A month of change and beginnings was
January; (why did it go so fast? – with so much cold weather and snow? Is that why they converted “global warming” to “global climate change”? – must be caused by too much
human activity, whatever it is. – jk)
No, I’m not too old to change … or
begin new things. For example, try a new
recipe I invented this week for a healthy fast-food
snack anytime: Combine equal amounts of Ocean Spray Craisins
(dried cranberries) and Nestle' Semi-Sweet Morsels (dark chocolate) for a handful of
pure joy. For a robust breakfast or
brunch, add oatmeal with brown sugar, almonds cut in half, sunflower
kernels (roasted unsalted) and raisins. At Kay’s siblings’ annual planning meeting
last Saturday (still in love and planning family activities after all these
years) I heard that half-and-half cream is good on oatmeal. For bedtime snacks next month, I want to try the
Ocean Spray Craisins recipe for “oatmeal cranberry
white chocolate chunk cookies” enhanced
with a missing ingredient: macadamia
nuts (my idea assisted by Google, as it was also missing in my old M-W dictionary,
between macadam and macaque – two words I will never use.) With a chocolate milk shake, of course.
Another example of change in January:
We canceled our Comcast TV and landline phone, at the same time we
switched to Verizon Wireless with smart phones that can actually locate new eateries. This followed twelve years of dependable easy-to-use
T-Mobile dumb phones; (the last three years the signal struggled to reach us out
here on the frontier.) Now I wish we had
video-taped those fabulous cooking
shows we all love to sit and watch (jk) – not to mention the talking heads
spinning food for thought about politics.
This month my goal-oriented friend Phil taught me how to
organize my daily life for productive final years. So a third example of change (and a goal) is
this: In February I will stop obsessing with food, and think about global economics during lunch at Golden Corral. RootsTech
is in March this year (#3), so I will be musing more on family history then
(including Grandmother Cannon’s rich chocolate cake made from scratch.) Food, econ, roots – a delicious
combination to start the New Year; (another incomplete sentence, MS Word
reminded me. See? I broke out of that rut too!)
