No time left for bloggin'

Darned FB. Takes up my recreational computer-use time.

I love blogging and visiting but haven't kept up with it. What's a woman to do? Win the lottery and stay home and blog to my heart's content.

Barring that, I guess I just have to cut back on FB and a certain couple of games I play that become addicting.

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In other news,  I'm not a big pierogi fan, but I found a new frozen variety - filled with potato, spinach and feta cheese - and sauteed them last night. I added some shrimp sauteed in garlic, as the package recommended.
It sounds weird but it was tasty. We all liked it. Had spring greens with oil and vinegar on the side. A fairly healthy meal, I suppose.

This morning I met an adorable 13-year old girl who won an essay contest and is traveling out of state with her parents to be honored next week.

I'm about to write a story about her. It's so nice to meet good kids.

Last week I wrote about four high school students who took first place in a regional Junior Achievement contest, beating out 15 other schools that are in much more affluent towns than ours. woo hoo!

I also wrote about a group of fourth through sixth graders in a character counts club who worked on a mural about the pillars of character that now graces the school corridor.

It's great to be able to write about the good kids who are doing good things!

Random thoughts on a Friday night

This post is in deference to the one and only Empress Bee (of the High Sea), who has referred many times on her blog to possibly ingesting a bit too much fish oil.

These are some random thoughts I've had while I've been sick in bed over these last days, and they might just qualify for "too much fish oil" status, even though I haven't had any.

• I like M&Ms (who doesn't?) but I actually prefer Hershey-ets. I like the flavor of the Hershey's chocolate, but sometimes they are difficult to find in the store.
• I prefer thin, New York-style pizza crust, but really any is fine.
• I like peanut butter, but to me, chunky rules. That reminds me of when Cameron was 5 and he had a friend come over for lunch. I made them peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. The little guy looked up at me quizzically and said, "They're nuts in here," to which I replied: "They're little pieces of peanuts." I guess his mommy only bought smooth peanut butter. I can't remember what I gave him for a replacement sandwich.
• I'll eat eggs cooked any way. Ralph doesn't care for them, but does eat them by adding cheese, potatoes, ham, bacon, tomatoes...to disguise the flavor.
  
• Hot dogs taste best cooked out on the grill in the summertime.
• Ditto hamburgers (sorry if anyone is a vegetarian).
  
• I've never liked beets. They are probably really nutritious, but I'm not interested.

So Miss Bee, how did I do??

Fishing for a post ~ maybe fish oil would help

Some days I feel like talking, other days, not so much. I can go for hours and hours without uttering a word, or revealing myself in a blog post. Maybe I need some of that fish oil prescription that Empress Bee has been taking lately. She never seems to be at a loss for words.

She goes off on tangents, but they are interesting tangents, so it's all good. And she draws some great doodles. I love them. She has a whole cast of characters in her imagination that she shares with us.
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Here are some pix I took last autumn in our backyard. I used a saturation effect on the third one, to brighten the colors or something. It's fun to play around.
I'm looking forward to seeing and photographing these beautiful colors again next month. October is beautiful, isn't it?