The smile on your face I live only to see
– Lay here and watch the trees sway
How to have my Tuesday in 7 simple steps.
1:Wrangle with your insurance company and that of the other party involved over the fault of the rear-ending that you experienced 5 months ago and finally get them to come to the conclusion that it WAS NOT your fault and that you can now get your car fixed.
2:Drop your car off at the body shop which also has a rental place and drive off in a spiffy PT Cruiser.
3: Get a job teaching at WEBS so you meet awesome people who will bring you fresh Hadley Grass from their garden for NO reason, out of the blue, while you are happiily crocheting away at Drop-in. Thank you Joyce!!
4: When you get home from work with the kids marinate the asparagus with some chives and oregano from your garden and a bit of the real balsamic vinegar that your sister brought snuck back from Italy almost 2 years ago that you totally hoard.
5: Fire up the grill and get it ready for some steaks and the super yummy asparagus.
6: Counsel, comfort and bandage your almost 7 year-old after she shatters the glass on your garage side door and scares the SH!T out of herself, her sister and you. (Breathe a sigh of relief when you clean up the Van Gogh worthy amounts of blood from the side of her face and ear and you only find superficial cuts. *sigh*)
7: Clean it all up and be ready to sit down to a delicious meal just as the hubby pulls in.
You could probably get away with steps 4, 5 and 7, or you could make up your own, but that would be simple and easy. The best things in life are more enjoyable if you toss in some drama, and a full belly.
SO full.
and no, that is not some secret allusion to me being pregnant, I’m just super full of asparagus.
Toots
Done up in blueprint blue
– its your favorite foreign movie
I made my Mommy some flowers yesterday. I loves her.
I’ll try and put together a tutorial later in the week if I can get through the rest of the stuff I need to do.
Toots
Hold your breath, make a wish
The kids have been watching this movie like crazycakes the past month, not that I mind, I would rather spend hours with Gene Wilder than 10 minutes with Hannah Montana.
I bring up Willy Wonka because the name came up twice in my life this week.
First: We made jam on Sunday. I had gone to the Twist Fair on Saturday with Melissa, Kristen and her amazingly well behaved (you put me to shame) daughter and Rue and we had a lovely time, and a lovely lunch at which I mentioned wanting to go home and make violet jam, I have mentioned this in past years. Melissa loved the idea and demanded the “receipt!” Oh the calm repose and patience that woman has Then I went back to Twist with Annie and had a second loverly time. I ended up with not a lot of loot but good loot. I bought some super cute hair clips from Tina, got a beautiful necklace from Malea – I’ll shows you later, soap and lotion from Bunny Butt and I ran into all sorts of people I know and love. Now, if I could just get off my ass a little more and make some stuff I could maybe vend at one.
Oh the Willy Wonka thing, right, its because Violet Jam is an insane color and Saebra commented that it looked like a candy that Willy would make.
Second: My friend Matt picked cahsews this week, he’s in El Salvador with the Peace Corps for the next 2 years. He and his host brother went out to pick cashews and he’d never realized they came attached to fruits. He said, ”…looks like something from Willy Wonka’s health food store.” Unfortunatly they don’t taste so good. And for those of you that followed his link, please ignore the mustache. Somewhere under there is the cutest boy in the world, I swear.
So what do you do with electric purple jam? you eat it of course! and it is delicious. Melissa says it tastes like spring and she is so totally right.
If you’d like the recipe, here you go:
Violet Jam – referred to by my husband as his brothers as violent jam
Makes 12, 4oz jars
3 C violet blossoms 5 C sugar
3 C water 2 – 1.75oz packets of powdered pectin
2 tsp lime juice
