Today, and a little bit of yesterday

I saw these at the market today. Amazing little vegetables. They looked like an artist painted them!

I took my sister grocery shopping today, and when I do that, it's about the only time I'm ever in a grocery store. These beautiful little - and they are quite small - Thai eggplants caught my eye. They made up for the dead battery and the empty gas tank that started things off when I went to get her.

I'm eating a strict amount of calories so was very hungry when we got to the Grocery store. That made me start to read labels on lots and lots of things as I wandered the aisles. I don't like to follow my sister because I don't want her to feel rushed or that I'm hovering. But, I degress. I started reading labels. So many things that aren't fresh have milk protein in them! And the cans of beans and tomatoes where so expensive. Dried beans and Fresh tomatoes can't really cost that much can they? You can tell that I don't shop for food anymore. The prices for diced tomatoes with a little bit of seasonings in them was actually quite a shock. The can you'd need for making anything much was over $3.50! The canned beans were just ridiculous.

My hunger pangs finally drove me to cave in and buy some mangos and a tiny loaf of sourdough bread, just for the tactility of actually handling something edible. This tiny loaf was called a mini sourdough boule. I'm always squeezing bread to see how fresh it is, and it may seem odd but it's very enjoyable! I don't squeeze peaches or fruits because that always seem rude, but I do smell them. Anyway, this little bread loaf was really nice! DH made a sandwich for me tonight from part of it. Yum! He calls it, "your loaf of bread." I said, "But, it's not 'mine' you can eat some too!" It's the sort of bread that you make into "boats" for hardy thick soups in the cold weather. Delicious stuff!

My sister came over yesterday and she told me that she's learned to cut her own hair, and it looks fabulous! It really does. She is learning to do things that she never thought she could do. I was going to offer to cut it for her but she's learned how. We both have shortish hair. After our usual big chin wag, we watched "Sequins", a French film which is one of the most beautiful ones ever made, imho, and DH fixed dinner (and learned to make a reduced sauce, or learned about HOW to make one), and later we all watched, "The Bucket List", which was very good.

The sock is almost finished. Now, since I lost one of the needles of the 6 inch DPNs I am going to go out and buy a new set to start the second sock. It seems silly to buy a whole other set but at least I'll have plenty of replacements if one drops off the planet like the last one apparently did. I wish there was a bamboo magnet out there on the market.

I'm going to go finish that sock toe. I've also read two Donna Leon mysteries - those about Commissario Brunetti. I just HAD to take a break from the Experts book. All I wanted to do was throw thunderbolts at BP, Monsanto, those evil corporations, as well as others who may as well not know what I have planned for them. It involves a lot of boiling oil, not for stir fry but worse.

Good night! Look for beauty! And remember,"Noli nothis permittere te terere" or in other words "Non illigitamus carborundum", which most of us understand best. I'm going to take up Latin. There are so many fun things that can be said.

"De minimus non curat lex". That's what you can say to officious people who totally piss you off. And then you just walk away,sending a little "meh!" up in your wake.