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FreeWill Wants To Look Lived-In
Feb. 21st, 2017 08:27 pmSoon I'll be off on my first vacation in 18 months. At first glance it might seem odd for an astrologer like myself to have selected two Sagittarians to be my housesitters. Members of your sign are reputed to be among the least home-nurturing people in the zodiac. But I'm confident that by the time I return, raccoons won't be living in my kitchen, nor will my plants be dead or my snailmail stolen or my TV broken. The current astrological omens suggest that most of you Centaurs, at least for the foreseeable future, will display an uncommon aptitude for the domestic arts.
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Not me. Today I committed culinary treason by loading an English Muffin with Swiss and American cheese.
Tribble Food
Aug. 3rd, 2016 04:04 pmhttps://www.kashi.com/our-foods/cold-cereal/kashi-golean-crisp-cinnamon-crumble-cereal
Got a big box of the above cereal a few days ago and am trying it out. It's a lot less sugary than what I've usually been eating for breakfasts.
Aphorist James Guida contemplates the good results that can come from not imposing expectations on the raw reality that's on its way. "Not to count chickens before they're hatched," he muses, "or eggs before they're laid, chickens who might possibly lay eggs, birds who from afar might be confused with chickens." I recommend this strategy for you in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. Experiment with the pleasure of being wide open to surprises. Cultivate a mood of welcoming one-of-a-kind people, things, and events. Be so empty you have ample room to accommodate an influx of new dispensations. As James Guida concludes: "Not to count or think of chickens."
Breakfast, lunch and dinner of champions.
Useless Fact
Apr. 15th, 2016 09:12 pmUnderutilized: The FreeWill View
Dec. 17th, 2013 05:57 pmMany farms in California's Tulare County grow produce for supermarket chains. Here's the problem: Those big stores only want fruits and vegetable that look perfect. So if there are brown spots on the apples or if the zucchinis grow crooked or if the carrots get too big, they are rejected. As a result, 30 percent of the crops go unharvested. That's sad because a lot of poor people who live in Tulare don't have enough to eat. Fortunately, some enterprising food activists have begun to work out arrangements with farmers to collect the wasted produce and distribute it to the hungry folks. I gather there's a comparable situation in your life, Sagittarius: unplucked resources and ignored treasures. In 2014, I hope you take dramatic action to harvest and use them.
My whole life has gone to waste so far. I went to school and got a degree that seems to not be worth the paper on which it was printed; my work experience is spotty at best and lacks assuring qualities; my skills are either obsolete or incomplete. It's not so much that I have something that I can exploit--somebody needs to EXPLOIT ME.
FreeWill Is On A Sugar High
Oct. 1st, 2013 03:07 pmTo give you the oracle that best matches your current astrological omens, I've borrowed from "Sweetness," a poem by Stephen Dunn. I urge you to memorize it or write it on a piece of paper that you will carry around with you everywhere you go. Say Dunn's words as if they were your own: "Often a sweetness comes / as if on loan, stays just long enough // to make sense of what it means to be alive, / then returns to its dark / source. As for me, I don’t care // where it’s been, or what bitter road / it’s traveled / to come so far, to taste so good."
Dad bought us a bag of Cinnamon Mini-Donuts this morning. I'm wondering if I should have a couple with my next cup of tea.
I seem to be practicing good temperance everywhere else today.
Cereal Offenses
Dec. 3rd, 2012 02:45 pmI gave the cereal aisle some very close scrutiny, as I don't often do the food shopping myself and because things have changed since it was that Mum and I would go to the stores together. Anyway, I was about to give up when one of my favorites from my high school and college years, Kellogg's Cracklin' Oat Bran, was shown to be close-out priced at half of retail...or about what we paid every week or so for the store brand cereal I usually eat. So I got a box.
I ate about half a cup of it dry as I awaited this computer booting up. The smell reminds me of the sorghum-delivery vehicle stuff I used to throw in the feed buckets for my sister's horses thirty years ago. I guess I really am born Sagittarius/Year of the Horse.
Will Don't Come For Free
Jun. 27th, 2012 09:44 pmFrom the 14th through the 18th centuries, many towns in England observed a curious custom. If a couple could prove that they had gone a year and a day without ever once being sorry they got married, the two of them would receive an award: a side of cured pork, known as a flitch of bacon. Alas, the prize was rarely claimed. If this practice were still in effect, you Sagittarians would have an elevated chance of bringing home the bacon in the coming months. Your ability to create harmony and mutual respect in an intimate relationship will be much higher than usual.
If only I had an intimate relationship with anybody. I'm such a social electron. I spark far more often than I bond and even when I do, I can't help my negativities.
Gossip From The Next World
Jun. 1st, 2012 11:22 amI can't remember what she said.
Besides, would you really want to know?
Meals Closer To Revolution
Apr. 15th, 2012 12:41 amThe refrigerator ruined a better part of a pound of sausage overday. We have a problem with condensation or ice crystals that melt then refreeze.
Anybody know a good refrigeration techie on the East side of Tennessee who makes house calls?
Writer's Block: Learning Curve
Jan. 26th, 2012 02:40 pmIf I use two packets of instant oatmeal at a time, it only uses one cup of boiling water, not a cup and a third like it says in the instructions.
Fodder And Son
Dec. 21st, 2011 01:03 amThe Environmental Working Group wrote the Meat Eater's Guide to Climate Change and Health. It concluded that if every American avoided eating cheese and meat one day a week, emissions would be lowered as much as they would be by removing 7.6 million cars from the roads. This is the kind of incremental shift I urge you to specialize in during 2012, Sagittarius -- whether it's in your contribution to alleviating the environmental crisis or your approach to dealing with more personal problems. Commit yourself to making little changes that will add up to major improvements over the long haul.
Earlier in the month my father announced that his physician had recommended that he take up a vegetarian diet and give up cheese and other dairy products in order to get better control on his diabetes. I already have a habit of meatless days (and in fact, I wish I knew the method the U.S. Government used during the World Wars to set Meatless, Wheatless and Sweetless Days on the calendar) tho' I haven't made it so firm and formal.
I'm the token skinny guy in any group these days. Everybody else seems to have a bigger appetite than I do.
Snippets Of Dream Content
Nov. 30th, 2011 01:31 pm* Disney adds a new area to Walt Disney World devoted entirely to the studio's horror properties. The Haunted Mansion is moved out of Adventureland and updated to become the centerpiece of this park-let.
* A viral advertising campaign for a synthetic "incense" product gets a lot of notoriety when the people behind the campaign hack local TV stations to air commercials which are banned by the FCC. They ALMOST get away with it. But the phrase "Stoner Taxicab" enters the slang lexicon permanently.
Writer's Block: Frozen delights
Nov. 29th, 2011 09:19 pmLast time I was asked this I answered Fudge Ripple, but really I'm not as into ice cream as I used to be. Maybe that would change if I went back to Florida again...
I think Thanksgiving is (and should be) about where we come from as a people. Our origins, values, roots and traditions.
Resumption Of The Doughnut Wars
Jun. 27th, 2011 11:47 pmI had scanned some old LJ entries of mine over the weekend and so had the idea of buying her some donuts to celebrate. Only, at the supermarket, I realized that with the money on hand I couldn't afford what they offered.
Knowing my folks, on the morrow they'll make their usual Tuesday run to the bakery thrift store and get the week's bread. Maybe they'll also pick up a bag of mini donuts too.
With habit comes predictability.
