Even though Autumn is still a couple of weeks away, our weather today was so Fall-like I decided to use this beautiful graphic that Donna did this week. I think our high today was only around 70* which felt wonderful. Now if only we'd get a little bit of rain!
We had a fairly quiet day. I watched some of the 9/11 tributes and commentaries, but I just can't bear to see or hear too much. It just breaks my heart all over again.
Check this out: Russian Mayor Bans Phrase "I Don't Know"
Could that work at home? Just imagine... (insert floaty harp music here)....:
Who left dirty towels on the bathroom floor?
I don't know.
Wrong! You're fired!
Honey, why don't we get away for the weekend?
We don't have the money.
Wrong answer! Go to the back of the line!
Son, would you start that load of laundry?
It's not my job!
Bzzzzzt! Wrong! Suspended without video games for three days!
Hmmmmm.
Thank you for indulging me! I just wanted to see how easy it is to put a poll in my journal. But I couldn't think of anything to poll about!
It was very easy.
Paula at Country Tales and Other Thangs did an interesting poll yesterday -- about liver. Go visit and vote. I happen to love liver. I love beef liver and onions and gravy, and I love chicken liver, breaded and fried. I know, even as a kid I was thought strange because I liked liver. Both my kids like it, too. I even did an entry a while back about waking up craving chicken liver one morning and fixing it for my breakfast. I was rather gleeful that the "love it" vote was leading the poll, but now that I have mentioned it here, Paula will probably get a lot of "hate it" votes! lol (Paula's feelings on the subject are apparent from the title of the entry -- "Yuck") Anyway, I thought that was a cool idea for a poll. (I actually did know that there was a new update taking place Tuesday night, so I assumed that the "add a poll" feature was part of that. But it was still surprise enough to give me a title and a lead-in to my entry yesterday.)
And now on to a more serious subject --
Chocolate Gravy.
Have you ever heard of it? Had it? Made it? And if so, can I have your recipe? How do you serve it?
I have always assumed chocolate gravy was just a chocolate sauce, because gravy and sauce are just two words for the same thing, after all. When I think "chocolate gravy" I picture hot fudge sauce poured over white cake.
When Thomas and I first moved to Jeffersonville we got in touch with a teacher that he had in high school. She was in her 70s when we moved here and still substitue teaching. Thomas had gone to school with one of her sons and had always thought a lot of her. We would call to check on her, go by to visit, and if she needed something done around her house she'd call on Thomas. She passed away a couple years ago, and I still miss her calls.
She was a heavy smoker and had that smoker's voice. I'd answer the phone and a deep, gravelly voice with a country accent would say, "Hey, Lori, what are you up to? How's that Thomas? Still working all that overtime?" And we'd have a nice half-hour conversation. One time when she called she asked me if I'd ever fixed chocolate gravy. Her daughter had told her that she knew someone who made something called chocolate gravy and put it on her eggs in the morning for breakfast. Mrs. T and I both agreed that if that were true it sounded perfectly horrible. Mrs. T didn't believe her daughter knew what she was talking about.
Anyway, something brought her to my mind this morning and I got to thinking about chocolate gravy, so I thought I'd throw it out there! (The subject, not the gravy!)
Why there's a new tool button on my "Add an Entry" page! Has it been there all along, or is it new? It seems to be an "Add Poll" button. Please tell me it's new and hasn't been there for ages and that I'm not just now noticing it!!
Makes me wish I had something on which to poll everyone! I know! I could take a poll to see if anyone else noticed a new "add poll" button!
I think I made my way around all the journals I normally read yesterday, and I even commented in most of them. I was sick all weekend with some kind of allergy crud. You know the kind -- starts out with itchy eyes and nose and throat, stuffy head, sneezing your head off all day long, leading to a sore, blistered throat. I treated all the allergy symptoms, drank lots of orange juice, ate soup, gargled with warm salt water, and slept and slept and slept.
Yesterday I felt much better, but not altogether well. Right now I'm awake because Thomas just left for work, and the strange sleeping pattern I've had for the past few days seems to be keeping me from going back to sleep right now. So I'm brewing some coffee, and I actually think I could eat breakfast right now, as early as it is. I have a feeling I'm going to have to go to the doctor; otherwise I think this is going to turn into a sinus infection if it hasn't already.
And I wasted a really great weekend. Andrew was gone practically the whole time, camping out with friends. Thomas and Eler Beth spent quite a bit of time fishing, and I could have had the house to myself for most of two days out of three. Think of all the reading I could have done, or computer time I could have logged, etc. And I had to spend it sleeping or sneezing or disinterestedly changing the TV channels, not really wanting to do anything.
Yesterday Eler Beth had an easy day of school work, because I just didn't feel like doing much. She did a lot of reading and some math games on the computer. She may just have an easy day today, too!
I had all kinds of things I was going to write about last week but didn't get around to doing. I hope I can remember what they were! If I do, you may see another entry from me today.
I hope everyone has a good hump day!
Why there's a new tool button on my "Add an Entry" page! Has it been there all along, or is it new? It seems to be an "Add Poll" button. Please tell me it's new and hasn't been there for ages and that I'm not just now noticing it!!
Makes me wish I had something on which to poll everyone! I know! I could take a poll to see if anyone else noticed a new "add poll" button!
I think I made my way around all the journals I normally read yesterday, and I even commented in most of them. I was sick all weekend with some kind of allergy crud. You know the kind -- starts out with itchy eyes and nose and throat, stuffy head, sneezing your head off all day long, leading to a sore, blistered throat. I treated all the allergy symptoms, drank lots of orange juice, ate soup, gargled with warm salt water, and slept and slept and slept.
Yesterday I felt much better, but not altogether well. Right now I'm awake because Thomas just left for work, and the strange sleeping pattern I've had for the past few days seems to be keeping me from going back to sleep right now. So I'm brewing some coffee, and I actually think I could eat breakfast right now, as early as it is. I have a feeling I'm going to have to go to the doctor; otherwise I think this is going to turn into a sinus infection if it hasn't already.
And I wasted a really great weekend. Andrew was gone practically the whole time, camping out with friends. Thomas and Eler Beth spent quite a bit of time fishing, and I could have had the house to myself for most of two days out of three. Think of all the reading I could have done, or computer time I could have logged, etc. And I had to spend it sleeping or sneezing or disinterestedly changing the TV channels, not really wanting to do anything.
Yesterday Eler Beth had an easy day of school work, because I just didn't feel like doing much. She did a lot of reading and some math games on the computer. She may just have an easy day today, too!
I had all kinds of things I was going to write about last week but didn't get around to doing. I hope I can remember what they were! If I do, you may see another entry from me today.
I hope everyone has a good hump day!
Kellen is ready for anyone interested in competing in the next Journals Tournament to register. What is Journals Tournament, you ask? Click here for a detailed explanation from Kellan, our Tournament Questions Overlord.
I competed in Tournaments III and IV and really enjoyed it. I won the Third Tournament (see my trophy in my sidebar!) and was part of a three-way-tie for first in the fourth one. Kellan gave us orders to write a Haiku to break the tie, and Krissy was the winner. If you have never participated before, check it out! It is a lot of fun and the questions are usually very taxing (in a fun kind of way!).
You can register between now and Sept. 16. Instructions for registering are here, as well as a list of previous winners. Drop by and sign up to give it a try!
