Wicked Nasty!

Food - I admit that sometimes I lose focus and I wonder if I don't have a titch of ADHD. Oh look, there's a chicken! I often pride myself on being a great multi-tasker with an exorbitant amount of energy--but I have to admit I have hit a wall -- well several walls to be exact. I have taken on the project of painting the entire inside of our home, this is a job that I have had to "talk" myself into doing, rather than hiring it out. I knew it was a huge task, but one doesn't realize how many walls confine us until you start painting them.

As the paint roller is gliding up and down the wall, making the W sign, I have a lot of: creative, colorful, thoughts going on in my mind. Thoughts of chocolate, what the Thanksgiving meal will look like, how will I set the table, Christmas cookies, Christmas dinner and Culinary School. What, Culinary school? There goes that ADHD kicking in again. But my thoughts are not as random as they may seem to you, they do make sense to me. They have to, I have to live with myself, remember? What better time to be a "Culinary Artist" than at the holidays! I think every woman at some point in her life dreams of going to Culinary School, and if you are like my friends and me, it's not that we want to slave over a hot stove so badly as we just want to be able to create great food, learn good techniques and have the confidence that the proper training affords you.

My absence of blogging these last few days has reassured me that I do have focus. I am feverishly working on getting this project done, so I work part of the day painting and the other part I spend working on http://www.big-jakes.com/. I have become obsessed, but you already knew that. This schedule leaves little time for cooking, blogging or cleaning the house.

Here I go writing this blog entry as though someone actually reads it, when in fact, no one does - just me, over and over again. It is more of a vehicle for me to express myself. A release, a sort of therapy, if you will. And if by my sending these messages out into the "cosmic void," someone actually does take the time to read them, thank you!

Dish - As I was painting the "W" on my walls, the other "W" did come to mind. And I couldn't help but wonder what these last few days have been like for President and Mrs. Bush. The reality that we will soon have a new President is welcomed and exciting news for all of us; just as the departure from the White House for the Bushs' is probably something they are anxiously awaiting, wouldn't you? But, a sense of sadness did come over me as I watched him give his "passing on the baton" speech the other day. Here is a man, and his family, that for the last 8 years has devoted their life to the task of leading our County. Arguments to the quality of the job preformed will no doubt transcend down through the years, thus making history. But all arguments aside, the task of leading our Country is an enormous task; one that not many of us are qualified, nor would want to do. But here is a man, like so many before him, that have pledged not only his live, but the live of his family to do just that. For that we do owe some respect.

Will he have some regrets? Sure. Some of these regrets may haunt him, and us for an eternity, but hopefully in the end they will also be the a great teacher for Presidents to come. Here are a few of the regrets he regrets saying.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/11/bush.post.presidency/index.html

Wicked Nasty -you think Lisa Rinna's lips look bad? What will people do next?
http://dlisted.com/node/29240

Speaking of Wicked! I went to see the play Wicked last night with a few girlfriends. This was the second time I have seen it, I went to it once before in Chicago with my husband a couple of years ago. I loved it then and I loved it now. If you haven't seen it, you have to go!
http://www.ticketmaster.com/artist/864373?camefrom=GGLE_SEM&WT.srch=1

Embellish - Sit loosely in the saddle of life. -Robert Louis Stevenson