"Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever."
Today started out as a good day. When I woke my wife was dressed and herding the semi-chimps toward the car and school. She felt well enough to attempt driving them to school. It has been almost 2 months since she drove. She told me that the physical part was ok but that she did feel stressed by being out and about.
The picture is more evidence on her continuing recovery. She has finally bought into my argument that we do not have the luxury of keeping unused stuff due to the tiny size of "shattered manor". At 1200 square feet and only 3 closets we have to declutter and remain decluttered. That is hard for me because I remember the innumerable times I have needed something just days after throwing that something away. In the picture she is sorting through the stuff in the past flatware drawer and discarding the outdated and the unknown. I found the duplicate key for our safe deposit box in that drawer. We lost the master key some years ago and I dreaded having to buy another key.
But in an ominous turn I opened the letter from the 2010 census bureau. The thing is in English and Spanish. I scanned. OCRed, copied and pasted the Spanish.
Estimado residence: Dentro de qproximadamente una semana, usted recibira por correl un cuestionario del Censo del 2010. Cuando reciba su cuestionario, per favor, completelo y devuelvalo por correo enseguida.
Sus respuestas son importantes. Los resultados del Censo del 2010 se utilitizaran para ayudar a cada comunidad a obtener su parte justs de Ios fondos federates para carreteras, escuelas, instalaciones medicas y para muches otros programas que usted y sus vecinos necesitan. Sin un censo completo y preciso, su comunidad podria no recibir la parte que le corresponde.
Gracias anticipadas por su ayuda.
Atentamente,
Robert M. Groves
Director, Oficina del Censo de los EE.UU.
Nothing gets my ire up quite so fast as a bilingual document from my government. I want to see $0.25 evidence that the Mexicans or any other Latin American Country contributed significantly to the building of America. The language our government uses in its official capacity should and must be English. Catering to any other language assures the speakers of the other language a secondary position in our economic system. Go south and see if any of those countries cater to the English speakers. Countries not businesses. But as long as the politicians at all levels of government are whoring for money they will do anything up to and including selling the USA to the highest bidder. I spent over half my day enraged. I stayed busy but POed.
I did finally get the second shelf installed to the left of her vanity dressing area in the bathroom. I have had those two glass pieces stored in the unusable central heater cabinet for 30 years. I know it was that long because the newspaper they were wrapped in was from July 1979.
The fact that I could use something horded so long just reinforces my tendency to save everything. I think the decluttering and staying decluttered is going to be harder on me than her. I have, in the midst of working on "shattered manor", also been cleaning and reorganizing my "rubber shed". I have it clear enough now that I have been considering returning to wood turning.
Then tonight I discovered a voicemail left at 5:03pm from my cardiologist's office telling me it was urgent that I contact them about the results of the blood test I had done March 4. Mary did not say why but did restate that it was very urgent that Dr. Gonzalez talk to me. I am taking a cholesterol drug and the blood test is checking for liver damage. Being paranoid and a hypochondriac I expect to be told my liver has totally failed and I only have a short time left. Let us hope I am wrong.
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3/8: Loving Father, thank you that even when I feel trapped and my situation seems out of control, you are still at work in my life. Help me to see you even in the darkest times. Amen. I had not realized just how blessed we are until I started driving the church van to bring these Santa Maria women and the residents of Turning Point and Independent Living to Terrace United Methodist Church. Please click on a PRAYER LIST for the women of Santa Maria and Bonita House for the week of March 1, 2010. | |
POTATO CRUST QUICHE
Crust:
3 Cups grated raw potato
3 Tbsp Vegetable oil
Mix and gently press into a buttered Quiche dish or 9 inch pie plate (press up the sides as well).
Bake at 425 for 15 minutes.
**TURN OVEN DOWN to 350 to bake quiche.
Filling:
1 large Onion, grated. Spread over crust.
1 Cup grated cheese. Sprinkle over onion.
1 Cup slivered ham (or chicken or sausage or salmon or tuna). Spread over cheese.
2 Beaten Eggs
1/2 Cup Milk. Add to beaten eggs.
Pour slowly over ham or 'whatever'
*Add more milk if necessary to almost fill the dish. Bake at 350 for about 30 minutes or until quiche is golden brown.
This quiche reheats quite nicely.
The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.
Thomas Jefferson
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