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elainegrey: Inspired by Grypping/gripping beast styles from Nordic cultures (Default)
Saturday, April 24th, 2010 08:46 am
I'm not doing the creek clean up today.

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Stage is filled with golden LIGHT, as if late afternoon. Stage right is a small outdoor table with two chairs. Stage left is a bicycle covered by a clear plastic TARP. Extreme stage left is a small table with a big plastic bin on it, taller than the bike.

Hanging on stage left are two bird feeders, hanging on stage right a suet feeder.

CHRISTINE enters through stage center door. Sits on furthest chair to right, closes eyes, basks in LIGHT.

ELAINE enters through stage center door. Sits on chair closest to door, turns face to bright LIGHT and blinks.

ELAINE gets up and mimes getting clippers out of a drawer on stage left.

ELAINE "I'm just going to dead-head these flowers."

ELAINE clips away.

The LIGHT begins to slowly dim.

ELAINE "This plant has been wonderful hasn't it?"

CHRISTINE, with eyes closed, "The daisy?"

ELAINE "It's not a daisy."

CHRISTINE "But it looks like one."

ELAINE "Well, the flowers look look like daisies but the the plant doesn't."

CHRISTINE "Right, that has a trunk. Daisies are on long stems so they can look little girls in the eye."

ELAINE continues clipping, exclaims, "Oh there are aphids on this rose!"

CHRISTINE "I guess you'll need to spray it." and it goes on )
elainegrey: Inspired by Grypping/gripping beast styles from Nordic cultures (Default)
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 07:03 am
Azure is the sky on many days here, but not so much yesterday. Yet i went into the nutritionist's office burbling, "What a lovely day." It was a very busy day and i am hard pressed to figure out what i found lovely about it: i believe i'm comparing it to what November in Philadelphia could be.

Bezel comes to mind as "B" word and i wonder what's going on with the interior Z's. I've got a Q in the lexulous game i'm playing with Christine (who regularly whomps us), not a Z. I did note that there's a worn spot on my Treo bezel, pitted like a satellite in our trashy orbit, but it's just a small area. It's not under any of the basic navigation points. As i went to sleep and played my ritual hand of solitaire while Christine read and pet my hair i realized the worn spot is right over the deck from which one selects cards.

Crazed, i choose not to break the Z pattern, and that brings me to
Dazed, where i wonder if this is a silly challenge, and i
Ease myself out of it by echoing the sound and not the letter.

Fun, i think that's what i'm trying to have here.

Helping out my health for the next few months with be a collection of Evening Primrose or Borage oil and Fish oil, as well as a bioflavinoid Quercitin. Now, when i hear that a fruit or vegetable has lots of antioxidants and bioflavenoids , i translate it as that "fruit or vegetable has lots of fruit and vegetableness." Eye rolling may occur. Per wikipedia's numbers, if i ate a kg of apples before each meal i'd approach the low end of the dosage proscribed for me. Of course, to say any naturally occurring product has N amount of some compound is to play the odds on a wide bell curve, as well as gamble on the breadth of sample used to calculate the average. Is the apple number all from Red Delicious from Washington state? Anyhow, it seems to be widely available.

I am stopping the elimination/exclusion diet today. I will probably continue to be wary of corn and wheat, although we have pizza planned for Friday night dinner after my colonoscopy.

Just a pleasant treat, is the pizza, while i already have a reason for feeling out of it, and the following day is a Meeting retreat where i don't need to be particularly motivated.

Killing off this pattern now, last paragraph in this game. I've got my mind moving.

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More about the nutritionist's advice )
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Greycie Loo was acting extremely unwell and subdued last night, curled up on our bed and not coming to dinner. Her behavior this morning is a little better, but she's still not eating. Christine's going to continue to watch her: the cats need to get some vaccines before being boarded, anyhow, so they may be off to the vet on Wednesday as it is. I recall we recently applied the flea meds. *worry*