second ingredient is high-fructose corn syrup. I'm no health nut, but I think I will be pickling some beets now.
My job- I guess tomorrow it will be more official when I fill out the rest of paper work/ pick benefits, etc but it is working for a child care center in a women's shelter called House of Mercy. Most of the woman have drug or alcohol issues, or were in abusive relationships, or both. They can stay here for year or longer while working through these issues, and it's set up so their children can live with them on site. I would be in charge of the school-aged children, so while they are in school I would mostly be a liaison between school, home, and all the other adults involved in their care. Most of the children go to year-round school, so during their breaks every other month it would be like a structured camp time. The rest of the time I would be doing curriculum development for other teachers and filling in in their classrooms when needed. As far as I can tell right now, it's basically my dream job :)
You should take some pickled beets to those unfortunate women as a welcome gift. (What I mean is that their situation is unfortunate, not the women personally)
Mmmmm...I made Harvard Beets a couple weeks ago. They were basically a sweet-sour sliced beet that tasted almost pickled, but very fresh-beety. But of course the red liquid got spilled in the fridge. What a mess. I would say do all your beet-pickling at once, leaving plenty of time for your hands to return to their natural color before your job starts, or you'll scare the kids.
Congrats on your new job Ellen. I wish I lived Des Moines and could be your assistant. But don't bring those women pickled beets. They've suffered enough!
I eat pickled beets with every meal ('cept to break fast) what I do is buy a jar of already pickled beets and then when empty I save the jar and juice and then put in a can of CHEAP regular sliced beets...I've been able to do it over and over (probably because of the corn syrup!!)... I am going to try to roast beets.
58 comments:
Happy Birthday Erin! I hope the weather cooperates for a fantastic day.
p
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday Erin. Doing anything fun?
Happy birthday, Erin! You look beautiful!
You do look beautiful, Erin!
Happy birthday! What kind of gluten-free fun did you have? What did you do / what did you get?
Looking forward to seeing you guys at the farm.
Lisa
Please forgive my kid story:
Yesterday while on the way to the pool, Mary asked me, "Who was that statue of the big lady with the cookbook?"
"The Statue of Liberty," I answered.
"What does that mean? What's liberty and what is she for?" She asked.
So I told her that in "those days," there were people who had no money and would never had money no matter how hard they worked. And some people were treated badly just because of the church they went to or because the color of their skin may have been different. "Back then" I told her, American was a place where people could come to have a chance to make a place for themselves in the world. They could have liberty and freedom. The statue represents that, I said.
"Oh she said. Liberty and people can have a chance to be free and to do what they want to do. That must be why they have that saying if you can make it there you'll make it anywhere."
Lisa
Forgive my kid story too, Oscar took his first steps last night! He's very proud of himself.
Mary is so funny, and very insightful.
Hooray for the little O!
lisa
Happy Birthday Erin! You look maaahvelous!
More kid storeis: Jude took a bite of my rice cake and said, "that tastes nothing like cake."
Kids are funny. Except when babies have to sleep right ON you. Or when you are feeding a baby and powerless to stop the toddler throwing food all over the place, exclaiming, "Uh Oh sgettio!" as if it was all by accident.
Uh oh sgettio is funny.
Especially since it didn't happen in my house.
lisa
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ERIN!!!!!!
you are sooooooo beautiful.
CONGRATULATIONS OSCAR, you are soooo mobile.
here's my kid story:
we got free all access passes to LOLLAPALOOZA on sunday. we were in the same food tent as SNOOP DOG and his huge entourage. my band mate, who had too many free redbulls, kept following them and yelling "INNOCENT!" then i saw FLEA and DAVE NAVARO very briefly.
and here's a related:
I just got a colonic yesterday (ED told me to post when i got it) and interestingly enough, the dude told me to stop eating rice cakes because they're super high on the glycemic index and "gum up the works". And they don't taste anything like cake.
XOXOXOXOXO-phelan
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ERIN!!!!!!
you are sooooooo beautiful.
CONGRATULATIONS OSCAR, you are soooo mobile.
here's my kid story:
we got free all access passes to LOLLAPALOOZA on sunday. we were in the same food tent as SNOOP DOG and his huge entourage. my band mate, who had too many free redbulls, kept following them and yelling "INNOCENT!" then i saw FLEA and DAVE NAVARO very briefly.
and here's a related:
I just got a colonic yesterday (ED told me to post when i got it) and interestingly enough, the dude told me to stop eating rice cakes because they're super high on the glycemic index and "gum up the works". And they don't taste anything like cake.
XOXOXOXOXO-phelan
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ERIN!!!!!!
you are sooooooo beautiful.
CONGRATULATIONS OSCAR, you are soooo mobile.
here's my kid story:
we got free all access passes to LOLLAPALOOZA on sunday. we were in the same food tent as SNOOP DOG and his huge entourage. my band mate, who had too many free redbulls, kept following them and yelling "INNOCENT!" then i saw FLEA and DAVE NAVARO very briefly.
and here's a related:
I just got a colonic yesterday (ED told me to post when i got it) and interestingly enough, the dude told me to stop eating rice cakes because they're super high on the glycemic index and "gum up the works". And they don't taste anything like cake.
XOXOXOXOXO-phelan
Phelan,Phelan,Phelan.
i did not mean to triple publish!
Looks like either the free red bulls are still affecting you or the colonic is making you run wild.
Oh, I just thought you had three all access passage colonics.
Why were you having one and what did it tell you?
p
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ERIN...I think you're getting younger!! Have a great glass of California wine...I will as well...we can be sisters-in-wine!
I also recently have become aware of my gluten intolerance. I was thinking like "a clean slate" or "a new leaf". it was good. the dude was an ayurvedic dietician and he told me all about my pitta dosha and that i shouldnt eat pickles or yogurt.
What!? No pickles or yogurt? Here's why you shouldn't eat rice cakes: BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT REAL FOOD. If it tastes like styrofoam, don't eat it. Eat what makes you happy.
Here's what we had for dinner last night: leftover meat loaf. And - all from my garden - red and yellow-striped tomato slices, a cucumber, french filet beans and broccoli. We were happy and thought we were awesomely wholesome and nutritious.
I wish I could build a greenhouse for winter.
poor little quagga
I am puzzled by the quagga. If they are extinct, what are those little half striped things at the zoo in Des Moines?
Lisa
Interesting from Mayo Clinic:
MINNEAPOLIS - A Minnesota study using frozen blood samples taken from Air Force recruits 50 years ago has found that intolerance to wheat gluten, a debilitating digestive condition, is four times more common today than it was in the 1950s.
The Mayo Clinic research team tested blood samples gathered at Warren Air Force Base (AFB) in Wyoming between 1948 and 1954 for the antibody that people with celiac disease produce in reaction to gluten. They compared those blood test results with those from two recently collected sets from Olmsted County, Minn. Researchers found that young people today are 4.5 times more likely to have celiac disease than young people were in the 1950s.
p
Erin! Happy Birthday to you. I've been trying to cut out the gluten from my diet lately as an experiment. I found (you probably already know about this) a gluten free beer called Redbridge. It's not bad. It's made with sorghum instead of wheat or barley. There's a locator of where to find it in your area on their website. AB makes it.
www.redbridgebeer.com
Phelan, you are absolutely right. Rice cakes do not taste like cake.
Hi, I found this poem on the last page of the Ireland of the Welcomes magazine that came today:
'Twas an evening in November,
And I very well remember,
I was walking down the street in drunken pride.
My feet were all a-flutter,
So I landed in the gutter,
And a pig came up and lay down at my side.
Yes, I lay there in the gutter,
Thinking thoughts I could not utter
When a colleen passing by did softly say,
"Ye can tell a man who boozes
By the company he chooses."
At that the pig got up and walked away.
I thought you'd all enjoy it.
Dad
Lisa: Google Okapis.
Not to poke at a sore spot but....
http://desmoines.metromix.com/music/blog_post/rock-gone-wild-canceled/1389074/content
Their phone's disconnected. The casino isn't answering theirs. The website's owned by a party in Canada who is unavailable. I hope nobody in Algona invested too much up front. Don't return any deposits yet....
what's a pitta dosha? do I have one?
yes! ostensibly everyone has a place in the AYURVEDIC METHOD.
there are 3 DOSHAS. PITTA, KAPHA, AND VATA.
dr. colonic diagnosed me as a PITTA. you shd go to this thing and check it out:
http://www.holisticonline.com/ayurveda/ayv_home.htm
it's about as resourceful as astrology. there are compelling suggestions for each dosha. find your type!
yes! ostensibly everyone has a place in the AYURVEDIC METHOD.
there are 3 DOSHAS. PITTA, KAPHA, AND VATA.
dr. colonic diagnosed me as a PITTA. you shd go to this thing and check it out:
http://www.holisticonline.com/ayurveda/ayv_home.htm
it's about as resourceful as astrology. there are compelling suggestions for each dosha. find your type!
superkaphadoshalisticexpealidoshas!
p
Phe I think I'm Vata. Vata-ish. With some Pitta in there.
That was P.
So a little while ago I bought some new headphones to wear so I can jam out while walking to work. The ones I bought were the ones that don't just rest inside the ear but are pushed further in and have a rubbery tip.
I have found out that my right ear produces much much more wax than my left. I guess that is because I am right handed?
That's gross.
Ed how far is your walk to work? Do you have to dress up at work?
p
Its business casual with jeans on Fridays. The walk is probably just a little over a mile.
Well, that's a good walk a few times a week.
Happy Lefthanders Day! Are any of the nieces and nephews lefthanded?
p
A Lefty's Day on the 13th...that's not nice!
We missed National Leave Some Zucchini on your Neighbor's Porch Night. It was August 8th.
Ellen, post about your new job!
Okapis.
I knew the name wasn't the same, but I couldn't remember much more.
It may be a different name, but they still look a lot a like.
lisa
Regarding celiac -
Yet another auto immune disorder on the rise. I like to blame petroleum products/plastics/brightly colored dyes on all this.
I have heard of many pediatricians now recommending no glutens until 18 months.
lisa
I think it's definitely connected with the huge increase of industrial chemicals in our bodies. A 3-year-old today has more than 4 times the amount of chemicals in his blood than his grandparents (that's people my age) did at the same age. Our carpeting, detergents, furniture, packaging, air fresheners, siding, cosmetics, and food all have stuff nobody even dreamed of forty years ago. You have at least 87 different non-natural chemicals floating around in your blood right now. Besides the fact that there is a corn product in almost everything we eat now - couldn't that have an effect?
Back to pickled beet talk from last week- I love pickled beets too, and even though we are pickling some things, I decided against the beets because I'm the only one that eats them in my house. But I just looked at the jar I got from the store and the second ingredient is high-fructose corn syrup. I'm no health nut, but I think I will be pickling some beets now.
My job- I guess tomorrow it will be more official when I fill out the rest of paper work/ pick benefits, etc but it is working for a child care center in a women's shelter called House of Mercy. Most of the woman have drug or alcohol issues, or were in abusive relationships, or both. They can stay here for year or longer while working through these issues, and it's set up so their children can live with them on site. I would be in charge of the school-aged children, so while they are in school I would mostly be a liaison between school, home, and all the other adults involved in their care. Most of the children go to year-round school, so during their breaks every other month it would be like a structured camp time. The rest of the time I would be doing curriculum development for other teachers and filling in in their classrooms when needed. As far as I can tell right now, it's basically my dream job :)
Hooray for you Ellen! I'm excited for you and your new job! When do you start?
You should take some pickled beets to those unfortunate women as a welcome gift. (What I mean is that their situation is unfortunate, not the women personally)
Mmmmm...I made Harvard Beets a couple weeks ago. They were basically a sweet-sour sliced beet that tasted almost pickled, but very fresh-beety. But of course the red liquid got spilled in the fridge. What a mess. I would say do all your beet-pickling at once, leaving plenty of time for your hands to return to their natural color before your job starts, or you'll scare the kids.
Ellen - if you happen to plan a menu for these ladies avoid "battered" "beaten" and "whipped" descriptors on the menu. Just kidding.
These ladies and their families are fortunate to have you in their corner.
Tom
Congrats on your new job Ellen. I wish I lived Des Moines and could be your assistant. But don't bring those women pickled beets. They've suffered enough!
Congratulations Ellen!!! I guess Uncle Mike did a great job as your Godfather.
Ellen, that sounds fabulous and rewarding and challenging! Congrats. Bring them beets!
p
I eat pickled beets with every meal ('cept to break fast) what I do is buy a jar of already pickled beets and then when empty I save the jar and juice and then put in a can of CHEAP regular sliced beets...I've been able to do it over and over (probably because of the corn syrup!!)...
I am going to try to roast beets.
Congrats on your job, Ellen! It sounds amazing.
Mary - I had no idea that you loved beets so much. Next year I will be saving up many of these hideous veggies just for you.
You can add new beets over and over again because of the vinegar and preservatives in the juice.
lisa
Buy some fresh chioggia beets (pretty ones that are red-and-white striped) and simmer them in your beet pickle juice. They look and taste great.
Beet and goat cheese grilled sandwich...with a glass of white wine...YUMMY!
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