Today

I'm glad you're finding your way out of the darkness...

Just realized I used this picture twice.  Ha!  Too bad...I like it!

Alice:  How long is forever?
White Rabbit:  Sometimes, just one second.
~ Lewis Carrol

Food WINS

Today, I finally picked a couple of recipes that worked.  Everything is delicious.

Roasted carrot hummus. Amazing.

Almond butter pumpkin cookies.  Pretty good.  I didn't have enough almond butter so I estimated the rest of the ingredients and I might have estimated wrong....

Pumpkin cinnamon applesauce.  By far, the best thing of the day.  Made with delicious honeycrisp apples.  

And a total FAIL.  I broke my favorite tablespoon.  The other half slid under the refrigerator.  

Right now the delicious smell of cooking apples and cinnamon has been replaced by the slightly grotesque smell of baked salmon as I have been experimenting with Atticus cookies and made him some pumpkin salmon bites.

Now I actually  need to make my FOOD food for the week - teriyaki tempeh and rice, and stop making side dishes and desserts.

We cannot cure the world of sorrows but we can choose to live in joy.
~ Joseph Campbell

A reminder

Twice in the past 3 hours I was reminded how petty my complaints and worries are.  Buck up, Alicia.  It could be far far worse.  Be grateful for what you do have, the time you did have, and for the uncertain future.  

Instructions for living a life:  Pay attention.  Be astonished.  Tell about it.

~ Mary Oliver

Apparently it's me

These are the carrots I planted inside in March/April, then planted outside in May.  When my whole garden died?  These are the only things that survived.  I just harvested them, with 5 months of growth.  I'm pretty sure something is wrong with my soil.

Be confident in the skin you are in, because that is the only body you will ever have, the only place that will ever be solely yours.  Even if you will never be as skinny as those supermodels, or the beauty who makes everyone stare, you can be beautiful in your own way.  And you have to accept that, and own it.
~ Deejae Harper

Atticus

Atticus has a big lump starting on the right side of his ribs.  We go see the vet on Wednesday.  :/

This is his stop-taking-my-picture-face.  

My mood kinda plummeted.  I don't feel like talking right now.

It is better to drink of deep griefs than to taste shallow pleasures.
~ William Hazlitt

Amid the week of dayshift

Beat

I could tell you all the details of my weekend, of my last night, of my day today, of going from graveyard to dayshift, of getting less than 3 hours of sleep, etc etc etc.

Instead, I will just say....I am beat.

Drinking my dinner.  No, that's not rootbeer.  It's me, unable to properly pour a spire dark.

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. 
~E. Nightingale