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I am having cravings:
For Knowledge I do not have (mostly mechanical and alt power in nature)
For salads of all kinds
For hot rice smothered in butter, with cheese and green onions sprinkled on top
For more uninterrupted art time
For more order in my life

I want:
To design a human powered pedal  car that holds 2 people and that has eco-friendly back-up power  (prompted by our gas prices jumping from $3.49 to $3.65 over night)
To be done with the down sizing/decluttering
To figure out how to insure a brighter for myself
To stabilize my life
To lose some weight

Thursday was fairly productive, I at least did not sleep through it. I have been battling fatigue lately on a major level.

I did in fact cook:
Crock Pot Roast Beef Ala Oopsie ( I really AM a good cook, but I had lots on my mind and this turned into a comedy of errors, hense the name I gave it. I forgot to brown the roast before dropping it into the crockpot with the 3/4 cup of Safeway Cuban Lime Garlic marinade, but I added the sliced onions anyway and let it cook. When it was almost done and I was siphoning off juice to make gravy with in a separate pan, I accidentally grabbed the cup I had just poured fresh coffee into and did not realize it until it was too late.... not to be beaten I added more flour to some of the actual broth in the other cup and dumped it into the thickened coffee, for pizazz I added 1/4 cup red wine, then I sliced up the roast and put it and the gravy into the crockpot for the last hour of cooking).
I gotta say it was the best roast I ever cooked...honestly, the flavor and tenderness was amazing, and I mean, how could it taste bad.... it had coffee and wine in it. Keegan ate 3 servings so did my duaghter, out of over 5 pounds of roast we only have enough left for a couple of sandwiches.

I also made a marinated salad of pinto beans, diced baby corn, butter beans, peas, olives, bulgar wheat, cauliflower, diced tomato, fresh parsley and onion.....YUM!

I cleaned house. I did laundry and the dishes. I talked the garbage guy into taking the 3 extra bags that resulted from my recent attempts at decluttering. I discussed a new hospice client with the agency that I might be taking on much closer to home. I did some sorting and decluttering, and I played space rangers with Keegan and his pal Mikey since they did not have school today. You will all be happy to know 7 year old boys buy into a pressed paper cup holder from McDonald's being an alien force field generator that makes you un-killable. They didn't like it but they bought it.

I did not get any art done nor did I get the yard mowed, it kept raining... but they are promising a clearing in the wet by the weekend. Hoping to tame the jungle Saturday morning.

I've been reading up on the Orphan Works panic, lot's of useful, rational info can be found here: http://maradydd.livejournal.com/

I am not a great info person when it comes to political panic. Whenever I hear a politician say "But it's for the public good", my eyes immediately roll back into my head and my head spins, then I develop a seizure sized twitch, (ask my kids).... So when this stuff hits I start reading the input of other people and pick the one I think makes the most sense when they dissect it. The take of the blogger above makes sense to me, and I am looking forward to the final tally from her once the text is released.

I could have gotten more done today but being a space ranger took longer than expected... so all in all the day was good and productive.