(personal) Ponderings....

Time for a new icon, at least for a little while. My favorite Disney movie of all time is the Aristocats, so my choice was easy. Besides, doesn't everybody want to be a swinging cat? I do.

PMSing this week, apparently (and that was a shock - two months in a row? Could my body be working again? Heresy!), and working OT for two days. And starting school. Ah, stress, nice to meet you, have a seat. No wonder I bought expensive chocolate last night. (Yes, jmeadows, I bought some for me too. I couldn't resist!)

I walked today too - 25 minutes, in weather that DIDN'T freeze my toes off. Yay! Of course, it won't last, but oh well.

So I'm reading "Julie and Julia" (I know, I'm like 8 months behind everyone else) and I was looking for a recipe for salmon on Thursday that didn't involve capers (I hate capers. Too damn salty.) and realized two things:

1. I have a metric buttload of cookbooks.
2. I monkey a lot with recipes.

The second is because of the Crohns' disease - I just can't handle some things. And those things change daily, pretty much - one week, I can handle things like peanut butter. Or wild rice. Or raw celery. The next? It's dry toast or biscuits.

So. I'm contemplating a Wordpress site anyways, for the new site. What better way to start playing with it than a blog, right? Now, I'm not planning on something as epic as Julie Powell's blog - I'm not big on classic French food and it's way too time-consuming. This wouldn't be every day. It might, on the other hand, convince me to cook more than I do.

But would folks be interested in a blog of me cooking my way through healthy recipes from all sorts of people? There would be an emphasis on easy, quick, healthy and Crohns' friendly food.

It would be on Blogspot, but I'd do an LJ feed for it here if folks wanted.

(rant) You have been warned

When you call a goddamned 800 number and DON'T PUT ANY INFORMATION INTO THE SYSTEM, DO NOT GET PISSY WHEN THE REPRESENTATIVE ASKS YOU FOR INFORMATION! YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY GODDAMNED CUSTOMER IN THE WORLD, AND WE'RE NOT GODDAMNED PSYCHIC!

/rant

(books) Book 3

Julie & Julia, My Year of Cooking Dangerously
Julie Powell

My mother said this book was whiny. I can kind of understand that - Julie Powell was definitely going through a "OMGMYLIFESUCKS" phase when she decided to cook her way through Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and you get the sense of that in her writing. That being said (and having gone through at least one phase like that), I enjoyed this book. Yes, she was whiny. She was also funny, frank and entirely self-conscious throughout the book (maggots??? Dude, if there were maggots growing in my drip pan, I wouldn't tell ANYONE, nevermind the entire world), which was pretty cool. It's like looking in someone's diary.

I'm not a fan of French cooking (heavy food doesn't do it for me anymore), but it was fun to read her trials and tribulations. And she learned a lot.

I probably wouldn't read again, but it was fun.

(No, I haven't seen the movie yet. I'm waiting for it to come on On-Demand.)