minus the silencer... and the toddy

while researching cold-brewed coffee (70% less acidity, more caffeine), i came across this guy.

he not only has a precise science for cold-brewing that eliminates the need for the Toddy product, he also included this quote, which sums up our "stuff philosophy":

"There should be only one device in your kitchen that has a single use and that's the fire extinguisher." -Alton Brown

poopity-pants

something about having a child has made my husband and i use cutsie non-words for everything. most parents do this, at some point, usually adding "y" or "ie" to the ends of words. there is no "dog" or "horse" for the new parent, only "doggy" and "horsie."

*we* have taken this one step further. "nap" is not just "nappie"; "walk" is not just "walky." rather, we prefer the ultra-new-parent-extended versions: "nappity-nap," "walkity-walk," etc.

which leads us to "poopity-pants." thanks to EC we will have fewer and fewer of them. our count for today is THREE pees and ONE poop in the potty. that is our record. we are SO proud. in case you couldn't tell.

crimson and clover... or crimini and dandelion

just sittin' around, eating crimini and red dandelion quiche... and drinking properly-sweetened and -dairyed coffee.

the mushrooms and greens, as well as the eggs, the onion, and the crust of whole wheat flour and butter, are all from local farmers. the coffee is grown by my assistant midwife's family in brazil, and the half-&-half is from a local dairy. if i had sweetened it with honey, instead of sugar, it would be a 100% organic and locally-connected meal.

well, now that i'm getting nit-picky, i guess the salt and pepper are from afar, as is the paprika that we collected in hungary last year. ah well, it was a nice thought.

edward abbey (a literary god, in my eyes) once compared annie dillard to a combination between thoreau and dickinson. i must say that i agree.

i'm currently reading teaching a stone to talk and am so spellbound by each essay that i long to devour the next immediately, yet want to ponder each for many years. so i've compromised and limited myself to one essay per nursing.

c'mon baby, isn't it time to eat again? i gotta get my dillard fix!

oh...

...*snap!*

email forwards from deanne

In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.

How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?

Who was the first person to say, "See that chicken there? I'm gonna eat the next thing that comes outta its butt."

If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a song about him?

avoidance

the subsequent posts are all a brainless, 1 AM attempt to avoid The Inevitable Packing.

it took me 5 hours the other day to pack for a one-night trip. our next trip is ten times that length. i've always packed in the wee hours of the night before the trip, whether said trip was a day, a month, or a semester. yet, i've never needed to pack for both myself AND someone who craps their pants every two hours.

on a similar note, it's amazing how quickly a diaper change can erupt into a wardrobe change. one minute a diaper change can be just that, but mere moments later it becomes a diaper, diaper cover, onesie (b/c the poo gets on the leg holes), pants (b/c the poo leaks through the onesie), and socks (b/c the baby pumps his little legs and gets his heels in the diaper disaster) change. then, if Baby graces us with a pee fountain during this hullaballoo, add a sweater and hat change (and sponge bath) to the list.

asparagus.com

mmm... this season ROCKS!

my heart is in oregon

this guy sounds like a typical Potlander. yes, meaning "stoner."

i quote, "I had been convinced the heart should indeed be green and not red. You see, the first design had a red heart, red because it was a heart."

And, "Oregon is my home, I am an Oregonian. I'm formulating the big dream now. It will be spectacular and I and the people of Oregon will be stoked."

but you have to respect his dream. dude, selling stickers to support himself and his dog... just b/c he's mad crazy about our state! seriously, that's patriotism.