Thanks for the fish

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080720/ts_alt_afp/usreligion makes me happy. : ) It’s about 3 catholic female priests who are about to be ordained. Of course, they will be excommunicated by the vatican, but they don’t seem too worried about that. That’s what I like to see! Sistahs taking things into their own hands. I find it almost funny (almost) the shit that people get away wtih when it comes to treating women like second class citizens. I will say this once: the end is near for that crap.

Well… I just realized that I’ve had a lovely day. Me and J started a running program like we do every 3 or 4 years. Yesterday I declared “I’m going to become a runner!” And since he’s so easily influenced, and also because I know he longs to be a runner too, he downloaded a program that helps you get ready for 5ks, etc. So today we started with 60 seconds of running, 90 seconds of walking for 20 minutes. The last 3 runs were a bit tough for me, especially with my current tar filled lungs, but I made it! It’s humid as all get out tonight too so I was basically drenched in sweat when I got back. Now I’m showered and clean and smell fantastic, and I love my hair.

I finished a book called The Wisdom of Solitude, which is about a woman who goes on a solitary retreat in the new england woods for 100 days in the winter. Yeah, I could do that. I think I will do that! Someday. Now I’m reading a book called “Feel the fear and do it anyway” which is sort of my new philosophy. The title sounded so cool but it’s possible it’s just antoher cheesey self help book from the 80s. We’ll see. I’m going to read some good fiction soon - maybe A Wild Sheep Chase. I like to alternate between ficiton and non-fiction so as to keep balanced and such.

I made a crockpot chicken recipe but in the end I threw it in a pot and ended up making chicken and dumplings out of it instead. I was afraid it was going to be too bland, so I figured dumplings make everything better, and it was good. I also made summer berry cobbler though I had to cook it about 3 times longer than required to get the doughy part to cook through. My oven seems to take longer than recipes call for. IN fact, I think I’m in some sort of time warp down here in the woods. All of my flowers take a week longer to bloom than ones on top of the hill. I’m in a wormhole.

It’s been raining constantly here. Torrential downpours mostly. The squash in garden didn’t seem to get pollinated. Very weird. But everything else looks good. The japanese beetles continue to decimate my hollyhocks and roses.